The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 34 26 25
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 190 238 257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.036% 7.193% 6.929%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.96% 20.68% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 175 229 244
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,700 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £43,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Database & Business Intelligence
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1120 1151 1230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 35.58% 34.78% 33.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1019 1041 1076
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
England

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicestershire -7 64 £40,600 +8.26% 6
Nottinghamshire -12 52 £35,000 - 8
Derbyshire 0 37 £32,500 +3.17% 5
Northamptonshire -5 26 £39,500 -4.81% 3
Lincolnshire -24 5 £28,500 -18.57% 1
SQL Server 2008
England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 451 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 306 (67.85%) .NET
3 298 (66.08%) SQL Server 2005
4 260 (57.65%) C#
5 255 (56.54%) SQL
6 237 (52.55%) ASP.NET
7 182 (40.35%) Microsoft
8 165 (36.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 152 (33.70%) Windows
10 133 (29.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 126 (27.94%) jQuery
12 120 (26.61%) CSS
13 118 (26.16%) JavaScript
14 115 (25.50%) MVC
15 104 (23.06%) Ajax
16 100 (22.17%) HTML
17 97 (21.51%) Data Warehouse
18 93 (20.62%) XML
19 85 (18.85%) T-SQL
20 84 (18.63%) Web Services
20 84 (18.63%) SQL Server 2000
21 82 (18.18%) MS Excel
22 80 (17.74%) Visual Studio
23 77 (17.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
24 73 (16.19%) Windows Server 2008
25 69 (15.30%) WCF
25 69 (15.30%) Web Development
26 68 (15.08%) SAN
27 67 (14.86%) ASP.NET MVC
28 64 (14.19%) Replication

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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
1 306 (67.85%) .NET
2 237 (52.55%) ASP.NET
3 126 (27.94%) jQuery
4 120 (26.61%) CSS
5 104 (23.06%) Ajax
6 100 (22.17%) HTML
7 93 (20.62%) XML
8 84 (18.63%) Web Services
9 69 (15.30%) WCF
10 67 (14.86%) ASP.NET MVC
11 57 (12.64%) XSLT
12 56 (12.42%) .NET Framework
13 54 (11.97%) XHTML
14 32 (7.095%) JSON
15 28 (6.208%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 28 (6.208%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 28 (6.208%) LINQ
16 26 (5.765%) WPF
17 22 (4.878%) WinForms
17 22 (4.878%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 36 (7.982%) IIS
2 29 (6.430%) SharePoint
3 15 (3.326%) CMS
4 11 (2.439%) MS Exchange
5 9 (1.996%) Umbraco
5 9 (1.996%) Kentico
6 8 (1.774%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (1.552%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (1.109%) Exchange Server 2003
9 4 (0.887%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.443%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.443%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 2 (0.443%) Commerce Server
10 2 (0.443%) Windows Azure
10 2 (0.443%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.443%) Commerce Server 2007
11 1 (0.222%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.222%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 82 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.109%) MS Office
3 2 (0.443%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.222%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.222%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (1.109%) Agresso
2 3 (0.665%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.443%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.222%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 68 (15.08%) SAN
2 23 (5.100%) Internet
3 14 (3.104%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.774%) Firewall
5 5 (1.109%) DNS
6 4 (0.887%) VPN
6 4 (0.887%) WAN
6 4 (0.887%) DHCP
6 4 (0.887%) LAN
7 3 (0.665%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.665%) Wireless
8 2 (0.443%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.222%) VLAN
9 1 (0.222%) HTTP
9 1 (0.222%) SMS
9 1 (0.222%) VoIP
9 1 (0.222%) Intranet
9 1 (0.222%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 451 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 298 (66.08%) SQL Server 2005
3 165 (36.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 133 (29.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 97 (21.51%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (18.63%) SQL Server 2000
7 77 (17.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 44 (9.756%) SQL Server 2012
9 36 (7.982%) DTS
10 28 (6.208%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 26 (5.765%) VLDB
12 25 (5.543%) OLTP
13 20 (4.435%) Oracle 8/8i
14 15 (3.326%) Star Schema
14 15 (3.326%) OLAP
15 13 (2.882%) Oracle 11g
15 13 (2.882%) Oracle 10g
15 13 (2.882%) Oracle 9i
16 11 (2.439%) ActiveReports
16 11 (2.439%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 80 (17.74%) Visual Studio
2 44 (9.756%) Team Foundation Server
3 20 (4.435%) NUnit
4 16 (3.548%) Rhino Mocks
5 14 (3.104%) Moq
6 7 (1.552%) Selenium
7 3 (0.665%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.222%) MSTest
8 1 (0.222%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.222%) Xcode
8 1 (0.222%) CruiseControl
8 1 (0.222%) Subversion
General
1 35 (7.761%) Retail
2 17 (3.769%) Finance
3 10 (2.217%) Advertising
3 10 (2.217%) Marketing
4 8 (1.774%) Games
5 7 (1.552%) Music Industry
6 6 (1.330%) Telecoms
7 4 (0.887%) Publishing
8 3 (0.665%) Billing
9 2 (0.443%) Banking
10 1 (0.222%) Back Office
10 1 (0.222%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 255 (56.54%) Developer
2 131 (29.05%) .NET Developer
3 109 (24.17%) DBA
4 104 (23.06%) C# Developer
5 81 (17.96%) SQL DBA
6 76 (16.85%) C# .NET Developer
7 65 (14.41%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 50 (11.09%) ASP.NET Developer
9 46 (10.20%) Administrator
10 35 (7.761%) Web Developer
10 35 (7.761%) SQL Server DBA
11 28 (6.208%) Senior Developer
12 26 (5.765%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 25 (5.543%) Software Developer
14 19 (4.213%) Analyst
15 18 (3.991%) .NET Web Developer
16 17 (3.769%) Software Engineer
17 16 (3.548%) Senior .NET Developer
18 15 (3.326%) Server Administrator
19 13 (2.882%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.19%) Replication
2 35 (7.761%) Clustering
3 34 (7.539%) Mobile App
4 28 (6.208%) N-Tier
5 27 (5.987%) Computer Science
6 13 (2.882%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.882%) Client/Server
7 7 (1.552%) EPoS
8 4 (0.887%) Tandem
9 3 (0.665%) Social Media
9 3 (0.665%) Blackberry
10 2 (0.443%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.443%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.222%) Open Source
11 1 (0.222%) Data Integration
11 1 (0.222%) W3C
11 1 (0.222%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 152 (33.70%) Windows
2 73 (16.19%) Windows Server 2008
3 46 (10.20%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (4.878%) Linux
5 18 (3.991%) UNIX
5 18 (3.991%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (2.439%) Windows XP
6 11 (2.439%) Windows 2000
7 7 (1.552%) Windows 8
8 6 (1.330%) Solaris
9 4 (0.887%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.443%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.222%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (0.222%) Android
11 1 (0.222%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (25.50%) MVC
2 69 (15.30%) Web Development
3 63 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
4 49 (10.86%) OO
5 46 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
6 36 (7.982%) ETL
7 35 (7.761%) TDD
8 34 (7.539%) Capacity Planning
9 32 (7.095%) E-Commerce
10 31 (6.874%) Mobile Application Development
11 29 (6.430%) Web Application Development
12 28 (6.208%) Scrum
13 27 (5.987%) Migration
14 25 (5.543%) Data Migration
15 20 (4.435%) Security Management
15 20 (4.435%) Waterfall
16 19 (4.213%) Project Management
17 18 (3.991%) Disaster Recovery
18 17 (3.769%) Kimball Methodology
19 16 (3.548%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 260 (57.65%) C#
2 255 (56.54%) SQL
3 118 (26.16%) JavaScript
4 85 (18.85%) T-SQL
5 55 (12.20%) VB.NET
6 21 (4.656%) VB
7 16 (3.548%) VBScript
8 14 (3.104%) XPath
9 13 (2.882%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.217%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.552%) C++
11 7 (1.552%) C
12 6 (1.330%) Java
12 6 (1.330%) PHP
13 5 (1.109%) XAML
14 3 (0.665%) Delphi
15 2 (0.443%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.222%) COBOL
16 1 (0.222%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (13.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (10.64%) MCTS
3 31 (6.874%) Degree
4 28 (6.208%) MCP
4 28 (6.208%) MCITP
5 14 (3.104%) MCAD
5 14 (3.104%) MCSD
5 14 (3.104%) MCPD
6 12 (2.661%) MCSE
7 11 (2.439%) MCSA
8 9 (1.996%) MCDBA
9 7 (1.552%) SC Cleared
9 7 (1.552%) Security Cleared
10 5 (1.109%) OCP
10 5 (1.109%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (1.109%) CCA
10 5 (1.109%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (1.109%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.222%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.769%) QA
2 2 (0.443%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.443%) SLA
2 2 (0.443%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.222%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (8.426%) Active Directory
2 13 (2.882%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.552%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (1.552%) XenApp
3 7 (1.552%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.330%) vSphere
5 5 (1.109%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (0.887%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (0.443%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (0.222%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (2.882%) SCOM
1 13 (2.882%) Data Guard
2 7 (1.552%) SCCM
3 6 (1.330%) WSUS
4 4 (0.887%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 182 (40.35%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.208%) Oracle
3 26 (5.765%) Red Gate
4 23 (5.100%) VMware
5 16 (3.548%) HP
6 13 (2.882%) Citrix
7 10 (2.217%) IBM
8 7 (1.552%) Dell
8 7 (1.552%) Telerik
9 6 (1.330%) LANDesk
10 5 (1.109%) JBoss
11 3 (0.665%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.665%) NetApp
11 3 (0.665%) Intel
11 3 (0.665%) Cognos
11 3 (0.665%) Altiris
12 2 (0.443%) ION Trading
12 2 (0.443%) SAP
12 2 (0.443%) Business Objects
12 2 (0.443%) Cisco
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25-35k
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Skills: C# or VB.net SQL Server 2005 or 2008 Silverlight Experience of working within an Agile environment or other structured software development environment will be advantageous to...
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Posted: 13 June 2013
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Key skills: Solid commercial experience in the following: C# .Net or VB.Net. MS SQL Server 2005/2008. MVC 2/3. XHTML, HTML5, JQuery, CSS3, AJAX. XML / XSLT.....
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum + bonus (12% average) + pension + share option
Posted: 14 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
The successful IT support engineer will maintain and manage both SQL Server 2005/2008 and also IIS v6.0/v7.0. A solid and excellent understanding of Windows...
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Salary: 20-23k
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Harnham
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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OPUS
Salary: GBP25000 to GBP30000 per annum + Benefits: Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
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greywood
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Derbyshire
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 to £30000 per annum - Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Harnham
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Kettering, Northamptonshire
Venturi
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + great benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
Gem CSU
Salary: £45,707 - 56,504 per year
Posted: 17 June 2013
Northamptonshire
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Salary: £35,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
University of Leicester
Salary: £39,649 - £44,607
Posted: 30 May 2013
Northamptonshire
PNG Recruitment Solutions
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum £35k - £40k basic + benefits package
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Leicester, Leicestershire
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Salary: £45,707 - 56,504 per year
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Nottingham, East Midlands
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Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 18 June 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum + bonus (12% average) + pension + share option
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum + good benefits + training
Posted: 14 June 2013
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Salary: 34425
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