The first table below looks at the demand for the Database Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Database Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Database Developer
Rank 460 473 468
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Database Developer 93 105 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.191% 0.181% 0.222%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.207% 0.195% 0.240%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 75 77
Average daily rate £330 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £22.50 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -8.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
- -8.33%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44896 53769 56680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.53% 92.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 25886 29628 30997
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2148 2597 2927
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.20 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Database Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Database Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Database Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Database Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Database Developer within the UK.

Database Developer Daily Rate Trend

Database Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Database Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Database Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Database Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Database Developer within the UK.

Database Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Database Developer
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Database Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +35 86 £325 -2.98% 49
London +38 49 £400 +4.98% 17
South East +19 18 £300 -12.40% 10
City of London +11 9 £463 +37.03% 6
East Midlands 0 8 £300 +33.33% 1
Berkshire +21 5 £300 -14.28% 3
West Midlands +17 5 - - 2
Buckinghamshire - 5 £325 - 5
Kent - 5 £286 -
Reading - 5 £300 - 1
South West +11 4 £350 +18.64% 9
East of England +13 2 £325 +13.04% 5
Bristol +11 2 £313 +7.75% 2
Surrey +4 2 £300 -10.44%
Scotland -23 2 £338 +17.39% 1
Dorset - 2 £420 -
Glasgow -21 1 £338 +12.50%
Milton Keynes - 1 £300 - 5
Derby - 1 - - 1
Oxford - 1 £450 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £450 - 1
Derbyshire - 1 - - 1
Devon - - - - 1
Tyne and Wear - - - - 1
Ealing - - - -
South Lanarkshire - - - -
Somerset - - - - 2
Staffordshire - - - - 2
Suffolk - - - -

Database Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Database Developer in their job title 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 with Database Developer in their job title.

1 128 (66.67%) SQL
2 108 (56.25%) SQL Server
3 58 (30.21%) T-SQL
4 56 (29.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 52 (27.08%) Banking
6 50 (26.04%) Finance
7 44 (22.92%) ETL
8 42 (21.88%) C#
8 42 (21.88%) Investment Banking
9 39 (20.31%) .NET
10 38 (19.79%) Data Warehouse
11 37 (19.27%) Oracle
12 34 (17.71%) SQL Server 2008
13 30 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 29 (15.10%) Data Modelling
15 28 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (14.58%) Migration
16 27 (14.06%) Microsoft
17 22 (11.46%) DB2
17 22 (11.46%) PL/SQL
17 22 (11.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 21 (10.94%) Unit Testing
19 20 (10.42%) Equities
19 20 (10.42%) VBA
19 20 (10.42%) Sybase
20 19 (9.896%) Java
20 19 (9.896%) MS Excel
20 19 (9.896%) SQL Server 2005
21 18 (9.375%) Derivative
22 16 (8.333%) Credit Risk

Database Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Database Developer in their job title 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 with Database Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (20.31%) .NET
2 16 (8.333%) Web Services
3 15 (7.813%) ASP.NET
4 12 (6.250%) XML
5 10 (5.208%) WCF
5 10 (5.208%) WPF
6 8 (4.167%) MDX
7 6 (3.125%) jQuery
8 5 (2.604%) HTML
9 4 (2.083%) REST
9 4 (2.083%) Dojo
9 4 (2.083%) WF
10 3 (1.563%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.563%) EDI
10 3 (1.563%) WinForms
11 2 (1.042%) Ajax
11 2 (1.042%) OLE DB
11 2 (1.042%) XSLT
11 2 (1.042%) CSS
11 2 (1.042%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.125%) IIS
1 6 (3.125%) SharePoint
1 6 (3.125%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.604%) SAS
3 4 (2.083%) ArcIMS
3 4 (2.083%) CMS
3 4 (2.083%) Confluence
4 2 (1.042%) Drupal
5 1 (0.521%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.521%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.521%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.521%) Apache
5 1 (0.521%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (9.896%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.042%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.042%) MS Office
3 1 (0.521%) FastStats
3 1 (0.521%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.521%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (2.083%) Sophis RISQUE
2 1 (0.521%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.563%) SAN
2 2 (1.042%) HTTP
3 1 (0.521%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (56.25%) SQL Server
2 56 (29.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 38 (19.79%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (17.71%) SQL Server 2008
5 30 (15.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (11.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 22 (11.46%) DB2
7 19 (9.896%) SQL Server 2005
8 14 (7.292%) Big Data
9 13 (6.771%) Oracle 11g
10 12 (6.250%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (6.250%) OLAP
11 11 (5.729%) Hadoop
11 11 (5.729%) Apache Cassandra
12 9 (4.688%) HBase
12 9 (4.688%) MS Access
13 8 (4.167%) MySQL
13 8 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
14 7 (3.646%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 7 (3.646%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.167%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.604%) JIRA
3 3 (1.563%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.042%) ERwin
4 2 (1.042%) Subversion
4 2 (1.042%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.042%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.521%) Rational Rose
5 1 (0.521%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.521%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.521%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.521%) Git (software)
General
1 52 (27.08%) Banking
2 50 (26.04%) Finance
3 42 (21.88%) Investment Banking
4 13 (6.771%) Marketing
5 6 (3.125%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.604%) Front Office
7 3 (1.563%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.563%) Retail
8 2 (1.042%) Legal
8 2 (1.042%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.521%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.521%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.42%) Equities
2 18 (9.375%) Derivative
3 16 (8.333%) Credit Risk
4 11 (5.729%) Computer Science
5 6 (3.125%) Statistics
6 5 (2.604%) NHS
7 4 (2.083%) Equity Derivative
7 4 (2.083%) Wiki
7 4 (2.083%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.563%) Data Extraction
8 3 (1.563%) Data Integration
8 3 (1.563%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.042%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.042%) Replication
9 2 (1.042%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.042%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.521%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.521%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.771%) UNIX
2 11 (5.729%) Linux
3 5 (2.604%) Windows
4 2 (1.042%) Solaris
4 2 (1.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.92%) ETL
2 29 (15.10%) Data Modelling
3 28 (14.58%) Migration
3 28 (14.58%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (10.94%) Unit Testing
5 13 (6.771%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (6.771%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (5.729%) E-Commerce
7 10 (5.208%) Risk Management
8 9 (4.688%) Validation
9 8 (4.167%) Multithreading
9 8 (4.167%) System Testing
10 7 (3.646%) Portfolio Management
10 7 (3.646%) Data Analysis
11 5 (2.604%) Software Engineering
11 5 (2.604%) Business Analysis
11 5 (2.604%) Project Management
11 5 (2.604%) Monte Carlo Method
11 5 (2.604%) Data Validation
11 5 (2.604%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 128 (66.67%) SQL
2 58 (30.21%) T-SQL
3 42 (21.88%) C#
4 22 (11.46%) PL/SQL
5 20 (10.42%) VBA
6 19 (9.896%) Java
7 15 (7.813%) VB
8 12 (6.250%) Perl
9 7 (3.646%) VB.NET
9 7 (3.646%) JavaScript
10 6 (3.125%) C++
10 6 (3.125%) Python
11 4 (2.083%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.083%) VB6
12 2 (1.042%) PHP
13 1 (0.521%) Korn
13 1 (0.521%) Scala
13 1 (0.521%) R
13 1 (0.521%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.521%) XAML
Qualifications
1 14 (7.292%) Degree
2 4 (2.083%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.563%) MCDBA
4 2 (1.042%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.521%) MCTS
5 1 (0.521%) MCITP
5 1 (0.521%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.646%) Basel III
2 2 (1.042%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.042%) QA
3 1 (0.521%) Basel II
3 1 (0.521%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.042%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (1.042%) LiteSpeed
1 2 (1.042%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (2.083%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.042%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 37 (19.27%) Oracle
2 27 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.42%) Sybase
4 13 (6.771%) Reuters
4 13 (6.771%) Bloomberg
5 9 (4.688%) Informatica
6 6 (3.125%) Perforce
6 6 (3.125%) IBM
7 5 (2.604%) ESRI
8 4 (2.083%) Sophis
8 4 (2.083%) Unica
9 3 (1.563%) Business Objects
10 2 (1.042%) Red Gate
11 1 (0.521%) Twitter
11 1 (0.521%) Greenplum
11 1 (0.521%) SAP
11 1 (0.521%) JBoss
11 1 (0.521%) Cognos
11 1 (0.521%) MicroStrategy
11 1 (0.521%) Mapinfo
Derby, Derbyshire
6 month+ contract, based in Derbyshire, to start ASAP, £NEG We are looking for a strong Database Developer and DBA with expertise using SQL Server and Oracle databases...
Austin Fraser
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
SQL database developer is required by my client who sits within a prestigious investment bank based in London. The reason why my client requires a strong SQL database...
Real Staffing
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 9 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
They are looking for a SQL Developer with excellent SQL and TSQL knowledge, ideally with good Microsoft BI Stack ( SSRS / SSIS ) skills... Successful candidates will have the following: -...
Venturi
Rate: £35000 - £39000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
REQUIREMENTS: -MS SQL Server -SSIS -Cognos Framework Manager -experience in order to build a star-schema dimensional database with time-changing dimensions for use in IBM Cognos BI.
Personnel IT
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
The role needs a strong SQL data warehouse developer who has the ability to utilise the full Business Intelligence stack with a large emphasis in SSAS however they...
Real Staffing
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
I Help You Find
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day 3 mth+ rolling
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
I Help You Find
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day 3 mth+ rolling
Posted: 14 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Network Rail
Rate: £25,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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