The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 53 47 32
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 33 39 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 4.209% 5.098% 8.316%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.19% 12.07% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 29 36 41
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £50,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
324 323 215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 41.33% 42.22% 43.61%
Number of salaries quoted 303 289 210
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
East Sussex

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Brighton SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Brighton region.

Brighton SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Brighton SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing SQL Server 2008 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server 2008.

1 61 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 37 (60.66%) .NET
3 36 (59.02%) C#
4 33 (54.10%) Microsoft
5 32 (52.46%) SQL Server 2005
6 28 (45.90%) SQL
6 28 (45.90%) ASP.NET
7 25 (40.98%) Windows
8 21 (34.43%) Agile Software Development
9 19 (31.15%) VMware
9 19 (31.15%) Cisco
10 18 (29.51%) Windows Server 2003
10 18 (29.51%) Scrum
10 18 (29.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (27.87%) Firewall
11 17 (27.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (27.87%) OO
12 16 (26.23%) NetScreen
12 16 (26.23%) LAN
12 16 (26.23%) WAN
12 16 (26.23%) MCTS
13 15 (24.59%) TCP/IP
13 15 (24.59%) SAN
13 15 (24.59%) EMC
13 15 (24.59%) CSS
13 15 (24.59%) T-SQL
13 15 (24.59%) JavaScript
13 15 (24.59%) Windows 7
13 15 (24.59%) vSphere
13 15 (24.59%) WCF

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing SQL Server 2008 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (60.66%) .NET
2 28 (45.90%) ASP.NET
3 15 (24.59%) CSS
3 15 (24.59%) WCF
4 13 (21.31%) XML
5 12 (19.67%) COM+
5 12 (19.67%) Web Services
6 11 (18.03%) XHTML
7 10 (16.39%) jQuery
8 9 (14.75%) XSLT
9 7 (11.48%) HTML
10 5 (8.197%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (8.197%) SubSonic
11 3 (4.918%) ADO
11 3 (4.918%) REST
12 2 (3.279%) LINQ
12 2 (3.279%) WPF
12 2 (3.279%) Silverlight
12 2 (3.279%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 2 (3.279%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 14 (22.95%) SharePoint 2010
1 14 (22.95%) SharePoint
2 13 (21.31%) IIS
3 9 (14.75%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (14.75%) MSMQ
4 2 (3.279%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (3.279%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (3.279%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.279%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (3.279%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.639%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) Firewall
2 16 (26.23%) NetScreen
2 16 (26.23%) LAN
2 16 (26.23%) WAN
3 15 (24.59%) TCP/IP
3 15 (24.59%) SAN
4 2 (3.279%) DNS
4 2 (3.279%) DHCP
5 1 (1.639%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (52.46%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (19.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (14.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (9.836%) SQL Server 2012
5 6 (9.836%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (8.197%) Big Data
6 5 (8.197%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (6.557%) SQL CLR
7 4 (6.557%) RDBMS
7 4 (6.557%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (6.557%) MySQL
8 1 (1.639%) DTS
8 1 (1.639%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.279%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (3.279%) Moq
2 2 (3.279%) NUnit
3 1 (1.639%) Subversion
3 1 (1.639%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (9.836%) Finance
2 4 (6.557%) Marketing
3 1 (1.639%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (63.93%) Developer
2 21 (34.43%) C# Developer
2 21 (34.43%) .NET Developer
3 18 (29.51%) C# .NET Developer
4 17 (27.87%) SQL Developer
5 15 (24.59%) SQL Server Developer
5 15 (24.59%) Administrator
6 11 (18.03%) Systems Administrator
7 9 (14.75%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 9 (14.75%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (6.557%) SQL Server Analyst
8 4 (6.557%) Teradata DBA
8 4 (6.557%) DBA
8 4 (6.557%) Analyst
8 4 (6.557%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (6.557%) Server Analyst
8 4 (6.557%) Database Developer
8 4 (6.557%) SQL Database Developer
8 4 (6.557%) SQL DBA
8 4 (6.557%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.557%) Statistics
3 3 (4.918%) Open Source
4 2 (3.279%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.279%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.98%) Windows
2 18 (29.51%) Windows Server 2003
2 18 (29.51%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (24.59%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.279%) Windows XP
4 2 (3.279%) UNIX
5 1 (1.639%) Linux
5 1 (1.639%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (34.43%) Agile Software Development
2 18 (29.51%) Scrum
3 17 (27.87%) OO
4 12 (19.67%) TDD
4 12 (19.67%) Change Management
5 9 (14.75%) Integration Testing
5 9 (14.75%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (14.75%) OOD
6 7 (11.48%) Web Development
7 6 (9.836%) ETL
8 5 (8.197%) MVC
8 5 (8.197%) Web Application Development
8 5 (8.197%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.557%) Digital Marketing
9 4 (6.557%) Workflow
10 3 (4.918%) Software Engineering
10 3 (4.918%) Pair Programming
10 3 (4.918%) Risk Assessment
11 2 (3.279%) Kanban
11 2 (3.279%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) C#
2 28 (45.90%) SQL
3 15 (24.59%) T-SQL
3 15 (24.59%) JavaScript
4 13 (21.31%) VB.NET
5 9 (14.75%) F#
6 3 (4.918%) Java
6 3 (4.918%) C++
6 3 (4.918%) VB
7 2 (3.279%) XAML
7 2 (3.279%) VBScript
7 2 (3.279%) VBA
8 1 (1.639%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (27.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (26.23%) MCTS
3 14 (22.95%) CCNA
3 14 (22.95%) Cisco Certification
3 14 (22.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (22.95%) MCITP
4 5 (8.197%) Degree
5 3 (4.918%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.279%) MCP
6 2 (3.279%) MCAD
6 2 (3.279%) MCSD
7 1 (1.639%) MCSE
7 1 (1.639%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
System Software
1 15 (24.59%) vSphere
2 14 (22.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.918%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.918%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.279%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.639%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.639%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 33 (54.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (31.15%) VMware
2 19 (31.15%) Cisco
3 15 (24.59%) EMC
4 3 (4.918%) Symantec
5 2 (3.279%) WatchGuard
5 2 (3.279%) HP
5 2 (3.279%) Dell
5 2 (3.279%) Citrix
5 2 (3.279%) Avaya
6 1 (1.639%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.639%) Cognos
6 1 (1.639%) Tableau
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