England ODBC Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ODBC over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barnet Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Crewe Croydon Darlington Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Motherwell North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Orpington Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Trowbridge UK Wales Warminster Warrington Watford Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	601	574
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching permanent IT job ads	341	447
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.167 %	0.198 %
As % of the category below	0.543 %	0.655 %
Salaries quoted	280	353
Average minimum salary	£40,641	£35,814
Average salary	£43,335	£38,313
% change on same period last year	+13.10 %
Average maximum salary	£46,029	£40,811
UK excluding London average salary	£34,130	£34,526
% change on same period last year	-1.14 %
Application Development England
Matching permanent IT job ads	62788	68252
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	30.79 %	30.22 %
Salaries quoted	53566	56492
Average minimum salary	£37,367	£38,671
Average salary	£41,064	£42,536
% change on same period last year	-3.45 %
Average maximum salary	£44,762	£46,400
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
ODBC UK

ODBC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing ODBC across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ODBC
Salary Trend

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

ODBC
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ODBC across the England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	London	+32	183	£51,840	+16.66 %
2	South East	-48	50	£35,647	-1.40 %
3	North West	+20	34	£29,175	-4.70 %
4	East of England	-30	20	£29,469	-10.88 %
4	South West	-39	20	£34,025	-6.20 %
5	West Midlands	-15	16	£39,533	-7.52 %
6	Yorkshire	-30	11	£34,583	+31.92 %
7	East Midlands	-23	4	£30,667	-6.54 %
8	North East	-3	2	£41,250	+50.00 %

ODBC UK

ODBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing ODBC also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ODBC.

1 410 (61.93 %) SQL 2 293 (44.26 %) SQL Server 3 251 (37.92 %) Oracle 4 219 (33.08 %) Finance 5 190 (28.70 %) Windows 6 164 (24.77 %) JDBC 7 163 (24.62 %) ADO 8 141 (21.30 %) .NET 9 126 (19.03 %) Unix 10 125 (18.88 %) C# 11 120 (18.13 %) Microsoft 12 117 (17.67 %) C++ 13 113 (17.07 %) Banking 14 112 (16.92 %) XML 14 112 (16.92 %) SQL Server 2000

15 98 (14.80 %) VB 16 94 (14.20 %) MS Excel 17 93 (14.05 %) Java 18 88 (13.29 %) VBA 18 88 (13.29 %) Sybase 19 83 (12.54 %) HTML 20 80 (12.08 %) SQL Server 2005 21 76 (11.48 %) MFC 22 74 (11.18 %) VC++ 23 67 (10.12 %) DAO 24 65 (9.819 %) Windows 2000 25 64 (9.668 %) Oracle 10g 26 62 (9.366 %) Data Management 27 60 (9.063 %) ASP.NET 27 60 (9.063 %) Transact-SQL

ODBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing ODBC also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ODBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 164 (24.77 %) JDBC 2 163 (24.62 %) ADO 3 141 (21.30 %) .NET 4 112 (16.92 %) XML 5 83 (12.54 %) HTML 6 76 (11.48 %) MFC 7 67 (10.12 %) DAO 8 60 (9.063 %) ASP.NET 9 47 (7.100 %) ASP 10 45 (6.798 %) WebSphere 11 42 (6.344 %) J2EE 12 35 (5.287 %) COM+ 13 31 (4.683 %) JMS 14 26 (3.927 %) Middleware 14 26 (3.927 %) OLE DB 14 26 (3.927 %) WebServices 14 26 (3.927 %) SOAP 15 24 (3.625 %) COM 15 24 (3.625 %) OLE 15 24 (3.625 %) FIX Protocol	Application Platforms 1 47 (7.100 %) IIS 2 28 (4.230 %) Tomcat 3 23 (3.474 %) WebSphere Message Broker 4 22 (3.323 %) WebLogic 5 20 (3.021 %) CICS 6 16 (2.417 %) Apache 7 14 (2.115 %) MQSeries 7 14 (2.115 %) SharePoint 8 11 (1.662 %) CMS 9 7 (1.057 %) Oracle Workflow 9 7 (1.057 %) MS Exchange 10 5 (0.755 %) Lotus Notes 10 5 (0.755 %) MTS 11 4 (0.604 %) BizTalk Server 11 4 (0.604 %) JBoss 12 3 (0.453 %) Tamino 12 3 (0.453 %) Oracle Application Server 13 1 (0.151 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 1 (0.151 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 1 (0.151 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 94 (14.20 %) MS Excel 2 42 (6.344 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.302 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.151 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 11 (1.662 %) Oracle 11i 1 11 (1.662 %) Oracle Applications 2 10 (1.511 %) BPCS 3 8 (1.208 %) RMDS 4 6 (0.906 %) Cognos Planning 5 4 (0.604 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 5 4 (0.604 %) HFM 6 1 (0.151 %) SAP CRM 6 1 (0.151 %) Line 100 6 1 (0.151 %) Line 500 6 1 (0.151 %) Sage MMS 6 1 (0.151 %) Line 50
Communications & Networking 1 53 (8.006 %) TCP/IP 2 16 (2.417 %) Internet 3 13 (1.964 %) Intranet 3 13 (1.964 %) HTTP 4 12 (1.813 %) LDAP 4 12 (1.813 %) HTTPS 5 11 (1.662 %) Firewall 5 11 (1.662 %) FTP 6 7 (1.057 %) 2G 6 7 (1.057 %) 3G 7 5 (0.755 %) LAN 8 4 (0.604 %) DNS 9 3 (0.453 %) WAN 9 3 (0.453 %) SMTP 9 3 (0.453 %) DHCP 9 3 (0.453 %) VPN 9 3 (0.453 %) WINS 10 2 (0.302 %) WLAN 10 2 (0.302 %) POP3 10 2 (0.302 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 293 (44.26 %) SQL Server 2 112 (16.92 %) SQL Server 2000 3 80 (12.08 %) SQL Server 2005 4 64 (9.668 %) Oracle 10g 5 54 (8.157 %) RDBMS 6 53 (8.006 %) Datawarehouse 7 50 (7.553 %) ETL 8 48 (7.251 %) Oracle 9i 9 40 (6.042 %) SQL Server 7 10 33 (4.985 %) MS Access 11 27 (4.079 %) Crystal Reports 12 21 (3.172 %) DB2 13 18 (2.719 %) DTS 14 17 (2.568 %) BusinessObjects 15 15 (2.266 %) MySQL 16 13 (1.964 %) Oracle 8/8i 17 11 (1.662 %) Oracle Reports 17 11 (1.662 %) VLDB 18 9 (1.360 %) Sybase ASE 19 8 (1.208 %) SQL Anywhere
Development Applications 1 51 (7.704 %) Visual Studio 2 16 (2.417 %) TestDirector 3 14 (2.115 %) Ant 4 11 (1.662 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 8 (1.208 %) QuickTest Pro 6 6 (0.906 %) ClearCase 6 6 (0.906 %) LSMW 7 5 (0.755 %) Eclipse 8 2 (0.302 %) LabVIEW 8 2 (0.302 %) FrontPage 9 1 (0.151 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 9 1 (0.151 %) ProC 9 1 (0.151 %) JUnit 9 1 (0.151 %) PVCS	General 1 219 (33.08 %) Finance 2 113 (17.07 %) Banking 3 57 (8.610 %) Investment Banking 4 33 (4.985 %) Construction 5 28 (4.230 %) Pensions 6 21 (3.172 %) Marketing 7 20 (3.021 %) Insurance 8 14 (2.115 %) Education 8 14 (2.115 %) Health 9 13 (1.964 %) Advertising 10 10 (1.511 %) Front Office 11 9 (1.360 %) Publishing 12 8 (1.208 %) Financial Institution 12 8 (1.208 %) Telecoms 13 4 (0.604 %) Billing 14 3 (0.453 %) Games 14 3 (0.453 %) Pharmaceutical 14 3 (0.453 %) Back Office 15 2 (0.302 %) Government 15 2 (0.302 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 263 (39.73 %) Developer 2 121 (18.28 %) Analyst 3 120 (18.13 %) DBA 4 62 (9.366 %) Oracle DBA 5 54 (8.157 %) Support Analyst 6 44 (6.647 %) VBA Developer 7 43 (6.495 %) Software Engineer 8 41 (6.193 %) Administrator 9 35 (5.287 %) .NET Developer 10 33 (4.985 %) Java Developer 10 33 (4.985 %) SQL DBA 11 31 (4.683 %) Senior Developer 12 29 (4.381 %) Excel Developer 13 28 (4.230 %) C++ Developer 13 28 (4.230 %) RAD Developer 14 27 (4.079 %) Java/J2EE Developer 14 27 (4.079 %) J2EE Developer 15 26 (3.927 %) Programmer 16 25 (3.776 %) Consultant 17 23 (3.474 %) Senior Java Developer	Miscellaneous 1 47 (7.100 %) Client/Server 2 27 (4.079 %) Equities 3 26 (3.927 %) Multithreading 4 22 (3.323 %) Replication 5 21 (3.172 %) Mainframe 6 18 (2.719 %) N-Tier 7 12 (1.813 %) Clustering 7 12 (1.813 %) Computer Science 8 10 (1.511 %) Fund Management 9 6 (0.906 %) Asset Management 9 6 (0.906 %) Derivative 9 6 (0.906 %) Management Information System 9 6 (0.906 %) BBC 10 5 (0.755 %) E-Learning 10 5 (0.755 %) VLE 11 4 (0.604 %) Fixed Income 12 3 (0.453 %) W3C 12 3 (0.453 %) French Language 13 2 (0.302 %) German Language 13 2 (0.302 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 190 (28.70 %) Windows 2 126 (19.03 %) Unix 3 65 (9.819 %) Windows 2000 4 37 (5.589 %) AIX 5 36 (5.438 %) Solaris 6 33 (4.985 %) Linux 7 30 (4.532 %) Windows NT 8 28 (4.230 %) Windows XP 9 24 (3.625 %) HPUX 10 19 (2.870 %) zOS 10 19 (2.870 %) MVS 11 13 (1.964 %) Windows Server 2003 12 8 (1.208 %) Windows Mobile 13 2 (0.302 %) OS/390 14 1 (0.151 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 62 (9.366 %) Data Management 2 47 (7.100 %) RAD 3 40 (6.042 %) CRM 4 21 (3.172 %) ERP 4 21 (3.172 %) Web Development 5 20 (3.021 %) Unit Testing 6 19 (2.870 %) Investment Management 7 18 (2.719 %) OO 8 16 (2.417 %) Business Intelligence 8 16 (2.417 %) BPM 9 15 (2.266 %) ITIL 10 14 (2.115 %) Project Management 10 14 (2.115 %) Process Management 10 14 (2.115 %) Regression Testing 11 13 (1.964 %) Content Management 12 12 (1.813 %) Software Testing 13 11 (1.662 %) BPEL 14 10 (1.511 %) Workflow 14 10 (1.511 %) Knowledge Management 14 10 (1.511 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 410 (61.93 %) SQL 2 125 (18.88 %) C# 3 117 (17.67 %) C++ 4 98 (14.80 %) VB 5 93 (14.05 %) Java 6 88 (13.29 %) VBA 7 74 (11.18 %) VC++ 8 60 (9.063 %) Transact-SQL 9 50 (7.553 %) PL/SQL 10 49 (7.402 %) Shell Script 11 47 (7.100 %) JavaScript 12 43 (6.495 %) VBScript 13 40 (6.042 %) VB6 14 35 (5.287 %) VB.NET 15 27 (4.079 %) C 16 23 (3.474 %) Perl 17 22 (3.323 %) COBOL 18 20 (3.021 %) Assembly Language 19 19 (2.870 %) JCL 20 14 (2.115 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 47 (7.100 %) Degree 2 12 (1.813 %) Sun Certification 2 12 (1.813 %) Microsoft Certification 3 11 (1.662 %) ISEB 4 10 (1.511 %) SCJD 5 6 (0.906 %) ACCA 5 6 (0.906 %) CIMA 6 4 (0.604 %) MCSD 7 3 (0.453 %) MCSE 8 2 (0.302 %) HNC 8 2 (0.302 %) HND 8 2 (0.302 %) OCP 8 2 (0.302 %) Oracle Certification 9 1 (0.151 %) Cisco Certification 9 1 (0.151 %) CCNA 9 1 (0.151 %) Security+ Certification 9 1 (0.151 %) ITIL Certification 9 1 (0.151 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 25 (3.776 %) QA 2 7 (1.057 %) ISO9001 3 4 (0.604 %) SLA 4 3 (0.453 %) GMP 4 3 (0.453 %) GxP	System Software 1 57 (8.610 %) Oracle RAC 2 27 (4.079 %) Active Directory 3 22 (3.323 %) Oracle RMAN 4 4 (0.604 %) ClearTrust 5 1 (0.151 %) Xen 5 1 (0.151 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (0.151 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (0.151 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.151 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.151 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 18 (2.719 %) OMEGAMON 2 1 (0.151 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 1 (0.151 %) MOM 2 1 (0.151 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (0.151 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (0.151 %) DameWare 2 1 (0.151 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 251 (37.92 %) Oracle 2 120 (18.13 %) Microsoft 3 88 (13.29 %) Sybase 4 30 (4.532 %) IBM 5 29 (4.381 %) SAP 5 29 (4.381 %) TIBCO 6 24 (3.625 %) CA 7 23 (3.474 %) Reuters 8 22 (3.323 %) Sun 9 21 (3.172 %) Bloomberg 10 18 (2.719 %) Compuware 11 17 (2.568 %) Business Objects 12 16 (2.417 %) HP 13 12 (1.813 %) Cognos 14 11 (1.662 %) Serena 14 11 (1.662 %) Citrix 15 9 (1.360 %) webMethods 15 9 (1.360 %) Mercator 16 7 (1.057 %) Mapinfo 16 7 (1.057 %) NetSuite