The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 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 Dunstable region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 13 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 11.40% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 54.17% - -
Number of salaries quoted 13 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
24 23 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 21.05% 67.65% -
Number of salaries quoted 22 21 0
Average salary £35,000 £39,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.39% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
Bedfordshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Dunstable region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Dunstable SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Dunstable region.

Dunstable SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Dunstable region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Dunstable SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008.

1 27 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (92.59%) Windows
2 25 (92.59%) Active Directory
2 25 (92.59%) SQL Server 2005
2 25 (92.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (88.89%) XenApp
3 24 (88.89%) Windows 7
3 24 (88.89%) Citrix
3 24 (88.89%) MS Exchange
4 23 (85.19%) HP
4 23 (85.19%) VMware
4 23 (85.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (85.19%) Hyper-V
5 20 (74.07%) NAS
5 20 (74.07%) Exchange Server 2007
5 20 (74.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (74.07%) SAN
5 20 (74.07%) MCSE
6 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
6 19 (70.37%) XenDesktop
7 18 (66.67%) XenServer
8 16 (59.26%) Finance
9 15 (55.56%) MCITP
9 15 (55.56%) DNS
9 15 (55.56%) MCSA
9 15 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
10 14 (51.85%) Lync
10 14 (51.85%) LANDesk
10 14 (51.85%) Office Communications Server
10 14 (51.85%) DHCP

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable region citing SQL Server 2008 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 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.704%) .NET
1 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.704%) .NET Framework
1 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (3.704%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (3.704%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 24 (88.89%) MS Exchange
2 20 (74.07%) Exchange Server 2007
3 15 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
4 14 (51.85%) Office Communications Server
4 14 (51.85%) Lync
5 4 (14.81%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (3.704%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) SAN
1 20 (74.07%) NAS
2 15 (55.56%) DNS
3 14 (51.85%) DHCP
3 14 (51.85%) Firewall
3 14 (51.85%) iSCSI
4 13 (48.15%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (92.59%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (3.704%) SQLPlus
General
1 16 (59.26%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Server Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Wintel Support
5 1 (3.704%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (3.704%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.704%) SQL Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Architect
5 1 (3.704%) Developer
5 1 (3.704%) DBA
5 1 (3.704%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
1 1 (3.704%) Replication
1 1 (3.704%) Clustering
1 1 (3.704%) SaaS
1 1 (3.704%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 25 (92.59%) Windows
1 25 (92.59%) Windows Server 2008
2 24 (88.89%) Windows 7
3 11 (40.74%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.704%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Network Load Balancing
2 6 (22.22%) Change Management
3 5 (18.52%) ITIL
4 1 (3.704%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.704%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.704%) E-business
4 1 (3.704%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.407%) SQL
2 1 (3.704%) VB
2 1 (3.704%) C#
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) MCSE
1 20 (74.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (55.56%) MCSA
2 15 (55.56%) MCITP
3 11 (40.74%) MCP
3 11 (40.74%) MCTS
4 10 (37.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 9 (33.33%) CCA
5 9 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
6 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
6 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (37.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 25 (92.59%) Active Directory
2 24 (88.89%) XenApp
3 23 (85.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (85.19%) Hyper-V
4 19 (70.37%) XenDesktop
5 18 (66.67%) XenServer
6 14 (51.85%) NFS
6 14 (51.85%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (3.704%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (88.89%) Citrix
2 23 (85.19%) VMware
2 23 (85.19%) HP
3 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
4 14 (51.85%) EMC
4 14 (51.85%) LANDesk
4 14 (51.85%) CommVault
5 1 (3.704%) VocaLink
5 1 (3.704%) Oracle