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 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 (MS SQL)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank656
Rank change year-on-year
Down-1Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads208152139715476
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.26 %17.45 %16.21 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category57.93 %59.45 %58.09 %
Number of salaries quoted189791892113569
Average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.66 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85 %-
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
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 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
EnglandDown-119664£40,000-
LondonDown-17349£47,500-5.00 %
South EastDown-24540£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+21923£50,000-4.76 %
East of EnglandUp+11842£40,000+6.66 %
North WestNo change01794£34,000+3.03 %
SurreyNo change01293£45,000+10.42 %
YorkshireNo change01177£32,500+3.17 %
BerkshireDown-21152£40,000+6.66 %
South WestDown-21112£34,500+6.15 %
ManchesterDown-1982£34,000+4.61 %
West MidlandsDown-1978£35,000-
East MidlandsNo change0816£34,000-
West YorkshireDown-1688£32,500+3.17 %
HampshireDown-3671£40,000+14.28 %
ScotlandUp+3587£35,000-4.10 %
CambridgeshireUp+7538£40,000+14.28 %
EssexUp+1511£37,500+7.14 %
LeedsDown-3508£32,500-
CheshireDown-2429£35,000-
ReadingDown-1413£40,000+2.56 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2408£37,500+4.16 %
HertfordshireDown-5392£40,000-
CambridgeUp+7376£40,000+14.28 %
BristolDown-3332£32,500-5.79 %
OxfordshireDown-1317£37,000-7.50 %
NottinghamshireDown-1294£32,500-7.14 %
BirminghamUp+2279£35,500+9.23 %
North YorkshireUp+3262£31,000-
NottinghamDown-1252£32,500-7.14 %

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

124954 (59.57 %).NET
221991 (52.50 %)C#
319452 (46.43 %)SQL
416816 (40.14 %)ASP.NET
513791 (32.92 %)Microsoft
611557 (27.59 %)SQL Server 2008
710444 (24.93 %)Windows
89382 (22.40 %)JavaScript
98697 (20.76 %)Finance
108569 (20.46 %)SQL Server 2005
117842 (18.72 %)HTML
127629 (18.21 %)CSS
137168 (17.11 %)XML
147108 (16.97 %)MS Excel
157047 (16.82 %)Oracle
166799 (16.23 %)T-SQL
176102 (14.57 %)MVC
185957 (14.22 %)WCF
195893 (14.07 %)SQL Server Integration Services
205871 (14.01 %)VB.NET
215804 (13.86 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
225787 (13.81 %)Degree
235439 (12.98 %)Web Services
244765 (11.37 %)TDD
254616 (11.02 %)SharePoint
264563 (10.89 %)jQuery
274495 (10.73 %)Visual Studio
284415 (10.54 %)Business Intelligence
294313 (10.30 %)OO
304260 (10.17 %)Ajax

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
124954 (59.57 %).NET
216816 (40.14 %)ASP.NET
37842 (18.72 %)HTML
47629 (18.21 %)CSS
57168 (17.11 %)XML
65957 (14.22 %)WCF
75439 (12.98 %)Web Services
84563 (10.89 %)jQuery
94260 (10.17 %)Ajax
103891 (9.288 %).NET Framework
113784 (9.033 %)ASP.NET MVC
123427 (8.181 %)WPF
132714 (6.479 %)WinForms
142636 (6.293 %)LINQ
152525 (6.028 %)NHibernate
162068 (4.937 %)XSLT
171848 (4.411 %)ASP
181841 (4.395 %)Silverlight
191669 (3.984 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
201590 (3.796 %)XHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14616 (11.02 %)SharePoint
23500 (8.355 %)IIS
31728 (4.125 %)MS Exchange
41439 (3.435 %)CMS
51321 (3.153 %)SharePoint 2010
61055 (2.518 %)SharePoint Server
71053 (2.514 %)Apache
8957 (2.285 %)BizTalk Server
9697 (1.664 %)Exchange Server 2007
10683 (1.630 %)Exchange Server 2010
11668 (1.595 %)Tomcat
12555 (1.325 %)Umbraco
13531 (1.268 %)WebLogic
14472 (1.127 %)Exchange Server 2003
15320 (0.764 %)SAS
16269 (0.642 %)Sitecore CMS
17237 (0.566 %)ESB
18205 (0.489 %)MSMQ
19183 (0.437 %)ColdFusion
20173 (0.413 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
17108 (16.97 %)MS Excel
21448 (3.457 %)MS Office
3479 (1.143 %)MS Visio
4335 (0.800 %)Photoshop
5254 (0.606 %)MS Project
6167 (0.399 %)MS PowerPoint
7147 (0.351 %)InfoPath
8104 (0.248 %)Spreadsheet
972 (0.172 %)PowerPivot
1062 (0.148 %)MATLAB
1149 (0.117 %)Fireworks
1245 (0.107 %)SPSS
1341 (0.098 %)Adobe Illustrator
1440 (0.095 %)Office 365
1525 (0.060 %)Google Apps
1622 (0.053 %)DOC1
1714 (0.033 %)PrintSoft PReS
1714 (0.033 %)FastStats
1811 (0.026 %)Acrobat
197 (0.017 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1789 (1.883 %)Dynamics CRM
2212 (0.506 %)Dynamics NAV
3207 (0.494 %)Dynamics AX
4166 (0.396 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
586 (0.205 %)Summit
663 (0.150 %)Oracle EBS
758 (0.138 %)Google Analytics
847 (0.112 %)Dynamics GP
946 (0.110 %)Line 500
1041 (0.098 %)Sage 200
1139 (0.093 %)Pivotal CRM
1237 (0.088 %)Oracle Applications
1329 (0.069 %)WebTrends
1427 (0.064 %)SAP ERP
1526 (0.062 %)Oracle EBS R12
1526 (0.062 %)Oracle BPM
1526 (0.062 %)RMDS
1624 (0.057 %)Maximo
1723 (0.055 %)Movex
1723 (0.055 %)LatentZero
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11792 (4.278 %)Internet
21421 (3.392 %)TCP/IP
31280 (3.056 %)SAN
41115 (2.662 %)Firewall
51082 (2.583 %)DNS
6630 (1.504 %)Intranet
7612 (1.461 %)LAN
8609 (1.454 %)HTTP
9601 (1.435 %)DHCP
10590 (1.408 %)WAN
11501 (1.196 %)VPN
12271 (0.647 %)SSL
13265 (0.633 %)VoIP
14210 (0.501 %)FTP
15202 (0.482 %)NAS
16179 (0.427 %)VLAN
17150 (0.358 %)Extranet
18145 (0.346 %)SMTP
19139 (0.332 %)LDAP
20134 (0.320 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111557 (27.59 %)SQL Server 2008
28569 (20.46 %)SQL Server 2005
35893 (14.07 %)SQL Server Integration Services
45804 (13.86 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
53353 (8.004 %)Data Warehouse
63082 (7.357 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
72346 (5.600 %)MySQL
82185 (5.216 %)ETL
92052 (4.898 %)SQL Server 2000
101266 (3.022 %)RDBMS
111147 (2.738 %)OLAP
121136 (2.712 %)Crystal Reports
131035 (2.471 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
14934 (2.230 %)Oracle 8/8i
15854 (2.039 %)DTS
16665 (1.587 %)DB2
17552 (1.318 %)MS Access
18545 (1.301 %)Oracle 11g
19538 (1.284 %)Oracle 10g
20444 (1.060 %)BusinessObjects
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14495 (10.73 %)Visual Studio
22525 (6.028 %)NUnit
31871 (4.466 %)Team Foundation Server
41758 (4.197 %)Subversion
51740 (4.154 %)Rhino Mocks
6656 (1.566 %)Moq
7512 (1.222 %)VSS/SourceSafe
8480 (1.146 %)Selenium
9406 (0.969 %)Eclipse
10341 (0.814 %)JUnit
11326 (0.778 %)Maven
12252 (0.602 %)JIRA
13251 (0.599 %)Cucumber
14238 (0.568 %)TeamCity
14238 (0.568 %)Ant
15198 (0.473 %)MSTest
16194 (0.463 %)CruiseControl
17183 (0.437 %)ClearCase
18169 (0.403 %)MSBuild
19154 (0.368 %)Git (software)
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18697 (20.76 %)Finance
22180 (5.204 %)Banking
31427 (3.406 %)Retail
41118 (2.669 %)Marketing
5929 (2.218 %)Investment Banking
6927 (2.213 %)Telecoms
7866 (2.067 %)Front Office
8737 (1.759 %)Back Office
9704 (1.681 %)Games
10518 (1.237 %)Manufacturing
11517 (1.234 %)Advertising
12499 (1.191 %)Law
13450 (1.074 %)Music
14278 (0.664 %)Legal
15266 (0.635 %)Financial Institution
16263 (0.628 %)Publishing
17184 (0.439 %)French Language
18164 (0.391 %)Billing
19148 (0.353 %)Pharmaceutical
20136 (0.325 %)German Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
125026 (59.74 %)Developer
210897 (26.01 %).NET Developer
36823 (16.29 %)C# Developer
44895 (11.69 %)C# .NET Developer
54754 (11.35 %)Analyst
63772 (9.004 %)ASP.NET Developer
73165 (7.555 %)Senior Developer
83080 (7.352 %)Web Developer
92821 (6.734 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
102765 (6.600 %)DBA
112559 (6.109 %)Software Developer
122446 (5.839 %)SQL Developer
132032 (4.851 %)Consultant
141925 (4.595 %)SQL DBA
151743 (4.161 %)Administrator
161552 (3.705 %)Support Analyst
171381 (3.297 %)Applications Support
181367 (3.263 %)Architect
191308 (3.122 %)Junior
201307 (3.120 %)Senior .NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11998 (4.770 %)Computer Science
21168 (2.788 %)Clustering
31109 (2.647 %)Replication
41013 (2.418 %)N-Tier
5698 (1.666 %)Hedge funds
6688 (1.642 %)Client/Server
7661 (1.578 %)Management Information System
8660 (1.576 %)Mathematics
9531 (1.268 %)Derivative
10420 (1.003 %)Open Source
11401 (0.957 %)Blackberry
12398 (0.950 %)SaaS
13354 (0.845 %)Tandem
14323 (0.771 %)Fixed Income
14323 (0.771 %)iPhone
15307 (0.733 %)Equities
16276 (0.659 %)W3C
17269 (0.642 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
18267 (0.637 %)Inversion of Control
19261 (0.623 %)Credit Risk
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110444 (24.93 %)Windows
22809 (6.705 %)Windows Server 2008
32705 (6.457 %)Linux
42492 (5.949 %)Windows Server 2003
52081 (4.968 %)UNIX
6823 (1.965 %)Windows XP
7741 (1.769 %)Windows 7
8569 (1.358 %)Solaris
9434 (1.036 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10357 (0.852 %)Android
11280 (0.668 %)Windows Vista
12267 (0.637 %)Windows 2000
13250 (0.597 %)Windows 2000 Server
14195 (0.465 %)AIX
15185 (0.442 %)Apple iOS
16162 (0.387 %)Windows Mobile
17116 (0.277 %)Debian
1890 (0.215 %)CentOS
1972 (0.172 %)HPUX
2062 (0.148 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16102 (14.57 %)MVC
24765 (11.37 %)TDD
34415 (10.54 %)Business Intelligence
44313 (10.30 %)OO
54216 (10.06 %)Agile Software Development
63976 (9.491 %)Scrum
72773 (6.620 %)Web Development
82319 (5.536 %)E-Commerce
92175 (5.192 %)Web Application Development
101965 (4.691 %)CRM
111827 (4.361 %)Project Management
121625 (3.879 %)ITIL
131565 (3.736 %)Unit Testing
141497 (3.574 %)BDD
151340 (3.199 %)UML
161186 (2.831 %)Data Modelling
171123 (2.681 %)Migration
181061 (2.533 %)Kanban
19976 (2.330 %)Continuous Integration
20938 (2.239 %)Disaster Recovery
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
121991 (52.50 %)C#
219452 (46.43 %)SQL
39382 (22.40 %)JavaScript
46799 (16.23 %)T-SQL
55871 (14.01 %)VB.NET
64254 (10.15 %)Java
73105 (7.412 %)VB
82422 (5.782 %)C++
91488 (3.552 %)PHP
101081 (2.581 %)VBA
111002 (2.392 %)VB6
12976 (2.330 %)PL/SQL
13931 (2.222 %)C
14829 (1.979 %)Perl
15650 (1.552 %)VBScript
16628 (1.499 %)Python
17520 (1.241 %)Shell Script
18508 (1.213 %)PowerShell
19324 (0.773 %)Ruby
20288 (0.687 %)Delphi
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15787 (13.81 %)Degree
24089 (9.761 %)Microsoft Certification
32392 (5.710 %)MCP
42300 (5.490 %)MCTS
52081 (4.968 %)MCSD
62018 (4.817 %)MCAD
7832 (1.986 %)MCSE
8693 (1.654 %)Security Cleared
9676 (1.614 %)MCITP
10427 (1.019 %)SC Cleared
11393 (0.938 %)ISEB
12357 (0.852 %)Cisco Certification
13300 (0.716 %)CCNA
14247 (0.590 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15246 (0.587 %)MCSA
16196 (0.468 %)MCDBA
17193 (0.461 %)ITIL Certification
18186 (0.444 %)ISTQB
19123 (0.294 %)HND
20122 (0.291 %)PhD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11232 (2.941 %)QA
2622 (1.485 %)SLA
3239 (0.571 %)Data Quality
4204 (0.487 %)ISO 9001
589 (0.212 %)PCI DSS
685 (0.203 %)ISO/IEC 27001
766 (0.158 %)Solvency II
864 (0.153 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
941 (0.098 %)WAI
1035 (0.084 %)Basel II
1133 (0.079 %)Basel III
1221 (0.050 %)WCAG
1317 (0.041 %)TickIT
1317 (0.041 %)GAMP
1416 (0.038 %)HL7
1514 (0.033 %)COBIT
168 (0.019 %)ISO 9000
177 (0.017 %)MiFID
185 (0.012 %)PAS 78
194 (0.010 %)BS7799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12617 (6.247 %)Active Directory
21307 (3.120 %)VMware Infrastructure
3613 (1.463 %)vSphere
4538 (1.284 %)Hyper-V
5488 (1.165 %)VMware ESX
6278 (0.664 %)XenApp
7216 (0.516 %)Oracle RAC
8200 (0.477 %)Oracle RMAN
9185 (0.442 %)Terminal Services
10155 (0.370 %)XenServer
11148 (0.353 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12146 (0.349 %)VMware ESXi
13132 (0.315 %)XenDesktop
14126 (0.301 %)ISA Server
1594 (0.224 %)MetaFrame
1677 (0.184 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1773 (0.174 %)Xen
1843 (0.103 %)Samba
1942 (0.100 %)UAG
2040 (0.095 %)VMware Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1345 (0.824 %)SCCM
2280 (0.668 %)SCOM
3235 (0.561 %)Backup Exec
4161 (0.384 %)Data Guard
5145 (0.346 %)Nagios
6141 (0.337 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
7105 (0.251 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
8102 (0.243 %)NetBackup
999 (0.236 %)WSUS
1087 (0.208 %)vCenter
1182 (0.196 %)HP Quality Center
1267 (0.160 %)WMI
1359 (0.141 %)MOM
1458 (0.138 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1553 (0.127 %)SCVMM
1553 (0.127 %)Puppet
1652 (0.124 %)Tivoli
1739 (0.093 %)OpenView
1836 (0.086 %)Foglight
1933 (0.079 %)Control-M
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
113791 (32.92 %)Microsoft
27047 (16.82 %)Oracle
32361 (5.636 %)VMware
41365 (3.258 %)Citrix
51155 (2.757 %)Business Objects
61146 (2.736 %)Cisco
7895 (2.136 %)SAP
8828 (1.977 %)Sybase
9803 (1.917 %)JBoss
10734 (1.752 %)Cognos
11667 (1.592 %)HP
12624 (1.490 %)IBM
13532 (1.270 %)Red Hat
14379 (0.905 %)Sitecore
15354 (0.845 %)Informatica
16287 (0.685 %)EMC
17285 (0.680 %)Google
18273 (0.652 %)Adobe
19263 (0.628 %)MicroStrategy
20234 (0.559 %)NetApp