The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southend-on-Sea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 19 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 Southend-on-Sea region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank - - 18
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southend-on-Sea - - 3.226%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - 3.571%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Database & Business Intelligence
Southend-on-Sea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4 9 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southend-on-Sea 25.00% 40.91% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 28
Average salary £38,000 £24,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+58.33% -31.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £24,000 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
Essex

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea region.

Southend-on-Sea SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southend-on-Sea 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 5 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) WinForms
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Blog
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Southend-on-Sea 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) WinForms
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 5 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (60.00%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (60.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft