The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 17 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 38 39 33
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 38 25 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 5.539% 4.529% 6.646%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.81% 13.97% 17.20%
Number of salaries quoted 38 20 43
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,550 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
226 179 250
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 32.94% 32.43% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 219 163 221
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Suffolk SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Ipswich +7 36 £38,750 -3.12%
SQL Server 2008
East of England

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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.

1 108 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 75 (69.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 64 (59.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 63 (58.33%) SQL
5 62 (57.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 59 (54.63%) .NET
7 53 (49.07%) T-SQL
7 53 (49.07%) Microsoft
8 50 (46.30%) Windows
8 50 (46.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 46 (42.59%) C#
10 43 (39.81%) ASP.NET
11 31 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (24.07%) Active Directory
13 25 (23.15%) SQL Server 2012
14 24 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
15 22 (20.37%) Windows Server 2003
16 19 (17.59%) OLTP
16 19 (17.59%) Windows Azure
16 19 (17.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (17.59%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (16.67%) CSS
18 17 (15.74%) jQuery
19 16 (14.81%) HTML
20 15 (13.89%) SQL Server 2000
20 15 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
20 15 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
21 14 (12.96%) Finance
21 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
22 11 (10.19%) OLAP

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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 59 (54.63%) .NET
2 43 (39.81%) ASP.NET
3 18 (16.67%) CSS
4 17 (15.74%) jQuery
5 16 (14.81%) HTML
6 11 (10.19%) XML
7 10 (9.259%) XSLT
7 10 (9.259%) WCF
8 9 (8.333%) .NET Framework
8 9 (8.333%) ASP.NET 2.0
9 7 (6.481%) Silverlight
10 5 (4.630%) LINQ
10 5 (4.630%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (2.778%) WPF
11 3 (2.778%) Web Services
12 2 (1.852%) NHibernate
12 2 (1.852%) WSH
12 2 (1.852%) Hibernate
13 1 (0.926%) Ajax
13 1 (0.926%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 19 (17.59%) Windows Azure
2 10 (9.259%) SharePoint
3 9 (8.333%) IIS
4 7 (6.481%) SharePoint 2010
5 6 (5.556%) Apache
6 4 (3.704%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.852%) MS Exchange
7 2 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.926%) MSMQ
8 1 (0.926%) Site Server
Applications
1 8 (7.407%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.926%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.630%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.852%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.407%) Internet
2 2 (1.852%) Firewall
2 2 (1.852%) LAN
2 2 (1.852%) WAN
2 2 (1.852%) DHCP
2 2 (1.852%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.852%) VPN
2 2 (1.852%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 75 (69.44%) SQL Server 2005
3 64 (59.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 62 (57.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 50 (46.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 25 (23.15%) SQL Server 2012
7 19 (17.59%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (17.59%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (17.59%) OLTP
8 15 (13.89%) SQL Server 2000
9 11 (10.19%) OLAP
10 7 (6.481%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
11 6 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
12 5 (4.630%) Hadoop
12 5 (4.630%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.926%) DTS
Development Applications
1 9 (8.333%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (1.852%) MorphX
5 1 (0.926%) NUnit
General
1 14 (12.96%) Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (41.67%) DBA
2 43 (39.81%) SQL DBA
3 41 (37.96%) Developer
4 13 (12.04%) Administrator
4 13 (12.04%) .NET Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Software Developer
5 11 (10.19%) Teradata DBA
6 9 (8.333%) SQL Developer
7 8 (7.407%) C# Developer
8 7 (6.481%) SQL Server DBA
8 7 (6.481%) Analyst
8 7 (6.481%) Web Developer
9 6 (5.556%) Support Analyst
9 6 (5.556%) Systems Developer
9 6 (5.556%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 6 (5.556%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
9 6 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (4.630%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.630%) Applications Support Analyst
11 4 (3.704%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.259%) Replication
2 7 (6.481%) N-Tier
2 7 (6.481%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.556%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.704%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.852%) RIA
6 1 (0.926%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.926%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.926%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.926%) Clustering
6 1 (0.926%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 50 (46.30%) Windows
2 24 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (20.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (5.556%) Linux
5 3 (2.778%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.926%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (9.259%) E-Commerce
4 9 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (6.481%) ETL
5 7 (6.481%) Data Protection
6 6 (5.556%) Web Application Development
6 6 (5.556%) Analytics
6 6 (5.556%) Data Analysis
6 6 (5.556%) ITIL
6 6 (5.556%) B2B
6 6 (5.556%) B2C
7 5 (4.630%) CRM
7 5 (4.630%) MVC
8 4 (3.704%) Project Management
8 4 (3.704%) Web Development
9 3 (2.778%) Automated Testing
9 3 (2.778%) Technical Architecture
9 3 (2.778%) High Availability
9 3 (2.778%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (58.33%) SQL
2 53 (49.07%) T-SQL
3 46 (42.59%) C#
4 14 (12.96%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.407%) VB.NET
6 7 (6.481%) VB
7 6 (5.556%) Java
8 5 (4.630%) VB6
9 2 (1.852%) X++
10 1 (0.926%) Delphi
10 1 (0.926%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (7.407%) MCTS
3 4 (3.704%) Degree
System Software
1 26 (24.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.852%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.926%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.926%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 53 (49.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.556%) Oracle
3 4 (3.704%) VMware
4 1 (0.926%) Salesforce.com
Ipswich, East Anglia
The large scale n-tier applications will be maintained on a SQL Server 2008 database... The successful Senior .NET Software Developer will have experience developing in a commercial...
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Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
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DBA skills - Performance tuning - reporting - T-SQL - Stored procedures - Triggers SQL Server 2005 / 2008 - RDBMS - internal liaison and design authority Our client, a growing Business Solutions provider in...
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + good benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Solid Lead Developer with .NET 3.5 (C#), ASP.NET, CSS & jQuery needed now. You'll also possess good SQL Server 2008, SSIS, and a working knowledge of...
LEXSTRA
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
You will have at least an appreciation of the ITIL framework. Technical skills will include; Windows Server 2003/2008, Linux (RHEL 5) / Apache, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Ipswich, Suffolk
You will have at least an appreciation of the ITIL framework. Technical skills will include; Windows Server 2003/2008, Linux (RHEL 5) / Apache, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008,...
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Salary: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + benefits
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