Glasgow Sybase Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sybase products and/or services in IT contracts within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Sybase over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crewe Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Street Surrey Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	11
Rank change on same period last year	-35
Matching contract IT job ads	13	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.113 %
As % of the category below	2.982 %	20.74 %
Daily rates quoted	7	66
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£317
Average daily rate	£310	£333
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£361
% change on same period last year	-6.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£37.48
% change on same period last year	-6.62 %
Vendors Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	436	516
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.574 %	0.547 %
Daily rates quoted	109	158
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£302
Average daily rate	£324	£316
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.83	£19.93
Average hourly rate	£19.50	£21.56
% change on same period last year	-9.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.17	£23.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sybase, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sybase across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Sybase across the Glasgow region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Sybase 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 Sybase.

1 63 (77.78 %) SQL 2 54 (66.67 %) Unix 3 49 (60.49 %) Java 4 28 (34.57 %) Linux 5 23 (28.40 %) Oracle 5 23 (28.40 %) RDBMS 6 22 (27.16 %) Solaris 7 21 (25.93 %) Spring 8 20 (24.69 %) XML 9 19 (23.46 %) Replication 10 18 (22.22 %) Shell Script 11 16 (19.75 %) Transact-SQL 12 15 (18.52 %) XSLT 13 14 (17.28 %) J2EE 13 14 (17.28 %) Finance

14 13 (16.05 %) Perl 15 12 (14.81 %) Ant 15 12 (14.81 %) ClearCase 15 12 (14.81 %) Sybase ASE 15 12 (14.81 %) Data Integration 16 11 (13.58 %) Sun 17 10 (12.35 %) Adobe 17 10 (12.35 %) C 17 10 (12.35 %) SQL Server 17 10 (12.35 %) Adobe Flex 17 10 (12.35 %) Banking 17 10 (12.35 %) Subversion 18 9 (11.11 %) SAN 18 9 (11.11 %) BMC 18 9 (11.11 %) VERITAS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Sybase 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 Sybase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 21 (25.93 %) Spring 2 20 (24.69 %) XML 3 15 (18.52 %) XSLT 4 14 (17.28 %) J2EE 5 10 (12.35 %) Adobe Flex 6 8 (9.877 %) JMS 7 7 (8.642 %) AJAX 8 6 (7.407 %) JSP 9 5 (6.173 %) WebServices 9 5 (6.173 %) HTML 10 4 (4.938 %) .NET 10 4 (4.938 %) Middleware 11 3 (3.704 %) Java RMI 11 3 (3.704 %) Hibernate 11 3 (3.704 %) TopLink 11 3 (3.704 %) SWT 12 2 (2.469 %) WebSphere 12 2 (2.469 %) XML Schema 13 1 (1.235 %) SAX 13 1 (1.235 %) FpML	Application Platforms 1 8 (9.877 %) Tomcat 1 8 (9.877 %) MQSeries 2 2 (2.469 %) Mule 3 1 (1.235 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (1.235 %) JBoss 3 1 (1.235 %) Apache 3 1 (1.235 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (1.235 %) ESB
Business Applications 1 1 (1.235 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 9 (11.11 %) SAN 2 8 (9.877 %) Internet 2 8 (9.877 %) SSH 3 1 (1.235 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (28.40 %) RDBMS 2 12 (14.81 %) Sybase ASE 3 10 (12.35 %) SQL Server 4 4 (4.938 %) Reference Data 5 2 (2.469 %) Ingres	Development Applications 1 12 (14.81 %) ClearCase 1 12 (14.81 %) Ant 2 10 (12.35 %) Subversion 3 7 (8.642 %) JUnit 4 4 (4.938 %) Eclipse 4 4 (4.938 %) JProbe 4 4 (4.938 %) Optimizeit 5 1 (1.235 %) CruiseControl 5 1 (1.235 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (1.235 %) JIRA
General 1 14 (17.28 %) Finance 2 10 (12.35 %) Banking 3 5 (6.173 %) Games 4 4 (4.938 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.235 %) Front Office	Job Titles 1 51 (62.96 %) Developer 2 18 (22.22 %) Java Developer 3 16 (19.75 %) Sybase DBA 3 16 (19.75 %) DBA 3 16 (19.75 %) Sybase Developer 4 7 (8.642 %) Analyst 5 6 (7.407 %) Applications Developer 5 6 (7.407 %) Flex Developer 6 5 (6.173 %) VB Developer 7 4 (4.938 %) SQL Developer 8 3 (3.704 %) Applications Support 8 3 (3.704 %) Administrator 9 2 (2.469 %) Test Analyst 9 2 (2.469 %) Systems Analyst 9 2 (2.469 %) VB6 Developer 9 2 (2.469 %) RAD Developer 9 2 (2.469 %) Data Integration Developer 10 1 (1.235 %) Java Applications Developer 10 1 (1.235 %) Software Engineer 10 1 (1.235 %) Technical Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 19 (23.46 %) Replication 2 12 (14.81 %) Data Integration 3 8 (9.877 %) RIA 4 4 (4.938 %) Derivative 5 3 (3.704 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 3 (3.704 %) Equities 6 1 (1.235 %) Multithreading 6 1 (1.235 %) Fixed Income	Operating Systems 1 54 (66.67 %) Unix 2 28 (34.57 %) Linux 3 22 (27.16 %) Solaris 4 2 (2.469 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (8.642 %) Workflow 2 6 (7.407 %) TDD 3 5 (6.173 %) Pair Programming 3 5 (6.173 %) Extreme Programming 3 5 (6.173 %) Web Design 4 4 (4.938 %) Data Analysis 4 4 (4.938 %) Data Modelling 5 3 (3.704 %) OOD 5 3 (3.704 %) UML 5 3 (3.704 %) Web Development 5 3 (3.704 %) Use Case 6 2 (2.469 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.469 %) RAD 7 1 (1.235 %) Release Management 7 1 (1.235 %) Investment Management 7 1 (1.235 %) Workflow Management 7 1 (1.235 %) OO 7 1 (1.235 %) Migration 7 1 (1.235 %) SOA 7 1 (1.235 %) Process Management	Programming Languages 1 63 (77.78 %) SQL 2 49 (60.49 %) Java 3 18 (22.22 %) Shell Script 4 16 (19.75 %) Transact-SQL 5 13 (16.05 %) Perl 6 10 (12.35 %) C 7 6 (7.407 %) JavaScript 7 6 (7.407 %) VB 8 5 (6.173 %) Ruby 9 3 (3.704 %) VBA 9 3 (3.704 %) C# 10 2 (2.469 %) C++ 10 2 (2.469 %) VB6 11 1 (1.235 %) XQuery 11 1 (1.235 %) VB.NET 11 1 (1.235 %) ActionScript
System Software 1 3 (3.704 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 23 (28.40 %) Oracle 2 11 (13.58 %) Sun 3 10 (12.35 %) Adobe 4 9 (11.11 %) BMC 4 9 (11.11 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.235 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.235 %) PolarLake 5 1 (1.235 %) BEA 5 1 (1.235 %) Vignette