The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 94 64 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 30.62% 30.77% 23.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 76.42% 85.33% 61.25%
Number of salaries quoted 82 63 47
Average salary £34,500 £31,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.40% -10.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,300 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £42,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
123 75 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 40.07% 36.06% 38.10%
Number of salaries quoted 108 73 78
Average salary £34,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £44,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
SQL Server
Hampshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Portsmouth SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 91 (60.67%) .NET
2 87 (58.00%) C#
3 72 (48.00%) SQL
3 72 (48.00%) ASP.NET
4 54 (36.00%) T-SQL
5 50 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
6 49 (32.67%) Windows
7 46 (30.67%) JavaScript
8 41 (27.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 38 (25.33%) MVC
10 38 (25.33%) Microsoft
11 28 (18.67%) SQL Server 2005
12 27 (18.00%) Visual Studio
12 27 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (17.33%) HTML
14 24 (16.00%) Web Services
14 24 (16.00%) jQuery
15 23 (15.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 23 (15.33%) .NET Framework
16 22 (14.67%) XML
16 22 (14.67%) VB.NET
16 22 (14.67%) OO
17 21 (14.00%) Ajax
18 20 (13.33%) WinForms
18 20 (13.33%) WPF
18 20 (13.33%) XSLT
19 19 (12.67%) MySQL
20 18 (12.00%) CSS
20 18 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 91 (60.67%) .NET
2 72 (48.00%) ASP.NET
3 26 (17.33%) HTML
4 24 (16.00%) Web Services
4 24 (16.00%) jQuery
5 23 (15.33%) .NET Framework
6 22 (14.67%) XML
7 21 (14.00%) Ajax
8 20 (13.33%) WinForms
8 20 (13.33%) WPF
8 20 (13.33%) XSLT
9 18 (12.00%) CSS
9 18 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC
10 16 (10.67%) WCF
11 15 (10.00%) LINQ
12 14 (9.333%) SOAP
13 10 (6.667%) Flash
13 10 (6.667%) XHTML
13 10 (6.667%) WSDL
13 10 (6.667%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 12 (8.000%) IIS
2 9 (6.000%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.667%) MS Exchange
4 3 (2.000%) SAS
4 3 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2000
4 3 (2.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.667%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.667%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (0.667%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.667%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 10 (6.667%) Fireworks
2 10 (6.667%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.667%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (2.000%) Maximo
2 2 (1.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.333%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.333%) Firewall
2 6 (4.000%) SAN
3 4 (2.667%) LAN
4 3 (2.000%) VoIP
4 3 (2.000%) WAN
4 3 (2.000%) VPN
4 3 (2.000%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.000%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (2.000%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.000%) Internet
4 3 (2.000%) MPLS
5 1 (0.667%) SSL
5 1 (0.667%) CTI
5 1 (0.667%) Intranet
5 1 (0.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 41 (27.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 40 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (18.67%) SQL Server 2005
5 23 (15.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 19 (12.67%) MySQL
7 12 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (8.000%) SQL Server 2012
8 7 (4.667%) MS Access
9 6 (4.000%) Crystal Reports
10 5 (3.333%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (2.000%) IBM InfoSphere
11 3 (2.000%) QlikView
11 3 (2.000%) SAP BW
11 3 (2.000%) Ingres
11 3 (2.000%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (2.000%) DB2
12 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2000
12 1 (0.667%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (18.00%) Visual Studio
2 11 (7.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
4 7 (4.667%) Subversion
5 2 (1.333%) JIRA
5 2 (1.333%) ReSharper
5 2 (1.333%) Selenium
5 2 (1.333%) Bugzilla
5 2 (1.333%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.333%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.667%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.667%) Git (software)
General
1 13 (8.667%) Finance
2 6 (4.000%) Back Office
3 5 (3.333%) Advertising
3 5 (3.333%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.667%) Electronics
5 1 (0.667%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.667%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.667%) Law
5 1 (0.667%) Legal
5 1 (0.667%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 108 (72.00%) Developer
2 45 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 43 (28.67%) C# Developer
4 28 (18.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 22 (14.67%) SQL DBA
5 22 (14.67%) DBA
6 20 (13.33%) SQL Developer
7 18 (12.00%) Software Developer
7 18 (12.00%) SQL Server Developer
8 17 (11.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 17 (11.33%) ASP.NET Developer
9 12 (8.000%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.667%) Team Leader
11 9 (6.000%) Senior .NET Developer
11 9 (6.000%) .NET Team Leader
12 8 (5.333%) Software Engineer
12 8 (5.333%) Applications Developer
12 8 (5.333%) Web Developer
13 7 (4.667%) SQL Server DBA
13 7 (4.667%) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.333%) Replication
1 8 (5.333%) Clustering
2 6 (4.000%) Computer Science
2 6 (4.000%) Open Source
3 4 (2.667%) Social Network
3 4 (2.667%) Client/Server
3 4 (2.667%) Web 2.0
3 4 (2.667%) PDA
4 3 (2.000%) HACMP
4 3 (2.000%) Kindle
5 1 (0.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 49 (32.67%) Windows
2 17 (11.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (7.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (6.000%) Linux
5 5 (3.333%) Windows 7
5 5 (3.333%) Windows XP
6 3 (2.000%) UNIX
6 3 (2.000%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.000%) Windows 2000
6 3 (2.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.33%) MVC
2 27 (18.00%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (14.67%) OO
4 17 (11.33%) E-Commerce
5 13 (8.667%) Data Analysis
6 11 (7.333%) ETL
7 10 (6.667%) Scrum
7 10 (6.667%) ITIL
7 10 (6.667%) Web Design
7 10 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (6.000%) Unit Testing
9 7 (4.667%) Software Testing
9 7 (4.667%) Data Modelling
10 6 (4.000%) ERP
10 6 (4.000%) Problem Management
10 6 (4.000%) MVVM
11 5 (3.333%) Software Engineering
11 5 (3.333%) Data Management
12 4 (2.667%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.00%) C#
2 72 (48.00%) SQL
3 54 (36.00%) T-SQL
4 46 (30.67%) JavaScript
5 22 (14.67%) VB.NET
6 16 (10.67%) VB
7 8 (5.333%) VB6
8 7 (4.667%) Java
9 6 (4.000%) Ruby
9 6 (4.000%) Python
10 4 (2.667%) XPath
11 3 (2.000%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.000%) VBA
12 2 (1.333%) C
12 2 (1.333%) C++
12 2 (1.333%) Perl
12 2 (1.333%) PHP
13 1 (0.667%) F#
Qualifications
1 12 (8.000%) Degree
2 10 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 10 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.667%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (3.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.000%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (2.000%) NCDA
5 3 (2.000%) NCIE
5 3 (2.000%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.333%) CCEA
6 2 (1.333%) MCSE
6 2 (1.333%) CCA
7 1 (0.667%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.667%) WCAG
1 10 (6.667%) WAI
2 6 (4.000%) SLA
3 4 (2.667%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.333%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.667%) XenApp
2 6 (4.000%) VMware ESX
2 6 (4.000%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.000%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 3 (2.000%) XenServer
3 3 (2.000%) XenDesktop
3 3 (2.000%) vSphere
3 3 (2.000%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (4.000%) Tivoli
1 6 (4.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (3.333%) BMC PATROL
3 3 (2.000%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.000%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (0.667%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 38 (25.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.000%) Oracle
3 10 (6.667%) Citrix
4 9 (6.000%) Cisco
4 9 (6.000%) Adobe
4 9 (6.000%) VMware
5 6 (4.000%) HP
5 6 (4.000%) Dell
5 6 (4.000%) Symantec
5 6 (4.000%) Juniper
6 5 (3.333%) Facebook
7 4 (2.667%) Capita
8 3 (2.000%) SAP
8 3 (2.000%) SonicWALL
8 3 (2.000%) CommVault
8 3 (2.000%) NetApp
8 3 (2.000%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.000%) 3Com
8 3 (2.000%) Intel
8 3 (2.000%) IBM
Portsmouth, Hampshire
The successful Web Developer will: Design and implement Windows and Web based applications that satisfy business requirements using C# and SQL Server within the agreed timescales... Familiarity with...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £199 to £200 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
The successful Web Developer will: Design and implement Windows and Web based applications that satisfy business requirements using C# and SQL Server within the agreed timescales... Familiarity with...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £39,999 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Our FTSE 100 Financial Services Insurance client based in Portsmouth, Hampshire currently seeks an experienced Developer with good knowledge of C# and .Net. As a developer you will...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £34,999 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Planed new projects will be working with Amaazon EC2 and AWS infrastructure developed with C# /ASP.net For this .net Developer role you will have some kind of...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £27000 per annum + Bonus, etc
Posted: 13 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
You will be responsible for developing a variety of applications in C# using Microsoft’s latest development tools such as SOAP, WCF, REST, MVC, LINQ, Entity Framework, Web...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30-40k+ExBens
Posted: 13 June 2013
Portsmouth, South East
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £30000.00 - £34000.00 per annum
Posted: 10 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + pension, parking, eye care,
Posted: 13 June 2013
Portsmouth, South East
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013