City of London SQL Server Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the City of London 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 over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	9
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	2277	2269
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.542 %	1.031 %
As % of the category below	62.49 %	62.40 %
Salaries quoted	1929	1717
Average minimum salary	£46,706	£44,694
Average salary	£51,310	£48,887
% change on same period last year	+4.95 %
Average maximum salary	£55,915	£53,080
UK excluding London average salary	£35,198	£35,347
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Database & Business Intelligence City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	3644	3636
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.467 %	1.652 %
Salaries quoted	3116	2790
Average minimum salary	£48,014	£45,876
Average salary	£52,462	£49,729
% change on same period last year	+5.49 %
Average maximum salary	£56,910	£53,582
UK excluding London average salary	£37,450	£38,626
% change on same period last year	-3.04 %
SQL Server London

SQL Server
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the City of London region over the 3 months to 4 December 2008.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 2437 (47.55 %) SQL 2 2429 (47.40 %) .NET 3 2230 (43.51 %) C# 4 2057 (40.14 %) Finance 5 1595 (31.12 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1391 (27.14 %) ASP.NET 7 1270 (24.78 %) Windows 8 1181 (23.04 %) Microsoft 9 1139 (22.22 %) Oracle 10 960 (18.73 %) Banking 11 958 (18.69 %) SQL Server 2000 12 837 (16.33 %) XML 13 742 (14.48 %) Insurance 14 690 (13.46 %) MS Excel 15 689 (13.44 %) Transact-SQL

16 649 (12.66 %) Degree 17 636 (12.41 %) OO 18 599 (11.69 %) Windows Server 2003 19 580 (11.32 %) Java 20 559 (10.91 %) VB.NET 21 547 (10.67 %) VB 22 537 (10.48 %) Front Office 23 483 (9.424 %) Sybase 24 433 (8.449 %) UNIX 25 425 (8.293 %) HTML 26 423 (8.254 %) Investment Banking 27 419 (8.176 %) Datawarehouse 28 413 (8.059 %) C++ 29 402 (7.844 %) JavaScript 29 402 (7.844 %) ASP

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development 1 2429 (47.40 %) .NET 2 1391 (27.14 %) ASP.NET 3 837 (16.33 %) XML 4 425 (8.293 %) HTML 5 402 (7.844 %) ASP 6 345 (6.732 %) WebServices 7 303 (5.912 %) WinForms 8 294 (5.737 %) CSS 9 290 (5.659 %) AJAX 10 252 (4.917 %) .NET Framework 11 173 (3.376 %) J2EE 12 169 (3.298 %) XSLT 13 112 (2.185 %) WebSphere 14 82 (1.600 %) XSL 15 81 (1.580 %) WCF 16 78 (1.522 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 75 (1.463 %) J2SE 18 68 (1.327 %) Middleware 19 57 (1.112 %) SOAP 20 56 (1.093 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 354 (6.907 %) SharePoint 2 255 (4.976 %) IIS 3 232 (4.527 %) MS Exchange 4 138 (2.693 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 111 (2.166 %) WebLogic 6 108 (2.107 %) Apache 7 103 (2.010 %) CMS 8 88 (1.717 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 87 (1.698 %) Tomcat 10 81 (1.580 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 72 (1.405 %) Exchange Server 2000 12 71 (1.385 %) BizTalk Server 13 41 (0.800 %) SAS 14 38 (0.741 %) MQSeries 15 31 (0.605 %) Content Management Server 16 21 (0.410 %) ColdFusion 17 18 (0.351 %) JBoss 18 16 (0.312 %) WebSphere Application Server 19 13 (0.254 %) Lotus Notes 19 13 (0.254 %) Documentum
Applications 1 690 (13.46 %) MS Excel 2 125 (2.439 %) MS Office 3 74 (1.444 %) MS Visio 4 26 (0.507 %) Spreadsheet 5 22 (0.429 %) Photoshop 5 22 (0.429 %) MS Project 6 16 (0.312 %) MATLAB 7 9 (0.176 %) MS PowerPoint 7 9 (0.176 %) SPSS 8 6 (0.117 %) InfoPath 9 5 (0.098 %) CA Clarity 10 3 (0.059 %) S-PLUS 10 3 (0.059 %) Fireworks 11 1 (0.020 %) Acrobat 11 1 (0.020 %) QuarkXPress 11 1 (0.020 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 23 (0.449 %) Microsoft CRM 2 20 (0.390 %) Hyperion Planning 3 14 (0.273 %) Dynamics CRM 4 13 (0.254 %) Capstone 5 9 (0.176 %) SAP CRM 6 8 (0.156 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 7 4 (0.078 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 4 (0.078 %) LongView 8 3 (0.059 %) Minerva 8 3 (0.059 %) FRONT ARENA 8 3 (0.059 %) RMDS 9 2 (0.039 %) Summit 9 2 (0.039 %) arcHouse 9 2 (0.039 %) Oracle ERP 9 2 (0.039 %) Oracle Applications 9 2 (0.039 %) BASE24 9 2 (0.039 %) Oracle Financials 9 2 (0.039 %) Dynamics NAV 10 1 (0.020 %) Dynamics AX 10 1 (0.020 %) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking 1 218 (4.254 %) Internet 2 137 (2.673 %) TCP/IP 3 115 (2.244 %) Intranet 4 94 (1.834 %) DNS 5 85 (1.659 %) SAN 6 81 (1.580 %) LAN 7 78 (1.522 %) Firewall 8 77 (1.502 %) WAN 9 49 (0.956 %) Extranet 10 41 (0.800 %) DHCP 11 36 (0.702 %) VPN 12 27 (0.527 %) SMTP 13 25 (0.488 %) HTTP 14 23 (0.449 %) FTP 15 19 (0.371 %) VoIP 16 17 (0.332 %) 3G 17 15 (0.293 %) VLAN 18 12 (0.234 %) SSL 18 12 (0.234 %) IP Telephony 19 11 (0.215 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1595 (31.12 %) SQL Server 2005 2 958 (18.69 %) SQL Server 2000 3 419 (8.176 %) Datawarehouse 4 376 (7.337 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 354 (6.907 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 289 (5.639 %) RDBMS 7 281 (5.483 %) ETL 8 275 (5.366 %) DTS 9 263 (5.132 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 199 (3.883 %) BusinessObjects 11 178 (3.473 %) Oracle 10g 12 176 (3.434 %) OLAP 13 168 (3.278 %) MySQL 14 135 (2.634 %) Oracle 9i 15 133 (2.595 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 16 119 (2.322 %) Crystal Reports 17 107 (2.088 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 107 (2.088 %) SQL Server 2008 18 64 (1.249 %) MS Access 19 52 (1.015 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 267 (5.210 %) Visual Studio 2 71 (1.385 %) NUnit 3 64 (1.249 %) Subversion 4 49 (0.956 %) JUnit 5 42 (0.820 %) Flash 6 32 (0.624 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 25 (0.488 %) Ant 8 20 (0.390 %) Eclipse 9 19 (0.371 %) ClearCase 10 17 (0.332 %) CruiseControl 11 13 (0.254 %) JIRA 12 10 (0.195 %) LoadRunner 13 9 (0.176 %) Rational Rose 13 9 (0.176 %) ClearQuest 14 8 (0.156 %) TestDirector 15 7 (0.137 %) Dreamweaver 16 6 (0.117 %) QuickTest Pro 17 5 (0.098 %) WinRunner 17 5 (0.098 %) Oracle Forms 18 3 (0.059 %) ERwin	General 1 2057 (40.14 %) Finance 2 960 (18.73 %) Banking 3 742 (14.48 %) Insurance 4 537 (10.48 %) Front Office 5 423 (8.254 %) Investment Banking 6 228 (4.449 %) Back Office 7 150 (2.927 %) Health 8 146 (2.849 %) Law 8 146 (2.849 %) Legal 9 129 (2.517 %) Pensions 10 122 (2.380 %) Financial Institution 11 106 (2.068 %) Marketing 12 89 (1.737 %) Education 13 58 (1.132 %) Retail 14 56 (1.093 %) Telecoms 15 46 (0.898 %) Publishing 16 41 (0.800 %) Government 17 27 (0.527 %) Games 18 24 (0.468 %) Advertising 19 17 (0.332 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 2510 (48.98 %) Developer 2 887 (17.31 %) Analyst 3 820 (16.00 %) .NET Developer 4 803 (15.67 %) C# Developer 5 480 (9.366 %) DBA 6 432 (8.429 %) SQL Developer 7 328 (6.400 %) Support Analyst 8 325 (6.341 %) Senior Developer 9 324 (6.322 %) SQL DBA 10 258 (5.034 %) Applications Support 11 237 (4.624 %) Consultant 12 231 (4.507 %) SQL Server DBA 13 230 (4.488 %) ASP.NET Developer 14 225 (4.390 %) Architect 15 219 (4.273 %) SQL Server Developer 15 219 (4.273 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 16 183 (3.571 %) Administrator 17 167 (3.259 %) Team Leader 18 139 (2.712 %) VB.NET Developer 19 135 (2.634 %) Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 269 (5.249 %) Derivative 2 256 (4.995 %) Fixed Income 3 153 (2.985 %) Equities 4 134 (2.615 %) N-Tier 5 132 (2.576 %) Clustering 6 119 (2.322 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 112 (2.185 %) Replication 8 83 (1.620 %) Computer Science 9 68 (1.327 %) Equity Derivative 10 54 (1.054 %) Management Information System 11 52 (1.015 %) Credit Derivative 11 52 (1.015 %) Mathematics 11 52 (1.015 %) Market Risk 12 51 (0.995 %) Multithreading 13 49 (0.956 %) Client/Server 14 38 (0.741 %) Credit Risk 15 32 (0.624 %) Exotic Derivative 16 28 (0.546 %) Data Integration 17 23 (0.449 %) W3C 18 22 (0.429 %) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems 1 1270 (24.78 %) Windows 2 599 (11.69 %) Windows Server 2003 3 433 (8.449 %) UNIX 4 357 (6.966 %) Linux 5 262 (5.112 %) Windows 2000 6 191 (3.727 %) Solaris 7 134 (2.615 %) Windows XP 8 116 (2.263 %) Red Hat Linux 9 99 (1.932 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 42 (0.820 %) Windows NT 11 37 (0.722 %) HPUX 12 26 (0.507 %) Windows Mobile 13 23 (0.449 %) Windows Vista 14 22 (0.429 %) AIX 15 17 (0.332 %) Windows Server 2008 16 11 (0.215 %) Ubuntu 17 7 (0.137 %) SUSE 18 6 (0.117 %) Mac OS 19 5 (0.098 %) CentOS 19 5 (0.098 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 636 (12.41 %) OO 2 306 (5.971 %) Business Intelligence 3 230 (4.488 %) UML 4 184 (3.590 %) Asset Management 5 179 (3.493 %) Disaster Recovery 6 174 (3.395 %) Agile Software Development 7 160 (3.122 %) Web Development 8 147 (2.868 %) E-Commerce 9 143 (2.790 %) SOA 10 141 (2.751 %) ITIL 11 137 (2.673 %) CRM 12 136 (2.654 %) Risk Management 13 129 (2.517 %) Electronic Trading 14 127 (2.478 %) Investment Management 15 126 (2.459 %) Scrum 16 125 (2.439 %) Project Management 17 117 (2.283 %) TDD 18 108 (2.107 %) Migration 19 107 (2.088 %) OOD 20 97 (1.893 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 2437 (47.55 %) SQL 2 2230 (43.51 %) C# 3 689 (13.44 %) Transact-SQL 4 580 (11.32 %) Java 5 559 (10.91 %) VB.NET 6 547 (10.67 %) VB 7 413 (8.059 %) C++ 8 402 (7.844 %) JavaScript 9 372 (7.259 %) VBA 10 253 (4.937 %) Perl 11 211 (4.117 %) PHP 12 198 (3.863 %) Python 13 167 (3.259 %) VB6 14 123 (2.400 %) PL/SQL 15 98 (1.912 %) VBScript 16 92 (1.795 %) C 17 61 (1.190 %) Shell Script 18 47 (0.917 %) DHTML 19 35 (0.683 %) VC++ 20 26 (0.507 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 649 (12.66 %) Degree 2 313 (6.107 %) Microsoft Certification 3 129 (2.517 %) MCSE 4 77 (1.502 %) MCSD 5 70 (1.366 %) MCSA 6 59 (1.151 %) MCTS 7 56 (1.093 %) MCP 8 48 (0.937 %) MCAD 9 45 (0.878 %) MCDBA 10 41 (0.800 %) Cisco Certification 11 38 (0.741 %) CCNA 12 33 (0.644 %) Oracle Certification 13 24 (0.468 %) ISEB 13 24 (0.468 %) MCPD 14 13 (0.254 %) OCP 15 12 (0.234 %) MCITP 16 6 (0.117 %) ITIL Certification 16 6 (0.117 %) PhD 17 5 (0.098 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 5 (0.098 %) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 128 (2.498 %) QA 2 51 (0.995 %) SLA 3 13 (0.254 %) COBIT 4 4 (0.078 %) MiFID 5 3 (0.059 %) HL7 6 1 (0.020 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 1 (0.020 %) WCAG 6 1 (0.020 %) WAI 6 1 (0.020 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 356 (6.946 %) Active Directory 2 87 (1.698 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 48 (0.937 %) ISA Server 4 43 (0.839 %) Terminal Server 4 43 (0.839 %) Oracle RAC 5 39 (0.761 %) Oracle RMAN 6 31 (0.605 %) MSMQ 7 30 (0.585 %) Backup Exec 8 28 (0.546 %) VMware ESX 9 19 (0.371 %) NetBackup 10 16 (0.312 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 7 (0.137 %) MetaFrame 12 5 (0.098 %) Terminal Services 13 3 (0.059 %) LiteSpeed 14 2 (0.039 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 15 1 (0.020 %) WebInspect 15 1 (0.020 %) VMware Workstation 15 1 (0.020 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 60 (1.171 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 47 (0.917 %) MAILsweeper 3 40 (0.780 %) MOM 4 33 (0.644 %) Data Guard 5 19 (0.371 %) CONTROL-M 6 17 (0.332 %) AutoSys 7 4 (0.078 %) WSUS 7 4 (0.078 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 4 (0.078 %) Legato 7 4 (0.078 %) SCOM 8 3 (0.059 %) HP Data Protector 8 3 (0.059 %) SCCM 8 3 (0.059 %) Foglight 9 1 (0.020 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 9 1 (0.020 %) ServiceCenter 9 1 (0.020 %) Tivoli 9 1 (0.020 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 1 (0.020 %) Nagios 9 1 (0.020 %) Norton AntiVirus 9 1 (0.020 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 1181 (23.04 %) Microsoft 2 1139 (22.22 %) Oracle 3 483 (9.424 %) Sybase 4 199 (3.883 %) Business Objects 5 166 (3.239 %) VMware 6 135 (2.634 %) Citrix 7 129 (2.517 %) Cisco 8 118 (2.302 %) Red Hat 9 73 (1.424 %) HP 10 72 (1.405 %) Bloomberg 11 67 (1.307 %) Reuters 12 64 (1.249 %) IBM 13 54 (1.054 %) Sun 14 52 (1.015 %) TIBCO 14 52 (1.015 %) Blue Coat 15 45 (0.878 %) Cognos 16 42 (0.820 %) Adobe 17 39 (0.761 %) Hyperion 18 38 (0.741 %) VERITAS 19 34 (0.663 %) Hummingbird