The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 23 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 Norwich region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 43 38 37
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 9 16 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norwich 2.821% 3.837% 2.834%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.031% 16.00% 8.861%
Number of salaries quoted 8 16 3
Average salary £30,750 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.38% -7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Norwich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
128 100 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Norwich 40.13% 23.98% 31.98%
Number of salaries quoted 120 92 55
Average salary £30,000 £34,440 £29,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.89% +16.74%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £22,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £42,980
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
Norfolk

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norwich 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 30 (100.00%) .NET
1 30 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 28 (93.33%) C#
3 23 (76.67%) ASP.NET
4 21 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (66.67%) Scrum
5 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
6 17 (56.67%) SQL Server 2005
7 12 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (36.67%) MVC
8 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (33.33%) SQL
9 10 (33.33%) LINQ
10 9 (30.00%) Degree
10 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
10 9 (30.00%) Oracle 11g
10 9 (30.00%) WinForms
10 9 (30.00%) T-SQL
10 9 (30.00%) Oracle
10 9 (30.00%) Oracle 10g
10 9 (30.00%) Oracle 8/8i
10 9 (30.00%) Oracle 9i
11 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
11 7 (23.33%) TDD
11 7 (23.33%) Kanban
11 7 (23.33%) .NET Framework
11 7 (23.33%) WCF
11 7 (23.33%) BDD
12 6 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
12 6 (20.00%) Scrum-ban

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Norwich 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 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (76.67%) ASP.NET
3 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 10 (33.33%) LINQ
5 9 (30.00%) WinForms
6 7 (23.33%) .NET Framework
6 7 (23.33%) WCF
7 6 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
7 6 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
7 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 6 (20.00%) NHibernate
7 6 (20.00%) Lucene
8 5 (16.67%) jQuery
9 4 (13.33%) HTML5
9 4 (13.33%) CSS3
9 4 (13.33%) CSS
10 3 (10.00%) HTML
10 3 (10.00%) WPF
11 2 (6.667%) Silverlight
11 2 (6.667%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.333%) MSMQ
2 1 (3.333%) Windows Azure
2 1 (3.333%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) HTTP
1 1 (3.333%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (56.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (30.00%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (30.00%) Oracle 10g
3 9 (30.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 9 (30.00%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 6 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (20.00%) Selenium
1 6 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 28 (93.33%) Developer
2 21 (70.00%) C# Developer
3 18 (60.00%) .NET Developer
4 15 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (43.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 13 (43.33%) ASP.NET Developer
6 11 (36.67%) Web Developer
7 7 (23.33%) .NET Web Developer
7 7 (23.33%) C# Web Developer
8 6 (20.00%) Software Developer
9 2 (6.667%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (6.667%) Graduate
10 1 (3.333%) Software Engineer
10 1 (3.333%) Development Manager
10 1 (3.333%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.333%) IaaS
2 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.333%) SaaS
2 1 (3.333%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Scrum
2 12 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (36.67%) MVC
4 7 (23.33%) TDD
4 7 (23.33%) Kanban
4 7 (23.33%) BDD
5 6 (20.00%) Scrum-ban
5 6 (20.00%) Web Application Development
5 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (16.67%) Web Development
6 5 (16.67%) Multithreading
7 1 (3.333%) SOA
7 1 (3.333%) OOP
7 1 (3.333%) OO
7 1 (3.333%) Unit Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.333%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (3.333%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 28 (93.33%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 9 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (20.00%) VB.NET
6 4 (13.33%) Java
7 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (30.00%) Degree
3 6 (20.00%) MCTS
3 6 (20.00%) MCP
3 6 (20.00%) MCAD
3 6 (20.00%) MCSD
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) Oracle