The first table below looks at the demand for Adabas skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Adabas over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software AG Adabas
Rank 509 552 567
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +15
Contract jobs citing Adabas 1 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.002% 0.011% 0.009%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.012% 0.059% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £363 £510
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £375 £550
% change year-on-year
- -31.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8655 10196 11513
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.82% 19.11% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5316 6003 6538
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 225 379
Average hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.28% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Adabas
UK

Adabas
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Adabas Jobs Demand Trend

Adabas
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Adabas across the England region.

England Adabas Daily Rate Trend

Adabas
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Adabas across the England region.

England Adabas Hourly Rate Trend

Adabas
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adabas within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South West - 1 - -
Adabas
UK

Adabas
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Adabas 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 Adabas.

1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) NATURAL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) SCJP
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
2 1 (33.33%) RequisitePro
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000

Adabas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Adabas 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 Adabas. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Ajax
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) ASP
2 1 (33.33%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
1 1 (33.33%) RequisitePro
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Natural/Adabas Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) NATURAL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SCJP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Sun
1 1 (33.33%) HP