The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertford 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 Hertford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 1 8 7
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 39 13 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertford 47.56% 36.11% 9.091%
As % of the Programming Languages category 76.47% 37.14% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 39 13 2
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £34,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Hertford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
51 35 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertford 62.20% 97.22% 59.09%
Number of salaries quoted 51 35 13
Average salary £50,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+81.81% -21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Hertfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertford 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 Hertford region.

Hertford SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

Hertford SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertford 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 41 (85.42%) SQL Server
2 29 (60.42%) Java
2 29 (60.42%) Web Services
3 25 (52.08%) Retail
4 24 (50.00%) JDBC
4 24 (50.00%) JSP
4 24 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 23 (47.92%) MySQL
5 23 (47.92%) XML
6 22 (45.83%) MVC
6 22 (45.83%) Spring
7 21 (43.75%) XSLT
7 21 (43.75%) Servlets
7 21 (43.75%) Oracle
8 20 (41.67%) Hibernate
9 19 (39.58%) Ant
9 19 (39.58%) Tomcat
9 19 (39.58%) Subversion
9 19 (39.58%) Agile Software Development
9 19 (39.58%) Maven
9 19 (39.58%) Multithreading
10 18 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 18 (37.50%) User Stories
10 18 (37.50%) WPF
10 18 (37.50%) Client/Server
10 18 (37.50%) ASP.NET
10 18 (37.50%) C#
10 18 (37.50%) .NET
10 18 (37.50%) WinForms
10 18 (37.50%) N-Tier

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertford 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 29 (60.42%) Web Services
2 24 (50.00%) JDBC
2 24 (50.00%) JSP
3 23 (47.92%) XML
4 22 (45.83%) Spring
5 21 (43.75%) XSLT
5 21 (43.75%) Servlets
6 20 (41.67%) Hibernate
7 18 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 18 (37.50%) WPF
7 18 (37.50%) ASP.NET
7 18 (37.50%) .NET
7 18 (37.50%) WinForms
8 15 (31.25%) Struts
8 15 (31.25%) J2EE
8 15 (31.25%) XML Schema
8 15 (31.25%) WebSphere
9 13 (27.08%) MFC
9 13 (27.08%) ATL
9 13 (27.08%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 19 (39.58%) Tomcat
2 15 (31.25%) WebLogic
3 13 (27.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (6.250%) IIS
4 3 (6.250%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (20.83%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.167%) Firewall
1 2 (4.167%) SAN
1 2 (4.167%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (85.42%) SQL Server
2 23 (47.92%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (39.58%) Ant
1 19 (39.58%) Subversion
1 19 (39.58%) Maven
2 13 (27.08%) Eclipse
3 5 (10.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (52.08%) Retail
2 1 (2.083%) Finance
Job Titles
1 43 (89.58%) Developer
2 34 (70.83%) Senior Developer
3 25 (52.08%) Java Developer
4 21 (43.75%) Senior Java Developer
5 18 (37.50%) C# Developer
6 17 (35.42%) Software Developer
6 17 (35.42%) C# Software Developer
7 13 (27.08%) C++ Developer
7 13 (27.08%) C++/C# Developer
7 13 (27.08%) Senior C++ Developer
7 13 (27.08%) Senior C# Developer
7 13 (27.08%) Senior Software Developer
7 13 (27.08%) C++ Software Developer
8 4 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
8 4 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (6.250%) Junior Java Developer
9 3 (6.250%) Junior Developer
9 3 (6.250%) Junior
9 3 (6.250%) Support Engineer
10 2 (4.167%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (37.50%) Client/Server
1 18 (37.50%) N-Tier
2 13 (27.08%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.333%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.167%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.08%) Android
1 13 (27.08%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.250%) Windows
2 3 (6.250%) Linux
3 1 (2.083%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) MVC
2 19 (39.58%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (39.58%) Multithreading
3 18 (37.50%) User Stories
4 15 (31.25%) Web Development
5 14 (29.17%) Automated Testing
5 14 (29.17%) Scrum
6 13 (27.08%) ERP
6 13 (27.08%) Workflow
6 13 (27.08%) CRM
6 13 (27.08%) SOA
6 13 (27.08%) Mobile Application Development
6 13 (27.08%) Web Application Development
7 4 (8.333%) OOD
7 4 (8.333%) TDD
8 3 (6.250%) Unit Testing
9 2 (4.167%) Test Scripting
9 2 (4.167%) Software Testing
10 1 (2.083%) OO
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) Java
2 24 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 18 (37.50%) C#
4 14 (29.17%) C++
5 6 (12.50%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.333%) WCAG
2 1 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.167%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (43.75%) Oracle
2 16 (33.33%) JBoss
3 4 (8.333%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.250%) Cisco
4 3 (6.250%) VMware
5 2 (4.167%) Juniper
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