The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank465482
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+28
Matching permanent IT job ads585348382470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.854 %3.946 %2.587 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category16.29 %13.44 %9.271 %
Number of salaries quoted541744062173
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£29,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,000£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.35 %+5.71 %
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
359343599326642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK29.80 %29.35 %27.90 %
Number of salaries quoted317633129922952
Average salary£42,500£42,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£28,860£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£35,000
% change year-on-year
-+7.14 %

SQL Server 2008
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server 2008 Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 within the UK.

SQL Server 2008 Salary Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

SQL Server 2008 Salary Histogram

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+105573£40,000-
LondonUp+192147£47,500-
South EastUp+31346£40,000+2.56 %
City of LondonUp+28505£47,500-
East of EnglandDown-3460£40,000+2.56 %
North WestUp+13419£35,000+9.37 %
BerkshireUp+18366£44,000+18.91 %
SurreyDown-6344£45,000+12.50 %
YorkshireUp+11335£33,500+3.07 %
West MidlandsUp+30317£35,000-
South WestUp+3292£35,000+1.44 %
East MidlandsDown-2223£35,000-
West YorkshireUp+6222£35,000+7.69 %
ManchesterUp+13214£35,000+9.37 %
HampshireUp+5187£40,000+14.28 %
LeedsUp+5173£35,000+6.06 %
ScotlandUp+28158£35,000-12.50 %
CambridgeshireUp+14143£42,500+13.33 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3141£37,500-
EssexUp+20134£40,000+14.28 %
ReadingUp+26133£45,000+28.57 %
HertfordshireDown-16121£40,000-8.57 %
BirminghamUp+41106£37,500+8.69 %
CheshireUp+197£31,500+1.61 %
CambridgeUp+3386£40,000-8.57 %
Milton KeynesUp+884£37,500+7.14 %
OxfordshireUp+481£34,000-15.00 %
KentNo change079£40,000+6.66 %
WiltshireUp+1878£32,500-
GloucestershireDown-576£37,000+5.71 %

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

111557 (100.00 %)SQL Server
27593 (65.70 %).NET
36573 (56.87 %)C#
46373 (55.14 %)SQL Server 2005
55608 (48.52 %)ASP.NET
65352 (46.31 %)SQL
74467 (38.65 %)Microsoft
83076 (26.62 %)Windows
92953 (25.55 %)T-SQL
102947 (25.50 %)SQL Server Integration Services
112857 (24.72 %)WCF
122788 (24.12 %)MVC
132673 (23.13 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
142620 (22.67 %)JavaScript
152463 (21.31 %)Microsoft Certification
162430 (21.03 %)TDD
172334 (20.20 %)ASP.NET MVC
182188 (18.93 %)CSS
192173 (18.80 %)Scrum
202131 (18.44 %)Finance
212111 (18.27 %)HTML
221940 (16.79 %)MS Excel
231887 (16.33 %)Business Intelligence
241870 (16.18 %)XML
251830 (15.83 %)VB.NET
261813 (15.69 %)MCTS
271803 (15.60 %)MCP
281730 (14.97 %)MCSD
281730 (14.97 %)NUnit
291710 (14.80 %)MCAD

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
17593 (65.70 %).NET
25608 (48.52 %)ASP.NET
32857 (24.72 %)WCF
42334 (20.20 %)ASP.NET MVC
52188 (18.93 %)CSS
62111 (18.27 %)HTML
71870 (16.18 %)XML
81585 (13.71 %)NHibernate
91486 (12.86 %)Ajax
101444 (12.49 %)Web Services
111438 (12.44 %).NET Framework
121434 (12.41 %)LINQ
131394 (12.06 %)WPF
141371 (11.86 %)jQuery
151217 (10.53 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
161019 (8.817 %)Razor View Engine
171008 (8.722 %)WinForms
18857 (7.415 %)Castle Windsor
19674 (5.832 %)Silverlight
20637 (5.512 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11553 (13.44 %)SharePoint
21137 (9.838 %)IIS
3653 (5.650 %)SharePoint 2010
4464 (4.015 %)SharePoint Server
5452 (3.911 %)MS Exchange
6413 (3.574 %)CMS
7349 (3.020 %)BizTalk Server
8269 (2.328 %)Exchange Server 2010
9232 (2.007 %)Exchange Server 2007
10205 (1.774 %)Umbraco
11137 (1.185 %)Exchange Server 2003
12121 (1.047 %)Apache
13117 (1.012 %)Sitecore CMS
1484 (0.727 %)Tomcat
1573 (0.632 %)DotNetNuke
1670 (0.606 %)Kentico
1758 (0.502 %)MSMQ
1846 (0.398 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1941 (0.355 %)Immediacy CMS
2039 (0.337 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11940 (16.79 %)MS Excel
2409 (3.539 %)MS Office
3102 (0.883 %)MS Visio
458 (0.502 %)Photoshop
547 (0.407 %)InfoPath
627 (0.234 %)PowerPivot
721 (0.182 %)Google Apps
721 (0.182 %)Spreadsheet
721 (0.182 %)MS Project
819 (0.164 %)Fireworks
915 (0.130 %)Office 365
1013 (0.112 %)DOC1
1013 (0.112 %)PrintSoft PReS
1013 (0.112 %)MATLAB
1111 (0.095 %)MS PowerPoint
1210 (0.087 %)SPSS
138 (0.069 %)FastStats
145 (0.043 %)Paint Shop Pro
145 (0.043 %)Adobe Illustrator
152 (0.017 %)Acrobat
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1188 (1.627 %)Dynamics CRM
290 (0.779 %)Dynamics AX
348 (0.415 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
445 (0.389 %)Dynamics NAV
528 (0.242 %)Line 500
614 (0.121 %)Sage 200
713 (0.112 %)Exstream
812 (0.104 %)Summit
910 (0.087 %)Front Arena
108 (0.069 %)Google Analytics
108 (0.069 %)Dynamics GP
117 (0.061 %)Oracle 11i
126 (0.052 %)JDE OneWorld
126 (0.052 %)SalesLogix
135 (0.043 %)Oracle EBS R12
135 (0.043 %)Visualfiles
135 (0.043 %)Oracle EBS
135 (0.043 %)SunGard APT
135 (0.043 %)FastVal
144 (0.035 %)Agresso
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1524 (4.534 %)Internet
2335 (2.899 %)SAN
3261 (2.258 %)Firewall
4243 (2.103 %)TCP/IP
5219 (1.895 %)DNS
6213 (1.843 %)Intranet
7154 (1.333 %)HTTP
8153 (1.324 %)DHCP
9130 (1.125 %)VPN
10103 (0.891 %)LAN
1198 (0.848 %)WAN
1294 (0.813 %)Broadband
1374 (0.640 %)FTP
1463 (0.545 %)Extranet
1552 (0.450 %)NAS
1649 (0.424 %)VoIP
1739 (0.337 %)SSL
1831 (0.268 %)VLAN
1927 (0.234 %)Cisco ASA
2022 (0.190 %)Kerberos
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111557 (100.00 %)SQL Server
26373 (55.14 %)SQL Server 2005
32947 (25.50 %)SQL Server Integration Services
42673 (23.13 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
51545 (13.37 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
61461 (12.64 %)Data Warehouse
71197 (10.36 %)SQL Server 2000
81007 (8.713 %)ETL
9602 (5.209 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
10576 (4.984 %)OLAP
11502 (4.344 %)Oracle 8/8i
12476 (4.119 %)DTS
13272 (2.354 %)Crystal Reports
14260 (2.250 %)RDBMS
15231 (1.999 %)MySQL
16220 (1.904 %)Oracle 11g
17206 (1.782 %)Oracle 10g
18183 (1.583 %)OLTP
19130 (1.125 %)BusinessObjects
20124 (1.073 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11730 (14.97 %)NUnit
21696 (14.68 %)Visual Studio
31367 (11.83 %)Rhino Mocks
4736 (6.368 %)Team Foundation Server
5640 (5.538 %)Subversion
6531 (4.595 %)Moq
7293 (2.535 %)Selenium
8235 (2.033 %)VSS/SourceSafe
9228 (1.973 %)Cucumber
1095 (0.822 %)TeamCity
1188 (0.761 %)MSBuild
1271 (0.614 %)JIRA
1271 (0.614 %)CruiseControl
1352 (0.450 %)MSTest
1448 (0.415 %)ERwin
1546 (0.398 %)Visual Studio Team System
1644 (0.381 %)Git (software)
1742 (0.363 %)Maven
1841 (0.355 %)MSI
1937 (0.320 %)ReSharper
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12131 (18.44 %)Finance
2569 (4.923 %)Banking
3392 (3.392 %)Games
4349 (3.020 %)Retail
5337 (2.916 %)Music
6300 (2.596 %)Marketing
7222 (1.921 %)Investment Banking
8197 (1.705 %)Telecoms
9148 (1.281 %)Back Office
10145 (1.255 %)Law
11131 (1.134 %)Advertising
1299 (0.857 %)Manufacturing
1390 (0.779 %)Front Office
1483 (0.718 %)Legal
1576 (0.658 %)Music Industry
1672 (0.623 %)Financial Institution
1762 (0.536 %)Publishing
1841 (0.355 %)Pharmaceutical
1940 (0.346 %)Billing
2038 (0.329 %)Wholesale Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17771 (67.24 %)Developer
23959 (34.26 %).NET Developer
31959 (16.95 %)C# Developer
41477 (12.78 %)C# .NET Developer
51402 (12.13 %)DBA
61188 (10.28 %)ASP.NET Developer
71134 (9.812 %)SQL DBA
81056 (9.137 %)SQL Developer
9943 (8.160 %)Analyst
10929 (8.038 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
11863 (7.467 %)Senior Developer
12676 (5.849 %)SQL Server DBA
13653 (5.650 %)Administrator
14537 (4.647 %)Web Developer
15507 (4.387 %)Software Developer
16494 (4.274 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
17468 (4.049 %)SQL Server Developer
18420 (3.634 %)Senior .NET Developer
19400 (3.461 %)Consultant
20383 (3.314 %)Junior
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1589 (5.096 %)Clustering
2583 (5.045 %)Replication
3509 (4.404 %)Computer Science
4346 (2.994 %)Tandem
5317 (2.743 %)N-Tier
6168 (1.454 %)Client/Server
7161 (1.393 %)Social Network
8135 (1.168 %)Management Information System
9133 (1.151 %)Hedge funds
10109 (0.943 %)Blackberry
11103 (0.891 %)Mathematics
12100 (0.865 %)SaaS
1376 (0.658 %)Data Integration
1471 (0.614 %)iPhone
1568 (0.588 %)Derivative
1664 (0.554 %)Digital Media
1762 (0.536 %)Inversion of Control
1856 (0.485 %)Web 2.0
1952 (0.450 %)Cloud Computing
2049 (0.424 %)W3C
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13076 (26.62 %)Windows
21083 (9.371 %)Windows Server 2008
3814 (7.043 %)Windows Server 2003
4349 (3.020 %)Linux
5219 (1.895 %)UNIX
6199 (1.722 %)Windows XP
7194 (1.679 %)Windows 7
892 (0.796 %)Windows 2000 Server
991 (0.787 %)Android
1072 (0.623 %)Solaris
1153 (0.459 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1245 (0.389 %)Windows Vista
1342 (0.363 %)Apple iOS
1428 (0.242 %)Windows 2000
1527 (0.234 %)Windows Mobile
1620 (0.173 %)AIX
1719 (0.164 %)Ubuntu
1719 (0.164 %)Debian
1814 (0.121 %)Mac OS X
1912 (0.104 %)CentOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12788 (24.12 %)MVC
22430 (21.03 %)TDD
32173 (18.80 %)Scrum
41887 (16.33 %)Business Intelligence
51602 (13.86 %)Web Application Development
61272 (11.01 %)OO
71245 (10.77 %)BDD
81128 (9.760 %)Agile Software Development
9904 (7.822 %)Kanban
10707 (6.118 %)Web Development
11581 (5.027 %)Unit Testing
12568 (4.915 %)E-Commerce
13527 (4.560 %)CRM
14401 (3.470 %)Data Modelling
15396 (3.426 %)Project Management
16392 (3.392 %)Migration
17379 (3.279 %)ITIL
18347 (3.003 %)Scrum-ban
19338 (2.925 %)Disaster Recovery
20328 (2.838 %)Domain-Driven Design
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16573 (56.87 %)C#
25352 (46.31 %)SQL
32953 (25.55 %)T-SQL
42620 (22.67 %)JavaScript
51830 (15.83 %)VB.NET
6951 (8.229 %)VB
7426 (3.686 %)Java
8293 (2.535 %)C++
9272 (2.354 %)VB6
10238 (2.059 %)VBScript
11223 (1.930 %)VBA
12210 (1.817 %)PowerShell
13169 (1.462 %)PL/SQL
14129 (1.116 %)C
15126 (1.090 %)Perl
16125 (1.082 %)PHP
1781 (0.701 %)XAML
1868 (0.588 %)Python
1958 (0.502 %)Delphi
2053 (0.459 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12463 (21.31 %)Microsoft Certification
21813 (15.69 %)MCTS
31803 (15.60 %)MCP
41730 (14.97 %)MCSD
51710 (14.80 %)MCAD
61351 (11.69 %)Degree
7270 (2.336 %)MCITP
8188 (1.627 %)MCSE
9173 (1.497 %)Security Cleared
10123 (1.064 %)SC Cleared
11116 (1.004 %)MCDBA
1281 (0.701 %)MCSA
1367 (0.580 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1459 (0.511 %)ISEB
1459 (0.511 %)Cisco Certification
1553 (0.459 %)CCNA
1638 (0.329 %)Citrix Certification
1733 (0.286 %)MCPD
1827 (0.234 %)Oracle Certification
1926 (0.225 %)OCP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1216 (1.869 %)QA
2128 (1.108 %)SLA
371 (0.614 %)Data Quality
420 (0.173 %)ISO 9001
516 (0.138 %)GAMP
516 (0.138 %)Solvency II
615 (0.130 %)ISO/IEC 27001
77 (0.061 %)PCI DSS
86 (0.052 %)WAI
93 (0.026 %)COBIT
93 (0.026 %)Basel III
93 (0.026 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
102 (0.017 %)WCAG
111 (0.009 %)ISO 14001
111 (0.009 %)BS7799
111 (0.009 %)Dublin Core
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1672 (5.815 %)Active Directory
2335 (2.899 %)VMware Infrastructure
3182 (1.575 %)Hyper-V
4180 (1.557 %)VMware ESX
5173 (1.497 %)vSphere
684 (0.727 %)Oracle RAC
781 (0.701 %)XenApp
781 (0.701 %)Oracle RMAN
841 (0.355 %)XenDesktop
939 (0.337 %)VMware ESXi
1038 (0.329 %)XenServer
1124 (0.208 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1222 (0.190 %)Terminal Services
1222 (0.190 %)ISA Server
1321 (0.182 %)UAG
1418 (0.156 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1418 (0.156 %)Terminal Server
1515 (0.130 %)LiteSpeed
1613 (0.112 %)MetaFrame
179 (0.078 %)NFS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1136 (1.177 %)SCOM
2110 (0.952 %)SCCM
376 (0.658 %)Data Guard
463 (0.545 %)Backup Exec
545 (0.389 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
640 (0.346 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
727 (0.234 %)NetBackup
823 (0.199 %)Nagios
922 (0.190 %)WMI
1019 (0.164 %)vCenter
1117 (0.147 %)WSUS
1215 (0.130 %)SolarWinds Orion
1215 (0.130 %)MOM
1312 (0.104 %)HP SIM
1411 (0.095 %)OpenView
1411 (0.095 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
159 (0.078 %)Tivoli
159 (0.078 %)Norton AntiVirus
159 (0.078 %)Splunk
168 (0.069 %)HP Data Protector
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14467 (38.65 %)Microsoft
2823 (7.121 %)Oracle
3631 (5.460 %)VMware
4316 (2.734 %)Business Objects
5288 (2.492 %)Citrix
6199 (1.722 %)Cisco
7191 (1.653 %)SAP
8183 (1.583 %)HP
9138 (1.194 %)Cognos
10117 (1.012 %)Sitecore
11106 (0.917 %)MicroStrategy
12100 (0.865 %)IBM
1384 (0.727 %)Informatica
1483 (0.718 %)Adobe
1581 (0.701 %)EPiServer
1581 (0.701 %)Telerik
1675 (0.649 %)Sybase
1773 (0.632 %)Red Hat
1871 (0.614 %)NetApp
1965 (0.562 %)JBoss