Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Sybase IQ 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 IQ over the 3 months to 29 July 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

LinkSybase IQ
Location
3 months to
29 Jul 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank513424573
Rank change year-on-year
Down-89Up+149
Matching contract IT job ads52512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.087 %0.014 %0.016 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category0.397 %0.068 %0.083 %
Daily rates quoted4733
Average daily rate£500£501£550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.190 %-8.900 %
UK excluding London average daily rate---
Hourly rates quoted001
Average hourly rate--£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
13093732014508
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK21.89 %20.45 %19.33 %
Daily rates quoted682528594560
Average daily rate£400£350£382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-8.370 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£213£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£313£350
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted482482994
Average hourly rate£27.30£27.50£31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.720 %-11.29 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.23£15.00£16.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£39.50£43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.30£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.720 %-15.38 %

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.

Sybase IQ
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Sybase IQ within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Sybase IQ Demand Trend

Sybase IQ
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sybase IQ Daily Rate Trend

Sybase IQ
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase IQ within the UK over the 3 months to 29 July 2010.

Sybase IQ Daily Rate Histogram

Sybase IQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sybase IQ Hourly Rate Trend

Sybase IQ
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sybase IQ within the UK over the 3 months to 29 July 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-8452£500-0.19 %
LondonDown-8852£500-0.19 %
City of LondonDown-6023£463+105.55 %
Canary WharfNew entry-2£550-

Sybase IQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 July 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sybase IQ 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 IQ.

199 (99.00 %)Sybase
247 (47.00 %)Sybase ASE
346 (46.00 %)Banking
346 (46.00 %)SQL
346 (46.00 %)UNIX
445 (45.00 %)Finance
539 (39.00 %)Investment Banking
630 (30.00 %)C#
630 (30.00 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
727 (27.00 %)SQL Server
826 (26.00 %).NET
923 (23.00 %)Migration
1021 (21.00 %)DB2
1021 (21.00 %)DB2 UDB
1117 (17.00 %)Windows
1117 (17.00 %)Replication
1216 (16.00 %)Java
1313 (13.00 %).NET Framework
1412 (12.00 %)C++
1412 (12.00 %)MySQL
1412 (12.00 %)Linux
1511 (11.00 %)T-SQL
1511 (11.00 %)Equities
1610 (10.00 %)Degree
1610 (10.00 %)SQL Server 2005
1610 (10.00 %)Perl
1610 (10.00 %)ETL
179 (9.000 %)Microsoft
179 (9.000 %)ASP.NET
179 (9.000 %)JUnit

Sybase IQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 July 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sybase IQ 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 IQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
126 (26.00 %).NET
213 (13.00 %).NET Framework
39 (9.000 %)Spring
39 (9.000 %)ASP.NET
48 (8.000 %)J2EE
48 (8.000 %)XML
48 (8.000 %)XSD
57 (7.000 %)XHTML
57 (7.000 %)CSS
57 (7.000 %)HTML
66 (6.000 %)DOM
72 (2.000 %)JMS
72 (2.000 %)ASP
81 (1.000 %)Hibernate
81 (1.000 %)WCF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (6.000 %)SAS
21 (1.000 %)Mule
21 (1.000 %)Tomcat
21 (1.000 %)MQSeries
21 (1.000 %)SharePoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (6.000 %)MS Excel
22 (2.000 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (2.000 %)Summit
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (3.000 %)SAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
147 (47.00 %)Sybase ASE
230 (30.00 %)Data Warehouse (DWH)
327 (27.00 %)SQL Server
421 (21.00 %)DB2
421 (21.00 %)DB2 UDB
512 (12.00 %)MySQL
610 (10.00 %)SQL Server 2005
610 (10.00 %)ETL
76 (6.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
84 (4.000 %)SQL Server 2000
92 (2.000 %)OLAP
92 (2.000 %)RDBMS
92 (2.000 %)SQL Server 2008
101 (1.000 %)Star Schema
101 (1.000 %)BusinessObjects
101 (1.000 %)OLTP
101 (1.000 %)MS Access
101 (1.000 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
101 (1.000 %)BODI
101 (1.000 %)BusinessObjects XI
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
19 (9.000 %)CruiseControl
19 (9.000 %)Subversion
19 (9.000 %)Maven
19 (9.000 %)JUnit
28 (8.000 %)Ant
31 (1.000 %)QuickTest Pro
31 (1.000 %)PowerDesigner
31 (1.000 %)TeamCity
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
146 (46.00 %)Banking
245 (45.00 %)Finance
339 (39.00 %)Investment Banking
43 (3.000 %)Front Office
52 (2.000 %)Retail
61 (1.000 %)Financial Institution
61 (1.000 %)Back Office
61 (1.000 %)Construction
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
164 (64.00 %)Developer
249 (49.00 %)Sybase Developer
328 (28.00 %)DBA
417 (17.00 %)Sybase DBA
511 (11.00 %)Administrator
69 (9.000 %)C# Developer
69 (9.000 %)SQL Developer
78 (8.000 %)Java Developer
87 (7.000 %)SQL DBA
96 (6.000 %)Senior DBA
105 (5.000 %)Database Developer
114 (4.000 %)Senior Sybase DBA
123 (3.000 %)SQL Server DBA
123 (3.000 %)Consultant
123 (3.000 %)Analyst
123 (3.000 %)Teradata DBA
132 (2.000 %)Senior Consultant
132 (2.000 %).NET Developer
132 (2.000 %)Analyst Developer
132 (2.000 %)ASP.NET Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
117 (17.00 %)Replication
211 (11.00 %)Equities
37 (7.000 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
46 (6.000 %)W3C
53 (3.000 %)Clustering
53 (3.000 %)Derivative
62 (2.000 %)Equity Derivative
71 (1.000 %)Multithreading
71 (1.000 %)Client/Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
146 (46.00 %)UNIX
217 (17.00 %)Windows
312 (12.00 %)Linux
41 (1.000 %)VMS
41 (1.000 %)Windows Server 2003
41 (1.000 %)Red Hat Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
123 (23.00 %)Migration
29 (9.000 %)Continuous Integration
38 (8.000 %)UML
38 (8.000 %)OOA/OOD
38 (8.000 %)Web Development
38 (8.000 %)TDD
38 (8.000 %)OOD
45 (5.000 %)Data Analysis
52 (2.000 %)ITIL
61 (1.000 %)Automated Testing
61 (1.000 %)Strategic Management
61 (1.000 %)Software Testing
61 (1.000 %)CMMI
61 (1.000 %)Risk Management
61 (1.000 %)Workflow
61 (1.000 %)Quantitative Analysis
61 (1.000 %)Test Management
61 (1.000 %)Test Scripting
61 (1.000 %)OO
61 (1.000 %)Dimensional Modelling
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
146 (46.00 %)SQL
230 (30.00 %)C#
316 (16.00 %)Java
412 (12.00 %)C++
511 (11.00 %)T-SQL
610 (10.00 %)Perl
77 (7.000 %)PHP
77 (7.000 %)Shell Script
84 (4.000 %)Korn
92 (2.000 %)C-shell
92 (2.000 %)C
92 (2.000 %)PL/SQL
101 (1.000 %)VB
101 (1.000 %)Jython
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
110 (10.00 %)Degree
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
16 (6.000 %)WCAG
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (1.000 %)Oracle RMAN
11 (1.000 %)Oracle RAC
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (3.000 %)AutoSys
22 (2.000 %)BMC PATROL
31 (1.000 %)Data Guard
31 (1.000 %)HP Quality Center
31 (1.000 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
199 (99.00 %)Sybase
29 (9.000 %)Microsoft
38 (8.000 %)Oracle
46 (6.000 %)IBM
53 (3.000 %)Veritas
62 (2.000 %)Murex
62 (2.000 %)BMC
71 (1.000 %)Red Hat
71 (1.000 %)Teradata
71 (1.000 %)Yolus
71 (1.000 %)Business Objects