City of London Sybase Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sybase products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sybase over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Feltham Glasgow Hertfordshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Merseyside Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South West Street Surrey Telford Tyne and Wear UK Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	18
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	471	604
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.622 %	0.602 %
As % of the category below	12.49 %	17.86 %
Daily rates quoted	334	317
Average minimum daily rate	£461	£483
Average daily rate	£496	£516
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£532	£549
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£373
% change on same period last year	-9.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£47.50
% change on same period last year	-45.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.00	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£31.03
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3770	3382
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.975 %	3.368 %
Daily rates quoted	2014	1369
Average minimum daily rate	£412	£429
Average daily rate	£445	£456
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£479	£482
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	176	119
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.63	£21.19
Average hourly rate	£24.44	£22.54
% change on same period last year	+8.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	£23.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.70	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.50 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sybase, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sybase across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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.

1 631 (57.94 %) Banking 2 536 (49.22 %) UNIX 3 532 (48.85 %) SQL 4 466 (42.79 %) Investment Banking 5 457 (41.97 %) Java 6 360 (33.06 %) Oracle 7 346 (31.77 %) Finance 8 234 (21.49 %) Perl 9 207 (19.01 %) C++ 10 197 (18.09 %) Front Office 11 189 (17.36 %) Derivative 12 171 (15.70 %) OO 13 160 (14.69 %) Fixed Income 14 146 (13.41 %) SQL Server 15 145 (13.31 %) Windows

16 135 (12.40 %) Shell Script 17 132 (12.12 %) Linux 18 130 (11.94 %) C# 19 120 (11.02 %) Equities 20 119 (10.93 %) Solaris 21 103 (9.458 %) Transact-SQL 22 101 (9.275 %) RDBMS 23 96 (8.815 %) XML 24 95 (8.724 %) J2EE 25 82 (7.530 %) Hibernate 26 78 (7.163 %) .NET 27 75 (6.887 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 28 71 (6.520 %) Credit Risk 29 63 (5.785 %) Spring 30 61 (5.601 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, 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 96 (8.815 %) XML 2 95 (8.724 %) J2EE 3 82 (7.530 %) Hibernate 4 78 (7.163 %) .NET 5 63 (5.785 %) Spring 6 55 (5.051 %) HTML 7 53 (4.867 %) Middleware 7 53 (4.867 %) WinForms 8 52 (4.775 %) JMS 9 49 (4.500 %) MFC 10 40 (3.673 %) Struts 11 39 (3.581 %) JSP 12 37 (3.398 %) WebSphere 13 27 (2.479 %) J2SE 13 27 (2.479 %) Swing 13 27 (2.479 %) JDBC 14 22 (2.020 %) WebServices 15 21 (1.928 %) CORBA 16 19 (1.745 %) EJB 17 18 (1.653 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 40 (3.673 %) MQSeries 2 36 (3.306 %) Rendezvous 3 32 (2.938 %) JBoss 4 30 (2.755 %) WebSphere MQ 5 26 (2.388 %) WebLogic 6 22 (2.020 %) Tomcat 6 22 (2.020 %) TIBCO EMS 7 8 (0.735 %) TeamSite 7 8 (0.735 %) WebSphere Message Broker 8 7 (0.643 %) ESB 8 7 (0.643 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 7 (0.643 %) IIS 9 5 (0.459 %) Apache 10 4 (0.367 %) WMQI 11 3 (0.275 %) Mule 12 2 (0.184 %) iPlanet 12 2 (0.184 %) Lotus Notes 12 2 (0.184 %) MTS 12 2 (0.184 %) MQSI 13 1 (0.092 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 32 (2.938 %) MS Excel 2 18 (1.653 %) Spreadsheet 3 17 (1.561 %) MS Office 4 8 (0.735 %) Photoshop 5 4 (0.367 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 18 (1.653 %) Summit 2 10 (0.918 %) Global One 3 9 (0.826 %) Oracle General Ledger 4 8 (0.735 %) Kondor+ 5 6 (0.551 %) RMDS 6 5 (0.459 %) FENICS FX 6 5 (0.459 %) SunGard GMI 7 4 (0.367 %) Oracle Applications 8 3 (0.275 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 8 3 (0.275 %) FRONT ARENA 9 2 (0.184 %) LongView 9 2 (0.184 %) BusinessWorks 9 2 (0.184 %) Oracle Financials 9 2 (0.184 %) Minerva 9 2 (0.184 %) Loan IQ 10 1 (0.092 %) AWD 10 1 (0.092 %) Remedy AR System 10 1 (0.092 %) Oracle EBS 10 1 (0.092 %) Murex MxG2000 10 1 (0.092 %) Endur
Communications & Networking 1 10 (0.918 %) SAN 1 10 (0.918 %) WAN 2 9 (0.826 %) HTTP 3 8 (0.735 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (0.735 %) LAN 4 7 (0.643 %) Firewall 5 5 (0.459 %) LDAP 6 4 (0.367 %) Internet 6 4 (0.367 %) DNS 7 3 (0.275 %) Network Security 7 3 (0.275 %) BIG-IP 7 3 (0.275 %) SSL 7 3 (0.275 %) Broadband 8 2 (0.184 %) Intranet 8 2 (0.184 %) FTP 8 2 (0.184 %) SSH 9 1 (0.092 %) DHCP 9 1 (0.092 %) Ethernet 9 1 (0.092 %) DECnet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 146 (13.41 %) SQL Server 2 101 (9.275 %) RDBMS 3 53 (4.867 %) Datawarehouse 4 47 (4.316 %) Oracle 10g 5 42 (3.857 %) Oracle 9i 6 37 (3.398 %) Sybase ASE 7 30 (2.755 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 19 (1.745 %) Oracle OWB 9 18 (1.653 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 15 (1.377 %) Oracle Reports 10 15 (1.377 %) ETL 11 12 (1.102 %) Sybase IQ 12 11 (1.010 %) SQL Server 2005 12 11 (1.010 %) Crystal Reports 12 11 (1.010 %) DB2 13 8 (0.735 %) PowerCenter 13 8 (0.735 %) SQL Server 2000 13 8 (0.735 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 7 (0.643 %) Reference Data 14 7 (0.643 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 35 (3.214 %) JUnit 2 32 (2.938 %) Eclipse 3 31 (2.847 %) Visual Studio 4 29 (2.663 %) Ant 5 28 (2.571 %) ClearCase 6 21 (1.928 %) NUnit 7 15 (1.377 %) Subversion 7 15 (1.377 %) PowerBuilder 8 9 (0.826 %) Log4Net 8 9 (0.826 %) TestDirector 9 6 (0.551 %) ERwin 10 5 (0.459 %) Oracle Forms 10 5 (0.459 %) AllFusion 11 3 (0.275 %) CruiseControl 11 3 (0.275 %) Log4j 11 3 (0.275 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 3 (0.275 %) LoadRunner 12 2 (0.184 %) IntelliJ 12 2 (0.184 %) Oracle APEX 13 1 (0.092 %) TestComplete	General 1 631 (57.94 %) Banking 2 466 (42.79 %) Investment Banking 3 346 (31.77 %) Finance 4 197 (18.09 %) Front Office 5 60 (5.510 %) Back Office 6 25 (2.296 %) Financial Institution 7 12 (1.102 %) Education 8 10 (0.918 %) General Ledger 8 10 (0.918 %) Insurance 8 10 (0.918 %) Government 9 6 (0.551 %) Telecoms 10 3 (0.275 %) Health 11 2 (0.184 %) Construction 12 1 (0.092 %) Marketing 12 1 (0.092 %) Wholesale Banking 12 1 (0.092 %) Corporate Banking 12 1 (0.092 %) Retail 12 1 (0.092 %) Electric 12 1 (0.092 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 611 (56.11 %) Developer 2 234 (21.49 %) Analyst 3 221 (20.29 %) Java Developer 4 119 (10.93 %) Support Analyst 5 101 (9.275 %) DBA 6 80 (7.346 %) Sybase Developer 7 67 (6.152 %) Analyst Developer 8 62 (5.693 %) Sybase DBA 9 61 (5.601 %) Applications Support 10 53 (4.867 %) C++ Developer 11 48 (4.408 %) C# Developer 12 39 (3.581 %) Oracle DBA 13 38 (3.489 %) Oracle Developer 14 37 (3.398 %) Perl Developer 15 34 (3.122 %) Applications Support Analyst 16 33 (3.030 %) Senior Developer 17 31 (2.847 %) Architect 18 28 (2.571 %) Administrator 19 25 (2.296 %) Programmer 20 23 (2.112 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 189 (17.36 %) Derivative 2 160 (14.69 %) Fixed Income 3 120 (11.02 %) Equities 4 75 (6.887 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 71 (6.520 %) Credit Risk 6 59 (5.418 %) Multithreading 7 51 (4.683 %) Equity Derivative 8 44 (4.040 %) Credit Derivative 9 40 (3.673 %) Replication 10 35 (3.214 %) N-Tier 11 33 (3.030 %) Market Risk 12 25 (2.296 %) Interest Rate Derivative 13 11 (1.010 %) Client/Server 14 9 (0.826 %) Contract for Difference 14 9 (0.826 %) Grid Computing 15 8 (0.735 %) French Language 16 6 (0.551 %) Data Integration 17 5 (0.459 %) Management Information System 18 4 (0.367 %) AS400 18 4 (0.367 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 536 (49.22 %) UNIX 2 145 (13.31 %) Windows 3 132 (12.12 %) Linux 4 119 (10.93 %) Solaris 5 16 (1.469 %) Windows XP 6 12 (1.102 %) Windows Server 2003 7 10 (0.918 %) Red Hat Linux 8 9 (0.826 %) Windows NT 9 8 (0.735 %) HPUX 10 5 (0.459 %) AIX 11 4 (0.367 %) VMS 12 1 (0.092 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 1 (0.092 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 171 (15.70 %) OO 2 46 (4.224 %) Migration 3 39 (3.581 %) Risk Management 4 35 (3.214 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 34 (3.122 %) Data Modelling 6 29 (2.663 %) OOD 7 26 (2.388 %) Release Management 8 25 (2.296 %) UML 9 24 (2.204 %) Project Management 9 24 (2.204 %) Electronic Trading 10 20 (1.837 %) Investment Management 10 20 (1.837 %) Data Migration 11 19 (1.745 %) Asset Management 11 19 (1.745 %) Business Analysis 12 17 (1.561 %) Workflow 12 17 (1.561 %) Web Development 13 16 (1.469 %) SOA 14 15 (1.377 %) ITIL 14 15 (1.377 %) BCP 15 12 (1.102 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 532 (48.85 %) SQL 2 457 (41.97 %) Java 3 234 (21.49 %) Perl 4 207 (19.01 %) C++ 5 135 (12.40 %) Shell Script 6 130 (11.94 %) C# 7 103 (9.458 %) Transact-SQL 8 61 (5.601 %) C 9 48 (4.408 %) VBA 10 47 (4.316 %) VC++ 11 28 (2.571 %) PL/SQL 12 27 (2.479 %) Korn 13 25 (2.296 %) VB 14 21 (1.928 %) JavaScript 15 15 (1.377 %) VBScript 16 10 (0.918 %) Tcl 17 9 (0.826 %) Python 18 7 (0.643 %) VB.NET 18 7 (0.643 %) DHTML 19 6 (0.551 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 38 (3.489 %) Degree 2 4 (0.367 %) ITIL Certification 3 3 (0.275 %) ISEB 3 3 (0.275 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.092 %) MCSE 4 1 (0.092 %) Sun Certification 4 1 (0.092 %) CISSP 4 1 (0.092 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.092 %) OCP 4 1 (0.092 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (0.918 %) QA 2 5 (0.459 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 3 (0.275 %) MiFID 3 3 (0.275 %) SLA 3 3 (0.275 %) Basel II 4 2 (0.184 %) BS7799	System Software 1 13 (1.194 %) Oracle RAC 2 9 (0.826 %) Oracle RMAN 2 9 (0.826 %) Orbix 3 8 (0.735 %) Active Directory 4 3 (0.275 %) VMware ESX 4 3 (0.275 %) NetBackup 5 2 (0.184 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.184 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 58 (5.326 %) AutoSys 2 13 (1.194 %) Tivoli 3 11 (1.010 %) CONTROL-M 4 5 (0.459 %) Netcool 4 5 (0.459 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 3 (0.275 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 5 3 (0.275 %) CA SiteMinder 6 2 (0.184 %) OpenView 6 2 (0.184 %) BMC PATROL 7 1 (0.092 %) AppDetective 7 1 (0.092 %) Foglight 7 1 (0.092 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 360 (33.06 %) Oracle 2 59 (5.418 %) Murex 3 54 (4.959 %) TIBCO 4 47 (4.316 %) Fidessa 5 34 (3.122 %) Calypso 6 32 (2.938 %) Microsoft 7 17 (1.561 %) IBM 8 15 (1.377 %) Citrix 8 15 (1.377 %) Informatica 9 14 (1.286 %) Reuters 10 12 (1.102 %) Bloomberg 10 12 (1.102 %) Sun 11 10 (0.918 %) Red Hat 11 10 (0.918 %) GL TRADE 11 10 (0.918 %) Infragistics 12 9 (0.826 %) VERITAS 13 8 (0.735 %) HP 14 7 (0.643 %) Syncfusion 14 7 (0.643 %) ComponentOne 15 6 (0.551 %) OpenLink