The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2012 skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2012 over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2012
Rank 244 315 -
Rank change year-on-year
+71 -
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2012 73 11 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.625% 0.084% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.430% 0.318% -
Number of salaries quoted 68 11 0
Average salary £56,250 £64,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.10% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 -
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
3004 3459 3772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 25.74% 26.31% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2650 3202 3411
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% +4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2012
London

SQL Server 2012
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

City of London SQL Server 2012 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2012
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the City of London region.

City of London SQL Server 2012 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2012
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2012 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London SQL Server 2012 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2012
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012.

1 124 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 90 (72.58%) SQL
3 89 (71.77%) SQL Server 2008
4 65 (52.42%) Microsoft
5 58 (46.77%) T-SQL
6 55 (44.35%) SQL Server 2005
7 51 (41.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (39.52%) Data Warehouse
9 43 (34.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 37 (29.84%) Windows
11 33 (26.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 30 (24.19%) Finance
12 30 (24.19%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (23.39%) ETL
14 28 (22.58%) E-Commerce
15 27 (21.77%) MS Excel
16 24 (19.35%) OLAP
17 20 (16.13%) .NET
17 20 (16.13%) XML
18 19 (15.32%) C#
19 17 (13.71%) OLTP
20 15 (12.10%) Replication
20 15 (12.10%) Windows Server 2008
21 14 (11.29%) Data Modelling
21 14 (11.29%) Kimball Methodology
22 13 (10.48%) Oracle
22 13 (10.48%) ASP.NET
22 13 (10.48%) MDX
23 11 (8.871%) Asset Management
23 11 (8.871%) SQL Server 2000

SQL Server 2012
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing SQL Server 2012 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 2012. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (16.13%) .NET
1 20 (16.13%) XML
2 13 (10.48%) ASP.NET
2 13 (10.48%) MDX
3 7 (5.645%) HTML
3 7 (5.645%) .NET Framework
3 7 (5.645%) CSS
4 6 (4.839%) Web Services
4 6 (4.839%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (4.032%) REST
5 5 (4.032%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (4.032%) WCF
5 5 (4.032%) SOAP
6 4 (3.226%) Middleware
6 4 (3.226%) WPF
6 4 (3.226%) Silverlight
6 4 (3.226%) jQuery
6 4 (3.226%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 4 (3.226%) D3.js
6 4 (3.226%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.258%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.226%) Apache
2 4 (3.226%) Windows Azure
2 4 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (2.419%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (2.419%) SharePoint 2013
3 3 (2.419%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.419%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.806%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.806%) SAS
5 1 (0.806%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.806%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 27 (21.77%) MS Excel
2 7 (5.645%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.613%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.645%) LatentZero
2 4 (3.226%) Capstone
3 3 (2.419%) Tesseract
3 3 (2.419%) Minerva
3 3 (2.419%) Sentinel
4 2 (1.613%) Applix TM1
5 1 (0.806%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.258%) SAN
2 2 (1.613%) HTTP
2 2 (1.613%) Firewall
3 1 (0.806%) Intranet
3 1 (0.806%) DAB
3 1 (0.806%) LAN
3 1 (0.806%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 89 (71.77%) SQL Server 2008
3 55 (44.35%) SQL Server 2005
4 51 (41.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 49 (39.52%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (34.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 33 (26.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 24 (19.35%) OLAP
9 17 (13.71%) OLTP
10 11 (8.871%) SQL Server 2000
11 10 (8.065%) Oracle 8/8i
12 9 (7.258%) DTS
13 8 (6.452%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (4.839%) Oracle 11g
15 5 (4.032%) SAP Data Services
15 5 (4.032%) Big Data
15 5 (4.032%) Oracle OWB
15 5 (4.032%) Oracle OLAP
15 5 (4.032%) Oracle 10g
16 4 (3.226%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 10 (8.065%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.806%) TestDirector
2 1 (0.806%) ERwin
2 1 (0.806%) NUnit
2 1 (0.806%) MSBuild
General
1 30 (24.19%) Finance
2 8 (6.452%) Banking
3 4 (3.226%) Marketing
4 3 (2.419%) Advertising
5 2 (1.613%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.613%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.806%) Music
6 1 (0.806%) Billing
6 1 (0.806%) Retail
6 1 (0.806%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.806%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 54 (43.55%) Developer
2 38 (30.65%) DBA
3 33 (26.61%) SQL DBA
4 30 (24.19%) SQL Developer
5 24 (19.35%) SQL Server DBA
6 17 (13.71%) Administrator
7 16 (12.90%) Analyst
8 14 (11.29%) Teradata DBA
9 9 (7.258%) Server Administrator
9 9 (7.258%) SQL Server Developer
9 9 (7.258%) .NET Developer
10 8 (6.452%) Senior Developer
10 8 (6.452%) Graduate
10 8 (6.452%) Business Developer
10 8 (6.452%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (6.452%) Graduate Developer
11 7 (5.645%) MI Developer
11 7 (5.645%) Architect
11 7 (5.645%) Lead Developer
12 6 (4.839%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Replication
2 7 (5.645%) NHS
3 5 (4.032%) Clustering
4 4 (3.226%) Derivative
4 4 (3.226%) Visualisation
4 4 (3.226%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.806%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.806%) Open Source
5 1 (0.806%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.806%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.806%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.806%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.84%) Windows
2 15 (12.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (8.065%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (7.258%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (3.226%) Windows 7
5 4 (3.226%) UNIX
5 4 (3.226%) Linux
6 1 (0.806%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.19%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (23.39%) ETL
3 28 (22.58%) E-Commerce
4 14 (11.29%) Data Modelling
4 14 (11.29%) Kimball Methodology
5 11 (8.871%) Database Security
5 11 (8.871%) Asset Management
6 7 (5.645%) Migration
6 7 (5.645%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (4.839%) Data Architecture
7 6 (4.839%) Change Management
7 6 (4.839%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (4.032%) MVC
8 5 (4.032%) Configuration Management
8 5 (4.032%) ITIL
8 5 (4.032%) Data Management
8 5 (4.032%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (4.032%) TDD
8 5 (4.032%) Problem Management
9 4 (3.226%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 90 (72.58%) SQL
2 58 (46.77%) T-SQL
3 19 (15.32%) C#
4 5 (4.032%) PL/SQL
4 5 (4.032%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.226%) R
5 4 (3.226%) Python
5 4 (3.226%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.226%) MATLAB
5 4 (3.226%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.806%) Perl
6 1 (0.806%) Java
6 1 (0.806%) C
6 1 (0.806%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (5.645%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.839%) MCITP
2 6 (4.839%) Degree
3 4 (3.226%) OCP
3 4 (3.226%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.226%) MCDBA
4 3 (2.419%) MCP
4 3 (2.419%) MCSD
5 2 (1.613%) MCSE
5 2 (1.613%) CCNA
5 2 (1.613%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.613%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.806%) MCTS
6 1 (0.806%) Microsoft Certified Architect
6 1 (0.806%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.839%) QA
2 4 (3.226%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.806%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.032%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.226%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (2.419%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.613%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.806%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (4.839%) SCCM
2 5 (4.032%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.806%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.806%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 65 (52.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.48%) Oracle
3 9 (7.258%) VMware
4 6 (4.839%) Sun
5 5 (4.032%) Fidessa
5 5 (4.032%) Informatica
5 5 (4.032%) thinkFolio
6 4 (3.226%) HP
6 4 (3.226%) Sybase
7 3 (2.419%) Cisco
8 2 (1.613%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.613%) Cognos
8 2 (1.613%) NetApp
8 2 (1.613%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.613%) Tableau
8 2 (1.613%) Applix
9 1 (0.806%) GoldenSource
9 1 (0.806%) DataFlux
9 1 (0.806%) Cadis
9 1 (0.806%) Palantir
City, London
SQL Developer (T-SQL, SQL Server 2012, SSRS SSIS SSAS)... Good knowledge of Microsoft BI stack - SSRS, SSIS, SSAS. Advocate of agile development methodologies - Scrum / Pair Programming / TDD.
Client Server
Salary: £50k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an operational SQL Server DBA for a leading global asset management firm that look after 106 billion pounds worth of assets based...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £45000 - £75000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
A fantastic opportunity for a SQL Server Data warehouse develop has become available for a growing retail bank based inBrighton. As a senior Data warehouse developer you will...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus, Benefits, Pension
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
This world class organisation is looking to bring on board an experienced and skillful Mircrosfot SQL server DBA... The prospective SQL DBA will need to have been exposed...
Sanderson
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus! Healthcare etc
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
Able to create and optimise stored procedures * Knowledge of monitoring performance and capacity * Practical experience in managing internal and external MS SQL database security using SQL and windows...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
This SQL Server Operations DBA position is unique in the fact that you will be working on a number of the latest technologies including SQL Server 2012, Geo...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus, Benefit, Pension.
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
You will have strong experience in Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Hyper -V and Active Directory... An MCP is essential for this role. (Microsoft...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £40000 per annum + Up to 25% Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
You will have strong experience in Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, Exchange Server 2003/2010, Hyper -V and Active Directory... An MCP is essential for this role. (Microsoft...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £40000 per annum + Up to 25% Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
EnterpriseData Architect (Data Analysis, Data Modelling, Data Warehousing) Data Architect / Analyst required for large City based Asset Management firm. This role will require someone who is interested in...
Real Staffing
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + BONUS AND BENEFITS
Posted: 15 May 2013