The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 24 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 Staffordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank - - 37
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - - 0.461%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - 0.775%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £370
% change year-on-year
- -12.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
33 37 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 39.29% 17.13% 59.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 56
Average daily rate £250 £290 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £225 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £15.31 £28.75 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.74% +161.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
RDBMS
West Midlands

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (71.43%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) Replication
2 5 (71.43%) OLTP
3 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (28.57%) NHS
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (28.57%) MCITP
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) MDX
5 1 (14.29%) Clustering

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) MDX
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (71.43%) OLTP
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) SQL DBA
1 5 (71.43%) Teradata DBA
1 5 (71.43%) DBA
1 5 (71.43%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server DBA
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Replication
2 2 (28.57%) NHS
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (28.57%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft