Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 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 over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 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.

LinkMicrosoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank557
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Up+2
Matching permanent IT job ads124691622329214
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK15.84 %16.05 %14.46 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category58.96 %60.36 %58.15 %
Salaries quoted109381446025158
Average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,375£33,500£34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.610 %-1.470 %
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
211472687550243
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK26.86 %26.59 %24.86 %
Salaries quoted184312340342050
Average salary£40,000£37,500£39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-3.840 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000

SQL Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

SQL Server Demand Trend

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

SQL Server Salary Histogram

SQL Server
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. 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
EnglandDown-111887£37,500+7.14 %
LondonDown-24323£45,000-
South EastUp+32498£37,500-
City of LondonNo change01436£47,500-5.00 %
North WestNo change01172£30,000-
South WestDown-11007£32,000-3.03 %
East of EnglandDown-1975£35,000-
West MidlandsNo change0698£35,000+7.69 %
YorkshireDown-1684£32,500-
ManchesterNo change0654£30,000+1.69 %
SurreyUp+3629£40,000-
BerkshireDown-1559£37,500-
East MidlandsDown-1427£33,000+3.93 %
HampshireUp+7376£32,500-7.14 %
West YorkshireDown-2352£32,500-
ScotlandUp+4322£35,000+7.69 %
BuckinghamshireNo change0316£35,000-
HertfordshireUp+1315£37,500-6.25 %
CheshireUp+1286£32,500+8.33 %
OxfordshireUp+1280£40,000+14.28 %
CambridgeshireDown-2268£35,000-
WiltshireUp+3261£30,500-3.17 %
BristolDown-2253£31,500-7.35 %
BirminghamUp+1242£32,500-
LeedsDown-2225£32,500+1.56 %
NottinghamshireUp+2205£35,000+7.69 %
WalesUp+2204£30,000-
CambridgeDown-2180£35,000-
NottinghamUp+2179£34,000-
South WalesUp+2170£32,000+7.25 %

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

114451 (60.44 %).NET
211782 (49.28 %)C#
39910 (41.45 %)SQL
49505 (39.75 %)ASP.NET
56954 (29.08 %)SQL Server 2005
66146 (25.70 %)Microsoft
75135 (21.48 %)Windows
84878 (20.40 %)XML
94592 (19.21 %)JavaScript
104267 (17.85 %)Oracle
114136 (17.30 %)Finance
124008 (16.76 %)VB.NET
133926 (16.42 %)HTML
143438 (14.38 %)CSS
153114 (13.02 %)T-SQL
163092 (12.93 %)Web Services
172954 (12.35 %)MS Excel
182900 (12.13 %)AJAX
192879 (12.04 %)SQL Server 2000
202807 (11.74 %)SQL Server 2008
212770 (11.59 %)Degree
222562 (10.72 %)OO
232422 (10.13 %)VB
242331 (9.749 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
252298 (9.611 %)SQL Server Integration Services
262207 (9.230 %)Java
272138 (8.942 %)Visual Studio
282011 (8.411 %)SharePoint
291905 (7.967 %).NET Framework
301845 (7.716 %)ASP

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114451 (60.44 %).NET
29505 (39.75 %)ASP.NET
34878 (20.40 %)XML
43926 (16.42 %)HTML
53438 (14.38 %)CSS
63092 (12.93 %)Web Services
72900 (12.13 %)AJAX
81905 (7.967 %).NET Framework
91845 (7.716 %)ASP
101688 (7.060 %)WCF
111302 (5.445 %)WinForms
121253 (5.240 %)WPF
131247 (5.215 %)XHTML
141172 (4.902 %)XSLT
15801 (3.350 %)MVC
16705 (2.949 %)J2EE
17642 (2.685 %)Silverlight
18622 (2.601 %)jQuery
19556 (2.325 %)NHibernate
20532 (2.225 %)Spring
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12011 (8.411 %)SharePoint
21817 (7.599 %)IIS
3809 (3.384 %)SharePoint Server 2007
4795 (3.325 %)MS Exchange
5621 (2.597 %)CMS
6530 (2.217 %)BizTalk Server
7510 (2.133 %)Apache
8403 (1.685 %)Tomcat
9368 (1.539 %)Exchange Server 2003
10264 (1.104 %)Exchange Server 2007
11207 (0.866 %)WebLogic
12170 (0.711 %)ColdFusion
13121 (0.506 %)EPiServer
14119 (0.498 %)WebSphere MQ
15118 (0.494 %)SAS
16107 (0.448 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1794 (0.393 %)Lotus Notes
1886 (0.360 %)MQSeries
1972 (0.301 %)Rendezvous
2067 (0.280 %)Oracle HTTP Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12954 (12.35 %)MS Excel
2655 (2.739 %)MS Office
3328 (1.372 %)MS Visio
4256 (1.071 %)Photoshop
5147 (0.615 %)InfoPath
666 (0.276 %)Fireworks
748 (0.201 %)SPSS
842 (0.176 %)MS Project
941 (0.171 %)MS PowerPoint
1040 (0.167 %)Spreadsheet
1132 (0.134 %)Adobe Illustrator
1222 (0.092 %)MATLAB
1318 (0.075 %)CA Clarity
1410 (0.042 %)AutoCAD
158 (0.033 %)FastStats
166 (0.025 %)FrameMaker
166 (0.025 %)Paint Shop Pro
175 (0.021 %)QuarkXPress
175 (0.021 %)Acrobat
184 (0.017 %)Pro/ENGINEER
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1257 (1.075 %)Dynamics CRM
2166 (0.694 %)Microsoft CRM
397 (0.406 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
483 (0.347 %)Navision
574 (0.309 %)Dynamics AX
652 (0.217 %)Dynamics NAV
736 (0.151 %)SalesLogix
834 (0.142 %)Dynamics GP
931 (0.130 %)Endur
1028 (0.117 %)Axapta
1125 (0.105 %)Google Analytics
1125 (0.105 %)Oracle EBS
1125 (0.105 %)Oracle Financials
1224 (0.100 %)Cognos Planning
1317 (0.071 %)Pivotal CRM
1317 (0.071 %)Summit
1416 (0.067 %)Oracle 11i
1416 (0.067 %)Hyperion Planning
1515 (0.063 %)Oracle Applications
1515 (0.063 %)Great Plains
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1969 (4.053 %)Internet
2544 (2.275 %)Intranet
3529 (2.212 %)TCP/IP
4425 (1.777 %)SAN
5382 (1.598 %)Firewall
6323 (1.351 %)LAN
7320 (1.338 %)WAN
8299 (1.251 %)DNS
9277 (1.159 %)HTTP
10165 (0.690 %)VPN
11157 (0.657 %)DHCP
12143 (0.598 %)Extranet
13138 (0.577 %)VoIP
1484 (0.351 %)FTP
1573 (0.305 %)NAS
1663 (0.263 %)Broadband
1759 (0.247 %)SMTP
1858 (0.243 %)Wireless
1955 (0.230 %)SSL
2047 (0.197 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16954 (29.08 %)SQL Server 2005
22879 (12.04 %)SQL Server 2000
32807 (11.74 %)SQL Server 2008
42331 (9.749 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
52298 (9.611 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61775 (7.424 %)Datawarehouse
71420 (5.939 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
81074 (4.492 %)MySQL
9947 (3.961 %)ETL
10829 (3.467 %)RDBMS
11825 (3.450 %)Crystal Reports
12715 (2.990 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
13713 (2.982 %)BusinessObjects
14687 (2.873 %)DTS
15511 (2.137 %)Oracle 10g
16492 (2.058 %)OLAP
17411 (1.719 %)Oracle 8/8i
18346 (1.447 %)MS Access
19329 (1.376 %)Oracle Reports
20299 (1.251 %)DB2
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12138 (8.942 %)Visual Studio
2671 (2.806 %)NUnit
3470 (1.966 %)Subversion
4410 (1.715 %)Team Foundation Server
5285 (1.192 %)VSS/SourceSafe
6121 (0.506 %)Oracle Forms
7115 (0.481 %)Dreamweaver
899 (0.414 %)Eclipse
986 (0.360 %)Ant
1082 (0.343 %)JUnit
1170 (0.293 %)QuickTest Pro
1262 (0.259 %)PowerBuilder
1262 (0.259 %)Maven
1355 (0.230 %)ERwin
1453 (0.222 %)LoadRunner
1551 (0.213 %)Visual Studio Team System
1650 (0.209 %)InstallShield
1748 (0.201 %)ClearCase
1748 (0.201 %)ReSharper
1839 (0.163 %)WinRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14136 (17.30 %)Finance
21389 (5.809 %)Banking
31127 (4.714 %)Pensions
41058 (4.425 %)Insurance
5870 (3.639 %)Health
6815 (3.409 %)Marketing
7771 (3.225 %)Retail
8769 (3.216 %)Front Office
9665 (2.781 %)Investment Banking
10501 (2.095 %)Education
11368 (1.539 %)Back Office
12329 (1.376 %)Telecoms
13231 (0.966 %)Financial Institution
14218 (0.912 %)Government
15204 (0.853 %)Publishing
16181 (0.757 %)Games
17147 (0.615 %)Advertising
18127 (0.531 %)Music
19125 (0.523 %)Legal
20117 (0.489 %)Construction
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
114031 (58.68 %)Developer
25594 (23.40 %).NET Developer
33727 (15.59 %)C# Developer
42820 (11.79 %)Analyst
52236 (9.352 %)Web Developer
62166 (9.059 %)ASP.NET Developer
71955 (8.176 %)Senior Developer
81802 (7.537 %)DBA
91579 (6.604 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
101478 (6.182 %)SQL Developer
111297 (5.425 %)SQL DBA
121190 (4.977 %)Software Developer
131146 (4.793 %)Consultant
14979 (4.095 %)VB.NET Developer
15910 (3.806 %)Programmer
16909 (3.802 %)Administrator
17864 (3.614 %)Senior .NET Developer
18802 (3.354 %)Support Analyst
19784 (3.279 %).NET Web Developer
20773 (3.233 %)SQL Server Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1873 (3.651 %)Computer Science
2646 (2.702 %)Replication
3594 (2.484 %)N-Tier
4572 (2.392 %)Client/Server
5502 (2.100 %)Clustering
6472 (1.974 %)Derivative
7341 (1.426 %)Mathematics
8307 (1.284 %)Multithreading
9301 (1.259 %)Fixed Income
10232 (0.970 %)Equities
11230 (0.962 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
12229 (0.958 %)Management Information System
13213 (0.891 %)W3C
14157 (0.657 %)Social Network
15150 (0.627 %)NHS
15150 (0.627 %)Open Source
16148 (0.619 %)Tandem
17143 (0.598 %)Statistics
18133 (0.556 %)Blackberry
19109 (0.456 %)Credit Risk
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15135 (21.48 %)Windows
21586 (6.633 %)Windows Server 2003
31370 (5.730 %)UNIX
41278 (5.345 %)Linux
5633 (2.647 %)Windows Server 2008
6517 (2.162 %)Windows XP
7411 (1.719 %)Solaris
8315 (1.317 %)Windows 2000 Server
9287 (1.200 %)Windows 2000
10236 (0.987 %)Windows Vista
11162 (0.678 %)Red Hat Linux
12115 (0.481 %)HPUX
13105 (0.439 %)AIX
1474 (0.309 %)Windows NT
1552 (0.217 %)Windows Mobile
1641 (0.171 %)Ubuntu
1739 (0.163 %)Debian
1833 (0.138 %)Windows 7
1928 (0.117 %)SUSE
2025 (0.105 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12562 (10.72 %)OO
21835 (7.675 %)Business Intelligence
31557 (6.512 %)Web Development
41434 (5.997 %)Agile Software Development
51411 (5.901 %)E-Commerce
6940 (3.931 %)CRM
7913 (3.818 %)Project Management
8819 (3.425 %)Scrum
9791 (3.308 %)TDD
10768 (3.212 %)UML
11667 (2.790 %)Unit Testing
12627 (2.622 %)Migration
13597 (2.497 %)ITIL
14520 (2.175 %)OOP
15499 (2.087 %)SOA
16477 (1.995 %)Workflow
17454 (1.899 %)Data Modelling
18429 (1.794 %)OOD
19406 (1.698 %)Content Management
20377 (1.577 %)Business Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
111782 (49.28 %)C#
29910 (41.45 %)SQL
34592 (19.21 %)JavaScript
44008 (16.76 %)VB.NET
53114 (13.02 %)T-SQL
62422 (10.13 %)VB
72207 (9.230 %)Java
81684 (7.043 %)C++
9984 (4.115 %)VB6
10933 (3.902 %)C
11741 (3.099 %)PHP
12630 (2.635 %)VBA
13597 (2.497 %)PL/SQL
14555 (2.321 %)VBScript
15390 (1.631 %)Perl
16211 (0.882 %)Python
17202 (0.845 %)Shell Script
18165 (0.690 %)Delphi
19116 (0.485 %)ActionScript
20109 (0.456 %)VC++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12770 (11.59 %)Degree
21576 (6.591 %)Microsoft Certification
3666 (2.785 %)MCTS
4663 (2.773 %)MCP
5584 (2.442 %)MCSD
6498 (2.083 %)MCAD
7463 (1.936 %)MCSE
8330 (1.380 %)Security Cleared
9144 (0.602 %)MCSA
10136 (0.569 %)MCDBA
11122 (0.510 %)SC Cleared
12120 (0.502 %)MCITP
13118 (0.494 %)ISEB
14113 (0.473 %)Cisco Certification
15103 (0.431 %)CCNA
1659 (0.247 %)MCPD
1746 (0.192 %)ITIL Certification
1844 (0.184 %)HND
1940 (0.167 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2039 (0.163 %)PhD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1462 (1.932 %)QA
2196 (0.820 %)SLA
358 (0.243 %)WAI
426 (0.109 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
519 (0.079 %)ISO27001
618 (0.075 %)ISO9001
713 (0.054 %)HL7
810 (0.042 %)Basel II
98 (0.033 %)COBIT
107 (0.029 %)GAAP
116 (0.025 %)PCI DSS
125 (0.021 %)DICOM
134 (0.017 %)TickIT
142 (0.008 %)GxP
142 (0.008 %)GAMP
142 (0.008 %)ISO/IEC 20000
142 (0.008 %)WCAG
151 (0.004 %)MiFID
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11080 (4.517 %)Active Directory
2275 (1.150 %)VMware Infrastructure
3139 (0.581 %)MSMQ
4125 (0.523 %)Oracle RAC
4125 (0.523 %)VMware ESX
5122 (0.510 %)Oracle RMAN
691 (0.381 %)Backup Exec
790 (0.376 %)ISA Server
867 (0.280 %)Terminal Services
956 (0.234 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1049 (0.205 %)MetaFrame
1049 (0.205 %)XenApp
1147 (0.197 %)Hyper-V
1147 (0.197 %)Postfix
1235 (0.146 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1328 (0.117 %)NetBackup
1416 (0.067 %)Xen
1513 (0.054 %)Sendmail
1612 (0.050 %)NFS
1612 (0.050 %)AquaLogic
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1103 (0.431 %)Data Guard
254 (0.226 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
347 (0.197 %)MSI
442 (0.176 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
541 (0.171 %)SCOM
635 (0.146 %)SCCM
734 (0.142 %)Nagios
833 (0.138 %)Norton AntiVirus
932 (0.134 %)Tivoli
1029 (0.121 %)WSUS
1123 (0.096 %)AutoSys
1222 (0.092 %)OpenView
1319 (0.079 %)CONTROL-M
1418 (0.075 %)MOM
1511 (0.046 %)Zenoss
1511 (0.046 %)OVSD
1610 (0.042 %)EMC NetWorker
179 (0.038 %)HP Quality Center
188 (0.033 %)BMC PATROL
196 (0.025 %)ARCserve
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16146 (25.70 %)Microsoft
24267 (17.85 %)Oracle
3812 (3.396 %)Sybase
4713 (2.982 %)Business Objects
5601 (2.514 %)VMware
6477 (1.995 %)Citrix
7466 (1.949 %)Cognos
8403 (1.685 %)Cisco
9303 (1.267 %)HP
10291 (1.217 %)JBoss
11247 (1.033 %)IBM
12236 (0.987 %)Adobe
13216 (0.903 %)SAP
14181 (0.757 %)Informatica
15159 (0.665 %)Red Hat
16153 (0.640 %)Sun
17141 (0.590 %)TIBCO
18124 (0.519 %)ProClarity
19104 (0.435 %)Sage
2097 (0.406 %)Lotus