England SQL Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the England 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Structured Query Language (SQL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bilston Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guernsey Guildford Gwent Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shepton Mallet Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	3	3
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	19990	34738
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	17.28 %	17.73 %
As % of the category below	38.44 %	40.96 %
Salaries quoted	17208	28690
Average minimum salary	£36,867	£36,841
Average salary	£40,027	£40,216
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Average maximum salary	£43,186	£43,590
UK excluding London average salary	£34,927	£35,076
% change on same period last year	-0.42 %
Programming Languages England
Matching permanent IT job ads	51998	84817
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	44.94 %	43.29 %
Salaries quoted	45080	70381
Average minimum salary	£36,833	£37,517
Average salary	£40,380	£41,356
% change on same period last year	-2.35 %
Average maximum salary	£43,928	£45,195
UK excluding London average salary	£35,639	£35,856
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
SQL UK

SQL
Demand Trend

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

SQL
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SQL across the England region over the 3 months to 8 January 2009.

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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 England region over the 3 months to 8 January 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.

Location	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
London	0	8476	£48,145	+2.41 %
South East	-2	3959	£37,259	+0.75 %
North West	-2	1607	£31,840	-1.59 %
South West	-1	1458	£33,902	-0.18 %
East of England	-1	1330	£37,055	+2.76 %
Yorkshire	-1	1229	£32,801	+2.79 %
West Midlands	-1	1172	£32,173	-3.19 %
East Midlands	-2	648	£32,125	+1.20 %
North East	+4	134	£33,853	+7.55 %
Midlands	-11	37	£40,030	+8.07 %
South Coast	+1	2	£36,000	+8.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 18275 (35.72 %) SQL Server 2 17515 (34.23 %) .NET 3 13437 (26.26 %) C# 4 13270 (25.94 %) Oracle 5 11495 (22.47 %) Finance 6 9984 (19.51 %) Windows 7 9539 (18.64 %) XML 8 9383 (18.34 %) ASP.NET 9 8945 (17.48 %) Microsoft 10 8441 (16.50 %) Java 11 7834 (15.31 %) UNIX 12 6826 (13.34 %) HTML 13 6395 (12.50 %) JavaScript 14 6297 (12.31 %) SQL Server 2005 15 6261 (12.24 %) Transact-SQL

16 6220 (12.16 %) Degree 17 5806 (11.35 %) VB 18 5702 (11.14 %) MS Excel 19 5608 (10.96 %) PL/SQL 20 5076 (9.921 %) VB.NET 21 4630 (9.049 %) Linux 22 4532 (8.857 %) Banking 23 4362 (8.525 %) OO 24 4224 (8.255 %) C++ 25 4201 (8.211 %) SQL Server 2000 26 4139 (8.089 %) CSS 27 3785 (7.397 %) ASP 28 3320 (6.489 %) Windows Server 2003 29 3221 (6.295 %) WebServices 30 3072 (6.004 %) Datawarehouse

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the England 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 17515 (34.23 %) .NET 2 9539 (18.64 %) XML 3 9383 (18.34 %) ASP.NET 4 6826 (13.34 %) HTML 5 4139 (8.089 %) CSS 6 3785 (7.397 %) ASP 7 3221 (6.295 %) WebServices 8 3062 (5.984 %) J2EE 9 2706 (5.289 %) AJAX 10 1999 (3.907 %) .NET Framework 11 1583 (3.094 %) XHTML 12 1559 (3.047 %) XSLT 13 1403 (2.742 %) WinForms 14 1313 (2.566 %) JSP 15 1295 (2.531 %) Spring 16 1111 (2.171 %) Hibernate 17 935 (1.827 %) WebSphere 18 839 (1.640 %) Servlets 19 775 (1.515 %) SOAP 20 714 (1.395 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 2578 (5.039 %) IIS 2 2031 (3.969 %) SharePoint 3 1480 (2.893 %) MS Exchange 4 1307 (2.554 %) Apache 5 982 (1.919 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 970 (1.896 %) SAS 7 879 (1.718 %) Tomcat 8 790 (1.544 %) WebLogic 9 725 (1.417 %) CMS 10 722 (1.411 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 705 (1.378 %) BizTalk Server 12 523 (1.022 %) JBoss 13 360 (0.704 %) ColdFusion 14 344 (0.672 %) Exchange Server 2007 15 308 (0.602 %) Oracle Workflow 16 263 (0.514 %) Exchange Server 2000 17 201 (0.393 %) Oracle Application Server 18 188 (0.367 %) WebSphere Application Server 19 181 (0.354 %) MQSeries 20 171 (0.334 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5702 (11.14 %) MS Excel 2 1830 (3.577 %) MS Office 3 447 (0.874 %) MS Visio 4 427 (0.835 %) Photoshop 5 337 (0.659 %) SPSS 6 284 (0.555 %) Spreadsheet 7 196 (0.383 %) MS Project 8 138 (0.270 %) MS PowerPoint 9 119 (0.233 %) MATLAB 10 100 (0.195 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 90 (0.176 %) InfoPath 12 61 (0.119 %) Fireworks 13 57 (0.111 %) CA Clarity 14 26 (0.051 %) FreeHand 15 15 (0.029 %) AutoCAD 16 13 (0.025 %) 3ds Max 17 12 (0.023 %) CATIA 17 12 (0.023 %) QuarkXPress 18 11 (0.021 %) Acrobat 19 10 (0.020 %) RoboHelp	Business Applications 1 615 (1.202 %) Oracle Applications 2 353 (0.690 %) Oracle EBS 3 288 (0.563 %) Oracle 11i 4 285 (0.557 %) Oracle Financials 5 178 (0.348 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 6 165 (0.322 %) Microsoft CRM 7 134 (0.262 %) Oracle EBS R12 8 133 (0.260 %) Dynamics CRM 9 97 (0.190 %) Endur 10 94 (0.184 %) Dynamics AX 11 91 (0.178 %) Dynamics NAV 12 87 (0.170 %) Navision 13 78 (0.152 %) Summit 14 65 (0.127 %) Oracle HRMS 15 59 (0.115 %) Oracle ERP 16 47 (0.092 %) Google Analytics 17 44 (0.086 %) WebTrends 18 41 (0.080 %) SAP Business One 19 40 (0.078 %) Kondor+ 20 37 (0.072 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 2056 (4.018 %) Internet 2 1794 (3.506 %) TCP/IP 3 1115 (2.179 %) Firewall 4 1019 (1.992 %) WAN 5 953 (1.863 %) LAN 6 858 (1.677 %) Intranet 7 849 (1.659 %) DNS 8 834 (1.630 %) SAN 9 596 (1.165 %) HTTP 10 501 (0.979 %) VPN 11 441 (0.862 %) DHCP 12 273 (0.534 %) SMTP 13 236 (0.461 %) VoIP 14 231 (0.451 %) FTP 15 197 (0.385 %) Wireless 16 150 (0.293 %) LDAP 17 136 (0.266 %) SSL 18 130 (0.254 %) SNMP 19 125 (0.244 %) SMS 20 117 (0.229 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18275 (35.72 %) SQL Server 2 6297 (12.31 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4201 (8.211 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3072 (6.004 %) Datawarehouse 5 2383 (4.657 %) Oracle 10g 6 2374 (4.640 %) RDBMS 7 2211 (4.321 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 2178 (4.257 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 9 2140 (4.182 %) MySQL 10 1797 (3.512 %) Oracle 9i 11 1790 (3.498 %) ETL 12 1732 (3.385 %) Crystal Reports 13 1598 (3.123 %) DTS 14 1530 (2.990 %) BusinessObjects 15 1456 (2.846 %) Oracle Reports 16 1129 (2.207 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 17 1042 (2.037 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 1019 (1.992 %) DB2 19 1015 (1.984 %) MS Access 20 956 (1.868 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 2169 (4.239 %) Visual Studio 2 1032 (2.017 %) Oracle Forms 3 789 (1.542 %) JUnit 4 617 (1.206 %) Eclipse 5 515 (1.007 %) Subversion 6 482 (0.942 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 454 (0.887 %) Ant 8 384 (0.750 %) QuickTest Pro 9 361 (0.706 %) TestDirector 10 319 (0.623 %) ClearCase 11 288 (0.563 %) NUnit 12 195 (0.381 %) LoadRunner 13 174 (0.340 %) Dreamweaver 14 159 (0.311 %) WinRunner 15 137 (0.268 %) JDeveloper 15 137 (0.268 %) ProC 16 103 (0.201 %) Selenium 17 99 (0.193 %) PowerBuilder 18 84 (0.164 %) Rational Rose 19 71 (0.139 %) PVCS	General 1 11495 (22.47 %) Finance 2 4532 (8.857 %) Banking 3 2526 (4.937 %) Front Office 4 2464 (4.816 %) Pensions 5 2350 (4.593 %) Insurance 6 2290 (4.476 %) Investment Banking 7 2128 (4.159 %) Marketing 8 2068 (4.042 %) Health 9 1639 (3.203 %) Retail 10 1249 (2.441 %) Education 11 1178 (2.302 %) Telecoms 12 1109 (2.167 %) Back Office 13 650 (1.270 %) Games 14 603 (1.179 %) Law 15 593 (1.159 %) Financial Institution 16 567 (1.108 %) Government 17 541 (1.057 %) Legal 18 363 (0.709 %) Manufacturing 19 318 (0.622 %) Publishing 20 315 (0.616 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 22185 (43.36 %) Developer 2 10872 (21.25 %) Analyst 3 5360 (10.48 %) .NET Developer 4 4156 (8.123 %) C# Developer 5 3980 (7.779 %) DBA 6 3203 (6.260 %) Support Analyst 7 2960 (5.785 %) SQL Developer 8 2645 (5.169 %) Applications Support 9 2602 (5.085 %) Java Developer 10 2581 (5.044 %) Web Developer 11 2521 (4.927 %) Senior Developer 12 2390 (4.671 %) Consultant 13 2286 (4.468 %) Programmer 14 2044 (3.995 %) SQL DBA 15 2017 (3.942 %) Administrator 16 1906 (3.725 %) Software Developer 17 1833 (3.582 %) ASP.NET Developer 18 1476 (2.885 %) Business Analyst 19 1363 (2.664 %) C# ASP.NET Developer 20 1351 (2.640 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 2020 (3.948 %) Derivative 2 1405 (2.746 %) Computer Science 3 1152 (2.251 %) Fixed Income 4 1028 (2.009 %) Equities 5 989 (1.933 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 904 (1.767 %) N-Tier 7 873 (1.706 %) Client/Server 8 860 (1.681 %) Mathematics 9 839 (1.640 %) Replication 10 795 (1.554 %) Clustering 11 625 (1.222 %) Management Information System 12 481 (0.940 %) Multithreading 13 434 (0.848 %) Equity Derivative 14 369 (0.721 %) Credit Derivative 15 365 (0.713 %) Credit Risk 16 294 (0.575 %) Statistics 17 289 (0.565 %) AS400 18 272 (0.532 %) NHS 19 227 (0.444 %) Blackberry 20 220 (0.430 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 9984 (19.51 %) Windows 2 7834 (15.31 %) UNIX 3 4630 (9.049 %) Linux 4 3320 (6.489 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1480 (2.893 %) Solaris 6 1375 (2.687 %) Windows XP 7 1126 (2.201 %) Windows 2000 8 822 (1.607 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 601 (1.175 %) AIX 10 519 (1.014 %) Red Hat Linux 11 458 (0.895 %) Windows Vista 12 323 (0.631 %) HPUX 13 267 (0.522 %) Windows NT 14 258 (0.504 %) Windows Server 2008 15 135 (0.264 %) Windows Mobile 16 122 (0.238 %) VMS 17 94 (0.184 %) SUSE 18 90 (0.176 %) Debian 19 65 (0.127 %) OS/400 20 64 (0.125 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 4362 (8.525 %) OO 2 2718 (5.312 %) Business Intelligence 3 2209 (4.317 %) Web Development 4 1967 (3.844 %) Project Management 5 1893 (3.700 %) E-Commerce 6 1862 (3.639 %) UML 7 1619 (3.164 %) Agile Software Development 8 1508 (2.947 %) CRM 9 1495 (2.922 %) ITIL 10 1217 (2.379 %) Business Analysis 11 1106 (2.162 %) Migration 12 1101 (2.152 %) Data Modelling 13 1100 (2.150 %) Data Analysis 14 975 (1.906 %) ERP 15 884 (1.728 %) Unit Testing 16 813 (1.589 %) Asset Management 17 794 (1.552 %) SOA 18 788 (1.540 %) OOP 19 760 (1.485 %) Workflow 20 749 (1.464 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 13437 (26.26 %) C# 2 8441 (16.50 %) Java 3 6395 (12.50 %) JavaScript 4 6261 (12.24 %) Transact-SQL 5 5806 (11.35 %) VB 6 5608 (10.96 %) PL/SQL 7 5076 (9.921 %) VB.NET 8 4224 (8.255 %) C++ 9 2831 (5.533 %) VBA 10 2636 (5.152 %) PHP 11 2456 (4.800 %) Perl 12 2050 (4.007 %) VB6 13 1933 (3.778 %) C 14 1398 (2.732 %) Shell Script 15 1129 (2.207 %) VBScript 16 691 (1.351 %) Python 17 501 (0.979 %) Delphi 18 385 (0.752 %) VC++ 19 298 (0.582 %) ActionScript 20 284 (0.555 %) Ruby	Qualifications 1 6220 (12.16 %) Degree 2 2577 (5.037 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1072 (2.095 %) MCSE 4 798 (1.560 %) ISEB 5 759 (1.483 %) MCP 6 635 (1.241 %) MCSD 7 608 (1.188 %) Security Cleared 8 427 (0.835 %) MCAD 9 303 (0.592 %) Oracle Certification 10 288 (0.563 %) MCTS 11 256 (0.500 %) Cisco Certification 12 239 (0.467 %) MCDBA 13 231 (0.451 %) CCNA 14 223 (0.436 %) SC Cleared 15 214 (0.418 %) MCSA 16 178 (0.348 %) HND 17 145 (0.283 %) ITIL Certification 18 143 (0.279 %) OCP 19 123 (0.240 %) PRINCE2 Certification 20 114 (0.223 %) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1231 (2.406 %) QA 2 605 (1.182 %) SLA 3 124 (0.242 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 55 (0.107 %) Basel II 5 42 (0.082 %) ISO9001 6 38 (0.074 %) WAI 7 31 (0.061 %) ISO27001 8 26 (0.051 %) ISO9000 9 20 (0.039 %) PCI DSS 10 19 (0.037 %) HL7 11 14 (0.027 %) COBIT 12 9 (0.018 %) 21 CFR Part 11 13 7 (0.014 %) GLP 14 6 (0.012 %) ISO8583 14 6 (0.012 %) DICOM 15 5 (0.010 %) PCI QSA 15 5 (0.010 %) GCP 15 5 (0.010 %) WCAG 16 2 (0.004 %) MiFID 16 2 (0.004 %) GAMP	System Software 1 2212 (4.323 %) Active Directory 2 601 (1.175 %) Oracle RAC 3 592 (1.157 %) Oracle RMAN 4 479 (0.936 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 247 (0.483 %) Backup Exec 6 221 (0.432 %) ISA Server 7 192 (0.375 %) VMware ESX 8 168 (0.328 %) Terminal Services 9 117 (0.229 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 107 (0.209 %) Terminal Server 11 105 (0.205 %) NetBackup 12 87 (0.170 %) MSMQ 13 77 (0.150 %) MetaFrame 14 73 (0.143 %) NFS 15 26 (0.051 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 16 21 (0.041 %) Hyper-V 17 15 (0.029 %) Cronacle 18 14 (0.027 %) Xen 19 13 (0.025 %) VMware Server 20 12 (0.023 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 403 (0.788 %) Data Guard 2 209 (0.408 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 178 (0.348 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 150 (0.293 %) AutoSys 5 96 (0.188 %) Tivoli 6 86 (0.168 %) MOM 7 80 (0.156 %) Nagios 8 55 (0.107 %) OpenView 9 44 (0.086 %) SCOM 10 43 (0.084 %) Legato 11 38 (0.074 %) Norton AntiVirus 12 35 (0.068 %) ARCserve 13 34 (0.066 %) EMC NetWorker 14 33 (0.064 %) WSUS 15 30 (0.059 %) CONTROL-M 16 29 (0.057 %) SCCM 17 26 (0.051 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 18 23 (0.045 %) Unicenter 19 21 (0.041 %) Oracle Statspack 20 18 (0.035 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 13270 (25.94 %) Oracle 2 8945 (17.48 %) Microsoft 3 2126 (4.155 %) Sybase 4 1530 (2.990 %) Business Objects 5 1293 (2.527 %) Citrix 6 1192 (2.330 %) VMware 7 1001 (1.956 %) Cisco 8 952 (1.861 %) Cognos 9 796 (1.556 %) IBM 10 710 (1.388 %) HP 11 605 (1.182 %) SAP 12 582 (1.137 %) Sun 13 556 (1.087 %) Red Hat 14 329 (0.643 %) Informatica 15 319 (0.623 %) Bloomberg 16 305 (0.596 %) EMC 17 292 (0.571 %) Remedy 18 286 (0.559 %) VERITAS 19 273 (0.534 %) Reuters 20 254 (0.496 %) TIBCO