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 12 March 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
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank333
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads155391545436864
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK18.57 %17.97 %18.28 %
As % of the Programming Languages category38.03 %38.35 %40.09 %
Salaries quoted134781303930715
Average salary£40,000£37,000£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.100 %-1.330 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£67,500£57,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£34,000£33,000
% change year-on-year
-+3.030 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
408624029791947
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.82 %46.87 %45.61 %
Salaries quoted351053409276809
Average salary£40,000£36,500£37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£60,000£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,500
% change year-on-year
-+1.440 %

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 change015044£40,000+6.66 %
LondonDown-17192£50,000+11.11 %
South EastNo change02794£37,500+1.35 %
City of LondonDown-22308£52,500+5.00 %
South WestNo change01111£32,500-7.14 %
East of EnglandNo change01067£35,000-
North WestNo change01038£30,000-
YorkshireUp+1772£32,500+8.33 %
BerkshireNo change0742£38,500-3.75 %
SurreyDown-1663£40,000+6.66 %
ManchesterNo change0577£29,250-2.50 %
West MidlandsDown-1574£33,000+1.53 %
East MidlandsDown-1406£32,500+6.55 %
West YorkshireUp+1396£33,000+4.76 %
BristolUp+2362£31,500-10.00 %
CambridgeshireUp+2350£33,500+3.07 %
HertfordshireDown-1348£37,500+7.14 %
HampshireDown-1323£32,500-7.14 %
ScotlandDown-1301£35,000-
BuckinghamshireNo change0264£35,000-
CheshireNo change0264£33,000+10.00 %
OxfordshireUp+1253£38,000+8.57 %
CambridgeDown-4246£33,000+1.53 %
LeedsUp+5239£32,500+2.36 %
GloucestershireUp+11213£35,000+7.69 %
WiltshireDown-3195£30,000-4.76 %
KentUp+1177£32,000-8.57 %
EssexUp+3166£35,000-
ReadingNo change0160£36,500-2.66 %
South YorkshireUp+1158£31,000-4.61 %

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 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.

110458 (35.30 %)SQL Server
210320 (34.84 %).NET
38553 (28.87 %)C#
46554 (22.12 %)Oracle
56281 (21.20 %)Finance
65653 (19.08 %)Java
75523 (18.64 %)ASP.NET
85265 (17.77 %)Windows
95018 (16.94 %)XML
104802 (16.21 %)Microsoft
114369 (14.75 %)UNIX
124288 (14.48 %)JavaScript
134047 (13.66 %)HTML
143901 (13.17 %)T-SQL
153771 (12.73 %)Degree
163489 (11.78 %)SQL Server 2005
173133 (10.58 %)CSS
183114 (10.51 %)Banking
192977 (10.05 %)Linux
202742 (9.256 %)MS Excel
212690 (9.081 %)OO
222632 (8.885 %)VB.NET
232622 (8.851 %)PL/SQL
242423 (8.179 %)C++
252402 (8.109 %)VB
262240 (7.562 %)Web Services
272093 (7.065 %)Datawarehouse
282044 (6.900 %)Business Intelligence
291985 (6.701 %)AJAX
301904 (6.427 %)SQL Server Integration Services

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 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
110320 (34.84 %).NET
25523 (18.64 %)ASP.NET
35018 (16.94 %)XML
44047 (13.66 %)HTML
53133 (10.58 %)CSS
62240 (7.562 %)Web Services
71985 (6.701 %)AJAX
81664 (5.617 %)ASP
91407 (4.750 %)J2EE
101304 (4.402 %)Spring
111199 (4.048 %)XHTML
121179 (3.980 %).NET Framework
13932 (3.146 %)WinForms
14911 (3.075 %)XSLT
15855 (2.886 %)Hibernate
16760 (2.566 %)WCF
17688 (2.323 %)JSP
18663 (2.238 %)WPF
19589 (1.988 %)MVC
20560 (1.890 %)Flash
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11444 (4.875 %)SharePoint
21433 (4.837 %)IIS
3780 (2.633 %)Apache
4709 (2.393 %)MS Exchange
5641 (2.164 %)SAS
6637 (2.150 %)CMS
7570 (1.924 %)Tomcat
8418 (1.411 %)SharePoint Server 2007
9381 (1.286 %)WebLogic
10376 (1.269 %)Exchange Server 2003
11327 (1.104 %)Exchange Server 2007
12300 (1.013 %)BizTalk Server
13252 (0.851 %)ColdFusion
14228 (0.770 %)Oracle Workflow
15135 (0.456 %)MQSeries
16121 (0.408 %)Oracle Application Server
17120 (0.405 %)WebSphere MQ
18115 (0.388 %)EPiServer
19101 (0.341 %)Rendezvous
2074 (0.250 %)LiveLink
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12742 (9.256 %)MS Excel
2898 (3.031 %)MS Office
3355 (1.198 %)MS Visio
4257 (0.868 %)SPSS
5226 (0.763 %)Photoshop
6144 (0.486 %)Spreadsheet
7132 (0.446 %)MS PowerPoint
8104 (0.351 %)MS Project
998 (0.331 %)MATLAB
1076 (0.257 %)FastStats
1159 (0.199 %)InfoPath
1249 (0.165 %)Fireworks
1342 (0.142 %)Adobe Illustrator
1437 (0.125 %)S-PLUS
1516 (0.054 %)CA Clarity
1614 (0.047 %)AutoCAD
178 (0.027 %)Acrobat
178 (0.027 %)PrintSoft PReS
185 (0.017 %)RoboHelp
185 (0.017 %)Paint Shop Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1181 (0.611 %)Oracle EBS
1181 (0.611 %)Dynamics CRM
2156 (0.527 %)Oracle Applications
3146 (0.493 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
4116 (0.392 %)Microsoft CRM
589 (0.300 %)Oracle 11i
675 (0.253 %)Oracle EBS R12
675 (0.253 %)Dynamics AX
774 (0.250 %)Navision
868 (0.230 %)Google Analytics
965 (0.219 %)Dynamics NAV
1059 (0.199 %)Oracle Financials
1147 (0.159 %)Oracle iProcurement
1242 (0.142 %)WebTrends
1242 (0.142 %)Oracle ERP
1339 (0.132 %)RMDS
1433 (0.111 %)Oracle HRMS
1532 (0.108 %)Summit
1629 (0.098 %)Endur
1629 (0.098 %)BusinessWorks
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11230 (4.152 %)Internet
2727 (2.454 %)TCP/IP
3503 (1.698 %)SAN
4477 (1.610 %)Intranet
5405 (1.367 %)Firewall
6401 (1.354 %)DNS
7348 (1.175 %)HTTP
8285 (0.962 %)WAN
9280 (0.945 %)LAN
10210 (0.709 %)DHCP
11186 (0.628 %)VPN
12150 (0.506 %)NAS
13140 (0.473 %)VoIP
14134 (0.452 %)FTP
15106 (0.358 %)SMTP
1681 (0.273 %)LDAP
1775 (0.253 %)SSL
1872 (0.243 %)Wireless
1872 (0.243 %)Extranet
1960 (0.203 %)Broadband
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110458 (35.30 %)SQL Server
23489 (11.78 %)SQL Server 2005
32093 (7.065 %)Datawarehouse
41904 (6.427 %)SQL Server Integration Services
51818 (6.137 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
61638 (5.529 %)MySQL
71604 (5.415 %)SQL Server 2000
81379 (4.655 %)SQL Server 2008
91202 (4.058 %)RDBMS
101175 (3.967 %)ETL
111096 (3.700 %)Oracle 10g
121076 (3.632 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13941 (3.177 %)BusinessObjects
14939 (3.170 %)Crystal Reports
15685 (2.312 %)DTS
16666 (2.248 %)Oracle Reports
17542 (1.830 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
18521 (1.759 %)OLAP
19516 (1.742 %)Oracle 8/8i
20502 (1.695 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11375 (4.642 %)Visual Studio
2669 (2.258 %)Subversion
3437 (1.475 %)JUnit
4418 (1.411 %)Oracle Forms
5410 (1.384 %)NUnit
6342 (1.155 %)QuickTest Pro
7276 (0.932 %)Eclipse
8272 (0.918 %)Ant
9218 (0.736 %)VSS/SourceSafe
10188 (0.635 %)Team Foundation Server
11156 (0.527 %)Selenium
12154 (0.520 %)Maven
13135 (0.456 %)Dreamweaver
14108 (0.365 %)ClearCase
15104 (0.351 %)ERwin
16103 (0.348 %)WinRunner
17101 (0.341 %)ProC
1893 (0.314 %)TestDirector
1983 (0.280 %)LoadRunner
2073 (0.246 %)JDeveloper
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16281 (21.20 %)Finance
23114 (10.51 %)Banking
31815 (6.127 %)Front Office
41522 (5.138 %)Investment Banking
51298 (4.382 %)Marketing
61094 (3.693 %)Pensions
71057 (3.568 %)Insurance
8903 (3.048 %)Retail
9886 (2.991 %)Health
10751 (2.535 %)Back Office
11705 (2.380 %)Education
12632 (2.133 %)Telecoms
13362 (1.222 %)Financial Institution
14343 (1.158 %)Games
15322 (1.087 %)Government
16258 (0.871 %)Publishing
17221 (0.746 %)Manufacturing
18198 (0.668 %)Law
19189 (0.638 %)Billing
20177 (0.598 %)Legal
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
114369 (48.51 %)Developer
25991 (20.22 %)Analyst
33195 (10.79 %).NET Developer
42586 (8.730 %)C# Developer
52049 (6.917 %)DBA
61987 (6.708 %)Senior Developer
71965 (6.633 %)Java Developer
81827 (6.168 %)Web Developer
91795 (6.059 %)Support Analyst
101742 (5.881 %)SQL Developer
111665 (5.621 %)Applications Support
121345 (4.540 %)Consultant
131220 (4.118 %)SQL DBA
141059 (3.575 %)Business Analyst
151034 (3.491 %)ASP.NET Developer
161013 (3.420 %)Software Developer
17975 (3.291 %)Programmer
18966 (3.261 %)Administrator
19735 (2.481 %)Junior
20734 (2.478 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11581 (5.337 %)Derivative
21090 (3.680 %)Computer Science
3985 (3.325 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4842 (2.842 %)Equities
5838 (2.829 %)Fixed Income
6717 (2.420 %)Client/Server
7694 (2.343 %)Replication
8630 (2.127 %)Mathematics
9495 (1.671 %)Multithreading
10491 (1.657 %)Clustering
11474 (1.600 %)N-Tier
12442 (1.492 %)Equity Derivative
13362 (1.222 %)Management Information System
14317 (1.070 %)Open Source
15280 (0.945 %)Credit Derivative
16226 (0.763 %)Credit Risk
17223 (0.753 %)Statistics
18197 (0.665 %)Interest Rate Derivative
19161 (0.543 %)Social Network
20156 (0.527 %)Web 2.0
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15265 (17.77 %)Windows
24369 (14.75 %)UNIX
32977 (10.05 %)Linux
41429 (4.824 %)Windows Server 2003
5783 (2.643 %)Solaris
6571 (1.928 %)Windows Server 2008
7555 (1.874 %)Windows XP
8292 (0.986 %)Windows 2000
9289 (0.976 %)Windows 2000 Server
10228 (0.770 %)Windows Vista
11218 (0.736 %)Red Hat Linux
12203 (0.685 %)AIX
13126 (0.425 %)HPUX
1498 (0.331 %)Windows NT
1546 (0.155 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1645 (0.152 %)Windows Mobile
1744 (0.149 %)Windows 7
1838 (0.128 %)Ubuntu
1937 (0.125 %)VMS
2036 (0.122 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12690 (9.081 %)OO
22044 (6.900 %)Business Intelligence
31479 (4.993 %)Agile Software Development
41477 (4.986 %)Web Development
51476 (4.983 %)E-Commerce
61276 (4.307 %)Project Management
71085 (3.663 %)CRM
8908 (3.065 %)UML
9830 (2.802 %)ITIL
10780 (2.633 %)Data Analysis
11777 (2.623 %)Data Modelling
12762 (2.572 %)Business Analysis
13747 (2.522 %)Migration
14724 (2.444 %)Risk Management
15698 (2.356 %)Workflow
16688 (2.323 %)Scrum
17687 (2.319 %)Unit Testing
18558 (1.884 %)TDD
19531 (1.793 %)ERP
20521 (1.759 %)SOA
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18553 (28.87 %)C#
25653 (19.08 %)Java
34288 (14.48 %)JavaScript
43901 (13.17 %)T-SQL
52632 (8.885 %)VB.NET
62622 (8.851 %)PL/SQL
72423 (8.179 %)C++
82402 (8.109 %)VB
91772 (5.982 %)PHP
101519 (5.128 %)Perl
111472 (4.969 %)C
121281 (4.324 %)VBA
13825 (2.785 %)VB6
14793 (2.677 %)Shell Script
15727 (2.454 %)VBScript
16565 (1.907 %)Python
17274 (0.925 %)PHP5
18255 (0.861 %)ActionScript
19192 (0.648 %)Ruby
20174 (0.587 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13771 (12.73 %)Degree
21184 (3.997 %)Microsoft Certification
3553 (1.867 %)MCSE
4439 (1.482 %)ISEB
5358 (1.209 %)Security Cleared
6284 (0.959 %)MCP
7267 (0.901 %)MCTS
8223 (0.753 %)MCSD
9219 (0.739 %)SC Cleared
10203 (0.685 %)Cisco Certification
11192 (0.648 %)CCNA
12174 (0.587 %)MCAD
13150 (0.506 %)MCITP
14127 (0.429 %)MCDBA
15102 (0.344 %)MCSA
1678 (0.263 %)PhD
1770 (0.236 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1869 (0.233 %)ITIL Certification
1968 (0.230 %)PRINCE2 Certification
2067 (0.226 %)MCPD
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11021 (3.447 %)QA
2256 (0.864 %)SLA
333 (0.111 %)Basel II
428 (0.095 %)ISO27001
524 (0.081 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
623 (0.078 %)PCI DSS
721 (0.071 %)HL7
812 (0.041 %)ISO9001
812 (0.041 %)WAI
910 (0.034 %)GxP
109 (0.030 %)COBIT
109 (0.030 %)MiFID
116 (0.020 %)DICOM
125 (0.017 %)ISO17799
125 (0.017 %)ISO9000
125 (0.017 %)BS7799
134 (0.014 %)TickIT
134 (0.014 %)WCAG
142 (0.007 %)RosettaNet
142 (0.007 %)ISO14001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11115 (3.764 %)Active Directory
2353 (1.192 %)VMware Infrastructure
3255 (0.861 %)Oracle RAC
4203 (0.685 %)Oracle RMAN
5152 (0.513 %)MSMQ
6112 (0.378 %)VMware ESX
7104 (0.351 %)Hyper-V
870 (0.236 %)Terminal Services
959 (0.199 %)ISA Server
1053 (0.179 %)Postfix
1152 (0.176 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1248 (0.162 %)XenApp
1346 (0.155 %)vSphere
1438 (0.128 %)XenServer
1533 (0.111 %)NFS
1625 (0.084 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1724 (0.081 %)MetaFrame
1823 (0.078 %)Xen
1921 (0.071 %)VMware Workstation
2020 (0.068 %)Sendmail
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1178 (0.601 %)Data Guard
286 (0.290 %)AutoSys
381 (0.273 %)Tivoli
467 (0.226 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
564 (0.216 %)MSI
661 (0.206 %)Backup Exec
754 (0.182 %)SCCM
846 (0.155 %)NetBackup
942 (0.142 %)SCOM
942 (0.142 %)HP Quality Center
1040 (0.135 %)OpenView
1139 (0.132 %)WSUS
1233 (0.111 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1233 (0.111 %)Nagios
1332 (0.108 %)CONTROL-M
1418 (0.061 %)Norton AntiVirus
1516 (0.054 %)MOM
1516 (0.054 %)Zenoss
1615 (0.051 %)EMC NetWorker
1615 (0.051 %)Tivoli Monitoring
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
16554 (22.12 %)Oracle
24802 (16.21 %)Microsoft
31230 (4.152 %)Sybase
4941 (3.177 %)Business Objects
5742 (2.505 %)VMware
6632 (2.133 %)Cognos
7516 (1.742 %)Citrix
8445 (1.502 %)JBoss
9410 (1.384 %)Cisco
10389 (1.313 %)HP
11313 (1.057 %)TIBCO
12307 (1.036 %)SAP
12307 (1.036 %)IBM
13306 (1.033 %)Informatica
14247 (0.834 %)Sun
15212 (0.716 %)Red Hat
16207 (0.699 %)Google
17193 (0.652 %)Bloomberg
18171 (0.577 %)Reuters
19169 (0.571 %)Adobe