England SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the England 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds 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 Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	3
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	31117	41514
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	18.01 %	17.86 %
As % of the category below	40.68 %	40.47 %
Salaries quoted	26737	34158
Average minimum salary	£37,783	£38,879
Average salary	£41,209	£42,378
% change on same period last year	-2.75 %
Average maximum salary	£44,636	£45,876
UK excluding London average salary	£35,221	£35,464
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	76493	102578
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.28 %	44.14 %
Salaries quoted	65924	84053
Average minimum salary	£37,720	£39,179
Average salary	£41,463	£43,030
% change on same period last year	-3.64 %
Average maximum salary	£45,207	£46,880
UK excluding London average salary	£35,506	£35,791
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 England region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
London	+1	14682	£48,714	-2.66 %
South East	-1	5835	£37,883	+0.42 %
East of England	-1	2212	£36,721	+0.13 %
North West	-1	2080	£32,253	-3.83 %
South West	-1	2011	£32,581	-3.45 %
Yorkshire	-1	1830	£32,565	+4.15 %
West Midlands	+1	1405	£33,110	-4.59 %
East Midlands	0	998	£33,658	+2.49 %
North East	0	155	£34,580	+2.55 %
Midlands	-10	53	£44,750	+21.37 %
South Coast	-9	4	£29,250	-30.70 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 22948 (34.65 %) SQL Server 2 21566 (32.56 %) .NET 3 17386 (26.25 %) Oracle 4 16471 (24.87 %) C# 5 15264 (23.05 %) Finance 6 12966 (19.58 %) Windows 7 12006 (18.13 %) XML 8 11469 (17.32 %) Java 9 11081 (16.73 %) ASP.NET 10 11066 (16.71 %) Microsoft 11 10517 (15.88 %) UNIX 12 8479 (12.80 %) HTML 13 7950 (12.00 %) Degree 14 7899 (11.93 %) VB 15 7687 (11.61 %) JavaScript

16 7600 (11.47 %) Transact-SQL 17 7559 (11.41 %) SQL Server 2005 18 7304 (11.03 %) MS Excel 19 7122 (10.75 %) PL/SQL 20 6394 (9.654 %) VB.NET 21 6160 (9.300 %) Banking 22 5660 (8.546 %) OO 23 5583 (8.429 %) Linux 24 5478 (8.271 %) C++ 25 5382 (8.126 %) SQL Server 2000 26 5004 (7.555 %) CSS 27 4738 (7.154 %) ASP 28 4417 (6.669 %) Windows Server 2003 29 4275 (6.454 %) J2EE 30 4115 (6.213 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 21566 (32.56 %) .NET 2 12006 (18.13 %) XML 3 11081 (16.73 %) ASP.NET 4 8479 (12.80 %) HTML 5 5004 (7.555 %) CSS 6 4738 (7.154 %) ASP 7 4275 (6.454 %) J2EE 8 4115 (6.213 %) WebServices 9 3201 (4.833 %) AJAX 10 2543 (3.839 %) .NET Framework 11 1990 (3.005 %) XSLT 12 1968 (2.971 %) JSP 13 1915 (2.891 %) XHTML 14 1869 (2.822 %) Spring 15 1865 (2.816 %) WinForms 16 1495 (2.257 %) Hibernate 17 1405 (2.121 %) WebSphere 18 1144 (1.727 %) Servlets 19 1102 (1.664 %) JDBC 20 1070 (1.616 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 3447 (5.204 %) IIS 2 2547 (3.846 %) SharePoint 3 1912 (2.887 %) MS Exchange 4 1715 (2.589 %) Apache 5 1323 (1.997 %) SAS 6 1291 (1.949 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1257 (1.898 %) Tomcat 8 1039 (1.569 %) WebLogic 9 871 (1.315 %) BizTalk Server 10 864 (1.304 %) CMS 11 863 (1.303 %) SharePoint Server 2007 12 826 (1.247 %) JBoss 13 422 (0.637 %) ColdFusion 14 412 (0.622 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 404 (0.610 %) MQSeries 16 333 (0.503 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 323 (0.488 %) Exchange Server 2007 18 288 (0.435 %) Oracle Workflow 19 280 (0.423 %) Oracle Application Server 20 242 (0.365 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 7304 (11.03 %) MS Excel 2 2457 (3.710 %) MS Office 3 660 (0.996 %) MS Visio 4 566 (0.855 %) Photoshop 5 489 (0.738 %) SPSS 6 369 (0.557 %) Spreadsheet 7 319 (0.482 %) MS Project 8 244 (0.368 %) MS PowerPoint 9 142 (0.214 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 126 (0.190 %) MATLAB 11 81 (0.122 %) InfoPath 12 69 (0.104 %) Fireworks 13 49 (0.074 %) CA Clarity 14 33 (0.050 %) FreeHand 15 24 (0.036 %) ImageReady 16 21 (0.032 %) AutoCAD 17 16 (0.024 %) 3ds Max 18 14 (0.021 %) S-PLUS 19 12 (0.018 %) QuarkXPress 19 12 (0.018 %) RoboHelp	Business Applications 1 813 (1.227 %) Oracle Applications 2 481 (0.726 %) Oracle EBS 3 417 (0.630 %) Oracle 11i 4 373 (0.563 %) Microsoft CRM 5 285 (0.430 %) Oracle Financials 6 222 (0.335 %) Dynamics CRM 7 167 (0.252 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 8 144 (0.217 %) Endur 9 118 (0.178 %) Navision 10 96 (0.145 %) Dynamics AX 11 93 (0.140 %) Summit 12 87 (0.131 %) Dynamics NAV 13 77 (0.116 %) SAP Business One 14 67 (0.101 %) Axapta 15 60 (0.091 %) Google Analytics 16 59 (0.089 %) Movex 17 58 (0.088 %) SAP Retail 18 55 (0.083 %) GoldMine 19 53 (0.080 %) Oracle HRMS 20 52 (0.079 %) Unica Affinium
Communications & Networking 1 2734 (4.128 %) Internet 2 2191 (3.308 %) TCP/IP 3 1339 (2.022 %) WAN 4 1337 (2.019 %) Firewall 5 1245 (1.880 %) LAN 6 1222 (1.845 %) SAN 7 1035 (1.563 %) Intranet 8 993 (1.499 %) DNS 9 869 (1.312 %) HTTP 10 693 (1.046 %) VPN 11 542 (0.818 %) DHCP 12 357 (0.539 %) SMTP 13 346 (0.522 %) FTP 14 270 (0.408 %) VoIP 15 261 (0.394 %) Wireless 16 260 (0.393 %) LDAP 17 206 (0.311 %) SMS 18 158 (0.239 %) Extranet 19 140 (0.211 %) SSL 20 138 (0.208 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22948 (34.65 %) SQL Server 2 7559 (11.41 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5382 (8.126 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3578 (5.402 %) Datawarehouse 5 3426 (5.173 %) RDBMS 6 3173 (4.791 %) Oracle 10g 7 2615 (3.948 %) MySQL 8 2527 (3.815 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 2395 (3.616 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 2383 (3.598 %) Oracle 9i 11 2299 (3.471 %) Crystal Reports 12 2172 (3.279 %) DTS 13 2009 (3.033 %) ETL 14 1896 (2.863 %) BusinessObjects 15 1756 (2.651 %) Oracle Reports 16 1438 (2.171 %) DB2 17 1248 (1.884 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 1182 (1.785 %) OLAP 19 1179 (1.780 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 20 1170 (1.766 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2598 (3.923 %) Visual Studio 2 1220 (1.842 %) Oracle Forms 3 883 (1.333 %) JUnit 4 855 (1.291 %) Eclipse 5 822 (1.241 %) Flash 6 700 (1.057 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 698 (1.054 %) Ant 8 656 (0.990 %) Subversion 9 495 (0.747 %) TestDirector 10 474 (0.716 %) QuickTest Pro 11 322 (0.486 %) ClearCase 12 288 (0.435 %) NUnit 13 262 (0.396 %) Dreamweaver 14 234 (0.353 %) WinRunner 15 232 (0.350 %) LoadRunner 16 197 (0.297 %) JDeveloper 17 185 (0.279 %) ProC 18 143 (0.216 %) Rational Rose 19 132 (0.199 %) Selenium 20 129 (0.195 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 15264 (23.05 %) Finance 2 6160 (9.300 %) Banking 3 3466 (5.233 %) Front Office 4 3180 (4.801 %) Pensions 5 2880 (4.348 %) Investment Banking 6 2871 (4.335 %) Insurance 7 2715 (4.099 %) Health 8 2620 (3.956 %) Marketing 9 2306 (3.482 %) Retail 10 1733 (2.617 %) Telecoms 11 1672 (2.524 %) Education 12 1379 (2.082 %) Back Office 13 779 (1.176 %) Government 14 764 (1.154 %) Games 15 727 (1.098 %) Law 16 724 (1.093 %) Legal 17 714 (1.078 %) Financial Institution 18 468 (0.707 %) Publishing 19 466 (0.704 %) Manufacturing 20 459 (0.693 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 28241 (42.64 %) Developer 2 14543 (21.96 %) Analyst 3 6427 (9.704 %) .NET Developer 4 5196 (7.845 %) DBA 5 5009 (7.563 %) C# Developer 6 4119 (6.219 %) Support Analyst 7 3831 (5.784 %) Java Developer 8 3739 (5.645 %) SQL Developer 9 3487 (5.265 %) Applications Support 10 3464 (5.230 %) Consultant 11 3388 (5.115 %) Web Developer 12 3249 (4.905 %) Programmer 13 3051 (4.606 %) Senior Developer 14 2638 (3.983 %) SQL DBA 15 2520 (3.805 %) Administrator 16 2229 (3.365 %) Software Developer 17 2175 (3.284 %) ASP.NET Developer 18 2004 (3.026 %) Business Analyst 19 1994 (3.011 %) Analyst Programmer 20 1757 (2.653 %) Oracle DBA	Miscellaneous 1 2688 (4.058 %) Derivative 2 1723 (2.601 %) Computer Science 3 1432 (2.162 %) Equities 4 1315 (1.985 %) Fixed Income 5 1199 (1.810 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 1198 (1.809 %) Client/Server 7 1174 (1.773 %) Mathematics 8 1148 (1.733 %) Replication 9 1089 (1.644 %) N-Tier 10 1047 (1.581 %) Clustering 11 780 (1.178 %) Management Information System 12 626 (0.945 %) Equity Derivative 13 564 (0.852 %) Multithreading 14 530 (0.800 %) Credit Derivative 15 470 (0.710 %) Credit Risk 16 429 (0.648 %) AS400 17 427 (0.645 %) Statistics 18 397 (0.599 %) NHS 19 262 (0.396 %) Web 2.0 20 254 (0.383 %) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems 1 12966 (19.58 %) Windows 2 10517 (15.88 %) UNIX 3 5583 (8.429 %) Linux 4 4417 (6.669 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1922 (2.902 %) Solaris 6 1724 (2.603 %) Windows XP 7 1690 (2.552 %) Windows 2000 8 1099 (1.659 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 811 (1.224 %) AIX 10 509 (0.768 %) Red Hat Linux 11 498 (0.752 %) Windows Vista 12 420 (0.634 %) HPUX 13 344 (0.519 %) Windows NT 14 262 (0.396 %) Windows Server 2008 15 130 (0.196 %) VMS 16 113 (0.171 %) Windows Mobile 17 105 (0.159 %) SUSE 18 80 (0.121 %) MVS 19 75 (0.113 %) Debian 20 66 (0.100 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 5660 (8.546 %) OO 2 3230 (4.877 %) Business Intelligence 3 2775 (4.190 %) Web Development 4 2763 (4.172 %) UML 5 2660 (4.016 %) Project Management 6 2345 (3.541 %) E-Commerce 7 2012 (3.038 %) CRM 8 1735 (2.620 %) ITIL 9 1641 (2.478 %) Agile Software Development 10 1535 (2.318 %) Business Analysis 11 1462 (2.207 %) Migration 12 1439 (2.173 %) Data Analysis 13 1347 (2.034 %) Data Modelling 14 1192 (1.800 %) ERP 15 1142 (1.724 %) Asset Management 16 1012 (1.528 %) Risk Management 17 991 (1.496 %) Unit Testing 18 956 (1.443 %) SOA 19 935 (1.412 %) User Acceptance Testing 20 920 (1.389 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 16471 (24.87 %) C# 2 11469 (17.32 %) Java 3 7899 (11.93 %) VB 4 7687 (11.61 %) JavaScript 5 7600 (11.47 %) Transact-SQL 6 7122 (10.75 %) PL/SQL 7 6394 (9.654 %) VB.NET 8 5478 (8.271 %) C++ 9 3642 (5.499 %) VBA 10 3148 (4.753 %) Perl 11 3079 (4.649 %) PHP 12 2688 (4.058 %) VB6 13 2549 (3.849 %) C 14 1987 (3.000 %) Shell Script 15 1350 (2.038 %) VBScript 16 862 (1.301 %) DHTML 17 810 (1.223 %) Python 18 708 (1.069 %) Delphi 19 534 (0.806 %) VC++ 20 359 (0.542 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 7950 (12.00 %) Degree 2 3468 (5.236 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1526 (2.304 %) MCSE 4 1118 (1.688 %) ISEB 5 1047 (1.581 %) MCP 6 786 (1.187 %) MCSD 7 543 (0.820 %) MCAD 8 405 (0.611 %) Oracle Certification 9 379 (0.572 %) MCDBA 10 358 (0.541 %) Cisco Certification 11 326 (0.492 %) MCSA 12 315 (0.476 %) CCNA 13 256 (0.387 %) MCTS 14 229 (0.346 %) OCP 15 226 (0.341 %) HND 16 169 (0.255 %) ITIL Certification 17 163 (0.246 %) PhD 18 156 (0.236 %) PRINCE2 Certification 19 137 (0.207 %) MCPD 20 111 (0.168 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1709 (2.580 %) QA 2 720 (1.087 %) SLA 3 109 (0.165 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 109 (0.165 %) Basel II 4 48 (0.072 %) WAI 5 45 (0.068 %) ISO9001 6 31 (0.047 %) HL7 7 23 (0.035 %) ISO9000 8 18 (0.027 %) ISO27001 9 17 (0.026 %) ISO8583 10 7 (0.011 %) COBIT 10 7 (0.011 %) 21 CFR Part 11 11 6 (0.009 %) WCAG 12 5 (0.008 %) GxP 12 5 (0.008 %) DICOM 13 4 (0.006 %) GLP 13 4 (0.006 %) MiFID 14 3 (0.005 %) PCI DSS 15 2 (0.003 %) GAMP 16 1 (0.002 %) GMP	System Software 1 3101 (4.682 %) Active Directory 2 742 (1.120 %) Oracle RMAN 3 716 (1.081 %) Oracle RAC 4 564 (0.852 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 343 (0.518 %) Backup Exec 6 290 (0.438 %) ISA Server 7 285 (0.430 %) VMware ESX 8 251 (0.379 %) Terminal Services 9 191 (0.288 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 180 (0.272 %) Terminal Server 11 139 (0.210 %) NetBackup 12 130 (0.196 %) MetaFrame 13 96 (0.145 %) MSMQ 14 79 (0.119 %) NFS 15 42 (0.063 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 16 27 (0.041 %) VMware Server 17 15 (0.023 %) Orbix 18 14 (0.021 %) Samba 19 11 (0.017 %) NDS 19 11 (0.017 %) Xen
Systems Management 1 301 (0.454 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 199 (0.300 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 195 (0.294 %) MOM 4 176 (0.266 %) AutoSys 5 93 (0.140 %) OpenView 6 92 (0.139 %) Tivoli 7 87 (0.131 %) SCOM 8 65 (0.098 %) CONTROL-M 9 54 (0.082 %) Nagios 10 50 (0.075 %) Norton AntiVirus 11 45 (0.068 %) Oracle Statspack 12 40 (0.060 %) EMC NetWorker 13 38 (0.057 %) WSUS 14 34 (0.051 %) ARCserve 15 33 (0.050 %) Unicenter 16 30 (0.045 %) Legato 17 23 (0.035 %) SCCM 18 22 (0.033 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 19 21 (0.032 %) ServiceCenter 20 20 (0.030 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 17386 (26.25 %) Oracle 2 11066 (16.71 %) Microsoft 3 3028 (4.572 %) Sybase 4 1896 (2.863 %) Business Objects 5 1838 (2.775 %) Citrix 6 1516 (2.289 %) VMware 7 1223 (1.847 %) Cisco 8 1144 (1.727 %) IBM 9 1127 (1.702 %) Cognos 10 936 (1.413 %) SAP 11 884 (1.335 %) HP 12 738 (1.114 %) Sun 13 571 (0.862 %) Red Hat 14 430 (0.649 %) VERITAS 15 408 (0.616 %) Reuters 16 398 (0.601 %) TIBCO 17 393 (0.593 %) Bloomberg 18 392 (0.592 %) BEA 19 358 (0.541 %) Informatica 20 342 (0.516 %) Remedy