North West Sybase Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sybase products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sybase over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Belfast Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London County Antrim Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Feltham Glasgow Hertfordshire London M4 Corridor Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland South East South West Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Watford Wembley Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	134
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.624 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£318
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£386
% change on same period last year	-10.47 %
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	-	£24.86
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1503	1923
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.125 %	1.947 %
Daily rates quoted	312	413
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£320
Average daily rate	£354	£339
% change on same period last year	+4.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	215	197
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.52	£20.05
Average hourly rate	£22.88	£21.53
% change on same period last year	+6.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.25	£23.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sybase, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sybase across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Sybase 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 Sybase.

1 14 (87.50 %) UNIX 2 11 (68.75 %) SQL 3 10 (62.50 %) Security Cleared 4 9 (56.25 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 7 (43.75 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (18.75 %) Finance 6 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 6 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 7 2 (12.50 %) Perl 7 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft 7 2 (12.50 %) ERP 7 2 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft Financials 7 2 (12.50 %) PeopleCode 7 2 (12.50 %) SQR

7 2 (12.50 %) Government 7 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (12.50 %) RDBMS 7 2 (12.50 %) Data Management 8 1 (6.250 %) French Language 8 1 (6.250 %) Oracle RAC 8 1 (6.250 %) Oracle OLAP 8 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 8 1 (6.250 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) System Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) OpenView 8 1 (6.250 %) Banking 8 1 (6.250 %) Oracle OWB 8 1 (6.250 %) Military

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Sybase 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 Sybase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft Financials	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (6.250 %) SMPP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Discoverer 2 2 (12.50 %) RDBMS 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle OWB 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle OLAP 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 11g 3 1 (6.250 %) OLAP	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Finance 2 2 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (6.250 %) Military 3 1 (6.250 %) Banking 3 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Systems Administrator 1 8 (50.00 %) Administrator 2 7 (43.75 %) Applications Support 3 4 (25.00 %) Systems Support 4 2 (12.50 %) Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft Support 4 2 (12.50 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 4 2 (12.50 %) UNIX Administrator 4 2 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Support 5 1 (6.250 %) OpenView Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Oracle DBA	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 14 (87.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (62.50 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (56.25 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 7 (43.75 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (12.50 %) ERP 4 2 (12.50 %) Data Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (6.250 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 11 (68.75 %) SQL 2 2 (12.50 %) PeopleCode 2 2 (12.50 %) SQR 2 2 (12.50 %) Perl 3 1 (6.250 %) C	System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 2 2 (12.50 %) PeopleSoft