The first table below looks at the demand for ODBC skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ODBC 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 Application Development category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Rank 190 183 164
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -19
Permanent jobs citing ODBC 14 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.280% 0.022% 0.189%
As % of the Application Development category 0.689% 0.051% 0.506%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 8
Average salary £50,000 £39,000 £24,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.20% +57.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £39,000 £21,400
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £39,000 £33,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £36,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -14.11%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2032 1945 1582
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.58% 42.84% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1815 1745 1445
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ODBC
England

ODBC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ODBC across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands ODBC Jobs Demand Trend

ODBC
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands ODBC Salary Trend

ODBC
Salary Histogram

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

West Midlands ODBC Salary Histogram

ODBC
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +1 9 £50,000 +28.20%
Warwickshire - 3 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £35,000 -
Coventry - 1 £55,000 -
ODBC
England

ODBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing ODBC 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 ODBC.

1 17 (77.27%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) C#
2 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
3 9 (40.91%) ASP
4 8 (36.36%) Windows
5 7 (31.82%) Java
5 7 (31.82%) Finance
5 7 (31.82%) Degree
5 7 (31.82%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (27.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 6 (27.27%) Xcelsius
6 6 (27.27%) Mobile App
6 6 (27.27%) Migration
6 6 (27.27%) MVS
6 6 (27.27%) SAP BW
6 6 (27.27%) UNIX
6 6 (27.27%) OLE DB
6 6 (27.27%) Business Objects
6 6 (27.27%) SAP
6 6 (27.27%) Oracle
6 6 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (27.27%) Windows NT
6 6 (27.27%) SharePoint
6 6 (27.27%) ETL
6 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 6 (27.27%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (22.73%) MSMQ
7 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse

ODBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing ODBC 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 ODBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (40.91%) ASP
2 6 (27.27%) OLE DB
3 5 (22.73%) XML
3 5 (22.73%) XSLT
4 3 (13.64%) .NET
5 2 (9.091%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 5 (22.73%) MSMQ
3 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 6 (27.27%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 6 (27.27%) Xcelsius
2 6 (27.27%) SAP BW
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (27.27%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (22.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (4.545%) MS Access
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
2 3 (13.64%) Publishing
2 3 (13.64%) Retail
3 2 (9.091%) Marketing
4 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) SAP Business Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) SAP Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Business Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Business Objects Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Consultant
1 6 (27.27%) Applications Support
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) SharePoint Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) SQL DBA
5 2 (9.091%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.545%) Support Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 5 (22.73%) Mathematics
2 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
3 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.091%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) MVS
2 6 (27.27%) UNIX
2 6 (27.27%) Windows NT
3 5 (22.73%) Android
4 2 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 6 (27.27%) ETL
2 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (22.73%) Scrum
3 5 (22.73%) Use Case
3 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
3 5 (22.73%) TDD
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (9.091%) High Availability
5 2 (9.091%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (9.091%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (9.091%) Service Management
5 2 (9.091%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.091%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) C#
3 7 (31.82%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) Objective-C
5 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 4 (18.18%) Bash shell
5 4 (18.18%) Korn
5 4 (18.18%) C++
5 4 (18.18%) VB
5 4 (18.18%) Perl
5 4 (18.18%) PHP
6 1 (4.545%) VBA
6 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.091%) MCSD
3 2 (9.091%) MCDBA
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Business Objects
1 6 (27.27%) SAP
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle