The first table below looks at the demand for Sybase ASE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sybase ASE over the 3 months to 20 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.

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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
Rank 503 516 479
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -37
Contract jobs citing Sybase ASE 30 57 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.064% 0.098% 0.181%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.310% 0.514% 0.890%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 47 62
Average daily rate £501 £550 £494
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% +11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £475 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £600 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £294 £400
% change year-on-year
+57.53% -26.56%
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
9689 11092 12251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.82% 19.01% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5838 6349 6799
Average daily rate £385 £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 402
Average hourly rate £25.70 £27.50 £31.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.54% -13.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

Sybase ASE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sybase ASE Jobs Demand Trend

Sybase ASE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sybase ASE Daily Rate Trend

Sybase ASE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase ASE within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Sybase ASE Daily Rate Histogram

Sybase ASE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sybase ASE Hourly Rate Trend

Sybase ASE
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sybase ASE within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +34 28 £508 -7.63%
London -11 22 £530 -3.63%
South East - 4 £488 -
Kent - 3 £475 -
City of London +6 2 £515 -6.36%
North West - 2 - -
Manchester - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £400 -
Glasgow - 1 £400 -

Sybase ASE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sybase ASE 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 Sybase ASE.

1 74 (100.00%) Sybase
2 40 (54.05%) Banking
3 38 (51.35%) Finance
4 37 (50.00%) SQL
5 36 (48.65%) UNIX
6 30 (40.54%) Sybase IQ
7 27 (36.49%) Linux
8 22 (29.73%) Oracle
9 19 (25.68%) Replication
9 19 (25.68%) Investment Banking
10 16 (21.62%) SQL Server
11 14 (18.92%) Java
12 13 (17.57%) T-SQL
12 13 (17.57%) Subversion
13 12 (16.22%) C#
14 11 (14.86%) OO
14 11 (14.86%) Shell Script
14 11 (14.86%) TDD
15 10 (13.51%) Solaris
15 10 (13.51%) C++
16 9 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (12.16%) MVVM
17 8 (10.81%) HP ASE
17 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2008
17 8 (10.81%) HP
17 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2000
17 8 (10.81%) Perl
17 8 (10.81%) HPUX
17 8 (10.81%) Risk Management
17 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2005

Sybase ASE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sybase ASE 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 Sybase ASE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (9.459%) Spring
1 7 (9.459%) WCF
1 7 (9.459%) Silverlight
1 7 (9.459%) LINQ
1 7 (9.459%) jQuery
2 6 (8.108%) JMS
2 6 (8.108%) Hibernate
3 5 (6.757%) WPF
4 4 (5.405%) XML
5 3 (4.054%) Swing
5 3 (4.054%) .NET
5 3 (4.054%) Web Services
5 3 (4.054%) JMX
5 3 (4.054%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.703%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (1.351%) MDX
7 1 (1.351%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.054%) Tomcat
1 3 (4.054%) TIBCO EMS
1 3 (4.054%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.351%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (4.054%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (8.108%) Kondor+
2 2 (2.703%) RMDS
3 1 (1.351%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (40.54%) Sybase IQ
2 16 (21.62%) SQL Server
3 9 (12.16%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2000
4 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (10.81%) SQL Server 2008
5 7 (9.459%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (6.757%) RDBMS
6 5 (6.757%) Oracle 11g
7 4 (5.405%) TimesTen
7 4 (5.405%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (5.405%) DataStage
8 3 (4.054%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (4.054%) Oracle 8/8i
9 2 (2.703%) Oracle 9i
9 2 (2.703%) OLAP
9 2 (2.703%) InterBase
9 2 (2.703%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (2.703%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.703%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 13 (17.57%) Subversion
2 7 (9.459%) TortoiseSVN
2 7 (9.459%) Visual Studio
3 6 (8.108%) PowerBuilder
4 3 (4.054%) JUnit
4 3 (4.054%) ClearCase
4 3 (4.054%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.054%) Maven
5 2 (2.703%) Expression Blend
General
1 40 (54.05%) Banking
2 38 (51.35%) Finance
3 19 (25.68%) Investment Banking
4 6 (8.108%) Financial Institution
5 4 (5.405%) Retail
6 2 (2.703%) French Language
7 1 (1.351%) Marketing
7 1 (1.351%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 40 (54.05%) Developer
2 30 (40.54%) DBA
3 25 (33.78%) Sybase DBA
4 15 (20.27%) Sybase Developer
5 8 (10.81%) Development DBA
5 8 (10.81%) Sybase Development DBA
6 7 (9.459%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.108%) Applications Support
8 5 (6.757%) Oracle DBA
8 5 (6.757%) C# Developer
8 5 (6.757%) Senior DBA
9 4 (5.405%) Silverlight Developer
9 4 (5.405%) C++ Developer
9 4 (5.405%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 4 (5.405%) Project Manager
10 3 (4.054%) Technical Project Manager
10 3 (4.054%) Database Developer
10 3 (4.054%) SQL Developer
10 3 (4.054%) DataStage Developer
10 3 (4.054%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.68%) Replication
2 7 (9.459%) RIA
3 6 (8.108%) Derivative
3 6 (8.108%) Credit Risk
4 4 (5.405%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.405%) Oracle Exalytics
5 2 (2.703%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.703%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.703%) Clustering
5 2 (2.703%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.351%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (1.351%) PMI
6 1 (1.351%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.351%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 36 (48.65%) UNIX
2 27 (36.49%) Linux
3 10 (13.51%) Solaris
4 8 (10.81%) HPUX
5 7 (9.459%) AIX
6 3 (4.054%) Windows
7 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.86%) OO
1 11 (14.86%) TDD
2 9 (12.16%) MVVM
3 8 (10.81%) Risk Management
4 7 (9.459%) Migration
5 6 (8.108%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (8.108%) Security Management
5 6 (8.108%) ETL
5 6 (8.108%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.108%) Project Management
6 5 (6.757%) Time Management
7 4 (5.405%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (4.054%) Change Control
8 3 (4.054%) Data Architecture
8 3 (4.054%) Data Modelling
9 2 (2.703%) ITIL
9 2 (2.703%) Service Delivery
9 2 (2.703%) Change Management
9 2 (2.703%) Data Management
9 2 (2.703%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.00%) SQL
2 14 (18.92%) Java
3 13 (17.57%) T-SQL
4 12 (16.22%) C#
5 11 (14.86%) Shell Script
6 10 (13.51%) C++
7 8 (10.81%) Perl
8 7 (9.459%) VBA
8 7 (9.459%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.351%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.351%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) HP ASE
2 7 (9.459%) Degree
3 2 (2.703%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.351%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.405%) SLA
1 4 (5.405%) QA
2 2 (2.703%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (6.757%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.351%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (1.351%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (1.351%) Nagios
1 1 (1.351%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) Sybase
2 22 (29.73%) Oracle
3 8 (10.81%) HP
4 7 (9.459%) IBM
5 5 (6.757%) SAP
5 5 (6.757%) TIBCO
6 3 (4.054%) Business Objects
7 2 (2.703%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.351%) TOWER Software
8 1 (1.351%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.351%) EMC
8 1 (1.351%) Veritas
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