The first table below looks at the demand for ODBC skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ODBC over the 3 months to 20 May 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 Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Rank 104 96 87
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -9
Permanent jobs citing ODBC 9 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.540% 0.069% 0.230%
As % of the Application Development category 1.480% 0.198% 0.726%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 3
Average salary £50,000 £39,000 £23,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.20% +69.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £39,000 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,500 £39,000 £32,600
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £36,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -14.11%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
608 505 413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 36.47% 34.76% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 545 470 377
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +17.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,300 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ODBC
West Midlands

ODBC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ODBC across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham ODBC Jobs Demand Trend

ODBC
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham ODBC Salary Trend

ODBC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ODBC across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Birmingham ODBC Salary Histogram

ODBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing ODBC 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 ODBC.

1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) Business Objects
2 6 (54.55%) SAP
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) BusinessObjects
2 6 (54.55%) SAP BW
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) OLE DB
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 6 (54.55%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 6 (54.55%) Xcelsius
2 6 (54.55%) Mobile App
3 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (36.36%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) ASP
4 3 (27.27%) XML
4 3 (27.27%) XSLT
4 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) MSMQ
4 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 3 (27.27%) Retail
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
4 3 (27.27%) Publishing

ODBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing ODBC 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 ODBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) OLE DB
2 3 (27.27%) ASP
2 3 (27.27%) XML
2 3 (27.27%) XSLT
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 3 (27.27%) MSMQ
3 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Reports
1 6 (54.55%) BusinessObjects
1 6 (54.55%) SAP BW
1 6 (54.55%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Xcelsius
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (9.091%) MS Access
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 3 (27.27%) Publishing
2 3 (27.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) SAP Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Business Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Business Objects Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) SAP Business Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Analyst Programmer
3 1 (9.091%) IT Assistant
3 1 (9.091%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) TDD
2 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Objective-C
4 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
1 6 (54.55%) Business Objects
1 6 (54.55%) SAP