The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS 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 RDBMS over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 232 243 180
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -63
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 336 393 586
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.809% 0.736% 1.026%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.896% 3.840% 5.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 243 344
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £309 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £562 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £366
% change year-on-year
- -11.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 6
Average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.82% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.89 £32.95 £40.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £36.45 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8625 10235 11712
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.77% 19.17% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5302 6036 6653
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 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 240 367
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.36 £13.50 £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%
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England RDBMS Jobs Demand Trend

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England RDBMS Daily Rate Histogram

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England RDBMS Hourly Rate Histogram

RDBMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 -1 204 £500 +11.11%
Yorkshire +13 36 £313 -0.79%
North West +31 32 £336 -6.08%
South East -7 24 £388 +10.71%
East Midlands +9 15 £255 -24.44%
South West +31 12 £363 -3.33%
West Midlands +6 9 £350 +7.69%
East of England +7 4 £400 +20.75%
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing RDBMS 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 RDBMS.

1 368 (54.52%) Oracle
2 341 (50.52%) SQL
3 267 (39.56%) Java
4 198 (29.33%) SQL Server
5 194 (28.74%) UNIX
6 168 (24.89%) Linux
7 163 (24.15%) Finance
8 161 (23.85%) XML
9 131 (19.41%) JavaScript
10 123 (18.22%) HTML
11 120 (17.78%) .NET
12 112 (16.59%) J2EE
13 107 (15.85%) OO
13 107 (15.85%) TDD
14 97 (14.37%) Continuous Integration
15 91 (13.48%) Agile Software Development
16 90 (13.33%) Banking
17 89 (13.19%) DB2
18 87 (12.89%) Web Services
18 87 (12.89%) Spring
19 86 (12.74%) MySQL
19 86 (12.74%) PL/SQL
20 85 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
21 84 (12.44%) Perl
21 84 (12.44%) Microsoft
22 81 (12.00%) CSS
23 77 (11.41%) Business Intelligence
24 74 (10.96%) UML
25 73 (10.81%) Ruby
26 70 (10.37%) E-Commerce

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing RDBMS 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 RDBMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 161 (23.85%) XML
2 123 (18.22%) HTML
3 120 (17.78%) .NET
4 112 (16.59%) J2EE
5 87 (12.89%) Web Services
5 87 (12.89%) Spring
6 81 (12.00%) CSS
7 67 (9.926%) Ajax
8 61 (9.037%) JSP
8 61 (9.037%) jQuery
9 59 (8.741%) EJB
10 55 (8.148%) JMS
11 50 (7.407%) Servlets
12 49 (7.259%) JDBC
13 45 (6.667%) WebSphere
14 44 (6.519%) XHTML
14 44 (6.519%) SOAP
15 35 (5.185%) Hibernate
16 31 (4.593%) HTML5
17 30 (4.444%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 52 (7.704%) WebLogic
2 50 (7.407%) Apache
3 30 (4.444%) WebSphere Application Server
4 29 (4.296%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (4.296%) Amazon AWS
5 26 (3.852%) IIS
5 26 (3.852%) Tomcat
6 21 (3.111%) Oracle Workflow
6 21 (3.111%) CMS
7 20 (2.963%) nginx
8 19 (2.815%) MQSeries
9 18 (2.667%) Amazon S3
9 18 (2.667%) Route 53
10 11 (1.630%) Oracle Application Server
10 11 (1.630%) SharePoint
10 11 (1.630%) ESB
11 10 (1.481%) Adobe CQ
12 8 (1.185%) GlassFish
12 8 (1.185%) Oracle BPEL
12 8 (1.185%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 49 (7.259%) MS Excel
2 28 (4.148%) MS Office
3 9 (1.333%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.037%) PrintSoft PReS
4 7 (1.037%) DOC1
5 3 (0.444%) MS Project
6 2 (0.296%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.296%) MS PowerPoint
7 1 (0.148%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 21 (3.111%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (2.074%) Hyperion Planning
2 14 (2.074%) Tridion
3 12 (1.778%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (1.481%) Oracle Applications
5 7 (1.037%) Exstream
6 6 (0.889%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 6 (0.889%) Endur
7 4 (0.593%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.444%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (0.296%) Front Arena
9 2 (0.296%) RMDS
9 2 (0.296%) HFM
9 2 (0.296%) Summit
10 1 (0.148%) BASE24
10 1 (0.148%) Dynamics CRM
10 1 (0.148%) Dynamics GP
10 1 (0.148%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.148%) PeopleSoft HRMS
10 1 (0.148%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 63 (9.333%) Internet
2 43 (6.370%) HTTP
3 27 (4.000%) DNS
4 14 (2.074%) NAS
4 14 (2.074%) LDAP
4 14 (2.074%) SAN
5 12 (1.778%) Network Security
6 11 (1.630%) SSL
7 10 (1.481%) RTP
7 10 (1.481%) RTSP
7 10 (1.481%) Firewall
8 7 (1.037%) Kerberos
8 7 (1.037%) AMQP
9 5 (0.741%) Intranet
10 2 (0.296%) Unified Communications
10 2 (0.296%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.148%) Wireless
11 1 (0.148%) SSH
11 1 (0.148%) BSS
11 1 (0.148%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (29.33%) SQL Server
2 89 (13.19%) DB2
3 86 (12.74%) MySQL
4 85 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (9.778%) Oracle 11g
6 55 (8.148%) Oracle 10g
7 47 (6.963%) MongoDB
8 45 (6.667%) OLAP
8 45 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
9 39 (5.778%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 38 (5.630%) NoSQL
11 34 (5.037%) SQL Server 2008
11 34 (5.037%) SQL Server 2005
12 30 (4.444%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (4.296%) Essbase
14 28 (4.148%) Redis
15 27 (4.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 25 (3.704%) Oracle BI EE
17 23 (3.407%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 21 (3.111%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 65 (9.630%) Maven
2 54 (8.000%) JUnit
3 41 (6.074%) Eclipse
4 39 (5.778%) Subversion
5 35 (5.185%) Ant
6 28 (4.148%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
7 20 (2.963%) Git (software)
8 19 (2.815%) JIRA
9 17 (2.519%) ClearCase
9 17 (2.519%) Hudson
10 15 (2.222%) Log4j
10 15 (2.222%) Jenkins
11 14 (2.074%) Selenium
12 11 (1.630%) TeamCity
13 10 (1.481%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (1.481%) Oracle Forms
14 7 (1.037%) ProC
15 5 (0.741%) ERwin
15 5 (0.741%) Visual Studio
15 5 (0.741%) SpecFlow
General
1 163 (24.15%) Finance
2 90 (13.33%) Banking
3 47 (6.963%) Front Office
4 31 (4.593%) Retail
5 28 (4.148%) Investment Banking
6 16 (2.370%) Telecoms
7 14 (2.074%) Games
8 11 (1.630%) Back Office
9 9 (1.333%) Marketing
10 7 (1.037%) Publishing
10 7 (1.037%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.593%) Electronics
11 4 (0.593%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.444%) Billing
13 2 (0.296%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.296%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.296%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.296%) Legal
14 1 (0.148%) Advertising
14 1 (0.148%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 389 (57.63%) Developer
2 135 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 87 (12.89%) DBA
4 47 (6.963%) Analyst
4 47 (6.963%) Oracle DBA
5 42 (6.222%) C# Developer
6 35 (5.185%) .NET Developer
6 35 (5.185%) Architect
6 35 (5.185%) Senior Developer
7 31 (4.593%) C# .NET Developer
8 30 (4.444%) Senior Java Developer
8 30 (4.444%) Administrator
9 28 (4.148%) C++ Developer
10 27 (4.000%) Software Engineer
11 26 (3.852%) Ruby on Rails Developer
12 21 (3.111%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 19 (2.815%) J2EE Developer
13 19 (2.815%) Business Analyst
14 18 (2.667%) Consultant
15 17 (2.519%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.815%) Derivative
2 36 (5.333%) Fixed Income
3 30 (4.444%) Open Source
4 28 (4.148%) Computer Science
5 22 (3.259%) iPhone
6 21 (3.111%) Credit Risk
7 20 (2.963%) Mathematics
7 20 (2.963%) Replication
8 19 (2.815%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 18 (2.667%) Market Risk
10 17 (2.519%) Streaming Video
10 17 (2.519%) Web 2.0
10 17 (2.519%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 16 (2.370%) Client/Server
12 15 (2.222%) RIA
13 14 (2.074%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.926%) Data Integration
15 12 (1.778%) W3C
16 11 (1.630%) Physics
17 10 (1.481%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 194 (28.74%) UNIX
2 168 (24.89%) Linux
3 62 (9.185%) Windows
4 39 (5.778%) Solaris
5 29 (4.296%) AIX
6 21 (3.111%) Android
7 20 (2.963%) HPUX
8 10 (1.481%) Apple iOS
9 9 (1.333%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (1.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (1.185%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.593%) Windows 2000 Server
11 4 (0.593%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.593%) zOS
12 3 (0.444%) Windows NT
13 2 (0.296%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.296%) CentOS
13 2 (0.296%) OS/390
13 2 (0.296%) Tru64
13 2 (0.296%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (15.85%) OO
1 107 (15.85%) TDD
2 97 (14.37%) Continuous Integration
3 91 (13.48%) Agile Software Development
4 77 (11.41%) Business Intelligence
5 74 (10.96%) UML
6 70 (10.37%) E-Commerce
7 68 (10.07%) Scrum
8 60 (8.889%) Data Modelling
9 57 (8.444%) Configuration Management
10 53 (7.852%) ETL
11 51 (7.556%) SOA
12 44 (6.519%) Multithreading
12 44 (6.519%) Content Management
13 34 (5.037%) Kanban
14 32 (4.741%) Migration
15 30 (4.444%) Data Analysis
15 30 (4.444%) MVC
16 29 (4.296%) Workflow
17 27 (4.000%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 341 (50.52%) SQL
2 267 (39.56%) Java
3 131 (19.41%) JavaScript
4 86 (12.74%) PL/SQL
5 84 (12.44%) Perl
6 73 (10.81%) Ruby
7 70 (10.37%) Shell Script
8 68 (10.07%) C#
9 66 (9.778%) Python
10 60 (8.889%) C++
11 52 (7.704%) Bash shell
12 49 (7.259%) PHP
13 43 (6.370%) Scala
14 27 (4.000%) C
15 26 (3.852%) T-SQL
16 16 (2.370%) XPath
16 16 (2.370%) PHP5
17 15 (2.222%) VBScript
17 15 (2.222%) Groovy
18 14 (2.074%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (5.926%) Degree
2 34 (5.037%) Security Cleared
3 18 (2.667%) DV Cleared
4 12 (1.778%) SC Cleared
5 11 (1.630%) Sun Certification
6 10 (1.481%) ISEB
7 6 (0.889%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.741%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.444%) MCITP
9 3 (0.444%) OCP
9 3 (0.444%) IBM Certification
9 3 (0.444%) MCDBA
10 2 (0.296%) HP ASE
10 2 (0.296%) HND
10 2 (0.296%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.296%) CISSP
11 1 (0.148%) MBA
11 1 (0.148%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.148%) MCPD
11 1 (0.148%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.037%) QA
2 5 (0.741%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.444%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.444%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.296%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.296%) SLA
5 1 (0.148%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.148%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (5.185%) Oracle RAC
2 21 (3.111%) Oracle RMAN
3 13 (1.926%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.481%) Samba
5 5 (0.741%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 3 (0.444%) NFS
6 3 (0.444%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.296%) OpenSSO
7 2 (0.296%) vSphere
8 1 (0.148%) VMware ESX
8 1 (0.148%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (4.889%) Puppet
2 25 (3.704%) Data Guard
3 13 (1.926%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 11 (1.630%) Nagios
5 10 (1.481%) OpenView
6 7 (1.037%) Tivoli
6 7 (1.037%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.593%) OVSD
8 3 (0.444%) Netcool
8 3 (0.444%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 3 (0.444%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.296%) Oracle Statspack
9 2 (0.296%) Splunk
9 2 (0.296%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.148%) Netcool/Webtop
10 1 (0.148%) Cacti
10 1 (0.148%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 368 (54.52%) Oracle
2 84 (12.44%) Microsoft
3 55 (8.148%) IBM
4 48 (7.111%) Sybase
5 41 (6.074%) JBoss
6 30 (4.444%) Hyperion
7 24 (3.556%) Cognos
8 20 (2.963%) Teradata
9 19 (2.815%) HP
10 18 (2.667%) FatWire
11 15 (2.222%) ATG
11 15 (2.222%) Sun
12 14 (2.074%) Elastic Path
12 14 (2.074%) Interwoven
12 14 (2.074%) Blue Martini
13 13 (1.926%) Endeca
13 13 (1.926%) Informatica
14 11 (1.630%) SAP
15 10 (1.481%) Rackspace
15 10 (1.481%) TIBCO
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