The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS 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 RDBMS over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 54 51 77
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +26
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 71 58 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.911% 2.190% 1.319%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.32% 11.46% 6.715%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 17
Average daily rate £317 £273 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.11% -31.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £235 £257
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £325 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £322 £331 £360
% change year-on-year
-2.79% -7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
533 506 551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 21.85% 19.10% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 225 271
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £240 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 13
Average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland RDBMS Daily Rate Histogram

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Glasgow -5 62 £315 +15.38%
Edinburgh -1 4 £315 -30.00%
Stirling - 3 £388 -
Aberdeen -1 1 - -
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 96 (64.00%) Oracle
2 84 (56.00%) SQL
3 67 (44.67%) Java
4 61 (40.67%) Finance
5 48 (32.00%) UNIX
6 43 (28.67%) XML
7 41 (27.33%) SQL Server
8 39 (26.00%) PL/SQL
8 39 (26.00%) Spring
9 34 (22.67%) JavaScript
10 33 (22.00%) HTML
11 31 (20.67%) J2EE
11 31 (20.67%) Sybase
11 31 (20.67%) Hibernate
12 27 (18.00%) Unit Testing
13 25 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (16.00%) Windows
14 24 (16.00%) Banking
15 23 (15.33%) JSP
16 22 (14.67%) Data Modelling
17 21 (14.00%) JSF
18 20 (13.33%) Servlets
19 19 (12.67%) Maven
19 19 (12.67%) QA
19 19 (12.67%) Change Management
20 18 (12.00%) Eclipse
21 17 (11.33%) JDeveloper
21 17 (11.33%) Struts
22 16 (10.67%) Linux
22 16 (10.67%) ITIL

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 43 (28.67%) XML
2 39 (26.00%) Spring
3 33 (22.00%) HTML
4 31 (20.67%) J2EE
4 31 (20.67%) Hibernate
5 23 (15.33%) JSP
6 21 (14.00%) JSF
7 20 (13.33%) Servlets
8 17 (11.33%) Struts
9 15 (10.00%) CSS
10 14 (9.333%) EJB
11 12 (8.000%) JSTL
12 11 (7.333%) XSLT
13 9 (6.000%) .NET
13 9 (6.000%) Web Services
14 8 (5.333%) JDBC
15 7 (4.667%) XSL
15 7 (4.667%) JMS
16 6 (4.000%) Tapestry
16 6 (4.000%) J2SE
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.000%) WebLogic
1 6 (4.000%) Apache
1 6 (4.000%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (3.333%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.333%) Captiva
3 2 (1.333%) Documentum
3 2 (1.333%) SAS
4 1 (0.667%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.667%) GemFire
4 1 (0.667%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.667%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.333%) MS Excel
1 2 (1.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.667%) DOC1
2 1 (0.667%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (4.667%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.667%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.000%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.667%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.667%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.000%) LDAP
2 7 (4.667%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.667%) DNS
3 2 (1.333%) Internet
4 1 (0.667%) HTTP
4 1 (0.667%) SAN
4 1 (0.667%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.33%) SQL Server
2 25 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (6.667%) SQLPlus
4 7 (4.667%) DB2
4 7 (4.667%) Oracle 10g
5 6 (4.000%) TOAD
6 5 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
6 5 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (2.667%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.667%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (2.667%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (2.667%) MS Access
8 3 (2.000%) Oracle 9i
9 2 (1.333%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.333%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.333%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.333%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (1.333%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.667%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (12.67%) Maven
2 18 (12.00%) Eclipse
3 17 (11.33%) JDeveloper
4 12 (8.000%) Subversion
5 10 (6.667%) Ant
6 8 (5.333%) JUnit
7 7 (4.667%) ClearCase
8 5 (3.333%) PVCS
9 3 (2.000%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.333%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.333%) TestDirector
10 2 (1.333%) ProC
10 2 (1.333%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.333%) Git (software)
11 1 (0.667%) MSTest
11 1 (0.667%) Hudson
11 1 (0.667%) Rational Application Developer
11 1 (0.667%) FitNesse
11 1 (0.667%) Aptana Studio
11 1 (0.667%) NUnit
General
1 61 (40.67%) Finance
2 24 (16.00%) Banking
3 8 (5.333%) Investment Banking
4 6 (4.000%) Front Office
5 2 (1.333%) Retail Banking
5 2 (1.333%) Retail
6 1 (0.667%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.667%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 80 (53.33%) Developer
2 50 (33.33%) Analyst
3 43 (28.67%) Java Developer
4 26 (17.33%) Programmer
5 25 (16.67%) Analyst Programmer
6 16 (10.67%) Java Analyst Programmer
6 16 (10.67%) Java Programmer
7 15 (10.00%) Support Analyst
7 15 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
8 14 (9.333%) Applications Support Analyst
8 14 (9.333%) Applications Support
9 9 (6.000%) Developer Analyst
10 8 (5.333%) Oracle Analyst
10 8 (5.333%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.667%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.667%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
12 6 (4.000%) Informatica Developer
12 6 (4.000%) DBA
13 5 (3.333%) .NET Developer
14 4 (2.667%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.000%) N-Tier
1 6 (4.000%) Data Integration
2 3 (2.000%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (2.000%) Derivative
2 3 (2.000%) Equity Derivative
2 3 (2.000%) Mathematics
2 3 (2.000%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.333%) Clustering
3 2 (1.333%) Open Source
4 1 (0.667%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.667%) Equities
4 1 (0.667%) IVR
4 1 (0.667%) Semantic Web
4 1 (0.667%) iSeries
4 1 (0.667%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.667%) W3C
4 1 (0.667%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.667%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 48 (32.00%) UNIX
2 24 (16.00%) Windows
3 16 (10.67%) Linux
4 2 (1.333%) Debian
4 2 (1.333%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.667%) zOS
5 1 (0.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.00%) Unit Testing
2 22 (14.67%) Data Modelling
3 19 (12.67%) Change Management
4 16 (10.67%) ITIL
5 14 (9.333%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (8.000%) OO
6 12 (8.000%) ETL
7 8 (5.333%) UML
7 8 (5.333%) Data Analysis
8 7 (4.667%) MVC
8 7 (4.667%) SOA
9 6 (4.000%) TDD
9 6 (4.000%) Scrum
9 6 (4.000%) Test Scripting
9 6 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (3.333%) Extreme Programming
11 4 (2.667%) Software Engineering
11 4 (2.667%) Systems Analysis
11 4 (2.667%) Business Analysis
11 4 (2.667%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (56.00%) SQL
2 67 (44.67%) Java
3 39 (26.00%) PL/SQL
4 34 (22.67%) JavaScript
5 12 (8.000%) Shell Script
6 11 (7.333%) C#
7 5 (3.333%) XPath
7 5 (3.333%) Scala
8 4 (2.667%) Perl
8 4 (2.667%) VB
9 3 (2.000%) C
10 2 (1.333%) C++
10 2 (1.333%) PHP
10 2 (1.333%) VBA
11 1 (0.667%) XQuery
11 1 (0.667%) Korn
11 1 (0.667%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.667%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.667%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (7.333%) Sun Certification
2 2 (1.333%) Degree
3 1 (0.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.67%) QA
2 13 (8.667%) SLA
3 3 (2.000%) WCAG
4 1 (0.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.333%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (4.667%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (2.000%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 8 (5.333%) Data Guard
2 3 (2.000%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.333%) MOM
4 1 (0.667%) Control-M
4 1 (0.667%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 96 (64.00%) Oracle
2 31 (20.67%) Sybase
3 11 (7.333%) Sun
3 11 (7.333%) Informatica
4 7 (4.667%) IBM
5 5 (3.333%) JBoss
6 4 (2.667%) Perforce
7 3 (2.000%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.000%) Avaloq
8 2 (1.333%) CA
8 2 (1.333%) Temenos
8 2 (1.333%) HP
8 2 (1.333%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.333%) SAP
9 1 (0.667%) EMC
9 1 (0.667%) BEA
9 1 (0.667%) Teradata
9 1 (0.667%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.667%) MKS
9 1 (0.667%) Sencha
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Rate: market rates
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