Staffordshire SQL Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Staffordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bishops Castle Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	5
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	226	147
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	77.13 %	61.25 %
Salaries quoted	201	134
Average minimum salary	£27,541	£31,011
Average salary	£31,014	£33,385
% change on same period last year	-7.10 %
Average maximum salary	£34,486	£35,759
UK excluding London average salary	£34,893	£34,733
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Database & Business Intelligence Staffordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	293	240
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.155 %	0.098 %
Salaries quoted	265	211
Average minimum salary	£30,630	£32,625
Average salary	£34,265	£35,316
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Average maximum salary	£37,901	£38,007
UK excluding London average salary	£37,141	£38,092
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
SQL Server West Midlands

SQL Server
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SQL Server
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Stoke-on-Trent	0	76	£28,831	-12.38 %
Burton-upon-Trent	+4	30	£27,740	-4.89 %
Stafford	-1	25	£28,620	-3.25 %
Lichfield	+6	19	£26,237	+16.60 %
Tamworth	+2	11	£30,500	-17.11 %
Cannock	+3	9	£25,778	+6.59 %
Leek	-	1	£29,500	-

SQL Server West Midlands

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

1 253 (57.76 %) .NET 2 186 (42.47 %) SQL 3 162 (36.99 %) SQL Server 2005 4 157 (35.84 %) VB.NET 5 147 (33.56 %) ASP.NET 6 146 (33.33 %) C# 7 95 (21.69 %) Health 8 90 (20.55 %) NHS 9 89 (20.32 %) SQL Server 2000 10 86 (19.63 %) VB 11 83 (18.95 %) Windows 12 80 (18.26 %) XML 12 80 (18.26 %) Business Intelligence 13 76 (17.35 %) JavaScript 14 71 (16.21 %) Transact-SQL

15 67 (15.30 %) Microsoft 16 66 (15.07 %) HTML 16 66 (15.07 %) OLAP 17 59 (13.47 %) Oracle 18 58 (13.24 %) CSS 19 55 (12.56 %) VB6 19 55 (12.56 %) .NET Framework 20 54 (12.33 %) Project Management 21 52 (11.87 %) Datawarehouse 22 50 (11.42 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 22 50 (11.42 %) Microsoft Certification 22 50 (11.42 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 23 49 (11.19 %) UNIX 24 48 (10.96 %) Java 25 43 (9.817 %) Finance

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 253 (57.76 %) .NET 2 147 (33.56 %) ASP.NET 3 80 (18.26 %) XML 4 66 (15.07 %) HTML 5 58 (13.24 %) CSS 6 55 (12.56 %) .NET Framework 7 36 (8.219 %) ASP 8 35 (7.991 %) WebServices 9 31 (7.078 %) AJAX 10 22 (5.023 %) WinForms 11 16 (3.653 %) XHTML 12 6 (1.370 %) ASP.NET 2.0 13 5 (1.142 %) Middleware 14 4 (0.913 %) XSL 15 3 (0.685 %) ADO.NET 16 2 (0.457 %) JSP 16 2 (0.457 %) SOAP 16 2 (0.457 %) DCOM 17 1 (0.228 %) XSLT 17 1 (0.228 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 21 (4.795 %) MS Exchange 2 12 (2.740 %) IIS 3 5 (1.142 %) Apache 3 5 (1.142 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 5 (1.142 %) DotNetNuke 4 4 (0.913 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (0.685 %) CMS 6 2 (0.457 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (0.457 %) SharePoint 6 2 (0.457 %) ColdFusion 6 2 (0.457 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (0.228 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 13 (2.968 %) MS Excel 2 3 (0.685 %) Photoshop 2 3 (0.685 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.457 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.228 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (0.228 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.228 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 6 (1.370 %) Oracle EBS 2 5 (1.142 %) Oracle 11i 3 2 (0.457 %) Navision 4 1 (0.228 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 14 (3.196 %) LAN 1 14 (3.196 %) WAN 2 13 (2.968 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (2.740 %) DNS 4 8 (1.826 %) Internet 5 6 (1.370 %) Network Security 6 5 (1.142 %) Intranet 7 3 (0.685 %) VPN 8 2 (0.457 %) Firewall 9 1 (0.228 %) Wireless 9 1 (0.228 %) IP Telephony 9 1 (0.228 %) VLAN 9 1 (0.228 %) VoIP 9 1 (0.228 %) WLAN 9 1 (0.228 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 162 (36.99 %) SQL Server 2005 2 89 (20.32 %) SQL Server 2000 3 66 (15.07 %) OLAP 4 52 (11.87 %) Datawarehouse 5 50 (11.42 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 50 (11.42 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 27 (6.164 %) RDBMS 7 26 (5.936 %) Crystal Reports 8 17 (3.881 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 13 (2.968 %) BusinessObjects 9 13 (2.968 %) OLTP 10 12 (2.740 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 9 (2.055 %) Oracle OLAP 11 9 (2.055 %) DB2 12 8 (1.826 %) Oracle 9i 12 8 (1.826 %) Oracle 10g 13 4 (0.913 %) Ingres 13 4 (0.913 %) SQL Server 7 14 3 (0.685 %) MS Access 15 2 (0.457 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 34 (7.763 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (0.913 %) Flash 3 3 (0.685 %) Dreamweaver 4 2 (0.457 %) NUnit 4 2 (0.457 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 95 (21.69 %) Health 2 43 (9.817 %) Finance 3 33 (7.534 %) Pensions 4 10 (2.283 %) Retail 5 6 (1.370 %) Education 5 6 (1.370 %) Back Office 6 4 (0.913 %) Banking 7 2 (0.457 %) Government 7 2 (0.457 %) Law 8 1 (0.228 %) Advertising 8 1 (0.228 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.228 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.228 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 242 (55.25 %) Developer 2 117 (26.71 %) .NET Developer 3 76 (17.35 %) C# Developer 3 76 (17.35 %) Consultant 4 57 (13.01 %) VB.NET Developer 5 54 (12.33 %) Web Developer 6 52 (11.87 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 50 (11.42 %) Analyst 8 43 (9.817 %) Software Developer 9 36 (8.219 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 10 35 (7.991 %) Applications Support 11 31 (7.078 %) Support Analyst 12 28 (6.393 %) Technical Consultant 13 23 (5.251 %) Solutions Consultant 14 21 (4.795 %) Implementation Consultant 14 21 (4.795 %) .NET Web Developer 14 21 (4.795 %) DBA 15 19 (4.338 %) Software Consultant 15 19 (4.338 %) CSharp Software Developer 16 18 (4.110 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 90 (20.55 %) NHS 2 23 (5.251 %) Informatics 3 13 (2.968 %) Client/Server 3 13 (2.968 %) N-Tier 4 12 (2.740 %) AS400 4 12 (2.740 %) Statistics 5 11 (2.511 %) Clustering 6 9 (2.055 %) Replication 7 2 (0.457 %) W3C 7 2 (0.457 %) Computer Science 7 2 (0.457 %) Social Network 8 1 (0.228 %) Blackberry 8 1 (0.228 %) Tandem 8 1 (0.228 %) Pocket PC
Operating Systems 1 83 (18.95 %) Windows 2 49 (11.19 %) UNIX 3 19 (4.338 %) Linux 4 18 (4.110 %) Windows NT 5 13 (2.968 %) Solaris 6 3 (0.685 %) Windows XP 7 2 (0.457 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2 (0.457 %) Windows 2000 8 1 (0.228 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 80 (18.26 %) Business Intelligence 2 54 (12.33 %) Project Management 3 41 (9.361 %) ITIL 4 26 (5.936 %) PRINCE2 5 23 (5.251 %) OOP 6 21 (4.795 %) Web Development 7 15 (3.425 %) OO 8 14 (3.196 %) Disaster Recovery 9 8 (1.826 %) Web Design 10 6 (1.370 %) E-Commerce 10 6 (1.370 %) Migration 11 5 (1.142 %) UML 12 4 (0.913 %) Data Analysis 13 2 (0.457 %) CRM 13 2 (0.457 %) SEO 13 2 (0.457 %) Validation 14 1 (0.228 %) Workflow 14 1 (0.228 %) Service Management 14 1 (0.228 %) Logistics 14 1 (0.228 %) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages 1 186 (42.47 %) SQL 2 157 (35.84 %) VB.NET 3 146 (33.33 %) C# 4 86 (19.63 %) VB 5 76 (17.35 %) JavaScript 6 71 (16.21 %) Transact-SQL 7 55 (12.56 %) VB6 8 48 (10.96 %) Java 9 25 (5.708 %) C 10 10 (2.283 %) C++ 11 6 (1.370 %) VBA 12 5 (1.142 %) Shell Script 12 5 (1.142 %) DHTML 12 5 (1.142 %) Perl 13 4 (0.913 %) VC++ 13 4 (0.913 %) ActionScript 14 3 (0.685 %) VBScript 14 3 (0.685 %) PHP 15 2 (0.457 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 50 (11.42 %) Microsoft Certification 2 18 (4.110 %) MCSE 3 12 (2.740 %) MCP 3 12 (2.740 %) MCDST 4 10 (2.283 %) Degree 5 7 (1.598 %) ITIL Certification 6 2 (0.457 %) MCPD 6 2 (0.457 %) MCAD 6 2 (0.457 %) MCSD 6 2 (0.457 %) CCNA 6 2 (0.457 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.228 %) QA	System Software 1 16 (3.653 %) Active Directory 2 8 (1.826 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 6 (1.370 %) Unicenter 1 6 (1.370 %) AutoSys 2 1 (0.228 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 67 (15.30 %) Microsoft 2 59 (13.47 %) Oracle 3 14 (3.196 %) Remedy 4 13 (2.968 %) Business Objects 5 9 (2.055 %) Sun 6 8 (1.826 %) Citrix 7 6 (1.370 %) CA 7 6 (1.370 %) IBM 8 5 (1.142 %) Hyperion 8 5 (1.142 %) Red Hat 8 5 (1.142 %) JD Edwards 8 5 (1.142 %) PeopleSoft 9 3 (0.685 %) Adobe 10 2 (0.457 %) Cisco 11 1 (0.228 %) Sybase 11 1 (0.228 %) Macromedia 11 1 (0.228 %) Sophos