Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table 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 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. 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
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank33
Rank change on the same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads1224737526
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.99 %18.81 %
As % of the Programming Languages category37.23 %41.05 %
Salaries quoted1041531828
Average salary£37,500£37,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£33,000
% change on same period last year+3.030 %
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
3289891422
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK48.32 %45.83 %
Salaries quoted2814877127
Average salary£37,500£37,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,500£26,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,000£34,000

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 3 July 2009 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 3 July 2009. 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 change011754£37,500-
LondonNo change05114£45,000-
South EastDown-12162£37,500+7.14 %
City of LondonNo change01679£47,500-5.00 %
East of EnglandNo change0932£35,000-
South WestDown-3892£32,500-
North WestUp+1822£32,000+3.22 %
West MidlandsNo change0714£32,500+1.56 %
YorkshireUp+3688£32,000+1.58 %
BerkshireDown-3473£40,000+3.89 %
SurreyUp+4416£39,000+11.42 %
ManchesterUp+4398£32,000+6.66 %
East MidlandsDown-1375£32,000-
West YorkshireUp+1369£32,000-
HertfordshireNo change0319£37,500+2.73 %
HampshireUp+3312£35,000-
BristolDown-2306£35,000+7.69 %
ScotlandDown-2248£33,000+1.53 %
LeedsUp+2222£32,000+6.66 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2218£33,500-4.28 %
West SussexUp+4210£35,000+12.90 %
OxfordshireDown-1210£36,500+4.28 %
BirminghamUp+4207£35,000+11.11 %
CambridgeshireDown-4201£32,500-6.47 %
CheshireDown-2185£34,000+6.25 %
WalesNo change0183£29,500-1.66 %
EssexDown-1182£30,000-7.69 %
South YorkshireUp+1171£33,750+7.14 %
NottinghamshireUp+3170£35,000+7.69 %
Docklands, LondonUp+2161£65,000+28.71 %

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, 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.

110307 (36.33 %)SQL Server
29555 (33.68 %).NET
37314 (25.78 %)C#
47131 (25.14 %)Oracle
56233 (21.97 %)Finance
65587 (19.69 %)ASP.NET
75443 (19.19 %)Windows
84993 (17.60 %)XML
94872 (17.17 %)Java
104856 (17.12 %)Microsoft
114379 (15.44 %)UNIX
124094 (14.43 %)JavaScript
133796 (13.38 %)HTML
143706 (13.06 %)SQL Server 2005
153682 (12.98 %)T-SQL
163319 (11.70 %)Degree
173229 (11.38 %)PL/SQL
182941 (10.37 %)MS Excel
192767 (9.754 %)CSS
202677 (9.437 %)VB
212652 (9.349 %)VB.NET
222623 (9.246 %)Linux
232286 (8.058 %)OO
242282 (8.044 %)C++
252268 (7.995 %)Banking
261939 (6.835 %)WebServices
271935 (6.821 %)Business Intelligence
281925 (6.786 %)SQL Server 2000
291923 (6.779 %)ASP
301922 (6.775 %)Datawarehouse

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, 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 DevelopmentApplication Development
19555 (33.68 %).NET
25587 (19.69 %)ASP.NET
34993 (17.60 %)XML
43796 (13.38 %)HTML
52767 (9.754 %)CSS
61939 (6.835 %)WebServices
71923 (6.779 %)ASP
81920 (6.768 %)AJAX
91579 (5.566 %)J2EE
101042 (3.673 %)XSLT
11970 (3.419 %).NET Framework
12955 (3.366 %)XHTML
13851 (3.000 %)WinForms
14726 (2.559 %)Spring
15667 (2.351 %)JSP
16554 (1.953 %)Hibernate
17511 (1.801 %)WCF
18447 (1.576 %)SOAP
19441 (1.555 %)Flash
20409 (1.442 %)WebSphere
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11444 (5.090 %)IIS
21323 (4.664 %)SharePoint
3876 (3.088 %)MS Exchange
4815 (2.873 %)Apache
5450 (1.586 %)SharePoint Server 2007
6422 (1.488 %)WebLogic
7406 (1.431 %)SAS
8402 (1.417 %)Exchange Server 2003
9355 (1.251 %)CMS
10352 (1.241 %)BizTalk Server
11328 (1.156 %)Tomcat
12289 (1.019 %)Exchange Server 2007
13236 (0.832 %)Oracle Workflow
14196 (0.691 %)ColdFusion
15101 (0.356 %)Exchange Server 2000
1692 (0.324 %)ESB
1790 (0.317 %)Lotus Notes
1880 (0.282 %)Oracle Application Server
1974 (0.261 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
2069 (0.243 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12941 (10.37 %)MS Excel
2876 (3.088 %)MS Office
3307 (1.082 %)MS Visio
4194 (0.684 %)Photoshop
5161 (0.568 %)SPSS
6110 (0.388 %)MS Project
7101 (0.356 %)Spreadsheet
876 (0.268 %)MATLAB
960 (0.212 %)MS PowerPoint
1051 (0.180 %)CA Clarity
1147 (0.166 %)Fireworks
1222 (0.078 %)Adobe Illustrator
1312 (0.042 %)InfoPath
1411 (0.039 %)S-PLUS
1411 (0.039 %)Windchill
159 (0.032 %)FastStats
159 (0.032 %)FreeHand
167 (0.025 %)3ds Max
174 (0.014 %)InDesign
174 (0.014 %)FrameMaker
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1400 (1.410 %)Oracle Applications
2357 (1.258 %)Oracle EBS
3291 (1.026 %)Oracle 11i
4236 (0.832 %)Dynamics CRM
5205 (0.723 %)Oracle Financials
6142 (0.501 %)Microsoft CRM
7132 (0.465 %)Oracle EBS R12
8128 (0.451 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
9104 (0.367 %)Dynamics AX
10103 (0.363 %)Navision
1186 (0.303 %)Oracle HRMS
1271 (0.250 %)Endur
1271 (0.250 %)Great Plains
1367 (0.236 %)Dynamics NAV
1455 (0.194 %)Axapta
1548 (0.169 %)Summit
1646 (0.162 %)Dynamics GP
1731 (0.109 %)CODA-Financials
1830 (0.106 %)WebTrends
1830 (0.106 %)Oracle iProcurement
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11002 (3.532 %)Internet
2971 (3.423 %)TCP/IP
3680 (2.397 %)Firewall
4624 (2.200 %)DNS
5548 (1.932 %)SAN
6445 (1.569 %)WAN
7435 (1.533 %)LAN
8343 (1.209 %)HTTP
9321 (1.132 %)Intranet
10305 (1.075 %)VPN
11266 (0.938 %)DHCP
12215 (0.758 %)NAS
13183 (0.645 %)VoIP
14148 (0.522 %)FTP
15140 (0.494 %)SMTP
16119 (0.419 %)VLAN
17112 (0.395 %)LDAP
1887 (0.307 %)Wireless
1985 (0.300 %)iSCSI
2077 (0.271 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
110307 (36.33 %)SQL Server
23706 (13.06 %)SQL Server 2005
31925 (6.786 %)SQL Server 2000
41922 (6.775 %)Datawarehouse
51606 (5.661 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
61534 (5.408 %)SQL Server Integration Services
71427 (5.030 %)MySQL
81288 (4.540 %)Oracle 10g
91093 (3.853 %)ETL
101050 (3.701 %)BusinessObjects
11991 (3.493 %)RDBMS
12910 (3.208 %)Crystal Reports
13863 (3.042 %)Oracle Reports
14820 (2.891 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
15713 (2.513 %)Oracle 9i
16689 (2.429 %)DTS
17650 (2.291 %)SQL Server 2008
18619 (2.182 %)Oracle 8/8i
19524 (1.847 %)OLAP
20465 (1.639 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11423 (5.016 %)Visual Studio
2647 (2.281 %)Oracle Forms
3369 (1.301 %)Subversion
4299 (1.054 %)JUnit
5262 (0.924 %)Ant
6253 (0.892 %)Eclipse
7247 (0.871 %)QuickTest Pro
8236 (0.832 %)VSS/SourceSafe
9207 (0.730 %)Team Foundation Server
10151 (0.532 %)TestDirector
11147 (0.518 %)NUnit
12145 (0.511 %)ClearCase
13117 (0.412 %)JDeveloper
14114 (0.402 %)Oracle APEX
15106 (0.374 %)Dreamweaver
16101 (0.356 %)Selenium
17100 (0.353 %)ERwin
1894 (0.331 %)ProC
1980 (0.282 %)WinRunner
2077 (0.271 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
16233 (21.97 %)Finance
22268 (7.995 %)Banking
31391 (4.903 %)Pensions
41181 (4.163 %)Insurance
51116 (3.934 %)Investment Banking
61108 (3.906 %)Health
71038 (3.659 %)Front Office
8998 (3.518 %)Marketing
9853 (3.007 %)Retail
10821 (2.894 %)Education
11688 (2.425 %)Telecoms
12654 (2.305 %)Back Office
13404 (1.424 %)Games
14378 (1.332 %)Government
15284 (1.001 %)Financial Institution
16225 (0.793 %)Legal
17189 (0.666 %)Law
18160 (0.564 %)Billing
19151 (0.532 %)Publishing
20150 (0.529 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
112305 (43.38 %)Developer
25711 (20.13 %)Analyst
33091 (10.90 %).NET Developer
42318 (8.171 %)DBA
52209 (7.787 %)C# Developer
61777 (6.264 %)Support Analyst
71572 (5.541 %)Web Developer
81508 (5.316 %)SQL Developer
91507 (5.312 %)Applications Support
101396 (4.921 %)Consultant
111312 (4.625 %)SQL DBA
121290 (4.547 %)Senior Developer
131194 (4.209 %)ASP.NET Developer
141177 (4.149 %)Java Developer
151167 (4.114 %)Administrator
161162 (4.096 %)Programmer
17947 (3.338 %)Software Developer
18865 (3.049 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
19779 (2.746 %)Business Analyst
20770 (2.714 %)Software Engineer
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11268 (4.470 %)Derivative
2895 (3.155 %)Computer Science
3679 (2.394 %)Replication
4593 (2.090 %)Equities
5568 (2.002 %)Fixed Income
6502 (1.770 %)Mathematics
7452 (1.593 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
8442 (1.558 %)Client/Server
9429 (1.512 %)N-Tier
10424 (1.495 %)Management Information System
11407 (1.435 %)Clustering
12331 (1.167 %)Equity Derivative
13298 (1.050 %)Multithreading
14245 (0.864 %)NHS
15236 (0.832 %)Statistics
16199 (0.701 %)Credit Derivative
17198 (0.698 %)Credit Risk
18164 (0.578 %)W3C
19152 (0.536 %)Blackberry
20143 (0.504 %)AS400
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
15443 (19.19 %)Windows
24379 (15.44 %)UNIX
32623 (9.246 %)Linux
41593 (5.615 %)Windows Server 2003
5728 (2.566 %)Solaris
6681 (2.401 %)Windows XP
7428 (1.509 %)Windows 2000
8342 (1.206 %)Windows 2000 Server
9304 (1.072 %)AIX
10290 (1.022 %)Windows Server 2008
11240 (0.846 %)Red Hat Linux
12230 (0.811 %)Windows Vista
13125 (0.441 %)HPUX
1499 (0.349 %)Windows NT
1576 (0.268 %)Windows Mobile
1644 (0.155 %)Debian
1730 (0.106 %)VMS
1828 (0.099 %)SUSE
1828 (0.099 %)OpenVMS
1828 (0.099 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12286 (8.058 %)OO
21935 (6.821 %)Business Intelligence
31445 (5.094 %)Web Development
41278 (4.505 %)E-Commerce
51126 (3.969 %)Project Management
6993 (3.500 %)CRM
7987 (3.479 %)Agile Software Development
8929 (3.275 %)UML
9861 (3.035 %)ITIL
10838 (2.954 %)Data Modelling
11589 (2.076 %)Business Analysis
12555 (1.956 %)Data Analysis
13554 (1.953 %)Migration
14548 (1.932 %)Workflow
15504 (1.777 %)Unit Testing
16492 (1.734 %)Disaster Recovery
17481 (1.696 %)SOA
18455 (1.604 %)OOP
19430 (1.516 %)User Acceptance Testing
20419 (1.477 %)ERP
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
17314 (25.78 %)C#
24872 (17.17 %)Java
34094 (14.43 %)JavaScript
43682 (12.98 %)T-SQL
53229 (11.38 %)PL/SQL
62677 (9.437 %)VB
72652 (9.349 %)VB.NET
82282 (8.044 %)C++
91549 (5.460 %)PHP
101473 (5.192 %)Perl
111066 (3.758 %)C
121053 (3.712 %)VBA
131023 (3.606 %)VB6
14757 (2.668 %)VBScript
15741 (2.612 %)Shell Script
16451 (1.590 %)Python
17250 (0.881 %)ActionScript
18212 (0.747 %)Delphi
19202 (0.712 %)Ruby
20198 (0.698 %)VC++
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
13319 (11.70 %)Degree
21463 (5.157 %)Microsoft Certification
3570 (2.009 %)MCSE
4553 (1.949 %)Security Cleared
5425 (1.498 %)ISEB
6405 (1.428 %)MCP
7273 (0.962 %)MCSD
8232 (0.818 %)MCAD
9219 (0.772 %)SC Cleared
10172 (0.606 %)MCTS
11171 (0.603 %)MCDBA
12145 (0.511 %)MCSA
13134 (0.472 %)Cisco Certification
14128 (0.451 %)Oracle Certification
15122 (0.430 %)CCNA
1685 (0.300 %)PhD
1779 (0.278 %)ISTQB
1866 (0.233 %)MCITP
1866 (0.233 %)ITIL Certification
1964 (0.226 %)PRINCE2 Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1838 (2.954 %)QA
2370 (1.304 %)SLA
360 (0.212 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
437 (0.130 %)ISO9001
535 (0.123 %)HL7
631 (0.109 %)WAI
714 (0.049 %)ISO27001
812 (0.042 %)BS15000
98 (0.028 %)EFQM
98 (0.028 %)Basel II
107 (0.025 %)PCI DSS
116 (0.021 %)TickIT
116 (0.021 %)ISO9000
116 (0.021 %)DICOM
124 (0.014 %)ISO8583
133 (0.011 %)GCP
133 (0.011 %)WCAG
133 (0.011 %)MiFID
142 (0.007 %)COBIT
142 (0.007 %)CDISC
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11304 (4.597 %)Active Directory
2368 (1.297 %)VMware Infrastructure
3270 (0.952 %)Oracle RAC
4231 (0.814 %)Oracle RMAN
5145 (0.511 %)NetBackup
6129 (0.455 %)VMware ESX
7119 (0.419 %)ISA Server
897 (0.342 %)MSMQ
984 (0.296 %)NFS
1080 (0.282 %)Backup Exec
1162 (0.219 %)MetaFrame
1251 (0.180 %)Terminal Services
1337 (0.130 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1431 (0.109 %)Xen
1525 (0.088 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1623 (0.081 %)Samba
1720 (0.071 %)Postfix
1817 (0.060 %)Hyper-V
1916 (0.056 %)OpenLDAP
2013 (0.046 %)LiteSpeed
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1181 (0.638 %)Data Guard
2119 (0.419 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
377 (0.271 %)Nagios
476 (0.268 %)SCOM
566 (0.233 %)Tivoli
665 (0.229 %)MOM
761 (0.215 %)AutoSys
854 (0.190 %)OpenView
946 (0.162 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
1041 (0.145 %)SCCM
1138 (0.134 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1232 (0.113 %)CA SiteMinder
1327 (0.095 %)WSUS
1423 (0.081 %)Norton AntiVirus
1423 (0.081 %)CONTROL-M
1521 (0.074 %)ARCserve
1617 (0.060 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1715 (0.053 %)Cacti
1813 (0.046 %)EMC NetWorker
1813 (0.046 %)BMC PATROL
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
17131 (25.14 %)Oracle
24856 (17.12 %)Microsoft
31050 (3.701 %)Business Objects
41020 (3.596 %)Sybase
5793 (2.795 %)VMware
6621 (2.189 %)Citrix
7588 (2.073 %)Cognos
8547 (1.928 %)Cisco
9489 (1.724 %)HP
10442 (1.558 %)IBM
11353 (1.244 %)Informatica
12316 (1.114 %)Sun
13298 (1.050 %)JBoss
14253 (0.892 %)SAP
15243 (0.857 %)Red Hat
16218 (0.768 %)TIBCO
17199 (0.701 %)NetApp
18147 (0.518 %)Bloomberg
19142 (0.501 %)Dell
20136 (0.479 %)Teradata