Oxfordshire SQL Server Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbigh Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Keighley Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Mitcham New Malden 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 Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rochester Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	4
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	463	656
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.310 %	0.293 %
As % of the category below	74.08 %	75.84 %
Salaries quoted	439	594
Average minimum salary	£33,720	£32,121
Average salary	£37,411	£34,877
% change on same period last year	+7.26 %
Average maximum salary	£41,101	£37,633
UK excluding London average salary	£35,217	£35,363
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Database & Business Intelligence Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	625	865
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.418 %	0.386 %
Salaries quoted	571	781
Average minimum salary	£33,704	£32,866
Average salary	£38,134	£35,612
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum salary	£42,565	£38,357
UK excluding London average salary	£37,481	£38,643
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
SQL Server South East

SQL Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

SQL Server
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	0	272	£37,152	+5.93 %
Abingdon	+8	55	£35,109	+3.06 %
Witney	0	17	£27,031	-11.51 %
Banbury	-5	16	£31,819	-1.36 %
Wallingford	+4	4	£30,500	-1.45 %
Faringdon	-	3	£33,500	-
Thame	-2	2	£32,500	-11.50 %
Kidlington	-5	1	£25,000	-50.00 %
Henley-on-Thames	-3	1	£47,000	+11.02 %

SQL Server South East

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 695 (63.76 %) .NET 2 451 (41.38 %) ASP.NET 3 438 (40.18 %) C# 4 383 (35.14 %) SQL 5 341 (31.28 %) Microsoft 6 336 (30.83 %) SQL Server 2005 7 254 (23.30 %) SQL Server 2000 8 238 (21.83 %) XML 9 224 (20.55 %) Windows 10 214 (19.63 %) VB.NET 11 188 (17.25 %) MS Excel 12 181 (16.61 %) JavaScript 13 173 (15.87 %) HTML 14 158 (14.50 %) Oracle 15 150 (13.76 %) SharePoint

16 145 (13.30 %) VB 17 127 (11.65 %) Finance 18 123 (11.28 %) IIS 19 119 (10.92 %) WebServices 20 113 (10.37 %) Java 21 112 (10.28 %) ASP 22 109 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 23 106 (9.725 %) Transact-SQL 24 93 (8.532 %) Microsoft Certification 25 91 (8.349 %) Linux 26 88 (8.073 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 27 87 (7.982 %) Project Management 28 85 (7.798 %) MySQL 29 76 (6.972 %) Degree 30 75 (6.881 %) OO

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 1 695 (63.76 %) .NET 2 451 (41.38 %) ASP.NET 3 238 (21.83 %) XML 4 173 (15.87 %) HTML 5 119 (10.92 %) WebServices 6 112 (10.28 %) ASP 7 58 (5.321 %) .NET Framework 8 55 (5.046 %) XSLT 9 53 (4.862 %) CSS 10 50 (4.587 %) AJAX 11 30 (2.752 %) SOAP 12 28 (2.569 %) WCF 13 25 (2.294 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 20 (1.835 %) WPF 14 20 (1.835 %) Windows SharePoint Services 15 19 (1.743 %) DCOM 16 17 (1.560 %) WF 17 16 (1.468 %) ADO.NET 18 15 (1.376 %) Silverlight 19 13 (1.193 %) Apache Axis	Application Platforms 1 150 (13.76 %) SharePoint 2 123 (11.28 %) IIS 3 67 (6.147 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 24 (2.202 %) MS Exchange 5 19 (1.743 %) CMS 5 19 (1.743 %) MTS 6 16 (1.468 %) Tomcat 7 14 (1.284 %) BizTalk Server 8 13 (1.193 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 9 (0.826 %) ColdFusion 9 9 (0.826 %) ColdFusion MX 10 8 (0.734 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 7 (0.642 %) Apache 12 5 (0.459 %) Commerce Server 12 5 (0.459 %) Content Management Server 13 4 (0.367 %) WebLogic 14 3 (0.275 %) Live Communications Server 14 3 (0.275 %) Commerce Server 2007 15 2 (0.183 %) Smallworld 15 2 (0.183 %) Zope
Applications 1 188 (17.25 %) MS Excel 2 51 (4.679 %) MS Office 3 11 (1.009 %) Spreadsheet 4 9 (0.826 %) InfoPath 4 9 (0.826 %) MS Visio 5 6 (0.550 %) Photoshop 6 4 (0.367 %) MATLAB 7 2 (0.183 %) CATIA 8 1 (0.092 %) MS Project 8 1 (0.092 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 9 (0.826 %) Microsoft CRM 2 6 (0.550 %) Dynamics AX 3 5 (0.459 %) Tesseract 4 4 (0.367 %) Retail-J 4 4 (0.367 %) Dynamics CRM 5 3 (0.275 %) Navision 6 2 (0.183 %) WebTrends 7 1 (0.092 %) Oracle Applications 7 1 (0.092 %) Axapta 7 1 (0.092 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 75 (6.881 %) Internet 2 34 (3.119 %) TCP/IP 3 15 (1.376 %) Intranet 4 14 (1.284 %) DNS 4 14 (1.284 %) WAN 4 14 (1.284 %) LAN 5 13 (1.193 %) FTP 6 8 (0.734 %) DHCP 6 8 (0.734 %) VoIP 7 7 (0.642 %) SAN 7 7 (0.642 %) Firewall 8 5 (0.459 %) HTTP 8 5 (0.459 %) VPN 9 4 (0.367 %) Intrusion Detection 10 3 (0.275 %) MPLS 10 3 (0.275 %) Network Security 10 3 (0.275 %) GPRS 10 3 (0.275 %) GSM 11 2 (0.183 %) LDAP 11 2 (0.183 %) UMTS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 336 (30.83 %) SQL Server 2005 2 254 (23.30 %) SQL Server 2000 3 88 (8.073 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 85 (7.798 %) MySQL 5 47 (4.312 %) DTS 6 44 (4.037 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 43 (3.945 %) RDBMS 8 29 (2.661 %) BusinessObjects 8 29 (2.661 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 28 (2.569 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 27 (2.477 %) Crystal Reports 11 26 (2.385 %) DB2 12 25 (2.294 %) MS Access 12 25 (2.294 %) Datawarehouse 13 20 (1.835 %) ETL 14 17 (1.560 %) GIS 15 14 (1.284 %) NovaView 15 14 (1.284 %) Oracle Reports 15 14 (1.284 %) SQL Server 2008 16 11 (1.009 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 53 (4.862 %) Visual Studio 2 22 (2.018 %) Ant 3 15 (1.376 %) Eclipse 4 10 (0.917 %) Flash 5 6 (0.550 %) Visual Studio Team System 6 5 (0.459 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 4 (0.367 %) NUnit 8 2 (0.183 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.092 %) Omnis Studio 9 1 (0.092 %) JUnit 9 1 (0.092 %) Dreamweaver 9 1 (0.092 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.092 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (0.092 %) InstallShield	General 1 127 (11.65 %) Finance 2 43 (3.945 %) Education 3 38 (3.486 %) Retail 4 36 (3.303 %) Pensions 5 31 (2.844 %) Publishing 6 24 (2.202 %) Health 7 19 (1.743 %) Back Office 8 18 (1.651 %) Marketing 9 17 (1.560 %) Financial Institution 10 13 (1.193 %) Games 11 12 (1.101 %) Manufacturing 11 12 (1.101 %) Insurance 12 11 (1.009 %) Banking 13 10 (0.917 %) Online Games 14 9 (0.826 %) Investment Banking 15 8 (0.734 %) Legal 16 7 (0.642 %) Government 16 7 (0.642 %) Electronics 16 7 (0.642 %) Music 17 4 (0.367 %) 3D Graphics
Job Titles 1 496 (45.50 %) Developer 2 248 (22.75 %) .NET Developer 3 126 (11.56 %) C# Developer 4 122 (11.19 %) Web Developer 5 98 (8.991 %) Analyst 5 98 (8.991 %) Consultant 6 96 (8.807 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 88 (8.073 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 79 (7.248 %) SQL Developer 9 74 (6.789 %) Software Engineer 10 72 (6.606 %) .NET Web Developer 11 70 (6.422 %) VB.NET Developer 12 67 (6.147 %) Applications Support 13 56 (5.138 %) SQL Server Developer 14 48 (4.404 %) Administrator 15 45 (4.128 %) Software Developer 15 45 (4.128 %) DBA 16 44 (4.037 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 16 44 (4.037 %) Support Engineer 17 40 (3.670 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 47 (4.312 %) Computer Science 2 16 (1.468 %) Client/Server 3 15 (1.376 %) Replication 4 12 (1.101 %) Clustering 4 12 (1.101 %) Management Information System 4 12 (1.101 %) Psychology 5 10 (0.917 %) N-Tier 6 9 (0.826 %) Credit Risk 7 8 (0.734 %) NHS 8 6 (0.550 %) W3C 9 5 (0.459 %) EPoS 10 4 (0.367 %) Tandem 10 4 (0.367 %) French Language 10 4 (0.367 %) Multithreading 10 4 (0.367 %) Data Extraction 11 2 (0.183 %) Wiki 11 2 (0.183 %) Cryptography 11 2 (0.183 %) Physics 11 2 (0.183 %) PDA 11 2 (0.183 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 224 (20.55 %) Windows 2 109 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 91 (8.349 %) Linux 4 40 (3.670 %) UNIX 5 21 (1.927 %) CentOS 6 19 (1.743 %) Windows 2000 7 15 (1.376 %) Windows Vista 8 9 (0.826 %) Windows XP 9 6 (0.550 %) Red Hat Linux 9 6 (0.550 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 6 (0.550 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 5 (0.459 %) Windows Server 2008 11 2 (0.183 %) Solaris 12 1 (0.092 %) Windows NT 12 1 (0.092 %) NetWare 12 1 (0.092 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 87 (7.982 %) Project Management 2 75 (6.881 %) OO 3 74 (6.789 %) E-Commerce 4 70 (6.422 %) Business Intelligence 5 66 (6.055 %) Web Development 6 34 (3.119 %) CRM 7 33 (3.028 %) ITIL 8 29 (2.661 %) PRINCE2 8 29 (2.661 %) Migration 9 27 (2.477 %) Service Management 10 26 (2.385 %) Data Modelling 10 26 (2.385 %) UML 11 24 (2.202 %) Business Analysis 12 21 (1.927 %) Scrum 13 18 (1.651 %) SOA 14 15 (1.376 %) Workflow 14 15 (1.376 %) Agile Software Development 14 15 (1.376 %) Systems Analysis 14 15 (1.376 %) Time Management 15 14 (1.284 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 438 (40.18 %) C# 2 383 (35.14 %) SQL 3 214 (19.63 %) VB.NET 4 181 (16.61 %) JavaScript 5 145 (13.30 %) VB 6 113 (10.37 %) Java 7 106 (9.725 %) Transact-SQL 8 65 (5.963 %) C++ 9 48 (4.404 %) Perl 10 43 (3.945 %) VB6 11 36 (3.303 %) VBScript 12 35 (3.211 %) PHP 13 27 (2.477 %) Python 14 26 (2.385 %) C 15 25 (2.294 %) VBA 16 15 (1.376 %) Delphi 17 11 (1.009 %) DHTML 17 11 (1.009 %) Ruby 18 9 (0.826 %) ActionScript 19 6 (0.550 %) PHP5	Qualifications 1 93 (8.532 %) Microsoft Certification 2 76 (6.972 %) Degree 3 38 (3.486 %) MCTS 4 29 (2.661 %) MCSE 5 26 (2.385 %) MCSD 6 25 (2.294 %) MCPD 7 20 (1.835 %) MCAD 8 19 (1.743 %) MCP 9 17 (1.560 %) MCDBA 10 8 (0.734 %) MCSA 11 5 (0.459 %) MCITP 12 2 (0.183 %) RHCE 13 1 (0.092 %) ITIL Certification 13 1 (0.092 %) Linux+ Certification 13 1 (0.092 %) RHCT 13 1 (0.092 %) CIPD 13 1 (0.092 %) PhD 13 1 (0.092 %) CCA 13 1 (0.092 %) Citrix Certification 13 1 (0.092 %) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (1.009 %) QA 2 2 (0.183 %) ISO9001 3 1 (0.092 %) HL7	System Software 1 68 (6.239 %) Active Directory 2 30 (2.752 %) VMware ESX 3 21 (1.927 %) ISA Server 4 5 (0.459 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 4 (0.367 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 4 (0.367 %) Oracle RMAN 6 3 (0.275 %) Squid 6 3 (0.275 %) Terminal Services 7 1 (0.092 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 6 (0.550 %) AutoSys 2 5 (0.459 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 3 (0.275 %) MOM 4 1 (0.092 %) Nagios 4 1 (0.092 %) ARCserve 4 1 (0.092 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 341 (31.28 %) Microsoft 2 158 (14.50 %) Oracle 3 38 (3.486 %) ProClarity 4 36 (3.303 %) VMware 5 29 (2.661 %) Business Objects 6 27 (2.477 %) Altiris 7 25 (2.294 %) Cognos 8 20 (1.835 %) Sybase 9 14 (1.284 %) Ab Initio 9 14 (1.284 %) Informatica 10 9 (0.826 %) Intel 10 9 (0.826 %) SAP 11 8 (0.734 %) IBM 12 7 (0.642 %) Citrix 12 7 (0.642 %) Yahoo! 13 6 (0.550 %) Epicor 14 5 (0.459 %) Red Hat 14 5 (0.459 %) Mapinfo 14 5 (0.459 %) Cisco 14 5 (0.459 %) HP