The first table below looks at the demand for HQL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HQL over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
Rank 856 885 868
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -17
Permanent jobs citing HQL 4 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.007% 0.003% 0.005%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 2
Average salary £37,500 £70,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-46.42% +75.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 - £40,000
All Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
57786 65065 64151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 53.20% 53.69% 52.57%
Number of salaries quoted 49711 57354 55628
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £63,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

HQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing HQL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

HQL Jobs Demand Trend

HQL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HQL within the UK.

HQL Salary Trend

HQL
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing HQL within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +11 4 £37,500 -46.42%
South East - 4 £37,500 -
West Sussex - 4 £37,500 -
Crawley - 4 £37,500 -

HQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing HQL 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 HQL.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) Apache
1 9 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 9 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) Velocity
2 8 (88.89%) Git (software)
2 8 (88.89%) Apache Solr
2 8 (88.89%) hybris
2 8 (88.89%) Client/Server
2 8 (88.89%) Subversion
2 8 (88.89%) HTTP
3 7 (77.78%) XHTML
3 7 (77.78%) XSLT
3 7 (77.78%) CSS
3 7 (77.78%) JSP
3 7 (77.78%) HTML
3 7 (77.78%) Linux
3 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) JSF
4 6 (66.67%) Endeca
4 6 (66.67%) Degree
4 6 (66.67%) JIRA
4 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 6 (66.67%) MySQL
4 6 (66.67%) Ant
4 6 (66.67%) JUnit

HQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing HQL 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 HQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) J2EE
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 9 (100.00%) Spring
1 9 (100.00%) Velocity
2 7 (77.78%) XHTML
2 7 (77.78%) XSLT
2 7 (77.78%) CSS
2 7 (77.78%) JSP
2 7 (77.78%) HTML
2 7 (77.78%) JSF
3 6 (66.67%) Web Services
4 3 (33.33%) ASP
4 3 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) Apache
1 9 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 8 (88.89%) Apache Solr
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) MySQL
2 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (88.89%) Git (software)
2 8 (88.89%) Subversion
3 6 (66.67%) JIRA
3 6 (66.67%) Ant
3 6 (66.67%) JUnit
General
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 9 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Client/Server
2 6 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) UNIX
2 3 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
2 3 (33.33%) User Experience Design
3 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) hybris
2 6 (66.67%) Endeca
3 2 (22.22%) Google