The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 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 (MS SQL)
Rank 10 6 4
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 121 130 170
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 17.64% 23.55% 26.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 53.54% 72.63% 68.00%
Number of salaries quoted 120 121 154
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
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
East of England

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

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

Suffolk SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server 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 -4 73 £37,500 -
Haverhill +4 9 £37,000 +57.44%
Lowestoft - 9 £32,500 -
Stowmarket +1 5 £32,500 +8.33%
Felixstowe -1 2 £40,000 -5.88%
Bury St Edmunds -17 2 £30,000 -14.28%
Woodbridge - 2 £37,500 -
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 172 (54.60%) SQL
2 170 (53.97%) .NET
3 141 (44.76%) C#
4 126 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 125 (39.68%) ASP.NET
6 108 (34.29%) SQL Server 2008
7 98 (31.11%) Windows
8 93 (29.52%) T-SQL
9 88 (27.94%) JavaScript
10 86 (27.30%) HTML
10 86 (27.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 85 (26.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 75 (23.81%) SQL Server 2005
13 70 (22.22%) CSS
14 61 (19.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 50 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
15 50 (15.87%) jQuery
16 48 (15.24%) VB.NET
17 47 (14.92%) XML
18 46 (14.60%) MS Excel
19 42 (13.33%) Visual Studio
20 41 (13.02%) Web Services
20 41 (13.02%) Ajax
21 39 (12.38%) .NET Framework
21 39 (12.38%) Active Directory
21 39 (12.38%) Windows Server 2008
22 37 (11.75%) Linux
23 35 (11.11%) WCF
23 35 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
24 34 (10.79%) Finance

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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
1 170 (53.97%) .NET
2 125 (39.68%) ASP.NET
3 86 (27.30%) HTML
4 70 (22.22%) CSS
5 50 (15.87%) jQuery
6 47 (14.92%) XML
7 41 (13.02%) Ajax
7 41 (13.02%) Web Services
8 39 (12.38%) .NET Framework
9 35 (11.11%) WCF
10 24 (7.619%) XSLT
11 19 (6.032%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (3.810%) J2EE
13 10 (3.175%) SOAP
13 10 (3.175%) Hibernate
13 10 (3.175%) Silverlight
13 10 (3.175%) LINQ
14 9 (2.857%) ASP.NET 2.0
15 8 (2.540%) Grails
15 8 (2.540%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 29 (9.206%) Windows Azure
2 28 (8.889%) SharePoint
3 15 (4.762%) BizTalk Server
4 14 (4.444%) MS Exchange
5 12 (3.810%) IIS
6 10 (3.175%) Amazon AWS
6 10 (3.175%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (2.222%) Apache
8 4 (1.270%) Drupal
9 2 (0.635%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.317%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.317%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.317%) MSMQ
10 1 (0.317%) Site Server
10 1 (0.317%) CMS
Applications
1 46 (14.60%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.952%) Fireworks
2 3 (0.952%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.635%) MS Project
3 2 (0.635%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.222%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.952%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.952%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 2 (0.635%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.397%) Internet
2 15 (4.762%) VoIP
3 10 (3.175%) DNS
4 9 (2.857%) Firewall
5 7 (2.222%) TCP/IP
5 7 (2.222%) VPN
6 6 (1.905%) SAN
6 6 (1.905%) DHCP
7 4 (1.270%) LAN
7 4 (1.270%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (34.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 86 (27.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 85 (26.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 75 (23.81%) SQL Server 2005
5 61 (19.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 29 (9.206%) Azure SQL Database
7 27 (8.571%) MySQL
8 26 (8.254%) SQL Server 2012
9 19 (6.032%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (6.032%) OLTP
10 17 (5.397%) Hadoop
10 17 (5.397%) MongoDB
11 15 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
11 15 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (3.810%) OLAP
12 12 (3.810%) NoSQL
13 10 (3.175%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (3.175%) Big Data
14 9 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
15 7 (2.222%) DB2
Development Applications
1 42 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 14 (4.444%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (0.952%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (0.635%) Xcode
4 2 (0.635%) MorphX
5 1 (0.317%) MSBuild
5 1 (0.317%) Serena SBM
5 1 (0.317%) NUnit
General
1 34 (10.79%) Finance
2 19 (6.032%) Marketing
3 16 (5.079%) Retail
4 7 (2.222%) Games
Job Titles
1 191 (60.63%) Developer
2 93 (29.52%) .NET Developer
3 68 (21.59%) DBA
4 59 (18.73%) SQL DBA
5 41 (13.02%) Web Developer
6 34 (10.79%) C# Developer
7 32 (10.16%) Software Developer
7 32 (10.16%) Administrator
8 31 (9.841%) C# .NET Developer
9 24 (7.619%) ASP.NET Developer
10 19 (6.032%) SQL Server DBA
11 18 (5.714%) SQL Developer
12 15 (4.762%) Analyst
12 15 (4.762%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (4.762%) Teradata DBA
13 14 (4.444%) .NET Web Developer
14 13 (4.127%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 13 (4.127%) VB.NET Developer
15 12 (3.810%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.810%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.254%) Mobile App
2 24 (7.619%) N-Tier
3 20 (6.349%) Replication
4 17 (5.397%) Cloud Computing
5 14 (4.444%) SaaS
6 11 (3.492%) Social Media
6 11 (3.492%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.492%) Clustering
6 11 (3.492%) Computer Science
7 7 (2.222%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.587%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.270%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.635%) RIA
11 1 (0.317%) Data Integration
11 1 (0.317%) Mathematics
11 1 (0.317%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 98 (31.11%) Windows
2 39 (12.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 37 (11.75%) Linux
4 27 (8.571%) UNIX
5 26 (8.254%) Windows Server 2003
6 21 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.222%) Windows 7
8 4 (1.270%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.952%) Windows 2000
9 3 (0.952%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.635%) CentOS
10 2 (0.635%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.635%) Android
11 1 (0.317%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.317%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 30 (9.524%) Web Development
4 25 (7.937%) OO
5 23 (7.302%) MVC
6 21 (6.667%) TDD
7 18 (5.714%) CRM
8 17 (5.397%) UML
8 17 (5.397%) SOA
9 16 (5.079%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (4.762%) E-Commerce
11 13 (4.127%) Mobile Application Development
12 12 (3.810%) ETL
12 12 (3.810%) ITIL
13 11 (3.492%) Automated Testing
13 11 (3.492%) B2B
13 11 (3.492%) B2C
14 9 (2.857%) Project Management
14 9 (2.857%) Validation
14 9 (2.857%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 172 (54.60%) SQL
2 141 (44.76%) C#
3 93 (29.52%) T-SQL
4 88 (27.94%) JavaScript
5 48 (15.24%) VB.NET
6 21 (6.667%) Java
7 19 (6.032%) VB
8 9 (2.857%) PHP
9 8 (2.540%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.587%) VB6
11 3 (0.952%) VBScript
12 2 (0.635%) C++
12 2 (0.635%) X++
12 2 (0.635%) VBA
12 2 (0.635%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.317%) Python
13 1 (0.317%) XQuery
13 1 (0.317%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.317%) Delphi
13 1 (0.317%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (5.397%) Degree
3 9 (2.857%) MCTS
4 3 (0.952%) OCP
4 3 (0.952%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (0.635%) MCP
6 1 (0.317%) ISEB
6 1 (0.317%) MCITP
6 1 (0.317%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.175%) QA
2 1 (0.317%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (12.38%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.587%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.952%) VMware ESX
5 2 (0.635%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.317%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.317%) XenApp
6 1 (0.317%) XenServer
6 1 (0.317%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.317%) vSphere
6 1 (0.317%) VirtualBox
Vendors
1 126 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.032%) Oracle
3 15 (4.762%) Red Hat
4 12 (3.810%) VMware
5 8 (2.540%) Cognos
6 5 (1.587%) IBM
7 3 (0.952%) NETGEAR
7 3 (0.952%) Adobe
7 3 (0.952%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.635%) JBoss
8 2 (0.635%) Cisco
8 2 (0.635%) Citrix
8 2 (0.635%) HP
9 1 (0.317%) EMC
9 1 (0.317%) Intel
9 1 (0.317%) Progress
9 1 (0.317%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.317%) Juniper
9 1 (0.317%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (0.317%) Symantec
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