Suffolk SQL Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Suffolk 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishops Castle Bishop's Stortford 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 Cardiff 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 Darwen 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 Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Nelson Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tadley Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	6
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	218	192
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.119 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	87.55 %	62.75 %
Salaries quoted	187	155
Average minimum salary	£32,309	£30,639
Average salary	£34,535	£33,203
% change on same period last year	+4.00 %
Average maximum salary	£36,761	£35,768
UK excluding London average salary	£34,797	£34,791
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Database & Business Intelligence Suffolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	249	306
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.136 %	0.128 %
Salaries quoted	207	255
Average minimum salary	£34,040	£32,222
Average salary	£36,502	£35,074
% change on same period last year	+4.07 %
Average maximum salary	£38,964	£37,926
UK excluding London average salary	£37,241	£38,310
% change on same period last year	-2.79 %
SQL Server East of England

SQL Server
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Ipswich	+5	145	£36,180	+5.99 %
Felixstowe	+4	19	£28,864	-
Bury St Edmunds	+1	12	£34,750	+12.53 %
Newmarket	-4	9	£39,813	+36.11 %
Haverhill	-	8	£34,000	-

SQL Server East of England

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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.

1 302 (80.11 %) .NET 2 220 (58.36 %) C# 3 188 (49.87 %) Microsoft 4 160 (42.44 %) ASP.NET 5 114 (30.24 %) XML 6 110 (29.18 %) SQL Server 2005 7 103 (27.32 %) VB.NET 8 100 (26.53 %) SQL 9 84 (22.28 %) .NET Framework 10 80 (21.22 %) SQL Server 2000 11 74 (19.63 %) Windows 11 74 (19.63 %) OO 12 71 (18.83 %) WebServices 13 65 (17.24 %) Microsoft Certification 14 62 (16.45 %) JavaScript

15 59 (15.65 %) VB 16 57 (15.12 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 52 (13.79 %) AJAX 17 52 (13.79 %) Visual Studio 18 51 (13.53 %) Windows Server 2003 19 45 (11.94 %) Transact-SQL 20 43 (11.41 %) HTML 20 43 (11.41 %) Oracle 21 40 (10.61 %) MS Excel 22 39 (10.34 %) BizTalk Server 22 39 (10.34 %) CSS 22 39 (10.34 %) Web Development 23 38 (10.08 %) IIS 24 36 (9.549 %) WinForms 25 34 (9.019 %) Health

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, 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 1 302 (80.11 %) .NET 2 160 (42.44 %) ASP.NET 3 114 (30.24 %) XML 4 84 (22.28 %) .NET Framework 5 71 (18.83 %) WebServices 6 52 (13.79 %) AJAX 7 43 (11.41 %) HTML 8 39 (10.34 %) CSS 9 36 (9.549 %) WinForms 10 29 (7.692 %) XHTML 11 27 (7.162 %) ASP 12 24 (6.366 %) XSLT 13 23 (6.101 %) COM+ 14 18 (4.775 %) SOAP 14 18 (4.775 %) J2EE 15 15 (3.979 %) DCOM 16 9 (2.387 %) XSD 16 9 (2.387 %) WebSphere 17 6 (1.592 %) JSP 18 5 (1.326 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 39 (10.34 %) BizTalk Server 2 38 (10.08 %) IIS 3 26 (6.897 %) SharePoint 4 13 (3.448 %) MS Exchange 5 12 (3.183 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 6 (1.592 %) Tomcat 7 5 (1.326 %) Apache 7 5 (1.326 %) MTS 8 3 (0.796 %) ColdFusion 8 3 (0.796 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (0.531 %) Site Server 9 2 (0.531 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 2 (0.531 %) WebLogic 10 1 (0.265 %) JBoss 10 1 (0.265 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 1 (0.265 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 1 (0.265 %) Resin
Applications 1 40 (10.61 %) MS Excel 2 11 (2.918 %) MS Project 3 8 (2.122 %) Photoshop 4 6 (1.592 %) MS Visio 5 5 (1.326 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.265 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 30 (7.958 %) Internet 2 23 (6.101 %) SMTP 2 23 (6.101 %) HTTP 2 23 (6.101 %) TCP/IP 2 23 (6.101 %) DNS 3 21 (5.570 %) DHCP 4 7 (1.857 %) VoIP 5 3 (0.796 %) CTI 5 3 (0.796 %) Intranet 5 3 (0.796 %) Firewall 5 3 (0.796 %) TETRA 6 2 (0.531 %) Cisco IPT 6 2 (0.531 %) Cisco PIX 6 2 (0.531 %) VPN 6 2 (0.531 %) ISDN 6 2 (0.531 %) PBX 6 2 (0.531 %) PSTN 6 2 (0.531 %) Extranet 7 1 (0.265 %) LAN 7 1 (0.265 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 110 (29.18 %) SQL Server 2005 2 80 (21.22 %) SQL Server 2000 3 57 (15.12 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 28 (7.427 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 25 (6.631 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 20 (5.305 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 15 (3.979 %) DTS 8 11 (2.918 %) Datawarehouse 9 8 (2.122 %) MySQL 10 6 (1.592 %) ETL 11 3 (0.796 %) SQLPlus 11 3 (0.796 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 3 (0.796 %) DB2 11 3 (0.796 %) OLAP 11 3 (0.796 %) Crystal Reports 11 3 (0.796 %) Oracle Reports 12 2 (0.531 %) MS Access 13 1 (0.265 %) Oracle 9i 13 1 (0.265 %) RDBMS 13 1 (0.265 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 52 (13.79 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (3.183 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 4 (1.061 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 3 (0.796 %) Flash 5 2 (0.531 %) Eclipse 6 1 (0.265 %) NUnit 6 1 (0.265 %) Subversion	General 1 34 (9.019 %) Health 2 33 (8.753 %) Pensions 3 28 (7.427 %) Finance 4 25 (6.631 %) Insurance 5 20 (5.305 %) Banking 6 17 (4.509 %) Telecoms 7 16 (4.244 %) Games 8 13 (3.448 %) Retail 9 9 (2.387 %) Pharmaceutical 10 7 (1.857 %) Back Office 10 7 (1.857 %) Aerospace 10 7 (1.857 %) Government 11 5 (1.326 %) Multimedia 12 4 (1.061 %) Legal 12 4 (1.061 %) Local Government 12 4 (1.061 %) Music 13 3 (0.796 %) Manufacturing 14 2 (0.531 %) Education 15 1 (0.265 %) Electric 15 1 (0.265 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 211 (55.97 %) Developer 2 138 (36.60 %) .NET Developer 3 58 (15.38 %) C# Developer 4 44 (11.67 %) Programmer 5 40 (10.61 %) Software Developer 6 39 (10.34 %) .NET Programmer 7 36 (9.549 %) Web Developer 8 35 (9.284 %) Analyst 9 31 (8.223 %) Architect 10 29 (7.692 %) Systems Engineer 11 28 (7.427 %) DBA 12 26 (6.897 %) Technical Architect 13 25 (6.631 %) Analyst Programmer 13 25 (6.631 %) SQL DBA 14 20 (5.305 %) Junior Developer 14 20 (5.305 %) Junior 14 20 (5.305 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 15 19 (5.040 %) .NET Web Developer 16 18 (4.775 %) Graduate 17 16 (4.244 %) VB.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 34 (9.019 %) Data Protection Act 2 19 (5.040 %) N-Tier 3 18 (4.775 %) Replication 4 7 (1.857 %) Clustering 4 7 (1.857 %) Computer Science 5 5 (1.326 %) Fat Client 5 5 (1.326 %) Thin Client 6 3 (0.796 %) Client/Server 6 3 (0.796 %) PMI 7 2 (0.531 %) IPTV 7 2 (0.531 %) Human Factors
Operating Systems 1 74 (19.63 %) Windows 2 51 (13.53 %) Windows Server 2003 3 21 (5.570 %) Windows XP 4 15 (3.979 %) Linux 5 11 (2.918 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 7 (1.857 %) UNIX 7 6 (1.592 %) Windows Vista 7 6 (1.592 %) Windows Server 2008 8 4 (1.061 %) Windows Mobile 9 1 (0.265 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 74 (19.63 %) OO 2 39 (10.34 %) Web Development 3 34 (9.019 %) Data Protection 4 27 (7.162 %) UML 5 24 (6.366 %) SOA 6 13 (3.448 %) DNA 7 12 (3.183 %) E-Commerce 7 12 (3.183 %) Change Management 8 11 (2.918 %) Project Management 9 10 (2.653 %) CRM 10 9 (2.387 %) Business Intelligence 11 8 (2.122 %) ERP 12 7 (1.857 %) Risk Management 12 7 (1.857 %) Agile Software Development 13 6 (1.592 %) Migration 13 6 (1.592 %) OOP 13 6 (1.592 %) EAI 14 5 (1.326 %) OOD 14 5 (1.326 %) E-business 14 5 (1.326 %) Data Architecture
Programming Languages 1 220 (58.36 %) C# 2 103 (27.32 %) VB.NET 3 100 (26.53 %) SQL 4 62 (16.45 %) JavaScript 5 59 (15.65 %) VB 6 45 (11.94 %) Transact-SQL 7 32 (8.488 %) VB6 7 32 (8.488 %) C++ 8 30 (7.958 %) C 8 30 (7.958 %) Java 9 9 (2.387 %) PHP 10 8 (2.122 %) Delphi 11 4 (1.061 %) DHTML 11 4 (1.061 %) PL/SQL 12 3 (0.796 %) Perl 13 1 (0.265 %) VBScript 13 1 (0.265 %) Python 13 1 (0.265 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 65 (17.24 %) Microsoft Certification 2 31 (8.223 %) MCP 2 31 (8.223 %) MCSD 3 30 (7.958 %) Degree 4 10 (2.653 %) MCAD 5 3 (0.796 %) MCTS 5 3 (0.796 %) MCPD 6 1 (0.265 %) MCITP 6 1 (0.265 %) MCSE 6 1 (0.265 %) CCNA 6 1 (0.265 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (1.592 %) QA	System Software 1 12 (3.183 %) Active Directory 2 4 (1.061 %) ISA Server 2 4 (1.061 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Vendors 1 188 (49.87 %) Microsoft 2 43 (11.41 %) Oracle 3 7 (1.857 %) Cisco 4 5 (1.326 %) Adobe 5 4 (1.061 %) IBM 6 2 (0.531 %) Dell 6 2 (0.531 %) VERITAS 6 2 (0.531 %) Red Hat 6 2 (0.531 %) Apple 6 2 (0.531 %) Symantec 6 2 (0.531 %) Sophos 6 2 (0.531 %) BT 7 1 (0.265 %) Infor 7 1 (0.265 %) Peregrine