The first table below looks at the demand for SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the West Lothian region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Structured Query Language (SQL)
Rank 1 1 1
Rank change year-on-year
0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 62 34 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 57.41% 27.20% 28.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 83.78% 60.71% 67.44%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 50
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £30,000 £31,900
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% +4.28%
All Programming Languages
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
74 56 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 68.52% 44.80% 42.43%
Number of salaries quoted 25 38 82
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £30,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

West Lothian SQL Jobs Demand Trend

SQL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the West Lothian region.

West Lothian SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Lothian SQL Salary Histogram

SQL
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 West Lothian region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Livingston +1 55 £36,000 +2.85%
Linlithgow - 1 £42,500 -
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian region 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.

1 84 (78.50%) UNIX
2 69 (64.49%) Oracle
3 54 (50.47%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (40.19%) Degree
5 42 (39.25%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (30.84%) Ab Initio
6 33 (30.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (29.91%) ETL
8 31 (28.97%) Broadband
8 31 (28.97%) Finance
9 30 (28.04%) Linux
9 30 (28.04%) Netezza
10 29 (27.10%) Informatica
11 23 (21.50%) RDBMS
11 23 (21.50%) Windows
11 23 (21.50%) Perl
11 23 (21.50%) Shell Script
12 21 (19.63%) TDD
12 21 (19.63%) Java
13 20 (18.69%) Telecoms
14 19 (17.76%) MySQL
15 17 (15.89%) VBScript
16 15 (14.02%) Data Modelling
16 15 (14.02%) Korn
17 14 (13.08%) Business Objects
17 14 (13.08%) Banking
17 14 (13.08%) Teradata
18 13 (12.15%) Replication
18 13 (12.15%) Disaster Recovery
18 13 (12.15%) SAN

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Lothian region 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.

Application Development
1 9 (8.411%) XML
2 4 (3.738%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.804%) J2EE
4 2 (1.869%) Velocity
5 1 (0.935%) ASP
5 1 (0.935%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.935%) COM
5 1 (0.935%) Web Services
5 1 (0.935%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.738%) WMQI
1 4 (3.738%) MQSeries
2 1 (0.935%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (11.21%) MS Excel
2 10 (9.346%) MS Office
3 1 (0.935%) SPSS
3 1 (0.935%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.869%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.869%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (1.869%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.869%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.935%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 31 (28.97%) Broadband
2 13 (12.15%) SAN
3 12 (11.21%) NAS
4 9 (8.411%) SNMP
4 9 (8.411%) SSH
5 2 (1.869%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.935%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.935%) FTP
6 1 (0.935%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (39.25%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (21.50%) RDBMS
3 19 (17.76%) MySQL
4 11 (10.28%) Informix
5 10 (9.346%) DataStage
6 9 (8.411%) Oracle 10g
7 8 (7.477%) Oracle 11g
8 7 (6.542%) Oracle 9i
9 6 (5.607%) BusinessObjects XI
10 5 (4.673%) SQLPlus
10 5 (4.673%) OLTP
10 5 (4.673%) SQL Server
10 5 (4.673%) DB2
11 4 (3.738%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
11 4 (3.738%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (3.738%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (3.738%) SQL Server 2005
12 3 (2.804%) Oracle 8/8i
13 2 (1.869%) Oracle Reports
14 1 (0.935%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (3.738%) Jenkins
1 4 (3.738%) Hudson
1 4 (3.738%) Ant
1 4 (3.738%) Subversion
2 3 (2.804%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.935%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.935%) Oracle APEX
General
1 31 (28.97%) Finance
2 20 (18.69%) Telecoms
3 14 (13.08%) Banking
4 8 (7.477%) Marketing
5 2 (1.869%) Billing
Job Titles
1 41 (38.32%) Developer
2 10 (9.346%) Analyst
3 9 (8.411%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 8 (7.477%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 8 (7.477%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.542%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.542%) DBA
5 7 (6.542%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (6.542%) Project Engineer
5 7 (6.542%) ETL Developer
6 6 (5.607%) Report Developer
7 5 (4.673%) Administrator
7 5 (4.673%) Test Analyst
7 5 (4.673%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (4.673%) Database Developer
7 5 (4.673%) Technical Test Analyst
7 5 (4.673%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.738%) Deployment Specialist
8 4 (3.738%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 4 (3.738%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Replication
2 12 (11.21%) Symmetrix DMX
2 12 (11.21%) Symmetrix
3 7 (6.542%) Celerra
4 5 (4.673%) Firmware
5 3 (2.804%) Computer Science
5 3 (2.804%) Open Source
6 2 (1.869%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.935%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.935%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 84 (78.50%) UNIX
2 30 (28.04%) Linux
3 23 (21.50%) Windows
4 7 (6.542%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (3.738%) Solaris
6 1 (0.935%) Debian
6 1 (0.935%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.47%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (30.84%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (29.91%) ETL
4 21 (19.63%) TDD
5 15 (14.02%) Data Modelling
6 13 (12.15%) Disaster Recovery
6 13 (12.15%) Analytics
7 9 (8.411%) Web Development
8 8 (7.477%) Infrastructure Management
8 8 (7.477%) Incident Management
8 8 (7.477%) Test Automation
8 8 (7.477%) Customer Engagement
8 8 (7.477%) Change Management
9 7 (6.542%) Six Sigma
9 7 (6.542%) Lean Six Sigma
9 7 (6.542%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (5.607%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (5.607%) Validation
11 5 (4.673%) Service Delivery
11 5 (4.673%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.50%) Perl
1 23 (21.50%) Shell Script
2 21 (19.63%) Java
3 17 (15.89%) VBScript
4 15 (14.02%) Korn
5 13 (12.15%) PL/SQL
6 10 (9.346%) C#
7 9 (8.411%) AWK
7 9 (8.411%) T-SQL
7 9 (8.411%) sed
8 8 (7.477%) VB
9 7 (6.542%) C
10 4 (3.738%) C++
11 1 (0.935%) VB6
11 1 (0.935%) PHP
11 1 (0.935%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (40.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.542%) ISO 9001
2 6 (5.607%) SLA
3 5 (4.673%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.477%) SRDF
1 8 (7.477%) NFS
2 7 (6.542%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.542%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (3.738%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.935%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (8.411%) WMI
2 8 (7.477%) Ionix
2 8 (7.477%) EMC TimeFinder
3 6 (5.607%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.935%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 69 (64.49%) Oracle
2 33 (30.84%) Ab Initio
3 30 (28.04%) Netezza
4 29 (27.10%) Informatica
5 14 (13.08%) Business Objects
5 14 (13.08%) Teradata
6 13 (12.15%) Sun
7 12 (11.21%) Brocade
7 12 (11.21%) Cisco
7 12 (11.21%) EMC
7 12 (11.21%) NetApp
8 11 (10.28%) Microsoft
9 9 (8.411%) Altiris
10 6 (5.607%) IBM
10 6 (5.607%) StorageTek
11 4 (3.738%) Symantec
12 3 (2.804%) HP
13 1 (0.935%) VMware
13 1 (0.935%) Pegasus
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