The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 4 4 16
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 52 66 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 19.92% 19.24% 11.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.67% 34.55% 21.92%
Number of salaries quoted 51 55 32
Average salary £51,500 £42,500 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.17% +9.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
150 191 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 57.47% 55.69% 50.87%
Number of salaries quoted 135 174 139
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £33,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £70,750 £52,500
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 Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Croydon SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 51 (51.00%) Finance
2 43 (43.00%) Oracle
3 31 (31.00%) SQL Server
4 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
5 22 (22.00%) PL/SQL
6 19 (19.00%) UNIX
6 19 (19.00%) Oracle Financials
6 19 (19.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 18 (18.00%) .NET
8 17 (17.00%) C#
8 17 (17.00%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (14.00%) Windows
10 13 (13.00%) ASP.NET
11 12 (12.00%) MS Excel
12 11 (11.00%) SharePoint
12 11 (11.00%) Project Management
12 11 (11.00%) Retail
12 11 (11.00%) Business Analysis
13 10 (10.00%) ERP
13 10 (10.00%) T-SQL
13 10 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (9.000%) Oracle EBS R12
14 9 (9.000%) XML
14 9 (9.000%) MS Exchange
14 9 (9.000%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (9.000%) Oracle 11g
15 8 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
15 8 (8.000%) Oracle Applications
15 8 (8.000%) Oracle 11i
15 8 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 18 (18.00%) .NET
2 13 (13.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (9.000%) XML
4 8 (8.000%) Web Services
5 7 (7.000%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (7.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 6 (6.000%) CSS
7 5 (5.000%) HTML
8 4 (4.000%) HTML5
8 4 (4.000%) CSS3
8 4 (4.000%) WinForms
8 4 (4.000%) WCF
8 4 (4.000%) jQuery
9 3 (3.000%) ASP
10 1 (1.000%) Swing
10 1 (1.000%) XHTML
10 1 (1.000%) Spring
10 1 (1.000%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (9.000%) MS Exchange
3 8 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (4.000%) Lync
6 3 (3.000%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (3.000%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (3.000%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (3.000%) SAS
7 2 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (2.000%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (1.000%) IIS
8 1 (1.000%) ColdFusion
8 1 (1.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.000%) CMS
8 1 (1.000%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (1.000%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (1.000%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 12 (12.00%) MS Excel
2 7 (7.000%) MS Office
3 6 (6.000%) MS Project
4 4 (4.000%) Office 365
5 1 (1.000%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.000%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 19 (19.00%) Oracle Financials
2 9 (9.000%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (8.000%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (8.000%) Oracle 11i
4 6 (6.000%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.000%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.000%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (1.000%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.000%) DNS
2 3 (3.000%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.000%) DHCP
2 3 (3.000%) Firewall
3 2 (2.000%) FTP
3 2 (2.000%) LAN
3 2 (2.000%) WAN
3 2 (2.000%) SMTP
3 2 (2.000%) VPN
4 1 (1.000%) DMZ
4 1 (1.000%) IPsec
4 1 (1.000%) VLAN
4 1 (1.000%) Network Security
4 1 (1.000%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (19.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (17.00%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (9.000%) Oracle 11g
5 8 (8.000%) TOAD
6 7 (7.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (6.000%) Oracle 10g
8 5 (5.000%) Oracle Discoverer
8 5 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (4.000%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.000%) OLTP
10 3 (3.000%) SQLPlus
10 3 (3.000%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.000%) SQL Server 2005
11 2 (2.000%) PerformancePoint
11 2 (2.000%) dBASE
11 2 (2.000%) Ingres
12 1 (1.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (1.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (8.000%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (3.000%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (3.000%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (3.000%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.000%) TestPartner
3 2 (2.000%) QARun
3 2 (2.000%) Selenium
3 2 (2.000%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.000%) LoadRunner
3 2 (2.000%) TestDirector
4 1 (1.000%) AdminStudio
4 1 (1.000%) MSTest
General
1 51 (51.00%) Finance
2 11 (11.00%) Retail
3 7 (7.000%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (5.000%) Marketing
5 1 (1.000%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (25.00%) Analyst
1 25 (25.00%) DBA
2 20 (20.00%) Administrator
3 16 (16.00%) Developer
4 10 (10.00%) Consultant
5 9 (9.000%) Business Analyst
5 9 (9.000%) Support Analyst
6 8 (8.000%) Applications Support
7 7 (7.000%) Oracle DBA
7 7 (7.000%) .NET Developer
7 7 (7.000%) SQL DBA
8 6 (6.000%) ASP.NET Developer
8 6 (6.000%) SQL Server DBA
9 5 (5.000%) Server Administrator
10 4 (4.000%) Oracle Analyst
10 4 (4.000%) Oracle Support Analyst
10 4 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (4.000%) Applications Support Analyst
10 4 (4.000%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.000%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.000%) Mathematics
3 3 (3.000%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.000%) Data Extraction
4 2 (2.000%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.000%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.000%) Statistics
5 1 (1.000%) iPhone
5 1 (1.000%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.000%) PMI
5 1 (1.000%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.000%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.00%) UNIX
2 14 (14.00%) Windows
3 10 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (8.000%) Linux
5 7 (7.000%) AIX
6 4 (4.000%) Solaris
6 4 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.000%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.000%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.000%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (11.00%) Project Management
1 11 (11.00%) Business Analysis
2 10 (10.00%) ERP
3 9 (9.000%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (7.000%) MVC
6 6 (6.000%) Configuration Management
6 6 (6.000%) ITIL
7 5 (5.000%) PRINCE2
7 5 (5.000%) Migration
7 5 (5.000%) Scrum
7 5 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (4.000%) Data Analysis
8 4 (4.000%) Test Scripting
8 4 (4.000%) System Testing
8 4 (4.000%) Customer Insight
9 3 (3.000%) User Stories
9 3 (3.000%) Unit Testing
9 3 (3.000%) Integration Testing
9 3 (3.000%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.00%) PL/SQL
2 17 (17.00%) C#
3 10 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (8.000%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.000%) VB.NET
6 6 (6.000%) VB
7 5 (5.000%) VBScript
7 5 (5.000%) Java
8 4 (4.000%) PHP
9 3 (3.000%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.000%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.000%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.000%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (7.000%) Degree
3 5 (5.000%) MCSE
3 5 (5.000%) MCTS
3 5 (5.000%) MCITP
4 2 (2.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (2.000%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.000%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.000%) ACCA
5 1 (1.000%) CIMA
5 1 (1.000%) MCSA
5 1 (1.000%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.000%) QA
2 2 (2.000%) SLA
3 1 (1.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.000%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.000%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.000%) Hyper-V
2 3 (3.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (3.000%) vSphere
3 2 (2.000%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.000%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.000%) XenApp
4 1 (1.000%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.000%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (5.000%) SCCM
2 4 (4.000%) SCOM
3 3 (3.000%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.000%) Nagios
4 1 (1.000%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 43 (43.00%) Oracle
2 24 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.000%) Pegasus
4 6 (6.000%) VMware
5 3 (3.000%) Cisco
5 3 (3.000%) Sybase
6 2 (2.000%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.000%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.000%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.000%) Adobe
7 1 (1.000%) Nortel
7 1 (1.000%) Citrix
7 1 (1.000%) Avaya
7 1 (1.000%) NetApp
7 1 (1.000%) Mitel
7 1 (1.000%) Acunetix
7 1 (1.000%) Dialogic
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