The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 16 5 3
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 14 37 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 11.86% 30.58% 29.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.72% 50.68% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14 37 12
Average salary £34,000 £33,000 £22,482
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% +46.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,700 £28,500 £14,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £38,500 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
79 73 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 66.95% 60.33% 59.57%
Number of salaries quoted 74 73 25
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £27,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Lancashire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Preston region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Preston SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 14 (41.18%) SQL Server
1 14 (41.18%) .NET
1 14 (41.18%) Web Services
2 12 (35.29%) C#
3 10 (29.41%) Java
4 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET
5 7 (20.59%) J2EE
5 7 (20.59%) Oracle
5 7 (20.59%) Ant
5 7 (20.59%) JUnit
5 7 (20.59%) Finance
5 7 (20.59%) TDD
5 7 (20.59%) Spring
5 7 (20.59%) Maven
6 6 (17.65%) VB.NET
6 6 (17.65%) XML
6 6 (17.65%) MS Excel
6 6 (17.65%) SOAP
7 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
7 5 (14.71%) CSS
7 5 (14.71%) Windows
7 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (14.71%) WCF
7 5 (14.71%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (11.76%) REST
8 4 (11.76%) jQuery
8 4 (11.76%) Groovy
8 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
8 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.76%) Microsoft

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 14 (41.18%) .NET
1 14 (41.18%) Web Services
2 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET
3 7 (20.59%) J2EE
3 7 (20.59%) Spring
4 6 (17.65%) XML
4 6 (17.65%) SOAP
5 5 (14.71%) CSS
5 5 (14.71%) WCF
6 4 (11.76%) REST
6 4 (11.76%) jQuery
6 4 (11.76%) Ajax
7 3 (8.824%) Middleware
7 3 (8.824%) HTML
8 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 2 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (5.882%) LINQ
8 2 (5.882%) .NET Framework
9 1 (2.941%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) ESB
2 2 (5.882%) IIS
3 1 (2.941%) PowerExchange
3 1 (2.941%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.941%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (2.941%) Fireworks
2 1 (2.941%) MS Project
2 1 (2.941%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.882%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.941%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.941%) SAN
1 1 (2.941%) LAN
1 1 (2.941%) WAN
1 1 (2.941%) HTTP
1 1 (2.941%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) RDBMS
2 5 (14.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (8.824%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.941%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.941%) DTS
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.941%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Ant
1 7 (20.59%) JUnit
1 7 (20.59%) Maven
2 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (5.882%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (2.941%) WATIR
4 1 (2.941%) Selenium
4 1 (2.941%) FitNesse
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Retail
2 3 (8.824%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.882%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Analyst Programmer
3 6 (17.65%) Programmer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Programmer
4 4 (11.76%) Java Analyst Programmer
4 4 (11.76%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
5 3 (8.824%) .NET Technical Architect
5 3 (8.824%) Technical Architect
5 3 (8.824%) DBA
5 3 (8.824%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.824%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.824%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (8.824%) SQL DBA
5 3 (8.824%) Architect
5 3 (8.824%) .NET Architect
6 2 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (5.882%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.941%) Replication
1 1 (2.941%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.941%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.941%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 2 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.59%) TDD
2 4 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (8.824%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (8.824%) TOGAF
3 3 (8.824%) MVC
3 3 (8.824%) OOD
3 3 (8.824%) UML
3 3 (8.824%) OOA/OOD
3 3 (8.824%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (8.824%) Unit Testing
4 2 (5.882%) Data Validation
4 2 (5.882%) Web Testing
4 2 (5.882%) E-Commerce
4 2 (5.882%) Project Management
4 2 (5.882%) Validation
4 2 (5.882%) Logistics
4 2 (5.882%) Web Development
5 1 (2.941%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (2.941%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (2.941%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) C#
2 10 (29.41%) Java
3 6 (17.65%) VB.NET
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.76%) Groovy
6 2 (5.882%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.882%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.882%) VB
6 2 (5.882%) VB6
7 1 (2.941%) Ruby
7 1 (2.941%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.941%) Python
7 1 (2.941%) PHP
7 1 (2.941%) C
7 1 (2.941%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.941%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) SLA
2 1 (2.941%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.824%) Cognos
3 3 (8.824%) Business Objects
4 2 (5.882%) Citrix
5 1 (2.941%) Northgate
5 1 (2.941%) VMware
5 1 (2.941%) Informatica
5 1 (2.941%) Adobe
5 1 (2.941%) IBM
5 1 (2.941%) SAP
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