The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 22 26 25
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 101 78 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.799% 7.625% 8.524%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.36% 30.00% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 97 76 80
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £22,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
496 260 441
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 38.30% 25.42% 45.84%
Number of salaries quoted 456 237 420
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,300 £27,850
10% offered a salary of more than £54,750 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
Buckinghamshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

1 200 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 148 (74.00%) .NET
3 143 (71.50%) C#
4 114 (57.00%) SQL
5 85 (42.50%) T-SQL
6 84 (42.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 83 (41.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 80 (40.00%) Microsoft
9 79 (39.50%) ASP.NET
10 78 (39.00%) Windows
11 72 (36.00%) MVC
12 64 (32.00%) JavaScript
13 61 (30.50%) TDD
14 57 (28.50%) SQL Server 2005
15 55 (27.50%) NUnit
16 51 (25.50%) Visual Studio
17 50 (25.00%) jQuery
17 50 (25.00%) WCF
18 48 (24.00%) ASP.NET MVC
19 46 (23.00%) CSS
20 45 (22.50%) XML
20 45 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
21 44 (22.00%) MS Excel
22 43 (21.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
22 43 (21.50%) Ajax
23 42 (21.00%) SharePoint
24 41 (20.50%) Windows Server 2003
25 39 (19.50%) Scrum
26 38 (19.00%) Data Warehouse
26 38 (19.00%) HTML

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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
1 148 (74.00%) .NET
2 79 (39.50%) ASP.NET
3 50 (25.00%) jQuery
3 50 (25.00%) WCF
4 48 (24.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 46 (23.00%) CSS
6 45 (22.50%) XML
7 43 (21.50%) Ajax
8 38 (19.00%) HTML
9 33 (16.50%) .NET Framework
10 32 (16.00%) NHibernate
11 29 (14.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 26 (13.00%) Razor View Engine
13 22 (11.00%) Web Services
14 18 (9.000%) JSON
15 17 (8.500%) LINQ
16 15 (7.500%) WinForms
17 13 (6.500%) Castle Windsor
18 11 (5.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 11 (5.500%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 42 (21.00%) SharePoint
2 38 (19.00%) IIS
3 25 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 13 (6.500%) Apache
5 9 (4.500%) CMS
6 6 (3.000%) Tomcat
7 5 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (2.500%) MS Exchange
8 4 (2.000%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.500%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.500%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 44 (22.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (4.000%) MS Project
3 3 (1.500%) MS Office
4 2 (1.000%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.000%) DNS
2 9 (4.500%) SAN
3 8 (4.000%) Firewall
4 7 (3.500%) SNMP
5 5 (2.500%) Wireless
5 5 (2.500%) VPN
6 4 (2.000%) HTTPS
6 4 (2.000%) SSL
6 4 (2.000%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.000%) FTP
6 4 (2.000%) HTTP
6 4 (2.000%) SMTP
6 4 (2.000%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (2.000%) Network Security
6 4 (2.000%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.000%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.500%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.500%) FCoE
8 1 (0.500%) MPLS
8 1 (0.500%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 84 (42.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 83 (41.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 57 (28.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 43 (21.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 38 (19.00%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (9.000%) Informix
8 9 (4.500%) SQL Server 2012
9 8 (4.000%) MySQL
10 7 (3.500%) SQL Server 2000
11 4 (2.000%) Crystal Reports
12 2 (1.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.000%) Big Data
13 1 (0.500%) SQL Server 7
13 1 (0.500%) OLAP
13 1 (0.500%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 55 (27.50%) NUnit
2 51 (25.50%) Visual Studio
3 26 (13.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 23 (11.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 17 (8.500%) Moq
6 11 (5.500%) Subversion
7 3 (1.500%) Selenium
8 2 (1.000%) NMock
8 2 (1.000%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.500%) Oracle Forms
General
1 19 (9.500%) Marketing
2 15 (7.500%) Music
2 15 (7.500%) Music Industry
3 7 (3.500%) Finance
4 2 (1.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 153 (76.50%) Developer
2 88 (44.00%) .NET Developer
3 60 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 54 (27.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 39 (19.50%) SQL Developer
6 37 (18.50%) ASP.NET Developer
7 36 (18.00%) Software Developer
8 35 (17.50%) Senior Developer
9 32 (16.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 29 (14.50%) C# Software Developer
11 28 (14.00%) .NET Software Developer
12 25 (12.50%) Analyst
13 22 (11.00%) SQL DBA
13 22 (11.00%) DBA
14 16 (8.000%) Support Analyst
15 15 (7.500%) Database Developer
15 15 (7.500%) SQL Database Developer
15 15 (7.500%) Applications Support
16 13 (6.500%) Applications Support Analyst
17 12 (6.000%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.00%) Computer Science
2 22 (11.00%) Management Information System
3 18 (9.000%) Web 2.0
4 13 (6.500%) Client/Server
5 12 (6.000%) Mobile App
6 11 (5.500%) Social Network
7 9 (4.500%) Social Media
8 5 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.500%) Clustering
9 4 (2.000%) Cryptography
10 3 (1.500%) SaaS
10 3 (1.500%) Replication
10 3 (1.500%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.000%) EqualLogic
12 1 (0.500%) Animation
12 1 (0.500%) Mathematics
12 1 (0.500%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 78 (39.00%) Windows
2 45 (22.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 41 (20.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (6.000%) Linux
5 4 (2.000%) UNIX
6 2 (1.000%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.500%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.500%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.00%) MVC
2 61 (30.50%) TDD
3 39 (19.50%) Scrum
4 35 (17.50%) OO
5 33 (16.50%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (15.50%) Web Application Development
7 27 (13.50%) Waterfall
7 27 (13.50%) ITIL
8 25 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
9 20 (10.00%) Project Management
10 19 (9.500%) ETL
11 16 (8.000%) Unit Testing
12 15 (7.500%) Kanban
12 15 (7.500%) BDD
13 14 (7.000%) Web Development
14 11 (5.500%) Capacity Management
14 11 (5.500%) Content Management
14 11 (5.500%) Data Modelling
15 9 (4.500%) Mobile Application Development
16 7 (3.500%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 143 (71.50%) C#
2 114 (57.00%) SQL
3 85 (42.50%) T-SQL
4 64 (32.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.500%) VB.NET
6 10 (5.000%) VB
7 6 (3.000%) VB6
8 4 (2.000%) VBA
8 4 (2.000%) Perl
8 4 (2.000%) Bash shell
9 3 (1.500%) Java
10 2 (1.000%) VC++
11 1 (0.500%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (18.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (13.50%) Degree
3 26 (13.00%) MCP
3 26 (13.00%) MCAD
3 26 (13.00%) MCSD
3 26 (13.00%) MCTS
4 9 (4.500%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.500%) MCITP
6 4 (2.000%) CCNP
6 4 (2.000%) CCNA
6 4 (2.000%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.000%) MCSE
6 4 (2.000%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.500%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.000%) PCI DSS
1 4 (2.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.500%) QA
3 2 (1.000%) HL7
4 1 (0.500%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.500%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.500%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.000%) NFS
3 4 (2.000%) Postfix
3 4 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.500%) XenApp
4 1 (0.500%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.000%) Nagios
2 3 (1.500%) WMI
2 3 (1.500%) SCOM
2 3 (1.500%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 80 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.00%) Business Objects
2 20 (10.00%) Dundas
3 18 (9.000%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.500%) Juniper
4 9 (4.500%) Cisco
5 8 (4.000%) HP
5 8 (4.000%) Dell
5 8 (4.000%) IBM
6 6 (3.000%) Sage
7 5 (2.500%) Telerik
7 5 (2.500%) VMware
7 5 (2.500%) NetApp
8 4 (2.000%) Citrix
8 4 (2.000%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.000%) CommVault
9 2 (1.000%) Red Gate
10 1 (0.500%) Brocade
10 1 (0.500%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.500%) Oracle
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