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The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Northern Ireland 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkStructured Query Language (SQL)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank2010
Rank change on same period last yearDown-10
Matching permanent IT job ads1522
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.009 %0.009 %
As % of the category below16.48 %31.88 %
Salaries quoted811
Average minimum salary£39,111£29,000
Average salary£43,889£31,864
% change on same period last year+37.73 %
Average maximum salary£48,667£34,727
UK excluding London average salary£35,221£35,464
% change on same period last year-0.68 %
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
Northern Ireland
Matching permanent IT job ads9169
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.053 %0.030 %
Salaries quoted4634
Average minimum salary£34,011£30,207
Average salary£36,472£33,467
% change on same period last year+8.97 %
Average maximum salary£38,933£36,728
UK excluding London average salary£35,506£35,791
% change on same period last year-0.79 %
SQL UKSQL
UK

SQL
Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland SQL Demand Trend

SQL
Salary Trend

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

Northern Ireland SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 10 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
County AntrimDown-76£50,000+54.79 %
County LondonderryNew entry-5£40,000-
NewryNew entry-1£55,000-
County DownNew entry-1£55,000-
SQL UKSQL
UK

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

112 (30.00 %)Oracle
210 (25.00 %)SQL Server
39 (22.50 %)Java
39 (22.50 %)Finance
48 (20.00 %)UNIX
48 (20.00 %)Microsoft
57 (17.50 %)Windows
57 (17.50 %)Banking
66 (15.00 %).NET
66 (15.00 %)Oracle 8/8i
66 (15.00 %)RDBMS
66 (15.00 %)Degree
75 (12.50 %)Datawarehouse
75 (12.50 %)WebLogic
75 (12.50 %)PL/SQL
75 (12.50 %)Service Delivery
75 (12.50 %)Risk Management
75 (12.50 %)Health
84 (10.00 %)VMware
84 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2003
84 (10.00 %)Project Management
84 (10.00 %)C#
84 (10.00 %)J2EE
84 (10.00 %)Sybase
84 (10.00 %)WebServices
84 (10.00 %)MS Excel
84 (10.00 %)IBM
84 (10.00 %)Business Intelligence
84 (10.00 %)Oracle 10g
84 (10.00 %)Active Directory

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (15.00 %).NET
24 (10.00 %)J2EE
24 (10.00 %)WebServices
33 (7.500 %)XML
33 (7.500 %)HTML
42 (5.000 %)CSS
42 (5.000 %)JDBC
42 (5.000 %)ASP.NET
42 (5.000 %)Java EE
51 (2.500 %)Flex 2
51 (2.500 %)Adobe Flex
51 (2.500 %)Oracle Streams
51 (2.500 %)Oracle Fusion
51 (2.500 %)EJB
51 (2.500 %)ASP
51 (2.500 %)XSL
51 (2.500 %)XSLT
51 (2.500 %)Swing
51 (2.500 %)WinForms
51 (2.500 %)JSF
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
15 (12.50 %)WebLogic
22 (5.000 %)JBoss
22 (5.000 %)MQSeries
22 (5.000 %)SharePoint
31 (2.500 %)Oracle Workflow
31 (2.500 %)SharePoint Portal Server
31 (2.500 %)SharePoint Server 2007
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
14 (10.00 %)MS Excel
21 (2.500 %)MS Office
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
12 (5.000 %)Oracle Applications
21 (2.500 %)Oracle EBS
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12 (5.000 %)TCP/IP
21 (2.500 %)SAN
21 (2.500 %)Internet
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (25.00 %)SQL Server
26 (15.00 %)Oracle 8/8i
26 (15.00 %)RDBMS
35 (12.50 %)Datawarehouse
44 (10.00 %)Reference Data
44 (10.00 %)Oracle 10g
53 (7.500 %)Oracle 9i
53 (7.500 %)DB2
62 (5.000 %)DataStage
62 (5.000 %)SQL Server 2000
62 (5.000 %)Oracle Reports
62 (5.000 %)SQL Server 2005
62 (5.000 %)SQL Server Integration Services
71 (2.500 %)DB2 UDB
71 (2.500 %)GIS
71 (2.500 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
71 (2.500 %)Informix
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (5.000 %)Oracle Forms
21 (2.500 %)Flash
21 (2.500 %)QuickTest Pro
21 (2.500 %)LoadRunner
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
19 (22.50 %)Finance
27 (17.50 %)Banking
35 (12.50 %)Health
44 (10.00 %)Pensions
53 (7.500 %)Insurance
62 (5.000 %)Billing
62 (5.000 %)Back Office
62 (5.000 %)Telecoms
71 (2.500 %)Front Office
71 (2.500 %)Construction
71 (2.500 %)Electric
71 (2.500 %)Government
71 (2.500 %)General Ledger
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
111 (27.50 %)Developer
210 (25.00 %)Analyst
37 (17.50 %)Support Analyst
46 (15.00 %)Applications Support
46 (15.00 %)Applications Support Analyst
54 (10.00 %)Senior Analyst
63 (7.500 %)Administrator
63 (7.500 %)DBA
63 (7.500 %)Technical Specialist
72 (5.000 %)Architect
72 (5.000 %)Software Engineer
72 (5.000 %)Java Developer
72 (5.000 %)Senior Software Engineer
72 (5.000 %)Oracle Developer
72 (5.000 %).NET Developer
72 (5.000 %)Team Leader
72 (5.000 %)Senior Support Analyst
72 (5.000 %)Server Administrator
81 (2.500 %)J2EE Software Engineer
81 (2.500 %).NET Architect
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
14 (10.00 %)Computer Science
22 (5.000 %)Credit Risk
22 (5.000 %)IBM Mainframe
22 (5.000 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
22 (5.000 %)Mainframe
31 (2.500 %)Management Information System
31 (2.500 %)Grid Computing
31 (2.500 %)Derivative
31 (2.500 %)Statistics
31 (2.500 %)PMI
31 (2.500 %)Multithreading
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
18 (20.00 %)UNIX
27 (17.50 %)Windows
34 (10.00 %)Windows Server 2003
42 (5.000 %)Windows 2000
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
15 (12.50 %)Service Delivery
15 (12.50 %)Risk Management
24 (10.00 %)Project Management
24 (10.00 %)Business Intelligence
33 (7.500 %)OO
33 (7.500 %)Problem Management
33 (7.500 %)Unit Testing
33 (7.500 %)System Testing
42 (5.000 %)Configuration Management
42 (5.000 %)UML
42 (5.000 %)Data Management
51 (2.500 %)Software Engineering
51 (2.500 %)Software Testing
51 (2.500 %)Web Development
51 (2.500 %)Workflow
51 (2.500 %)Scrum
51 (2.500 %)Agile Software Development
51 (2.500 %)Change Management
51 (2.500 %)Regression Testing
51 (2.500 %)E-Commerce
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
19 (22.50 %)Java
25 (12.50 %)PL/SQL
34 (10.00 %)C#
43 (7.500 %)JavaScript
52 (5.000 %)COBOL
52 (5.000 %)Transact-SQL
52 (5.000 %)JCL
61 (2.500 %)Korn
61 (2.500 %)PowerShell
61 (2.500 %)VB.NET
61 (2.500 %)ActionScript
61 (2.500 %)Shell Script
61 (2.500 %)Perl
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
16 (15.00 %)Degree
24 (10.00 %)Microsoft Certification
32 (5.000 %)MCP
41 (2.500 %)MCSE
41 (2.500 %)PMP
41 (2.500 %)PMI Certification
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
14 (10.00 %)Active Directory
21 (2.500 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
21 (2.500 %)NetBackup
21 (2.500 %)Oracle RMAN
21 (2.500 %)Oracle RAC
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
11 (2.500 %)Tivoli
11 (2.500 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
Northern Ireland IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
112 (30.00 %)Oracle
28 (20.00 %)Microsoft
34 (10.00 %)Sybase
34 (10.00 %)IBM
34 (10.00 %)VMware
42 (5.000 %)BEA
51 (2.500 %)VERITAS
51 (2.500 %)Sun