England SQL Server 2005 Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 skills within the England 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 2005 over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Church Stretton Cirencester City of London Clapham Coalville Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Ayrshire East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Felixstowe Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilkley Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Iver Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kilmarnock Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Newport Pagnell Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Ripon Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Sale Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Waltham Abbey Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Whitstable Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Wimborne Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	72
Rank change on same period last year	+40
Matching permanent IT job ads	7557	5993
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.375 %	2.579 %
As % of the category below	17.46 %	11.02 %
Salaries quoted	6834	5119
Average minimum salary	£36,824	£36,000
Average salary	£40,035	£39,138
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Average maximum salary	£43,247	£42,275
UK excluding London average salary	£35,322	£35,627
% change on same period last year	-0.85 %
Database & Business Intelligence England
Matching permanent IT job ads	43291	54376
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	25.06 %	23.40 %
Salaries quoted	37734	45432
Average minimum salary	£38,207	£38,740
Average salary	£41,595	£42,223
% change on same period last year	-1.48 %
Average maximum salary	£44,982	£45,706
UK excluding London average salary	£37,428	£38,462
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
SQL Server 2005 UK

SQL Server 2005
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server 2005
Salary Trend

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

SQL Server 2005
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL Server 2005
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 within the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
London	+43	3241	£46,841	+5.46 %
South East	+30	1597	£38,201	+0.76 %
East of England	+28	592	£36,522	+2.56 %
North West	+26	529	£31,714	-3.27 %
Yorkshire	+44	528	£32,893	+6.07 %
South West	+6	427	£33,549	-1.37 %
West Midlands	+8	338	£32,430	-11.43 %
East Midlands	+58	307	£34,452	+7.53 %
North East	0	36	£32,478	+5.56 %
Midlands	+7	28	£38,417	+0.20 %

SQL Server 2005 UK

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 15664 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 9956 (63.56 %) .NET 3 8605 (54.93 %) SQL Server 2000 4 7931 (50.63 %) C# 5 7559 (48.26 %) SQL 6 6695 (42.74 %) ASP.NET 7 4615 (29.46 %) Microsoft 8 4099 (26.17 %) XML 9 3981 (25.41 %) Windows 10 3117 (19.90 %) Finance 11 3004 (19.18 %) Transact-SQL 12 2942 (18.78 %) VB.NET 13 2350 (15.00 %) JavaScript 14 2298 (14.67 %) MS Excel 15 2249 (14.36 %) SQL Server Integration Services

16 2214 (14.13 %) VB 17 2205 (14.08 %) HTML 18 2087 (13.32 %) AJAX 19 2032 (12.97 %) WebServices 20 1989 (12.70 %) Windows Server 2003 21 1954 (12.47 %) CSS 22 1928 (12.31 %) Microsoft Certification 23 1898 (12.12 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 24 1865 (11.91 %) Visual Studio 25 1625 (10.37 %) .NET Framework 26 1395 (8.906 %) WinForms 27 1385 (8.842 %) Datawarehouse 28 1338 (8.542 %) IIS 29 1315 (8.395 %) OO 30 1311 (8.370 %) Degree

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 9956 (63.56 %) .NET 2 6695 (42.74 %) ASP.NET 3 4099 (26.17 %) XML 4 2205 (14.08 %) HTML 5 2087 (13.32 %) AJAX 6 2032 (12.97 %) WebServices 7 1954 (12.47 %) CSS 8 1625 (10.37 %) .NET Framework 9 1395 (8.906 %) WinForms 10 1141 (7.284 %) ASP 11 1098 (7.010 %) WCF 12 901 (5.752 %) WPF 13 800 (5.107 %) XHTML 14 765 (4.884 %) WF 15 753 (4.807 %) XSLT 16 672 (4.290 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 567 (3.620 %) Silverlight 18 385 (2.458 %) ADO.NET 19 231 (1.475 %) XSL 20 200 (1.277 %) COM+	Application Platforms 1 1338 (8.542 %) IIS 2 1269 (8.101 %) SharePoint 3 617 (3.939 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 544 (3.473 %) BizTalk Server 5 538 (3.435 %) MS Exchange 6 383 (2.445 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 349 (2.228 %) CMS 8 130 (0.830 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 124 (0.792 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 113 (0.721 %) Apache 11 91 (0.581 %) MQSeries 12 70 (0.447 %) ColdFusion 13 66 (0.421 %) Tomcat 14 64 (0.409 %) Exchange Server 2000 15 63 (0.402 %) SAS 16 57 (0.364 %) Commerce Server 17 53 (0.338 %) Lotus Notes 18 36 (0.230 %) WebSphere Application Server 19 35 (0.223 %) JBoss 20 33 (0.211 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 2298 (14.67 %) MS Excel 2 535 (3.415 %) MS Office 3 161 (1.028 %) Photoshop 4 112 (0.715 %) MS Visio 5 70 (0.447 %) InfoPath 6 42 (0.268 %) MS Project 7 36 (0.230 %) Spreadsheet 8 34 (0.217 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 22 (0.140 %) Shockwave 10 19 (0.121 %) MS PowerPoint 11 17 (0.109 %) Fireworks 12 9 (0.057 %) AutoCAD 13 8 (0.051 %) CA Clarity 14 4 (0.026 %) MATLAB 15 3 (0.019 %) SPSS 16 2 (0.013 %) Acrobat 17 1 (0.006 %) Paint Shop Pro 17 1 (0.006 %) ArcView	Business Applications 1 143 (0.913 %) Microsoft CRM 2 68 (0.434 %) Dynamics CRM 3 52 (0.332 %) Dynamics AX 4 47 (0.300 %) Axapta 5 27 (0.172 %) Great Plains 5 27 (0.172 %) Oracle Applications 6 25 (0.160 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 24 (0.153 %) Navision 8 22 (0.140 %) SoftGrid 9 21 (0.134 %) Oracle EBS 10 18 (0.115 %) Oracle 11i 11 16 (0.102 %) Summit 12 14 (0.089 %) Dynamics NAV 13 13 (0.083 %) SAP Business One 14 9 (0.057 %) GoldMine 15 8 (0.051 %) WebTrends 16 7 (0.045 %) SalesLogix 16 7 (0.045 %) Capstone 17 6 (0.038 %) Tesseract 17 6 (0.038 %) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking 1 1099 (7.016 %) Internet 2 375 (2.394 %) TCP/IP 3 337 (2.151 %) SAN 4 300 (1.915 %) Intranet 5 259 (1.653 %) WAN 6 249 (1.590 %) Firewall 7 226 (1.443 %) DNS 8 191 (1.219 %) LAN 9 150 (0.958 %) DHCP 9 150 (0.958 %) VPN 10 82 (0.523 %) Extranet 11 80 (0.511 %) HTTP 12 69 (0.441 %) SMTP 13 59 (0.377 %) FTP 14 53 (0.338 %) MPLS 14 53 (0.338 %) Cisco PIX 15 44 (0.281 %) Wireless 16 40 (0.255 %) VLAN 17 38 (0.243 %) LDAP 18 37 (0.236 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15664 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 8605 (54.93 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2249 (14.36 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1898 (12.12 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1385 (8.842 %) Datawarehouse 6 1237 (7.897 %) DTS 7 987 (6.301 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 653 (4.169 %) ETL 9 594 (3.792 %) RDBMS 10 477 (3.045 %) OLAP 11 462 (2.949 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 12 454 (2.898 %) Crystal Reports 13 429 (2.739 %) SQL Server 2008 14 385 (2.458 %) BusinessObjects 15 384 (2.451 %) Oracle 10g 16 300 (1.915 %) Oracle 9i 17 263 (1.679 %) MS Access 18 248 (1.583 %) MySQL 19 153 (0.977 %) OLTP 20 143 (0.913 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 1865 (11.91 %) Visual Studio 2 274 (1.749 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 251 (1.602 %) NUnit 4 144 (0.919 %) Flash 5 134 (0.855 %) Subversion 6 86 (0.549 %) Visual Studio Team System 7 64 (0.409 %) CruiseControl 8 28 (0.179 %) QuickTest Pro 9 25 (0.160 %) JUnit 10 24 (0.153 %) WinRunner 10 24 (0.153 %) FitNesse 11 20 (0.128 %) Eclipse 11 20 (0.128 %) Dreamweaver 12 19 (0.121 %) LoadRunner 12 19 (0.121 %) ERwin 13 17 (0.109 %) ClearQuest 14 16 (0.102 %) InstallShield 14 16 (0.102 %) Oracle Forms 15 15 (0.096 %) ClearCase 15 15 (0.096 %) ReSharper	General 1 3117 (19.90 %) Finance 2 1075 (6.863 %) Banking 3 925 (5.905 %) Insurance 4 877 (5.599 %) Health 5 874 (5.580 %) Pensions 6 578 (3.690 %) Marketing 7 544 (3.473 %) Investment Banking 8 489 (3.122 %) Retail 9 295 (1.883 %) Education 10 250 (1.596 %) Front Office 11 243 (1.551 %) Back Office 12 234 (1.494 %) Games 13 222 (1.417 %) Legal 14 175 (1.117 %) Law 15 155 (0.990 %) Music 16 150 (0.958 %) Publishing 17 140 (0.894 %) Government 18 135 (0.862 %) Telecoms 19 120 (0.766 %) Advertising 20 104 (0.664 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 9487 (60.57 %) Developer 2 4370 (27.90 %) .NET Developer 3 3162 (20.19 %) C# Developer 4 2004 (12.79 %) DBA 5 1683 (10.74 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1592 (10.16 %) SQL DBA 7 1523 (9.723 %) SQL Developer 8 1452 (9.270 %) Analyst 9 1320 (8.427 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 1160 (7.406 %) Web Developer 11 1136 (7.252 %) Senior Developer 12 1050 (6.703 %) SQL Server DBA 13 890 (5.682 %) SQL Server Developer 14 853 (5.446 %) VB.NET Developer 15 662 (4.226 %) Administrator 16 634 (4.047 %) Software Developer 17 589 (3.760 %) Programmer 18 559 (3.569 %) Consultant 19 542 (3.460 %) Senior .NET Developer 20 517 (3.301 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 515 (3.288 %) Replication 2 514 (3.281 %) Clustering 3 364 (2.324 %) N-Tier 4 271 (1.730 %) Client/Server 5 264 (1.685 %) Computer Science 6 203 (1.296 %) Tandem 7 194 (1.239 %) Management Information System 8 151 (0.964 %) Mathematics 9 127 (0.811 %) Derivative 10 114 (0.728 %) W3C 11 91 (0.581 %) Multithreading 12 85 (0.543 %) Social Network 13 80 (0.511 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 14 78 (0.498 %) Blackberry 15 75 (0.479 %) NHS 16 74 (0.472 %) Fixed Income 17 70 (0.447 %) Web 2.0 18 67 (0.428 %) Equities 19 63 (0.402 %) Credit Risk 20 56 (0.358 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 3981 (25.41 %) Windows 2 1989 (12.70 %) Windows Server 2003 3 581 (3.709 %) Linux 4 549 (3.505 %) Windows XP 5 494 (3.154 %) Windows 2000 6 470 (3.001 %) UNIX 7 459 (2.930 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 279 (1.781 %) Windows Vista 9 228 (1.456 %) Solaris 10 161 (1.028 %) Windows Server 2008 11 110 (0.702 %) Red Hat Linux 12 67 (0.428 %) Windows NT 13 47 (0.300 %) Windows Mobile 14 44 (0.281 %) AIX 15 42 (0.268 %) HPUX 16 23 (0.147 %) CentOS 17 8 (0.051 %) Windows CE 18 7 (0.045 %) Debian 19 5 (0.032 %) SUSE 20 3 (0.019 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1315 (8.395 %) OO 2 1200 (7.661 %) Business Intelligence 3 1062 (6.780 %) Scrum 4 888 (5.669 %) E-Commerce 5 746 (4.763 %) Web Development 6 703 (4.488 %) Agile Software Development 7 598 (3.818 %) UML 8 530 (3.384 %) Extreme Programming 9 436 (2.783 %) Project Management 10 386 (2.464 %) CRM 11 379 (2.420 %) TDD 12 377 (2.407 %) Migration 13 352 (2.247 %) Data Modelling 14 337 (2.151 %) OOP 15 334 (2.132 %) Unit Testing 16 310 (1.979 %) ITIL 17 256 (1.634 %) Content Management 18 246 (1.570 %) Disaster Recovery 19 214 (1.366 %) OOD 20 194 (1.239 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 7931 (50.63 %) C# 2 7559 (48.26 %) SQL 3 3004 (19.18 %) Transact-SQL 4 2942 (18.78 %) VB.NET 5 2350 (15.00 %) JavaScript 6 2214 (14.13 %) VB 7 867 (5.535 %) VB6 8 696 (4.443 %) C++ 9 609 (3.888 %) VBA 10 608 (3.882 %) Java 11 355 (2.266 %) VBScript 12 339 (2.164 %) PHP 13 314 (2.005 %) Perl 14 258 (1.647 %) C 15 252 (1.609 %) DHTML 16 213 (1.360 %) Python 17 188 (1.200 %) PL/SQL 18 152 (0.970 %) Delphi 19 133 (0.849 %) Shell Script 20 88 (0.562 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 1928 (12.31 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1311 (8.370 %) Degree 3 879 (5.612 %) MCSD 4 848 (5.414 %) MCP 5 781 (4.986 %) MCAD 6 336 (2.145 %) MCSE 7 229 (1.462 %) MCTS 8 226 (1.443 %) MCDBA 9 122 (0.779 %) MCPD 10 106 (0.677 %) MCITP 11 66 (0.421 %) CCNA 11 66 (0.421 %) Cisco Certification 12 63 (0.402 %) MCSA 13 60 (0.383 %) Oracle Certification 14 44 (0.281 %) HND 15 35 (0.223 %) ISEB 15 35 (0.223 %) PRINCE2 Certification 16 24 (0.153 %) OCP 17 21 (0.134 %) ITIL Certification 18 12 (0.077 %) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 218 (1.392 %) QA 2 90 (0.575 %) SLA 3 27 (0.172 %) WAI 4 14 (0.089 %) ISO9000 5 9 (0.057 %) ISO9001 5 9 (0.057 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 9 (0.057 %) COBIT 6 8 (0.051 %) 21 CFR Part 11 7 6 (0.038 %) ISO27001 8 2 (0.013 %) WCAG 8 2 (0.013 %) MiFID 9 1 (0.006 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 874 (5.580 %) Active Directory 2 199 (1.270 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 148 (0.945 %) VMware ESX 4 100 (0.638 %) MSMQ 5 94 (0.600 %) ISA Server 6 67 (0.428 %) Backup Exec 7 65 (0.415 %) MetaFrame 8 63 (0.402 %) Terminal Services 9 59 (0.377 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 54 (0.345 %) NetBackup 11 51 (0.326 %) Oracle RAC 12 50 (0.319 %) Oracle RMAN 13 43 (0.275 %) Citrix Presentation Server 14 23 (0.147 %) Terminal Server 14 23 (0.147 %) NFS 15 7 (0.045 %) VMware Server 16 3 (0.019 %) AquaLogic 16 3 (0.019 %) LiteSpeed 17 1 (0.006 %) MailMarshal 17 1 (0.006 %) Samba
Systems Management 1 108 (0.689 %) MOM 2 80 (0.511 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 37 (0.236 %) CONTROL-M 4 28 (0.179 %) SCOM 5 26 (0.166 %) Tivoli 6 22 (0.140 %) WSUS 7 21 (0.134 %) SCCM 8 17 (0.109 %) EMC NetWorker 9 16 (0.102 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 13 (0.083 %) OpenView 11 11 (0.070 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 10 (0.064 %) MIIS 13 9 (0.057 %) Legato 14 8 (0.051 %) MAILsweeper 14 8 (0.051 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 15 5 (0.032 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 16 4 (0.026 %) MIMEsweeper 16 4 (0.026 %) AutoSys 17 3 (0.019 %) Nagios 17 3 (0.019 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 4615 (29.46 %) Microsoft 2 1198 (7.648 %) Oracle 3 385 (2.458 %) Business Objects 4 380 (2.426 %) VMware 5 337 (2.151 %) Citrix 6 257 (1.641 %) Sybase 7 246 (1.570 %) Cisco 8 203 (1.296 %) Cognos 9 164 (1.047 %) HP 10 145 (0.926 %) Sun 11 130 (0.830 %) VERITAS 12 122 (0.779 %) SAP 13 114 (0.728 %) Red Hat 14 109 (0.696 %) ProClarity 15 90 (0.575 %) IBM 16 82 (0.523 %) EMC 17 81 (0.517 %) CheckPoint 18 76 (0.485 %) Bloomberg 19 75 (0.479 %) Adobe 19 75 (0.479 %) Reuters