The first table below looks at the demand for Sybase ASE 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 Sybase ASE over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
Rank 199 205 204
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -1
Contract jobs citing Sybase ASE 2 15 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.032% 0.192% 0.331%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.147% 1.068% 1.791%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 20
Average daily rate £515 £550 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.36% +12.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £294 £400
% change year-on-year
+57.53% -26.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1364 1405 1787
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.59% 17.99% 18.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1028 1009 1340
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 £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £32.25 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.49% +25.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £16.50 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Sybase ASE
London

Sybase ASE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Sybase ASE Jobs Demand Trend

Sybase ASE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Sybase ASE across the City of London region.

City of London Sybase ASE Daily Rate Trend

Sybase ASE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Sybase ASE Hourly Rate Trend

Sybase ASE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sybase ASE 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 Sybase ASE.

1 8 (100.00%) Sybase
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 6 (75.00%) Banking
4 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (50.00%) UNIX
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
5 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (25.00%) Kondor+
6 2 (25.00%) WCF
6 2 (25.00%) Silverlight
6 2 (25.00%) LINQ
6 2 (25.00%) RIA
6 2 (25.00%) jQuery
6 2 (25.00%) Subversion
6 2 (25.00%) Sybase IQ
6 2 (25.00%) TortoiseSVN
6 2 (25.00%) MVVM
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (25.00%) PowerBuilder
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) OO
6 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (25.00%) VBA
6 2 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (25.00%) Java

Sybase ASE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sybase ASE 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 Sybase ASE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) WCF
1 2 (25.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (25.00%) LINQ
1 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Kondor+
2 1 (12.50%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (25.00%) Sybase IQ
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase ASA
3 1 (12.50%) InterBase
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (12.50%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (25.00%) PowerBuilder
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
1 2 (25.00%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Development Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) RIA
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) OO
1 2 (25.00%) ETL
1 2 (25.00%) TDD
1 2 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) VBA
4 2 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) HP ASE
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Nagios
1 1 (12.50%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Sybase
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) TIBCO
2 1 (12.50%) TOWER Software
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle