The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 158 136 168
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +32
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 45 82 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.705% 1.043% 0.806%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.275% 5.706% 4.350%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 63 58
Average daily rate £550 £475 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £370
% change year-on-year
- -12.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £43.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1374 1437 1816
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.54% 18.27% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1030 1034 1360
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 14
Average hourly rate £36.04 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.75 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
RDBMS
London

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London RDBMS Daily Rate Histogram

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 43 (56.58%) SQL
2 33 (43.42%) Java
3 27 (35.53%) Oracle
4 21 (27.63%) Finance
5 17 (22.37%) Data Analysis
6 16 (21.05%) Banking
7 15 (19.74%) UNIX
7 15 (19.74%) Linux
7 15 (19.74%) Data Mining
8 14 (18.42%) Data Modelling
8 14 (18.42%) SQL Server
8 14 (18.42%) Perl
8 14 (18.42%) Business Analysis
9 12 (15.79%) TDD
9 12 (15.79%) .NET
10 11 (14.47%) XML
10 11 (14.47%) E-Commerce
11 10 (13.16%) Python
11 10 (13.16%) OLAP
11 10 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
11 10 (13.16%) Spring
11 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
11 10 (13.16%) Computer Science
12 9 (11.84%) Mathematics
12 9 (11.84%) Physics
12 9 (11.84%) Hadoop
12 9 (11.84%) Scrum
12 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (11.84%) HTML
12 9 (11.84%) Sybase

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 12 (15.79%) .NET
2 11 (14.47%) XML
3 10 (13.16%) Spring
4 9 (11.84%) HTML
4 9 (11.84%) MapReduce
5 8 (10.53%) JSP
6 6 (7.895%) Hibernate
7 5 (6.579%) Servlets
7 5 (6.579%) SOAP
8 4 (5.263%) CSS
8 4 (5.263%) Swing
8 4 (5.263%) ASP
9 3 (3.947%) J2EE
9 3 (3.947%) Web Services
10 2 (2.632%) XSLT
10 2 (2.632%) Struts
10 2 (2.632%) JMS
10 2 (2.632%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.632%) Middleware
10 2 (2.632%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.53%) Apache Pig
2 3 (3.947%) Drupal
2 3 (3.947%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (3.947%) SAS
2 3 (3.947%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.632%) Liferay
3 2 (2.632%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (2.632%) IIS
3 2 (2.632%) WebLogic Portal
3 2 (2.632%) CMS
4 1 (1.316%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.316%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.316%) Apache
4 1 (1.316%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.316%) MQSeries
Applications
1 7 (9.211%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.316%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.316%) MS Office
2 1 (1.316%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.316%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.632%) Summit
1 2 (2.632%) Front Arena
2 1 (1.316%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (1.316%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.947%) HTTP
1 3 (3.947%) AMQP
2 2 (2.632%) LDAP
2 2 (2.632%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.316%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) Data Mining
2 14 (18.42%) SQL Server
3 10 (13.16%) OLAP
3 10 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (11.84%) Hadoop
4 9 (11.84%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.84%) Apache Cassandra
4 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
4 9 (11.84%) Big Data
5 8 (10.53%) HBase
5 8 (10.53%) Mahout
5 8 (10.53%) Apache Hive
6 4 (5.263%) DB2
6 4 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (3.947%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.947%) Data Mart
7 3 (3.947%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (2.632%) MySQL
8 2 (2.632%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) Maven
2 7 (9.211%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (6.579%) Ant
3 5 (6.579%) JUnit
4 3 (3.947%) Git (software)
4 3 (3.947%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.632%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.632%) Hudson
6 1 (1.316%) Talend Open Studio
6 1 (1.316%) JBehave
6 1 (1.316%) Selenium
6 1 (1.316%) Subversion
6 1 (1.316%) ERwin
6 1 (1.316%) ClearCase
General
1 21 (27.63%) Finance
2 16 (21.05%) Banking
3 4 (5.263%) Front Office
3 4 (5.263%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.947%) Back Office
5 1 (1.316%) Retail
5 1 (1.316%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (52.63%) Developer
2 16 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 12 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
3 12 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 10 (13.16%) Analyst
5 7 (9.211%) Hadoop Developer
6 6 (7.895%) Architect
7 5 (6.579%) Release Analyst
8 4 (5.263%) DBA
8 4 (5.263%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.947%) Java Swing Developer
9 3 (3.947%) Drupal Developer
9 3 (3.947%) PHP Drupal Developer
9 3 (3.947%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.947%) Administrator
10 2 (2.632%) Applications Support
10 2 (2.632%) Applications Developer
10 2 (2.632%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (2.632%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.632%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Computer Science
2 9 (11.84%) Mathematics
2 9 (11.84%) Physics
3 8 (10.53%) Machine Learning
3 8 (10.53%) Market Risk
3 8 (10.53%) Data Integration
3 8 (10.53%) Social Network
4 6 (7.895%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (7.895%) Derivative
5 4 (5.263%) Fixed Income
6 3 (3.947%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.947%) Open Source
6 3 (3.947%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.632%) Replication
8 1 (1.316%) Visualisation
8 1 (1.316%) Web 2.0
8 1 (1.316%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (1.316%) Equities
8 1 (1.316%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (19.74%) UNIX
1 15 (19.74%) Linux
2 4 (5.263%) Windows
3 3 (3.947%) Solaris
4 2 (2.632%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.632%) Android
4 2 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.316%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.37%) Data Analysis
2 14 (18.42%) Data Modelling
2 14 (18.42%) Business Analysis
3 12 (15.79%) TDD
4 11 (14.47%) E-Commerce
5 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
6 9 (11.84%) Scrum
6 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.53%) Multithreading
8 7 (9.211%) ETL
8 7 (9.211%) Project Management
9 6 (7.895%) Change Management
9 6 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (6.579%) Asset Management
10 5 (6.579%) SOA
11 4 (5.263%) Content Management
11 4 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (3.947%) User Acceptance Testing
12 3 (3.947%) Project Planning
12 3 (3.947%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (56.58%) SQL
2 33 (43.42%) Java
3 14 (18.42%) Perl
4 10 (13.16%) Python
5 8 (10.53%) VBScript
5 8 (10.53%) VBA
6 7 (9.211%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.211%) C#
7 6 (7.895%) Scala
7 6 (7.895%) Ruby
8 5 (6.579%) Shell Script
8 5 (6.579%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.263%) C++
10 3 (3.947%) PHP5
10 3 (3.947%) PHP
10 3 (3.947%) Bash shell
11 2 (2.632%) VB
11 2 (2.632%) VB6
12 1 (1.316%) Groovy
12 1 (1.316%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 3 (3.947%) Degree
2 1 (1.316%) HP ASE
2 1 (1.316%) MCITP
2 1 (1.316%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.316%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.316%) MCDBA
2 1 (1.316%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.947%) QA
2 2 (2.632%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.632%) OpenSSO
1 2 (2.632%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 2 (2.632%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.316%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (3.947%) Nagios
1 3 (3.947%) Puppet
2 2 (2.632%) Splunk
2 2 (2.632%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (2.632%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.316%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) Oracle
2 9 (11.84%) Sybase
3 6 (7.895%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.579%) Serena
4 5 (6.579%) Cognos
5 3 (3.947%) Remedy
5 3 (3.947%) JBoss
6 2 (2.632%) hybris
6 2 (2.632%) Business Objects
6 2 (2.632%) Informatica
6 2 (2.632%) Murex
6 2 (2.632%) Calypso
6 2 (2.632%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.632%) Teradata
6 2 (2.632%) FatWire
6 2 (2.632%) Endeca
7 1 (1.316%) Reuters
7 1 (1.316%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.316%) HP
7 1 (1.316%) BEA
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