Staffordshire SQL Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Staffordshire 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 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	4	2
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	182	168
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.096 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	44.83 %	42.11 %
Salaries quoted	138	131
Average minimum salary	£29,781	£32,916
Average salary	£32,596	£34,683
% change on same period last year	-6.01 %
Average maximum salary	£35,412	£36,450
UK excluding London average salary	£34,640	£34,937
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Programming Languages Staffordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	406	399
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.214 %	0.163 %
Salaries quoted	316	338
Average minimum salary	£27,702	£32,428
Average salary	£30,618	£34,451
% change on same period last year	-11.12 %
Average maximum salary	£33,534	£36,474
UK excluding London average salary	£35,180	£35,575
% change on same period last year	-1.10 %
SQL West Midlands

SQL
Demand Trend

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

SQL
Salary Trend

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

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

SQL
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stoke-on-Trent	-4	40	£28,714	-24.61 %
Stafford	+5	31	£28,387	-6.00 %
Burton-upon-Trent	-1	23	£33,031	+15.09 %
Tamworth	+2	6	£32,250	+10.88 %
Lichfield	-	6	£28,917	-
Cannock	-5	5	£30,715	+6.88 %
Leek	+6	1	£29,500	-

SQL West Midlands

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

1 186 (42.96 %) SQL Server 2 144 (33.26 %) .NET 3 138 (31.87 %) NHS 4 136 (31.41 %) Transact-SQL 5 112 (25.87 %) Health 6 101 (23.33 %) VB 7 99 (22.86 %) Oracle 8 84 (19.40 %) C# 9 81 (18.71 %) VB.NET 10 77 (17.78 %) Business Intelligence 11 74 (17.09 %) ASP.NET 12 70 (16.17 %) OLAP 13 67 (15.47 %) Finance 14 66 (15.24 %) Datawarehouse 15 63 (14.55 %) SQL Server 2005

16 61 (14.09 %) Windows 17 59 (13.63 %) JavaScript 18 58 (13.39 %) Paros 18 58 (13.39 %) Fiddler 19 56 (12.93 %) Project Management 20 54 (12.47 %) Microsoft 21 51 (11.78 %) Information Security 22 49 (11.32 %) C 22 49 (11.32 %) XML 23 48 (11.09 %) HTTP 23 48 (11.09 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 24 47 (10.85 %) Java 24 47 (10.85 %) Auditing 25 45 (10.39 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 25 45 (10.39 %) UNIX

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 144 (33.26 %) .NET 2 74 (17.09 %) ASP.NET 3 49 (11.32 %) XML 4 44 (10.16 %) HTML 5 30 (6.928 %) WebServices 6 24 (5.543 %) .NET Framework 7 22 (5.081 %) ASP 8 19 (4.388 %) CSS 9 18 (4.157 %) AJAX 10 8 (1.848 %) XHTML 11 7 (1.617 %) WinForms 12 5 (1.155 %) XSL 12 5 (1.155 %) JSP 12 5 (1.155 %) J2EE 13 4 (0.924 %) ADO.NET 14 3 (0.693 %) SOAP 14 3 (0.693 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 2 (0.462 %) DCOM 15 2 (0.462 %) Servlets 15 2 (0.462 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 6 (1.386 %) IIS 2 5 (1.155 %) DotNetNuke 3 4 (0.924 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (0.693 %) ColdFusion 4 3 (0.693 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (0.462 %) Oracle Workflow 6 1 (0.231 %) SharePoint 6 1 (0.231 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 1 (0.231 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 11 (2.540 %) MS Excel 2 3 (0.693 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.462 %) Photoshop 3 2 (0.462 %) Fireworks 4 1 (0.231 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 5 (1.155 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (0.693 %) Oracle Financials 3 2 (0.462 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (0.462 %) Navision 4 1 (0.231 %) Oracle Payroll 4 1 (0.231 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 4 1 (0.231 %) PeopleSoft Financials 4 1 (0.231 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 48 (11.09 %) HTTP 2 10 (2.309 %) Wireshark 3 8 (1.848 %) Internet 4 5 (1.155 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (0.462 %) LAN 5 2 (0.462 %) WAN 5 2 (0.462 %) SMTP 6 1 (0.231 %) VPN 6 1 (0.231 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 186 (42.96 %) SQL Server 2 70 (16.17 %) OLAP 3 66 (15.24 %) Datawarehouse 4 63 (14.55 %) SQL Server 2005 5 48 (11.09 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 45 (10.39 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 28 (6.467 %) RDBMS 8 25 (5.774 %) SQL Server 2000 9 14 (3.233 %) Oracle OLAP 10 10 (2.309 %) DB2 11 9 (2.079 %) Oracle Reports 11 9 (2.079 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 8 (1.848 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 8 (1.848 %) BusinessObjects 12 8 (1.848 %) Crystal Reports 13 7 (1.617 %) MySQL 14 6 (1.386 %) Ingres 15 5 (1.155 %) Oracle Discoverer 15 5 (1.155 %) Oracle 9i 15 5 (1.155 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 58 (13.39 %) Paros 1 58 (13.39 %) Fiddler 2 19 (4.388 %) Visual Studio 3 10 (2.309 %) Firebug 4 5 (1.155 %) Oracle Forms 4 5 (1.155 %) Flash 5 2 (0.462 %) Dreamweaver 5 2 (0.462 %) NUnit 5 2 (0.462 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 112 (25.87 %) Health 2 67 (15.47 %) Finance 3 47 (10.85 %) Auditing 4 28 (6.467 %) Pensions 5 22 (5.081 %) Retail 6 6 (1.386 %) Games 7 4 (0.924 %) Marketing 7 4 (0.924 %) Government 7 4 (0.924 %) Telecoms 8 3 (0.693 %) Education 8 3 (0.693 %) Electric 8 3 (0.693 %) Local Government 8 3 (0.693 %) Banking 9 2 (0.462 %) Insurance 9 2 (0.462 %) Back Office 10 1 (0.231 %) Chemicals 10 1 (0.231 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 186 (42.96 %) Developer 2 94 (21.71 %) Consultant 3 63 (14.55 %) .NET Developer 4 54 (12.47 %) Tester 5 53 (12.24 %) Web Developer 6 36 (8.314 %) Technical Consultant 7 31 (7.159 %) Applications Support 8 27 (6.236 %) C# Developer 8 27 (6.236 %) VB.NET Developer 8 27 (6.236 %) Web Tester 9 25 (5.774 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 25 (5.774 %) DBA 9 25 (5.774 %) Software Developer 10 24 (5.543 %) Analyst 11 22 (5.081 %) SQL DBA 11 22 (5.081 %) Implementation Consultant 12 21 (4.850 %) Penetration Tester 13 20 (4.619 %) Trainer 13 20 (4.619 %) Support Analyst 14 16 (3.695 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 138 (31.87 %) NHS 2 13 (3.002 %) Client/Server 3 11 (2.540 %) EPoS 4 10 (2.309 %) AS400 5 8 (1.848 %) Replication 6 6 (1.386 %) Clustering 7 5 (1.155 %) N-Tier 8 4 (0.924 %) Informatics 9 3 (0.693 %) W3C 10 2 (0.462 %) Social Network 11 1 (0.231 %) Blackberry 11 1 (0.231 %) Management Information System 11 1 (0.231 %) Tandem 11 1 (0.231 %) Pocket PC
Operating Systems 1 61 (14.09 %) Windows 2 45 (10.39 %) UNIX 3 16 (3.695 %) Linux 4 8 (1.848 %) Solaris 5 5 (1.155 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (1.155 %) Windows XP 6 2 (0.462 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.231 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (0.231 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 77 (17.78 %) Business Intelligence 2 56 (12.93 %) Project Management 3 51 (11.78 %) Information Security 4 44 (10.16 %) ITIL 5 18 (4.157 %) Penetration Testing 6 15 (3.464 %) PRINCE2 6 15 (3.464 %) OO 6 15 (3.464 %) Ethical Hacking 7 11 (2.540 %) CRM 7 11 (2.540 %) OOP 8 10 (2.309 %) ERP 9 9 (2.079 %) Disaster Recovery 10 8 (1.848 %) Web Design 11 7 (1.617 %) Web Development 12 6 (1.386 %) Migration 13 4 (0.924 %) E-Commerce 13 4 (0.924 %) B2B 13 4 (0.924 %) Business Analysis 14 3 (0.693 %) Security Testing 14 3 (0.693 %) SEO
Programming Languages 1 136 (31.41 %) Transact-SQL 2 101 (23.33 %) VB 3 84 (19.40 %) C# 4 81 (18.71 %) VB.NET 5 59 (13.63 %) JavaScript 6 49 (11.32 %) C 7 47 (10.85 %) Java 8 20 (4.619 %) VB6 9 13 (3.002 %) C++ 10 8 (1.848 %) Perl 11 6 (1.386 %) PL/SQL 11 6 (1.386 %) VBA 12 5 (1.155 %) PHP 13 3 (0.693 %) DHTML 14 2 (0.462 %) VBScript 14 2 (0.462 %) ActionScript 14 2 (0.462 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 31 (7.159 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (1.155 %) Degree 3 3 (0.693 %) ISEB 3 3 (0.693 %) ISTQB 4 2 (0.462 %) MCPD 4 2 (0.462 %) MCAD 4 2 (0.462 %) MCSD 4 2 (0.462 %) MCSE 5 1 (0.231 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.155 %) QA	System Software 1 10 (2.309 %) Nmap 2 8 (1.848 %) NetBackup 3 3 (0.693 %) Active Directory 4 1 (0.231 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 10 (2.309 %) Nessus 2 6 (1.386 %) Unicenter 2 6 (1.386 %) AutoSys 3 1 (0.231 %) ARCserve 3 1 (0.231 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.231 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.231 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 99 (22.86 %) Oracle 2 54 (12.47 %) Microsoft 3 16 (3.695 %) Remedy 4 9 (2.079 %) Sun 5 8 (1.848 %) Business Objects 6 6 (1.386 %) PeopleSoft 6 6 (1.386 %) IBM 6 6 (1.386 %) CA 7 5 (1.155 %) JD Edwards 8 3 (0.693 %) Citrix 8 3 (0.693 %) SAP 9 2 (0.462 %) Cognos 9 2 (0.462 %) Adobe 9 2 (0.462 %) HP 10 1 (0.231 %) McAfee Security 10 1 (0.231 %) Sybase