The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sale region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Sale region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 5 6 1
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 14 6 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sale 24.56% 19.35% 70.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.33% 50.00% 85.71%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 12
Average salary £30,000 £17,000 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+76.47% -44.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £17,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,150 £17,000 £39,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.85%
All Programming Languages
Sale
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
24 12 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sale 42.11% 38.71% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 12 8 14
Average salary £33,500 £40,000 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.25% +31.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £17,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Manchester

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sale 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 Sale region.

Sale SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Sale region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Sale SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sale 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 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 11 (57.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (52.63%) T-SQL
4 9 (47.37%) SQL Server 2000
4 9 (47.37%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (42.11%) Oracle
5 8 (42.11%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (42.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (36.84%) Advertising
7 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
7 5 (26.32%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (21.05%) SAN
8 4 (21.05%) Windows
8 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (15.79%) Solaris
9 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
9 3 (15.79%) Oracle Discoverer
9 3 (15.79%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (15.79%) Workflow
9 3 (15.79%) Finance
10 2 (10.53%) E-business
10 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (10.53%) Data Guard
10 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (10.53%) RDBMS

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sale 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 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
1 2 (10.53%) XML
2 1 (5.263%) LAMP
2 1 (5.263%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.263%) jQuery
2 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (5.263%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (5.263%) Captiva
2 1 (5.263%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.263%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SAN
2 1 (5.263%) DHCP
2 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.263%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 11 (57.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (47.37%) SQL Server 2005
3 9 (47.37%) SQL Server 2000
4 8 (42.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (26.32%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle Discoverer
9 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
10 1 (5.263%) PowerCenter
10 1 (5.263%) DTS
10 1 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) JDeveloper
1 1 (5.263%) NUnit
General
1 7 (36.84%) Advertising
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) DBA
2 11 (57.89%) SQL DBA
3 5 (26.32%) SQL Server DBA
3 5 (26.32%) Administrator
4 4 (21.05%) Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (10.53%) Business Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 2 (10.53%) Teradata DBA
7 1 (5.263%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Administrator
7 1 (5.263%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Systems Support
7 1 (5.263%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Clustering
1 1 (5.263%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Solaris
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (10.53%) UNIX
3 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) Workflow
4 2 (10.53%) E-business
5 1 (5.263%) MVC
5 1 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.263%) Migration
5 1 (5.263%) TDD
5 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.263%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (5.263%) Information Architecture
5 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.263%) OO
5 1 (5.263%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) T-SQL
2 3 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.263%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Oracle
2 1 (5.263%) IBM
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Dell
2 1 (5.263%) Informatica