Hertfordshire ODBC Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harpenden Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Poole Reading Sale Scotland Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey UK Wales Warminster Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	165	161
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.140 %	1.225 %
Salaries quoted	1	15
Average minimum salary	£40,000	£29,933
Average salary	£40,000	£31,100
% change on same period last year	+28.61 %
Average maximum salary	£40,000	£32,267
UK excluding London average salary	£32,231	£32,366
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1426	1306
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.753 %	0.535 %
Salaries quoted	1224	1107
Average minimum salary	£36,266	£35,301
Average salary	£39,906	£38,697
% change on same period last year	+3.12 %
Average maximum salary	£43,546	£42,094
UK excluding London average salary	£35,873	£36,830
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing ODBC 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 ODBC.

1 6 (75.00 %) SQL 2 5 (62.50 %) VC++ 2 5 (62.50 %) .NET 2 5 (62.50 %) MFC 2 5 (62.50 %) ADO 3 4 (50.00 %) ADO.NET 3 4 (50.00 %) COM+ 3 4 (50.00 %) C# 3 4 (50.00 %) Multithreading 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 5 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 5 1 (12.50 %) C++ 5 1 (12.50 %) HTML 5 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript

5 1 (12.50 %) DCOM 5 1 (12.50 %) CSS 5 1 (12.50 %) XML 5 1 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (12.50 %) OO 5 1 (12.50 %) ASP 5 1 (12.50 %) COM 5 1 (12.50 %) VB 5 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET 5 1 (12.50 %) ActiveX 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio 5 1 (12.50 %) OOD 5 1 (12.50 %) SAS 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing ODBC 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 ODBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (62.50 %) .NET 1 5 (62.50 %) MFC 1 5 (62.50 %) ADO 2 4 (50.00 %) ADO.NET 2 4 (50.00 %) COM+ 3 1 (12.50 %) DCOM 3 1 (12.50 %) CSS 3 1 (12.50 %) XML 3 1 (12.50 %) ActiveX 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP 3 1 (12.50 %) COM 3 1 (12.50 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) SAS
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) C++Builder
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Health 1 1 (12.50 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Developer 1 6 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 4 (50.00 %) Analyst Programmer 2 4 (50.00 %) Programmer 2 4 (50.00 %) Developer Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Report Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (50.00 %) Multithreading	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OOA/OOD 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) OOD 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 6 (75.00 %) SQL 2 5 (62.50 %) VC++ 3 4 (50.00 %) C# 4 1 (12.50 %) C++ 4 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 4 1 (12.50 %) VB 4 1 (12.50 %) VB.NET 4 1 (12.50 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 1 (12.50 %) Borland