Yorkshire SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SQL over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Darwen Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Guildford Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Keighley Kent Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	3
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	1830	2282
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.059 %	0.982 %
As % of the category below	41.16 %	39.44 %
Salaries quoted	1529	1874
Average minimum salary	£30,553	£29,196
Average salary	£32,565	£31,268
% change on same period last year	+4.15 %
Average maximum salary	£34,577	£33,340
UK excluding London average salary	£35,221	£35,464
% change on same period last year	-0.68 %
Programming Languages Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4446	5786
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.574 %	2.490 %
Salaries quoted	3772	4843
Average minimum salary	£30,274	£29,566
Average salary	£32,643	£31,866
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Average maximum salary	£35,013	£34,167
UK excluding London average salary	£35,506	£35,791
% change on same period last year	-0.79 %
SQL England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SQL across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	0	1199	£32,357	+5.18 %
South Yorkshire	-1	293	£32,827	+8.68 %
North Yorkshire	-4	269	£33,809	+4.45 %
East Yorkshire	+5	38	£27,328	+4.89 %

SQL England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1431 (37.79 %) .NET 2 1409 (37.21 %) SQL Server 3 976 (25.77 %) C# 4 907 (23.95 %) Microsoft 5 893 (23.58 %) Oracle 6 823 (21.73 %) XML 7 785 (20.73 %) Windows 8 752 (19.86 %) VB 9 737 (19.46 %) ASP.NET 10 629 (16.61 %) Finance 11 595 (15.71 %) JavaScript 12 551 (14.55 %) HTML 12 551 (14.55 %) Java 13 529 (13.97 %) MS Excel 14 516 (13.63 %) SQL Server 2005

15 490 (12.94 %) VB.NET 16 471 (12.44 %) CSS 17 457 (12.07 %) Degree 18 419 (11.06 %) OO 19 416 (10.98 %) PL/SQL 20 413 (10.91 %) Transact-SQL 21 388 (10.25 %) VB6 22 365 (9.638 %) SQL Server 2000 23 357 (9.427 %) Linux 24 345 (9.110 %) PHP 25 322 (8.503 %) UNIX 26 316 (8.344 %) ASP 27 309 (8.159 %) Windows Server 2003 28 302 (7.975 %) Visual Studio 29 249 (6.575 %) J2EE

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Yorkshire 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 1431 (37.79 %) .NET 2 823 (21.73 %) XML 3 737 (19.46 %) ASP.NET 4 551 (14.55 %) HTML 5 471 (12.44 %) CSS 6 316 (8.344 %) ASP 7 249 (6.575 %) J2EE 8 194 (5.123 %) AJAX 9 192 (5.070 %) XSLT 10 189 (4.991 %) .NET Framework 11 171 (4.515 %) XHTML 12 169 (4.463 %) WebServices 13 127 (3.354 %) Servlets 14 125 (3.301 %) JSP 15 104 (2.746 %) Hibernate 16 98 (2.588 %) Spring 17 79 (2.086 %) SOAP 18 77 (2.033 %) WAP 19 64 (1.690 %) WebSphere 20 62 (1.637 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 183 (4.832 %) IIS 2 177 (4.674 %) MS Exchange 3 161 (4.251 %) Apache 4 155 (4.093 %) SharePoint 5 151 (3.987 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 79 (2.086 %) Tomcat 7 62 (1.637 %) SAS 8 60 (1.584 %) WebLogic 9 57 (1.505 %) CICS 10 46 (1.215 %) CMS 11 41 (1.083 %) JBoss 12 33 (0.871 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 29 (0.766 %) BizTalk Server 14 27 (0.713 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 21 (0.555 %) Oracle HTTP Server 16 20 (0.528 %) Lotus Domino 16 20 (0.528 %) Exchange Server 2007 17 18 (0.475 %) Lotus Notes 18 12 (0.317 %) Oracle Application Server 18 12 (0.317 %) EPiServer
Applications 1 529 (13.97 %) MS Excel 2 77 (2.033 %) MS Office 3 29 (0.766 %) Photoshop 4 22 (0.581 %) SPSS 5 19 (0.502 %) MS Visio 6 14 (0.370 %) InfoPath 7 13 (0.343 %) MS PowerPoint 8 12 (0.317 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 11 (0.290 %) MS Project 10 10 (0.264 %) Spreadsheet 11 4 (0.106 %) CA Clarity 12 2 (0.053 %) MATLAB 12 2 (0.053 %) GenStat 12 2 (0.053 %) Stata	Business Applications 1 37 (0.977 %) Microsoft CRM 2 29 (0.766 %) Oracle Financials 3 17 (0.449 %) Dynamics CRM 4 16 (0.422 %) Oracle Applications 5 15 (0.396 %) Oracle EBS 5 15 (0.396 %) PeopleSoft Financials 6 12 (0.317 %) Oracle 11i 7 9 (0.238 %) Navision 8 5 (0.132 %) SAP R/3 8 5 (0.132 %) SAP Business One 8 5 (0.132 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 9 4 (0.106 %) Pivotal CRM 9 4 (0.106 %) e-Work 10 3 (0.079 %) Oracle ERP 10 3 (0.079 %) Dynamics AX 11 2 (0.053 %) Line 50 11 2 (0.053 %) Line 100 11 2 (0.053 %) Line 500 11 2 (0.053 %) Summit 11 2 (0.053 %) Unica Affinium
Communications & Networking 1 171 (4.515 %) TCP/IP 2 169 (4.463 %) WAN 3 155 (4.093 %) Firewall 4 154 (4.067 %) Internet 5 142 (3.750 %) LAN 6 123 (3.248 %) VPN 7 81 (2.139 %) SAN 8 75 (1.980 %) Intranet 9 69 (1.822 %) SMS 10 43 (1.135 %) HTTP 11 42 (1.109 %) DNS 12 32 (0.845 %) VoIP 13 25 (0.660 %) FTP 13 25 (0.660 %) MPLS 14 23 (0.607 %) DHCP 15 17 (0.449 %) Cisco ASA 16 12 (0.317 %) Cisco PIX 17 10 (0.264 %) SSL 18 8 (0.211 %) Wireless 19 6 (0.158 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1409 (37.21 %) SQL Server 2 516 (13.63 %) SQL Server 2005 3 365 (9.638 %) SQL Server 2000 4 190 (5.017 %) Crystal Reports 4 190 (5.017 %) MySQL 5 170 (4.489 %) Datawarehouse 6 154 (4.067 %) RDBMS 7 153 (4.040 %) Oracle 9i 8 152 (4.014 %) Oracle 10g 9 149 (3.935 %) DB2 10 138 (3.644 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 11 125 (3.301 %) DTS 12 119 (3.142 %) MS Access 13 106 (2.799 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 95 (2.509 %) Oracle Reports 15 80 (2.112 %) PostgreSQL 16 79 (2.086 %) OLAP 17 73 (1.928 %) Informix 18 58 (1.532 %) ETL 19 53 (1.400 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 302 (7.975 %) Visual Studio 2 73 (1.928 %) Oracle Forms 3 58 (1.532 %) Flash 4 42 (1.109 %) Subversion 5 41 (1.083 %) Visual Studio Team System 6 40 (1.056 %) Eclipse 7 31 (0.819 %) ProC 8 30 (0.792 %) JUnit 9 26 (0.687 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 26 (0.687 %) PowerBuilder 10 16 (0.422 %) Dreamweaver 11 14 (0.370 %) JBuilder 12 11 (0.290 %) Ant 13 10 (0.264 %) NUnit 14 7 (0.185 %) LabVIEW 14 7 (0.185 %) TestDirector 15 5 (0.132 %) JDeveloper 15 5 (0.132 %) ClearCase 15 5 (0.132 %) ClearQuest 16 4 (0.106 %) WebLOAD	General 1 629 (16.61 %) Finance 2 198 (5.228 %) Pensions 3 176 (4.647 %) Retail 4 166 (4.383 %) Health 5 155 (4.093 %) Marketing 6 140 (3.697 %) Telecoms 7 76 (2.007 %) Manufacturing 8 73 (1.928 %) Insurance 9 61 (1.611 %) Education 10 50 (1.320 %) Legal 11 47 (1.241 %) Construction 12 45 (1.188 %) Law 13 34 (0.898 %) Graphic Design 14 29 (0.766 %) Financial Institution 15 28 (0.739 %) Publishing 16 27 (0.713 %) Banking 17 25 (0.660 %) Electronics 18 22 (0.581 %) Government 19 19 (0.502 %) Back Office 20 18 (0.475 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 1908 (50.38 %) Developer 2 810 (21.39 %) Analyst 3 461 (12.17 %) .NET Developer 4 318 (8.397 %) DBA 5 310 (8.186 %) C# Developer 6 300 (7.922 %) Programmer 7 284 (7.499 %) Web Developer 8 233 (6.153 %) Java Developer 9 200 (5.281 %) Software Developer 10 195 (5.149 %) SQL DBA 11 191 (5.044 %) SQL Developer 11 191 (5.044 %) Senior Developer 12 182 (4.806 %) Support Analyst 13 170 (4.489 %) Analyst Programmer 14 160 (4.225 %) ASP.NET Developer 15 157 (4.146 %) PHP Developer 16 146 (3.855 %) Consultant 17 138 (3.644 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 18 125 (3.301 %) Administrator 19 117 (3.090 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 164 (4.331 %) N-Tier 2 74 (1.954 %) Clustering 3 64 (1.690 %) Computer Science 4 59 (1.558 %) Replication 5 56 (1.479 %) Mainframe 6 47 (1.241 %) Management Information System 7 44 (1.162 %) Client/Server 7 44 (1.162 %) Mathematics 8 42 (1.109 %) AS400 9 29 (0.766 %) Data Extraction 10 19 (0.502 %) Credit Risk 11 18 (0.475 %) Data Protection Act 12 17 (0.449 %) W3C 13 15 (0.396 %) Social Network 14 12 (0.317 %) Web 2.0 15 10 (0.264 %) NHS 16 9 (0.238 %) E-Learning 16 9 (0.238 %) Blog 17 8 (0.211 %) Blackberry 18 7 (0.185 %) Statistics
Operating Systems 1 785 (20.73 %) Windows 2 357 (9.427 %) Linux 3 322 (8.503 %) UNIX 4 309 (8.159 %) Windows Server 2003 5 203 (5.360 %) Windows XP 6 149 (3.935 %) Windows 2000 7 118 (3.116 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 82 (2.165 %) Solaris 9 68 (1.796 %) Windows NT 10 58 (1.532 %) MVS 11 57 (1.505 %) Windows Vista 12 49 (1.294 %) AIX 13 16 (0.422 %) HPUX 14 8 (0.211 %) VMS 15 7 (0.185 %) Windows Server 2008 16 5 (0.132 %) i5/OS 16 5 (0.132 %) Debian 16 5 (0.132 %) NetWare 17 4 (0.106 %) Red Hat Linux 18 3 (0.079 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 419 (11.06 %) OO 2 212 (5.598 %) ITIL 3 196 (5.176 %) Business Intelligence 4 186 (4.912 %) Web Development 5 168 (4.436 %) Project Management 6 153 (4.040 %) CRM 7 136 (3.591 %) UML 8 124 (3.274 %) ERP 9 122 (3.222 %) E-Commerce 10 109 (2.878 %) SOA 11 97 (2.561 %) PRINCE2 12 75 (1.980 %) Data Analysis 13 73 (1.928 %) Migration 14 70 (1.848 %) Time Management 15 64 (1.690 %) Software Engineering 16 59 (1.558 %) Content Management 17 58 (1.532 %) Business Analysis 18 51 (1.347 %) Test Scripting 19 50 (1.320 %) Unit Testing 20 48 (1.267 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 976 (25.77 %) C# 2 752 (19.86 %) VB 3 595 (15.71 %) JavaScript 4 551 (14.55 %) Java 5 490 (12.94 %) VB.NET 6 416 (10.98 %) PL/SQL 7 413 (10.91 %) Transact-SQL 8 388 (10.25 %) VB6 9 345 (9.110 %) PHP 10 233 (6.153 %) C++ 11 180 (4.753 %) C 12 155 (4.093 %) VBA 13 109 (2.878 %) Perl 14 68 (1.796 %) COBOL 15 66 (1.743 %) RPG 16 58 (1.532 %) VBScript 17 57 (1.505 %) DHTML 18 55 (1.452 %) Shell Script 19 40 (1.056 %) VC++ 20 27 (0.713 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 457 (12.07 %) Degree 2 193 (5.096 %) Microsoft Certification 3 75 (1.980 %) MCSE 4 47 (1.241 %) MCP 5 44 (1.162 %) MCSD 6 42 (1.109 %) ISEB 7 26 (0.687 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 24 (0.634 %) HND 9 16 (0.422 %) MCDST 10 14 (0.370 %) MCTS 10 14 (0.370 %) MCAD 11 13 (0.343 %) MCSA 12 9 (0.238 %) CCNA 12 9 (0.238 %) Cisco Certification 13 7 (0.185 %) MCDBA 14 5 (0.132 %) ITIL Certification 14 5 (0.132 %) IBM Certification 15 4 (0.106 %) ISTQB 16 3 (0.079 %) ISEB Practitioner 16 3 (0.079 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 34 (0.898 %) QA 2 30 (0.792 %) SLA 3 23 (0.607 %) WAI 4 5 (0.132 %) ISO9001 5 2 (0.053 %) ISO27001 5 2 (0.053 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 1 (0.026 %) Basel II	System Software 1 231 (6.100 %) Active Directory 2 63 (1.664 %) Oracle RAC 3 60 (1.584 %) Oracle RMAN 4 44 (1.162 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 32 (0.845 %) ISA Server 6 28 (0.739 %) Terminal Services 7 27 (0.713 %) VMware ESX 8 15 (0.396 %) Backup Exec 9 10 (0.264 %) Terminal Server 10 6 (0.158 %) MetaFrame 10 6 (0.158 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 6 (0.158 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 11 5 (0.132 %) NetBackup 11 5 (0.132 %) NDS 12 4 (0.106 %) Samba 13 1 (0.026 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 20 (0.528 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 19 (0.502 %) OpenView 3 16 (0.422 %) MOM 4 10 (0.264 %) SCOM 5 8 (0.211 %) ARCserve 6 7 (0.185 %) Tivoli 7 5 (0.132 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 4 (0.106 %) WSUS 9 1 (0.026 %) OVPI 9 1 (0.026 %) DameWare 9 1 (0.026 %) EMC Navisphere 9 1 (0.026 %) NNM 9 1 (0.026 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 907 (23.95 %) Microsoft 2 893 (23.58 %) Oracle 3 115 (3.037 %) VMware 4 99 (2.614 %) Cognos 5 87 (2.297 %) Cisco 6 84 (2.218 %) Citrix 7 67 (1.769 %) IBM 8 64 (1.690 %) Retek 9 59 (1.558 %) Sybase 10 55 (1.452 %) Sun 11 49 (1.294 %) Business Objects 12 38 (1.003 %) HP 13 36 (0.951 %) SAP 14 33 (0.871 %) Lotus 15 27 (0.713 %) Symantec 16 19 (0.502 %) JD Edwards 16 19 (0.502 %) Epicor 17 17 (0.449 %) Vignette 17 17 (0.449 %) PeopleSoft 17 17 (0.449 %) Websense