The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 61 63 61
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 2 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.314% 0.716% 0.342%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.739% 3.302% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £420 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £370
% change year-on-year
- -12.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
115 212 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 21.70% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 89 82
Average daily rate £375 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 7
Average hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
RDBMS
East of England

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 9 (75.00%) Java
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 8 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 8 (66.67%) J2EE
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (66.67%) HTML
2 8 (66.67%) JUnit
2 8 (66.67%) XML
2 8 (66.67%) XSLT
2 8 (66.67%) Struts
2 8 (66.67%) UML
2 8 (66.67%) OO
2 8 (66.67%) XHTML
2 8 (66.67%) Ajax
2 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 8 (66.67%) Subversion
3 7 (58.33%) Solaris
3 7 (58.33%) Linux
3 7 (58.33%) UNIX
3 7 (58.33%) Retail
4 6 (50.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (50.00%) Log4j
4 6 (50.00%) Finance
4 6 (50.00%) ATG
4 6 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 6 (50.00%) JMS
4 6 (50.00%) IBM
4 6 (50.00%) Interwoven
4 6 (50.00%) Tridion
4 6 (50.00%) Internet

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 8 (66.67%) J2EE
1 8 (66.67%) HTML
1 8 (66.67%) XML
1 8 (66.67%) XSLT
1 8 (66.67%) Struts
1 8 (66.67%) XHTML
1 8 (66.67%) Ajax
1 8 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 6 (50.00%) JMS
2 6 (50.00%) EJB
2 6 (50.00%) JDBC
2 6 (50.00%) JSP
2 6 (50.00%) Servlets
2 6 (50.00%) JSTL
2 6 (50.00%) XMLBeans
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) Swing
3 2 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) MQSeries
1 6 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (8.333%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) DB2
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) PerformancePoint
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.333%) OLTP
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Eclipse
1 8 (66.67%) JUnit
1 8 (66.67%) Subversion
2 6 (50.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Log4j
2 6 (50.00%) Ant
General
1 7 (58.33%) Retail
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Games
4 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 8 (66.67%) J2EE Developer
2 8 (66.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) DBA
3 1 (8.333%) Database Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.333%) SAP Basis Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (8.333%) SAP Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Solaris
1 7 (58.33%) Linux
1 7 (58.33%) UNIX
2 6 (50.00%) HPUX
3 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) UML
1 8 (66.67%) OO
2 6 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (50.00%) RAD
2 6 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
3 2 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (8.333%) Service Management
4 1 (8.333%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Java
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 8 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (50.00%) Perl
3 6 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 6 (50.00%) XPath
4 2 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) SAP Certification
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
1 1 (8.333%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) ATG
1 6 (50.00%) IBM
1 6 (50.00%) Interwoven
1 6 (50.00%) Elastic Path
1 6 (50.00%) Blue Martini
2 2 (16.67%) JBoss
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) ReadSoft
3 1 (8.333%) SAP
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle