The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 10 9 16
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 56 44 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 17.89% 17.39% 14.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.28% 30.99% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 55 42 37
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,550 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,600 £37,500 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.85%
All Programming Languages
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
198 142 203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 63.26% 56.13% 68.35%
Number of salaries quoted 192 131 189
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £44,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Suffolk

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Ipswich SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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.

1 115 (62.16%) SQL Server
2 89 (48.11%) Microsoft
3 83 (44.86%) T-SQL
4 68 (36.76%) .NET
5 62 (33.51%) C#
6 59 (31.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 58 (31.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (30.27%) SQL Server 2008
9 55 (29.73%) Windows
10 48 (25.95%) SQL Server 2005
11 43 (23.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 42 (22.70%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (18.92%) Ajax
14 32 (17.30%) Web Services
15 31 (16.76%) MS Excel
16 30 (16.22%) Active Directory
17 29 (15.68%) VB.NET
17 29 (15.68%) Windows Azure
17 29 (15.68%) Azure SQL Database
18 27 (14.59%) Replication
18 27 (14.59%) Visual Studio
19 26 (14.05%) Finance
19 26 (14.05%) SQL Server 2012
20 24 (12.97%) Disaster Recovery
20 24 (12.97%) HTML
20 24 (12.97%) JavaScript
21 22 (11.89%) UNIX
21 22 (11.89%) OLTP
22 21 (11.35%) ASP.NET
23 19 (10.27%) XML

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 68 (36.76%) .NET
2 35 (18.92%) Ajax
3 32 (17.30%) Web Services
4 24 (12.97%) HTML
5 21 (11.35%) ASP.NET
6 19 (10.27%) .NET Framework
6 19 (10.27%) XML
7 15 (8.108%) J2EE
8 14 (7.568%) jQuery
9 12 (6.486%) WCF
10 7 (3.784%) XSD
10 7 (3.784%) XSLT
10 7 (3.784%) Silverlight
11 6 (3.243%) Hibernate
12 5 (2.703%) CSS
13 4 (2.162%) Tapestry
13 4 (2.162%) DHTML
14 3 (1.622%) Spring
14 3 (1.622%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 2 (1.081%) Qt
Application Platforms
1 29 (15.68%) Windows Azure
2 10 (5.405%) Amazon AWS
2 10 (5.405%) WebLogic
3 5 (2.703%) IIS
4 4 (2.162%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.162%) MS Exchange
5 3 (1.622%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.622%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (1.081%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.081%) Apache
7 1 (0.541%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.541%) Site Server
Applications
1 31 (16.76%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.622%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.784%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.081%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.784%) HTTP
1 7 (3.784%) SAN
2 6 (3.243%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.703%) DNS
3 5 (2.703%) DHCP
4 4 (2.162%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.622%) iSCSI
5 3 (1.622%) NAS
5 3 (1.622%) Firewall
5 3 (1.622%) VoIP
6 2 (1.081%) Internet
6 2 (1.081%) Network Security
7 1 (0.541%) WAN
7 1 (0.541%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (62.16%) SQL Server
2 59 (31.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 58 (31.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 56 (30.27%) SQL Server 2008
5 48 (25.95%) SQL Server 2005
6 43 (23.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 29 (15.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 26 (14.05%) SQL Server 2012
9 22 (11.89%) OLTP
10 19 (10.27%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (8.649%) Hadoop
11 16 (8.649%) MongoDB
12 11 (5.946%) NoSQL
13 10 (5.405%) Big Data
14 9 (4.865%) OLAP
14 9 (4.865%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (4.324%) RDBMS
16 7 (3.784%) MySQL
17 6 (3.243%) SQL Server 2000
18 5 (2.703%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 27 (14.59%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.622%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (1.081%) Synon
3 2 (1.081%) Selenium
4 1 (0.541%) Ant
4 1 (0.541%) Subversion
General
1 26 (14.05%) Finance
2 8 (4.324%) Retail
3 7 (3.784%) Telecoms
3 7 (3.784%) Games
Job Titles
1 93 (50.27%) Developer
2 77 (41.62%) DBA
3 58 (31.35%) SQL DBA
4 39 (21.08%) .NET Developer
5 32 (17.30%) Administrator
6 29 (15.68%) C# Developer
7 19 (10.27%) SQL Server DBA
8 18 (9.730%) C# .NET Developer
9 16 (8.649%) Analyst
10 14 (7.568%) SQL Developer
11 13 (7.027%) Teradata DBA
11 13 (7.027%) Oracle DBA
12 11 (5.946%) VB.NET Developer
12 11 (5.946%) Programmer
12 11 (5.946%) Database Developer
13 8 (4.324%) Software Developer
14 7 (3.784%) Test Analyst
15 6 (3.243%) Data Warehouse Developer
15 6 (3.243%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
16 5 (2.703%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (14.59%) Replication
2 18 (9.730%) N-Tier
2 18 (9.730%) Data Protection Act
2 18 (9.730%) SaaS
3 12 (6.486%) Mobile App
4 11 (5.946%) Computer Science
4 11 (5.946%) Clustering
5 10 (5.405%) Social Media
5 10 (5.405%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (2.703%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.162%) Device Driver
7 4 (2.162%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.081%) iPhone
8 2 (1.081%) RIA
9 1 (0.541%) Data Conversion
9 1 (0.541%) AS400
9 1 (0.541%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 55 (29.73%) Windows
2 22 (11.89%) UNIX
3 6 (3.243%) Linux
4 4 (2.162%) Solaris
5 3 (1.622%) Windows 7
5 3 (1.622%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.081%) Android
6 2 (1.081%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.70%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (12.97%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (9.730%) OO
3 18 (9.730%) SOA
3 18 (9.730%) Data Protection
4 14 (7.568%) UML
5 12 (6.486%) CRM
5 12 (6.486%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (5.405%) Mobile Application Development
7 7 (3.784%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (3.243%) Data Analysis
8 6 (3.243%) Software Engineering
8 6 (3.243%) ETL
8 6 (3.243%) Analytics
9 5 (2.703%) Test Scripting
10 4 (2.162%) ITIL
10 4 (2.162%) RAD
10 4 (2.162%) High Availability
11 3 (1.622%) ERP
11 3 (1.622%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.86%) T-SQL
2 62 (33.51%) C#
3 29 (15.68%) VB.NET
4 24 (12.97%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.189%) Java
6 14 (7.568%) PL/SQL
7 12 (6.486%) VB
8 8 (4.324%) Perl
9 7 (3.784%) C++
10 4 (2.162%) C
10 4 (2.162%) Python
10 4 (2.162%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.081%) RPG/400
11 2 (1.081%) PHP
11 2 (1.081%) RPG
12 1 (0.541%) Delphi
12 1 (0.541%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 11 (5.946%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (5.946%) Degree
2 8 (4.324%) MCTS
3 6 (3.243%) ISEB
3 6 (3.243%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.162%) OCP
4 4 (2.162%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.622%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.081%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.784%) QA
System Software
1 30 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.784%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.541%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 89 (48.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.730%) Oracle
3 8 (4.324%) VMware
4 4 (2.162%) Cisco
4 4 (2.162%) EMC
5 3 (1.622%) BEA
6 1 (0.541%) LANSA
6 1 (0.541%) JBoss
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