The first table below looks at the demand for Database Tuning skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Database Tuning 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Glasgow 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
Database Tuning
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.104% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.154% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
650 531 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 67.78% 67.64% 68.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 284 274
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Database Tuning
Scotland

Database Tuning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Database Tuning across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow Database Tuning Jobs Demand Trend

Database Tuning
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Database Tuning Daily Rate Trend

Database Tuning
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Database Tuning 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 Database Tuning.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) JSF
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) JBoss
2 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) SWT
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) JFace
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Sybase
2 2 (50.00%) Ant
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) EJB
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting

Database Tuning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Database Tuning 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 Database Tuning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) JSF
2 2 (50.00%) JSP
2 2 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (50.00%) SWT
2 2 (50.00%) JFace
2 2 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (50.00%) EJB
2 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) JDBC
3 1 (25.00%) iBATIS
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
1 2 (50.00%) Ant
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse RCP
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Analyst Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Programmer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) JBoss
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase