Cheshire SQL Server 7 Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 7 over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carnforth Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Evesham Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kettering Kidlington Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newry Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Rochester Rugby Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	128
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching permanent IT job ads	35	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	3.650 %	1.738 %
Salaries quoted	34	13
Average minimum salary	£30,103	£30,192
Average salary	£30,926	£32,154
% change on same period last year	-3.81 %
Average maximum salary	£31,750	£34,115
UK excluding London average salary	£35,433	£35,790
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	959	863
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.506 %	0.353 %
Salaries quoted	893	781
Average minimum salary	£31,841	£30,581
Average salary	£34,482	£32,916
% change on same period last year	+4.75 %
Average maximum salary	£37,123	£35,252
UK excluding London average salary	£37,141	£38,092
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
SQL Server 7 North West

SQL Server 7
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 7
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Cheshire region.

SQL Server 7
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server 7
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 7 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	+14	11	£26,500	-15.20 %
Macclesfield	-	8	£34,750	-
Warrington	-5	7	£27,143	-5.31 %
Knutsford	-	1	£34,000	-

SQL Server 7 North West

SQL Server 7
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing SQL Server 7 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 7.

1 67 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 38 (56.72 %) .NET 3 36 (53.73 %) SQL Server 2000 4 32 (47.76 %) ASP.NET 5 31 (46.27 %) SQL Server 2005 6 28 (41.79 %) C# 7 27 (40.30 %) Microsoft 8 24 (35.82 %) Windows 9 23 (34.33 %) SQL 10 21 (31.34 %) SharePoint 11 18 (26.87 %) Active Directory 12 16 (23.88 %) MS Excel 12 16 (23.88 %) XML 13 15 (22.39 %) MS Exchange 13 15 (22.39 %) Exchange Server 2003

13 15 (22.39 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 13 (19.40 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 13 (19.40 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 12 (17.91 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 10 (14.93 %) Windows XP 16 10 (14.93 %) UNIX 16 10 (14.93 %) MS Office 16 10 (14.93 %) HTML 16 10 (14.93 %) Unit Testing 16 10 (14.93 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 9 (13.43 %) VB.NET 17 9 (13.43 %) OO 18 8 (11.94 %) CSS 18 8 (11.94 %) Transact-SQL 18 8 (11.94 %) VB

SQL Server 7
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing SQL Server 7 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 7. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 38 (56.72 %) .NET 2 32 (47.76 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (23.88 %) XML 4 13 (19.40 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 10 (14.93 %) HTML 6 8 (11.94 %) CSS 7 7 (10.45 %) .NET Framework 7 7 (10.45 %) WebServices 8 6 (8.955 %) ASP 9 4 (5.970 %) AJAX 9 4 (5.970 %) WF 10 3 (4.478 %) Adobe Flex 10 3 (4.478 %) RSS 10 3 (4.478 %) XSLT 11 2 (2.985 %) WinForms 12 1 (1.493 %) XHTML 12 1 (1.493 %) SOAP 12 1 (1.493 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 21 (31.34 %) SharePoint 2 15 (22.39 %) MS Exchange 2 15 (22.39 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 15 (22.39 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 12 (17.91 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 10 (14.93 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 6 (8.955 %) IIS
Applications 1 16 (23.88 %) MS Excel 2 10 (14.93 %) MS Office 3 3 (4.478 %) MS Visio 4 1 (1.493 %) Fireworks 4 1 (1.493 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 6 (8.955 %) Intranet 2 5 (7.463 %) DNS 3 4 (5.970 %) SAN 3 4 (5.970 %) DMZ 3 4 (5.970 %) LDAP 3 4 (5.970 %) Network Security 4 1 (1.493 %) Extranet 4 1 (1.493 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 67 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 36 (53.73 %) SQL Server 2000 3 31 (46.27 %) SQL Server 2005 4 13 (19.40 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 6 (8.955 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 6 (8.955 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 5 (7.463 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 5 (7.463 %) Crystal Reports 7 4 (5.970 %) DTS 8 3 (4.478 %) Data Mining 8 3 (4.478 %) ETL 9 2 (2.985 %) MySQL 10 1 (1.493 %) OLTP 10 1 (1.493 %) RDBMS 10 1 (1.493 %) MS Access 10 1 (1.493 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (1.493 %) OLAP	Development Applications 1 5 (7.463 %) InstallShield 1 5 (7.463 %) NUnit 2 2 (2.985 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (2.985 %) Dreamweaver 3 1 (1.493 %) Flash
General 1 7 (10.45 %) Health 2 6 (8.955 %) Pensions 3 4 (5.970 %) Graphic Design 4 2 (2.985 %) Marketing 4 2 (2.985 %) Finance 5 1 (1.493 %) Construction 5 1 (1.493 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 41 (61.19 %) Developer 2 17 (25.37 %) .NET Developer 3 13 (19.40 %) C# Developer 4 10 (14.93 %) 2nd Line Support 4 10 (14.93 %) Support Technician 5 7 (10.45 %) SharePoint Developer 6 6 (8.955 %) Programmer 6 6 (8.955 %) Software Developer 6 6 (8.955 %) SQL Developer 7 5 (7.463 %) Analyst 7 5 (7.463 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 4 (5.970 %) .NET Programmer 8 4 (5.970 %) Technical Specialist 8 4 (5.970 %) Analyst Developer 9 3 (4.478 %) VB.NET Developer 9 3 (4.478 %) Consultant 9 3 (4.478 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 3 (4.478 %) CSharp Software Developer 10 2 (2.985 %) Sharepoint Specialist 10 2 (2.985 %) SharePoint Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.463 %) N-Tier 1 5 (7.463 %) Computer Science 2 2 (2.985 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 24 (35.82 %) Windows 2 10 (14.93 %) Windows XP 2 10 (14.93 %) UNIX 3 6 (8.955 %) Linux 4 3 (4.478 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (1.493 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (1.493 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (14.93 %) Unit Testing 2 9 (13.43 %) OO 3 8 (11.94 %) Workflow 3 8 (11.94 %) Agile Software Development 4 6 (8.955 %) Business Intelligence 5 5 (7.463 %) Web Development 6 4 (5.970 %) Problem Management 6 4 (5.970 %) Migration 6 4 (5.970 %) CRM 7 3 (4.478 %) Service Management 7 3 (4.478 %) Service Delivery 8 2 (2.985 %) Project Management 9 1 (1.493 %) ITIL 9 1 (1.493 %) PRINCE2 9 1 (1.493 %) E-Commerce 9 1 (1.493 %) OOD 9 1 (1.493 %) Automated Testing 9 1 (1.493 %) Requirements Analysis	Programming Languages 1 28 (41.79 %) C# 2 23 (34.33 %) SQL 3 9 (13.43 %) VB.NET 4 8 (11.94 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (11.94 %) VB 5 5 (7.463 %) VB6 6 3 (4.478 %) DHTML 7 2 (2.985 %) Java 8 1 (1.493 %) JavaScript 8 1 (1.493 %) PHP 8 1 (1.493 %) C
Qualifications 1 6 (8.955 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (7.463 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.493 %) MCSA 3 1 (1.493 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.493 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.493 %) QA
System Software 1 18 (26.87 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 27 (40.30 %) Microsoft 2 4 (5.970 %) HP 3 3 (4.478 %) Remedy 3 3 (4.478 %) Adobe