The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Docklands, London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 5 5
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 33 51 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 17.37% 18.61% 26.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.50% 49.51% 53.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29 38 81
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £33,250 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £92,500 £75,000 £74,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Docklands, London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
88 103 307
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Docklands, London 46.32% 37.59% 50.16%
Number of salaries quoted 61 83 138
Average salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% +4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £47,500 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £86,000 £75,000 £83,400
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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Docklands, London SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, 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 46 (69.70%) Finance
2 22 (33.33%) Banking
3 21 (31.82%) Investment Banking
3 21 (31.82%) SQL Server
4 20 (30.30%) C#
4 20 (30.30%) Oracle
5 17 (25.76%) XML
5 17 (25.76%) HTML
6 15 (22.73%) .NET
6 15 (22.73%) Web Services
7 14 (21.21%) Scrum
8 13 (19.70%) Degree
8 13 (19.70%) QA
8 13 (19.70%) Windows
9 12 (18.18%) Java
9 12 (18.18%) HTTP
10 11 (16.67%) LoadRunner
10 11 (16.67%) TDD
11 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
11 10 (15.15%) Test Scripting
11 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
11 10 (15.15%) HP
11 10 (15.15%) OO
11 10 (15.15%) BDD
12 9 (13.64%) MS Excel
12 9 (13.64%) Performance Testing
12 9 (13.64%) Fiddler
13 8 (12.12%) WCF
13 8 (12.12%) Advertising
13 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Docklands, 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 17 (25.76%) XML
1 17 (25.76%) HTML
2 15 (22.73%) .NET
2 15 (22.73%) Web Services
3 8 (12.12%) WCF
4 7 (10.61%) Hibernate
4 7 (10.61%) Spring
5 6 (9.091%) Java EE
6 5 (7.576%) CSS
6 5 (7.576%) ASP.NET
6 5 (7.576%) JMS
6 5 (7.576%) jBPM
6 5 (7.576%) WPF
6 5 (7.576%) JPA
6 5 (7.576%) JTA
6 5 (7.576%) OSGi
6 5 (7.576%) Gherkin
7 4 (6.061%) jQuery
7 4 (6.061%) WF
8 3 (4.545%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.091%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (3.030%) CMS
3 1 (1.515%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.515%) TeamSite
3 1 (1.515%) Liferay
3 1 (1.515%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 9 (13.64%) MS Excel
2 7 (10.61%) MS Office
3 2 (3.030%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.515%) MS Project
4 1 (1.515%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.576%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.515%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) HTTP
2 6 (9.091%) FTP
3 4 (6.061%) Firewall
3 4 (6.061%) DNS
3 4 (6.061%) WAN
4 1 (1.515%) ATM
4 1 (1.515%) LAN
4 1 (1.515%) SMTP
4 1 (1.515%) SNMP
4 1 (1.515%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.515%) DWDM
4 1 (1.515%) MPLS
4 1 (1.515%) Intranet
4 1 (1.515%) Internet
4 1 (1.515%) Frame Relay
4 1 (1.515%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (31.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (7.576%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.061%) Xcelsius
5 3 (4.545%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (3.030%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.030%) OLAP
7 1 (1.515%) DB2
7 1 (1.515%) DTS
7 1 (1.515%) MS Access
7 1 (1.515%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.515%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.515%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.515%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.515%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.515%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.515%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 9 (13.64%) Fiddler
3 5 (7.576%) JBehave
3 5 (7.576%) Cucumber
4 4 (6.061%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (3.030%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.030%) Maven
7 1 (1.515%) JUnit
7 1 (1.515%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (1.515%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.515%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.515%) JIRA
7 1 (1.515%) Selenium
7 1 (1.515%) Subversion
7 1 (1.515%) NUnit
7 1 (1.515%) Moq
7 1 (1.515%) MSTest
7 1 (1.515%) MSBuild
General
1 46 (69.70%) Finance
2 22 (33.33%) Banking
3 21 (31.82%) Investment Banking
4 8 (12.12%) Advertising
5 4 (6.061%) Publishing
5 4 (6.061%) Front Office
6 3 (4.545%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.515%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 25 (37.88%) Developer
2 11 (16.67%) Analyst
3 9 (13.64%) Architect
3 9 (13.64%) Performance Test Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) C# Developer
3 9 (13.64%) Test Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Performance Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.091%) Technical Leader
5 6 (9.091%) .NET Developer
5 6 (9.091%) Team Leader
5 6 (9.091%) Administrator
6 5 (7.576%) Software Architect
6 5 (7.576%) Software Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Java Architect
6 5 (7.576%) Software Team Leader
6 5 (7.576%) SQL Developer
6 5 (7.576%) Technical Team Leader
6 5 (7.576%) Java Team Leader
6 5 (7.576%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
2 7 (10.61%) Clustering
3 6 (9.091%) Tandem
4 4 (6.061%) Market Risk
5 3 (4.545%) Replication
5 3 (4.545%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.545%) SaaS
6 1 (1.515%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.515%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.515%) W3C
6 1 (1.515%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.515%) Derivative
6 1 (1.515%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.515%) RIA
6 1 (1.515%) Social Network
6 1 (1.515%) Equities
6 1 (1.515%) IaaS
6 1 (1.515%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Windows
2 8 (12.12%) UNIX
3 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.545%) Linux
5 1 (1.515%) Windows NT
5 1 (1.515%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.21%) Scrum
2 11 (16.67%) TDD
3 10 (15.15%) Test Scripting
3 10 (15.15%) OO
3 10 (15.15%) BDD
4 9 (13.64%) Performance Testing
5 8 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (12.12%) SOA
6 7 (10.61%) ITIL
7 6 (9.091%) Performance Management
7 6 (9.091%) Risk Management
8 5 (7.576%) OOD
8 5 (7.576%) BPEL
8 5 (7.576%) Asset Management
8 5 (7.576%) Parallel Processing
9 4 (6.061%) Analytics
9 4 (6.061%) Workflow
10 3 (4.545%) UML
10 3 (4.545%) RAD
10 3 (4.545%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) C#
2 12 (18.18%) Java
3 8 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.091%) PL/SQL
4 6 (9.091%) T-SQL
4 6 (9.091%) VBA
5 4 (6.061%) Python
6 3 (4.545%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.545%) IronPython
7 2 (3.030%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.030%) Perl
8 1 (1.515%) VBScript
8 1 (1.515%) VB
8 1 (1.515%) C
8 1 (1.515%) C++
8 1 (1.515%) Groovy
8 1 (1.515%) Korn
8 1 (1.515%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Degree
2 1 (1.515%) MCDBA
2 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.515%) MCTS
2 1 (1.515%) MCITP
2 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Certified Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.70%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.576%) Active Directory
1 5 (7.576%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.515%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.515%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Oracle
2 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) HP
3 5 (7.576%) JBoss
4 4 (6.061%) Charles River
4 4 (6.061%) SAP
5 3 (4.545%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.515%) Sybase
6 1 (1.515%) Cisco
6 1 (1.515%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.515%) Embarcadero
6 1 (1.515%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.515%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.515%) Advent
6 1 (1.515%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.515%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.515%) F5
6 1 (1.515%) Acunetix