The first table below looks at the demand for UniData 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 UniData over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Rocket Software UniData
Rank 203 214 240
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +26
Contract jobs citing UniData 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.144% 0.069% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £575 £550 £750
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £281 -
% change year-on-year
-16.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1387 1451 1794
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.57% 18.19% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1047 1044 1346
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 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 19 14
Average hourly rate £39.51 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.05% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
UniData
London

UniData
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London UniData Jobs Demand Trend

UniData
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London UniData Daily Rate Trend

UniData
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing UniData 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 UniData.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Sybase
2 3 (75.00%) Global One
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) Front Office
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) COM
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (25.00%) Drupal
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) System Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008

UniData
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing UniData 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 UniData. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) COM
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Global One
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Support Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Developer Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) CRM Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) System Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Sybase
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft