The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2005 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 39 37 36
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2005 1 11 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 0.339% 3.303% 2.491%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.389% 12.22% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 7
Average salary £75,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+100.00% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.71% -6.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
72 90 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 24.41% 27.03% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 68 82 53
Average salary £47,750 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.37% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,850 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2005
London

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Croydon SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Croydon region.

Croydon SQL Server 2005 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Clustering
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (40.00%) MCDBA
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) VB
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (20.00%) Sybase
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
4 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
4 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) DBA
1 3 (60.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Teradata DBA
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (20.00%) BPEL
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) QMS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (40.00%) MCDBA
2 1 (20.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase