The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 17 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 4 2 4
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 91 119 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 46.19% 56.40% 37.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 97.85% 88.15% 78.57%
Number of salaries quoted 85 115 54
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £56,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
93 135 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 47.21% 63.98% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 87 119 58
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
SQL Server
Staffordshire

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Stoke-on-Trent region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Stoke-on-Trent SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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.

1 118 (73.75%) .NET
2 89 (55.63%) SQL
3 83 (51.88%) C#
3 83 (51.88%) ASP.NET
4 81 (50.63%) VB.NET
5 59 (36.88%) JavaScript
5 59 (36.88%) CSS
6 47 (29.38%) T-SQL
7 44 (27.50%) jQuery
8 39 (24.38%) Ajax
9 38 (23.75%) E-Commerce
10 36 (22.50%) Microsoft
11 35 (21.88%) Degree
12 33 (20.63%) HTML
12 33 (20.63%) XML
13 31 (19.38%) Web Application Development
14 29 (18.13%) XHTML
15 27 (16.88%) MS Excel
16 25 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 25 (15.63%) Web Development
17 24 (15.00%) TDD
18 23 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
18 23 (14.38%) Unit Testing
19 22 (13.75%) Computer Science
20 21 (13.13%) SQL Server 2008
20 21 (13.13%) VB
21 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
22 19 (11.88%) SQL Server 2000
23 18 (11.25%) HTML5
24 17 (10.63%) Continuous Integration

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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
1 118 (73.75%) .NET
2 83 (51.88%) ASP.NET
3 59 (36.88%) CSS
4 44 (27.50%) jQuery
5 39 (24.38%) Ajax
6 33 (20.63%) XML
6 33 (20.63%) HTML
7 29 (18.13%) XHTML
8 18 (11.25%) HTML5
9 16 (10.00%) XSLT
10 15 (9.375%) CSS3
11 10 (6.250%) WCF
12 7 (4.375%) Spring.NET
12 7 (4.375%) ASP.NET MVC
12 7 (4.375%) Razor View Engine
12 7 (4.375%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 7 (4.375%) Unity DI Container
12 7 (4.375%) Castle Windsor
12 7 (4.375%) Ninject
13 3 (1.875%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.750%) IIS
1 6 (3.750%) CMS
2 1 (0.625%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (0.625%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.625%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 27 (16.88%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.125%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.250%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.875%) HTTP
1 3 (1.875%) Firewall
1 3 (1.875%) VLAN
2 2 (1.250%) SAN
2 2 (1.250%) Internet
3 1 (0.625%) MPLS
3 1 (0.625%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.625%) NAS
3 1 (0.625%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.625%) VPN
3 1 (0.625%) DNS
3 1 (0.625%) LDAP
3 1 (0.625%) LAN
3 1 (0.625%) VoIP
3 1 (0.625%) WAN
3 1 (0.625%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 21 (13.13%) SQL Server 2008
3 19 (11.88%) SQL Server 2000
4 15 (9.375%) SQL Server 2005
5 13 (8.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (8.125%) OLTP
6 6 (3.750%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.250%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.250%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 1 (0.625%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 11 (6.875%) JIRA
2 7 (4.375%) NUnit
2 7 (4.375%) MSTest
2 7 (4.375%) Rhino Mocks
2 7 (4.375%) Moq
3 4 (2.500%) Subversion
3 4 (2.500%) SilkTest
3 4 (2.500%) Selenium
4 2 (1.250%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.250%) Git (software)
4 2 (1.250%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.250%) Mercurial
4 2 (1.250%) CruiseControl
4 2 (1.250%) Ant
4 2 (1.250%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.250%) Maven
4 2 (1.250%) Hudson
4 2 (1.250%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (2.500%) Games
2 1 (0.625%) Finance
Job Titles
1 90 (56.25%) Developer
2 42 (26.25%) .NET Developer
3 29 (18.13%) Team Leader
4 27 (16.88%) Development Team Leader
5 24 (15.00%) .NET Team Leader
6 19 (11.88%) SQL Developer
7 18 (11.25%) Web Developer
7 18 (11.25%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.375%) DBA
8 15 (9.375%) SQL DBA
8 15 (9.375%) C# Developer
8 15 (9.375%) Web Team Leader
8 15 (9.375%) C# .NET Developer
9 14 (8.750%) Web Development Team Leader
9 14 (8.750%) Development Manager
10 13 (8.125%) VB.NET Developer
11 12 (7.500%) ASP.NET Developer
12 10 (6.250%) Senior Web Developer
12 10 (6.250%) Senior .NET Developer
12 10 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.75%) Computer Science
2 15 (9.375%) N-Tier
3 8 (5.000%) Replication
4 7 (4.375%) Inversion of Control
5 4 (2.500%) SaaS
5 4 (2.500%) Online Games
6 2 (1.250%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.625%) CMDB
7 1 (0.625%) Clustering
7 1 (0.625%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.625%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.250%) Windows
2 5 (3.125%) Windows 7
3 4 (2.500%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.250%) Android
5 1 (0.625%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (23.75%) E-Commerce
2 31 (19.38%) Web Application Development
3 25 (15.63%) Web Development
4 24 (15.00%) TDD
5 23 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (14.38%) Unit Testing
6 17 (10.63%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (10.00%) SOA
7 16 (10.00%) SEO
8 15 (9.375%) Configuration Management
9 14 (8.750%) MVC
10 13 (8.125%) Software Engineering
11 11 (6.875%) Scrum
12 10 (6.250%) Project Management
12 10 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (5.625%) Logistics
13 9 (5.625%) Incident Management
14 7 (4.375%) Agile Software Development
14 7 (4.375%) Kanban
14 7 (4.375%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 89 (55.63%) SQL
2 83 (51.88%) C#
3 81 (50.63%) VB.NET
4 59 (36.88%) JavaScript
5 47 (29.38%) T-SQL
6 21 (13.13%) VB
7 9 (5.625%) VB6
8 4 (2.500%) Java
9 2 (1.250%) Ruby
9 2 (1.250%) Python
Qualifications
1 35 (21.88%) Degree
2 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.375%) MCTS
3 7 (4.375%) MCP
3 7 (4.375%) MCAD
3 7 (4.375%) MCSD
4 4 (2.500%) ISEB
5 2 (1.250%) VCP5
5 2 (1.250%) MCSA
5 2 (1.250%) MCITP
5 2 (1.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.625%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.500%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.625%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.625%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 36 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.500%) VMware
3 2 (1.250%) AccuRev
3 2 (1.250%) Remedy
3 2 (1.250%) Cognos
4 1 (0.625%) Cisco
4 1 (0.625%) Lotus
4 1 (0.625%) Oracle
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