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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cambridge region.

 Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank12913
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+4
Matching permanent IT job ads205217323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge11.89 %14.36 %11.18 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category61.01 %56.36 %59.16 %
Salaries quoted200192286
Average salary£35,000£35,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
--12.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,450£26,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,500£34,000
% change year-on-year
+7.690 %-4.410 %
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
336385546
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge19.49 %25.48 %18.89 %
Salaries quoted325352480
Average salary£35,000£35,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,000£45,000£47,250
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
SQL Server CambridgeshireSQL Server
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SQL Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cambridge SQL Server Demand Trend

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cambridge SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing SQL Server 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.

1293 (71.29 %).NET
2215 (52.31 %)C#
3209 (50.85 %)SQL
4153 (37.23 %)Microsoft
5128 (31.14 %)Windows
6123 (29.93 %)Web Services
7107 (26.03 %)ASP.NET
8106 (25.79 %)IIS
9105 (25.55 %)AJAX
10104 (25.30 %)Degree
1197 (23.60 %)VB.NET
1295 (23.11 %)C++
1391 (22.14 %)XML
1488 (21.41 %)OO
1584 (20.44 %)HTML
1673 (17.76 %)MS Excel
1758 (14.11 %)Oracle
1758 (14.11 %)SQL Server 2008
1855 (13.38 %)Visual Studio
1951 (12.41 %)Middleware
2048 (11.68 %)SQL Server 2000
2147 (11.44 %)T-SQL
2147 (11.44 %)Web Development
2147 (11.44 %)WCF
2246 (11.19 %)MySQL
2345 (10.95 %)SQL Server 2005
2345 (10.95 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
2444 (10.71 %)SQL Server Integration Services
2543 (10.46 %)Java
2642 (10.22 %)PHP

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing SQL Server 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1293 (71.29 %).NET
2123 (29.93 %)Web Services
3107 (26.03 %)ASP.NET
4105 (25.55 %)AJAX
591 (22.14 %)XML
684 (20.44 %)HTML
751 (12.41 %)Middleware
847 (11.44 %)WCF
930 (7.299 %)JSON
1026 (6.326 %)CSS
1121 (5.109 %)jQuery
1218 (4.380 %).NET Framework
1313 (3.163 %)SOAP
1411 (2.676 %)WinForms
1510 (2.433 %)ASP
168 (1.946 %)EDI
177 (1.703 %)WML
177 (1.703 %)XHTML
177 (1.703 %)NHibernate
177 (1.703 %)MonoRail
Cambridge IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1106 (25.79 %)IIS
220 (4.866 %)SharePoint
311 (2.676 %)MS Exchange
48 (1.946 %)BizTalk Server
56 (1.460 %)Apache
56 (1.460 %)SAS
65 (1.217 %)ColdFusion
74 (0.973 %)NetWeaver
74 (0.973 %)SharePoint Server 2007
74 (0.973 %)DotNetNuke
82 (0.487 %)Joomla!
82 (0.487 %)Tomcat
82 (0.487 %)CMS
91 (0.243 %)Exchange Server 2003
91 (0.243 %)EPiServer
91 (0.243 %)Sitecore CMS
91 (0.243 %)Exchange Server 2007
Cambridge IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
173 (17.76 %)MS Excel
221 (5.109 %)MS Office
36 (1.460 %)FrameMaker
45 (1.217 %)MS PowerPoint
54 (0.973 %)Pro/ENGINEER
62 (0.487 %)MS Visio
Cambridge IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (2.433 %)Dynamics AX
22 (0.487 %)Siebel Analytics
31 (0.243 %)Microsoft CRM
31 (0.243 %)Dynamics CRM
Cambridge IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
135 (8.516 %)Intranet
212 (2.920 %)Firewall
38 (1.946 %)Internet
38 (1.946 %)TCP/IP
47 (1.703 %)DHCP
47 (1.703 %)DNS
55 (1.217 %)WAN
55 (1.217 %)LAN
63 (0.730 %)WLAN
63 (0.730 %)H.323
72 (0.487 %)Cisco PIX
72 (0.487 %)SAN
72 (0.487 %)VoIP
72 (0.487 %)VPN
72 (0.487 %)MPLS
72 (0.487 %)SS7
72 (0.487 %)Q.931
72 (0.487 %)Frame Relay
72 (0.487 %)IP Telephony
81 (0.243 %)Cisco IPT
Cambridge IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
158 (14.11 %)SQL Server 2008
248 (11.68 %)SQL Server 2000
346 (11.19 %)MySQL
445 (10.95 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
445 (10.95 %)SQL Server 2005
544 (10.71 %)SQL Server Integration Services
631 (7.543 %)DTS
730 (7.299 %)Crystal Reports
825 (6.083 %)Datawarehouse
914 (3.406 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
109 (2.190 %)ETL
117 (1.703 %)Oracle OWB
126 (1.460 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
126 (1.460 %)DB2
126 (1.460 %)RDBMS
126 (1.460 %)Oracle 10g
126 (1.460 %)Oracle Reports
126 (1.460 %)Oracle 8/8i
126 (1.460 %)Oracle 9i
126 (1.460 %)Oracle 11g
Cambridge IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
155 (13.38 %)Visual Studio
27 (1.703 %)NUnit
34 (0.973 %)WinRunner
34 (0.973 %)QuickTest Pro
34 (0.973 %)Selenium
43 (0.730 %)WatiN
43 (0.730 %)Subversion
43 (0.730 %)WATIR
51 (0.243 %)JUnit
51 (0.243 %)Team Foundation Server
Cambridge IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
137 (9.002 %)Education
219 (4.623 %)Finance
314 (3.406 %)Pensions
413 (3.163 %)Marketing
510 (2.433 %)Insurance
69 (2.190 %)Manufacturing
77 (1.703 %)Health
85 (1.217 %)Billing
94 (0.973 %)Back Office
102 (0.487 %)Telecoms
102 (0.487 %)Banking
111 (0.243 %)Retail
111 (0.243 %)Music
111 (0.243 %)Music Industry
111 (0.243 %)Electric
111 (0.243 %)Games
Cambridge IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1255 (62.04 %)Developer
287 (21.17 %).NET Developer
383 (20.19 %)C# Developer
472 (17.52 %)Web Developer
560 (14.60 %)Analyst
654 (13.14 %)SQL Developer
746 (11.19 %)SQL Server Developer
746 (11.19 %)Applications Developer
831 (7.543 %)Software Developer
928 (6.813 %)Programmer
1027 (6.569 %)DBA
1027 (6.569 %)Web Applications Developer
1123 (5.596 %)SQL DBA
1222 (5.353 %).NET Web Developer
1222 (5.353 %)SQL Server DBA
1321 (5.109 %)Tester
1420 (4.866 %)Software Engineer
1518 (4.380 %)ASP.NET Developer
1518 (4.380 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1617 (4.136 %)C# Software Developer
Cambridge IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
139 (9.489 %)Computer Science
218 (4.380 %)Replication
314 (3.406 %)Mathematics
411 (2.676 %)Clustering
58 (1.946 %)Tandem
65 (1.217 %)iPhone
65 (1.217 %)Open Source
74 (0.973 %)Client/Server
83 (0.730 %)W3C
92 (0.487 %)Handset
101 (0.243 %)N-Tier
101 (0.243 %)E-Learning
101 (0.243 %)SCORM
101 (0.243 %)German Language
101 (0.243 %)Social Network
Cambridge IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1128 (31.14 %)Windows
228 (6.813 %)Linux
314 (3.406 %)UNIX
413 (3.163 %)Windows XP
511 (2.676 %)Windows Server 2003
69 (2.190 %)Red Hat Linux
78 (1.946 %)Windows Vista
78 (1.946 %)Windows Server 2008
84 (0.973 %)Mac OS X
92 (0.487 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
92 (0.487 %)Windows 2000
101 (0.243 %)Solaris
101 (0.243 %)Windows 2000 Server
101 (0.243 %)Windows 7
Cambridge IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
188 (21.41 %)OO
247 (11.44 %)Web Development
338 (9.246 %)Agile Software Development
433 (8.029 %)Unit Testing
526 (6.326 %)OOP
620 (4.866 %)Data Modelling
716 (3.893 %)ERP
815 (3.650 %)Business Intelligence
912 (2.920 %)OOD
912 (2.920 %)MVC
1011 (2.676 %)Data Analysis
1011 (2.676 %)Migration
1110 (2.433 %)Scrum
1110 (2.433 %)ERD
1110 (2.433 %)Data Migration
129 (2.190 %)TDD
138 (1.946 %)Automated Testing
138 (1.946 %)Requirements Analysis
138 (1.946 %)BPR
138 (1.946 %)ITIL
Cambridge IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1215 (52.31 %)C#
2209 (50.85 %)SQL
397 (23.60 %)VB.NET
495 (23.11 %)C++
547 (11.44 %)T-SQL
643 (10.46 %)Java
742 (10.22 %)PHP
841 (9.976 %)JavaScript
931 (7.543 %)VB
1014 (3.406 %)VB6
1111 (2.676 %)VBScript
1210 (2.433 %)PL/SQL
1210 (2.433 %)Perl
139 (2.190 %)Python
147 (1.703 %)C
153 (0.730 %)VBA
162 (0.487 %)VC++
162 (0.487 %)PHP5
162 (0.487 %)Bash shell
171 (0.243 %)PowerHouse
Cambridge IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1104 (25.30 %)Degree
224 (5.839 %)Microsoft Certification
312 (2.920 %)MCSE
48 (1.946 %)MCP
56 (1.460 %)MCDBA
56 (1.460 %)ISEB
64 (0.973 %)Cisco Certification
64 (0.973 %)CCNA
73 (0.730 %)MCAD
73 (0.730 %)MCSD
73 (0.730 %)MCTS
82 (0.487 %)OCP
82 (0.487 %)Oracle Certification
82 (0.487 %)HNC
82 (0.487 %)HND
91 (0.243 %)MCSA
91 (0.243 %)ACCA
91 (0.243 %)CIMA
91 (0.243 %)CCVP
91 (0.243 %)MCITP
Cambridge IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (1.703 %)QA
23 (0.730 %)COBIT
32 (0.487 %)PCI DSS
Cambridge IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
116 (3.893 %)Active Directory
27 (1.703 %)Terminal Services
36 (1.460 %)Oracle RMAN
42 (0.487 %)VMware ESX
42 (0.487 %)VMware Infrastructure
51 (0.243 %)Citrix Presentation Server
Cambridge IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
111 (2.676 %)Backup Exec
22 (0.487 %)MSI
31 (0.243 %)Cisco IPCC
Cambridge IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1153 (37.23 %)Microsoft
258 (14.11 %)Oracle
315 (3.650 %)Cisco
411 (2.676 %)Sybase
411 (2.676 %)VMware
58 (1.946 %)Juniper
67 (1.703 %)Red Hat
67 (1.703 %)Apple
76 (1.460 %)Sage
76 (1.460 %)Salesforce.com
85 (1.217 %)Fortinet
85 (1.217 %)SAP
94 (0.973 %)Dell
94 (0.973 %)Citrix
94 (0.973 %)Sophos
94 (0.973 %)SonicWALL
103 (0.730 %)Capita
103 (0.730 %)Business Objects
112 (0.487 %)Siebel
112 (0.487 %)NetApp