The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Halifax region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 3 15 3
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 37 22 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 24.67% 11.58% 28.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 64.91% 18.97% 47.44%
Number of salaries quoted 28 17 36
Average salary £23,000 £31,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.80% -4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,350 £20,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £35,500 £41,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Halifax
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
57 116 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Halifax 38.00% 61.05% 60.47%
Number of salaries quoted 40 83 72
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £20,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
West Yorkshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Halifax region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Halifax SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 40 (44.94%) SQL Server
2 34 (38.20%) .NET
3 31 (34.83%) T-SQL
4 27 (30.34%) C#
5 26 (29.21%) Microsoft
6 25 (28.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (26.97%) Finance
8 20 (22.47%) SharePoint
9 19 (21.35%) VB.NET
9 19 (21.35%) ASP.NET
10 17 (19.10%) XML
11 16 (17.98%) Web Services
12 15 (16.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (15.73%) C++
13 14 (15.73%) Windows
14 13 (14.61%) WinForms
14 13 (14.61%) SQL Server 2008
15 12 (13.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 12 (13.48%) Replication
15 12 (13.48%) OOA/OOD
15 12 (13.48%) N-Tier
15 12 (13.48%) MySQL
15 12 (13.48%) Oracle
15 12 (13.48%) Visual Studio
16 11 (12.36%) VB
16 11 (12.36%) MS Excel
16 11 (12.36%) CSLA
16 11 (12.36%) Subversion
17 10 (11.24%) Dynamics AX
17 10 (11.24%) Data Warehouse

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 34 (38.20%) .NET
2 19 (21.35%) ASP.NET
3 17 (19.10%) XML
4 16 (17.98%) Web Services
5 13 (14.61%) WinForms
6 11 (12.36%) CSLA
7 9 (10.11%) J2EE
7 9 (10.11%) CSS
8 8 (8.989%) HTML
8 8 (8.989%) Spring
9 5 (5.618%) Ajax
10 3 (3.371%) jQuery
10 3 (3.371%) .NET Framework
11 2 (2.247%) ASP.NET MVC
11 2 (2.247%) XHTML
11 2 (2.247%) XSL
12 1 (1.124%) JSP
12 1 (1.124%) SOAP
12 1 (1.124%) ASP
12 1 (1.124%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 20 (22.47%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.865%) IIS
3 5 (5.618%) WordPress
4 2 (2.247%) SAP Portal
5 1 (1.124%) CMS
5 1 (1.124%) OpenEdge
5 1 (1.124%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (12.36%) MS Excel
2 9 (10.11%) MS Office
3 1 (1.124%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.124%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.247%) HTTP
2 1 (1.124%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (44.94%) SQL Server
2 25 (28.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 15 (16.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (14.61%) SQL Server 2008
5 12 (13.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 12 (13.48%) MySQL
6 10 (11.24%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.618%) DTS
8 3 (3.371%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (2.247%) PerformancePoint
9 2 (2.247%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.124%) DB2
10 1 (1.124%) DataStage
10 1 (1.124%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (1.124%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (1.124%) Big Data
10 1 (1.124%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) Visual Studio
2 11 (12.36%) Subversion
3 5 (5.618%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.124%) NUnit
4 1 (1.124%) JUnit
4 1 (1.124%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.124%) Moq
4 1 (1.124%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.124%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.124%) Selenium
General
1 24 (26.97%) Finance
2 5 (5.618%) Financial Institution
2 5 (5.618%) Back Office
2 5 (5.618%) Marketing
3 4 (4.494%) Banking
4 1 (1.124%) Retail
4 1 (1.124%) Advertising
4 1 (1.124%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (51.69%) Developer
2 19 (21.35%) DBA
3 16 (17.98%) .NET Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Analyst
5 10 (11.24%) C# Developer
6 9 (10.11%) SQL DBA
6 9 (10.11%) Junior Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Junior
6 9 (10.11%) Applications Support
6 9 (10.11%) Graduate
7 8 (8.989%) Junior Java Developer
7 8 (8.989%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.865%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (7.865%) SQL Developer
8 7 (7.865%) Support Analyst
9 6 (6.742%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (6.742%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.618%) Database Analyst
10 5 (5.618%) Administrator
10 5 (5.618%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Replication
1 12 (13.48%) N-Tier
2 4 (4.494%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.124%) AS400
3 1 (1.124%) E-Learning
3 1 (1.124%) EPoS
3 1 (1.124%) Chip and PIN
3 1 (1.124%) Social Media
3 1 (1.124%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.124%) iSeries
3 1 (1.124%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Windows
2 5 (5.618%) Linux
3 1 (1.124%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.124%) UNIX
3 1 (1.124%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.124%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (13.48%) OOA/OOD
2 10 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (8.989%) E-Commerce
3 8 (8.989%) ETL
3 8 (8.989%) MVC
3 8 (8.989%) Asset Management
4 5 (5.618%) Digital Marketing
5 4 (4.494%) OOD
5 4 (4.494%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (3.371%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (3.371%) CRM
7 2 (2.247%) OO
7 2 (2.247%) Risk Management
8 1 (1.124%) Workflow
8 1 (1.124%) Change Management
8 1 (1.124%) TDD
8 1 (1.124%) Scrum
8 1 (1.124%) Migration
8 1 (1.124%) ITIL
8 1 (1.124%) UML
Programming Languages
1 31 (34.83%) T-SQL
2 27 (30.34%) C#
3 19 (21.35%) VB.NET
4 14 (15.73%) C++
5 11 (12.36%) VB
6 10 (11.24%) Java
7 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 9 (10.11%) PL/SQL
8 8 (8.989%) PHP
9 5 (5.618%) VB6
10 4 (4.494%) VBA
11 1 (1.124%) C
11 1 (1.124%) Delphi
11 1 (1.124%) RPG
11 1 (1.124%) Progress 4GL
11 1 (1.124%) RPG IV
11 1 (1.124%) R
11 1 (1.124%) PHP5
11 1 (1.124%) PHP4
Qualifications
1 1 (1.124%) ISEB
1 1 (1.124%) ISTQB
1 1 (1.124%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.494%) QA
2 2 (2.247%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.989%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.247%) SCOM
2 1 (1.124%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.48%) Oracle
3 6 (6.742%) Infragistics
3 6 (6.742%) Citrix
4 2 (2.247%) Lotus
4 2 (2.247%) SAP
4 2 (2.247%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.124%) Informatica
5 1 (1.124%) Telerik
5 1 (1.124%) VMware
5 1 (1.124%) HP
5 1 (1.124%) Adobe
5 1 (1.124%) Progress
5 1 (1.124%) Red Gate
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