The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 2 1 2
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 54 62 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 30.00% 46.62% 35.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 55.67% 73.81% 78.75%
Number of salaries quoted 29 40 43
Average salary £32,500 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.47% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £26,550 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £40,950 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.85%
All Programming Languages
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
97 84 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 53.89% 63.16% 44.69%
Number of salaries quoted 69 61 55
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £45,000 £63,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Hertfordshire

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

St Albans SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 45 (40.91%) UNIX
2 36 (32.73%) Oracle
2 36 (32.73%) SQL Server
3 33 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 30 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 29 (26.36%) MS Excel
6 28 (25.45%) T-SQL
7 27 (24.55%) Automotive
8 26 (23.64%) Marketing
9 25 (22.73%) Shell Script
10 24 (21.82%) Broadband
10 24 (21.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (20.91%) Validation
11 23 (20.91%) Windows
12 22 (20.00%) OLAP
12 22 (20.00%) Unit Testing
12 22 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 21 (19.09%) MDX
13 21 (19.09%) PowerPivot
13 21 (19.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 20 (18.18%) PL/SQL
15 17 (15.45%) Java
15 17 (15.45%) SharePoint
15 17 (15.45%) ETL
16 16 (14.55%) Data Analysis
16 16 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
17 13 (11.82%) PerformancePoint
17 13 (11.82%) Degree
17 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 21 (19.09%) MDX
2 11 (10.00%) J2EE
3 10 (9.091%) HTML
3 10 (9.091%) .NET
4 9 (8.182%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.182%) JSP
4 9 (8.182%) XML
5 8 (7.273%) CSS
6 6 (5.455%) Ajax
7 5 (4.545%) jQuery
8 3 (2.727%) Grails
8 3 (2.727%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.818%) WPF
9 2 (1.818%) Silverlight
9 2 (1.818%) XSL
9 2 (1.818%) Flash
10 1 (0.909%) SOAP
10 1 (0.909%) COM
10 1 (0.909%) LINQ
10 1 (0.909%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 17 (15.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (4.545%) IIS
3 2 (1.818%) Apache
3 2 (1.818%) Jetty
4 1 (0.909%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.909%) WebLogic
Applications
1 29 (26.36%) MS Excel
2 21 (19.09%) PowerPivot
3 9 (8.182%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.818%) Fireworks
4 2 (1.818%) PaintShop Pro
4 2 (1.818%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.909%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.818%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.818%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.909%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 24 (21.82%) Broadband
2 2 (1.818%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.818%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (32.73%) SQL Server
2 24 (21.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 22 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 22 (20.00%) OLAP
4 21 (19.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 16 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
6 13 (11.82%) PerformancePoint
7 12 (10.91%) RDBMS
8 11 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
9 7 (6.364%) MS Access
10 4 (3.636%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.818%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.818%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.818%) MySQL
12 1 (0.909%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.909%) SQL Server 2000
12 1 (0.909%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.909%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (2.727%) Subversion
2 2 (1.818%) FitNesse
2 2 (1.818%) Expression Blend
2 2 (1.818%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (1.818%) Dreamweaver
2 2 (1.818%) NUnit
General
1 27 (24.55%) Automotive
2 26 (23.64%) Marketing
3 12 (10.91%) Finance
4 2 (1.818%) Retail
5 1 (0.909%) Back Office
5 1 (0.909%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 51 (46.36%) Developer
2 31 (28.18%) Analyst
3 22 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 20 (18.18%) Data Analyst
5 19 (17.27%) Microsoft Developer
6 17 (15.45%) Report Developer
7 13 (11.82%) Programmer
8 10 (9.091%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.364%) Development Manager
9 7 (6.364%) Ab Initio Developer
10 5 (4.545%) Java Development Manager
11 4 (3.636%) ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.636%) Support Analyst
11 4 (3.636%) .NET Developer
12 3 (2.727%) Analyst Programmer
12 3 (2.727%) Web Developer
12 3 (2.727%) Consultant
12 3 (2.727%) Team Leader
12 3 (2.727%) Development Team Leader
13 2 (1.818%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.455%) Data Integration
2 4 (3.636%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.818%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.818%) CCTV
4 1 (0.909%) Statistics
4 1 (0.909%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.909%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 45 (40.91%) UNIX
2 23 (20.91%) Windows
3 13 (11.82%) Linux
4 3 (2.727%) Windows NT
4 3 (2.727%) Solaris
5 2 (1.818%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.818%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.818%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 30 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (20.91%) Validation
4 22 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 17 (15.45%) ETL
6 16 (14.55%) Data Analysis
7 13 (11.82%) Data Modelling
8 12 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (10.91%) System Testing
9 9 (8.182%) QMS
9 9 (8.182%) Scrum
10 7 (6.364%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (4.545%) Risk Assessment
11 5 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (3.636%) Data Management
13 3 (2.727%) MVC
13 3 (2.727%) CRM
13 3 (2.727%) Time Management
13 3 (2.727%) Change Control
13 3 (2.727%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.45%) T-SQL
2 25 (22.73%) Shell Script
3 20 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 17 (15.45%) Java
5 12 (10.91%) Bash shell
5 12 (10.91%) Korn
6 11 (10.00%) C#
7 8 (7.273%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.727%) VB
8 3 (2.727%) Groovy
9 2 (1.818%) JCL
9 2 (1.818%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.818%) VBA
10 1 (0.909%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (11.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.364%) SLA
2 3 (2.727%) QA
3 1 (0.909%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.909%) Cronacle
Vendors
1 36 (32.73%) Oracle
2 30 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.91%) Ab Initio
4 4 (3.636%) Cognos
4 4 (3.636%) Progress
5 3 (2.727%) JBoss
6 2 (1.818%) Telerik
6 2 (1.818%) Cisco
6 2 (1.818%) Business Objects
6 2 (1.818%) Adobe
6 2 (1.818%) Dell
6 2 (1.818%) Informatica
7 1 (0.909%) MicroStrategy
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