The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 20 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 41 23 44
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 41 136 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 4.271% 9.735% 4.796%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.64% 21.94% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 31 134 61
Average salary £42,500 £41,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% +17.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
280 620 405
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 29.17% 44.38% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 249 514 351
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £51,400
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
East of 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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Basildon +1 20 £45,000 +28.57%
Brentwood -6 9 £42,500 +8.97%
Colchester -6 2 £35,000 -12.50%
Chelmsford -11 2 £50,000 +33.33%
Southend-on-Sea - 1 £35,000 -
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

1 114 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 82 (71.93%) .NET
3 68 (59.65%) Finance
4 64 (56.14%) C#
4 64 (56.14%) SQL Server 2005
5 57 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 48 (42.11%) SQL
7 44 (38.60%) Windows
8 41 (35.96%) WPF
9 33 (28.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (28.07%) ASP.NET
11 31 (27.19%) Silverlight
12 30 (26.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (26.32%) TDD
13 28 (24.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 28 (24.56%) OO
14 27 (23.68%) NUnit
15 26 (22.81%) VB.NET
16 24 (21.05%) XML
16 24 (21.05%) SQL Server 2000
16 24 (21.05%) Degree
17 23 (20.18%) IIS
18 22 (19.30%) Scrum
18 22 (19.30%) MCP
18 22 (19.30%) MCAD
18 22 (19.30%) MCSD
18 22 (19.30%) MCTS
18 22 (19.30%) NHibernate
18 22 (19.30%) MonoRail
18 22 (19.30%) Rhino Mocks

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 82 (71.93%) .NET
2 41 (35.96%) WPF
3 32 (28.07%) ASP.NET
4 31 (27.19%) Silverlight
5 24 (21.05%) XML
6 22 (19.30%) NHibernate
6 22 (19.30%) MonoRail
6 22 (19.30%) Castle Windsor
7 19 (16.67%) WCF
8 18 (15.79%) WinForms
9 17 (14.91%) HTML
10 11 (9.649%) XSD
11 10 (8.772%) XSLT
11 10 (8.772%) JSP
11 10 (8.772%) SOAP
11 10 (8.772%) J2EE
12 7 (6.140%) Web Services
13 6 (5.263%) CSS
13 6 (5.263%) jQuery
14 5 (4.386%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 23 (20.18%) IIS
2 10 (8.772%) Apache
2 10 (8.772%) Tomcat
2 10 (8.772%) WebLogic
2 10 (8.772%) GlassFish
3 9 (7.895%) ESB
4 2 (1.754%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.877%) CMS
5 1 (0.877%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.877%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (8.772%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.509%) Cognos Planning
2 4 (3.509%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.877%) SyteLine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (2.632%) DNS
3 2 (1.754%) SAN
4 1 (0.877%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.877%) LDAP
4 1 (0.877%) LAN
4 1 (0.877%) VoIP
4 1 (0.877%) WAN
4 1 (0.877%) SMTP
4 1 (0.877%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 64 (56.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 30 (26.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (24.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 24 (21.05%) SQL Server 2000
6 19 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
6 19 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
6 19 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
7 17 (14.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
9 10 (8.772%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 10 (8.772%) MySQL
9 10 (8.772%) RDBMS
10 9 (7.895%) Oracle 9i
11 6 (5.263%) DTS
12 5 (4.386%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.632%) Crystal Reports
14 2 (1.754%) Data Mining
15 1 (0.877%) CouchDB
15 1 (0.877%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (23.68%) NUnit
2 22 (19.30%) Rhino Mocks
3 12 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 8 (7.018%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 3 (2.632%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.632%) Subversion
5 3 (2.632%) JIRA
5 3 (2.632%) Mercurial
5 3 (2.632%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.754%) WebLOAD
7 1 (0.877%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.877%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.877%) TortoiseSVN
7 1 (0.877%) MSTest
7 1 (0.877%) Redmine
General
1 68 (59.65%) Finance
2 4 (3.509%) Electronics
3 3 (2.632%) Back Office
4 1 (0.877%) Financial Institution
4 1 (0.877%) Banking
4 1 (0.877%) French Language
4 1 (0.877%) German Language
Job Titles
1 69 (60.53%) Developer
2 39 (34.21%) .NET Developer
3 23 (20.18%) SQL DBA
3 23 (20.18%) DBA
4 22 (19.30%) C# Developer
5 16 (14.04%) WPF Developer
6 14 (12.28%) Silverlight Developer
7 12 (10.53%) Analyst
8 10 (8.772%) Applications Support
9 9 (7.895%) Support Analyst
9 9 (7.895%) Applications Support Analyst
10 7 (6.140%) VB.NET Developer
11 6 (5.263%) SQL Server DBA
12 5 (4.386%) Junior
12 5 (4.386%) WinForms Developer
13 4 (3.509%) Cognos Developer
13 4 (3.509%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.509%) Teradata DBA
13 4 (3.509%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 4 (3.509%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (14.91%) Tandem
3 7 (6.140%) Clustering
3 7 (6.140%) N-Tier
4 5 (4.386%) Replication
5 4 (3.509%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.632%) Blog
7 1 (0.877%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.877%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 44 (38.60%) Windows
2 14 (12.28%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (11.40%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (8.772%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.877%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.877%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.32%) TDD
2 28 (24.56%) OO
3 22 (19.30%) Scrum
4 16 (14.04%) Change Control
5 14 (12.28%) OOP
6 13 (11.40%) E-Commerce
7 12 (10.53%) Incident Management
8 11 (9.649%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (8.772%) Service Delivery
10 9 (7.895%) Wealth Management
10 9 (7.895%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (7.018%) Migration
12 7 (6.140%) ITIL
13 6 (5.263%) CRM
13 6 (5.263%) Configuration Management
13 6 (5.263%) MVC
13 6 (5.263%) Workflow
13 6 (5.263%) MVVM
14 4 (3.509%) Continuous Integration
14 4 (3.509%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (56.14%) C#
2 48 (42.11%) SQL
3 26 (22.81%) VB.NET
4 20 (17.54%) Java
5 18 (15.79%) T-SQL
6 8 (7.018%) VB
7 7 (6.140%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.386%) C++
9 2 (1.754%) XAML
10 1 (0.877%) XPath
10 1 (0.877%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.877%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (28.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (21.05%) Degree
3 22 (19.30%) MCTS
3 22 (19.30%) MCP
3 22 (19.30%) MCAD
3 22 (19.30%) MCSD
4 11 (9.649%) MCDBA
5 9 (7.895%) MCITP
5 9 (7.895%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.895%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.632%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.877%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.877%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.754%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.877%) DFS Replication
2 1 (0.877%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.632%) Nagios
2 1 (0.877%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 57 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.42%) Oracle
3 10 (8.772%) JBoss
4 4 (3.509%) Cognos
4 4 (3.509%) Google
5 3 (2.632%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.877%) Business Objects
6 1 (0.877%) HP
6 1 (0.877%) Dell
6 1 (0.877%) Clearswift
6 1 (0.877%) VMware
Basildon, South East
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