Middlesex RDBMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Kent Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	47
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	7	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	6.481 %	1.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£375	-
Average daily rate	£375	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£375	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£351
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£53.50	-
Average hourly rate	£53.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£53.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.67	£32.08
% change on same period last year	+8.07 %
Database & Business Intelligence Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	108	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.142 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	31	26
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£279
Average daily rate	£366	£299
% change on same period last year	+22.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.83	£25.64
Average hourly rate	£44.67	£29.41
% change on same period last year	+51.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.50	£33.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 18 (94.74 %) Oracle 2 14 (73.68 %) Unix 3 10 (52.63 %) Java 4 9 (47.37 %) SQL 5 7 (36.84 %) Oracle 10g 6 6 (31.58 %) Windows 6 6 (31.58 %) Oracle Reports 7 5 (26.32 %) Solaris 7 5 (26.32 %) Linux 7 5 (26.32 %) J2EE 7 5 (26.32 %) PL/SQL 7 5 (26.32 %) Oracle Forms 7 5 (26.32 %) C++ 7 5 (26.32 %) Oracle RAC 7 5 (26.32 %) Security Cleared

8 4 (21.05 %) Mathematics 8 4 (21.05 %) Physics 8 4 (21.05 %) Computer Science 8 4 (21.05 %) Degree 8 4 (21.05 %) Oracle RMAN 8 4 (21.05 %) EDIFACT 8 4 (21.05 %) EJB 9 3 (15.79 %) HTML 9 3 (15.79 %) C 9 3 (15.79 %) Finance 9 3 (15.79 %) Configuration Management 9 3 (15.79 %) HTTP 9 3 (15.79 %) ETL 9 3 (15.79 %) Business Intelligence 9 3 (15.79 %) BC Cleared

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 5 (26.32 %) J2EE 2 4 (21.05 %) EDIFACT 2 4 (21.05 %) EJB 3 3 (15.79 %) HTML 4 2 (10.53 %) RSS 5 1 (5.263 %) Swing 5 1 (5.263 %) JSP 5 1 (5.263 %) Servlets 5 1 (5.263 %) SOAP 5 1 (5.263 %) XML 5 1 (5.263 %) XSLT 5 1 (5.263 %) .NET 5 1 (5.263 %) Middleware 5 1 (5.263 %) WSDL 5 1 (5.263 %) AJAX 5 1 (5.263 %) JSTL 5 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Streams	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Excel 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (15.79 %) HTTP 2 1 (5.263 %) NetScreen 2 1 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (5.263 %) VoIP 2 1 (5.263 %) WAN 2 1 (5.263 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (36.84 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (31.58 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (15.79 %) ETL 4 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 4 2 (10.53 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (5.263 %) Oracle 9i 5 1 (5.263 %) MySQL 5 1 (5.263 %) Data Mart	Development Applications 1 5 (26.32 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (5.263 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (5.263 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (5.263 %) Rational Rose 2 1 (5.263 %) Eclipse 2 1 (5.263 %) Subversion
General 1 3 (15.79 %) Finance 2 2 (10.53 %) FMCG 2 2 (10.53 %) Government 3 1 (5.263 %) Health 3 1 (5.263 %) Publishing 3 1 (5.263 %) Telecoms 3 1 (5.263 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 5 (26.32 %) DBA 2 4 (21.05 %) Oracle DBA 2 4 (21.05 %) Software Engineer 3 3 (15.79 %) Java Developer 3 3 (15.79 %) Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Oracle Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) C++ Software Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) Project Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Applications Support 5 1 (5.263 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Coordinator 5 1 (5.263 %) Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Java Software Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Systems Developer 5 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Architect 5 1 (5.263 %) Software Development Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior DBA 5 1 (5.263 %) Data Mart Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (21.05 %) Mathematics 1 4 (21.05 %) Physics 1 4 (21.05 %) Computer Science 2 2 (10.53 %) N-Tier 3 1 (5.263 %) Thin Client 3 1 (5.263 %) Fat Client 3 1 (5.263 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 14 (73.68 %) Unix 2 6 (31.58 %) Windows 3 5 (26.32 %) Solaris 3 5 (26.32 %) Linux 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows NT 5 1 (5.263 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (26.32 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (15.79 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (15.79 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (15.79 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (10.53 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (10.53 %) Validation 4 1 (5.263 %) UML 4 1 (5.263 %) OOP 4 1 (5.263 %) OO 4 1 (5.263 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (5.263 %) Business Continuity 4 1 (5.263 %) Migration 4 1 (5.263 %) Data Migration 4 1 (5.263 %) CTC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 10 (52.63 %) Java 2 9 (47.37 %) SQL 3 5 (26.32 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (26.32 %) C++ 4 3 (15.79 %) C 5 2 (10.53 %) C# 5 2 (10.53 %) JavaScript 5 2 (10.53 %) PHP 6 1 (5.263 %) VC++ 6 1 (5.263 %) Python 6 1 (5.263 %) VB 6 1 (5.263 %) Assembly Language 6 1 (5.263 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 4 (21.05 %) Degree	System Software 1 5 (26.32 %) Oracle RAC 2 4 (21.05 %) Oracle RMAN 3 2 (10.53 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 1 (5.263 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 18 (94.74 %) Oracle 2 2 (10.53 %) Ascential 2 2 (10.53 %) VERITAS 2 2 (10.53 %) Cognos 3 1 (5.263 %) Sun 3 1 (5.263 %) Cisco 3 1 (5.263 %) IBM 3 1 (5.263 %) Microsoft