The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Redditch region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Redditch region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 3 3 15
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 17 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 40.48% 26.09% 2.174%
As % of the Programming Languages category 51.52% 42.86% 5.000%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 1
Average salary £35,000 £26,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.07% -33.75%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
Redditch
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
33 14 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Redditch 78.57% 60.87% 43.48%
Number of salaries quoted 31 14 20
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £41,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Worcestershire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redditch 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 Redditch region.

Redditch SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Redditch region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Redditch SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 12 (70.59%) Finance
2 11 (64.71%) Manual Testing
2 11 (64.71%) Automated Testing
2 11 (64.71%) QA
2 11 (64.71%) Selenium
3 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
4 7 (41.18%) HTML
5 6 (35.29%) VB
5 6 (35.29%) UNIX
5 6 (35.29%) Windows
5 6 (35.29%) Windows 2000
5 6 (35.29%) Oracle
6 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (23.53%) jQuery
7 4 (23.53%) MVC
7 4 (23.53%) Release Management
7 4 (23.53%) Web Development
8 3 (17.65%) PHP5
8 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
8 3 (17.65%) IIS
8 3 (17.65%) MySQL
8 3 (17.65%) OO
8 3 (17.65%) Apache
8 3 (17.65%) PHP
9 2 (11.76%) .NET
9 2 (11.76%) C#
9 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
9 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
10 1 (5.882%) ISEB

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Redditch 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 7 (41.18%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) jQuery
3 2 (11.76%) .NET
4 1 (5.882%) CSS
4 1 (5.882%) XHTML
4 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.882%) CSS3
4 1 (5.882%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) IIS
1 3 (17.65%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.882%) Cognos Powerplay
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Selenium
General
1 12 (70.59%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Tester
1 6 (35.29%) Systems Test Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) Test Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) Systems Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Systems Tester
2 5 (29.41%) QA Tester
3 4 (23.53%) Test Coordinator
3 4 (23.53%) Coordinator
4 3 (17.65%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Junior
5 1 (5.882%) Web Applications Developer
5 1 (5.882%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Junior Developer
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Open Source
1 1 (5.882%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) UNIX
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
1 6 (35.29%) Windows 2000
2 1 (5.882%) Android
2 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Manual Testing
1 11 (64.71%) Automated Testing
2 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (23.53%) MVC
3 4 (23.53%) Release Management
3 4 (23.53%) Web Development
4 3 (17.65%) OO
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.882%) PRINCE
6 1 (5.882%) ERP
6 1 (5.882%) ETL
6 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
6 1 (5.882%) Time Management
6 1 (5.882%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) VB
2 3 (17.65%) PHP5
2 3 (17.65%) PHP
3 2 (11.76%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.882%) C++
4 1 (5.882%) Delphi
4 1 (5.882%) Java
4 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.882%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) Hyperion
3 1 (5.882%) SAP
3 1 (5.882%) Cognos
3 1 (5.882%) Infor