The first table below looks at the demand for KDB skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited KDB 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 Canary Wharf 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
Kx Systems KDB
Rank - 47 57
Contract jobs citing KDB 0 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 0.524% 0.803%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 1.770% 4.255%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £700 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
68 113 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 16.92% 29.58% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 79 70
Average daily rate £561 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £400 £435
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +133.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
KDB
London

KDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf KDB Jobs Demand Trend

KDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf KDB Daily Rate Trend

KDB
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing KDB 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 KDB.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Haskell
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) F#
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking

KDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing KDB 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 KDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Real Time Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Real Time Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Haskell
1 3 (100.00%) F#
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft