Wakefield SQL Server Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL) skills within the Wakefield region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishops Castle Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadley Tamworth Teddington Telford Thame Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	2
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	67	61
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	85.92 %
Salaries quoted	64	37
Average minimum salary	£24,633	£27,486
Average salary	£27,242	£30,432
% change on same period last year	-10.48 %
Average maximum salary	£29,852	£33,378
UK excluding London average salary	£34,791	£34,747
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Database & Business Intelligence Wakefield
Matching permanent IT job ads	67	71
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.030 %
Salaries quoted	64	46
Average minimum salary	£23,931	£27,209
Average salary	£26,833	£29,854
% change on same period last year	-10.11 %
Average maximum salary	£29,736	£32,500
UK excluding London average salary	£37,227	£38,311
% change on same period last year	-2.82 %
SQL Server West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Demand Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

SQL Server
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL Server across the Wakefield region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

1 96 (81.36 %) .NET 2 89 (75.42 %) C# 3 55 (46.61 %) ASP.NET 4 47 (39.83 %) SQL Server 2005 5 43 (36.44 %) XML 6 41 (34.75 %) Windows 7 29 (24.58 %) VB.NET 7 29 (24.58 %) WinForms 8 25 (21.19 %) SQL Server 2000 8 25 (21.19 %) SQL 9 23 (19.49 %) ASP 9 23 (19.49 %) WCF 9 23 (19.49 %) WPF 10 20 (16.95 %) JavaScript 11 19 (16.10 %) HTML

12 18 (15.25 %) CSS 12 18 (15.25 %) MS Excel 12 18 (15.25 %) Microsoft 13 16 (13.56 %) Visual Studio 14 14 (11.86 %) Degree 15 12 (10.17 %) ADO.NET 16 11 (9.322 %) E-Commerce 17 10 (8.475 %) Content Management 17 10 (8.475 %) OO 17 10 (8.475 %) VBScript 17 10 (8.475 %) VB 18 9 (7.627 %) Windows Server 2003 19 8 (6.780 %) VB6 19 8 (6.780 %) Citrix 19 8 (6.780 %) .NET Framework

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

Application Development 1 96 (81.36 %) .NET 2 55 (46.61 %) ASP.NET 3 43 (36.44 %) XML 4 29 (24.58 %) WinForms 5 23 (19.49 %) WCF 5 23 (19.49 %) WPF 5 23 (19.49 %) ASP 6 19 (16.10 %) HTML 7 18 (15.25 %) CSS 8 12 (10.17 %) ADO.NET 9 8 (6.780 %) .NET Framework 10 7 (5.932 %) AJAX 11 6 (5.085 %) WebServices 12 5 (4.237 %) XHTML 13 2 (1.695 %) Adobe Flex 13 2 (1.695 %) COM+ 14 1 (0.847 %) ADO 14 1 (0.847 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 6 (5.085 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (5.085 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (4.237 %) IIS 3 4 (3.390 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (1.695 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.847 %) OpenEdge 5 1 (0.847 %) CMS 5 1 (0.847 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 18 (15.25 %) MS Excel 2 4 (3.390 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 4 (3.390 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (0.847 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 5 (4.237 %) LAN 1 5 (4.237 %) WAN 2 4 (3.390 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.542 %) VPN 4 1 (0.847 %) Internet 4 1 (0.847 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.847 %) Cisco PIX	Database & Business Intelligence 1 47 (39.83 %) SQL Server 2005 2 25 (21.19 %) SQL Server 2000 3 4 (3.390 %) Crystal Reports 4 3 (2.542 %) MS Access 5 2 (1.695 %) RDBMS 5 2 (1.695 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 16 (13.56 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (4.237 %) Flash	General 1 5 (4.237 %) Health 2 4 (3.390 %) Legal 3 3 (2.542 %) Marketing 4 2 (1.695 %) Pensions 4 2 (1.695 %) Retail 5 1 (0.847 %) Insurance 5 1 (0.847 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 92 (77.97 %) Developer 2 54 (45.76 %) C# Developer 3 49 (41.53 %) .NET Developer 4 26 (22.03 %) Web Developer 5 21 (17.80 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 16 (13.56 %) VB.NET Developer 6 16 (13.56 %) WinForms Developer 7 14 (11.86 %) Junior 8 12 (10.17 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 11 (9.322 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 9 11 (9.322 %) Programmer 10 10 (8.475 %) .NET Web Developer 11 9 (7.627 %) Software Developer 12 7 (5.932 %) Analyst 12 7 (5.932 %) Junior Developer 12 7 (5.932 %) C# Web Developer 13 6 (5.085 %) Junior C# Developer 13 6 (5.085 %) CSharp Software Developer 13 6 (5.085 %) Analyst Programmer 14 5 (4.237 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 7 (5.932 %) N-Tier 2 6 (5.085 %) Mainframe 3 5 (4.237 %) NPfIT 3 5 (4.237 %) NHS 4 4 (3.390 %) Client/Server 5 2 (1.695 %) E-Learning 6 1 (0.847 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 41 (34.75 %) Windows 2 9 (7.627 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (5.932 %) UNIX 4 6 (5.085 %) Windows XP 5 4 (3.390 %) Windows Vista 6 2 (1.695 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (1.695 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (9.322 %) E-Commerce 2 10 (8.475 %) OO 2 10 (8.475 %) Content Management 3 7 (5.932 %) CRM 4 4 (3.390 %) Web Development 4 4 (3.390 %) UML 4 4 (3.390 %) OOP 5 3 (2.542 %) Time Management 6 2 (1.695 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (1.695 %) RAD 6 2 (1.695 %) OOD 6 2 (1.695 %) Web Design 7 1 (0.847 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (0.847 %) Network Load Balancing 7 1 (0.847 %) Information Management 7 1 (0.847 %) Logistics 7 1 (0.847 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (0.847 %) E-business 7 1 (0.847 %) Migration 7 1 (0.847 %) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages 1 89 (75.42 %) C# 2 29 (24.58 %) VB.NET 3 25 (21.19 %) SQL 4 20 (16.95 %) JavaScript 5 10 (8.475 %) VBScript 5 10 (8.475 %) VB 6 8 (6.780 %) VB6 7 2 (1.695 %) ActionScript 7 2 (1.695 %) DHTML 8 1 (0.847 %) C 8 1 (0.847 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 14 (11.86 %) Degree 2 3 (2.542 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (1.695 %) MCP 4 1 (0.847 %) MCAD 4 1 (0.847 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.847 %) MCSA 4 1 (0.847 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (0.847 %) Network+ Certification
System Software 1 3 (2.542 %) Terminal Services 1 3 (2.542 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.695 %) ISA Server 3 1 (0.847 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (0.847 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (0.847 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.847 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 1 (0.847 %) MOM
Vendors 1 18 (15.25 %) Microsoft 2 8 (6.780 %) Citrix 3 3 (2.542 %) Symantec 3 3 (2.542 %) Oracle 4 1 (0.847 %) Cisco 4 1 (0.847 %) VMware