The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sybase products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Sybase, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sybase
Rank 96 117 34
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -83
Contract jobs citing Sybase 116 106 462
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.805% 1.348% 4.773%
As % of the Vendors category 3.996% 3.202% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 84 333
Average daily rate £481 £530 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.19% -3.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £438
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £675 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £372
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £12.00 - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year
-83.70% -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2903 3310 4065
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.18% 42.10% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2048 2260 2803
Average daily rate £430 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 101 126
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Sybase
London

Sybase
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Sybase Jobs Demand Trend

Sybase
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Sybase Daily Rate Trend

Sybase
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Sybase Daily Rate Histogram

Sybase
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Sybase Hourly Rate Trend

Sybase
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sybase 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.

1 128 (64.65%) SQL
2 112 (56.57%) Oracle
3 96 (48.48%) Banking
4 80 (40.40%) Finance
5 75 (37.88%) SQL Server
5 75 (37.88%) Java
6 63 (31.82%) Investment Banking
7 62 (31.31%) UNIX
8 45 (22.73%) C#
9 37 (18.69%) Front Office
9 37 (18.69%) Windows
10 34 (17.17%) Linux
11 32 (16.16%) Back Office
12 30 (15.15%) Solaris
13 27 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (12.12%) C++
15 22 (11.11%) Perl
15 22 (11.11%) T-SQL
15 22 (11.11%) Microsoft
16 21 (10.61%) Business Objects
17 20 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
17 20 (10.10%) ETL
18 19 (9.596%) .NET
18 19 (9.596%) Fixed Income
19 18 (9.091%) Subversion
19 18 (9.091%) Informatica
20 17 (8.586%) Derivative
21 16 (8.081%) Agile Software Development
21 16 (8.081%) TDD
21 16 (8.081%) XML

Sybase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Sybase 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (9.596%) .NET
2 16 (8.081%) XML
3 14 (7.071%) Spring
4 11 (5.556%) HTML
4 11 (5.556%) Swing
5 10 (5.051%) XSLT
5 10 (5.051%) Middleware
6 9 (4.545%) WebSphere
7 8 (4.040%) WPF
7 8 (4.040%) JMS
7 8 (4.040%) J2EE
8 7 (3.535%) ASP.NET
8 7 (3.535%) MDX
9 6 (3.030%) WCF
9 6 (3.030%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 6 (3.030%) Web Services
9 6 (3.030%) STL
9 6 (3.030%) Hibernate
10 5 (2.525%) WinForms
10 5 (2.525%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 12 (6.061%) WebLogic
2 9 (4.545%) Apache
2 9 (4.545%) Oracle Coherence
3 8 (4.040%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.535%) SAS
5 6 (3.030%) IIS
6 4 (2.020%) Confluence
7 3 (1.515%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (1.515%) Rendezvous
8 2 (1.010%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (1.010%) MS Exchange
8 2 (1.010%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.010%) CMS
9 1 (0.505%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.505%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.505%) MTS
9 1 (0.505%) Documentum
9 1 (0.505%) GlassFish
9 1 (0.505%) WorkSite
9 1 (0.505%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 15 (7.576%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.020%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (1.010%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.010%) MS Office
4 1 (0.505%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 14 (7.071%) Summit
2 10 (5.051%) ION MarketView
3 9 (4.545%) RMDS
4 7 (3.535%) SAP BPC
5 3 (1.515%) Global One
5 3 (1.515%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (1.010%) Front Arena
6 2 (1.010%) Kondor+
7 1 (0.505%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.505%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.556%) HTTP
2 8 (4.040%) SAN
3 7 (3.535%) NAS
4 4 (2.020%) Internet
5 2 (1.010%) Intranet
5 2 (1.010%) LAN
5 2 (1.010%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.505%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (37.88%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.071%) DataStage
4 13 (6.566%) QlikView
5 10 (5.051%) OLAP
5 10 (5.051%) Sybase IQ
6 9 (4.545%) MySQL
7 8 (4.040%) Sybase ASE
7 8 (4.040%) BusinessObjects
8 7 (3.535%) SAP BI
8 7 (3.535%) DB2
8 7 (3.535%) RDBMS
8 7 (3.535%) SAP BW
8 7 (3.535%) Xcelsius
8 7 (3.535%) Oracle OLAP
8 7 (3.535%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (3.030%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (2.525%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 18 (9.091%) Subversion
2 7 (3.535%) JUnit
2 7 (3.535%) Eclipse
2 7 (3.535%) Maven
3 6 (3.030%) JIRA
3 6 (3.030%) Talend Open Studio
4 5 (2.525%) Ant
4 5 (2.525%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.010%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.010%) TortoiseSVN
5 2 (1.010%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
5 2 (1.010%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (1.010%) PowerBuilder
5 2 (1.010%) NUnit
6 1 (0.505%) ClearCase
6 1 (0.505%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.505%) MSBuild
6 1 (0.505%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (0.505%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.505%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 96 (48.48%) Banking
2 80 (40.40%) Finance
3 63 (31.82%) Investment Banking
4 37 (18.69%) Front Office
5 32 (16.16%) Back Office
6 5 (2.525%) Advertising
6 5 (2.525%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (2.020%) Marketing
7 4 (2.020%) Retail
8 1 (0.505%) Law
8 1 (0.505%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.505%) French Language
8 1 (0.505%) German Language
8 1 (0.505%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (49.49%) Developer
2 42 (21.21%) Analyst
3 32 (16.16%) Java Developer
4 24 (12.12%) Support Analyst
5 17 (8.586%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.071%) Architect
7 12 (6.061%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.556%) C++ Developer
9 10 (5.051%) DBA
10 8 (4.040%) C# Developer
10 8 (4.040%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.040%) Sybase Developer
11 7 (3.535%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (3.030%) Production Support Analyst
12 6 (3.030%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.030%) Senior C++ Developer
12 6 (3.030%) ETL Developer
13 5 (2.525%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (2.525%) Operations Analyst
13 5 (2.525%) Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (9.596%) Fixed Income
3 17 (8.586%) Derivative
4 13 (6.566%) SWIFT
5 11 (5.556%) Credit Risk
6 10 (5.051%) Equities
7 6 (3.030%) Data Integration
8 5 (2.525%) Open Source
9 4 (2.020%) Mathematics
10 3 (1.515%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.515%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.010%) Computer Science
11 2 (1.010%) RIA
11 2 (1.010%) SaaS
11 2 (1.010%) Visualisation
11 2 (1.010%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.010%) Grid Computing
12 1 (0.505%) Credit Derivative
12 1 (0.505%) Replication
12 1 (0.505%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 62 (31.31%) UNIX
2 37 (18.69%) Windows
3 34 (17.17%) Linux
4 30 (15.15%) Solaris
5 9 (4.545%) Windows XP
5 9 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.010%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.010%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.505%) AIX
7 1 (0.505%) HPUX
7 1 (0.505%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (10.10%) ETL
2 16 (8.081%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (8.081%) TDD
3 15 (7.576%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (7.071%) Multithreading
5 12 (6.061%) ITIL
6 10 (5.051%) E-Commerce
6 10 (5.051%) OO
7 9 (4.545%) Data Modelling
7 9 (4.545%) Dimensional Modelling
8 8 (4.040%) Waterfall
8 8 (4.040%) Service Management
8 8 (4.040%) Risk Management
9 7 (3.535%) Migration
9 7 (3.535%) Project Management
9 7 (3.535%) Capacity Management
9 7 (3.535%) Electronic Trading
10 6 (3.030%) Incident Management
10 6 (3.030%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (3.030%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 128 (64.65%) SQL
2 75 (37.88%) Java
3 45 (22.73%) C#
4 24 (12.12%) C++
5 22 (11.11%) Perl
5 22 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 14 (7.071%) Shell Script
7 11 (5.556%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.051%) C
8 10 (5.051%) VBA
9 7 (3.535%) Bash shell
10 6 (3.030%) VB
10 6 (3.030%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.515%) PHP
11 3 (1.515%) C-shell
12 2 (1.010%) Ruby
12 2 (1.010%) Groovy
13 1 (0.505%) Python
13 1 (0.505%) Korn
Qualifications
1 15 (7.576%) Degree
2 2 (1.010%) PMP
2 2 (1.010%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.505%) MCSE
3 1 (0.505%) ISEB
3 1 (0.505%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.505%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.505%) HP ASE
3 1 (0.505%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.556%) QA
2 1 (0.505%) SLA
2 1 (0.505%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.010%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.505%) NFS
2 1 (0.505%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (0.505%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.040%) Tivoli
2 4 (2.020%) Control-M
2 4 (2.020%) Nagios
3 2 (1.010%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.010%) Splunk
4 1 (0.505%) Zenoss
4 1 (0.505%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 112 (56.57%) Oracle
2 22 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.61%) Business Objects
4 18 (9.091%) Informatica
5 15 (7.576%) Cognos
6 13 (6.566%) Bloomberg
6 13 (6.566%) MicroStrategy
7 10 (5.051%) ION Trading
8 9 (4.545%) Reuters
9 8 (4.040%) Netezza
9 8 (4.040%) Misys
9 8 (4.040%) SAP
10 7 (3.535%) Teradata
10 7 (3.535%) Cisco
10 7 (3.535%) Hyperion
10 7 (3.535%) 29West
11 6 (3.030%) GoldenSource
11 6 (3.030%) DataSynapse
11 6 (3.030%) Infobright
11 6 (3.030%) Talend
City of London
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Rate: £450 - £500 per day
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Rate: 475
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