North West SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	3
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	2070	2325
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.210 %	1.022 %
As % of the category below	42.67 %	40.52 %
Salaries quoted	1819	1978
Average minimum salary	£29,514	£30,672
Average salary	£32,421	£33,578
% change on same period last year	-3.44 %
Average maximum salary	£35,329	£36,483
UK excluding London average salary	£35,227	£35,553
% change on same period last year	-0.91 %
Programming Languages North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	4851	5738
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.835 %	2.521 %
Salaries quoted	4267	4843
Average minimum salary	£29,465	£30,801
Average salary	£32,324	£33,823
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Average maximum salary	£35,183	£36,845
UK excluding London average salary	£35,518	£35,818
% change on same period last year	-0.83 %
SQL England

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

SQL
Salary Trend

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

SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the North West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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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 West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	-1	762	£32,761	-5.90 %
Cheshire	+1	667	£32,796	-1.55 %
Lancashire	-2	326	£31,121	-0.55 %
Merseyside	+2	256	£31,456	-0.41 %
Cumbria	-1	26	£33,200	-0.21 %

SQL England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 1726 (39.44 %) SQL Server 2 1506 (34.41 %) .NET 3 1195 (27.31 %) Oracle 4 1109 (25.34 %) C# 5 898 (20.52 %) ASP.NET 6 826 (18.88 %) Windows 7 794 (18.14 %) XML 8 694 (15.86 %) Microsoft 9 680 (15.54 %) PL/SQL 10 675 (15.43 %) VB 11 641 (14.65 %) HTML 12 622 (14.21 %) Java 13 619 (14.15 %) Finance 14 599 (13.69 %) Transact-SQL 15 550 (12.57 %) MS Excel

16 540 (12.34 %) SQL Server 2005 17 521 (11.91 %) SQL Server 2000 18 509 (11.63 %) JavaScript 19 483 (11.04 %) Degree 20 460 (10.51 %) CSS 21 453 (10.35 %) UNIX 22 452 (10.33 %) WebServices 23 448 (10.24 %) VB.NET 24 392 (8.958 %) ASP 25 387 (8.844 %) OO 26 338 (7.724 %) Pensions 27 317 (7.244 %) IIS 28 314 (7.176 %) Datawarehouse 29 311 (7.107 %) J2EE 30 309 (7.061 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 1506 (34.41 %) .NET 2 898 (20.52 %) ASP.NET 3 794 (18.14 %) XML 4 641 (14.65 %) HTML 5 460 (10.51 %) CSS 6 452 (10.33 %) WebServices 7 392 (8.958 %) ASP 8 311 (7.107 %) J2EE 9 262 (5.987 %) AJAX 10 245 (5.599 %) XHTML 11 189 (4.319 %) .NET Framework 12 163 (3.725 %) JSP 13 139 (3.176 %) XSLT 14 124 (2.834 %) Spring 15 102 (2.331 %) Servlets 16 97 (2.217 %) Hibernate 17 94 (2.148 %) Struts 18 85 (1.942 %) WinForms 19 77 (1.760 %) WebSphere 20 70 (1.600 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 317 (7.244 %) IIS 2 173 (3.953 %) SharePoint 3 142 (3.245 %) MS Exchange 4 92 (2.102 %) SAS 5 86 (1.965 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 85 (1.942 %) Tomcat 7 83 (1.897 %) Apache 8 63 (1.440 %) JBoss 9 58 (1.325 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 49 (1.120 %) WebLogic 11 48 (1.097 %) CMS 12 40 (0.914 %) Oracle Workflow 13 37 (0.846 %) Oracle Application Server 14 27 (0.617 %) BizTalk Server 15 17 (0.388 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 16 (0.366 %) WebSphere MQ 16 16 (0.366 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 13 (0.297 %) Lotus Notes 18 11 (0.251 %) SharePoint Portal Server 19 10 (0.229 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 550 (12.57 %) MS Excel 2 136 (3.108 %) MS Office 3 59 (1.348 %) MS Visio 3 59 (1.348 %) Photoshop 4 42 (0.960 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 33 (0.754 %) SPSS 6 23 (0.526 %) FreeHand 7 13 (0.297 %) Fireworks 8 12 (0.274 %) InfoPath 9 11 (0.251 %) MATLAB 10 10 (0.229 %) MS PowerPoint 11 9 (0.206 %) Spreadsheet 12 6 (0.137 %) CA Clarity 12 6 (0.137 %) MS Project 13 5 (0.114 %) Shockwave 13 5 (0.114 %) Acrobat 14 1 (0.023 %) QuarkXPress 14 1 (0.023 %) Houdini 14 1 (0.023 %) Maya 14 1 (0.023 %) 3ds Max	Business Applications 1 157 (3.588 %) Oracle Applications 2 111 (2.537 %) Oracle 11i 3 68 (1.554 %) Oracle EBS 4 29 (0.663 %) Oracle iRecruitment 5 28 (0.640 %) Oracle Financials 6 27 (0.617 %) Oracle Payroll 7 26 (0.594 %) Oracle HRMS 8 22 (0.503 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 9 13 (0.297 %) SAP R/3 10 12 (0.274 %) Microsoft CRM 11 11 (0.251 %) Dynamics AX 11 11 (0.251 %) Line 500 12 10 (0.229 %) Navision 13 8 (0.183 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 14 7 (0.160 %) Pivotal CRM 14 7 (0.160 %) MAXIMO 15 6 (0.137 %) SAP Business One 15 6 (0.137 %) BPCS 15 6 (0.137 %) Sage MMS 16 5 (0.114 %) Unica Affinium
Communications & Networking 1 183 (4.182 %) Internet 2 154 (3.519 %) Intranet 3 106 (2.422 %) TCP/IP 4 86 (1.965 %) WAN 5 73 (1.668 %) SAN 6 66 (1.508 %) HTTP 7 64 (1.463 %) Firewall 8 63 (1.440 %) LAN 9 48 (1.097 %) DNS 10 37 (0.846 %) VPN 11 30 (0.686 %) DHCP 12 16 (0.366 %) Broadband 12 16 (0.366 %) FTP 13 15 (0.343 %) SNMP 13 15 (0.343 %) VoIP 14 12 (0.274 %) SMS 14 12 (0.274 %) VLAN 15 11 (0.251 %) iSCSI 16 10 (0.229 %) MPLS 17 9 (0.206 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1726 (39.44 %) SQL Server 2 540 (12.34 %) SQL Server 2005 3 521 (11.91 %) SQL Server 2000 4 314 (7.176 %) Datawarehouse 5 270 (6.170 %) Oracle Reports 6 254 (5.804 %) Oracle 10g 7 235 (5.370 %) Oracle 9i 8 216 (4.936 %) Crystal Reports 9 197 (4.502 %) MySQL 10 181 (4.136 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 162 (3.702 %) RDBMS 12 157 (3.588 %) DTS 13 143 (3.268 %) ETL 14 129 (2.948 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 125 (2.856 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 103 (2.354 %) BusinessObjects 17 89 (2.034 %) DB2 18 87 (1.988 %) Oracle Discoverer 19 77 (1.760 %) OLAP 20 57 (1.303 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 244 (5.576 %) Visual Studio 2 233 (5.324 %) Oracle Forms 3 61 (1.394 %) Ant 4 53 (1.211 %) Eclipse 5 50 (1.143 %) Flash 6 44 (1.005 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 44 (1.005 %) JDeveloper 7 32 (0.731 %) JUnit 8 20 (0.457 %) Dreamweaver 9 16 (0.366 %) Rational Rose 10 15 (0.343 %) QuickTest Pro 10 15 (0.343 %) Oracle APEX 11 14 (0.320 %) TestDirector 11 14 (0.320 %) Subversion 12 13 (0.297 %) NUnit 13 11 (0.251 %) ProC 13 11 (0.251 %) ClearQuest 13 11 (0.251 %) WinRunner 13 11 (0.251 %) ClearCase 14 10 (0.229 %) InstallShield	General 1 619 (14.15 %) Finance 2 338 (7.724 %) Pensions 3 309 (7.061 %) Health 4 183 (4.182 %) Marketing 5 155 (3.542 %) Retail 6 101 (2.308 %) Telecoms 7 96 (2.194 %) Insurance 8 80 (1.828 %) Manufacturing 9 78 (1.782 %) Education 10 69 (1.577 %) Legal 11 66 (1.508 %) Government 12 63 (1.440 %) Banking 13 57 (1.303 %) Law 14 31 (0.708 %) Publishing 14 31 (0.708 %) Graphic Design 15 29 (0.663 %) Billing 16 24 (0.548 %) Automotive 17 20 (0.457 %) Pharmaceutical 17 20 (0.457 %) Games 18 18 (0.411 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 2018 (46.12 %) Developer 2 936 (21.39 %) Analyst 3 403 (9.209 %) .NET Developer 4 313 (7.153 %) Web Developer 5 304 (6.947 %) DBA 6 288 (6.581 %) C# Developer 7 269 (6.147 %) SQL Developer 8 254 (5.804 %) Oracle Developer 9 246 (5.622 %) Software Developer 10 242 (5.530 %) Programmer 11 235 (5.370 %) Senior Developer 12 229 (5.233 %) Java Developer 13 199 (4.548 %) Consultant 14 188 (4.296 %) ASP.NET Developer 15 174 (3.976 %) Tester 16 165 (3.771 %) SQL DBA 17 160 (3.656 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 18 151 (3.451 %) Analyst Programmer 19 145 (3.314 %) Support Analyst 20 135 (3.085 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 122 (2.788 %) Management Information System 2 67 (1.531 %) N-Tier 3 55 (1.257 %) Clustering 4 54 (1.234 %) Replication 5 50 (1.143 %) Client/Server 6 49 (1.120 %) Computer Science 7 42 (0.960 %) NHS 8 27 (0.617 %) W3C 9 25 (0.571 %) Mathematics 10 24 (0.548 %) Statistics 11 23 (0.526 %) Informatics 12 21 (0.480 %) Mainframe 12 21 (0.480 %) Web 2.0 12 21 (0.480 %) Blackberry 13 20 (0.457 %) Data Extraction 14 19 (0.434 %) AS400 15 16 (0.366 %) EPoS 15 16 (0.366 %) Credit Risk 16 14 (0.320 %) Data Conversion 17 12 (0.274 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 826 (18.88 %) Windows 2 453 (10.35 %) UNIX 3 231 (5.279 %) Linux 4 207 (4.730 %) Windows Server 2003 5 129 (2.948 %) AIX 6 80 (1.828 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 74 (1.691 %) Windows XP 8 60 (1.371 %) Windows Vista 9 59 (1.348 %) Windows 2000 10 42 (0.960 %) Solaris 11 22 (0.503 %) HPUX 12 18 (0.411 %) Windows Server 2008 13 16 (0.366 %) Windows NT 14 12 (0.274 %) Debian 15 11 (0.251 %) Windows XP Embedded 16 10 (0.229 %) Red Hat Linux 17 7 (0.160 %) CentOS 18 6 (0.137 %) Fedora 18 6 (0.137 %) Windows Mobile 18 6 (0.137 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 387 (8.844 %) OO 2 226 (5.165 %) E-Commerce 3 193 (4.410 %) UML 4 155 (3.542 %) Business Intelligence 5 152 (3.473 %) Project Management 6 151 (3.451 %) Data Analysis 7 142 (3.245 %) Software Testing 8 137 (3.131 %) Web Development 9 132 (3.016 %) Unit Testing 10 122 (2.788 %) Migration 11 121 (2.765 %) CRM 12 115 (2.628 %) ITIL 13 110 (2.514 %) Data Modelling 14 100 (2.285 %) Security Cleared 15 89 (2.034 %) Workflow 16 86 (1.965 %) Automated Testing 17 81 (1.851 %) OOD 18 79 (1.805 %) PRINCE2 18 79 (1.805 %) OOA/OOD 19 78 (1.782 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 1109 (25.34 %) C# 2 680 (15.54 %) PL/SQL 3 675 (15.43 %) VB 4 622 (14.21 %) Java 5 599 (13.69 %) Transact-SQL 6 509 (11.63 %) JavaScript 7 448 (10.24 %) VB.NET 8 230 (5.256 %) VB6 9 223 (5.096 %) C++ 10 157 (3.588 %) PHP 11 119 (2.719 %) C 12 110 (2.514 %) DHTML 13 108 (2.468 %) Perl 14 104 (2.377 %) VBA 15 89 (2.034 %) VBScript 16 60 (1.371 %) Delphi 17 47 (1.074 %) Shell Script 18 33 (0.754 %) COBOL 19 23 (0.526 %) PHP5 20 22 (0.503 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 483 (11.04 %) Degree 2 206 (4.707 %) Microsoft Certification 3 94 (2.148 %) MCSE 4 81 (1.851 %) ISEB 5 59 (1.348 %) MCP 6 50 (1.143 %) Oracle Certification 7 37 (0.846 %) MCSD 8 28 (0.640 %) HND 9 27 (0.617 %) MCSA 10 24 (0.548 %) MCDBA 11 20 (0.457 %) OCP 11 20 (0.457 %) Cisco Certification 12 18 (0.411 %) CCNA 13 15 (0.343 %) MCAD 14 14 (0.320 %) Sun Certification 15 13 (0.297 %) PRINCE2 Certification 16 10 (0.229 %) MCITP 17 8 (0.183 %) MCDST 17 8 (0.183 %) SCNA 17 8 (0.183 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 104 (2.377 %) QA 2 59 (1.348 %) SLA 3 6 (0.137 %) ISO9001 4 3 (0.069 %) WCAG 5 2 (0.046 %) Basel II 6 1 (0.023 %) ISO27001 6 1 (0.023 %) HL7 6 1 (0.023 %) ISO9000 6 1 (0.023 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 152 (3.473 %) Active Directory 2 84 (1.920 %) Terminal Server 3 29 (0.663 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 19 (0.434 %) VMware ESX 5 17 (0.388 %) Terminal Services 6 16 (0.366 %) Oracle RMAN 7 13 (0.297 %) Oracle RAC 8 12 (0.274 %) Backup Exec 8 12 (0.274 %) MSMQ 9 11 (0.251 %) NFS 10 10 (0.229 %) ISA Server 11 9 (0.206 %) MetaFrame 12 7 (0.160 %) Citrix Presentation Server 12 7 (0.160 %) MailMarshal 13 2 (0.046 %) VMware Server 14 1 (0.023 %) WebInspect
Systems Management 1 23 (0.526 %) Tivoli 2 16 (0.366 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 11 (0.251 %) Legato 4 7 (0.160 %) EMC NetWorker 5 6 (0.137 %) Nagios 6 4 (0.091 %) Unicenter 7 3 (0.069 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 3 (0.069 %) MOM 8 1 (0.023 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 1 (0.023 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 1195 (27.31 %) Oracle 2 694 (15.86 %) Microsoft 3 184 (4.205 %) Citrix 4 103 (2.354 %) Business Objects 5 91 (2.080 %) Cisco 6 85 (1.942 %) VMware 7 74 (1.691 %) Cognos 8 73 (1.668 %) SAP 9 62 (1.417 %) IBM 10 51 (1.165 %) BEA 11 42 (0.960 %) HP 12 38 (0.868 %) Sybase 13 32 (0.731 %) Teradata 14 30 (0.686 %) Sage 14 30 (0.686 %) Sun 15 27 (0.617 %) VERITAS 16 23 (0.526 %) PeopleSoft 17 21 (0.480 %) Siebel 18 20 (0.457 %) Chordiant 18 20 (0.457 %) Dell