The first table below looks at the demand for dBASE skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited dBASE over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
dBASE
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing dBASE 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
550 508 530
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 22.20% 18.98% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 224 260
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £240 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 13
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
dBASE
UK

dBASE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland dBASE Jobs Demand Trend

dBASE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing dBASE across the Scotland region.

Scotland dBASE Daily Rate Trend

dBASE
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing dBASE 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 dBASE.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) ERD
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall

dBASE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing dBASE 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 dBASE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) ERD
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle