St Helens SQL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the St Helens 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Buxton Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall Coulsdon County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edgware Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hessle High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Market Harborough Marlow Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oakham Oldham Ormskirk Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Rutland Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Whyteleafe Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	4
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	12
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	18.42 %	57.14 %
Salaries quoted	7	12
Average minimum salary	£31,286	£24,583
Average salary	£33,857	£27,875
% change on same period last year	+21.46 %
Average maximum salary	£36,429	£31,167
UK excluding London average salary	£34,640	£34,937
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Programming Languages St Helens
Matching permanent IT job ads	38	21
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.009 %
Salaries quoted	38	21
Average minimum salary	£23,918	£25,163
Average salary	£26,590	£28,360
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
Average maximum salary	£29,262	£31,558
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
SQL Merseyside

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the St Helens region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 6 (54.55 %) Oracle 1 6 (54.55 %) PL/SQL 2 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server 3 4 (36.36 %) VB 3 4 (36.36 %) Windows 3 4 (36.36 %) Citrix 3 4 (36.36 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (27.27 %) Software Testing 4 3 (27.27 %) Degree 4 3 (27.27 %) Performance Testing 4 3 (27.27 %) Terminal Server 4 3 (27.27 %) C# 4 3 (27.27 %) Perl 5 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 5 2 (18.18 %) VBScript

5 2 (18.18 %) HTML 5 2 (18.18 %) VB.NET 5 2 (18.18 %) .NET 5 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 5 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (9.091 %) QA 6 1 (9.091 %) VB6 6 1 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (9.091 %) Client/Server 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio 6 1 (9.091 %) OOD 6 1 (9.091 %) UML 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Forms 6 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Reports

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 (18.18 %) HTML 1 2 (18.18 %) .NET 1 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 2 1 (9.091 %) ASP 2 1 (9.091 %) JDBC 2 1 (9.091 %) JSP 2 1 (9.091 %) Servlets 2 1 (9.091 %) XSL	Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Intranet 1 1 (9.091 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (45.45 %) SQL Server 2 4 (36.36 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Forms
Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Tester 1 4 (36.36 %) Software Tester 2 3 (27.27 %) Oracle DBA 2 3 (27.27 %) DBA 3 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (9.091 %) Programmer 4 1 (9.091 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (9.091 %) Performance Tester 4 1 (9.091 %) Manual Tester 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior Oracle DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) J2EE Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) Applications Architect 4 1 (9.091 %) Senior DBA 4 1 (9.091 %) Java Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2 2 (18.18 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Software Testing 1 3 (27.27 %) Performance Testing 2 1 (9.091 %) UML 2 1 (9.091 %) OOD
Programming Languages 1 6 (54.55 %) PL/SQL 2 4 (36.36 %) VB 3 3 (27.27 %) C# 3 3 (27.27 %) Perl 4 2 (18.18 %) VB.NET 4 2 (18.18 %) VBScript 5 1 (9.091 %) VB6 5 1 (9.091 %) C++ 5 1 (9.091 %) DHTML 5 1 (9.091 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) Degree 2 1 (9.091 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (9.091 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) Terminal Server
Vendors 1 6 (54.55 %) Oracle 2 4 (36.36 %) Citrix