The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Programming Languages category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 7 8 11
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 58 64 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 16.71% 17.49% 14.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.19% 55.17% 44.34%
Number of salaries quoted 39 57 39
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,700 £30,000 £31,200
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £43,800
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
148 116 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 42.65% 31.69% 33.54%
Number of salaries quoted 103 98 66
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,100 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £43,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Aberdeen SQL Jobs Demand Trend

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Aberdeen SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Aberdeen SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing SQL 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.

1 48 (47.06%) Oracle
2 39 (38.24%) .NET
3 36 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 33 (32.35%) Windows
5 32 (31.37%) SQL Server
6 30 (29.41%) C#
7 23 (22.55%) MS Excel
8 22 (21.57%) JavaScript
8 22 (21.57%) PL/SQL
9 21 (20.59%) IIS
10 19 (18.63%) Windows Server 2008
11 18 (17.65%) PHP
12 17 (16.67%) Perl
12 17 (16.67%) Linux
12 17 (16.67%) Degree
12 17 (16.67%) VMware
13 16 (15.69%) SharePoint
13 16 (15.69%) CSS
13 16 (15.69%) DNS
14 15 (14.71%) ASP.NET
14 15 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
15 14 (13.73%) Windows Server 2003
16 13 (12.75%) SCCM
17 12 (11.76%) ERP
17 12 (11.76%) ITIL
18 11 (10.78%) Citrix
18 11 (10.78%) SLA
18 11 (10.78%) SQL Server 2008
19 10 (9.804%) WSUS
19 10 (9.804%) Web Development

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen region citing SQL 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (38.24%) .NET
2 16 (15.69%) CSS
3 15 (14.71%) ASP.NET
4 10 (9.804%) .NET Framework
4 10 (9.804%) WPF
4 10 (9.804%) HTML
5 8 (7.843%) jQuery
6 7 (6.863%) XML
6 7 (6.863%) ASP
7 6 (5.882%) WinForms
8 5 (4.902%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (3.922%) XHTML
9 4 (3.922%) CGI
10 3 (2.941%) XSLT
10 3 (2.941%) LINQ
10 3 (2.941%) WCF
11 2 (1.961%) Web Services
11 2 (1.961%) Flash
11 2 (1.961%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 2 (1.961%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 21 (20.59%) IIS
2 16 (15.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (7.843%) Site Server
4 5 (4.902%) Tomcat
5 4 (3.922%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (3.922%) Lync
5 4 (3.922%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (3.922%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (3.922%) Apache
6 3 (2.941%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.980%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.980%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 23 (22.55%) MS Excel
2 5 (4.902%) MS Office
3 3 (2.941%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.941%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.961%) Oracle SCM
2 2 (1.961%) Maximo
3 1 (0.980%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.980%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.980%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.980%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.69%) DNS
2 8 (7.843%) SAN
2 8 (7.843%) DHCP
3 5 (4.902%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.922%) Firewall
5 2 (1.961%) VoIP
5 2 (1.961%) Internet
5 2 (1.961%) Modbus
5 2 (1.961%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (0.980%) WAN
6 1 (0.980%) HTTP
6 1 (0.980%) VPN
6 1 (0.980%) CDMA
6 1 (0.980%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.980%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.37%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (9.804%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (9.804%) MS Access
4 9 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (4.902%) Oracle Discoverer
6 5 (4.902%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (3.922%) MySQL
7 4 (3.922%) Oracle 9i
7 4 (3.922%) DTS
7 4 (3.922%) GIS
8 3 (2.941%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (2.941%) EDMS
8 3 (2.941%) TOAD
8 3 (2.941%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.961%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 9 (8.824%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.961%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.961%) Selenium
2 2 (1.961%) FitNesse
2 2 (1.961%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.961%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.980%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.980%) JUnit
General
1 3 (2.941%) Finance
1 3 (2.941%) Retail
2 2 (1.961%) Advertising
2 2 (1.961%) Electronics
3 1 (0.980%) Back Office
3 1 (0.980%) Legal
3 1 (0.980%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Analyst
2 28 (27.45%) Developer
3 18 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 12 (11.76%) Administrator
4 12 (11.76%) DBA
5 9 (8.824%) Applications Support
5 9 (8.824%) Software Developer
6 8 (7.843%) Consultant
6 8 (7.843%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.843%) Technical Consultant
6 8 (7.843%) IT Consultant
7 7 (6.863%) Oracle DBA
7 7 (6.863%) SQL DBA
8 6 (5.882%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (5.882%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.882%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.902%) Systems Analyst
9 5 (4.902%) Oracle Analyst
9 5 (4.902%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (3.922%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.902%) Computer Science
2 4 (3.922%) Taxonomies
3 2 (1.961%) Replication
3 2 (1.961%) E-Learning
3 2 (1.961%) VHDL
3 2 (1.961%) Clustering
3 2 (1.961%) RIA
3 2 (1.961%) SCADA
4 1 (0.980%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.980%) Firmware
4 1 (0.980%) Data Extraction
4 1 (0.980%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (32.35%) Windows
2 19 (18.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (16.67%) Linux
4 14 (13.73%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (4.902%) Windows XP
5 5 (4.902%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.961%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.961%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.980%) UNIX
7 1 (0.980%) Windows Vista
7 1 (0.980%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (11.76%) ERP
1 12 (11.76%) ITIL
2 10 (9.804%) Web Development
3 9 (8.824%) Service Delivery
4 7 (6.863%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (5.882%) Workflow
5 6 (5.882%) Problem Management
5 6 (5.882%) Service Management
6 5 (4.902%) Change Management
6 5 (4.902%) MVC
6 5 (4.902%) Data Management
7 4 (3.922%) Software Engineering
7 4 (3.922%) OO
7 4 (3.922%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (3.922%) Capacity Management
8 3 (2.941%) B2B
8 3 (2.941%) Information Management
8 3 (2.941%) E-business
8 3 (2.941%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (29.41%) C#
2 22 (21.57%) JavaScript
2 22 (21.57%) PL/SQL
3 18 (17.65%) PHP
4 17 (16.67%) Perl
5 9 (8.824%) C++
6 8 (7.843%) VBA
6 8 (7.843%) Python
7 7 (6.863%) Java
7 7 (6.863%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.941%) VB
8 3 (2.941%) VB.NET
8 3 (2.941%) Delphi
9 2 (1.961%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.961%) Ruby
9 2 (1.961%) ActionScript
9 2 (1.961%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) Degree
2 8 (7.843%) MCTS
2 8 (7.843%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.863%) MCITP
4 3 (2.941%) MCSE
5 2 (1.961%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.980%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.980%) Sun Certification
6 1 (0.980%) HND
6 1 (0.980%) MCSA
6 1 (0.980%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.980%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) SLA
2 3 (2.941%) QA
System Software
1 15 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (9.804%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.961%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.961%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.961%) XenApp
3 2 (1.961%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) SCCM
2 10 (9.804%) WSUS
3 3 (2.941%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.961%) Tivoli
4 2 (1.961%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (1.961%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.980%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 48 (47.06%) Oracle
2 36 (35.29%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.67%) VMware
4 11 (10.78%) Citrix
5 9 (8.824%) Business Objects
6 8 (7.843%) CommVault
7 6 (5.882%) SAP
8 4 (3.922%) Dell
9 3 (2.941%) HP
10 2 (1.961%) Veeam
10 2 (1.961%) EMC
10 2 (1.961%) Epicor
10 2 (1.961%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.961%) Acronis
11 1 (0.980%) Primavera
11 1 (0.980%) Baan
11 1 (0.980%) PeopleSoft
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