The first 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 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
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 50 41 52
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2008 4920 6172 5195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 4.517% 5.121% 4.047%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.63% 17.08% 13.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4378 5692 4779
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
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% -

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This 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 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Salary Trend

This 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

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 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 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 -7 4701 £40,000 - 523
London -7 1731 £50,000 +5.26% 153
South East -17 1009 £40,000 - 106
City of London -6 498 £50,000 +4.16% 55
Yorkshire +5 456 £35,000 +4.47% 35
North West -4 419 £35,000 - 70
West Yorkshire +8 374 £35,000 - 24
East of England -10 367 £37,500 -6.25% 39
Leeds +6 307 £35,000 - 15
West Midlands -14 291 £37,500 +7.14% 38
Manchester -6 251 £35,000 +6.87% 30
Surrey -16 227 £40,000 -11.11% 22
South West -23 198 £36,500 +4.28% 45
East Midlands -8 190 £37,500 +7.14% 23
Buckinghamshire +18 171 £42,500 +13.33% 7
Berkshire -60 132 £40,500 -6.89% 23
Oxfordshire +3 130 £39,500 +17.91% 13
West Sussex +23 114 £37,500 -16.66% 3
Hertfordshire -1 114 £39,500 -1.25% 14
Hampshire -24 112 £35,000 -12.50% 19
Cheshire +13 107 £34,500 +2.98% 23
Milton Keynes +3 105 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Scotland -25 105 £40,000 +14.28% 24
Cambridgeshire -6 97 £35,000 -12.50% 10
Birmingham -20 93 £40,000 +6.66% 15
Cambridge -1 72 £35,000 - 7
Leicestershire -7 64 £40,600 +8.26% 6
Bristol -13 64 £37,500 - 15
Kent -17 59 £40,000 - 11
Edinburgh -7 56 £40,000 +14.28% 9

SQL Server 2008
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 10728 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6152 (57.35%) .NET
3 6145 (57.28%) SQL
4 5612 (52.31%) C#
5 5370 (50.06%) SQL Server 2005
6 4327 (40.33%) Microsoft
7 4240 (39.52%) ASP.NET
8 3437 (32.04%) T-SQL
9 3207 (29.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3085 (28.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2993 (27.90%) Windows
12 2499 (23.29%) JavaScript
13 2202 (20.53%) CSS
14 2186 (20.38%) MS Excel
15 2151 (20.05%) Finance
16 2147 (20.01%) MVC
17 1971 (18.37%) HTML
17 1971 (18.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 1963 (18.30%) WCF
19 1905 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
20 1689 (15.74%) XML
21 1599 (14.90%) Data Warehouse
22 1553 (14.48%) ASP.NET MVC
23 1548 (14.43%) Visual Studio
24 1488 (13.87%) jQuery
25 1418 (13.22%) Windows Server 2008
26 1399 (13.04%) Web Services
27 1395 (13.00%) .NET Framework
28 1385 (12.91%) SharePoint
29 1345 (12.54%) TDD

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 6152 (57.35%) .NET
2 4240 (39.52%) ASP.NET
3 2202 (20.53%) CSS
4 1971 (18.37%) HTML
5 1963 (18.30%) WCF
6 1689 (15.74%) XML
7 1553 (14.48%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1488 (13.87%) jQuery
9 1399 (13.04%) Web Services
10 1395 (13.00%) .NET Framework
11 1240 (11.56%) Ajax
12 838 (7.811%) WPF
13 814 (7.588%) LINQ
14 648 (6.040%) NHibernate
15 606 (5.649%) HTML5
16 582 (5.425%) Razor View Engine
17 551 (5.136%) WinForms
18 511 (4.763%) ASP.NET MVC 3
19 492 (4.586%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 459 (4.279%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1385 (12.91%) SharePoint
2 1126 (10.50%) IIS
3 514 (4.791%) MS Exchange
4 493 (4.595%) SharePoint 2010
5 393 (3.663%) CMS
6 392 (3.654%) Exchange Server 2010
7 317 (2.955%) SharePoint Server
8 275 (2.563%) BizTalk Server
9 245 (2.284%) Exchange Server 2007
10 222 (2.069%) Windows Azure
11 147 (1.370%) Umbraco
12 115 (1.072%) Apache
13 108 (1.007%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 97 (0.904%) Exchange Server 2003
15 95 (0.886%) Tomcat
16 74 (0.690%) Lync
17 70 (0.652%) SharePoint 2013
18 55 (0.513%) SharePoint Foundation
19 48 (0.447%) ESB
19 48 (0.447%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2186 (20.38%) MS Excel
2 473 (4.409%) MS Office
3 84 (0.783%) InfoPath
4 67 (0.625%) PowerPivot
5 44 (0.410%) Photoshop
6 33 (0.308%) MS Visio
7 32 (0.298%) Fireworks
8 31 (0.289%) MS PowerPoint
9 21 (0.196%) SPSS
10 20 (0.186%) FastStats
11 18 (0.168%) MS Project
12 17 (0.158%) Spreadsheet
13 14 (0.130%) DOC1
13 14 (0.130%) PrintSoft PReS
14 13 (0.121%) Office 365
15 7 (0.065%) S-PLUS
16 5 (0.047%) Mingle
17 4 (0.037%) ImageReady
17 4 (0.037%) Google Apps
18 2 (0.019%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 335 (3.123%) Dynamics CRM
2 88 (0.820%) Dynamics AX
3 54 (0.503%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 32 (0.298%) LatentZero
5 28 (0.261%) Google Analytics
6 25 (0.233%) Capstone
7 18 (0.168%) Bond Adapt
8 16 (0.149%) SAP R/3
9 14 (0.130%) Exstream
10 13 (0.121%) Oracle EBS
11 11 (0.103%) Dynamics NAV
12 9 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.075%) Tesseract
13 8 (0.075%) Minerva
13 8 (0.075%) Sentinel
13 8 (0.075%) Agresso
13 8 (0.075%) SAP Business One
13 8 (0.075%) Oracle EBS R12
14 7 (0.065%) Changepoint
15 6 (0.056%) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking
1 514 (4.791%) SAN
2 496 (4.623%) Internet
3 347 (3.235%) TCP/IP
4 320 (2.983%) DNS
5 263 (2.452%) Firewall
6 187 (1.743%) LAN
7 183 (1.706%) WAN
8 164 (1.529%) Intranet
9 163 (1.519%) DHCP
10 132 (1.230%) HTTP
11 104 (0.969%) VPN
12 91 (0.848%) NAS
13 76 (0.708%) iSCSI
14 69 (0.643%) VoIP
15 44 (0.410%) VLAN
16 37 (0.345%) FTP
17 34 (0.317%) Broadband
17 34 (0.317%) Network Security
18 32 (0.298%) SSL
19 30 (0.280%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10728 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5370 (50.06%) SQL Server 2005
3 3207 (29.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3085 (28.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1971 (18.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1599 (14.90%) Data Warehouse
7 1240 (11.56%) SQL Server 2012
8 991 (9.238%) SQL Server 2000
9 558 (5.201%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 499 (4.651%) OLAP
11 471 (4.390%) Oracle 8/8i
12 330 (3.076%) MySQL
13 323 (3.011%) DTS
14 248 (2.312%) OLTP
15 242 (2.256%) Oracle 11g
16 225 (2.097%) Oracle 10g
17 224 (2.088%) RDBMS
18 196 (1.827%) Crystal Reports
19 142 (1.324%) MS Access
20 111 (1.035%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1548 (14.43%) Visual Studio
2 904 (8.427%) Team Foundation Server
3 708 (6.600%) NUnit
4 460 (4.288%) Rhino Mocks
5 419 (3.906%) Subversion
6 243 (2.265%) Moq
7 185 (1.724%) Selenium
8 141 (1.314%) CruiseControl
9 134 (1.249%) MSBuild
10 118 (1.100%) TeamCity
10 118 (1.100%) Cucumber
11 105 (0.979%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 95 (0.886%) Visual Studio Team System
13 60 (0.559%) Eclipse
14 46 (0.429%) MSTest
15 43 (0.401%) Git (software)
16 41 (0.382%) JIRA
16 41 (0.382%) SpecFlow
17 34 (0.317%) Maven
18 31 (0.289%) WebDriver
General
1 2151 (20.05%) Finance
2 488 (4.549%) Banking
3 417 (3.887%) Retail
4 233 (2.172%) Marketing
5 200 (1.864%) Legal
6 192 (1.790%) Law
7 187 (1.743%) Games
8 173 (1.613%) Telecoms
9 156 (1.454%) Investment Banking
10 141 (1.314%) Advertising
11 113 (1.053%) Front Office
12 90 (0.839%) Publishing
13 81 (0.755%) Financial Institution
14 79 (0.736%) Back Office
15 64 (0.597%) Music Industry
16 61 (0.569%) Multimedia
17 55 (0.513%) Manufacturing
18 40 (0.373%) Pharmaceutical
19 32 (0.298%) Automotive
20 23 (0.214%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6598 (61.50%) Developer
2 2601 (24.24%) .NET Developer
3 1630 (15.19%) DBA
4 1398 (13.03%) C# Developer
5 1365 (12.72%) SQL DBA
6 1058 (9.862%) Analyst
7 1041 (9.704%) SQL Developer
8 1002 (9.340%) Senior Developer
9 994 (9.265%) C# .NET Developer
10 795 (7.411%) ASP.NET Developer
11 751 (7.000%) SQL Server DBA
12 734 (6.842%) Administrator
13 634 (5.910%) Software Developer
14 624 (5.817%) C# ASP.NET Developer
15 576 (5.369%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 566 (5.276%) Web Developer
17 430 (4.008%) Senior .NET Developer
18 422 (3.934%) SQL Server Developer
19 349 (3.253%) Support Analyst
20 319 (2.974%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 739 (6.889%) Replication
2 613 (5.714%) Clustering
3 466 (4.344%) Computer Science
4 308 (2.871%) Enterprise Software
5 283 (2.638%) N-Tier
6 261 (2.433%) Mobile App
7 207 (1.930%) Management Information System
8 145 (1.352%) Client/Server
9 142 (1.324%) Mathematics
10 137 (1.277%) Hedge funds
11 127 (1.184%) Blackberry
12 116 (1.081%) Digital Media
13 110 (1.025%) Social Media
14 108 (1.007%) Data Integration
15 86 (0.802%) NHS
16 85 (0.792%) SaaS
17 79 (0.736%) Inversion of Control
18 78 (0.727%) Tandem
19 62 (0.578%) Statistics
20 59 (0.550%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2993 (27.90%) Windows
2 1418 (13.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 983 (9.163%) Windows Server 2003
4 342 (3.188%) Linux
5 309 (2.880%) Windows 7
6 246 (2.293%) Windows XP
7 198 (1.846%) Windows Server 2012
8 195 (1.818%) UNIX
9 91 (0.848%) Android
10 80 (0.746%) Windows 8
11 72 (0.671%) Windows Vista
12 69 (0.643%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 57 (0.531%) Windows 2000
14 46 (0.429%) Windows 2000 Server
15 45 (0.419%) Solaris
16 43 (0.401%) Apple iOS
17 23 (0.214%) Windows Mobile
18 22 (0.205%) Ubuntu
18 22 (0.205%) Windows Phone
19 21 (0.196%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2147 (20.01%) MVC
2 1905 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
3 1345 (12.54%) TDD
4 1317 (12.28%) Agile Software Development
5 1295 (12.07%) Scrum
6 1267 (11.81%) OO
7 993 (9.256%) ETL
8 819 (7.634%) E-Commerce
9 667 (6.217%) CRM
10 580 (5.406%) Web Development
11 576 (5.369%) ITIL
12 574 (5.350%) Web Application Development
13 562 (5.239%) BDD
14 550 (5.127%) Unit Testing
15 470 (4.381%) Kanban
16 450 (4.195%) Data Modelling
17 353 (3.290%) Migration
18 347 (3.235%) OOP
19 330 (3.076%) Disaster Recovery
20 328 (3.057%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6145 (57.28%) SQL
2 5612 (52.31%) C#
3 3437 (32.04%) T-SQL
4 2499 (23.29%) JavaScript
5 1183 (11.03%) VB.NET
6 703 (6.553%) VB
7 460 (4.288%) Java
8 370 (3.449%) VBA
9 323 (3.011%) PowerShell
10 262 (2.442%) C++
11 236 (2.200%) VB6
12 156 (1.454%) PL/SQL
13 132 (1.230%) VBScript
14 118 (1.100%) C
15 110 (1.025%) PHP
16 100 (0.932%) Perl
17 95 (0.886%) XAML
18 72 (0.671%) XPath
19 58 (0.541%) Ruby
20 47 (0.438%) Python
Qualifications
1 1226 (11.43%) Degree
2 1174 (10.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 626 (5.835%) MCP
4 587 (5.472%) MCTS
5 503 (4.689%) MCSD
6 443 (4.129%) MCAD
7 293 (2.731%) MCITP
8 229 (2.135%) Security Cleared
9 214 (1.995%) MCSE
10 171 (1.594%) SC Cleared
11 115 (1.072%) MCDBA
12 80 (0.746%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 78 (0.727%) MCSA
13 78 (0.727%) ITIL Certification
14 62 (0.578%) DV Cleared
15 56 (0.522%) Cisco Certification
16 53 (0.494%) MCPD
17 49 (0.457%) ISEB
17 49 (0.457%) CCNA
18 33 (0.308%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (3.980%) QA
2 188 (1.752%) SLA
3 62 (0.578%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 49 (0.457%) PCI DSS
5 45 (0.419%) Data Quality
6 42 (0.391%) ISO 9001
7 24 (0.224%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (0.196%) Solvency II
9 10 (0.093%) WCAG
9 10 (0.093%) WAI
10 8 (0.075%) Dublin Core
11 4 (0.037%) Basel III
12 3 (0.028%) GAAP
13 2 (0.019%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.019%) HL7
14 1 (0.009%) COBIT
14 1 (0.009%) Section 508
14 1 (0.009%) BS7799
System Software
1 763 (7.112%) Active Directory
2 421 (3.924%) VMware Infrastructure
3 184 (1.715%) Hyper-V
4 172 (1.603%) vSphere
5 138 (1.286%) XenApp
6 104 (0.969%) VMware ESX
7 63 (0.587%) ISA Server
8 62 (0.578%) UAG
8 62 (0.578%) Oracle RAC
9 56 (0.522%) VMware ESXi
10 44 (0.410%) XenServer
11 42 (0.391%) XenDesktop
12 35 (0.326%) Forefront TMG
13 27 (0.252%) Oracle RMAN
14 26 (0.242%) NFS
15 25 (0.233%) Microsoft App-V
16 20 (0.186%) Terminal Services
17 19 (0.177%) Citrix Presentation Server
18 17 (0.158%) EMC RecoverPoint
19 12 (0.112%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 155 (1.445%) SCOM
2 139 (1.296%) SCCM
3 69 (0.643%) Data Guard
4 65 (0.606%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 63 (0.587%) Backup Exec
6 56 (0.522%) WSUS
7 45 (0.419%) Norton AntiVirus
8 39 (0.364%) NetBackup
9 31 (0.289%) HP SIM
10 26 (0.242%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 24 (0.224%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 22 (0.205%) SCVMM
13 18 (0.168%) MAILsweeper
13 18 (0.168%) Tivoli
14 17 (0.158%) RepliStor
15 15 (0.140%) HP Quality Center
15 15 (0.140%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
16 14 (0.130%) WMI
17 12 (0.112%) Tivoli Monitoring
17 12 (0.112%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 4327 (40.33%) Microsoft
2 796 (7.420%) Oracle
3 713 (6.646%) VMware
4 258 (2.405%) Citrix
5 254 (2.368%) HP
6 203 (1.892%) Business Objects
7 158 (1.473%) Cisco
8 123 (1.147%) Cognos
9 120 (1.119%) SAP
10 118 (1.100%) NetApp
11 111 (1.035%) IBM
12 106 (0.988%) Symantec
13 94 (0.876%) Telerik
14 87 (0.811%) EMC
15 79 (0.736%) Tableau
16 77 (0.718%) Dell
17 76 (0.708%) Facebook
18 74 (0.690%) Google
19 72 (0.671%) JBoss
20 70 (0.652%) Informatica
Cannock, Staffordshire
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced .Net Developer (C# / Winforms / SQL), looking to develop their career within an organisation who boast an impressive history and unrivalled...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
The company have recently deployed a very successful web application and due to enormous success they require a Software Developer with strong skills in C#, ASP.Net and...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Greywood Associates require a .Net Developer to join our leading IT Solutions & Support client, working out of their offices in central London. Specialists in developing solutions for their...
greywood
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 30 May 2013
Staffordshire
C# Winforms Developer - SQL, .Net, Software Developer - £40k - Great Company & Role!! C#, Winforms, SQL Server, Staffordshire - Cannock, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Stafford My client are a highly established and successful...
IT Ventures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
40,000 to £45,000 plus benefits Microsoft .NET Developer with web application experience with ASP.NET MVC and C# required for a key client based in Central...
ninesharp
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + benefits, bonus and pension
Posted: 14 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Kyna Associates
Salary: £35000 - 45000 Per Annum Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Guildford, South East
greywood
Salary: £30001 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 28 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
ComputAppoint
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25-35k
Posted: 13 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £44000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
CV Screen Ltd
Salary: £24k - 28k per year + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35k - 45k per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
Salford, Lancashire
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum Plus Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 13 June 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Austin Fraser
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
ninesharp
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + comprehensive benefits package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Connectus
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Fruition IT Resources Limited
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 18 June 2013
Walsall, West Midlands
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 11 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + discretionary bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
West London
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
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