KDB Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for KDB 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 KDB 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
Kx Systems KDB
Rank 501 541 527
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -14
Contract jobs citing KDB 9 17 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.032% 0.080%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.104% 0.167% 0.391%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 27
Average daily rate £613 £600 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.08% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £600 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £643 £725 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 - -
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%
KDB
UK

KDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England KDB Jobs Demand Trend

KDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

England KDB Daily Rate Trend

KDB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing KDB across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England KDB Daily Rate Histogram

KDB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England KDB Hourly Rate Trend

KDB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing KDB 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
London +13 9 £613 +2.08%
KDB
UK

KDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (68.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 14 (63.64%) Multithreading
3 11 (50.00%) Banking
4 10 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (45.45%) Investment Banking
4 10 (45.45%) C++
5 9 (40.91%) Java
5 9 (40.91%) UNIX
6 8 (36.36%) C#
6 8 (36.36%) Linux
6 8 (36.36%) Degree
7 7 (31.82%) SQL
7 7 (31.82%) .NET
8 6 (27.27%) TIBCO
8 6 (27.27%) Middleware
8 6 (27.27%) Equities
9 5 (22.73%) TDD
9 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
9 5 (22.73%) Algorithmic Trading
9 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
9 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (18.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 4 (18.18%) F#
10 4 (18.18%) TeamCity
10 4 (18.18%) Haskell
10 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
10 4 (18.18%) Physics
10 4 (18.18%) Maven
10 4 (18.18%) JMS

KDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (31.82%) .NET
2 6 (27.27%) Middleware
3 4 (18.18%) STL
3 4 (18.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 4 (18.18%) JMS
4 3 (13.64%) WPF
5 2 (9.091%) Lucene
6 1 (4.545%) Apache Flex
6 1 (4.545%) LINQ
6 1 (4.545%) XML
6 1 (4.545%) COM
6 1 (4.545%) SOAP
6 1 (4.545%) Reactive Extensions
6 1 (4.545%) Task Parallel Library
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Apache
1 1 (4.545%) Rendezvous
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.545%) HTTP
1 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.545%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.545%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Ant
1 4 (18.18%) Maven
1 4 (18.18%) TeamCity
2 3 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.545%) SpecFlow
3 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.545%) JIRA
3 1 (4.545%) Subversion
General
1 11 (50.00%) Banking
2 10 (45.45%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) C++ Developer
2 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Real Time Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Real Time Software Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) WPF Developer
4 2 (9.091%) C# Software Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Configuration Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Build Manager
5 1 (4.545%) GUI Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Java Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (27.27%) Equities
3 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
4 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
4 4 (18.18%) Physics
5 3 (13.64%) N-Tier
5 3 (13.64%) Derivative
6 2 (9.091%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) UNIX
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
3 4 (18.18%) Windows
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Multithreading
2 10 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (22.73%) TDD
3 5 (22.73%) Algorithmic Trading
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
4 4 (18.18%) OO
5 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.64%) System Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (9.091%) Analytics
6 2 (9.091%) MVVM
6 2 (9.091%) Data Analysis
7 1 (4.545%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
7 1 (4.545%) BDD
7 1 (4.545%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) C++
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) C#
4 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) Haskell
5 4 (18.18%) F#
6 3 (13.64%) Perl
7 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.545%) Scala
7 1 (4.545%) Bash shell
7 1 (4.545%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) TIBCO
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.091%) Perforce
4 1 (4.545%) 29West
KDB Developer, Java, Trading Systems
London
My client is a top tier Investment Bank who urgently requires a developer with strong knowledge of KDB to work in their eTrading technology team... group of companies,...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 17 May 2013
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