Hertfordshire RDBMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Brentford Brighton Bristol Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Lancashire Leeds Livingston London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Queensferry Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	90
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	6	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	3.093 %	2.151 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£465
Average daily rate	£304	£470
% change on same period last year	-35.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£360
% change on same period last year	-10.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.90	£29.63
% change on same period last year	+17.80 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	194	372
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.259 %	0.371 %
Daily rates quoted	87	147
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£334
Average daily rate	£345	£357
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.75	£28.09
Average hourly rate	£24.94	£29.85
% change on same period last year	-16.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.14	£31.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
RDBMS East of England

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.

RDBMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing RDBMS across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RDBMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stevenage	-	1	-	-

RDBMS East of England

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (71.43 %) Java 2 9 (64.29 %) XML 3 8 (57.14 %) SQL 4 7 (50.00 %) Windows 5 6 (42.86 %) Oracle 5 6 (42.86 %) SQL Server 6 5 (35.71 %) C# 6 5 (35.71 %) OO 6 5 (35.71 %) XHTML 7 4 (28.57 %) AJAX 7 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 7 4 (28.57 %) C++ 7 4 (28.57 %) HTML 7 4 (28.57 %) JavaScript 7 4 (28.57 %) PHP

7 4 (28.57 %) .NET 7 4 (28.57 %) UML 7 4 (28.57 %) XSL 7 4 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 7 4 (28.57 %) CSS 8 3 (21.43 %) JSP 8 3 (21.43 %) ASP 8 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 8 3 (21.43 %) IIS 8 3 (21.43 %) DOM 8 3 (21.43 %) UNIX 8 3 (21.43 %) MySQL 8 3 (21.43 %) Photoshop 8 3 (21.43 %) SMTP 8 3 (21.43 %) FTP

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (64.29 %) XML 2 5 (35.71 %) XHTML 3 4 (28.57 %) HTML 3 4 (28.57 %) .NET 3 4 (28.57 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (28.57 %) CSS 3 4 (28.57 %) XSL 3 4 (28.57 %) AJAX 4 3 (21.43 %) JSP 4 3 (21.43 %) DOM 4 3 (21.43 %) ASP 4 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 5 2 (14.29 %) SOAP 5 2 (14.29 %) J2EE 6 1 (7.143 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (7.143 %) EJB 6 1 (7.143 %) JMS 6 1 (7.143 %) AWT 6 1 (7.143 %) WSDL 6 1 (7.143 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 3 (21.43 %) IIS 1 3 (21.43 %) Apache 2 2 (14.29 %) JBoss 2 2 (14.29 %) WebLogic 3 1 (7.143 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) Photoshop 2 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 2 1 (7.143 %) Quicktime 2 1 (7.143 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (21.43 %) Internet 2 3 (21.43 %) DVB 2 3 (21.43 %) SSH 2 3 (21.43 %) SMTP 2 3 (21.43 %) FTP 2 3 (21.43 %) HTTP 3 1 (7.143 %) LAN 3 1 (7.143 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 3 (21.43 %) MySQL 3 1 (7.143 %) DB2 3 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Graphic Design 2 2 (14.29 %) Retail 3 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 8 (57.14 %) Developer 2 5 (35.71 %) Architect 3 3 (21.43 %) Software Architect 3 3 (21.43 %) Software Designer 4 2 (14.29 %) Applications Developer 4 2 (14.29 %) J2EE Architect 4 2 (14.29 %) Web Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Java Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) C++ Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Team Leader 5 1 (7.143 %) Java Architect	Miscellaneous 1 3 (21.43 %) W3C 1 3 (21.43 %) Web 2.0 2 1 (7.143 %) Streaming Video 2 1 (7.143 %) Streaming Media
Operating Systems 1 7 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (21.43 %) UNIX 3 1 (7.143 %) Solaris 3 1 (7.143 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (35.71 %) OO 2 4 (28.57 %) UML 3 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (7.143 %) E-business 4 1 (7.143 %) Network Planning 4 1 (7.143 %) Software Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 10 (71.43 %) Java 2 8 (57.14 %) SQL 3 5 (35.71 %) C# 4 4 (28.57 %) C++ 4 4 (28.57 %) JavaScript 4 4 (28.57 %) PHP 5 3 (21.43 %) XPath 6 1 (7.143 %) C 6 1 (7.143 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (21.43 %) WCAG 1 3 (21.43 %) WAI
Vendors 1 6 (42.86 %) Oracle 2 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.143 %) Apple 3 1 (7.143 %) Sony 3 1 (7.143 %) Cisco