The first table below looks at the demand for Azure SQL Database skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 3 months to 19 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Rank 779 860 868
Rank change year-on-year
+81 +8
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 89 25 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.082% 0.021% 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.265% 0.069% 0.038%
Number of salaries quoted 86 20 14
Average salary £55,000 £47,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.78% +28.37%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £47,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +28.37%
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
33630 36139 37144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 30.87% 29.99% 28.93%
Number of salaries quoted 29106 32032 32471
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

Azure SQL Database
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Azure SQL Database Jobs Demand Trend

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK.

Azure SQL Database Salary Trend

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Azure SQL Database Salary Histogram

Azure SQL Database
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +69 69 £55,000 +15.78% 9
London +88 56 £55,000 +15.78% 6
Scotland - 11 £40,000 - 1
East of England - 8 £40,000 -
Suffolk - 8 £40,000 -
Ipswich - 8 £40,000 -
Edinburgh - 6 £33,750 -
Glasgow - 5 £42,500 - 1
City of London - 5 £65,000 -
South East -3 2 £46,250 -2.63% 2
East Midlands - 2 £22,500 -
Leicester - 2 £22,500 -
Leicestershire - 2 £22,500 -
Surrey +7 1 £57,500 +43.75% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £35,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £25,000 - 1
Birmingham - 1 £25,000 - 1

Azure SQL Database
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database.

1 181 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 179 (98.90%) SQL
3 164 (90.61%) SQL Server
4 120 (66.30%) .NET
4 120 (66.30%) C#
5 113 (62.43%) Windows
6 111 (61.33%) Microsoft
6 111 (61.33%) SQL Server 2008
7 88 (48.62%) T-SQL
8 82 (45.30%) ASP.NET
9 77 (42.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 71 (39.23%) Web Services
11 66 (36.46%) JavaScript
12 62 (34.25%) CSS
13 60 (33.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 60 (33.15%) WCF
14 58 (32.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 58 (32.04%) HTML
15 56 (30.94%) Business Intelligence
16 55 (30.39%) MVC
17 45 (24.86%) ASP.NET MVC
18 44 (24.31%) TDD
19 43 (23.76%) .NET Framework
20 40 (22.10%) MS Excel
21 39 (21.55%) XHTML
22 38 (20.99%) HTML5
23 37 (20.44%) E-Commerce
24 36 (19.89%) Data Warehouse
24 36 (19.89%) SOAP
24 36 (19.89%) AppFabric

Azure SQL Database
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Azure SQL Database 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 Azure SQL Database. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 120 (66.30%) .NET
2 82 (45.30%) ASP.NET
3 71 (39.23%) Web Services
4 62 (34.25%) CSS
5 60 (33.15%) WCF
6 58 (32.04%) HTML
7 45 (24.86%) ASP.NET MVC
8 43 (23.76%) .NET Framework
9 39 (21.55%) XHTML
10 38 (20.99%) HTML5
11 36 (19.89%) SOAP
11 36 (19.89%) AppFabric
12 35 (19.34%) REST
13 33 (18.23%) Memcached
14 31 (17.13%) XML
15 28 (15.47%) JSON
16 27 (14.92%) ASP.NET MVC 2
17 25 (13.81%) WebSockets
18 24 (13.26%) CSS3
19 12 (6.630%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 181 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 29 (16.02%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.420%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (3.315%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (2.762%) CMS
5 5 (2.762%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.105%) Kentico
6 2 (1.105%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (22.10%) MS Excel
2 10 (5.525%) MS Office
3 5 (2.762%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.552%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.552%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.552%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.552%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.315%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.552%) Intranet
2 1 (0.552%) Internet
2 1 (0.552%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (90.61%) SQL Server
2 111 (61.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 77 (42.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 60 (33.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 58 (32.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 36 (19.89%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (13.26%) SQL Server 2005
8 18 (9.945%) OLTP
8 18 (9.945%) SQL Server 2012
9 15 (8.287%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (7.182%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 12 (6.630%) OLAP
12 9 (4.972%) RDBMS
13 8 (4.420%) Big Data
13 8 (4.420%) Data Mining
13 8 (4.420%) Oracle 8/8i
14 7 (3.867%) InterSystems Cache
14 7 (3.867%) Hadoop
14 7 (3.867%) MongoDB
14 7 (3.867%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (12.15%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (4.420%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.657%) MSBuild
4 1 (0.552%) NUnit
4 1 (0.552%) Subversion
General
1 35 (19.34%) Games
2 8 (4.420%) Marketing
3 6 (3.315%) Retail
4 5 (2.762%) Finance
5 3 (1.657%) Front Office
5 3 (1.657%) Back Office
6 2 (1.105%) Interactive Media
6 2 (1.105%) Law
Job Titles
1 127 (70.17%) Developer
2 54 (29.83%) .NET Developer
3 48 (26.52%) Senior Developer
4 33 (18.23%) DBA
5 31 (17.13%) Applications Developer
6 28 (15.47%) SQL DBA
7 27 (14.92%) Senior .NET Developer
8 16 (8.840%) Database Developer
9 15 (8.287%) C# Developer
9 15 (8.287%) SQL Developer
9 15 (8.287%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 15 (8.287%) C# .NET Developer
10 14 (7.735%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (5.525%) .NET Applications Developer
11 10 (5.525%) Architect
11 10 (5.525%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.972%) Senior Applications Developer
13 8 (4.420%) Senior SQL Developer
13 8 (4.420%) Applications Support Engineer
13 8 (4.420%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.13%) Cloud Computing
2 16 (8.840%) Replication
3 8 (4.420%) Mobile App
3 8 (4.420%) SaaS
4 6 (3.315%) Social Media
4 6 (3.315%) Clustering
5 4 (2.210%) PaaS
5 4 (2.210%) Computer Science
6 3 (1.657%) Derivative
6 3 (1.657%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.552%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.552%) iPhone
7 1 (0.552%) Visualisation
7 1 (0.552%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 113 (62.43%) Windows
2 16 (8.840%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (5.525%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.552%) Android
4 1 (0.552%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.552%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.94%) Business Intelligence
2 55 (30.39%) MVC
3 44 (24.31%) TDD
4 37 (20.44%) E-Commerce
5 35 (19.34%) ETL
5 35 (19.34%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (18.23%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (16.57%) Scrum
8 29 (16.02%) CRM
9 27 (14.92%) Data Modelling
10 26 (14.36%) OOP
11 25 (13.81%) Unit Testing
12 14 (7.735%) OO
13 11 (6.077%) Migration
13 11 (6.077%) Analytics
14 10 (5.525%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.525%) User Acceptance Testing
14 10 (5.525%) ITIL
14 10 (5.525%) Data Analysis
15 9 (4.972%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 179 (98.90%) SQL
2 120 (66.30%) C#
3 88 (48.62%) T-SQL
4 66 (36.46%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.50%) VB
6 13 (7.182%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.657%) C++
8 2 (1.105%) Java
8 2 (1.105%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.552%) XAML
Qualifications
1 8 (4.420%) Degree
2 5 (2.762%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.657%) MCITP
4 1 (0.552%) MCTS
4 1 (0.552%) MCSD
4 1 (0.552%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.077%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.287%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 111 (61.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.182%) Salesforce.com
3 12 (6.630%) Oracle
4 8 (4.420%) Sitecore
5 3 (1.657%) Red Gate
6 2 (1.105%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.552%) Adobe
London
The C# Developer will be working in a fast paced environment and will have excellent knowledge of the following technologies: * C# & .Net 4.0 Server-side multi-threaded *...
E-synergy Solutions
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + negotiable + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
SharePoint Consultant / SharePoint Developer / SharePoint 2010 / Workflows / Webparts / CAML / event handlers / Microsoft SQL Server / T-SQL / Analysis Services / Integration Services / Reporting Services / C# .NET / ASP.NET / Performance Point /...
Search Consultancy
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Richmond, Surrey
Core tech skills; Proven SQL Server DBA, ETL (SSIS), T-SQL (writing complex stored procedures), data analysis, data modelling, Windows 2003/2008 OS, SQL Server DBA performance tuning.
Refreshing Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + bonus + extensive benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
South West London
An experienced SQL Server DBA / Database administrator with 4-5 years of experience is needed for a flagship Microsoft partner working on SQL Server 2012... Key skills Solid...
Venturi
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
London
Essential - Solid experience as a SQL Server 2008 BI developer - Development experience in team environment with high-end projects from inception through delivery with competency the following areas:...
Real Staffing
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Real Staffing
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits package
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
OPUS
Salary: GBP55000 to GBP60000 per annum + Benefits: Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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