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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 7 7 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 119 129 164
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 17.32% 14.73% 22.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.10% 32.82% 42.16%
Number of salaries quoted 107 88 121
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £24,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £46,750 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.85%
All Programming Languages
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
349 393 389
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 50.80% 44.86% 53.95%
Number of salaries quoted 314 314 321
Average salary £33,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,250 £22,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
England

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

North East SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
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 North East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +1 96 £37,500 +25.00%
Durham +1 18 £33,000 +13.79%
SQL
England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 127 (50.60%) .NET
2 116 (46.22%) SQL Server
3 109 (43.43%) C#
4 88 (35.06%) Microsoft
5 66 (26.29%) CSS
6 64 (25.50%) HTML
7 55 (21.91%) MS Excel
8 52 (20.72%) Oracle
9 51 (20.32%) ASP.NET
10 45 (17.93%) Java
11 44 (17.53%) JavaScript
12 43 (17.13%) Scrum
13 38 (15.14%) VB.NET
14 37 (14.74%) Agile Software Development
15 34 (13.55%) MVC
15 34 (13.55%) XML
15 34 (13.55%) Windows
16 33 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
17 29 (11.55%) UNIX
17 29 (11.55%) Web Services
17 29 (11.55%) Degree
18 28 (11.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 26 (10.36%) Linux
19 26 (10.36%) SharePoint
19 26 (10.36%) HTML5
20 25 (9.960%) T-SQL
21 24 (9.562%) Visual Studio
22 22 (8.765%) ASP.NET MVC
23 21 (8.367%) Replication
23 21 (8.367%) PHP

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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
1 127 (50.60%) .NET
2 66 (26.29%) CSS
3 64 (25.50%) HTML
4 51 (20.32%) ASP.NET
5 34 (13.55%) XML
6 29 (11.55%) Web Services
7 26 (10.36%) HTML5
8 22 (8.765%) ASP.NET MVC
9 17 (6.773%) jQuery
9 17 (6.773%) .NET Framework
10 13 (5.179%) JSP
11 12 (4.781%) ASP
11 12 (4.781%) J2EE
12 10 (3.984%) Ajax
12 10 (3.984%) Hibernate
12 10 (3.984%) Spring
13 8 (3.187%) SOAP
13 8 (3.187%) CSS3
14 7 (2.789%) WinForms
15 6 (2.390%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 26 (10.36%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.781%) SharePoint Server
3 9 (3.586%) Apache
4 7 (2.789%) WebLogic
5 6 (2.390%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (1.992%) MS Exchange
6 5 (1.992%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (1.594%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.195%) IIS
8 3 (1.195%) Windows Azure
9 1 (0.398%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.398%) DotNetNuke
9 1 (0.398%) nginx
9 1 (0.398%) CMS
9 1 (0.398%) SAS
Applications
1 55 (21.91%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.187%) MS Office
3 7 (2.789%) Photoshop
4 6 (2.390%) Acrobat
5 2 (0.797%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.398%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 6 (2.390%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.195%) Cognos Controller
2 3 (1.195%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 3 (1.195%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.797%) Cognos Planning
3 2 (0.797%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.398%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.382%) Internet
2 10 (3.984%) TCP/IP
3 9 (3.586%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (2.789%) Intranet
5 6 (2.390%) Ethernet
6 5 (1.992%) LAN
6 5 (1.992%) WAN
6 5 (1.992%) Firewall
7 4 (1.594%) VPN
7 4 (1.594%) HTTP
7 4 (1.594%) VLAN
8 1 (0.398%) Wireless
8 1 (0.398%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (46.22%) SQL Server
2 28 (11.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 20 (7.968%) SQL Server 2005
4 19 (7.570%) MySQL
5 16 (6.375%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (5.976%) SQL Server 2008
6 15 (5.976%) SQL Server 2000
7 11 (4.382%) QlikView
8 8 (3.187%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.789%) RDBMS
10 6 (2.390%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.992%) OLTP
11 5 (1.992%) OLAP
11 5 (1.992%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.594%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (1.594%) Oracle 11g
13 2 (0.797%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
13 2 (0.797%) SQL Server 2012
13 2 (0.797%) Data Mining
13 2 (0.797%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 24 (9.562%) Visual Studio
2 12 (4.781%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (2.789%) Subversion
4 6 (2.390%) PHPUnit
4 6 (2.390%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 6 (2.390%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (2.390%) Dreamweaver
5 5 (1.992%) ProC
6 4 (1.594%) Ant
6 4 (1.594%) Maven
7 3 (1.195%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.797%) JIRA
8 2 (0.797%) JUnit
8 2 (0.797%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.398%) QuickTest Pro
9 1 (0.398%) Selenium
9 1 (0.398%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.398%) MSTest
General
1 19 (7.570%) Telecoms
2 12 (4.781%) Finance
2 12 (4.781%) Publishing
3 11 (4.382%) Advertising
3 11 (4.382%) Marketing
4 8 (3.187%) Retail
5 6 (2.390%) Games
6 4 (1.594%) Billing
7 3 (1.195%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.797%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.797%) Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (55.78%) Developer
2 24 (9.562%) Software Developer
3 22 (8.765%) DBA
3 22 (8.765%) .NET Developer
4 21 (8.367%) Web Developer
5 20 (7.968%) Analyst
5 20 (7.968%) SQL DBA
6 19 (7.570%) SQL Developer
6 19 (7.570%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.773%) Consultant
7 17 (6.773%) Administrator
8 16 (6.375%) SharePoint Developer
9 14 (5.578%) Java Developer
10 13 (5.179%) C# Developer
10 13 (5.179%) Software Development Manager
10 13 (5.179%) Development Manager
10 13 (5.179%) Software Manager
11 12 (4.781%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.781%) SQL Server DBA
12 10 (3.984%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.367%) Replication
2 8 (3.187%) Clustering
2 8 (3.187%) Computer Science
3 6 (2.390%) Mainframe
4 5 (1.992%) Open Source
5 4 (1.594%) Thin Client
5 4 (1.594%) Fat Client
5 4 (1.594%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.195%) NHS
6 3 (1.195%) Mathematics
6 3 (1.195%) SaaS
6 3 (1.195%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.797%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.797%) Derivative
7 2 (0.797%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.797%) Statistics
8 1 (0.398%) W3C
8 1 (0.398%) Data Extraction
8 1 (0.398%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.55%) Windows
2 29 (11.55%) UNIX
3 26 (10.36%) Linux
4 6 (2.390%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (1.992%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.594%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.797%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.398%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.398%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.398%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.13%) Scrum
2 37 (14.74%) Agile Software Development
3 34 (13.55%) MVC
4 33 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (6.773%) TDD
6 15 (5.976%) Waterfall
7 13 (5.179%) OO
8 12 (4.781%) Data Analysis
8 12 (4.781%) Web Development
9 11 (4.382%) Configuration Management
10 10 (3.984%) Release Management
10 10 (3.984%) Unit Testing
11 9 (3.586%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (3.586%) OOP
12 8 (3.187%) Project Management
13 7 (2.789%) UML
13 7 (2.789%) Software Testing
14 6 (2.390%) Refactoring
14 6 (2.390%) Web Testing
14 6 (2.390%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 109 (43.43%) C#
2 45 (17.93%) Java
3 44 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 38 (15.14%) VB.NET
5 25 (9.960%) T-SQL
6 21 (8.367%) PHP
7 18 (7.171%) C
8 17 (6.773%) PL/SQL
9 11 (4.382%) VB
10 10 (3.984%) Perl
11 8 (3.187%) Python
12 7 (2.789%) C++
13 6 (2.390%) ECMAScript
13 6 (2.390%) VC++
14 2 (0.797%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.797%) Ruby
15 1 (0.398%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.398%) Jython
15 1 (0.398%) VB6
15 1 (0.398%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (11.55%) Degree
2 11 (4.382%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (2.390%) Security Cleared
4 4 (1.594%) ISEB
4 4 (1.594%) Sun Certification
4 4 (1.594%) MCSD
5 3 (1.195%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.797%) MCDBA
6 2 (0.797%) MCT
6 2 (0.797%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.984%) QA
2 3 (1.195%) SLA
3 1 (0.398%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.789%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.390%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.594%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (0.398%) SCOM
Vendors
1 88 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 52 (20.72%) Oracle
3 10 (3.984%) Citrix
4 8 (3.187%) VMware
5 7 (2.789%) Adobe
6 6 (2.390%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.992%) Cognos
8 4 (1.594%) Cisco
9 3 (1.195%) SAP
9 3 (1.195%) Veritas
10 2 (0.797%) IBM
11 1 (0.398%) Dell
11 1 (0.398%) JBoss
11 1 (0.398%) Business Objects
11 1 (0.398%) Axway
11 1 (0.398%) F5
11 1 (0.398%) Sage
11 1 (0.398%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.398%) Juniper
11 1 (0.398%) Hyperion
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