The first part of the table below looks at the demand for T-SQL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited T-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.

Transact-SQL
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank667672
Rank change year-on-year
Up+10Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads436738292865
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.621 %3.123 %3.001 %
As % of the Programming Languages category6.751 %5.947 %5.891 %
Number of salaries quoted404933432521
Average salary£39,500£38,000£38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.94 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
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 %-

T-SQL
Demand Trend

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

T-SQL Demand Trend

T-SQL
Salary Trend

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

T-SQL Salary Trend

T-SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing T-SQL over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

T-SQL Salary Histogram

T-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 T-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
EnglandUp+114167£40,000+3.89 %
LondonUp+131694£47,500+5.55 %
South EastDown-7827£40,000+5.26 %
North WestDown-1462£33,000+4.76 %
City of LondonUp+41460£47,500-
East of EnglandDown-10339£37,500-
YorkshireUp+8281£33,000-2.94 %
ManchesterUp+4252£33,000+4.76 %
South WestUp+20241£31,500-1.56 %
SurreyDown-8225£40,000-4.76 %
West MidlandsUp+12221£35,000-6.66 %
West YorkshireUp+10215£34,000-2.85 %
HampshireUp+16162£40,000+11.11 %
BerkshireUp+3162£40,000-5.88 %
LeedsDown-3149£34,000-2.85 %
BuckinghamshireUp+8113£38,750+10.71 %
East MidlandsUp+2111£33,500-1.47 %
CambridgeshireUp+8105£35,000-6.66 %
CheshireDown-19100£32,000-1.53 %
EssexUp+897£42,500-5.55 %
ReadingUp+1287£40,000+2.56 %
ScotlandDown-987£35,000+7.69 %
HertfordshireDown-3483£37,500-6.25 %
CambridgeUp+1777£37,000-1.33 %
GuildfordUp+1077£37,500-17.12 %
WalesUp+2376£31,000-8.82 %
GloucestershireUp+1972£34,500-5.47 %
BristolUp+1071£26,500-18.46 %
StaffordshireUp+167£40,000-9.09 %
South WalesUp+1665£31,000-8.82 %

T-SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing T-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 T-SQL.

17703 (93.03 %)SQL
26799 (82.11 %)SQL Server
34930 (59.54 %).NET
44084 (49.32 %)C#
53303 (39.89 %)ASP.NET
63060 (36.96 %)SQL Server Integration Services
73001 (36.24 %)Microsoft
82953 (35.66 %)SQL Server 2008
92628 (31.74 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
102600 (31.40 %)SQL Server 2005
112116 (25.56 %)JavaScript
121762 (21.28 %)Finance
131665 (20.11 %)XML
141632 (19.71 %)HTML
151612 (19.47 %)Business Intelligence
161606 (19.40 %)CSS
171551 (18.73 %)Windows
181520 (18.36 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
191486 (17.95 %)MS Excel
201458 (17.61 %)Data Warehouse
211416 (17.10 %)VB.NET
221151 (13.90 %)Degree
231039 (12.55 %)Visual Studio
241033 (12.48 %)Web Services
251007 (12.16 %)jQuery
26971 (11.73 %)ETL
27967 (11.68 %)WCF
28859 (10.37 %)MVC
29852 (10.29 %)Ajax
30825 (9.964 %)VB

T-SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing T-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 T-SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14930 (59.54 %).NET
23303 (39.89 %)ASP.NET
31665 (20.11 %)XML
41632 (19.71 %)HTML
51606 (19.40 %)CSS
61033 (12.48 %)Web Services
71007 (12.16 %)jQuery
8967 (11.68 %)WCF
9852 (10.29 %)Ajax
10748 (9.034 %).NET Framework
11571 (6.896 %)WPF
12549 (6.630 %)ASP.NET MVC
13518 (6.256 %)XSLT
14507 (6.123 %)WinForms
15501 (6.051 %)ASP
16457 (5.519 %)LINQ
17341 (4.118 %)XHTML
18330 (3.986 %)Silverlight
19311 (3.756 %)NHibernate
20301 (3.635 %)MDX
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1795 (9.601 %)SharePoint
2697 (8.418 %)IIS
3220 (2.657 %)SharePoint 2010
4182 (2.198 %)SharePoint Server
5159 (1.920 %)BizTalk Server
6151 (1.824 %)CMS
773 (0.882 %)Umbraco
864 (0.773 %)SAS
959 (0.713 %)MS Exchange
1055 (0.664 %)Apache
1145 (0.543 %)Commerce Server
1238 (0.459 %)MSMQ
1325 (0.302 %)Windows Azure
1421 (0.254 %)Tomcat
1520 (0.242 %)SharePoint Foundation
1616 (0.193 %)Amazon EC2
1714 (0.169 %)Sitecore CMS
1714 (0.169 %)Lotus Notes
1714 (0.169 %)ESB
1811 (0.133 %)Commerce Server 2007
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11486 (17.95 %)MS Excel
2282 (3.406 %)MS Office
389 (1.075 %)MS Visio
471 (0.857 %)InfoPath
553 (0.640 %)Photoshop
651 (0.616 %)MS PowerPoint
734 (0.411 %)PowerPivot
831 (0.374 %)Spreadsheet
923 (0.278 %)MS Project
1015 (0.181 %)MATLAB
1113 (0.157 %)Fireworks
1212 (0.145 %)SPSS
136 (0.072 %)FastStats
145 (0.060 %)Adobe Illustrator
154 (0.048 %)Office 365
161 (0.012 %)Final Cut Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1214 (2.585 %)Dynamics CRM
252 (0.628 %)Dynamics NAV
333 (0.399 %)Dynamics AX
429 (0.350 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
515 (0.181 %)Google Analytics
610 (0.121 %)SAP Business One
610 (0.121 %)Summit
79 (0.109 %)Oracle EBS
88 (0.097 %)Line 500
96 (0.072 %)Maximo
105 (0.060 %)Front Arena
105 (0.060 %)Dynamics GP
105 (0.060 %)Visualfiles
114 (0.048 %)Oracle Applications
114 (0.048 %)PeopleSoft Financials
123 (0.036 %)Agresso
123 (0.036 %)Oracle Payroll
123 (0.036 %)Pivotal CRM
123 (0.036 %)SunGard GMI
123 (0.036 %)FRx
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1285 (3.442 %)Internet
2137 (1.655 %)SAN
3128 (1.546 %)Intranet
490 (1.087 %)TCP/IP
557 (0.688 %)HTTP
653 (0.640 %)SSL
749 (0.592 %)Firewall
846 (0.556 %)DNS
937 (0.447 %)FTP
1020 (0.242 %)WAN
1118 (0.217 %)Extranet
1217 (0.205 %)PBX
1217 (0.205 %)Asterisk PBX
1316 (0.193 %)NAS
1412 (0.145 %)VPN
1510 (0.121 %)ATM
1510 (0.121 %)iSCSI
169 (0.109 %)HTTPS
178 (0.097 %)LAN
178 (0.097 %)Wireless
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16799 (82.11 %)SQL Server
23060 (36.96 %)SQL Server Integration Services
32953 (35.66 %)SQL Server 2008
42628 (31.74 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
52600 (31.40 %)SQL Server 2005
61520 (18.36 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
71458 (17.61 %)Data Warehouse
8971 (11.73 %)ETL
9803 (9.698 %)SQL Server 2000
10526 (6.353 %)DTS
11514 (6.208 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
12459 (5.543 %)OLAP
13344 (4.155 %)Crystal Reports
14224 (2.705 %)RDBMS
15204 (2.464 %)MySQL
16188 (2.271 %)Oracle 8/8i
17174 (2.101 %)BusinessObjects
18141 (1.703 %)Oracle 10g
19127 (1.534 %)MS Access
20126 (1.522 %)Data Mining
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11039 (12.55 %)Visual Studio
2490 (5.918 %)Team Foundation Server
3363 (4.384 %)Subversion
4269 (3.249 %)NUnit
5119 (1.437 %)VSS/SourceSafe
6110 (1.329 %)Rhino Mocks
766 (0.797 %)MSBuild
862 (0.749 %)Oracle Forms
955 (0.664 %)CruiseControl
955 (0.664 %)JIRA
1039 (0.471 %)ERwin
1039 (0.471 %)Visual Studio Team System
1137 (0.447 %)JUnit
1236 (0.435 %)Moq
1330 (0.362 %)TeamCity
1429 (0.350 %)Selenium
1527 (0.326 %)MSTest
1622 (0.266 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
1720 (0.242 %)QuickTest Pro
1819 (0.229 %)Ant
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11762 (21.28 %)Finance
2421 (5.085 %)Banking
3306 (3.696 %)Marketing
4298 (3.599 %)Retail
5236 (2.850 %)Law
6189 (2.283 %)Investment Banking
7148 (1.787 %)Back Office
8119 (1.437 %)Advertising
9114 (1.377 %)Telecoms
10105 (1.268 %)Games
1199 (1.196 %)Legal
1298 (1.184 %)Front Office
1362 (0.749 %)Manufacturing
1455 (0.664 %)Music
1547 (0.568 %)Financial Institution
1640 (0.483 %)Billing
1732 (0.386 %)Aerospace
1828 (0.338 %)Pharmaceutical
1828 (0.338 %)French Language
1927 (0.326 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15447 (65.79 %)Developer
21843 (22.26 %).NET Developer
31345 (16.24 %)SQL Developer
41219 (14.72 %)DBA
51117 (13.49 %)C# Developer
61010 (12.20 %)SQL DBA
7837 (10.11 %)Analyst
8795 (9.601 %)C# .NET Developer
9733 (8.853 %)ASP.NET Developer
10666 (8.043 %)Senior Developer
11569 (6.872 %)SQL Server DBA
12555 (6.703 %)SQL Server Developer
13536 (6.473 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
14507 (6.123 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
15463 (5.592 %)Web Developer
16461 (5.568 %)Software Developer
17454 (5.483 %)Administrator
18293 (3.539 %)Database Developer
19285 (3.442 %)Teradata DBA
20274 (3.309 %)Senior .NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1556 (6.715 %)Replication
2433 (5.229 %)Clustering
3421 (5.085 %)Computer Science
4219 (2.645 %)N-Tier
5174 (2.101 %)Hedge funds
6142 (1.715 %)Mathematics
7140 (1.691 %)Derivative
8119 (1.437 %)Management Information System
9109 (1.316 %)Client/Server
1087 (1.051 %)Web 2.0
1181 (0.978 %)Equities
1181 (0.978 %)Data Integration
1262 (0.749 %)Inversion of Control
1361 (0.737 %)Social Media
1459 (0.713 %)Social Network
1552 (0.628 %)SaaS
1645 (0.543 %)Statistics
1741 (0.495 %)Credit Risk
1741 (0.495 %)Tandem
1741 (0.495 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11551 (18.73 %)Windows
2267 (3.225 %)Windows Server 2008
3248 (2.995 %)Windows Server 2003
4201 (2.428 %)Linux
5193 (2.331 %)UNIX
680 (0.966 %)Windows XP
761 (0.737 %)Solaris
854 (0.652 %)Windows 2000
937 (0.447 %)Android
1034 (0.411 %)Windows 7
1124 (0.290 %)Windows 2000 Server
1220 (0.242 %)Windows Vista
1220 (0.242 %)AIX
1319 (0.229 %)Windows NT
1416 (0.193 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1515 (0.181 %)Apple iOS
1612 (0.145 %)Windows Mobile
178 (0.097 %)Mac OS X
178 (0.097 %)Oracle Linux
186 (0.072 %)Debian
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11612 (19.47 %)Business Intelligence
2859 (10.37 %)MVC
3790 (9.541 %)OO
4741 (8.949 %)Agile Software Development
5692 (8.357 %)Web Development
6689 (8.321 %)TDD
7666 (8.043 %)Scrum
8463 (5.592 %)E-Commerce
9379 (4.577 %)Migration
10375 (4.529 %)CRM
11332 (4.010 %)Data Modelling
12307 (3.708 %)Unit Testing
13293 (3.539 %)Disaster Recovery
14288 (3.478 %)Project Management
15273 (3.297 %)Continuous Integration
16207 (2.500 %)Web Application Development
17197 (2.379 %)OOP
18190 (2.295 %)UML
19187 (2.258 %)Data Analysis
20170 (2.053 %)ITIL
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
17703 (93.03 %)SQL
24084 (49.32 %)C#
32116 (25.56 %)JavaScript
41416 (17.10 %)VB.NET
5825 (9.964 %)VB
6469 (5.664 %)PL/SQL
7453 (5.471 %)Java
8317 (3.829 %)VBA
9280 (3.382 %)C++
10270 (3.261 %)VB6
11202 (2.440 %)VBScript
12156 (1.884 %)PHP
13155 (1.872 %)C
14137 (1.655 %)Perl
15108 (1.304 %)PowerShell
1669 (0.833 %)Shell Script
1745 (0.543 %)XPath
1839 (0.471 %)Python
1935 (0.423 %)XAML
1935 (0.423 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11151 (13.90 %)Degree
2594 (7.174 %)Microsoft Certification
3250 (3.019 %)MCTS
4194 (2.343 %)MCP
5164 (1.981 %)MCSD
6142 (1.715 %)MCAD
7116 (1.401 %)MCITP
885 (1.027 %)MCDBA
973 (0.882 %)Security Cleared
1050 (0.604 %)MCSE
1143 (0.519 %)MCPD
1233 (0.399 %)SC Cleared
1331 (0.374 %)Oracle Certification
1420 (0.242 %)ISEB
1519 (0.229 %)OCP
1616 (0.193 %)OCA
1616 (0.193 %)MCSA
1715 (0.181 %)HND
1814 (0.169 %)PhD
1910 (0.121 %)HNC
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1230 (2.778 %)QA
2110 (1.329 %)SLA
362 (0.749 %)Data Quality
440 (0.483 %)ISO 9001
531 (0.374 %)WAI
624 (0.290 %)PCI DSS
711 (0.133 %)ISO/IEC 27001
84 (0.048 %)MiFID
93 (0.036 %)Basel III
93 (0.036 %)ISO 8583
102 (0.024 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
102 (0.024 %)ISO 14001
102 (0.024 %)Dublin Core
111 (0.012 %)BS7799
111 (0.012 %)COBIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1149 (1.800 %)Active Directory
251 (0.616 %)Oracle RAC
345 (0.543 %)Oracle RMAN
432 (0.386 %)VMware Infrastructure
517 (0.205 %)Hyper-V
613 (0.157 %)VMware ESX
79 (0.109 %)Terminal Services
79 (0.109 %)XenApp
79 (0.109 %)Citrix Presentation Server
85 (0.060 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
85 (0.060 %)MetaFrame
92 (0.024 %)VMware Workstation
92 (0.024 %)LiteSpeed
92 (0.024 %)vSphere
101 (0.012 %)VMware ESXi
101 (0.012 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
101 (0.012 %)XenServer
101 (0.012 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
152 (0.628 %)Data Guard
244 (0.531 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
326 (0.314 %)SCOM
417 (0.205 %)Backup Exec
513 (0.157 %)HP Quality Center
611 (0.133 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
710 (0.121 %)SCCM
89 (0.109 %)Nagios
98 (0.097 %)NetBackup
107 (0.085 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
107 (0.085 %)Munin
115 (0.060 %)EMC NetWorker
123 (0.036 %)MOM
123 (0.036 %)OpenView Configuration Management
132 (0.024 %)Control-M
132 (0.024 %)MIMEsweeper
132 (0.024 %)WhatsUp Gold
141 (0.012 %)HP SIM
141 (0.012 %)NetCrunch
141 (0.012 %)DameWare
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13001 (36.24 %)Microsoft
2802 (9.686 %)Oracle
3379 (4.577 %)Business Objects
4207 (2.500 %)SAP
5165 (1.993 %)Cognos
686 (1.039 %)Sybase
776 (0.918 %)VMware
871 (0.857 %)Citrix
966 (0.797 %)Informatica
966 (0.797 %)IBM
1058 (0.700 %)Sitecore
1153 (0.640 %)Google
1250 (0.604 %)HP
1345 (0.543 %)Telerik
1442 (0.507 %)Sun
1540 (0.483 %)MicroStrategy
1632 (0.386 %)Teradata
1632 (0.386 %)Red Gate
1730 (0.362 %)Veritas
1827 (0.326 %)webMethods