The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Manchester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 61 79 66
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -13
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 14 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.460% 0.162% 0.479%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.393% 0.676% 2.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £275 - £363
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 - £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 - £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £331 £390
% change year-on-year
-1.88% -15.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+10.29% +134.48%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
219 296 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 22.84% 23.99% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 167 132
Average daily rate £315 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £200 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £400 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 17
Average hourly rate £82.50 £32.25 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+155.81% +43.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.29 £19.00 £16.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £190.00 £43.50 £40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
RDBMS
North West

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oldham - - - -
Stockport - - - - 5
Wigan - - - -
RDBMS
North West

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 23 (92.00%) SQL
2 15 (60.00%) Oracle
3 14 (56.00%) Finance
4 13 (52.00%) UNIX
5 11 (44.00%) PL/SQL
6 9 (36.00%) Oracle 10g
6 9 (36.00%) Oracle 11g
7 8 (32.00%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (32.00%) Data Guard
7 8 (32.00%) Shell Script
7 8 (32.00%) Java
8 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
8 7 (28.00%) OO
8 7 (28.00%) Service Delivery
8 7 (28.00%) Data Modelling
9 6 (24.00%) Eclipse
9 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (24.00%) J2EE
9 6 (24.00%) DB2
9 6 (24.00%) JUnit
9 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (24.00%) Replication
10 5 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (20.00%) WebSphere
10 5 (20.00%) Content Management
10 5 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (20.00%) Bash shell
10 5 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
10 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
10 5 (20.00%) ERD

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (24.00%) J2EE
2 5 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 5 (20.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.00%) EJB
2 5 (20.00%) XML
2 5 (20.00%) JDBC
2 5 (20.00%) JSP
2 5 (20.00%) Servlets
2 5 (20.00%) XHTML
3 4 (16.00%) XSLT
3 4 (16.00%) Ajax
4 3 (12.00%) XMLBeans
4 3 (12.00%) Java EE
4 3 (12.00%) JSTL
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) JPA
4 3 (12.00%) CSS
4 3 (12.00%) Struts
4 3 (12.00%) JMS
5 2 (8.000%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (12.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (4.000%) Apache Solr
3 1 (4.000%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Tridion
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) Internet
2 1 (4.000%) Unified Communications
2 1 (4.000%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle 10g
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (24.00%) DB2
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (20.00%) DTS
5 4 (16.00%) Star Schema
5 4 (16.00%) OLAP
5 4 (16.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.000%) Informix
6 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (4.000%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (24.00%) JUnit
2 5 (20.00%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Log4j
3 3 (12.00%) Subversion
3 3 (12.00%) Ant
4 1 (4.000%) TestNG
4 1 (4.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Games
2 3 (12.00%) Retail
3 2 (8.000%) Back Office
4 1 (4.000%) Banking
4 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Developer
2 9 (36.00%) DBA
3 8 (32.00%) Oracle DBA
4 6 (24.00%) Administrator
4 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 4 (16.00%) J2EE Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Data Migration Specialist
6 2 (8.000%) WebSphere Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (4.000%) SQL DBA
7 1 (4.000%) Database Specialist
7 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Replication
2 3 (12.00%) Web 2.0
3 1 (4.000%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) UNIX
2 3 (12.00%) HPUX
2 3 (12.00%) Solaris
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) OO
1 7 (28.00%) Service Delivery
1 7 (28.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (20.00%) Content Management
2 5 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 5 (20.00%) ERD
2 5 (20.00%) UML
2 5 (20.00%) RAD
2 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Data Transformation
3 4 (16.00%) MVC
3 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 2 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (8.000%) Waterfall
4 2 (8.000%) Software Testing
5 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (4.000%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) SQL
2 11 (44.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (32.00%) Shell Script
3 8 (32.00%) Java
4 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.00%) Bash shell
5 5 (20.00%) Perl
5 5 (20.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (12.00%) XPath
7 2 (8.000%) COBOL
7 2 (8.000%) Groovy
7 2 (8.000%) Scala
8 1 (4.000%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) ISEB
1 2 (8.000%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) IBM
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) Sage
4 3 (12.00%) ATG
4 3 (12.00%) Blue Martini
4 3 (12.00%) Elastic Path
4 3 (12.00%) Interwoven
5 2 (8.000%) Sun
6 1 (4.000%) Teradata
6 1 (4.000%) Sybase