Cheshire RDBMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	52
Rank change on same period last year	-24
Matching contract IT job ads	3	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.000 %	3.960 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£335
Average daily rate	£400	£378
% change on same period last year	+5.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£352
% change on same period last year	-4.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.65	£28.80
% change on same period last year	+23.77 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	150	202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.199 %	0.207 %
Daily rates quoted	31	47
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£361
Average daily rate	£305	£375
% change on same period last year	-18.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£389
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.29	£28.15
Average hourly rate	£32.98	£29.85
% change on same period last year	+10.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.66	£31.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.75	£31.10
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
RDBMS North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

RDBMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RDBMS across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RDBMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing RDBMS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	-5	1	-	-

RDBMS North West

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (73.33 %) Oracle 2 7 (46.67 %) J2EE 2 7 (46.67 %) Java 2 7 (46.67 %) WebSphere 3 6 (40.00 %) Struts 3 6 (40.00 %) Oracle 10g 4 4 (26.67 %) UML 4 4 (26.67 %) SQL 4 4 (26.67 %) C# 4 4 (26.67 %) Banking 4 4 (26.67 %) Retail 4 4 (26.67 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft 5 3 (20.00 %) Oracle RMAN 5 3 (20.00 %) UNIX

5 3 (20.00 %) AIX 5 3 (20.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 3 (20.00 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 3 (20.00 %) Oracle EBS 5 3 (20.00 %) Finance 6 2 (13.33 %) Publishing 6 2 (13.33 %) LiveLink 6 2 (13.33 %) Hibernate 6 2 (13.33 %) OOA/OOD 6 2 (13.33 %) RUP 6 2 (13.33 %) Tomcat 6 2 (13.33 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (13.33 %) SharePoint 6 2 (13.33 %) JMS 6 2 (13.33 %) Documentum

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (46.67 %) J2EE 1 7 (46.67 %) WebSphere 2 6 (40.00 %) Struts 3 2 (13.33 %) JMS 3 2 (13.33 %) Hibernate 3 2 (13.33 %) Spring 3 2 (13.33 %) JDBC 3 2 (13.33 %) JSP 3 2 (13.33 %) Servlets 3 2 (13.33 %) Java EE 4 1 (6.667 %) .NET 4 1 (6.667 %) WebServices 4 1 (6.667 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (20.00 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (13.33 %) WebLogic 2 2 (13.33 %) Tomcat 2 2 (13.33 %) SharePoint 2 2 (13.33 %) Documentum 2 2 (13.33 %) LiveLink
Business Applications 1 3 (20.00 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.667 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (40.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2 2 (13.33 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (6.667 %) ETL 3 1 (6.667 %) SQLPlus 3 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 4 (26.67 %) Banking 1 4 (26.67 %) Retail 1 4 (26.67 %) Retail Banking 2 3 (20.00 %) Finance 3 2 (13.33 %) Publishing 4 1 (6.667 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (46.67 %) Developer 1 7 (46.67 %) J2EE Developer 1 7 (46.67 %) Java Developer 1 7 (46.67 %) Java/J2EE Developer 2 4 (26.67 %) DBA 3 3 (20.00 %) Oracle DBA 4 2 (13.33 %) Consultant 5 1 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 1 (6.667 %) Administrator 5 1 (6.667 %) Technical Specialist 5 1 (6.667 %) SQL DBA 5 1 (6.667 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 1 (6.667 %) Server Administrator 5 1 (6.667 %) SQL Server DBA 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Manager	Operating Systems 1 3 (20.00 %) UNIX 1 3 (20.00 %) AIX 2 1 (6.667 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (26.67 %) UML 2 2 (13.33 %) OOA/OOD 2 2 (13.33 %) RUP 2 2 (13.33 %) Content Management 2 2 (13.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Enterprise Architecture 3 1 (6.667 %) Resource Management 3 1 (6.667 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) DV Cleared 3 1 (6.667 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (46.67 %) Java 2 4 (26.67 %) C# 2 4 (26.67 %) SQL 3 1 (6.667 %) PL/SQL
System Software 1 3 (20.00 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 3 (20.00 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 11 (73.33 %) Oracle 2 3 (20.00 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.667 %) Sun 3 1 (6.667 %) IBM