The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 21 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 45 53 42
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 4 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.889% 0.161% 0.204%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.000% 0.578% 1.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £361
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
100 173 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.22% 27.81% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 103 61
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
RDBMS
West Midlands

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RDBMS across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Birmingham RDBMS Jobs Demand Trend

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RDBMS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RDBMS across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing RDBMS 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited RDBMS.

1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 5 (50.00%) ProC
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (50.00%) CGI
2 5 (50.00%) AIX
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) C
2 5 (50.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) J2EE
3 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (30.00%) DTS
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) Intranet
5 2 (20.00%) Internet
5 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (20.00%) MS Office
5 2 (20.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) InfoPath
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (10.00%) Statistics
6 1 (10.00%) Web Development
6 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
6 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing RDBMS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited RDBMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) CGI
1 5 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) DHTML
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
1 2 (20.00%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Intranet
1 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) DTS
3 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (10.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) ProC
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) C Developer
2 5 (50.00%) UNIX Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Web Content Editor
4 1 (10.00%) Content Editor
4 1 (10.00%) Teradata DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Information Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Web Editor
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Statistics
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
2 5 (50.00%) AIX
2 5 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (10.00%) Web Development
2 1 (10.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (10.00%) Web Usability
2 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (10.00%) Database Security
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
1 5 (50.00%) C
1 5 (50.00%) C++
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft