Cambridgeshire SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley 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 County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Pewsey Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	13
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching permanent IT job ads	715	492
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.396 %	0.206 %
As % of the category below	26.38 %	19.49 %
Salaries quoted	631	406
Average minimum salary	£30,432	£31,605
Average salary	£32,812	£35,056
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Average maximum salary	£35,192	£38,506
UK excluding London average salary	£34,837	£35,204
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Programming Languages Cambridgeshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2710	2525
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.500 %	1.059 %
Salaries quoted	2340	2080
Average minimum salary	£32,016	£32,635
Average salary	£35,317	£36,176
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Average maximum salary	£38,619	£39,716
UK excluding London average salary	£35,272	£35,655
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
SQL East of England

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Cambridge	+5	447	£34,006	-8.36 %
Peterborough	+4	187	£30,550	+1.47 %
Huntingdon	+4	44	£31,709	-9.95 %
Ely	-1	3	£30,333	+34.81 %

SQL East of England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

1 582 (41.01 %) .NET 2 462 (32.56 %) SQL Server 3 425 (29.95 %) C# 4 346 (24.38 %) Microsoft 5 343 (24.17 %) Windows 6 317 (22.34 %) ASP.NET 7 296 (20.86 %) Oracle 8 278 (19.59 %) Java 9 270 (19.03 %) HTML 10 242 (17.05 %) XML 11 235 (16.56 %) Degree 12 224 (15.79 %) MS Excel 13 219 (15.43 %) VB 14 215 (15.15 %) JavaScript 15 213 (15.01 %) VB.NET

16 160 (11.28 %) Finance 17 158 (11.13 %) C++ 18 157 (11.06 %) UNIX 19 144 (10.15 %) Transact-SQL 20 135 (9.514 %) PL/SQL 21 121 (8.527 %) Citrix 22 119 (8.386 %) Linux 23 117 (8.245 %) OO 24 113 (7.963 %) PHP 25 112 (7.893 %) CSS 26 111 (7.822 %) ASP 27 110 (7.752 %) Computer Science 28 102 (7.188 %) Windows Server 2003 29 97 (6.836 %) MS Office 30 91 (6.413 %) J2EE

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 1 582 (41.01 %) .NET 2 317 (22.34 %) ASP.NET 3 270 (19.03 %) HTML 4 242 (17.05 %) XML 5 112 (7.893 %) CSS 6 111 (7.822 %) ASP 7 91 (6.413 %) J2EE 8 84 (5.920 %) AJAX 9 82 (5.779 %) WebServices 10 74 (5.215 %) WinForms 11 53 (3.735 %) JSP 12 50 (3.524 %) .NET Framework 13 49 (3.453 %) Struts 14 46 (3.242 %) XSL 15 38 (2.678 %) EJB 15 38 (2.678 %) ASP.NET 2.0 16 36 (2.537 %) XSLT 17 24 (1.691 %) MFC 17 24 (1.691 %) WebSphere 17 24 (1.691 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 72 (5.074 %) IIS 2 68 (4.792 %) Apache 3 53 (3.735 %) SharePoint 4 51 (3.594 %) Tomcat 5 36 (2.537 %) JBoss 6 33 (2.326 %) MS Exchange 7 25 (1.762 %) ColdFusion 8 12 (0.846 %) CMS 9 11 (0.775 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 10 (0.705 %) BizTalk Server 11 9 (0.634 %) WebLogic 12 7 (0.493 %) WebSphere Application Server 13 6 (0.423 %) ColdFusion MX 13 6 (0.423 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 4 (0.282 %) Oracle Application Server 14 4 (0.282 %) Oracle 10gAS 14 4 (0.282 %) Oracle 9iAS 15 3 (0.211 %) SAS 15 3 (0.211 %) ArcSDE 16 2 (0.141 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 224 (15.79 %) MS Excel 2 97 (6.836 %) MS Office 3 18 (1.268 %) MATLAB 4 9 (0.634 %) MS Project 5 4 (0.282 %) Photoshop 5 4 (0.282 %) MS Visio 5 4 (0.282 %) Spreadsheet 6 2 (0.141 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 2 (0.141 %) ArcView 7 1 (0.070 %) ImageReady 7 1 (0.070 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 13 (0.916 %) Oracle Applications 2 10 (0.705 %) Axapta 3 9 (0.634 %) Oracle 11i 3 9 (0.634 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 4 4 (0.282 %) ResourceLink 4 4 (0.282 %) Navision 4 4 (0.282 %) Oracle EBS 5 3 (0.211 %) Oracle HRMS 5 3 (0.211 %) GoldMine 5 3 (0.211 %) Line 500 6 2 (0.141 %) Sage 1000 6 2 (0.141 %) Oracle Financials 6 2 (0.141 %) Dynamics AX 7 1 (0.070 %) AWD
Communications & Networking 1 56 (3.946 %) Internet 2 28 (1.973 %) TCP/IP 3 26 (1.832 %) HTTP 4 25 (1.762 %) SAN 5 22 (1.550 %) Intranet 5 22 (1.550 %) LAN 6 21 (1.480 %) WAN 7 12 (0.846 %) VPN 7 12 (0.846 %) Wireless 8 10 (0.705 %) FTP 9 9 (0.634 %) Firewall 9 9 (0.634 %) DNS 9 9 (0.634 %) DHCP 10 8 (0.564 %) SNMP 11 7 (0.493 %) IP Telephony 12 5 (0.352 %) Ethernet 12 5 (0.352 %) VoIP 13 4 (0.282 %) TETRA 14 3 (0.211 %) Wi-Fi 14 3 (0.211 %) WLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 462 (32.56 %) SQL Server 2 84 (5.920 %) SQL Server 2005 3 83 (5.849 %) Crystal Reports 4 76 (5.356 %) Oracle 10g 4 76 (5.356 %) MySQL 5 59 (4.158 %) RDBMS 6 57 (4.017 %) SQL Server 2000 7 56 (3.946 %) DB2 8 49 (3.453 %) Oracle 9i 9 48 (3.383 %) Datawarehouse 10 42 (2.960 %) DTS 11 34 (2.396 %) OLAP 11 34 (2.396 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 30 (2.114 %) GIS 13 24 (1.691 %) MS Access 13 24 (1.691 %) Oracle Reports 14 23 (1.621 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 20 (1.409 %) ETL 15 20 (1.409 %) Oracle 11g 16 18 (1.268 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 54 (3.805 %) Visual Studio 2 29 (2.044 %) JUnit 3 21 (1.480 %) Eclipse 4 19 (1.339 %) Subversion 5 12 (0.846 %) Ant 6 10 (0.705 %) MorphX 7 9 (0.634 %) Oracle Forms 7 9 (0.634 %) TestDirector 8 8 (0.564 %) InstallShield 9 7 (0.493 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 6 (0.423 %) MSI 11 5 (0.352 %) PowerBuilder 11 5 (0.352 %) JDeveloper 11 5 (0.352 %) PVCS 12 4 (0.282 %) WinRunner 12 4 (0.282 %) Flash 12 4 (0.282 %) QuickTest Pro 12 4 (0.282 %) Visual Studio Team System 13 3 (0.211 %) Rational Robot 14 2 (0.141 %) ProC	General 1 160 (11.28 %) Finance 2 87 (6.131 %) Pensions 3 82 (5.779 %) Health 4 48 (3.383 %) Pharmaceutical 5 38 (2.678 %) Multimedia 6 37 (2.607 %) Manufacturing 7 36 (2.537 %) Insurance 8 35 (2.467 %) Retail 9 31 (2.185 %) Education 9 31 (2.185 %) Government 10 26 (1.832 %) Telecoms 11 23 (1.621 %) Games 12 21 (1.480 %) Publishing 13 18 (1.268 %) Marketing 14 15 (1.057 %) Banking 15 14 (0.987 %) Electronics 16 13 (0.916 %) Local Government 17 6 (0.423 %) Billing 17 6 (0.423 %) Back Office 17 6 (0.423 %) Chemicals
Job Titles 1 691 (48.70 %) Developer 2 240 (16.91 %) Analyst 3 181 (12.76 %) .NET Developer 4 125 (8.809 %) Software Engineer 5 123 (8.668 %) Software Developer 6 99 (6.977 %) Java Developer 7 89 (6.272 %) Senior Developer 8 86 (6.061 %) C# Developer 9 84 (5.920 %) Web Developer 10 83 (5.849 %) Applications Support 11 72 (5.074 %) Support Analyst 12 71 (5.004 %) Programmer 13 67 (4.722 %) DBA 14 57 (4.017 %) Applications Developer 15 52 (3.665 %) Analyst Developer 16 51 (3.594 %) Administrator 17 50 (3.524 %) SQL Developer 18 43 (3.030 %) Technical Support 19 42 (2.960 %) Graduate 20 41 (2.889 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 110 (7.752 %) Computer Science 2 56 (3.946 %) Mathematics 3 42 (2.960 %) N-Tier 4 34 (2.396 %) AS400 5 29 (2.044 %) Replication 6 26 (1.832 %) Management Information System 7 25 (1.762 %) Client/Server 8 9 (0.634 %) Physics 9 8 (0.564 %) Informatics 9 8 (0.564 %) Web 2.0 10 7 (0.493 %) Biology 11 6 (0.423 %) Multithreading 12 5 (0.352 %) Wiki 12 5 (0.352 %) IVR 13 4 (0.282 %) Statistics 13 4 (0.282 %) Chemistry 14 3 (0.211 %) Clustering 14 3 (0.211 %) SCADA 14 3 (0.211 %) Life Science 14 3 (0.211 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 343 (24.17 %) Windows 2 157 (11.06 %) UNIX 3 119 (8.386 %) Linux 4 102 (7.188 %) Windows Server 2003 5 59 (4.158 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 56 (3.946 %) Solaris 7 23 (1.621 %) Windows 2000 8 22 (1.550 %) AIX 9 18 (1.268 %) Windows XP 10 14 (0.987 %) Windows Vista 11 2 (0.141 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.070 %) Red Hat Linux 12 1 (0.070 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.070 %) Symbian OS 12 1 (0.070 %) Debian 12 1 (0.070 %) Ubuntu	Processes & Methodologies 1 117 (8.245 %) OO 2 69 (4.863 %) E-Commerce 3 64 (4.510 %) Web Development 4 55 (3.876 %) OOD 5 53 (3.735 %) UML 6 48 (3.383 %) Project Management 7 42 (2.960 %) Business Intelligence 7 42 (2.960 %) Data Analysis 8 41 (2.889 %) Software Engineering 9 38 (2.678 %) Data Management 9 38 (2.678 %) OOP 10 36 (2.537 %) ITIL 10 36 (2.537 %) Agile Software Development 11 33 (2.326 %) OOA/OOD 11 33 (2.326 %) RUP 12 31 (2.185 %) Migration 13 28 (1.973 %) ERP 13 28 (1.973 %) Data Migration 14 25 (1.762 %) RAD 15 24 (1.691 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 425 (29.95 %) C# 2 278 (19.59 %) Java 3 219 (15.43 %) VB 4 215 (15.15 %) JavaScript 5 213 (15.01 %) VB.NET 6 158 (11.13 %) C++ 7 144 (10.15 %) Transact-SQL 8 135 (9.514 %) PL/SQL 9 113 (7.963 %) PHP 10 66 (4.651 %) C 11 63 (4.440 %) VBA 12 61 (4.299 %) Delphi 13 52 (3.665 %) Perl 14 51 (3.594 %) VB6 15 49 (3.453 %) Python 16 30 (2.114 %) VBScript 17 26 (1.832 %) RPG 18 12 (0.846 %) DHTML 19 10 (0.705 %) X++ 20 7 (0.493 %) Tcl	Qualifications 1 235 (16.56 %) Degree 2 57 (4.017 %) Microsoft Certification 3 34 (2.396 %) MCSE 4 23 (1.621 %) ISEB 5 18 (1.268 %) MCP 6 11 (0.775 %) PhD 7 9 (0.634 %) ISTQB 8 8 (0.564 %) MCDBA 9 6 (0.423 %) ITIL Certification 9 6 (0.423 %) ISEB Practitioner 10 3 (0.211 %) Oracle Certification 10 3 (0.211 %) OCP 10 3 (0.211 %) MCSA 11 2 (0.141 %) MCAD 11 2 (0.141 %) HND 11 2 (0.141 %) Postgraduate 11 2 (0.141 %) Cisco Certification 11 2 (0.141 %) Sun Certification 12 1 (0.070 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 1 (0.070 %) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 30 (2.114 %) QA 2 22 (1.550 %) SLA 3 1 (0.070 %) GMP	System Software 1 89 (6.272 %) Active Directory 2 21 (1.480 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 13 (0.916 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 10 (0.705 %) Oracle RMAN 5 9 (0.634 %) VMware ESX 6 4 (0.282 %) Oracle RAC 7 1 (0.070 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 1 (0.070 %) Tivoli 1 1 (0.070 %) MOM 1 1 (0.070 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (0.070 %) Nagios 1 1 (0.070 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 346 (24.38 %) Microsoft 2 296 (20.86 %) Oracle 3 121 (8.527 %) Citrix 4 58 (4.087 %) IBM 5 41 (2.889 %) VMware 6 33 (2.326 %) Cognos 7 25 (1.762 %) SAP 8 19 (1.339 %) Dundas 9 14 (0.987 %) Cisco 9 14 (0.987 %) Perforce 9 14 (0.987 %) Sage 10 13 (0.916 %) Sybase 11 11 (0.775 %) HP 12 10 (0.705 %) ESRI 13 9 (0.634 %) Autodesk 14 7 (0.493 %) CheckPoint 14 7 (0.493 %) Mapinfo 15 6 (0.423 %) CommVault 15 6 (0.423 %) NetApp 16 5 (0.352 %) VERITAS