Berkshire SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	3
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	1472	2163
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.852 %	0.931 %
As % of the category below	36.52 %	40.13 %
Salaries quoted	1267	1857
Average minimum salary	£37,485	£36,597
Average salary	£41,044	£39,824
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Average maximum salary	£44,603	£43,051
UK excluding London average salary	£35,221	£35,464
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Programming Languages Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4031	5390
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.333 %	2.319 %
Salaries quoted	3514	4607
Average minimum salary	£37,004	£36,572
Average salary	£40,620	£40,145
% change on same period last year	+1.18 %
Average maximum salary	£44,236	£43,719
UK excluding London average salary	£35,506	£35,791
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
SQL South East

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Salary Trend

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

SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

SQL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+2	435	£40,344	-2.63 %
Slough	-5	163	£42,029	+7.31 %
Newbury	+1	130	£37,178	+16.22 %
Maidenhead	+7	93	£44,006	+22.20 %
Windsor	+3	78	£42,169	+12.48 %
Bracknell	-9	57	£38,009	-4.47 %
Wokingham	-1	37	£35,889	-10.32 %
Thatcham	+2	5	£23,400	-50.73 %
Hungerford	-	3	£22,333	-
Ascot	-7	2	£39,000	+32.20 %

SQL South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 1184 (37.72 %) Oracle 2 1048 (33.39 %) SQL Server 3 927 (29.53 %) .NET 4 685 (21.82 %) Windows 5 644 (20.52 %) Java 6 600 (19.11 %) PL/SQL 6 600 (19.11 %) XML 7 597 (19.02 %) HTML 8 561 (17.87 %) UNIX 9 535 (17.04 %) Microsoft 10 523 (16.66 %) ASP.NET 11 502 (15.99 %) C# 12 452 (14.40 %) JavaScript 13 435 (13.86 %) Finance 14 341 (10.86 %) MS Excel

15 332 (10.58 %) Transact-SQL 16 315 (10.04 %) J2EE 17 301 (9.589 %) VB 18 291 (9.270 %) Linux 19 282 (8.984 %) Datawarehouse 20 280 (8.920 %) VB.NET 21 273 (8.697 %) Business Intelligence 22 264 (8.410 %) Degree 23 256 (8.155 %) SQL Server 2005 24 253 (8.060 %) RDBMS 25 233 (7.423 %) OO 26 230 (7.327 %) Oracle 10g 27 225 (7.168 %) Pensions 28 223 (7.104 %) IIS 29 218 (6.945 %) ASP

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 1 927 (29.53 %) .NET 2 600 (19.11 %) XML 3 597 (19.02 %) HTML 4 523 (16.66 %) ASP.NET 5 315 (10.04 %) J2EE 6 218 (6.945 %) ASP 7 184 (5.862 %) CSS 8 176 (5.607 %) WebServices 9 147 (4.683 %) JSP 10 116 (3.695 %) WebSphere 11 105 (3.345 %) SOAP 12 103 (3.281 %) .NET Framework 12 103 (3.281 %) AJAX 13 88 (2.803 %) Hibernate 14 82 (2.612 %) Struts 15 77 (2.453 %) Spring 16 76 (2.421 %) XSL 17 62 (1.975 %) Servlets 18 52 (1.657 %) XSLT 19 51 (1.625 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 223 (7.104 %) IIS 2 109 (3.472 %) SharePoint 3 106 (3.377 %) SAS 4 99 (3.154 %) Apache 5 92 (2.931 %) MS Exchange 6 83 (2.644 %) Tomcat 7 70 (2.230 %) WebLogic 8 55 (1.752 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 48 (1.529 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 45 (1.434 %) Oracle 10gAS 11 41 (1.306 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 29 (0.924 %) Oracle Workflow 13 25 (0.796 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 18 (0.573 %) CMS 15 17 (0.542 %) BizTalk Server 16 16 (0.510 %) Oracle Application Server 16 16 (0.510 %) Lotus Domino 16 16 (0.510 %) Oracle 9iAS 17 14 (0.446 %) Lotus Notes 18 12 (0.382 %) JBoss
Applications 1 341 (10.86 %) MS Excel 2 146 (4.651 %) MS Office 3 45 (1.434 %) MS Visio 4 32 (1.019 %) SPSS 5 26 (0.828 %) MS PowerPoint 6 25 (0.796 %) Photoshop 7 14 (0.446 %) MS Project 7 14 (0.446 %) Spreadsheet 8 5 (0.159 %) InfoPath 9 3 (0.096 %) CATIA 9 3 (0.096 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 2 (0.064 %) Shockwave 10 2 (0.064 %) Paint Shop Pro 10 2 (0.064 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.032 %) Acrobat 11 1 (0.032 %) DOC1 11 1 (0.032 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 133 (4.237 %) Oracle Applications 2 75 (2.389 %) Oracle 11i 3 37 (1.179 %) Oracle EBS 4 31 (0.988 %) Microsoft CRM 5 29 (0.924 %) Oracle Financials 6 20 (0.637 %) Navision 7 18 (0.573 %) Movex 7 18 (0.573 %) SAP Retail 8 15 (0.478 %) Google Analytics 9 13 (0.414 %) Dynamics AX 9 13 (0.414 %) WebTrends 10 10 (0.319 %) Oracle HRMS 11 9 (0.287 %) Unica Affinium 12 7 (0.223 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 13 6 (0.191 %) Great Plains 14 5 (0.159 %) SalesLogix 15 4 (0.127 %) Dynamics CRM 15 4 (0.127 %) Remedy AR System 15 4 (0.127 %) Oracle ERP 15 4 (0.127 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 200 (6.371 %) Internet 2 151 (4.810 %) TCP/IP 3 104 (3.313 %) HTTP 4 83 (2.644 %) DNS 5 82 (2.612 %) Firewall 6 63 (2.007 %) Intranet 7 59 (1.880 %) SAN 8 48 (1.529 %) WAN 9 46 (1.465 %) DHCP 10 44 (1.402 %) SMTP 11 43 (1.370 %) 3G 12 33 (1.051 %) VPN 13 31 (0.988 %) FTP 14 30 (0.956 %) LAN 15 28 (0.892 %) LDAP 16 27 (0.860 %) Wireless 17 23 (0.733 %) SSL 18 20 (0.637 %) GPRS 18 20 (0.637 %) UMTS 19 18 (0.573 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1048 (33.39 %) SQL Server 2 282 (8.984 %) Datawarehouse 3 256 (8.155 %) SQL Server 2005 4 253 (8.060 %) RDBMS 5 230 (7.327 %) Oracle 10g 6 204 (6.499 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 184 (5.862 %) BusinessObjects 8 174 (5.543 %) DTS 9 151 (4.810 %) Oracle 9i 10 143 (4.556 %) SQL Server 2000 11 130 (4.141 %) ETL 12 107 (3.409 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 105 (3.345 %) Oracle Reports 14 97 (3.090 %) MySQL 15 93 (2.963 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 16 90 (2.867 %) TOAD 17 73 (2.326 %) MS Access 18 62 (1.975 %) Data Mining 19 61 (1.943 %) DB2 20 54 (1.720 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 113 (3.600 %) Visual Studio 2 80 (2.549 %) Oracle Forms 3 56 (1.784 %) JUnit 4 46 (1.465 %) Eclipse 5 37 (1.179 %) ProC 6 36 (1.147 %) Flash 7 28 (0.892 %) Subversion 8 21 (0.669 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 9 20 (0.637 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 20 (0.637 %) TestDirector 10 18 (0.573 %) Dreamweaver 11 17 (0.542 %) JDeveloper 11 17 (0.542 %) QuickTest Pro 12 10 (0.319 %) TestPartner 13 7 (0.223 %) InterDev 13 7 (0.223 %) LoadRunner 13 7 (0.223 %) Rational Rose 14 6 (0.191 %) WinRunner 14 6 (0.191 %) QADirector 15 5 (0.159 %) PeopleTools	General 1 435 (13.86 %) Finance 2 225 (7.168 %) Pensions 3 213 (6.786 %) Telecoms 4 182 (5.798 %) Marketing 5 161 (5.129 %) Retail 6 135 (4.301 %) Health 7 96 (3.058 %) Banking 8 63 (2.007 %) Education 9 62 (1.975 %) Insurance 10 56 (1.784 %) Billing 11 37 (1.179 %) Government 12 34 (1.083 %) FMCG 13 31 (0.988 %) Manufacturing 14 26 (0.828 %) Legal 14 26 (0.828 %) Automotive 15 19 (0.605 %) Online Banking 16 18 (0.573 %) Financial Institution 17 15 (0.478 %) Auditing 18 12 (0.382 %) Back Office 19 11 (0.350 %) Law
Job Titles 1 971 (30.93 %) Developer 2 618 (19.69 %) Analyst 3 419 (13.35 %) Consultant 4 263 (8.378 %) DBA 5 250 (7.964 %) .NET Developer 6 178 (5.671 %) Java Developer 7 170 (5.416 %) Oracle DBA 8 168 (5.352 %) Support Analyst 9 144 (4.587 %) Programmer 10 140 (4.460 %) Oracle Developer 11 139 (4.428 %) Applications Support 12 136 (4.333 %) C# Developer 13 133 (4.237 %) SQL Developer 14 125 (3.982 %) Senior Developer 15 114 (3.632 %) Technical Consultant 16 110 (3.504 %) ASP.NET Developer 17 109 (3.472 %) Administrator 18 107 (3.409 %) Web Developer 19 106 (3.377 %) Support Engineer 20 105 (3.345 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 111 (3.536 %) Client/Server 2 72 (2.294 %) Clustering 3 56 (1.784 %) Computer Science 4 52 (1.657 %) German Language 5 45 (1.434 %) Mathematics 5 45 (1.434 %) N-Tier 6 40 (1.274 %) French Language 7 35 (1.115 %) Statistics 8 34 (1.083 %) Replication 9 29 (0.924 %) Mainframe 10 18 (0.573 %) IVR 11 17 (0.542 %) Credit Risk 11 17 (0.542 %) RIA 12 15 (0.478 %) Spanish Language 12 15 (0.478 %) Streaming Media 13 14 (0.446 %) Blackberry 14 9 (0.287 %) Multithreading 14 9 (0.287 %) Data Integration 15 8 (0.255 %) iDTV 15 8 (0.255 %) Web 2.0
Operating Systems 1 685 (21.82 %) Windows 2 561 (17.87 %) UNIX 3 291 (9.270 %) Linux 4 179 (5.702 %) Windows Server 2003 5 158 (5.033 %) Solaris 6 95 (3.026 %) Windows 2000 7 91 (2.899 %) Windows XP 8 65 (2.071 %) HPUX 9 59 (1.880 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 39 (1.242 %) AIX 11 30 (0.956 %) Red Hat Linux 12 28 (0.892 %) Windows Vista 13 20 (0.637 %) Windows NT 14 18 (0.573 %) SUSE 15 17 (0.542 %) Debian 16 8 (0.255 %) Windows Mobile 17 7 (0.223 %) VMS 18 6 (0.191 %) MVS 19 3 (0.096 %) Windows Server 2008 20 2 (0.064 %) CentOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 273 (8.697 %) Business Intelligence 2 233 (7.423 %) OO 3 170 (5.416 %) CRM 4 152 (4.842 %) Web Development 5 121 (3.855 %) Security Cleared 6 107 (3.409 %) E-Commerce 7 83 (2.644 %) SOA 8 82 (2.612 %) ERP 9 81 (2.580 %) Project Management 10 76 (2.421 %) ITIL 11 70 (2.230 %) OOP 11 70 (2.230 %) Data Modelling 12 68 (2.166 %) Migration 13 66 (2.103 %) RAD 14 58 (1.848 %) User Acceptance Testing 15 55 (1.752 %) Data Analysis 15 55 (1.752 %) Workflow 16 53 (1.688 %) E-business 16 53 (1.688 %) Business Analysis 17 49 (1.561 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 644 (20.52 %) Java 2 600 (19.11 %) PL/SQL 3 502 (15.99 %) C# 4 452 (14.40 %) JavaScript 5 332 (10.58 %) Transact-SQL 6 301 (9.589 %) VB 7 280 (8.920 %) VB.NET 8 192 (6.117 %) C 9 188 (5.989 %) C++ 10 150 (4.779 %) Perl 11 122 (3.887 %) PHP 12 104 (3.313 %) VBScript 13 98 (3.122 %) VB6 14 91 (2.899 %) Shell Script 15 87 (2.772 %) VBA 16 39 (1.242 %) DHTML 17 36 (1.147 %) XPath 18 35 (1.115 %) Python 19 16 (0.510 %) COBOL 19 16 (0.510 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 264 (8.410 %) Degree 2 174 (5.543 %) Microsoft Certification 3 101 (3.218 %) MCSE 4 69 (2.198 %) MCP 5 63 (2.007 %) Oracle Certification 6 55 (1.752 %) OCP 7 39 (1.242 %) MCSD 8 30 (0.956 %) MCAD 8 30 (0.956 %) Cisco Certification 9 27 (0.860 %) CCNA 10 26 (0.828 %) MCSA 11 22 (0.701 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 12 21 (0.669 %) HP MASE 13 17 (0.542 %) MCTS 14 16 (0.510 %) ISEB 15 13 (0.414 %) MCPD 16 9 (0.287 %) RHCE 17 8 (0.255 %) Network+ Certification 17 8 (0.255 %) HND 18 7 (0.223 %) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 59 (1.880 %) QA 2 39 (1.242 %) SLA 3 21 (0.669 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.064 %) COBIT 5 1 (0.032 %) GAMP 5 1 (0.032 %) Basel II 5 1 (0.032 %) ISO8583 5 1 (0.032 %) WAI	System Software 1 103 (3.281 %) Active Directory 2 101 (3.218 %) Oracle RAC 3 79 (2.517 %) Oracle RMAN 4 44 (1.402 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 32 (1.019 %) ISA Server 6 11 (0.350 %) Backup Exec 7 10 (0.319 %) Terminal Services 8 8 (0.255 %) NetBackup 8 8 (0.255 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 6 (0.191 %) VMware ESX 10 4 (0.127 %) Squid 11 3 (0.096 %) NDS 12 2 (0.064 %) Xen 13 1 (0.032 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 1 (0.032 %) AquaLogic 13 1 (0.032 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 21 (0.669 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 17 (0.542 %) OpenView 3 16 (0.510 %) MOM 4 14 (0.446 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 14 (0.446 %) ServiceCenter 5 12 (0.382 %) MIIS 6 7 (0.223 %) Tivoli 6 7 (0.223 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 7 (0.223 %) AssetCenter 7 6 (0.191 %) Unicenter 8 5 (0.159 %) SCCM 9 4 (0.127 %) Netcool 10 3 (0.096 %) OpenView Configuration Management 10 3 (0.096 %) SCOM 10 3 (0.096 %) Oracle Statspack 11 2 (0.064 %) Netcool/Proviso 11 2 (0.064 %) Netcool/Webtop 11 2 (0.064 %) MIMEsweeper 11 2 (0.064 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 11 2 (0.064 %) Legato	Vendors 1 1184 (37.72 %) Oracle 2 535 (17.04 %) Microsoft 3 184 (5.862 %) Business Objects 4 106 (3.377 %) HP 5 97 (3.090 %) Cognos 6 88 (2.803 %) SAP 7 81 (2.580 %) VMware 8 78 (2.485 %) Sybase 9 71 (2.262 %) IBM 10 58 (1.848 %) Citrix 11 55 (1.752 %) Siebel 12 54 (1.720 %) Red Hat 13 53 (1.688 %) BEA 14 41 (1.306 %) Sun 15 34 (1.083 %) PeopleSoft 16 31 (0.988 %) Epiphany 17 29 (0.924 %) Teradata 17 29 (0.924 %) Cisco 17 29 (0.924 %) EMC 17 29 (0.924 %) NetApp