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 22 May 2012 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.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank333
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads269902682219608
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK22.38 %21.87 %20.54 %
As % of the Programming Languages category41.73 %41.66 %40.32 %
Number of salaries quoted237922315516753
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£67,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.85 %-
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
646836438048632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.64 %52.50 %50.94 %
Number of salaries quoted569875583141348
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,700£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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 change025473£40,000-
LondonNo change011667£50,000-
South EastUp+25089£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+13217£52,500-
East of EnglandNo change02196£38,000+1.33 %
North WestNo change02015£33,500+3.07 %
SurreyUp+11625£42,500+6.25 %
South WestNo change01360£35,000+7.69 %
YorkshireNo change01228£32,500+1.56 %
BerkshireDown-11227£37,500-6.25 %
ManchesterUp+11126£33,500+8.06 %
West MidlandsUp+21084£35,000-
West YorkshireDown-1800£32,500-
HampshireNo change0751£37,500+7.14 %
ScotlandDown-1724£36,500-1.35 %
East MidlandsDown-3720£34,000+1.49 %
HertfordshireDown-1674£40,000-
CambridgeshireUp+1661£37,500+7.14 %
LeedsDown-1578£34,000+4.61 %
ReadingUp+1518£37,500-3.84 %
CheshireNo change0509£33,000-5.71 %
CambridgeUp+4472£37,500+11.94 %
EssexUp+1409£37,500+7.14 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2397£37,500-6.25 %
GloucestershireDown-1369£37,500+11.94 %
WalesUp+2350£32,500-7.14 %
OxfordshireUp+1328£37,500-6.25 %
South WalesUp+3300£32,500-7.14 %
EdinburghUp+2287£35,000-
NottinghamshireDown-3287£35,000+2.94 %

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

119452 (36.84 %)SQL Server
218379 (34.81 %).NET
316279 (30.83 %)C#
413599 (25.76 %)Finance
512806 (24.25 %)Oracle
611978 (22.69 %)Java
710927 (20.69 %)Microsoft
810420 (19.73 %)ASP.NET
910418 (19.73 %)Windows
109974 (18.89 %)JavaScript
119298 (17.61 %)XML
128867 (16.79 %)HTML
138193 (15.52 %)Degree
147703 (14.59 %)T-SQL
157689 (14.56 %)CSS
166862 (13.00 %)UNIX
176740 (12.76 %)Linux
186304 (11.94 %)MS Excel
195352 (10.14 %)SQL Server 2008
205213 (9.873 %)Web Services
215142 (9.738 %)SQL Server Integration Services
225033 (9.532 %)PL/SQL
235030 (9.526 %)Business Intelligence
245012 (9.492 %)OO
255000 (9.470 %)Agile Software Development
264973 (9.418 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
274885 (9.252 %)SQL Server 2005
284192 (7.939 %)Data Warehouse
294084 (7.735 %)jQuery
304054 (7.678 %)VB.NET

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
118379 (34.81 %).NET
210420 (19.73 %)ASP.NET
39298 (17.61 %)XML
48867 (16.79 %)HTML
57689 (14.56 %)CSS
65213 (9.873 %)Web Services
74084 (7.735 %)jQuery
83909 (7.403 %)Ajax
93745 (7.093 %)J2EE
103035 (5.748 %)Spring
112808 (5.318 %)WCF
122605 (4.934 %).NET Framework
132450 (4.640 %)Hibernate
141943 (3.680 %)XSLT
151910 (3.617 %)WPF
161839 (3.483 %)WinForms
171768 (3.348 %)ASP
181597 (3.025 %)XHTML
191573 (2.979 %)JSP
201448 (2.742 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13328 (6.303 %)SharePoint
22908 (5.507 %)IIS
32205 (4.176 %)Apache
41680 (3.182 %)Tomcat
51540 (2.917 %)MS Exchange
61222 (2.314 %)CMS
71038 (1.966 %)SAS
81025 (1.941 %)WebLogic
9810 (1.534 %)SharePoint 2010
10631 (1.195 %)BizTalk Server
11586 (1.110 %)Exchange Server 2010
12584 (1.106 %)SharePoint Server
13582 (1.102 %)Exchange Server 2007
14482 (0.913 %)Exchange Server 2003
15397 (0.752 %)Oracle Workflow
16330 (0.625 %)WebSphere Application Server
17273 (0.517 %)Umbraco
18254 (0.481 %)ESB
19234 (0.443 %)Drupal
20190 (0.360 %)GlassFish
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16304 (11.94 %)MS Excel
21813 (3.434 %)MS Office
3824 (1.561 %)MS Visio
4352 (0.667 %)Photoshop
5341 (0.646 %)MS PowerPoint
6310 (0.587 %)SPSS
7216 (0.409 %)MS Project
8214 (0.405 %)MATLAB
9140 (0.265 %)Spreadsheet
10128 (0.242 %)InfoPath
11106 (0.201 %)PowerPivot
1254 (0.102 %)Fireworks
1348 (0.091 %)Adobe Illustrator
1430 (0.057 %)FastStats
1522 (0.042 %)Office 365
1614 (0.027 %)DOC1
1713 (0.025 %)PrintSoft PReS
1713 (0.025 %)Mingle
1812 (0.023 %)Windchill
1812 (0.023 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1677 (1.282 %)Dynamics CRM
2649 (1.229 %)Oracle EBS
3375 (0.710 %)Oracle EBS R12
4319 (0.604 %)Oracle Applications
5256 (0.485 %)Dynamics AX
5256 (0.485 %)Dynamics NAV
6223 (0.422 %)Oracle Financials
7185 (0.350 %)Oracle 11i
8166 (0.314 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
9149 (0.282 %)Oracle ERP
10130 (0.246 %)Summit
11120 (0.227 %)Oracle BPM
12113 (0.214 %)Siebel Analytics
13106 (0.201 %)Google Analytics
1473 (0.138 %)Oracle iProcurement
1570 (0.133 %)SiteCatalyst
1665 (0.123 %)Agresso
1761 (0.116 %)WebTrends
1856 (0.106 %)Dynamics GP
1953 (0.100 %)Oracle HRMS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11779 (3.369 %)Internet
21655 (3.134 %)TCP/IP
31287 (2.437 %)Firewall
41256 (2.379 %)SAN
5960 (1.818 %)DNS
6936 (1.773 %)HTTP
7819 (1.551 %)LAN
8814 (1.542 %)WAN
9631 (1.195 %)Intranet
10591 (1.119 %)VPN
11555 (1.051 %)DHCP
12367 (0.695 %)VoIP
13261 (0.494 %)SSL
14223 (0.422 %)FTP
15221 (0.419 %)LDAP
16211 (0.400 %)NAS
17193 (0.366 %)Extranet
18176 (0.333 %)Wireless
19150 (0.284 %)VLAN
20148 (0.280 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
119452 (36.84 %)SQL Server
25352 (10.14 %)SQL Server 2008
35142 (9.738 %)SQL Server Integration Services
44973 (9.418 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
54885 (9.252 %)SQL Server 2005
64192 (7.939 %)Data Warehouse
73447 (6.528 %)MySQL
82944 (5.576 %)ETL
92543 (4.816 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
101812 (3.432 %)RDBMS
111422 (2.693 %)Oracle 10g
121381 (2.615 %)SQL Server 2000
131237 (2.343 %)Crystal Reports
141159 (2.195 %)Oracle 11g
151156 (2.189 %)Oracle 8/8i
161033 (1.956 %)OLAP
171019 (1.930 %)Oracle Reports
18833 (1.578 %)DTS
19804 (1.523 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
20789 (1.494 %)DB2
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13316 (6.280 %)Visual Studio
22226 (4.216 %)Subversion
31306 (2.473 %)Team Foundation Server
41075 (2.036 %)Eclipse
51056 (2.000 %)JUnit
61004 (1.901 %)Selenium
7873 (1.653 %)Ant
8852 (1.614 %)Maven
9746 (1.413 %)NUnit
10631 (1.195 %)Oracle Forms
11623 (1.180 %)Git (software)
12560 (1.061 %)JIRA
13514 (0.973 %)QuickTest Pro
14449 (0.850 %)VSS/SourceSafe
15277 (0.525 %)Hudson
16265 (0.502 %)JDeveloper
17223 (0.422 %)FitNesse
18208 (0.394 %)Oracle APEX
19200 (0.379 %)Cucumber
20199 (0.377 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
113599 (25.76 %)Finance
23842 (7.276 %)Banking
32234 (4.231 %)Retail
41953 (3.699 %)Front Office
51867 (3.536 %)Marketing
61627 (3.081 %)Investment Banking
71589 (3.009 %)Telecoms
81154 (2.186 %)Back Office
9863 (1.634 %)Games
10729 (1.381 %)Advertising
11564 (1.068 %)Law
12558 (1.057 %)Financial Institution
13554 (1.049 %)Legal
14521 (0.987 %)Manufacturing
15366 (0.693 %)Publishing
16271 (0.513 %)Billing
17231 (0.437 %)Pharmaceutical
18226 (0.428 %)French Language
19224 (0.424 %)Music
20193 (0.366 %)German Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
125761 (48.79 %)Developer
29613 (18.21 %)Analyst
35999 (11.36 %).NET Developer
44685 (8.873 %)C# Developer
54216 (7.985 %)Java Developer
63489 (6.608 %)Senior Developer
72955 (5.596 %)C# .NET Developer
82946 (5.579 %)DBA
92878 (5.451 %)SQL Developer
102861 (5.418 %)Support Analyst
112850 (5.398 %)Consultant
122746 (5.201 %)Web Developer
132703 (5.119 %)Applications Support
142368 (4.485 %)Software Developer
152249 (4.259 %)ASP.NET Developer
161911 (3.619 %)SQL DBA
171810 (3.428 %)Administrator
181739 (3.293 %)Software Engineer
191711 (3.240 %)Business Analyst
201679 (3.180 %)Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13035 (5.748 %)Computer Science
21390 (2.633 %)Mathematics
31335 (2.528 %)Derivative
41261 (2.388 %)Clustering
51157 (2.191 %)Replication
61125 (2.131 %)Hedge funds
71085 (2.055 %)Open Source
8989 (1.873 %)N-Tier
9961 (1.820 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
10912 (1.727 %)Management Information System
11855 (1.619 %)Equities
12820 (1.553 %)Fixed Income
13762 (1.443 %)Client/Server
14579 (1.097 %)Statistics
15495 (0.937 %)SaaS
16479 (0.907 %)Blackberry
17450 (0.852 %)Social Media
18431 (0.816 %)iPhone
19400 (0.758 %)Credit Risk
20380 (0.720 %)Physics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110418 (19.73 %)Windows
26862 (13.00 %)UNIX
36740 (12.76 %)Linux
42327 (4.407 %)Windows Server 2008
52159 (4.089 %)Windows Server 2003
61047 (1.983 %)Solaris
7913 (1.729 %)Windows XP
8647 (1.225 %)Windows 7
9616 (1.167 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10546 (1.034 %)Android
11400 (0.758 %)AIX
12345 (0.653 %)Apple iOS
13302 (0.572 %)Windows Vista
14266 (0.504 %)Windows 2000 Server
15221 (0.419 %)HPUX
16195 (0.369 %)Windows 2000
17186 (0.352 %)CentOS
18152 (0.288 %)Windows Mobile
19138 (0.261 %)Debian
20115 (0.218 %)Mac OS X
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
15030 (9.526 %)Business Intelligence
25012 (9.492 %)OO
35000 (9.470 %)Agile Software Development
43850 (7.292 %)MVC
53165 (5.994 %)Scrum
63104 (5.879 %)E-Commerce
72983 (5.650 %)Web Development
82960 (5.606 %)TDD
92580 (4.886 %)ITIL
102565 (4.858 %)Project Management
112081 (3.941 %)CRM
121871 (3.543 %)Data Modelling
131750 (3.314 %)UML
141743 (3.301 %)Unit Testing
151701 (3.222 %)Migration
161458 (2.761 %)Business Analysis
171398 (2.648 %)Multithreading
181332 (2.523 %)SOA
191288 (2.439 %)Workflow
201257 (2.381 %)Data Analysis
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
116279 (30.83 %)C#
211978 (22.69 %)Java
39974 (18.89 %)JavaScript
47703 (14.59 %)T-SQL
55033 (9.532 %)PL/SQL
64054 (7.678 %)VB.NET
73808 (7.212 %)C++
82953 (5.593 %)PHP
92881 (5.456 %)VB
102524 (4.780 %)Perl
111762 (3.337 %)VBA
121750 (3.314 %)Python
131673 (3.169 %)Shell Script
141572 (2.977 %)C
151061 (2.009 %)Ruby
161032 (1.955 %)VB6
17794 (1.504 %)VBScript
18605 (1.146 %)Bash shell
19540 (1.023 %)PowerShell
20472 (0.894 %)PHP5
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18193 (15.52 %)Degree
22085 (3.949 %)Microsoft Certification
31003 (1.900 %)ISEB
4927 (1.756 %)MCSE
5855 (1.619 %)Security Cleared
6629 (1.191 %)MCITP
7627 (1.187 %)MCP
8522 (0.989 %)Cisco Certification
9490 (0.928 %)MCTS
10479 (0.907 %)SC Cleared
11460 (0.871 %)CCNA
12386 (0.731 %)ISTQB
13340 (0.644 %)ITIL Certification
14227 (0.430 %)MCSA
15222 (0.420 %)MCSD
16219 (0.415 %)Oracle Certification
17206 (0.390 %)HND
18181 (0.343 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19179 (0.339 %)MCDBA
20177 (0.335 %)MCAD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12766 (5.239 %)QA
2859 (1.627 %)SLA
3278 (0.527 %)Data Quality
4219 (0.415 %)ISO 9001
5144 (0.273 %)PCI DSS
6136 (0.258 %)ISO/IEC 27001
771 (0.134 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
864 (0.121 %)WAI
960 (0.114 %)Solvency II
1049 (0.093 %)HL7
1140 (0.076 %)WCAG
1239 (0.074 %)Basel II
1337 (0.070 %)ISO 8583
1421 (0.040 %)COBIT
1520 (0.038 %)Basel III
1616 (0.030 %)TickIT
1616 (0.030 %)ISO 9000
1713 (0.025 %)FATCA
188 (0.015 %)MiFID
188 (0.015 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12401 (4.547 %)Active Directory
21297 (2.456 %)VMware Infrastructure
3441 (0.835 %)Hyper-V
4414 (0.784 %)VMware ESX
5394 (0.746 %)vSphere
6336 (0.636 %)Oracle RAC
7301 (0.570 %)Oracle RMAN
8217 (0.411 %)XenApp
9170 (0.322 %)Terminal Services
10145 (0.275 %)VMware ESXi
11107 (0.203 %)XenDesktop
1295 (0.180 %)XenServer
1393 (0.176 %)Xen
1482 (0.155 %)ISA Server
1571 (0.134 %)NFS
1665 (0.123 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1757 (0.108 %)MetaFrame
1851 (0.097 %)UAG
1937 (0.070 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
2036 (0.068 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1375 (0.710 %)HP Quality Center
2248 (0.470 %)SCOM
3227 (0.430 %)Data Guard
4222 (0.420 %)Backup Exec
5198 (0.375 %)NetBackup
6191 (0.362 %)SCCM
7167 (0.316 %)Nagios
8118 (0.223 %)Tivoli
9115 (0.218 %)Puppet
10112 (0.212 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1199 (0.187 %)WSUS
1282 (0.155 %)Control-M
1358 (0.110 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1453 (0.100 %)MOM
1453 (0.100 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1547 (0.089 %)ARCserve
1646 (0.087 %)SCVMM
1741 (0.078 %)Norton AntiVirus
1834 (0.064 %)EMC NetWorker
1927 (0.051 %)Foglight
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
112806 (24.25 %)Oracle
210927 (20.69 %)Microsoft
32315 (4.384 %)VMware
41497 (2.835 %)Business Objects
51492 (2.826 %)JBoss
61396 (2.644 %)Cisco
71184 (2.242 %)Citrix
81126 (2.133 %)Sybase
91058 (2.004 %)IBM
10955 (1.809 %)HP
11920 (1.742 %)SAP
12901 (1.706 %)Cognos
13828 (1.568 %)Red Hat
14641 (1.214 %)Informatica
15434 (0.822 %)Sun
16395 (0.748 %)Google
17365 (0.691 %)Symantec
18337 (0.638 %)TIBCO
19315 (0.597 %)Zend
20302 (0.572 %)NetApp