Home Counties RDBMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the Home Counties 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford 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 Kent Lancashire Leeds Livingston London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Portsmouth Queensferry Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£358
% change on same period last year	-9.16 %
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	£34.66	£29.92
% change on same period last year	+15.84 %
Database & Business Intelligence Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	16	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	0	22
Average minimum daily rate	-	£349
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.14
Average hourly rate	-	£39.57
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
RDBMS South East

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 Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

RDBMS
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) HTTP 1 2 (100.00 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (50.00 %) WebSphere 2 1 (50.00 %) WebSphere MQ

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 1 (50.00 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (50.00 %) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) HTTP	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (100.00 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL