East Midlands SQL Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	7
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	957	979
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.404 %
As % of the category below	61.03 %	65.18 %
Salaries quoted	851	878
Average minimum salary	£30,530	£29,491
Average salary	£32,945	£31,644
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Average maximum salary	£35,360	£33,796
UK excluding London average salary	£34,874	£34,695
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Database & Business Intelligence East Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1568	1502
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.819 %	0.620 %
Salaries quoted	1349	1285
Average minimum salary	£31,484	£31,807
Average salary	£34,108	£34,332
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Average maximum salary	£36,731	£36,858
UK excluding London average salary	£37,113	£38,081
% change on same period last year	-2.54 %
SQL Server England

SQL Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server across the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

SQL Server
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing SQL Server within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	+2	378	£33,897	+9.56 %
Leicestershire	+1	224	£30,070	-1.83 %
Northamptonshire	+7	220	£35,100	+14.23 %
Derbyshire	-4	141	£30,963	-8.84 %
Lincolnshire	+6	75	£28,485	+1.05 %
Rutland	-	11	£32,955	-

SQL Server England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 1297 (62.93 %) .NET 2 857 (41.58 %) C# 3 856 (41.53 %) ASP.NET 4 689 (33.43 %) SQL 5 645 (31.30 %) Microsoft 6 546 (26.49 %) VB.NET 7 520 (25.23 %) SQL Server 2005 8 517 (25.08 %) Windows 9 414 (20.09 %) SQL Server 2000 10 354 (17.18 %) XML 11 343 (16.64 %) Oracle 12 305 (14.80 %) JavaScript 13 297 (14.41 %) VB 14 276 (13.39 %) HTML 15 234 (11.35 %) MS Excel

16 218 (10.58 %) UNIX 17 212 (10.29 %) Microsoft Certification 18 197 (9.558 %) SQL Server 7 19 186 (9.025 %) Pensions 20 181 (8.782 %) CSS 21 178 (8.637 %) ASP 21 178 (8.637 %) Degree 22 170 (8.248 %) .NET Framework 23 167 (8.103 %) SharePoint 24 166 (8.054 %) Visual Studio 25 163 (7.909 %) OO 26 160 (7.763 %) Active Directory 27 157 (7.618 %) WebServices 28 156 (7.569 %) VB6 29 153 (7.424 %) Transact-SQL

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 1297 (62.93 %) .NET 2 856 (41.53 %) ASP.NET 3 354 (17.18 %) XML 4 276 (13.39 %) HTML 5 181 (8.782 %) CSS 6 178 (8.637 %) ASP 7 170 (8.248 %) .NET Framework 8 157 (7.618 %) WebServices 9 150 (7.278 %) WinForms 10 115 (5.580 %) AJAX 11 46 (2.232 %) ASP.NET 2.0 12 41 (1.989 %) XHTML 13 40 (1.941 %) J2EE 14 39 (1.892 %) JSP 15 38 (1.844 %) ADO.NET 16 32 (1.553 %) XSLT 17 29 (1.407 %) WebSphere 18 26 (1.262 %) XSL 19 24 (1.164 %) ADO 20 19 (0.922 %) JDBC	Application Platforms 1 167 (8.103 %) SharePoint 2 121 (5.871 %) MS Exchange 3 111 (5.386 %) IIS 4 89 (4.318 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 66 (3.202 %) BizTalk Server 6 41 (1.989 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 39 (1.892 %) CMS 8 34 (1.650 %) Tomcat 9 29 (1.407 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 27 (1.310 %) Apache 11 22 (1.067 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 20 (0.970 %) SAS 13 17 (0.825 %) ColdFusion 14 11 (0.534 %) Lotus Notes 15 9 (0.437 %) Exchange Server 5.5 16 6 (0.291 %) WebLogic 17 4 (0.194 %) WebSphere MQ 17 4 (0.194 %) ESB 17 4 (0.194 %) DotNetNuke 18 3 (0.146 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 234 (11.35 %) MS Excel 2 85 (4.124 %) MS Office 3 12 (0.582 %) Photoshop 4 5 (0.243 %) MATLAB 4 5 (0.243 %) Simulink 5 3 (0.146 %) MS Visio 5 3 (0.146 %) SPSS 6 2 (0.097 %) InfoPath 7 1 (0.049 %) MS Project 7 1 (0.049 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 24 (1.164 %) Dynamics CRM 2 14 (0.679 %) Summit 3 11 (0.534 %) SalesLogix 4 9 (0.437 %) Microsoft CRM 4 9 (0.437 %) GoldMine 5 8 (0.388 %) Dynamics AX 6 5 (0.243 %) MFGPRO 6 5 (0.243 %) Oracle 11i 6 5 (0.243 %) Dynamics NAV 7 3 (0.146 %) Line 500 8 2 (0.097 %) CODA Dream 8 2 (0.097 %) Dynamics GP 8 2 (0.097 %) Axapta 8 2 (0.097 %) Oracle EBS 9 1 (0.049 %) BPCS 9 1 (0.049 %) Pivotal CRM 9 1 (0.049 %) SAP Business One 9 1 (0.049 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 87 (4.221 %) Internet 2 76 (3.688 %) Intranet 2 76 (3.688 %) LAN 3 75 (3.639 %) WAN 4 70 (3.396 %) TCP/IP 5 59 (2.863 %) DNS 6 40 (1.941 %) VoIP 7 32 (1.553 %) SAN 8 30 (1.456 %) Extranet 9 29 (1.407 %) Firewall 10 23 (1.116 %) DHCP 11 22 (1.067 %) VPN 12 16 (0.776 %) LDAP 13 10 (0.485 %) VLAN 14 9 (0.437 %) Wireless 14 9 (0.437 %) ISDN 15 7 (0.340 %) ADSL 16 5 (0.243 %) SMS 16 5 (0.243 %) Cisco PIX 17 3 (0.146 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 520 (25.23 %) SQL Server 2005 2 414 (20.09 %) SQL Server 2000 3 197 (9.558 %) SQL Server 7 4 141 (6.841 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 121 (5.871 %) Crystal Reports 6 97 (4.706 %) Datawarehouse 7 82 (3.979 %) Informix 8 76 (3.688 %) MySQL 9 73 (3.542 %) DB2 10 64 (3.105 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 61 (2.960 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 58 (2.814 %) DTS 13 46 (2.232 %) ETL 13 46 (2.232 %) Oracle 10g 14 45 (2.183 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 15 44 (2.135 %) MS Access 16 40 (1.941 %) BusinessObjects 16 40 (1.941 %) RDBMS 17 34 (1.650 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 18 33 (1.601 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 166 (8.054 %) Visual Studio 2 26 (1.262 %) Flash 3 25 (1.213 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 16 (0.776 %) Oracle Forms 5 11 (0.534 %) Oracle Designer/2000 6 9 (0.437 %) NUnit 6 9 (0.437 %) Subversion 7 8 (0.388 %) ERwin 8 4 (0.194 %) WebSpeed 8 4 (0.194 %) Ant 9 3 (0.146 %) ClearCase 9 3 (0.146 %) ClearQuest 10 2 (0.097 %) Synon 10 2 (0.097 %) Dreamweaver 11 1 (0.049 %) QuickTest Pro 11 1 (0.049 %) Rational Rose 11 1 (0.049 %) JUnit 11 1 (0.049 %) InstallShield 11 1 (0.049 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 186 (9.025 %) Pensions 2 152 (7.375 %) Finance 3 132 (6.405 %) Health 4 68 (3.299 %) Retail 5 56 (2.717 %) Marketing 6 50 (2.426 %) Legal 7 47 (2.280 %) Manufacturing 8 45 (2.183 %) Education 9 38 (1.844 %) Pharmaceutical 10 37 (1.795 %) Banking 11 35 (1.698 %) Law 12 27 (1.310 %) Government 13 17 (0.825 %) Telecoms 14 16 (0.776 %) Back Office 15 15 (0.728 %) Games 16 11 (0.534 %) Billing 16 11 (0.534 %) Insurance 17 9 (0.437 %) Automotive 18 7 (0.340 %) Publishing 19 6 (0.291 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 1176 (57.06 %) Developer 2 528 (25.62 %) .NET Developer 3 322 (15.62 %) C# Developer 4 321 (15.57 %) Analyst 5 211 (10.24 %) DBA 5 211 (10.24 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 187 (9.073 %) Programmer 7 173 (8.394 %) Software Developer 8 162 (7.860 %) Senior Developer 9 161 (7.812 %) Web Developer 10 149 (7.230 %) VB.NET Developer 11 139 (6.744 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 138 (6.696 %) SQL DBA 13 126 (6.114 %) Analyst Programmer 14 121 (5.871 %) SQL Developer 15 99 (4.803 %) Administrator 16 91 (4.415 %) SQL Server Developer 17 90 (4.367 %) Support Analyst 18 89 (4.318 %) SQL Server DBA 19 87 (4.221 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 69 (3.348 %) Clustering 2 45 (2.183 %) Replication 3 39 (1.892 %) N-Tier 4 22 (1.067 %) Client/Server 4 22 (1.067 %) Mathematics 5 15 (0.728 %) Computer Science 5 15 (0.728 %) Management Information System 6 7 (0.340 %) Tandem 6 7 (0.340 %) Asset Management 6 7 (0.340 %) NHS 6 7 (0.340 %) Data Integration 7 6 (0.291 %) Physics 7 6 (0.291 %) Statistics 7 6 (0.291 %) Mainframe 8 5 (0.243 %) Pocket PC 8 5 (0.243 %) AS400 8 5 (0.243 %) E-Learning 9 4 (0.194 %) Thin Client 9 4 (0.194 %) HACMP 9 4 (0.194 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 517 (25.08 %) Windows 2 218 (10.58 %) UNIX 3 110 (5.337 %) Linux 4 102 (4.949 %) Windows NT 5 67 (3.251 %) Windows XP 6 49 (2.377 %) Windows 2000 7 46 (2.232 %) Windows Server 2003 7 46 (2.232 %) HPUX 8 29 (1.407 %) Solaris 9 25 (1.213 %) AIX 10 9 (0.437 %) Windows CE 11 3 (0.146 %) OS/400 12 1 (0.049 %) zOS 12 1 (0.049 %) MVS 12 1 (0.049 %) SUSE 12 1 (0.049 %) Gentoo 12 1 (0.049 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.049 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 163 (7.909 %) OO 2 112 (5.434 %) Web Development 3 103 (4.998 %) Business Intelligence 4 86 (4.173 %) CRM 5 78 (3.785 %) E-Commerce 6 63 (3.057 %) Unit Testing 7 55 (2.669 %) UML 7 55 (2.669 %) Project Management 8 42 (2.038 %) Agile Software Development 9 41 (1.989 %) OOP 10 40 (1.941 %) Disaster Recovery 11 38 (1.844 %) ITIL 12 31 (1.504 %) ERP 13 30 (1.456 %) OOD 14 29 (1.407 %) Web Design 15 28 (1.359 %) Data Analysis 16 27 (1.310 %) Content Management 17 24 (1.164 %) Migration 17 24 (1.164 %) Data Modelling 18 23 (1.116 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 857 (41.58 %) C# 2 689 (33.43 %) SQL 3 546 (26.49 %) VB.NET 4 305 (14.80 %) JavaScript 5 297 (14.41 %) VB 6 156 (7.569 %) VB6 7 153 (7.424 %) Transact-SQL 8 136 (6.599 %) Java 9 86 (4.173 %) C++ 10 67 (3.251 %) C 11 48 (2.329 %) VBA 12 46 (2.232 %) PHP 12 46 (2.232 %) DHTML 13 36 (1.747 %) VBScript 14 33 (1.601 %) Delphi 15 32 (1.553 %) Shell Script 16 17 (0.825 %) ActionScript 17 11 (0.534 %) PL/SQL 17 11 (0.534 %) Ruby 18 10 (0.485 %) Progress 4GL	Qualifications 1 212 (10.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 178 (8.637 %) Degree 3 106 (5.143 %) MCSE 4 57 (2.766 %) MCP 5 34 (1.650 %) MCSA 6 27 (1.310 %) Oracle Certification 7 24 (1.164 %) MCAD 8 23 (1.116 %) MCSD 8 23 (1.116 %) CCNA 8 23 (1.116 %) Cisco Certification 9 15 (0.728 %) MCDBA 10 11 (0.534 %) MCTS 11 7 (0.340 %) MCITP 12 6 (0.291 %) MCPD 12 6 (0.291 %) Citrix Certification 13 5 (0.243 %) CCA 13 5 (0.243 %) HND 14 4 (0.194 %) SAS Certification 15 3 (0.146 %) MCDST 16 2 (0.097 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 34 (1.650 %) SLA 2 28 (1.359 %) QA 3 2 (0.097 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 160 (7.763 %) Active Directory 2 43 (2.086 %) Oracle RAC 3 21 (1.019 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 19 (0.922 %) Terminal Server 5 16 (0.776 %) Oracle RMAN 6 12 (0.582 %) Terminal Services 7 10 (0.485 %) ISA Server 7 10 (0.485 %) Backup Exec 8 6 (0.291 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 3 (0.146 %) VMware Server 10 2 (0.097 %) MSMQ 10 2 (0.097 %) VMware ESX 11 1 (0.049 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 11 (0.534 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 11 (0.534 %) SCOM 2 6 (0.291 %) BMC PATROL 3 5 (0.243 %) HP Data Protector 4 4 (0.194 %) MOM 5 3 (0.146 %) BMC Performance Manager 6 1 (0.049 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 645 (31.30 %) Microsoft 2 343 (16.64 %) Oracle 3 56 (2.717 %) Citrix 4 40 (1.941 %) Business Objects 5 34 (1.650 %) Sun 5 34 (1.650 %) VMware 6 31 (1.504 %) HP 7 29 (1.407 %) VERITAS 8 25 (1.213 %) SAP 9 22 (1.067 %) Cognos 10 21 (1.019 %) Progress 11 20 (0.970 %) Sage 12 18 (0.873 %) Cisco 13 14 (0.679 %) Visualfiles 14 11 (0.534 %) Lotus 14 11 (0.534 %) Juniper 15 10 (0.485 %) Baan 15 10 (0.485 %) LANDesk 16 8 (0.388 %) SurfControl 17 7 (0.340 %) BMC