Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category.

LinkStructured Query Language (SQL)
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank333
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads146881783236923
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK18.65 %17.64 %18.27 %
As % of the Programming Languages category38.22 %37.93 %40.42 %
Salaries quoted128051539530617
Average salary£37,500£37,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.350 %-1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,000£33,722£33,500
% change year-on-year
-2.130 %+0.660 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
384264700891356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.80 %46.51 %45.21 %
Salaries quoted331384065375843
Average salary£38,500£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.470 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.850 %-

SQL
Demand Trend

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

SQL Demand Trend

SQL
Salary Trend

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

SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandNo change014138£38,000+1.33 %
LondonNo change06366£50,000+11.11 %
South EastNo change02655£37,500+4.16 %
City of LondonDown-12052£50,000-
South WestUp+21136£31,000-4.61 %
East of EnglandUp+21100£34,000-2.85 %
North WestNo change0988£30,000-
YorkshireUp+1767£32,500+1.56 %
BerkshireNo change0716£35,000-6.66 %
SurreyUp+1639£40,000+6.66 %
West MidlandsNo change0625£33,500+4.68 %
ManchesterNo change0526£30,000-
West YorkshireUp+1427£32,500-
East MidlandsDown-1406£30,500+0.82 %
HertfordshireUp+2364£40,000+1.26 %
BristolUp+2348£30,000-14.28 %
HampshireDown-1338£33,000-4.34 %
CambridgeshireUp+2322£30,000-14.28 %
ScotlandDown-3281£35,000-
BuckinghamshireUp+1267£35,000+2.94 %
CheshireDown-3256£33,000+10.00 %
LeedsUp+3245£32,500-
CambridgeUp+1245£30,000-14.28 %
WiltshireDown-1245£28,250-13.07 %
OxfordshireNo change0212£38,000+16.92 %
BirminghamDown-1210£32,500+1.56 %
GloucestershireUp+11176£35,000+5.26 %
WalesDown-1175£30,000-1.63 %
ReadingUp+1171£35,000-9.09 %
EssexUp+7167£30,000-14.28 %

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

19910 (35.28 %)SQL Server
29871 (35.14 %).NET
38072 (28.74 %)C#
46259 (22.28 %)Oracle
55691 (20.26 %)Finance
65386 (19.17 %)ASP.NET
75278 (18.79 %)Java
85068 (18.04 %)Windows
94670 (16.62 %)XML
104610 (16.41 %)Microsoft
114139 (14.73 %)JavaScript
123936 (14.01 %)UNIX
133931 (13.99 %)HTML
143707 (13.20 %)T-SQL
153449 (12.28 %)Degree
163367 (11.99 %)SQL Server 2005
172920 (10.39 %)CSS
182718 (9.676 %)Linux
192690 (9.576 %)Banking
202605 (9.273 %)MS Excel
212555 (9.095 %)PL/SQL
222494 (8.878 %)OO
232489 (8.860 %)VB.NET
242301 (8.191 %)C++
252298 (8.181 %)VB
262081 (7.408 %)Web Services
272020 (7.191 %)Datawarehouse
281993 (7.095 %)Business Intelligence
291958 (6.970 %)AJAX
301844 (6.564 %)SQL Server Integration Services

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
19871 (35.14 %).NET
25386 (19.17 %)ASP.NET
34670 (16.62 %)XML
43931 (13.99 %)HTML
52920 (10.39 %)CSS
62081 (7.408 %)Web Services
71958 (6.970 %)AJAX
81606 (5.717 %)ASP
91375 (4.895 %)J2EE
101203 (4.283 %).NET Framework
111156 (4.115 %)Spring
121142 (4.065 %)XHTML
13917 (3.264 %)WinForms
14815 (2.901 %)XSLT
15800 (2.848 %)Hibernate
16704 (2.506 %)WCF
17672 (2.392 %)JSP
18609 (2.168 %)WPF
19516 (1.837 %)Flash
20495 (1.762 %)MVC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11366 (4.863 %)IIS
21309 (4.660 %)SharePoint
3742 (2.641 %)Apache
4692 (2.463 %)MS Exchange
5638 (2.271 %)SAS
6591 (2.104 %)CMS
7544 (1.937 %)Tomcat
8371 (1.321 %)SharePoint Server 2007
9366 (1.303 %)WebLogic
10364 (1.296 %)Exchange Server 2003
11293 (1.043 %)Exchange Server 2007
12286 (1.018 %)BizTalk Server
13280 (0.997 %)ColdFusion
14204 (0.726 %)Oracle Workflow
15128 (0.456 %)Oracle Application Server
16123 (0.438 %)MQSeries
17121 (0.431 %)Rendezvous
18111 (0.395 %)EPiServer
1994 (0.335 %)WebSphere MQ
2079 (0.281 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12605 (9.273 %)MS Excel
2788 (2.805 %)MS Office
3313 (1.114 %)MS Visio
4240 (0.854 %)SPSS
5210 (0.748 %)Photoshop
6135 (0.481 %)Spreadsheet
796 (0.342 %)MS PowerPoint
881 (0.288 %)MS Project
980 (0.285 %)MATLAB
1076 (0.271 %)FastStats
1146 (0.164 %)Fireworks
1242 (0.150 %)InfoPath
1338 (0.135 %)Adobe Illustrator
1429 (0.103 %)S-PLUS
1521 (0.075 %)CA Clarity
1617 (0.061 %)Acrobat
1713 (0.046 %)AutoCAD
1810 (0.036 %)FrameMaker
196 (0.021 %)Paint Shop Pro
196 (0.021 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1182 (0.648 %)Oracle EBS
2160 (0.570 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
3154 (0.548 %)Dynamics CRM
4144 (0.513 %)Oracle Applications
594 (0.335 %)Microsoft CRM
683 (0.295 %)Oracle EBS R12
780 (0.285 %)Oracle 11i
879 (0.281 %)Navision
971 (0.253 %)Dynamics AX
1061 (0.217 %)Google Analytics
1156 (0.199 %)Oracle Financials
1253 (0.189 %)Dynamics NAV
1341 (0.146 %)Oracle iProcurement
1437 (0.132 %)Oracle HRMS
1533 (0.117 %)Oracle ERP
1533 (0.117 %)Endur
1632 (0.114 %)Summit
1730 (0.107 %)WebTrends
1730 (0.107 %)Great Plains
1829 (0.103 %)ION MarketView
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11186 (4.222 %)Internet
2655 (2.332 %)TCP/IP
3480 (1.709 %)SAN
4455 (1.620 %)Intranet
5402 (1.431 %)DNS
6381 (1.356 %)Firewall
7329 (1.171 %)HTTP
8287 (1.022 %)WAN
9286 (1.018 %)LAN
10193 (0.687 %)DHCP
11186 (0.662 %)VPN
12134 (0.477 %)VoIP
13123 (0.438 %)NAS
14118 (0.420 %)FTP
1599 (0.352 %)SMTP
1686 (0.306 %)Wireless
1781 (0.288 %)LDAP
1873 (0.260 %)SSL
1962 (0.221 %)Extranet
2058 (0.206 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19910 (35.28 %)SQL Server
23367 (11.99 %)SQL Server 2005
32020 (7.191 %)Datawarehouse
41844 (6.564 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51735 (6.176 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
61614 (5.746 %)SQL Server 2000
71464 (5.212 %)MySQL
81228 (4.372 %)SQL Server 2008
91169 (4.161 %)RDBMS
101092 (3.887 %)Oracle 10g
111084 (3.859 %)ETL
121056 (3.759 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13917 (3.264 %)BusinessObjects
14848 (3.019 %)Crystal Reports
15704 (2.506 %)DTS
16625 (2.225 %)Oracle Reports
17553 (1.969 %)OLAP
18549 (1.954 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
19538 (1.915 %)Oracle 8/8i
20491 (1.748 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11407 (5.009 %)Visual Studio
2609 (2.168 %)Subversion
3415 (1.477 %)Oracle Forms
4371 (1.321 %)JUnit
5343 (1.221 %)NUnit
6318 (1.132 %)QuickTest Pro
7260 (0.926 %)Ant
8229 (0.815 %)Eclipse
9194 (0.691 %)VSS/SourceSafe
10150 (0.534 %)Team Foundation Server
11148 (0.527 %)Selenium
12137 (0.488 %)Maven
13122 (0.434 %)Dreamweaver
14106 (0.377 %)ProC
1595 (0.338 %)ClearCase
1693 (0.331 %)ERwin
1787 (0.310 %)WinRunner
1885 (0.303 %)TestDirector
1979 (0.281 %)LoadRunner
2071 (0.253 %)Oracle APEX
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15691 (20.26 %)Finance
22690 (9.576 %)Banking
31536 (5.468 %)Front Office
41334 (4.749 %)Investment Banking
51260 (4.485 %)Marketing
61140 (4.058 %)Pensions
71040 (3.702 %)Insurance
8907 (3.229 %)Health
9873 (3.108 %)Retail
10737 (2.624 %)Education
11675 (2.403 %)Back Office
12619 (2.204 %)Telecoms
13319 (1.136 %)Games
14309 (1.100 %)Financial Institution
15286 (1.018 %)Government
16210 (0.748 %)Publishing
17195 (0.694 %)Manufacturing
18177 (0.630 %)Law
19169 (0.602 %)Legal
20165 (0.587 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
113660 (48.63 %)Developer
25531 (19.69 %)Analyst
33030 (10.79 %).NET Developer
42447 (8.711 %)C# Developer
51966 (6.999 %)DBA
61876 (6.678 %)Senior Developer
71796 (6.394 %)Web Developer
81768 (6.294 %)Java Developer
91672 (5.952 %)SQL Developer
101662 (5.916 %)Support Analyst
111498 (5.333 %)Applications Support
121277 (4.546 %)Consultant
131183 (4.211 %)SQL DBA
14995 (3.542 %)Programmer
15984 (3.503 %)ASP.NET Developer
16972 (3.460 %)Administrator
17954 (3.396 %)Software Developer
18892 (3.175 %)Business Analyst
19716 (2.549 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
20710 (2.527 %)Junior
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11294 (4.606 %)Derivative
2967 (3.442 %)Computer Science
3836 (2.976 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4716 (2.549 %)Fixed Income
5668 (2.378 %)Client/Server
6647 (2.303 %)Replication
7641 (2.282 %)Equities
8549 (1.954 %)Mathematics
9462 (1.645 %)N-Tier
10461 (1.641 %)Clustering
11424 (1.509 %)Multithreading
12355 (1.264 %)Equity Derivative
13337 (1.200 %)Management Information System
14273 (0.972 %)Open Source
15217 (0.772 %)Credit Risk
16197 (0.701 %)Statistics
16197 (0.701 %)Credit Derivative
17168 (0.598 %)NHS
18167 (0.594 %)Social Network
19160 (0.570 %)Interest Rate Derivative
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15068 (18.04 %)Windows
23936 (14.01 %)UNIX
32718 (9.676 %)Linux
41379 (4.909 %)Windows Server 2003
5780 (2.777 %)Solaris
6551 (1.961 %)Windows XP
7480 (1.709 %)Windows Server 2008
8315 (1.121 %)Windows 2000
9280 (0.997 %)Windows 2000 Server
10212 (0.755 %)Windows Vista
11182 (0.648 %)AIX
11182 (0.648 %)Red Hat Linux
12117 (0.417 %)HPUX
1398 (0.349 %)Windows NT
1447 (0.167 %)Windows Mobile
1539 (0.139 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1637 (0.132 %)VMS
1736 (0.128 %)Debian
1830 (0.107 %)Windows 7
1927 (0.096 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12494 (8.878 %)OO
21993 (7.095 %)Business Intelligence
31418 (5.048 %)E-Commerce
41339 (4.767 %)Web Development
51280 (4.557 %)Agile Software Development
61215 (4.325 %)Project Management
71004 (3.574 %)CRM
8905 (3.222 %)UML
9813 (2.894 %)ITIL
10757 (2.695 %)Data Modelling
11724 (2.577 %)Data Analysis
12700 (2.492 %)Migration
13690 (2.456 %)Business Analysis
14675 (2.403 %)Unit Testing
15634 (2.257 %)Workflow
16623 (2.218 %)Risk Management
17616 (2.193 %)Scrum
18529 (1.883 %)SOA
19492 (1.751 %)ERP
20482 (1.716 %)User Acceptance Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18072 (28.74 %)C#
25278 (18.79 %)Java
34139 (14.73 %)JavaScript
43707 (13.20 %)T-SQL
52555 (9.095 %)PL/SQL
62489 (8.860 %)VB.NET
72301 (8.191 %)C++
82298 (8.181 %)VB
91619 (5.763 %)PHP
101418 (5.048 %)C
111318 (4.692 %)Perl
121159 (4.126 %)VBA
13767 (2.730 %)VB6
14714 (2.542 %)Shell Script
15712 (2.535 %)VBScript
16538 (1.915 %)Python
17258 (0.918 %)ActionScript
18256 (0.911 %)PHP5
19176 (0.627 %)Ruby
20175 (0.623 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13449 (12.28 %)Degree
21187 (4.226 %)Microsoft Certification
3568 (2.022 %)MCSE
4396 (1.410 %)ISEB
5352 (1.253 %)Security Cleared
6274 (0.975 %)MCP
7250 (0.890 %)MCTS
8205 (0.730 %)MCSD
9194 (0.691 %)SC Cleared
10190 (0.676 %)Cisco Certification
11181 (0.644 %)CCNA
12158 (0.562 %)MCAD
13139 (0.495 %)MCDBA
14128 (0.456 %)MCITP
1597 (0.345 %)MCSA
1689 (0.317 %)PhD
1773 (0.260 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1865 (0.231 %)ITIL Certification
1959 (0.210 %)PRINCE2 Certification
2058 (0.206 %)HND
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1937 (3.336 %)QA
2252 (0.897 %)SLA
332 (0.114 %)Basel II
422 (0.078 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
422 (0.078 %)HL7
519 (0.068 %)ISO27001
617 (0.061 %)PCI DSS
715 (0.053 %)WAI
811 (0.039 %)ISO9001
811 (0.039 %)RosettaNet
910 (0.036 %)GxP
910 (0.036 %)WCAG
109 (0.032 %)COBIT
116 (0.021 %)DICOM
125 (0.018 %)ISO17799
125 (0.018 %)BS7799
125 (0.018 %)TickIT
133 (0.011 %)ISO9000
142 (0.007 %)ISO14001
151 (0.004 %)JSP 440
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11090 (3.880 %)Active Directory
2340 (1.210 %)VMware Infrastructure
3242 (0.861 %)Oracle RAC
4194 (0.691 %)Oracle RMAN
5120 (0.427 %)MSMQ
699 (0.352 %)Hyper-V
794 (0.335 %)VMware ESX
859 (0.210 %)Terminal Services
859 (0.210 %)Citrix Presentation Server
954 (0.192 %)Backup Exec
1053 (0.189 %)ISA Server
1150 (0.178 %)XenApp
1150 (0.178 %)NetBackup
1244 (0.157 %)Postfix
1244 (0.157 %)vSphere
1341 (0.146 %)XenServer
1431 (0.110 %)Terminal Server
1526 (0.093 %)MetaFrame
1526 (0.093 %)SRDF
1625 (0.089 %)NFS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1175 (0.623 %)Data Guard
277 (0.274 %)Tivoli
370 (0.249 %)AutoSys
466 (0.235 %)MSI
553 (0.189 %)SCCM
649 (0.174 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
744 (0.157 %)WSUS
842 (0.150 %)HP Quality Center
941 (0.146 %)SCOM
1036 (0.128 %)OpenView
1133 (0.117 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1228 (0.100 %)Nagios
1327 (0.096 %)Norton AntiVirus
1327 (0.096 %)CONTROL-M
1417 (0.061 %)MOM
1516 (0.057 %)EMC NetWorker
1615 (0.053 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1710 (0.036 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1710 (0.036 %)Netcool
189 (0.032 %)Zenoss
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16259 (22.28 %)Oracle
24610 (16.41 %)Microsoft
31104 (3.930 %)Sybase
4917 (3.264 %)Business Objects
5727 (2.588 %)VMware
6645 (2.296 %)Cognos
7506 (1.801 %)Citrix
8418 (1.488 %)Cisco
9411 (1.463 %)HP
10389 (1.385 %)JBoss
11302 (1.075 %)Informatica
12291 (1.036 %)IBM
13285 (1.015 %)TIBCO
14270 (0.961 %)SAP
15241 (0.858 %)Sun
16185 (0.659 %)Google
17181 (0.644 %)Red Hat
18179 (0.637 %)Bloomberg
19166 (0.591 %)Reuters
20158 (0.562 %)Teradata