South East RDBMS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Brentford Brighton Bristol Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Lancashire Leeds Livingston London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Queensferry Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	212	166
Rank change on same period last year	-46
Matching contract IT job ads	41	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.138 %
As % of the category below	1.768 %	3.957 %
Daily rates quoted	14	45
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£329
Average daily rate	£365	£353
% change on same period last year	+3.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£358
% change on same period last year	-8.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.25	£39.29
Average hourly rate	£34.69	£41.21
% change on same period last year	-15.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.13	£43.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£31.02
% change on same period last year	+4.36 %
Database & Business Intelligence South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2319	3538
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.135 %	3.489 %
Daily rates quoted	629	1001
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£338
Average daily rate	£357	£357
% change on same period last year	-0.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	181	358
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.37	£33.70
Average hourly rate	£34.88	£35.62
% change on same period last year	-2.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.39	£37.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
RDBMS England

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 South East 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 South East region.

RDBMS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RDBMS across the South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 South East region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hampshire	+30	21	£354	+8.79 %
Berkshire	+9	5	£388	+1.87 %
Middlesex	+6	4	£369	-
Oxfordshire	+4	3	-	-
Surrey	-28	3	£350	+20.27 %
Home Counties	+15	2	-	-
West Sussex	+6	1	-	-
East Sussex	+10	1	-	-

RDBMS England

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 76 (64.41 %) Oracle 2 46 (38.98 %) UNIX 3 44 (37.29 %) SQL 4 41 (34.75 %) Java 5 28 (23.73 %) Windows 6 26 (22.03 %) XML 7 23 (19.49 %) Solaris 8 22 (18.64 %) Finance 9 20 (16.95 %) Oracle 10g 10 18 (15.25 %) J2EE 10 18 (15.25 %) MySQL 10 18 (15.25 %) Security Cleared 11 16 (13.56 %) UML 11 16 (13.56 %) Swing 11 16 (13.56 %) Government

12 15 (12.71 %) OO 13 14 (11.86 %) MS Office 14 13 (11.02 %) SQL Server 14 13 (11.02 %) SC Cleared 15 12 (10.17 %) C 15 12 (10.17 %) Data Modelling 15 12 (10.17 %) Streaming Video 15 12 (10.17 %) Software Testing 15 12 (10.17 %) Oracle RAC 16 11 (9.322 %) AWT 16 11 (9.322 %) MS Excel 17 10 (8.475 %) Linux 17 10 (8.475 %) C++ 17 10 (8.475 %) Sun 17 10 (8.475 %) Shell Script

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 26 (22.03 %) XML 2 18 (15.25 %) J2EE 3 16 (13.56 %) Swing 4 11 (9.322 %) AWT 5 9 (7.627 %) WebSphere 6 8 (6.780 %) XML Schema 6 8 (6.780 %) HTML 7 7 (5.932 %) Servlets 7 7 (5.932 %) SOAP 7 7 (5.932 %) WebServices 8 5 (4.237 %) JSP 8 5 (4.237 %) Struts 9 4 (3.390 %) EJB 9 4 (3.390 %) .NET 9 4 (3.390 %) Hibernate 9 4 (3.390 %) Spring 9 4 (3.390 %) OC4J 10 3 (2.542 %) MVC 10 3 (2.542 %) JSF 10 3 (2.542 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.237 %) SAS 2 4 (3.390 %) Oracle Application Server 3 3 (2.542 %) Oracle Spatial 3 3 (2.542 %) WebSphere MQ 3 3 (2.542 %) Rendezvous 3 3 (2.542 %) Oracle 9iAS 3 3 (2.542 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 3 (2.542 %) Tomcat 4 2 (1.695 %) ColdFusion 5 1 (0.847 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.847 %) Documentum 5 1 (0.847 %) ColdFusion MX 5 1 (0.847 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.847 %) ArcGIS 5 1 (0.847 %) ArcIMS 5 1 (0.847 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 1 (0.847 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 14 (11.86 %) MS Office 2 11 (9.322 %) MS Excel 3 9 (7.627 %) Quicktime 4 1 (0.847 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (2.542 %) Oracle 11i 2 2 (1.695 %) Siebel Analytics 3 1 (0.847 %) Cerner Millennium
Communications & Networking 1 7 (5.932 %) HTTP 2 5 (4.237 %) DVB 3 3 (2.542 %) LDAP 3 3 (2.542 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.542 %) SSL 3 3 (2.542 %) SSH 4 2 (1.695 %) VoIP 5 1 (0.847 %) WAN 5 1 (0.847 %) Broadband 5 1 (0.847 %) NetScreen 5 1 (0.847 %) Wireless 5 1 (0.847 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (16.95 %) Oracle 10g 2 18 (15.25 %) MySQL 3 13 (11.02 %) SQL Server 4 9 (7.627 %) Oracle 9i 4 9 (7.627 %) Ingres 5 8 (6.780 %) Oracle Reports 6 7 (5.932 %) ETL 6 7 (5.932 %) Datawarehouse 7 4 (3.390 %) SQL Server 2000 7 4 (3.390 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 3 (2.542 %) MS Access 8 3 (2.542 %) DB2 8 3 (2.542 %) SQLPlus 8 3 (2.542 %) TOAD 8 3 (2.542 %) OLTP 8 3 (2.542 %) SQL Server 2005 9 2 (1.695 %) Oracle OLAP 9 2 (1.695 %) BusinessObjects 9 2 (1.695 %) OLAP 10 1 (0.847 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 7 (5.932 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (1.695 %) Rational Rose 2 2 (1.695 %) Eclipse 2 2 (1.695 %) Ant 2 2 (1.695 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (1.695 %) PowerBuilder 2 2 (1.695 %) Subversion 3 1 (0.847 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.847 %) LoadRunner	General 1 22 (18.64 %) Finance 2 16 (13.56 %) Government 3 9 (7.627 %) Health 4 8 (6.780 %) Insurance 5 5 (4.237 %) Telecoms 6 2 (1.695 %) Marketing 6 2 (1.695 %) FMCG 7 1 (0.847 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.847 %) Electronics 7 1 (0.847 %) Banking 7 1 (0.847 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 36 (30.51 %) Developer 2 28 (23.73 %) DBA 3 21 (17.80 %) Analyst 4 19 (16.10 %) Oracle DBA 5 16 (13.56 %) Java Developer 6 11 (9.322 %) Data Analyst 6 11 (9.322 %) Architect 7 7 (5.932 %) Project Manager 7 7 (5.932 %) Programmer 8 6 (5.085 %) Software Architect 8 6 (5.085 %) SQL DBA 9 5 (4.237 %) Java Programmer 9 5 (4.237 %) Software Designer 9 5 (4.237 %) Business Analyst 9 5 (4.237 %) Analyst Programmer 9 5 (4.237 %) J2EE Developer 10 4 (3.390 %) Support Analyst 10 4 (3.390 %) Business Data Analyst 11 3 (2.542 %) Java/J2EE Developer 11 3 (2.542 %) MIS Manager	Miscellaneous 1 12 (10.17 %) Streaming Video 2 7 (5.932 %) Device Driver 3 3 (2.542 %) Data Extraction 3 3 (2.542 %) NHS 4 2 (1.695 %) N-Tier 5 1 (0.847 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.847 %) Thin Client 5 1 (0.847 %) DTV 5 1 (0.847 %) Management Information System 5 1 (0.847 %) IPTV 5 1 (0.847 %) PDA 5 1 (0.847 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.847 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.847 %) Fat Client 5 1 (0.847 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 46 (38.98 %) UNIX 2 28 (23.73 %) Windows 3 23 (19.49 %) Solaris 4 10 (8.475 %) Linux 5 7 (5.932 %) Windows Server 2003 6 6 (5.085 %) Windows 2000 7 5 (4.237 %) AIX 8 4 (3.390 %) Tru64 9 3 (2.542 %) HPUX 10 2 (1.695 %) Windows XP 10 2 (1.695 %) MVS 11 1 (0.847 %) Windows Vista 11 1 (0.847 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 1 (0.847 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (15.25 %) Security Cleared 2 16 (13.56 %) UML 3 15 (12.71 %) OO 4 13 (11.02 %) SC Cleared 5 12 (10.17 %) Data Modelling 5 12 (10.17 %) Software Testing 6 10 (8.475 %) Configuration Management 7 9 (7.627 %) RUP 8 7 (5.932 %) Project Management 8 7 (5.932 %) Migration 8 7 (5.932 %) Data Migration 8 7 (5.932 %) Software Engineering 9 6 (5.085 %) PRINCE2 10 5 (4.237 %) RAD 11 4 (3.390 %) SSADM 11 4 (3.390 %) OOP 11 4 (3.390 %) OOD 11 4 (3.390 %) Business Intelligence 11 4 (3.390 %) PRINCE 11 4 (3.390 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 44 (37.29 %) SQL 2 41 (34.75 %) Java 3 12 (10.17 %) C 4 10 (8.475 %) C++ 4 10 (8.475 %) Shell Script 5 9 (7.627 %) PL/SQL 6 8 (6.780 %) PHP 6 8 (6.780 %) JavaScript 7 5 (4.237 %) VB 8 4 (3.390 %) Python 8 4 (3.390 %) PHP5 8 4 (3.390 %) PHP4 9 3 (2.542 %) VB.NET 10 2 (1.695 %) VC++ 10 2 (1.695 %) Assembly Language 10 2 (1.695 %) VBScript 11 1 (0.847 %) SAS Macro 11 1 (0.847 %) DCL 11 1 (0.847 %) Ruby 11 1 (0.847 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 4 (3.390 %) ISEB 1 4 (3.390 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (1.695 %) Degree 3 1 (0.847 %) OCP 3 1 (0.847 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (3.390 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.847 %) SLA 2 1 (0.847 %) QA	System Software 1 12 (10.17 %) Oracle RAC 2 9 (7.627 %) Oracle RMAN 3 3 (2.542 %) NFS 4 2 (1.695 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.847 %) AquaLogic
Systems Management 1 5 (4.237 %) Oracle Statspack 2 3 (2.542 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 76 (64.41 %) Oracle 2 10 (8.475 %) Sun 3 8 (6.780 %) Apple 3 8 (6.780 %) Sony 4 7 (5.932 %) Microsoft 5 6 (5.085 %) IBM 6 4 (3.390 %) Remedy 7 3 (2.542 %) TIBCO 7 3 (2.542 %) Siebel 8 2 (1.695 %) Business Objects 8 2 (1.695 %) Cognos 8 2 (1.695 %) Actuate 8 2 (1.695 %) Ascential 8 2 (1.695 %) Adobe 8 2 (1.695 %) VERITAS 9 1 (0.847 %) ILOG 9 1 (0.847 %) Cerner 9 1 (0.847 %) MicroStrategy 9 1 (0.847 %) Cisco