Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 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 Programming Languages category for the Berkshire region.

 Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank332
Rank change year-on-year
No change0Down-1
Matching permanent IT job ads7426721974
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire18.84 %14.45 %16.71 %
As % of the Programming Languages category40.70 %37.35 %43.33 %
Salaries quoted6865781648
Average salary£38,750£40,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.120 %+6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£33,600£33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.190 %+1.810 %
Berkshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
182317994556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire46.28 %38.69 %38.56 %
Salaries quoted160115153932
Average salary£40,000£40,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+6.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %
SQL South EastSQL
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.

Berkshire SQL Demand Trend

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Berkshire SQL Salary Histogram

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 19 March 2010. 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
ReadingDown-1160£37,500-
SloughUp+1102£40,000-
BracknellUp+667£40,000-9.09 %
WokinghamDown-163£27,500-9.83 %
MaidenheadDown-149£45,000+2.85 %
NewburyDown-338£41,500+10.66 %
WindsorDown-1017£32,500-23.52 %
AscotDown-34£29,000-27.50 %
ThatchamNew entry-2£31,500-
SQL South EastSQL
South East

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

1513 (38.72 %).NET
2496 (37.43 %)Oracle
3416 (31.40 %)C#
4396 (29.89 %)SQL Server
5308 (23.25 %)ASP.NET
6259 (19.55 %)Windows
7244 (18.42 %)Microsoft
8225 (16.98 %)Java
9219 (16.53 %)XML
10213 (16.08 %)UNIX
11199 (15.02 %)HTML
12198 (14.94 %)SQL Server 2005
12198 (14.94 %)Degree
13165 (12.45 %)Finance
14164 (12.38 %)MS Excel
15159 (12.00 %)PL/SQL
16145 (10.94 %)Windows Server 2003
17132 (9.962 %)Visual Studio
18124 (9.358 %)JavaScript
19123 (9.283 %)Web Services
20117 (8.830 %)Active Directory
21114 (8.604 %)T-SQL
22107 (8.075 %)IIS
22107 (8.075 %)SharePoint
23105 (7.925 %)Business Intelligence
24100 (7.547 %)Agile Software Development
2599 (7.472 %)Oracle 11g
2694 (7.094 %)Linux
2792 (6.943 %)Datawarehouse
2891 (6.868 %)CSS

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

Berkshire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1513 (38.72 %).NET
2308 (23.25 %)ASP.NET
3219 (16.53 %)XML
4199 (15.02 %)HTML
5123 (9.283 %)Web Services
691 (6.868 %)CSS
781 (6.113 %)ASP
878 (5.887 %)AJAX
968 (5.132 %).NET Framework
1056 (4.226 %)J2EE
1147 (3.547 %)jQuery
1243 (3.245 %)Spring
1341 (3.094 %)WebSphere
1440 (3.019 %)XHTML
1539 (2.943 %)JSP
1636 (2.717 %)Hibernate
1735 (2.642 %)XSLT
1830 (2.264 %)ASP.NET MVC
1927 (2.038 %)Servlets
2023 (1.736 %)NHibernate
Berkshire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1107 (8.075 %)IIS
1107 (8.075 %)SharePoint
252 (3.925 %)MS Exchange
343 (3.245 %)BizTalk Server
438 (2.868 %)WebLogic
533 (2.491 %)SharePoint Server 2007
632 (2.415 %)Tomcat
729 (2.189 %)SAS
825 (1.887 %)Oracle Workflow
924 (1.811 %)Exchange Server 2007
924 (1.811 %)Apache
1022 (1.660 %)LiveLink
1115 (1.132 %)Alfresco
1115 (1.132 %)WebSphere Application Server
1212 (0.906 %)Exchange Server 2000
1212 (0.906 %)Exchange Server 2003
1212 (0.906 %)Liferay
139 (0.679 %)ESB
139 (0.679 %)Lotus Domino
148 (0.604 %)WordPress
Berkshire IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1164 (12.38 %)MS Excel
248 (3.623 %)MS Office
311 (0.830 %)Photoshop
49 (0.679 %)MS Visio
58 (0.604 %)MS Project
67 (0.528 %)InfoPath
76 (0.453 %)SPSS
85 (0.377 %)MS PowerPoint
93 (0.226 %)CA Clarity
101 (0.075 %)MATLAB
101 (0.075 %)Adobe Illustrator
Berkshire IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
119 (1.434 %)BusinessWorks
213 (0.981 %)Dynamics CRM
310 (0.755 %)Microsoft CRM
48 (0.604 %)Oracle EBS
57 (0.528 %)Oracle Applications
66 (0.453 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
75 (0.377 %)Singl.eView
75 (0.377 %)JDE OneWorld
84 (0.302 %)Oracle 11i
84 (0.302 %)Navision
84 (0.302 %)GoldMine
84 (0.302 %)JDE EnterpriseOne
84 (0.302 %)Dynamics NAV
93 (0.226 %)SalesLogix
102 (0.151 %)Pivotal CRM
111 (0.075 %)Google Analytics
111 (0.075 %)Apache OFBiz
111 (0.075 %)Oracle EBS R12
Berkshire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
146 (3.472 %)DNS
241 (3.094 %)DHCP
340 (3.019 %)Internet
436 (2.717 %)TCP/IP
532 (2.415 %)VoIP
631 (2.340 %)ISDN
728 (2.113 %)Firewall
827 (2.038 %)IP Telephony
919 (1.434 %)SAN
1018 (1.358 %)LDAP
1117 (1.283 %)SMS
1213 (0.981 %)BSS
1312 (0.906 %)VPN
1312 (0.906 %)NAS
1410 (0.755 %)SMTP
158 (0.604 %)3G
158 (0.604 %)HTTP
164 (0.302 %)WAN
164 (0.302 %)SSL
164 (0.302 %)VLAN
Berkshire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1396 (29.89 %)SQL Server
2198 (14.94 %)SQL Server 2005
399 (7.472 %)Oracle 11g
492 (6.943 %)Datawarehouse
573 (5.509 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
669 (5.208 %)MySQL
759 (4.453 %)SQL Server Integration Services
854 (4.075 %)ETL
950 (3.774 %)SQL Server 2008
1049 (3.698 %)SQLPlus
1147 (3.547 %)SQL Server 2000
1147 (3.547 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1245 (3.396 %)OLAP
1342 (3.170 %)Siebel EIM
1439 (2.943 %)Oracle 10g
1536 (2.717 %)BusinessObjects
1629 (2.189 %)RDBMS
1725 (1.887 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1818 (1.358 %)Oracle 8/8i
1916 (1.208 %)Oracle 9i
Berkshire IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1132 (9.962 %)Visual Studio
250 (3.774 %)Subversion
335 (2.642 %)NUnit
424 (1.811 %)ReSharper
424 (1.811 %)MSTest
519 (1.434 %)Ant
618 (1.358 %)JUnit
79 (0.679 %)Oracle Forms
79 (0.679 %)Eclipse
88 (0.604 %)ERwin
97 (0.528 %)Maven
97 (0.528 %)JIRA
106 (0.453 %)TeamCity
115 (0.377 %)Team Foundation Server
124 (0.302 %)PVCS
124 (0.302 %)WinRunner
124 (0.302 %)TestDirector
133 (0.226 %)ProC
133 (0.226 %)Dreamweaver
133 (0.226 %)EasyMock
Berkshire IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1165 (12.45 %)Finance
285 (6.415 %)Telecoms
366 (4.981 %)Marketing
442 (3.170 %)Health
528 (2.113 %)Pensions
627 (2.038 %)Education
720 (1.509 %)Insurance
818 (1.358 %)Retail
915 (1.132 %)Billing
1012 (0.906 %)Pharmaceutical
1110 (0.755 %)Back Office
128 (0.604 %)Law
137 (0.528 %)Government
146 (0.453 %)Construction
155 (0.377 %)Publishing
155 (0.377 %)Games
164 (0.302 %)Music
164 (0.302 %)Music Industry
164 (0.302 %)Financial Institution
172 (0.151 %)Legal
Berkshire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1602 (45.43 %)Developer
2169 (12.75 %).NET Developer
3168 (12.68 %)Analyst
4162 (12.23 %)C# Developer
5134 (10.11 %)Consultant
691 (6.868 %)Support Engineer
776 (5.736 %)Support Analyst
871 (5.358 %)Applications Support
967 (5.057 %)SQL Developer
1064 (4.830 %)Java Developer
1158 (4.377 %)Technical Support
1254 (4.075 %)Software Developer
1353 (4.000 %)Administrator
1450 (3.774 %)Software Engineer
1549 (3.698 %)ASP.NET Developer
1643 (3.245 %)ASP Developer
1643 (3.245 %)DBA
1742 (3.170 %)Senior Developer
1841 (3.094 %)Architect
1939 (2.943 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
Berkshire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
165 (4.906 %)Computer Science
246 (3.472 %)German Language
328 (2.113 %)Dutch Language
328 (2.113 %)Open Source
427 (2.038 %)Dependency Injection
525 (1.887 %)Clustering
624 (1.811 %)French Language
722 (1.660 %)Mathematics
816 (1.208 %)Japanese Language
816 (1.208 %)Replication
816 (1.208 %)N-Tier
915 (1.132 %)Management Information System
1012 (0.906 %)Client/Server
1111 (0.830 %)SaaS
1210 (0.755 %)Spanish Language
1210 (0.755 %)Web 2.0
137 (0.528 %)Social Network
137 (0.528 %)Data Conversion
146 (0.453 %)Biometrics
155 (0.377 %)PMI
Berkshire IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1259 (19.55 %)Windows
2213 (16.08 %)UNIX
3145 (10.94 %)Windows Server 2003
494 (7.094 %)Linux
558 (4.377 %)Windows XP
653 (4.000 %)Solaris
733 (2.491 %)Windows Server 2008
733 (2.491 %)Windows 2000
817 (1.283 %)HPUX
817 (1.283 %)Red Hat Linux
913 (0.981 %)Windows 2000 Server
1010 (0.755 %)Windows Vista
119 (0.679 %)AIX
124 (0.302 %)MVS
124 (0.302 %)Windows Mobile
124 (0.302 %)SUSE
133 (0.226 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
142 (0.151 %)Debian
142 (0.151 %)Windows NT
151 (0.075 %)Ubuntu
Berkshire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1105 (7.925 %)Business Intelligence
2100 (7.547 %)Agile Software Development
382 (6.189 %)Workflow
476 (5.736 %)Change Management
575 (5.660 %)CRM
659 (4.453 %)UML
756 (4.226 %)MVC
855 (4.151 %)OO
953 (4.000 %)Configuration Management
1047 (3.547 %)EAI
1140 (3.019 %)SOA
1237 (2.792 %)ITIL
1237 (2.792 %)Web Development
1336 (2.717 %)Project Management
1430 (2.264 %)Migration
1529 (2.189 %)TDD
1628 (2.113 %)Scrum
1628 (2.113 %)E-Commerce
1727 (2.038 %)Data Analysis
1826 (1.962 %)Continuous Integration
Berkshire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1416 (31.40 %)C#
2225 (16.98 %)Java
3159 (12.00 %)PL/SQL
4124 (9.358 %)JavaScript
5114 (8.604 %)T-SQL
681 (6.113 %)VB.NET
768 (5.132 %)C++
863 (4.755 %)VBScript
960 (4.528 %)VB
960 (4.528 %)Shell Script
1058 (4.377 %)C
1149 (3.698 %)PHP
1233 (2.491 %)Perl
1317 (1.283 %)VB6
1412 (0.906 %)PowerShell
1511 (0.830 %)VBA
168 (0.604 %)XPath
168 (0.604 %)Delphi
168 (0.604 %)Python
176 (0.453 %)PHP5
Berkshire IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1198 (14.94 %)Degree
289 (6.717 %)Microsoft Certification
352 (3.925 %)MCSE
352 (3.925 %)Security Cleared
445 (3.396 %)Cisco Certification
445 (3.396 %)CCNA
541 (3.094 %)SC Cleared
613 (0.981 %)MCITP
78 (0.604 %)CISSP
87 (0.528 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
87 (0.528 %)VCDX
87 (0.528 %)VCP4
87 (0.528 %)ISEB
87 (0.528 %)CCA
87 (0.528 %)Citrix Certification
87 (0.528 %)CCEA
96 (0.453 %)MCSD
105 (0.377 %)Postgraduate
105 (0.377 %)PMI Certification
114 (0.302 %)MCTS
Berkshire IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
128 (2.113 %)SLA
224 (1.811 %)QA
32 (0.151 %)ISO27001
41 (0.075 %)COBIT
41 (0.075 %)PCI DSS
41 (0.075 %)ISO9001
Berkshire IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1117 (8.830 %)Active Directory
220 (1.509 %)VMware Infrastructure
314 (1.057 %)Terminal Services
314 (1.057 %)MSMQ
412 (0.906 %)VMware Workstation
412 (0.906 %)XenApp
511 (0.830 %)vSphere
67 (0.528 %)XenServer
67 (0.528 %)XenDesktop
76 (0.453 %)Hyper-V
85 (0.377 %)OpenLDAP
85 (0.377 %)Sendmail
85 (0.377 %)VMware ESX
94 (0.302 %)ISA Server
103 (0.226 %)Oracle RAC
103 (0.226 %)Citrix Presentation Server
103 (0.226 %)SRDF
112 (0.151 %)Oracle RMAN
121 (0.075 %)Veritas Cluster Server
Berkshire IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
118 (1.358 %)SCCM
212 (0.906 %)SCOM
38 (0.604 %)OpenView
38 (0.604 %)NetBackup
47 (0.528 %)OpenView Configuration Management
54 (0.302 %)Backup Exec
63 (0.226 %)Data Guard
63 (0.226 %)McAfee ePO
72 (0.151 %)ServiceCenter
72 (0.151 %)OVSD
72 (0.151 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
81 (0.075 %)Netcool
81 (0.075 %)MOM
81 (0.075 %)OVOW
81 (0.075 %)Netcool/Proviso
81 (0.075 %)MSI
Berkshire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1496 (37.43 %)Oracle
2244 (18.42 %)Microsoft
366 (4.981 %)Remedy
463 (4.755 %)VMware
463 (4.755 %)Siebel
549 (3.698 %)Cisco
636 (2.717 %)Business Objects
735 (2.642 %)SAP
834 (2.566 %)TIBCO
926 (1.962 %)JBoss
1025 (1.887 %)HP
1025 (1.887 %)Citrix
1124 (1.811 %)IBM
1223 (1.736 %)Informatica
1322 (1.660 %)Open Text
1414 (1.057 %)BEA
1414 (1.057 %)Red Hat
1513 (0.981 %)Cognos
1513 (0.981 %)Lotus
1612 (0.906 %)GigaSpaces