Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Structured Query Language (SQL) skills within the London 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.

LinkStructured Query Language (SQL)
Location
3 months to
8 Jan 2009
Same period last year
Rank33
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching permanent IT job ads847616660
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled7.326 %8.502 %
As % of the category below40.41 %42.98 %
Salaries quoted715013126
Average minimum salary£44,215£42,838
Average salary£48,145£47,010
% change on same period last year+2.41 %
Average maximum salary£52,075£51,181
UK excluding London average salary£34,927£35,076
% change on same period last year-0.42 %
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
London
Matching permanent IT job ads2097638761
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled18.13 %19.78 %
Salaries quoted1771331087
Average minimum salary£44,704£44,608
Average salary£49,181£49,425
% change on same period last year-0.49 %
Average maximum salary£53,658£54,242
UK excluding London average salary£35,639£35,856
% change on same period last year-0.60 %
SQL EnglandSQL
England

SQL
Demand Trend

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

London SQL Demand Trend

SQL
Salary Trend

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

London SQL Salary Trend

SQL
Salary Histogram

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

London 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 London 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.

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
City of LondonUp+22629£52,814+1.89 %
Docklands, LondonUp+2142£62,513+15.20 %
Canary WharfUp+2138£50,423-9.30 %
CroydonUp+592£41,538+12.74 %
BarnetUp+2055£39,345-25.69 %
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+149£34,149+0.67 %
BromleyUp+931£29,730-9.03 %
UxbridgeDown-1330£33,643-11.09 %
EalingUp+827£44,620+8.97 %
LutonDown-1221£32,200-13.19 %
HammersmithDown-518£48,227+18.59 %
ClaphamNo change016£44,267+14.78 %
TwickenhamUp+614£27,714-36.65 %
SouthwarkNew entry-11£35,000-
WimbledonUp+411£28,778-30.07 %
HounslowUp+16£30,333-9.78 %
WembleyDown-45£41,000-4.52 %
RainhamNew entry-4--
RomfordDown-54£38,750-
SidcupNew entry-4£33,250-
BexleyNew entry-4£38,750-
EnfieldDown-124£33,875+16.81 %
South CroydonDown-13£40,000-15.78 %
New MaldenNo change03£31,333-17.67 %
West DraytonNew entry-3£33,667-
TeddingtonUp+73£24,833-33.77 %
WestminsterNew entry-2£39,000-
IlfordDown-102£32,800-7.95 %
FelthamDown-172£35,000+4.39 %
HayesNo change02£38,500-39.45 %
BrentfordDown-102£41,250+4.87 %
BarkingNew entry-1£30,000-
MitchamNew entry-1£28,000-
StanmoreNew entry-1£37,500-
HillingdonNew entry-1£30,000-
LewishamNew entry-1£42,500-
SQL EnglandSQL
England

SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

17585 (32.74 %)Finance
27339 (31.68 %)SQL Server
37055 (30.45 %).NET
46361 (27.46 %)C#
56049 (26.11 %)Oracle
64676 (20.18 %)UNIX
74326 (18.67 %)Java
84259 (18.38 %)Windows
94127 (17.81 %)Banking
103938 (17.00 %)XML
113572 (15.42 %)ASP.NET
123263 (14.09 %)Microsoft
132919 (12.60 %)Degree
142629 (11.35 %)Transact-SQL
152582 (11.15 %)SQL Server 2005
162538 (10.96 %)Linux
172505 (10.81 %)Front Office
182419 (10.44 %)HTML
192348 (10.14 %)JavaScript
202280 (9.842 %)MS Excel
212267 (9.786 %)PL/SQL
222249 (9.708 %)Investment Banking
232217 (9.570 %)C++
242205 (9.518 %)OO
251957 (8.448 %)Derivative
261927 (8.318 %)VB
271901 (8.206 %)VBA
281791 (7.731 %)Sybase
291740 (7.511 %)Perl
301725 (7.446 %)VB.NET

SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT jobs across the London 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.

London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
17055 (30.45 %).NET
23938 (17.00 %)XML
33572 (15.42 %)ASP.NET
42419 (10.44 %)HTML
51474 (6.363 %)CSS
61453 (6.272 %)J2EE
71410 (6.087 %)WebServices
81237 (5.340 %)ASP
91060 (4.576 %)AJAX
10862 (3.721 %)WinForms
11842 (3.635 %)Spring
12764 (3.298 %).NET Framework
13683 (2.948 %)Hibernate
14661 (2.853 %)XSLT
15556 (2.400 %)JSP
16547 (2.361 %)XHTML
17430 (1.856 %)JDBC
18413 (1.783 %)WebSphere
19382 (1.649 %)Servlets
20359 (1.550 %)Middleware
London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1949 (4.097 %)SharePoint
2947 (4.088 %)IIS
3646 (2.789 %)MS Exchange
4637 (2.750 %)Apache
5501 (2.163 %)SAS
6458 (1.977 %)WebLogic
7434 (1.873 %)Exchange Server 2003
8415 (1.791 %)CMS
9411 (1.774 %)Tomcat
10341 (1.472 %)BizTalk Server
11326 (1.407 %)SharePoint Server 2007
12163 (0.704 %)ColdFusion
13155 (0.669 %)JBoss
14142 (0.613 %)Exchange Server 2007
15124 (0.535 %)MQSeries
16110 (0.475 %)WebSphere Application Server
17107 (0.462 %)Exchange Server 2000
1875 (0.324 %)Oracle Workflow
1875 (0.324 %)Lotus Notes
1966 (0.285 %)Drupal
London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12280 (9.842 %)MS Excel
2758 (3.272 %)MS Office
3234 (1.010 %)MS Visio
4212 (0.915 %)Spreadsheet
5185 (0.799 %)SPSS
6145 (0.626 %)Photoshop
7105 (0.453 %)MS Project
877 (0.332 %)MATLAB
960 (0.259 %)MS PowerPoint
1033 (0.142 %)CA Clarity
1127 (0.117 %)Adobe Illustrator
1217 (0.073 %)Fireworks
1312 (0.052 %)InfoPath
149 (0.039 %)Quicktime
157 (0.030 %)RoboHelp
166 (0.026 %)FreeHand
166 (0.026 %)ImageReady
175 (0.022 %)AutoCAD
175 (0.022 %)FrameMaker
175 (0.022 %)Stata
London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1142 (0.613 %)Oracle Applications
2128 (0.553 %)Oracle Financials
399 (0.427 %)Oracle EBS
491 (0.393 %)Endur
567 (0.289 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
655 (0.237 %)Oracle EBS R12
745 (0.194 %)Summit
844 (0.190 %)Microsoft CRM
943 (0.186 %)Oracle 11i
1039 (0.168 %)Oracle ERP
1039 (0.168 %)Kondor+
1137 (0.160 %)Dynamics CRM
1233 (0.142 %)Great Plains
1233 (0.142 %)Google Analytics
1329 (0.125 %)Capstone
1426 (0.112 %)LongView
1524 (0.104 %)WebTrends
1623 (0.099 %)JDE OneWorld
1623 (0.099 %)Misys Opics
1718 (0.078 %)Minerva
London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1819 (3.535 %)Internet
2749 (3.233 %)TCP/IP
3447 (1.930 %)Firewall
4399 (1.722 %)WAN
5392 (1.692 %)LAN
6382 (1.649 %)SAN
7320 (1.381 %)Intranet
8301 (1.299 %)DNS
9212 (0.915 %)HTTP
10209 (0.902 %)VPN
11167 (0.721 %)DHCP
12124 (0.535 %)VoIP
13114 (0.492 %)SMTP
1496 (0.414 %)SNMP
1496 (0.414 %)LDAP
1576 (0.328 %)FTP
1670 (0.302 %)SSL
1766 (0.285 %)Wireless
1855 (0.237 %)Network Security
1952 (0.224 %)SSH
London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
17339 (31.68 %)SQL Server
22582 (11.15 %)SQL Server 2005
31496 (6.458 %)SQL Server 2000
41406 (6.069 %)Datawarehouse
51189 (5.133 %)RDBMS
61030 (4.446 %)ETL
71026 (4.429 %)Oracle 10g
8961 (4.148 %)SQL Server Integration Services
9959 (4.140 %)MySQL
10873 (3.768 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
11785 (3.389 %)BusinessObjects
12746 (3.220 %)Oracle 9i
13714 (3.082 %)Crystal Reports
14598 (2.581 %)DTS
15444 (1.917 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
16425 (1.835 %)Oracle Reports
17402 (1.735 %)OLAP
18395 (1.705 %)Oracle 8/8i
19393 (1.696 %)MS Access
20299 (1.291 %)DB2
London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1564 (2.435 %)Visual Studio
2430 (1.856 %)JUnit
3294 (1.269 %)Subversion
4287 (1.239 %)Ant
5275 (1.187 %)ClearCase
6234 (1.010 %)VSS/SourceSafe
7231 (0.997 %)Oracle Forms
8223 (0.963 %)Eclipse
8223 (0.963 %)QuickTest Pro
9217 (0.937 %)TestDirector
10197 (0.850 %)NUnit
11115 (0.496 %)LoadRunner
12102 (0.440 %)WinRunner
1387 (0.376 %)Selenium
1457 (0.246 %)JIRA
1553 (0.229 %)ProC
1647 (0.203 %)PowerBuilder
1743 (0.186 %)CruiseControl
1841 (0.177 %)Dreamweaver
1939 (0.168 %)Rational Rose
London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
17585 (32.74 %)Finance
24127 (17.81 %)Banking
32505 (10.81 %)Front Office
42249 (9.708 %)Investment Banking
51242 (5.361 %)Insurance
61057 (4.563 %)Marketing
7860 (3.712 %)Back Office
8673 (2.905 %)Education
9617 (2.663 %)Retail
10578 (2.495 %)Health
11551 (2.378 %)Pensions
12497 (2.145 %)Financial Institution
13477 (2.059 %)Games
14450 (1.943 %)Telecoms
15412 (1.778 %)Law
16370 (1.597 %)Legal
17210 (0.907 %)Government
18195 (0.842 %)Publishing
19193 (0.833 %)Online Games
20161 (0.695 %)Construction
London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
19727 (41.99 %)Developer
25445 (23.50 %)Analyst
32296 (9.911 %)C# Developer
42101 (9.069 %).NET Developer
51794 (7.744 %)Support Analyst
61731 (7.472 %)DBA
71663 (7.179 %)Applications Support
81523 (6.574 %)SQL Developer
91399 (6.039 %)Java Developer
101244 (5.370 %)Senior Developer
11966 (4.170 %)Administrator
12922 (3.980 %)Business Analyst
13901 (3.889 %)Consultant
14774 (3.341 %)Web Developer
15769 (3.320 %)Programmer
16725 (3.130 %)SQL DBA
17689 (2.974 %)Applications Support Analyst
18680 (2.935 %)Team Leader
19640 (2.763 %)ASP.NET Developer
20627 (2.707 %)Oracle DBA
London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11957 (8.448 %)Derivative
21143 (4.934 %)Fixed Income
3970 (4.187 %)Equities
4964 (4.161 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5622 (2.685 %)Computer Science
6502 (2.167 %)Replication
7501 (2.163 %)N-Tier
8496 (2.141 %)Mathematics
9431 (1.860 %)Equity Derivative
10367 (1.584 %)Credit Derivative
10367 (1.584 %)Clustering
11357 (1.541 %)Multithreading
12345 (1.489 %)Client/Server
13259 (1.118 %)Credit Risk
14221 (0.954 %)Management Information System
15200 (0.863 %)Market Risk
16197 (0.850 %)Interest Rate Derivative
17145 (0.626 %)Statistics
18110 (0.475 %)Spread Betting
1999 (0.427 %)Web 2.0
London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
14676 (20.18 %)UNIX
24259 (18.38 %)Windows
32538 (10.96 %)Linux
41443 (6.229 %)Windows Server 2003
5957 (4.131 %)Solaris
6496 (2.141 %)Windows XP
7469 (2.025 %)Windows 2000
8354 (1.528 %)Red Hat Linux
9227 (0.980 %)Windows 2000 Server
10150 (0.648 %)AIX
11147 (0.635 %)HPUX
12142 (0.613 %)Windows Vista
13116 (0.501 %)Windows Server 2008
14113 (0.488 %)Windows NT
1598 (0.423 %)VMS
1652 (0.224 %)OpenVMS
1748 (0.207 %)SUSE
1831 (0.134 %)CentOS
1927 (0.117 %)OS/400
2024 (0.104 %)Windows Mobile
London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12205 (9.518 %)OO
21131 (4.882 %)Business Intelligence
31004 (4.334 %)Agile Software Development
4895 (3.863 %)E-Commerce
5870 (3.756 %)Project Management
6834 (3.600 %)Web Development
7819 (3.535 %)UML
8700 (3.022 %)Asset Management
9698 (3.013 %)Business Analysis
10642 (2.771 %)Data Modelling
11624 (2.694 %)Risk Management
12590 (2.547 %)Data Analysis
13586 (2.530 %)ITIL
13586 (2.530 %)CRM
14477 (2.059 %)Investment Management
15458 (1.977 %)TDD
16454 (1.960 %)Migration
17403 (1.740 %)User Acceptance Testing
18394 (1.701 %)Scrum
19383 (1.653 %)Unit Testing
London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
16361 (27.46 %)C#
24326 (18.67 %)Java
32629 (11.35 %)Transact-SQL
42348 (10.14 %)JavaScript
52267 (9.786 %)PL/SQL
62217 (9.570 %)C++
71927 (8.318 %)VB
81901 (8.206 %)VBA
91740 (7.511 %)Perl
101725 (7.446 %)VB.NET
111044 (4.507 %)PHP
12915 (3.950 %)Shell Script
13697 (3.009 %)C
14536 (2.314 %)Python
15535 (2.309 %)VB6
16403 (1.740 %)VBScript
17176 (0.760 %)Ruby
18135 (0.583 %)VC++
19128 (0.553 %)Korn
20119 (0.514 %)ActionScript
London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
12919 (12.60 %)Degree
2998 (4.308 %)Microsoft Certification
3406 (1.753 %)MCSE
4366 (1.580 %)MCP
5330 (1.425 %)ISEB
6297 (1.282 %)MCSD
7208 (0.898 %)MCAD
8123 (0.531 %)Security Cleared
9119 (0.514 %)Oracle Certification
10111 (0.479 %)MCTS
1194 (0.406 %)Cisco Certification
1289 (0.384 %)CCNA
1372 (0.311 %)PhD
1466 (0.285 %)MCDBA
1565 (0.281 %)ITIL Certification
1659 (0.255 %)MCPD
1757 (0.246 %)MCSA
1856 (0.242 %)OCP
1953 (0.229 %)SC Cleared
2032 (0.138 %)HND
London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1693 (2.991 %)QA
2241 (1.040 %)SLA
343 (0.186 %)Basel II
438 (0.164 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
59 (0.039 %)ISO27001
59 (0.039 %)WAI
68 (0.035 %)ISO9000
76 (0.026 %)HL7
85 (0.022 %)GCP
85 (0.022 %)COBIT
93 (0.013 %)ISO9001
102 (0.009 %)MiFID
102 (0.009 %)WCAG
102 (0.009 %)PCI DSS
London IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1893 (3.855 %)Active Directory
2327 (1.412 %)Oracle RMAN
3283 (1.222 %)Oracle RAC
4177 (0.764 %)VMware Infrastructure
5109 (0.471 %)Backup Exec
689 (0.384 %)VMware ESX
749 (0.212 %)ISA Server
848 (0.207 %)MSMQ
945 (0.194 %)NetBackup
1042 (0.181 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1132 (0.138 %)NFS
1231 (0.134 %)Terminal Services
1330 (0.130 %)Terminal Server
1419 (0.082 %)MetaFrame
1515 (0.065 %)Cronacle
1611 (0.047 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
179 (0.039 %)Xen
188 (0.035 %)AquaLogic
195 (0.022 %)Orbix
204 (0.017 %)WebInspect
London IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1205 (0.885 %)Data Guard
2136 (0.587 %)AutoSys
3109 (0.471 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
480 (0.345 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
551 (0.220 %)Nagios
650 (0.216 %)Tivoli
735 (0.151 %)MOM
824 (0.104 %)CONTROL-M
923 (0.099 %)OpenView
923 (0.099 %)Legato
1021 (0.091 %)WSUS
1118 (0.078 %)EMC NetWorker
1118 (0.078 %)ARCserve
1215 (0.065 %)HP Data Protector
1312 (0.052 %)SCCM
1411 (0.047 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1510 (0.043 %)SCOM
169 (0.039 %)Oracle Statspack
178 (0.035 %)RepliStor
178 (0.035 %)Norton AntiVirus
London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
16049 (26.11 %)Oracle
23263 (14.09 %)Microsoft
31791 (7.731 %)Sybase
4785 (3.389 %)Business Objects
5591 (2.551 %)Citrix
6456 (1.968 %)VMware
7407 (1.757 %)Cisco
8372 (1.606 %)Red Hat
9343 (1.481 %)IBM
10324 (1.399 %)HP
11323 (1.394 %)Cognos
12307 (1.325 %)Bloomberg
13299 (1.291 %)Sun
14259 (1.118 %)Reuters
15244 (1.053 %)TIBCO
16243 (1.049 %)Informatica
17220 (0.950 %)Remedy
18211 (0.911 %)SAP
19144 (0.622 %)VERITAS
20137 (0.591 %)Murex