The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2005 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2005 over the 3 months to 22 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Rank 50 40 31
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2005 16 29 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 2.381% 4.277% 5.081%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.412% 21.01% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 24
Average salary £32,500 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.47% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £29,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,750 £55,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.71% -6.66%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
170 138 110
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 25.30% 20.35% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 157 127 98
Average salary £46,000 £40,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.58% -2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2005
Berkshire

SQL Server 2005
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Slough SQL Server 2005 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2005
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Slough region.

Slough SQL Server 2005 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2005
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2005 across the Slough region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Slough SQL Server 2005 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2005
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005.

1 53 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 40 (75.47%) Microsoft
3 28 (52.83%) SQL Server 2008
4 27 (50.94%) SQL
4 27 (50.94%) .NET
5 26 (49.06%) C#
5 26 (49.06%) Windows
6 19 (35.85%) Visual Studio
7 15 (28.30%) T-SQL
7 15 (28.30%) MS Excel
8 14 (26.42%) ASP.NET
8 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
8 14 (26.42%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (24.53%) TCP/IP
9 13 (24.53%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (22.64%) VMware
10 12 (22.64%) Degree
11 11 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
12 10 (18.87%) Finance
12 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
13 9 (16.98%) MVC
13 9 (16.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (16.98%) MS Exchange
14 8 (15.09%) LDAP
14 8 (15.09%) OO
14 8 (15.09%) ITIL
14 8 (15.09%) VPN
14 8 (15.09%) DNS
14 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence

SQL Server 2005
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough region citing SQL Server 2005 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 2005. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (50.94%) .NET
2 14 (26.42%) ASP.NET
3 8 (15.09%) WCF
3 8 (15.09%) WPF
3 8 (15.09%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (11.32%) HTML
4 6 (11.32%) CSS
4 6 (11.32%) WinForms
4 6 (11.32%) MDX
5 4 (7.547%) jQuery
6 2 (3.774%) XML
7 1 (1.887%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 9 (16.98%) MS Exchange
2 8 (15.09%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (9.434%) IIS
4 3 (5.660%) Alfresco
4 3 (5.660%) WordPress
4 3 (5.660%) Drupal
4 3 (5.660%) CMS
5 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 15 (28.30%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.53%) TCP/IP
2 8 (15.09%) LDAP
2 8 (15.09%) VPN
2 8 (15.09%) DNS
2 8 (15.09%) LAN
2 8 (15.09%) VoIP
2 8 (15.09%) WAN
2 8 (15.09%) SMTP
2 8 (15.09%) DHCP
2 8 (15.09%) 802.11
2 8 (15.09%) Wireless
3 5 (9.434%) Network Security
3 5 (9.434%) Firewall
3 5 (9.434%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (5.660%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.774%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 28 (52.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (16.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (16.98%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (15.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (15.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (11.32%) SQLPlus
5 6 (11.32%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (9.434%) SQL Server 2000
7 3 (5.660%) MySQL
8 1 (1.887%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 19 (35.85%) Visual Studio
2 8 (15.09%) Subversion
2 8 (15.09%) TeamCity
3 7 (13.21%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (5.660%) NCover
4 3 (5.660%) CruiseControl
4 3 (5.660%) NUnit
General
1 10 (18.87%) Finance
2 1 (1.887%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.887%) Retail
2 1 (1.887%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (58.49%) Developer
2 17 (32.08%) .NET Developer
3 11 (20.75%) C# Developer
3 11 (20.75%) C# .NET Developer
4 8 (15.09%) Technical Leader
4 8 (15.09%) ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (15.09%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) Software Developer
5 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Sales Engineer
6 5 (9.434%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 4 (7.547%) Graduate
7 4 (7.547%) Junior
8 3 (5.660%) Linux Support Engineer
8 3 (5.660%) Mid-Level C# Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Junior C# .NET Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Computer Science
2 8 (15.09%) EqualLogic
3 1 (1.887%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.887%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.887%) Replication
3 1 (1.887%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 26 (49.06%) Windows
2 14 (26.42%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (13.21%) Ubuntu
3 7 (13.21%) Linux
4 5 (9.434%) Windows XP
5 4 (7.547%) UNIX
5 4 (7.547%) AIX
5 4 (7.547%) Solaris
5 4 (7.547%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (7.547%) Debian
6 3 (5.660%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.53%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (16.98%) MVC
3 8 (15.09%) OO
3 8 (15.09%) ITIL
3 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (15.09%) ETL
3 8 (15.09%) Service Delivery
3 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (15.09%) Time Management
4 7 (13.21%) Software Engineering
5 5 (9.434%) SIEM
5 5 (9.434%) Network Management
5 5 (9.434%) Dimensional Modelling
5 5 (9.434%) Information Security
5 5 (9.434%) Data Modelling
6 2 (3.774%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (1.887%) Waterfall
7 1 (1.887%) Project Management
7 1 (1.887%) Scrum
7 1 (1.887%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 26 (49.06%) C#
3 15 (28.30%) T-SQL
4 7 (13.21%) C
4 7 (13.21%) C++
5 5 (9.434%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.660%) Python
6 3 (5.660%) Perl
6 3 (5.660%) PHP
6 3 (5.660%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) CCNA
2 8 (15.09%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (15.09%) MCTS
2 8 (15.09%) MCITP
3 5 (9.434%) CISSP
4 1 (1.887%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.887%) MCP
4 1 (1.887%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.434%) QA
1 5 (9.434%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (9.434%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) Active Directory
2 11 (20.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (15.09%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.09%) XenServer
4 4 (7.547%) VMware ESX
4 4 (7.547%) vSphere
5 3 (5.660%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (5.660%) Plesk
Vendors
1 40 (75.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (22.64%) VMware
3 8 (15.09%) Cisco
3 8 (15.09%) HP
3 8 (15.09%) Citrix
3 8 (15.09%) ProCurve
3 8 (15.09%) DataCore
4 7 (13.21%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.660%) NetApp
Slough, Berkshire
MUST HAVE(S) Minimum 5 to 7 years SQL Server 2005/2008 experience... First degree in computer sciences or related subject... SSIS/SSAS... Understanding Oracle PL/SQL. Linux.
eGain Communications
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Senior Database Administrator - REQUIRED Minimum 5 to 7 years SQL Server 2005/2008 experience... First degree in computer sciences or related subject... SSIS/SSAS... Understanding Oracle PL/SQL...
Search Consultancy
Posted: 21 May 2013
UK (Slough)
The DBA will be able to write, debug and maintain TSQL stored procedures and SQL reports and having an understanding of scripting language and good understanding of sql/...
eGain
Salary: up to £55,000 + Excellent Benefits (inc: Bonus, Stock Options, Pension and BUPA
Posted: 22 May 2013