East of England RDBMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RDBMS over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Farnborough Feltham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hull Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	107
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	18	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	2.083 %	4.265 %
Daily rates quoted	3	16
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£299
Average daily rate	£433	£324
% change on same period last year	+33.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£458	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£342
% change on same period last year	+3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	-
Average hourly rate	£38.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.81	£30.31
% change on same period last year	+11.52 %
Database & Business Intelligence East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	864	844
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.108 %	0.948 %
Daily rates quoted	263	225
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£321
Average daily rate	£348	£346
% change on same period last year	+0.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£343
% change on same period last year	+2.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	91	111
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£30.05
Average hourly rate	£34.04	£31.66
% change on same period last year	+7.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.08	£33.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.82	£29.62
% change on same period last year	+7.42 %
RDBMS England

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.

RDBMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing RDBMS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing RDBMS across the East of England region.

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing RDBMS across the East of England region.

RDBMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Hertfordshire	-16	9	£433	+24.36 %
2	East Anglia	-	5	-	-
3	Cambridgeshire	-15	3	-	-
4	Suffolk	-5	1	-	-

RDBMS England

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing RDBMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing RDBMS.

1 18 (64.29 %) Oracle 2 13 (46.43 %) Java 3 12 (42.86 %) SQL Server 3 12 (42.86 %) XML 3 12 (42.86 %) Unix 4 11 (39.29 %) Windows 5 9 (32.14 %) Oracle 10g 5 9 (32.14 %) SQL 6 6 (21.43 %) XSL 7 5 (17.86 %) WebServices 7 5 (17.86 %) ASP.NET 7 5 (17.86 %) CSS 7 5 (17.86 %) .NET 7 5 (17.86 %) C# 7 5 (17.86 %) HTML

7 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 9i 7 5 (17.86 %) AJAX 8 4 (14.29 %) Oracle RAC 8 4 (14.29 %) XHTML 8 4 (14.29 %) Linux 8 4 (14.29 %) JavaScript 8 4 (14.29 %) JSP 9 3 (10.71 %) ASP 9 3 (10.71 %) DOM 9 3 (10.71 %) Photoshop 9 3 (10.71 %) Crystal Reports 9 3 (10.71 %) Business Objects 9 3 (10.71 %) IIS 9 3 (10.71 %) PHP 9 3 (10.71 %) PL/SQL

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing RDBMS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing RDBMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (42.86 %) XML 2 6 (21.43 %) XSL 3 5 (17.86 %) WebServices 3 5 (17.86 %) HTML 3 5 (17.86 %) .NET 3 5 (17.86 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (17.86 %) CSS 3 5 (17.86 %) AJAX 4 4 (14.29 %) XHTML 4 4 (14.29 %) JSP 5 3 (10.71 %) ASP 5 3 (10.71 %) DOM 5 3 (10.71 %) J2EE 5 3 (10.71 %) Swing 6 2 (7.143 %) NetBeans 6 2 (7.143 %) JDBC 6 2 (7.143 %) EJB 7 1 (3.571 %) ADO.NET 7 1 (3.571 %) XSLT 7 1 (3.571 %) Servlets	Application Platforms 1 3 (10.71 %) IIS 1 3 (10.71 %) Apache 2 1 (3.571 %) Tuxedo 2 1 (3.571 %) JBoss
Applications 1 3 (10.71 %) Photoshop 2 1 (3.571 %) Quicktime	Business Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Pivotal CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.71 %) SMTP 1 3 (10.71 %) FTP 1 3 (10.71 %) HTTP 1 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (10.71 %) Internet 1 3 (10.71 %) SSH 2 2 (7.143 %) DVB 3 1 (3.571 %) BSS 3 1 (3.571 %) VoIP 3 1 (3.571 %) SAN 3 1 (3.571 %) CTI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 9 (32.14 %) Oracle 10g 3 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (10.71 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (10.71 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (7.143 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (7.143 %) DB2 5 2 (7.143 %) GIS 6 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2005 6 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (3.571 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (3.571 %) DTS 6 1 (3.571 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) JDeveloper 2 1 (3.571 %) Log4j 2 1 (3.571 %) Ant	General 1 3 (10.71 %) Graphic Design 2 2 (7.143 %) Telecoms 2 2 (7.143 %) Education 2 2 (7.143 %) Government 2 2 (7.143 %) Advertising 2 2 (7.143 %) Retail 3 1 (3.571 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 14 (50.00 %) Developer 2 5 (17.86 %) DBA 2 5 (17.86 %) Oracle DBA 3 4 (14.29 %) Java Developer 4 3 (10.71 %) Analyst 4 3 (10.71 %) Software Developer 4 3 (10.71 %) Architect 5 2 (7.143 %) Software Architect 5 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Applications Developer 5 2 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) .NET Developer 5 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Report Developer 5 2 (7.143 %) Software Designer 5 2 (7.143 %) Java Swing Developer 6 1 (3.571 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 1 (3.571 %) Business Systems Administrator 6 1 (3.571 %) Implementation Manager 6 1 (3.571 %) Implementation Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.71 %) W3C 1 3 (10.71 %) Bioinformatics 1 3 (10.71 %) Web 2.0 1 3 (10.71 %) Biology 1 3 (10.71 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.571 %) Streaming Media 2 1 (3.571 %) Streaming Video
Operating Systems 1 12 (42.86 %) Unix 2 11 (39.29 %) Windows 3 4 (14.29 %) Linux 4 3 (10.71 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.571 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (10.71 %) UML 2 2 (7.143 %) OO 2 2 (7.143 %) CRM 2 2 (7.143 %) ITIL 2 2 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Project Management 2 2 (7.143 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (7.143 %) Incident Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Web Development 3 1 (3.571 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 1 (3.571 %) BPM 3 1 (3.571 %) Migration 3 1 (3.571 %) Programme Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Data Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Content Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Network Planning 3 1 (3.571 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (3.571 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (3.571 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 13 (46.43 %) Java 2 9 (32.14 %) SQL 3 5 (17.86 %) C# 4 4 (14.29 %) JavaScript 5 3 (10.71 %) PHP 5 3 (10.71 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (10.71 %) C++ 5 3 (10.71 %) XPath 6 2 (7.143 %) C 7 1 (3.571 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (3.571 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (3.571 %) PMP 1 1 (3.571 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (10.71 %) WCAG 1 3 (10.71 %) WAI 2 2 (7.143 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (14.29 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle RMAN
Vendors 1 18 (64.29 %) Oracle 2 3 (10.71 %) Business Objects 3 2 (7.143 %) ESRI 4 1 (3.571 %) ProClarity 4 1 (3.571 %) SAP 4 1 (3.571 %) Siebel 4 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft 4 1 (3.571 %) Sun 4 1 (3.571 %) BEA 4 1 (3.571 %) Apple 4 1 (3.571 %) TIBCO 4 1 (3.571 %) Sony