The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 24 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 30 20 28
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 55 73 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 7.914% 10.43% 6.818%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.93% 28.19% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 50 72 36
Average salary £38,000 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.70% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,550 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £44,850 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
276 259 224
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 39.71% 37.00% 42.42%
Number of salaries quoted 248 239 210
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -5.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £23,500
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
East Midlands

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leicester -18 28 £38,000 +8.57%
Hinckley - 14 £46,000 -
Loughborough - 1 £32,500 -
SQL Server 2008
East Midlands

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 75 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 63 (84.00%) .NET
3 57 (76.00%) C#
4 55 (73.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 51 (68.00%) ASP.NET
6 46 (61.33%) Microsoft
7 38 (50.67%) jQuery
8 35 (46.67%) Ajax
9 32 (42.67%) Visual Studio
10 28 (37.33%) Windows
11 23 (30.67%) SQL
11 23 (30.67%) JSON
12 21 (28.00%) MS Excel
13 16 (21.33%) HTML
14 15 (20.00%) CSS
15 14 (18.67%) Waterfall
15 14 (18.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (18.67%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (18.67%) XML
16 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
16 13 (17.33%) Windows Server 2003
16 13 (17.33%) Retail
17 11 (14.67%) MVC
17 11 (14.67%) SQL Server 2000
17 11 (14.67%) ActiveReports
17 11 (14.67%) Red Gate
18 10 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
18 10 (13.33%) LINQ
18 10 (13.33%) WCF
18 10 (13.33%) Web Development

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 63 (84.00%) .NET
2 51 (68.00%) ASP.NET
3 38 (50.67%) jQuery
4 35 (46.67%) Ajax
5 23 (30.67%) JSON
6 16 (21.33%) HTML
7 15 (20.00%) CSS
8 14 (18.67%) XML
9 10 (13.33%) LINQ
9 10 (13.33%) WCF
10 9 (12.00%) .NET Framework
10 9 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (10.67%) WPF
12 6 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 6 (8.000%) WinForms
13 5 (6.667%) Web Services
13 5 (6.667%) XSLT
13 5 (6.667%) XHTML
13 5 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 4 (5.333%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.67%) IIS
2 5 (6.667%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.667%) Commerce Server 2007
3 2 (2.667%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (2.667%) Commerce Server
3 2 (2.667%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.333%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 21 (28.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.667%) MS Office
2 2 (2.667%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.333%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.333%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.000%) Internet
3 2 (2.667%) NetScaler
3 2 (2.667%) Firewall
3 2 (2.667%) SAN
4 1 (1.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 55 (73.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 11 (14.67%) SQL Server 2000
3 11 (14.67%) ActiveReports
4 10 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (10.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (4.000%) DTS
7 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (2.667%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (2.667%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.333%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (1.333%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 32 (42.67%) Visual Studio
2 14 (18.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (4.000%) NUnit
4 1 (1.333%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (1.333%) Moq
4 1 (1.333%) MSTest
General
1 13 (17.33%) Retail
2 5 (6.667%) Advertising
3 3 (4.000%) Publishing
3 3 (4.000%) Marketing
4 2 (2.667%) Finance
5 1 (1.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 45 (60.00%) Developer
2 38 (50.67%) .NET Developer
3 15 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 15 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 14 (18.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 12 (16.00%) ASP.NET Developer
6 10 (13.33%) Software Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Project Manager
8 6 (8.000%) Technical Manager
8 6 (8.000%) Senior .NET Developer
8 6 (8.000%) Technical Project Manager
9 4 (5.333%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Software Test Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Server Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Test Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (2.667%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Tandem
2 4 (5.333%) EPoS
3 2 (2.667%) Computer Science
3 2 (2.667%) Clustering
4 1 (1.333%) W3C
4 1 (1.333%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (37.33%) Windows
2 14 (18.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (17.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (6.667%) Windows XP
6 2 (2.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) Waterfall
2 11 (14.67%) MVC
3 10 (13.33%) Web Development
3 10 (13.33%) Project Management
4 8 (10.67%) Scrum
5 7 (9.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (9.333%) Incident Management
6 6 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (8.000%) E-Commerce
7 5 (6.667%) MVVM
8 4 (5.333%) TDD
9 3 (4.000%) UML
9 3 (4.000%) Extreme Programming
9 3 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (2.667%) Web Accessibility
10 2 (2.667%) OWASP
10 2 (2.667%) Data Protection
10 2 (2.667%) Multithreading
10 2 (2.667%) Manual Testing
10 2 (2.667%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (76.00%) C#
2 23 (30.67%) SQL
3 13 (17.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (13.33%) VB.NET
5 7 (9.333%) VBScript
5 7 (9.333%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.667%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (4.000%) MCP
1 3 (4.000%) MCTS
2 2 (2.667%) Degree
2 2 (2.667%) MCPD
2 2 (2.667%) MCITP
2 2 (2.667%) MCSE
2 2 (2.667%) MCSA
3 1 (1.333%) MCAD
3 1 (1.333%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.667%) QA
2 1 (1.333%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (9.333%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.000%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (8.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (61.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Red Gate
3 6 (8.000%) HP
3 6 (8.000%) Dell
4 5 (6.667%) Citrix
4 5 (6.667%) VMware
4 5 (6.667%) LANDesk
5 2 (2.667%) Altiris
6 1 (1.333%) Cisco
6 1 (1.333%) IBM
6 1 (1.333%) Sage
Leicester, Leicestershire
ASP.Net or C# Senior Developer - East Midlands, Leicester, Leicestershire... Key skills: Solid commercial experience in the following: C# .Net or VB.Net. MS SQL Server 2005/2008...
MAPP Ltd - IT & Business Management Recruitment Specialists
Salary: Up to £40,670 per annum + bonus (12% average) + pension + share option
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leicester, East Midlands
They will also have strong knowledge and experience of working with Microsoft technologies in the Server/ Pc and application arenas.Knowledge of the following technologies is required: Windows...
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Salary: £35000.00 - £38000.00 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013