The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 18 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 6 5 5
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 16 17 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 22.22% 25.37% 32.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 76.19% 60.71% 92.31%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 23
Average salary £27,500 £27,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.85% -1.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,800 £21,000 £22,600
10% offered a salary of more than £35,900 £30,000 £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
21 28 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 29.17% 41.79% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 18 28 24
Average salary £27,500 £27,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.85% +8.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,850 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £32,000 £40,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
SQL Server
West Wales

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Swansea region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Swansea SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 33 (94.29%) .NET
2 29 (82.86%) C#
3 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET
4 18 (51.43%) SQL
5 16 (45.71%) Windows
6 15 (42.86%) HTML
6 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
7 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
8 12 (34.29%) WinForms
8 12 (34.29%) CSS
9 10 (28.57%) .NET Framework
9 10 (28.57%) OO
9 10 (28.57%) C++
9 10 (28.57%) MySQL
9 10 (28.57%) Oracle
10 9 (25.71%) MS Excel
11 8 (22.86%) VB.NET
11 8 (22.86%) WCF
11 8 (22.86%) MVC
12 7 (20.00%) Visual Studio
12 7 (20.00%) XML
13 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (14.29%) Scrum
14 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
14 5 (14.29%) IIS
14 5 (14.29%) Silverlight
14 5 (14.29%) jQuery
14 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
15 4 (11.43%) WPF
15 4 (11.43%) Requirements Analysis

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 33 (94.29%) .NET
2 26 (74.29%) ASP.NET
3 15 (42.86%) HTML
4 12 (34.29%) CSS
4 12 (34.29%) WinForms
5 10 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 8 (22.86%) WCF
7 7 (20.00%) XML
8 5 (14.29%) Silverlight
8 5 (14.29%) jQuery
9 4 (11.43%) WPF
9 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (11.43%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 3 (8.571%) NHibernate
10 3 (8.571%) LINQ
10 3 (8.571%) XSLT
10 3 (8.571%) XHTML
11 2 (5.714%) Flash
11 2 (5.714%) Web Services
11 2 (5.714%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.29%) IIS
1 5 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.571%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 9 (25.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.714%) DHCP
1 2 (5.714%) DNS
1 2 (5.714%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) MySQL
2 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (8.571%) RDBMS
4 3 (8.571%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (8.571%) GIS
5 2 (5.714%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (5.714%) MS Access
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.714%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.571%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (8.571%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (8.571%) Mercurial
3 2 (5.714%) NUnit
3 2 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.857%) CruiseControl
4 1 (2.857%) NCover
4 1 (2.857%) MSTest
4 1 (2.857%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (2.857%) Moq
General
1 4 (11.43%) Finance
2 2 (5.714%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 30 (85.71%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) .NET Developer
3 11 (31.43%) C# Developer
4 9 (25.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (17.14%) Software Developer
6 5 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Senior Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Applications Support
8 3 (8.571%) VB Developer
8 3 (8.571%) Analyst
8 3 (8.571%) VB6 Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (5.714%) SQL Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Support Analyst
9 2 (5.714%) Applications Developer
9 2 (5.714%) Systems Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.571%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.714%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.714%) Clustering
2 2 (5.714%) Open Source
3 1 (2.857%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (8.571%) Android
3 3 (8.571%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.714%) Windows XP
4 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.857%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.857%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) OO
2 8 (22.86%) MVC
3 5 (14.29%) Scrum
3 5 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (11.43%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (8.571%) Content Management
5 3 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (8.571%) ERP
5 3 (8.571%) Kanban
6 2 (5.714%) User Experience Design
6 2 (5.714%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (5.714%) Test Scripting
6 2 (5.714%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.714%) PRINCE
6 2 (5.714%) CRM
6 2 (5.714%) PRINCE2
6 2 (5.714%) Project Management
6 2 (5.714%) Migration
6 2 (5.714%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (82.86%) C#
2 18 (51.43%) SQL
3 13 (37.14%) JavaScript
4 10 (28.57%) C++
5 8 (22.86%) VB.NET
6 3 (8.571%) VB6
6 3 (8.571%) VB
7 2 (5.714%) Java
7 2 (5.714%) ActionScript
7 2 (5.714%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) ISEB
2 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.857%) MCTS
2 1 (2.857%) MCP
2 1 (2.857%) MCAD
2 1 (2.857%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.571%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (5.714%) Sage
3 2 (5.714%) VMware
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