The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 2576 3233 3495
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 22.08% 24.75% 22.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.11% 46.38% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2300 3012 3116
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.85%
All Programming Languages
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
6266 6970 8398
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 53.72% 53.35% 54.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5543 6523 7549
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
London

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1991 (39.57%) Finance
2 1807 (35.92%) SQL Server
3 1485 (29.52%) C#
4 1330 (26.44%) .NET
5 1251 (24.87%) Java
6 1164 (23.14%) Oracle
7 1011 (20.10%) Banking
8 917 (18.23%) Degree
9 905 (17.99%) Microsoft
10 891 (17.71%) Windows
11 771 (15.32%) UNIX
12 726 (14.43%) XML
13 717 (14.25%) T-SQL
14 673 (13.38%) SQL Server 2008
15 645 (12.82%) JavaScript
16 641 (12.74%) OO
17 618 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
18 608 (12.09%) MS Excel
19 587 (11.67%) ASP.NET
20 581 (11.55%) Linux
21 579 (11.51%) Agile Software Development
22 563 (11.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
23 560 (11.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
24 558 (11.09%) HTML
25 543 (10.79%) Front Office
26 529 (10.51%) Investment Banking
27 514 (10.22%) CSS
28 497 (9.879%) Computer Science
29 467 (9.282%) TDD
30 451 (8.964%) SQL Server 2005

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1330 (26.44%) .NET
2 726 (14.43%) XML
3 587 (11.67%) ASP.NET
4 558 (11.09%) HTML
5 514 (10.22%) CSS
6 364 (7.235%) WCF
7 350 (6.957%) Web Services
8 335 (6.659%) WPF
9 322 (6.400%) Spring
10 320 (6.361%) jQuery
11 255 (5.069%) Ajax
12 236 (4.691%) J2EE
13 224 (4.452%) Hibernate
14 201 (3.995%) .NET Framework
15 194 (3.856%) HTML5
16 167 (3.319%) ASP.NET MVC
17 150 (2.982%) XSLT
18 141 (2.803%) WinForms
19 108 (2.147%) WebSphere
20 103 (2.047%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 365 (7.255%) SharePoint
2 185 (3.677%) IIS
3 140 (2.783%) CMS
4 129 (2.564%) Apache
5 112 (2.226%) WebLogic
6 109 (2.167%) MS Exchange
7 88 (1.749%) SAS
8 85 (1.690%) Tomcat
9 53 (1.053%) Exchange Server 2010
10 43 (0.855%) MQSeries
11 42 (0.835%) SharePoint 2010
12 40 (0.795%) Umbraco
13 34 (0.676%) SharePoint Server
13 34 (0.676%) ESB
14 33 (0.656%) BizTalk Server
14 33 (0.656%) Exchange Server 2007
15 26 (0.517%) Oracle Coherence
15 26 (0.517%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 24 (0.477%) WebSphere Application Server
17 23 (0.457%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 608 (12.09%) MS Excel
2 242 (4.810%) MS Office
3 62 (1.232%) MS Visio
4 43 (0.855%) MS PowerPoint
5 42 (0.835%) Photoshop
6 29 (0.576%) SPSS
7 28 (0.557%) MS Project
8 27 (0.537%) Spreadsheet
9 24 (0.477%) InfoPath
10 12 (0.239%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.060%) Maya
11 3 (0.060%) Stata
11 3 (0.060%) Office 365
11 3 (0.060%) Adobe Captivate
12 2 (0.040%) Acrobat
12 2 (0.040%) Fireworks
13 1 (0.020%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.020%) PrintSoft PReS
13 1 (0.020%) CINEMA 4D
13 1 (0.020%) FastStats
Business Applications
1 52 (1.034%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.716%) Oracle EBS R12
3 33 (0.656%) Oracle EBS
4 32 (0.636%) Oracle 11i
5 29 (0.576%) Oracle Applications
6 27 (0.537%) LatentZero
7 20 (0.398%) Cognos Business Intelligence
8 19 (0.378%) Oracle ERP
8 19 (0.378%) Dynamics AX
9 17 (0.338%) Front Arena
10 11 (0.219%) RMDS
10 11 (0.219%) Google Analytics
11 9 (0.179%) SimCorp Dimension
12 8 (0.159%) Summit
12 8 (0.159%) Oracle Financials
13 7 (0.139%) Maximo
13 7 (0.139%) Dynamics GP
13 7 (0.139%) Kondor+
14 6 (0.119%) Dynamics NAV
14 6 (0.119%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 217 (4.313%) HTTP
2 138 (2.743%) TCP/IP
3 134 (2.663%) SAN
4 132 (2.624%) Internet
5 96 (1.908%) DNS
6 57 (1.133%) Intranet
6 57 (1.133%) LDAP
7 56 (1.113%) Firewall
8 35 (0.696%) DHCP
9 33 (0.656%) VPN
10 29 (0.576%) NAS
11 26 (0.517%) WAN
12 22 (0.437%) SSL
13 21 (0.417%) LAN
14 20 (0.398%) FTP
15 14 (0.278%) SMTP
16 13 (0.258%) iSCSI
17 12 (0.239%) SSH
17 12 (0.239%) Extranet
18 11 (0.219%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1807 (35.92%) SQL Server
2 673 (13.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 563 (11.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 560 (11.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 451 (8.964%) SQL Server 2005
6 447 (8.885%) Data Warehouse
7 306 (6.082%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 251 (4.989%) MySQL
9 174 (3.459%) RDBMS
10 121 (2.405%) Oracle 8/8i
11 119 (2.365%) Oracle 11g
12 115 (2.286%) Oracle 10g
13 113 (2.246%) OLAP
14 107 (2.127%) SQL Server 2000
15 90 (1.789%) SQL Server 2012
16 81 (1.610%) DB2
17 79 (1.570%) Data Mining
18 71 (1.411%) Oracle Reports
19 65 (1.292%) MS Access
20 59 (1.173%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 251 (4.989%) Visual Studio
2 198 (3.936%) Subversion
3 141 (2.803%) Team Foundation Server
4 134 (2.663%) Selenium
5 113 (2.246%) JUnit
6 104 (2.067%) Maven
7 97 (1.928%) Git (software)
8 96 (1.908%) QuickTest Pro
9 88 (1.749%) MSBuild
10 72 (1.431%) JIRA
11 70 (1.391%) TeamCity
12 62 (1.232%) NUnit
13 51 (1.014%) Eclipse
14 45 (0.894%) Cucumber
15 43 (0.855%) Hudson
16 37 (0.735%) JMeter
16 37 (0.735%) LoadRunner
16 37 (0.735%) Jenkins
17 36 (0.716%) WebDriver
17 36 (0.716%) PowerBuilder
General
1 1991 (39.57%) Finance
2 1011 (20.10%) Banking
3 543 (10.79%) Front Office
4 529 (10.51%) Investment Banking
5 173 (3.439%) Marketing
6 154 (3.061%) Back Office
6 154 (3.061%) Retail
7 152 (3.021%) Advertising
8 140 (2.783%) Legal
9 120 (2.385%) Financial Institution
10 119 (2.365%) Telecoms
11 93 (1.849%) Games
12 92 (1.829%) Law
13 52 (1.034%) Publishing
14 39 (0.775%) Music
15 27 (0.537%) Music Industry
16 25 (0.497%) Billing
17 24 (0.477%) Multimedia
18 21 (0.417%) International Banking
19 17 (0.338%) Russian Language
Job Titles
1 2180 (43.33%) Developer
2 1247 (24.79%) Analyst
3 392 (7.792%) C# Developer
4 375 (7.454%) .NET Developer
5 366 (7.275%) Support Analyst
6 362 (7.195%) Applications Support
7 344 (6.838%) Java Developer
8 317 (6.301%) Business Analyst
9 306 (6.082%) DBA
10 304 (6.043%) Senior Developer
11 235 (4.671%) SQL Developer
12 192 (3.816%) Junior
13 185 (3.677%) Consultant
14 182 (3.618%) Applications Support Analyst
15 176 (3.498%) Administrator
16 173 (3.439%) Architect
17 167 (3.319%) C# .NET Developer
18 162 (3.220%) SQL DBA
19 134 (2.663%) Software Engineer
20 128 (2.544%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 497 (9.879%) Computer Science
2 317 (6.301%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 299 (5.943%) Derivative
4 286 (5.685%) Fixed Income
5 250 (4.969%) Mathematics
6 214 (4.254%) Equities
7 170 (3.379%) Hedge funds
8 136 (2.703%) Open Source
9 103 (2.047%) Management Information System
10 99 (1.968%) Clustering
11 91 (1.809%) Replication
12 86 (1.709%) Credit Risk
13 81 (1.610%) Client/Server
14 74 (1.471%) Enterprise Software
15 68 (1.352%) Statistics
16 60 (1.193%) Inversion of Control
17 50 (0.994%) SaaS
18 49 (0.974%) Data Integration
19 46 (0.914%) Physics
20 45 (0.894%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 891 (17.71%) Windows
2 771 (15.32%) UNIX
3 581 (11.55%) Linux
4 248 (4.929%) Windows Server 2008
5 169 (3.359%) Windows Server 2003
6 115 (2.286%) Solaris
7 83 (1.650%) Android
8 76 (1.511%) Apple iOS
9 46 (0.914%) Windows 7
10 45 (0.894%) Windows XP
11 43 (0.855%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 17 (0.338%) Windows Server 2012
13 12 (0.239%) CentOS
13 12 (0.239%) HPUX
14 11 (0.219%) Windows 2000 Server
15 8 (0.159%) Windows Vista
16 7 (0.139%) Debian
16 7 (0.139%) Oracle Linux
16 7 (0.139%) Windows 8
17 6 (0.119%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 641 (12.74%) OO
2 618 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
3 579 (11.51%) Agile Software Development
4 467 (9.282%) TDD
5 435 (8.646%) MVC
6 372 (7.394%) ETL
7 353 (7.016%) Scrum
8 320 (6.361%) ITIL
9 317 (6.301%) Data Modelling
10 286 (5.685%) Multithreading
11 261 (5.188%) E-Commerce
12 248 (4.929%) Unit Testing
13 246 (4.890%) Business Analysis
14 215 (4.274%) Project Management
15 206 (4.095%) CRM
16 193 (3.836%) Asset Management
17 192 (3.816%) Risk Management
18 185 (3.677%) OOP
19 176 (3.498%) SOA
20 173 (3.439%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1485 (29.52%) C#
2 1251 (24.87%) Java
3 717 (14.25%) T-SQL
4 645 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 370 (7.354%) PL/SQL
6 321 (6.380%) Python
7 311 (6.182%) C++
8 309 (6.142%) VBA
9 308 (6.122%) Perl
10 204 (4.055%) Shell Script
11 199 (3.955%) PHP
12 173 (3.439%) VB
13 141 (2.803%) Ruby
14 125 (2.485%) VB.NET
15 108 (2.147%) PowerShell
16 88 (1.749%) C
17 79 (1.570%) Bash shell
18 59 (1.173%) VBScript
19 38 (0.755%) Groovy
20 34 (0.676%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 917 (18.23%) Degree
2 127 (2.524%) Microsoft Certification
3 110 (2.186%) ISEB
4 59 (1.173%) ISTQB
5 53 (1.053%) MCITP
6 49 (0.974%) MCSE
7 34 (0.676%) Oracle Certification
8 30 (0.596%) MCTS
9 27 (0.537%) Security Cleared
10 25 (0.497%) OCP
11 22 (0.437%) SC Cleared
11 22 (0.437%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 21 (0.417%) PhD
13 19 (0.378%) MCP
13 19 (0.378%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 16 (0.318%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.298%) CCA
15 15 (0.298%) OCA
16 14 (0.278%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.258%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (5.705%) QA
2 63 (1.252%) SLA
3 25 (0.497%) Solvency II
4 17 (0.338%) Data Quality
5 16 (0.318%) ISO 9001
6 14 (0.278%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.219%) Basel II
7 11 (0.219%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.199%) Basel III
9 4 (0.080%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.080%) COBIT
9 4 (0.080%) GAAP
10 3 (0.060%) HL7
11 2 (0.040%) WCAG
12 1 (0.020%) BS7799
System Software
1 205 (4.075%) Active Directory
2 105 (2.087%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (1.352%) Oracle RAC
4 62 (1.232%) Oracle RMAN
5 49 (0.974%) XenApp
6 37 (0.735%) vSphere
7 33 (0.656%) VMware ESX
8 29 (0.576%) Hyper-V
9 23 (0.457%) VMware ESXi
10 13 (0.258%) Xen
11 12 (0.239%) NFS
12 11 (0.219%) UAG
12 11 (0.219%) XenDesktop
13 9 (0.179%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 9 (0.179%) XenServer
14 8 (0.159%) Forefront TMG
15 7 (0.139%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
16 6 (0.119%) Terminal Services
17 5 (0.099%) Samba
17 5 (0.099%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 60 (1.193%) Data Guard
2 43 (0.855%) HP Quality Center
3 27 (0.537%) Nagios
4 19 (0.378%) HP SiteScope
5 18 (0.358%) MOM
6 16 (0.318%) Tivoli
7 15 (0.298%) Puppet
8 13 (0.258%) Backup Exec
9 12 (0.239%) Zenoss
9 12 (0.239%) SCOM
9 12 (0.239%) Oracle Statspack
10 11 (0.219%) SCCM
11 10 (0.199%) Cacti
12 8 (0.159%) Business Desktop Deployment
12 8 (0.159%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (0.139%) Control-M
14 6 (0.119%) Tivoli Monitoring
15 5 (0.099%) Plesk
15 5 (0.099%) WSUS
16 4 (0.080%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 1164 (23.14%) Oracle
2 905 (17.99%) Microsoft
3 320 (6.361%) Sybase
4 202 (4.015%) VMware
5 144 (2.862%) Business Objects
6 124 (2.465%) Citrix
7 103 (2.047%) TIBCO
8 93 (1.849%) HP
9 89 (1.769%) Cognos
10 78 (1.550%) Cisco
11 77 (1.531%) JBoss
12 69 (1.371%) IBM
13 68 (1.352%) Bloomberg
13 68 (1.352%) Facebook
14 67 (1.332%) Informatica
15 63 (1.252%) Google
16 59 (1.173%) SAP
17 58 (1.153%) Salesforce.com
18 54 (1.073%) Red Hat
19 51 (1.014%) Reuters
City of London
Based in London you will be surrounded by plethora of like minded entrepreneurial and cutting edge technical professionals.
Mint
Salary: £35000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
The C#.Net Software Developer will have excellent commercial experience as well as good exposure to ASP.Net and SQL. C#.NET Software Developer skills required: C#.Net...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Health, Pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
The role will involve design, development, analysis, support, business process review and troubleshooting.The suitable candidate must have come from a proven Software Development background in C# and...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
The suitable candidate must have come from a proven Software Development background in C# and Visual Studio with in depth knowledge of C#, Visual Studio, SQL, Oracle, Development,...
Streamline Connections
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
NET DEVELOPER - LONDON - MID-LEVEL - £40K- C# My client is currently seeking an Mid-Level .NET Developer for their offices in London. You will have at least 3yrs...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Essential skills include experience with: C# ASP.net 3.0/4.0 Entity Framework jQuery CSS MVC Advantageous skills include experience with: SQL Server Back-end This is...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus, Pension
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
The successful applicant will have the following: Extensive C# Development experience using the .NET framework. Proficiency within Object Oriented Software Design. Database knowledge; specifically Oracle/SQL. Working proficiency...
I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 35,000 - 45,000
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
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Salary: £33000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
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Salary: £33000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
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Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
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I.T. Skillfinder
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent package + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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Ashdown IT
Salary: £50000 per annum + healthcare, pension
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
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Interquest Group PLC
Salary: £37000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013
City of London
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Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
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JAM
Salary: £25000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
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Mint
Salary: £35000 - £70000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
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Stott & May
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
Microsoft BI Developers/Support analysts- SSIS, SSAS, SSRS/ Data warehousing/ETL/MS SQL Server 2005/2008- Permanent - London - No travel... MS Analysis Services (SSAS) for complex cube reporting...
Experis IT
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
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Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £80000 - £90000 per annum + Excellent Banking Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
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Dakota 6
Salary: From £60,000 to £60,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
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Vadis People
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + substantial bonus potential
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
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Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits, Bonus + Training Budget
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
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Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
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JAM
Salary: £40000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013