The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Bromwich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL Server over the 3 months to 18 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 for the West Bromwich region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Rank 3 5 1
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 17 10 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Bromwich 32.69% 34.48% 50.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 68.00% 50.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 11
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +15.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,306 £34,900 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £41,900 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Bromwich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
25 20 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Bromwich 48.08% 68.97% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25 20 11
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +26.98%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
SQL Server
West Midlands

SQL Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL Server across the West Bromwich region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

West Bromwich SQL Server Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server
Salary Trend

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

West Bromwich SQL Server Salary Trend

SQL Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Bromwich 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 26 (63.41%) Retail
2 19 (46.34%) SQL Server 2005
2 19 (46.34%) SQL Server 2008
2 19 (46.34%) Windows
3 17 (41.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (39.02%) .NET
4 16 (39.02%) IIS
4 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
5 15 (36.59%) Active Directory
5 15 (36.59%) NCR
5 15 (36.59%) Chip and PIN
5 15 (36.59%) PCI DSS
6 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (34.15%) VB
6 14 (34.15%) C#
7 13 (31.71%) Visual Studio
7 13 (31.71%) Clustering
7 13 (31.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 13 (31.71%) Wincor Nixdorf
7 13 (31.71%) Load Balancing
8 12 (29.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 12 (29.27%) OO
9 10 (24.39%) C++
9 10 (24.39%) VB6
10 9 (21.95%) SQL
10 9 (21.95%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (12.20%) Oracle
12 4 (9.756%) MySQL
12 4 (9.756%) Perl

SQL Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Bromwich 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 16 (39.02%) .NET
2 4 (9.756%) LAMP
3 3 (7.317%) Silverlight
4 1 (2.439%) LINQ
4 1 (2.439%) WinForms
4 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.439%) Web Services
4 1 (2.439%) XML
Application Platforms
1 16 (39.02%) IIS
2 9 (21.95%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (9.756%) nginx
3 4 (9.756%) Apache Solr
3 4 (9.756%) Apache
3 4 (9.756%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.878%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.878%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.756%) TCP/IP
1 4 (9.756%) DNS
1 4 (9.756%) SAN
1 4 (9.756%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (46.34%) SQL Server 2005
1 19 (46.34%) SQL Server 2008
2 17 (41.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (9.756%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.756%) MySQL
4 2 (4.878%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (4.878%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (4.878%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (4.878%) MS Access
4 2 (4.878%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.878%) DTS
4 2 (4.878%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Visual Studio
2 12 (29.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 26 (63.41%) Retail
2 1 (2.439%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (39.02%) Developer
2 15 (36.59%) Consultant
3 14 (34.15%) Technical Consultant
3 14 (34.15%) .NET Developer
4 13 (31.71%) C# Developer
4 13 (31.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Administrator
5 4 (9.756%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (7.317%) SQL DBA
6 3 (7.317%) DBA
6 3 (7.317%) Wintel Consultant
6 3 (7.317%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.878%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Senior Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (4.878%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Software Test Manager
8 1 (2.439%) Software Manager
8 1 (2.439%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Chip and PIN
2 13 (31.71%) Clustering
3 4 (9.756%) Replication
4 2 (4.878%) EPoS
4 2 (4.878%) NHS
4 2 (4.878%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.439%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (46.34%) Windows
2 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2003
2 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (9.756%) CentOS
3 4 (9.756%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.756%) UNIX
3 4 (9.756%) Debian
3 4 (9.756%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Load Balancing
2 12 (29.27%) OO
3 3 (7.317%) Migration
3 3 (7.317%) Data Migration
4 2 (4.878%) Network Architecture
4 2 (4.878%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (4.878%) Data Transformation
4 2 (4.878%) Data Management
4 2 (4.878%) Data Analysis
4 2 (4.878%) Data Modelling
4 2 (4.878%) ETL
4 2 (4.878%) Data Security
4 2 (4.878%) Dimensional Modelling
5 1 (2.439%) Logistics
5 1 (2.439%) Software Testing
5 1 (2.439%) Resource Management
5 1 (2.439%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.439%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) C#
1 14 (34.15%) VB
2 10 (24.39%) VB6
2 10 (24.39%) C++
3 9 (21.95%) SQL
4 4 (9.756%) Perl
4 4 (9.756%) PHP
4 4 (9.756%) Java
4 4 (9.756%) Python
5 3 (7.317%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.878%) VBA
6 2 (4.878%) VBScript
7 1 (2.439%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.439%) ISEB
1 1 (2.439%) MCTS
1 1 (2.439%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.439%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.439%) QA
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.756%) Postfix
2 4 (9.756%) Sendmail
2 4 (9.756%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 4 (9.756%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (36.59%) NCR
3 13 (31.71%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 5 (12.20%) Oracle
5 4 (9.756%) Red Hat
5 4 (9.756%) VMware