Midlands SQL Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Midlands 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 over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishops Castle Bishop's Stortford 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 Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen 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 Gosport 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 Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth 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 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 Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Teddington 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 West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	15
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	107	158
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	44.40 %	37.44 %
Salaries quoted	69	106
Average minimum salary	£36,116	£32,901
Average salary	£39,087	£36,288
% change on same period last year	+7.71 %
Average maximum salary	£42,058	£39,675
UK excluding London average salary	£34,791	£34,747
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	241	422
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.130 %	0.176 %
Salaries quoted	173	322
Average minimum salary	£41,428	£37,969
Average salary	£47,249	£43,721
% change on same period last year	+8.07 %
Average maximum salary	£53,071	£49,473
UK excluding London average salary	£37,227	£38,311
% change on same period last year	-2.82 %
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 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 Midlands region.

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

1 125 (47.71 %) .NET 2 108 (41.22 %) SQL 3 107 (40.84 %) Microsoft 4 87 (33.21 %) C# 4 87 (33.21 %) SQL Server 2005 5 75 (28.63 %) Windows 6 71 (27.10 %) Oracle 7 68 (25.95 %) ASP.NET 8 50 (19.08 %) SQL Server 2000 9 48 (18.32 %) XML 10 44 (16.79 %) VB 10 44 (16.79 %) VB.NET 11 39 (14.89 %) MS Excel 12 35 (13.36 %) HTML 13 33 (12.60 %) Microsoft Certification

14 29 (11.07 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 29 (11.07 %) .NET Framework 15 28 (10.69 %) IIS 16 27 (10.31 %) Windows Server 2003 17 25 (9.542 %) CSS 17 25 (9.542 %) Degree 18 23 (8.779 %) SharePoint 18 23 (8.779 %) Cognos 19 21 (8.015 %) Finance 19 21 (8.015 %) Datawarehouse 19 21 (8.015 %) Business Analysis 20 20 (7.634 %) VB6 20 20 (7.634 %) Business Intelligence 20 20 (7.634 %) MCSE 21 19 (7.252 %) Active Directory

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the 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 1 125 (47.71 %) .NET 2 68 (25.95 %) ASP.NET 3 48 (18.32 %) XML 4 35 (13.36 %) HTML 5 29 (11.07 %) .NET Framework 6 25 (9.542 %) CSS 7 15 (5.725 %) XHTML 8 13 (4.962 %) ASP 9 10 (3.817 %) XSLT 10 7 (2.672 %) J2SE 10 7 (2.672 %) WebServices 10 7 (2.672 %) ASP.NET 2.0 11 5 (1.908 %) XSL 11 5 (1.908 %) STL 11 5 (1.908 %) ADO.NET 11 5 (1.908 %) ATL 12 4 (1.527 %) COM 12 4 (1.527 %) AJAX 13 3 (1.145 %) WebSphere 13 3 (1.145 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 28 (10.69 %) IIS 2 23 (8.779 %) SharePoint 3 13 (4.962 %) BizTalk Server 4 8 (3.053 %) CMS 5 6 (2.290 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 4 (1.527 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 3 (1.145 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 3 (1.145 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 3 (1.145 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (1.145 %) SAS 7 3 (1.145 %) Apache 8 2 (0.763 %) Oracle Workflow 8 2 (0.763 %) Commerce Server 9 1 (0.382 %) LiveLink 9 1 (0.382 %) Tomcat 9 1 (0.382 %) JBoss 9 1 (0.382 %) ColdFusion 9 1 (0.382 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 39 (14.89 %) MS Excel 2 12 (4.580 %) Photoshop 3 7 (2.672 %) MS Project 4 3 (1.145 %) MS Office 4 3 (1.145 %) MS Visio 5 1 (0.382 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 6 (2.290 %) Dynamics AX 2 5 (1.908 %) Oracle Applications 2 5 (1.908 %) Pivotal CRM 2 5 (1.908 %) Oracle 11i 2 5 (1.908 %) Microsoft CRM 2 5 (1.908 %) Dynamics CRM 3 3 (1.145 %) Axapta 4 1 (0.382 %) ProfileStage 4 1 (0.382 %) Dynamics NAV 4 1 (0.382 %) Dynamics GP 4 1 (0.382 %) CODA Dream
Communications & Networking 1 16 (6.107 %) Internet 2 4 (1.527 %) VoIP 2 4 (1.527 %) HTTP 3 3 (1.145 %) LAN 3 3 (1.145 %) WAN 3 3 (1.145 %) Firewall 3 3 (1.145 %) VLAN 4 2 (0.763 %) ADSL 4 2 (0.763 %) Intranet 4 2 (0.763 %) SAN 5 1 (0.382 %) CTI 5 1 (0.382 %) ISDN 5 1 (0.382 %) TETRA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 87 (33.21 %) SQL Server 2005 2 50 (19.08 %) SQL Server 2000 3 29 (11.07 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 21 (8.015 %) Datawarehouse 5 19 (7.252 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 17 (6.489 %) DB2 7 16 (6.107 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 13 (4.962 %) DTS 8 13 (4.962 %) MS Access 9 12 (4.580 %) Oracle 10g 9 12 (4.580 %) MySQL 9 12 (4.580 %) SQL Server 7 10 10 (3.817 %) RDBMS 11 8 (3.053 %) ETL 11 8 (3.053 %) BusinessObjects 12 6 (2.290 %) Informix 12 6 (2.290 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 13 5 (1.908 %) Crystal Reports 13 5 (1.908 %) Data Mining 13 5 (1.908 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 16 (6.107 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (2.290 %) Dreamweaver 3 5 (1.908 %) Flash 4 4 (1.527 %) Subversion 4 4 (1.527 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 21 (8.015 %) Finance 2 13 (4.962 %) Pensions 3 8 (3.053 %) Billing 4 7 (2.672 %) Marketing 4 7 (2.672 %) Health 4 7 (2.672 %) Games 5 4 (1.527 %) Government 5 4 (1.527 %) Retail 5 4 (1.527 %) Construction 5 4 (1.527 %) Graphic Design 5 4 (1.527 %) Local Government 6 3 (1.145 %) Insurance 6 3 (1.145 %) Telecoms 7 2 (0.763 %) Electronics 7 2 (0.763 %) Education 7 2 (0.763 %) Banking 8 1 (0.382 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 101 (38.55 %) Developer 2 63 (24.05 %) Consultant 3 50 (19.08 %) Analyst 4 34 (12.98 %) .NET Developer 5 27 (10.31 %) Web Developer 6 25 (9.542 %) DBA 7 22 (8.397 %) Support Analyst 8 18 (6.870 %) Senior Developer 9 15 (5.725 %) Software Developer 9 15 (5.725 %) SQL Server DBA 9 15 (5.725 %) SQL DBA 10 12 (4.580 %) SQL Developer 10 12 (4.580 %) SQL Server Developer 10 12 (4.580 %) Support Consultant 10 12 (4.580 %) Administrator 11 11 (4.198 %) Senior Web Developer 12 10 (3.817 %) Architect 13 9 (3.435 %) Applications Developer 13 9 (3.435 %) Technical Consultant 13 9 (3.435 %) Report Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (3.435 %) Mainframe 2 8 (3.053 %) Client/Server 2 8 (3.053 %) IBM Mainframe 3 7 (2.672 %) Replication 3 7 (2.672 %) Clustering 4 6 (2.290 %) Thin Client 4 6 (2.290 %) Fat Client 5 5 (1.908 %) Computer Science 6 4 (1.527 %) Management Information System 6 4 (1.527 %) Data Integration 7 3 (1.145 %) AS400 8 2 (0.763 %) PACS 8 2 (0.763 %) Mathematics 9 1 (0.382 %) Physics 9 1 (0.382 %) Statistics 9 1 (0.382 %) Informatics 9 1 (0.382 %) E-Learning 9 1 (0.382 %) VLE 9 1 (0.382 %) IVR 9 1 (0.382 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 75 (28.63 %) Windows 2 27 (10.31 %) Windows Server 2003 3 17 (6.489 %) UNIX 4 11 (4.198 %) Linux 5 6 (2.290 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (1.527 %) Windows XP 7 3 (1.145 %) Solaris 8 2 (0.763 %) AIX 9 1 (0.382 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (8.015 %) Business Analysis 2 20 (7.634 %) Business Intelligence 3 16 (6.107 %) CRM 4 14 (5.344 %) OO 5 10 (3.817 %) ERP 5 10 (3.817 %) Web Development 6 9 (3.435 %) UML 7 7 (2.672 %) E-Commerce 7 7 (2.672 %) Project Management 7 7 (2.672 %) Data Analysis 8 6 (2.290 %) Migration 8 6 (2.290 %) Content Management 8 6 (2.290 %) SEO 8 6 (2.290 %) Time Management 8 6 (2.290 %) Internet Marketing 9 5 (1.908 %) OOP 10 4 (1.527 %) Disaster Recovery 10 4 (1.527 %) OOD 10 4 (1.527 %) Data Migration 11 3 (1.145 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 108 (41.22 %) SQL 2 87 (33.21 %) C# 3 44 (16.79 %) VB 3 44 (16.79 %) VB.NET 4 20 (7.634 %) VB6 5 16 (6.107 %) Java 6 15 (5.725 %) Transact-SQL 7 13 (4.962 %) JavaScript 8 12 (4.580 %) C++ 9 11 (4.198 %) Delphi 9 11 (4.198 %) PHP 10 9 (3.435 %) C 11 8 (3.053 %) DHTML 12 5 (1.908 %) ActionScript 13 3 (1.145 %) PL/SQL 13 3 (1.145 %) RPG 14 2 (0.763 %) VBScript 14 2 (0.763 %) Shell Script 15 1 (0.382 %) PowerHouse 15 1 (0.382 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 33 (12.60 %) Microsoft Certification 2 25 (9.542 %) Degree 3 20 (7.634 %) MCSE 4 7 (2.672 %) Oracle Certification 5 5 (1.908 %) Cisco Certification 5 5 (1.908 %) CCNA 6 4 (1.527 %) CCA 6 4 (1.527 %) Citrix Certification 6 4 (1.527 %) CCEA 6 4 (1.527 %) MCDBA 6 4 (1.527 %) MCP 7 2 (0.763 %) MCSD 7 2 (0.763 %) MCITP 8 1 (0.382 %) ACCA 8 1 (0.382 %) CIMA 8 1 (0.382 %) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 16 (6.107 %) SLA 2 3 (1.145 %) QA 3 1 (0.382 %) WAI	System Software 1 19 (7.252 %) Active Directory 2 7 (2.672 %) Oracle RAC 3 6 (2.290 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 5 (1.908 %) Oracle RMAN 5 4 (1.527 %) Terminal Services 6 3 (1.145 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 3 (1.145 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 4 (1.527 %) MOM 2 3 (1.145 %) HP Data Protector 3 1 (0.382 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 107 (40.84 %) Microsoft 2 71 (27.10 %) Oracle 3 23 (8.779 %) Cognos 4 13 (4.962 %) Citrix 5 11 (4.198 %) SAP 5 11 (4.198 %) IBM 6 9 (3.435 %) Sybase 7 8 (3.053 %) Business Objects 7 8 (3.053 %) Cisco 8 7 (2.672 %) Remedy 9 6 (2.290 %) VMware 9 6 (2.290 %) Siebel 10 5 (1.908 %) HP 11 4 (1.527 %) Sage 12 3 (1.145 %) LANDesk 13 2 (0.763 %) DataFlux 13 2 (0.763 %) Hummingbird 13 2 (0.763 %) Stellent 13 2 (0.763 %) Agresso 13 2 (0.763 %) FileNet