The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 8 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 6 25 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 12.24% 30.12% 36.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.22% 48.08% 59.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6 24 25
Average salary £31,250 £25,750 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.35% -8.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,000 £18,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £32,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.85%
All Programming Languages
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
27 52 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 55.10% 62.65% 61.84%
Number of salaries quoted 25 50 40
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £22,000 £18,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
West Wales

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Swansea region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swansea SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 23 (67.65%) .NET
2 21 (61.76%) C#
3 19 (55.88%) ASP.NET
4 15 (44.12%) OO
5 14 (41.18%) SQL Server
6 9 (26.47%) Windows
7 8 (23.53%) MySQL
7 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
8 7 (20.59%) Finance
8 7 (20.59%) WinForms
8 7 (20.59%) HTML
8 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
8 7 (20.59%) CSS
9 6 (17.65%) XML
9 6 (17.65%) C++
9 6 (17.65%) Oracle
9 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (17.65%) .NET Framework
10 5 (14.71%) WCF
10 5 (14.71%) SLA
11 4 (11.76%) MS Excel
11 4 (11.76%) MVC
11 4 (11.76%) Windows Azure
12 3 (8.824%) Apple iOS
12 3 (8.824%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 3 (8.824%) Mercurial
12 3 (8.824%) WPF
12 3 (8.824%) Silverlight
12 3 (8.824%) LINQ
12 3 (8.824%) Oracle 11g

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 23 (67.65%) .NET
2 19 (55.88%) ASP.NET
3 7 (20.59%) WinForms
3 7 (20.59%) HTML
3 7 (20.59%) CSS
4 6 (17.65%) XML
4 6 (17.65%) .NET Framework
5 5 (14.71%) WCF
6 3 (8.824%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (8.824%) WPF
6 3 (8.824%) Silverlight
6 3 (8.824%) LINQ
6 3 (8.824%) XSLT
6 3 (8.824%) Web Services
7 2 (5.882%) Flash
7 2 (5.882%) NHibernate
8 1 (2.941%) jQuery
8 1 (2.941%) Ajax
8 1 (2.941%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Windows Azure
2 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 8 (23.53%) MySQL
3 6 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.824%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (8.824%) GIS
4 3 (8.824%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (2.941%) Essbase
6 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.941%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.941%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Mercurial
1 3 (8.824%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (8.824%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Developer
2 11 (32.35%) Analyst
3 10 (29.41%) Support Analyst
4 8 (23.53%) Applications Support
5 7 (20.59%) Applications Support Analyst
5 7 (20.59%) Software Developer
6 6 (17.65%) Web Developer
6 6 (17.65%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (17.65%) C# Developer
6 6 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Developer
7 5 (14.71%) .NET Developer
7 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (8.824%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (5.882%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (5.882%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (5.882%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 1 (2.941%) IT Support
10 1 (2.941%) Report Developer
10 1 (2.941%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.882%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 3 (8.824%) Apple iOS
2 3 (8.824%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) OO
2 4 (11.76%) MVC
3 2 (5.882%) Scrum
3 2 (5.882%) User Experience Design
3 2 (5.882%) Kanban
4 1 (2.941%) Financial Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) Analytics
4 1 (2.941%) Quantitative Analysis
4 1 (2.941%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (2.941%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) C#
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) C++
4 2 (5.882%) VB
4 2 (5.882%) ActionScript
4 2 (5.882%) Uniface
4 2 (5.882%) VB6
5 1 (2.941%) VBA
5 1 (2.941%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.941%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Oracle
3 1 (2.941%) Cognos
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