The first table below looks at the demand for dBASE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited dBASE over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
dBASE
Rank 539 578 589
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +11
Contract jobs citing dBASE 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.020% 0.009% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
10087 11173 12979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.63% 19.55% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6043 6504 7378
Average daily rate £380 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £338
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 261 335
Average hourly rate £27.48 £26.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £14.07 £16.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £43.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -20.63%

dBASE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

dBASE Daily Rate Trend

dBASE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

dBASE Hourly Rate Trend

dBASE
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing dBASE within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +32 2 £225 - 1
London - 2 £225 -
St Albans - - - - 1
Hertfordshire - - - - 1
Warwickshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - - 1

dBASE
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE

dBASE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Discoverer
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Support Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) RAD
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Sybase
1 2 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
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