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This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sybase products and/or services in IT contracts across the UK with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Sybase over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSybase
Location
3 months to 4 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank9547
Rank change on same period last yearDown-48
Matching contract IT job ads13282775
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.751 %2.944 %
As % of the category below4.054 %6.799 %
Daily rates quoted6251235
Average minimum daily rate£474£460
Average daily rate£504£493
% change on same period last year+2.19 %
Average maximum daily rate£534£526
UK excluding London average daily rate£339£359
% change on same period last year-5.57 %
Hourly rates quoted441
Average minimum hourly rate£31.25£36.85
Average hourly rate£33.75£39.55
% change on same period last year-14.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate£36.25£42.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.50£37.48
% change on same period last year+0.04 %
Vendors UKVendors
UK
Matching contract IT job ads3275640815
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled43.19 %43.29 %
Daily rates quoted951111470
Average minimum daily rate£381£387
Average daily rate£406£410
% change on same period last year-1.14 %
Average maximum daily rate£430£434
UK excluding London average daily rate£360£356
% change on same period last year+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted28583234
Average minimum hourly rate£22.05£24.06
Average hourly rate£23.58£25.68
% change on same period last year-8.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.12£27.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.91£25.10
% change on same period last year-8.72 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Sybase, Inc.

Sybase
Demand Trend

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

Sybase Demand Trend

Sybase
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sybase Daily Rate Trend

Sybase
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Sybase Daily Rate Histogram

Sybase
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sybase Hourly Rate Trend

Sybase
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sybase within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Sybase Hourly Rate Histogram

Sybase
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Sybase within the UK over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-431293£506+0.72 %
LondonDown-161218£514+0.47 %
City of LondonDown-4540£503-3.95 %
Docklands, LondonDown-560£578+8.04 %
South EastDown-5537£345-6.73 %
Canary WharfDown-1321£556+13.36 %
ScotlandDown-5420£310-7.95 %
North WestDown-1117£350+16.50 %
South WestDown-3613£383-2.67 %
GlasgowDown-3613£310-7.17 %
BuckinghamshireUp+912£378-
SurreyDown-1911--
CumbriaNew entry-10£337-
Milton KeynesDown-68£360-
DorsetDown-57£465+5.73 %
BerkshireDown-36£277-22.14 %
BournemouthDown-66£465+5.73 %
CamberleyUp+45--
OxfordshireDown-25£288-36.11 %
CarlisleNew entry-5£326-
East of EnglandDown-314£340-3.31 %
West MidlandsUp+44--
WalesNew entry-4--
CardiffNew entry-4--
BristolUp+64--
South WalesNew entry-4--
LutonUp+93£325+35.41 %
EdinburghDown-23--
Northern IrelandNew entry-2--
CambridgeshireDown-202£400-5.51 %

Sybase
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sybase 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.

11592 (51.32 %)Unix
21522 (49.07 %)SQL
31424 (45.91 %)Banking
41238 (39.91 %)Java
51127 (36.33 %)Oracle
61053 (33.95 %)Investment Banking
7951 (30.66 %)Finance
8662 (21.34 %)Derivative
9637 (20.54 %)Perl
10632 (20.37 %)Front Office
11576 (18.57 %)C++
12541 (17.44 %)SQL Server
13529 (17.05 %)C#
14406 (13.09 %)Fixed Income
15402 (12.96 %)Linux
16401 (12.93 %)Solaris
17383 (12.35 %)OO
18373 (12.02 %)Windows
19366 (11.80 %)XML
20344 (11.09 %)J2EE
21329 (10.61 %).NET
22324 (10.44 %)Shell Script
23290 (9.349 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
24264 (8.511 %)Equities
25261 (8.414 %)Spring
26234 (7.544 %)Murex
27228 (7.350 %)RDBMS
28224 (7.221 %)Hibernate
29222 (7.157 %)Transact-SQL
30220 (7.092 %)Back Office

Sybase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Sybase 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1366 (11.80 %)XML
2344 (11.09 %)J2EE
3329 (10.61 %).NET
4261 (8.414 %)Spring
5224 (7.221 %)Hibernate
6149 (4.803 %)HTML
7137 (4.417 %)JMS
8108 (3.482 %)Swing
9101 (3.256 %)Struts
1099 (3.191 %)JSP
1195 (3.063 %)WebSphere
1289 (2.869 %)Middleware
1384 (2.708 %)WinForms
1474 (2.386 %)J2SE
1570 (2.257 %)JDBC
1669 (2.224 %)EJB
1766 (2.128 %)WebServices
1853 (1.709 %)XSLT
1853 (1.709 %)CORBA
1951 (1.644 %)Servlets
Application Platforms
1119 (3.836 %)WebLogic
296 (3.095 %)Rendezvous
394 (3.030 %)JBoss
483 (2.676 %)Tomcat
581 (2.611 %)MQSeries
665 (2.095 %)TIBCO EMS
752 (1.676 %)WebSphere MQ
847 (1.515 %)Apache
928 (0.903 %)IIS
1024 (0.774 %)MTS
1120 (0.645 %)TeamSite
1219 (0.613 %)WebSphere Application Server
1314 (0.451 %)Oracle Application Server
1413 (0.419 %)SmartSockets
1510 (0.322 %)Lotus Notes
1510 (0.322 %)Mule
168 (0.258 %)ESB
176 (0.193 %)MS Exchange
185 (0.161 %)ATG Dynamo
194 (0.129 %)Exchange Server 2000
Applications
174 (2.386 %)MS Excel
235 (1.128 %)MS Office
324 (0.774 %)Photoshop
413 (0.419 %)MS Visio
57 (0.226 %)MS Project
62 (0.064 %)MATLAB
71 (0.032 %)MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
166 (2.128 %)Summit
232 (1.032 %)MarketView
327 (0.870 %)Murex MxG2000
426 (0.838 %)Kondor+
525 (0.806 %)Global One
619 (0.613 %)FENICS FX
716 (0.516 %)RMDS
716 (0.516 %)Remedy AR System
88 (0.258 %)BusinessWorks
97 (0.226 %)Oracle Applications
106 (0.193 %)Oracle Financials
106 (0.193 %)Endur
115 (0.161 %)SunGard GMI
124 (0.129 %)Advent Geneva
132 (0.064 %)Loan IQ
132 (0.064 %)PeopleSoft Financials
132 (0.064 %)Oracle EBS
132 (0.064 %)LongView
132 (0.064 %)Minerva
141 (0.032 %)Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
157 (1.838 %)TCP/IP
239 (1.257 %)SAN
330 (0.967 %)WAN
429 (0.935 %)LAN
524 (0.774 %)Firewall
623 (0.741 %)Internet
717 (0.548 %)DNS
815 (0.484 %)BIG-IP
913 (0.419 %)SSL
1011 (0.355 %)LDAP
1110 (0.322 %)FTP
129 (0.290 %)Cisco IOS
138 (0.258 %)Network Security
138 (0.258 %)SSH
138 (0.258 %)HTTP
146 (0.193 %)Intranet
154 (0.129 %)VLAN
154 (0.129 %)WINS
154 (0.129 %)Broadband
154 (0.129 %)GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1541 (17.44 %)SQL Server
2228 (7.350 %)RDBMS
3133 (4.288 %)Sybase ASE
4121 (3.901 %)Oracle 10g
5115 (3.707 %)Datawarehouse
6103 (3.320 %)DB2
792 (2.966 %)Oracle 9i
883 (2.676 %)Oracle 8/8i
967 (2.160 %)ETL
1058 (1.870 %)SQL Server 2005
1145 (1.451 %)SQL Server 2000
1238 (1.225 %)Oracle Reports
1333 (1.064 %)MS Access
1430 (0.967 %)MySQL
1529 (0.935 %)SQL Server 7
1627 (0.870 %)Oracle Discoverer
1725 (0.806 %)Reference Data
1822 (0.709 %)Crystal Reports
1920 (0.645 %)Sybase IQ
1920 (0.645 %)Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1101 (3.256 %)Ant
290 (2.901 %)JUnit
379 (2.547 %)Eclipse
477 (2.482 %)ClearCase
550 (1.612 %)PowerBuilder
649 (1.580 %)Subversion
738 (1.225 %)Visual Studio
829 (0.935 %)NUnit
924 (0.774 %)ERwin
1018 (0.580 %)Oracle Forms
1117 (0.548 %)TestDirector
1214 (0.451 %)Log4Net
1313 (0.419 %)Selenium
1313 (0.419 %)FitNesse
1313 (0.419 %)LoadRunner
1411 (0.355 %)AllFusion
1510 (0.322 %)IntelliJ
168 (0.258 %)CruiseControl
176 (0.193 %)ClearQuest
176 (0.193 %)JIRA
General
11424 (45.91 %)Banking
21053 (33.95 %)Investment Banking
3951 (30.66 %)Finance
4632 (20.37 %)Front Office
5220 (7.092 %)Back Office
692 (2.966 %)Financial Institution
738 (1.225 %)Education
835 (1.128 %)Telecoms
926 (0.838 %)Government
1023 (0.741 %)Games
1121 (0.677 %)Insurance
1220 (0.645 %)General Ledger
1314 (0.451 %)Corporate Banking
149 (0.290 %)Auditing
158 (0.258 %)Pensions
158 (0.258 %)Legal
167 (0.226 %)Health
167 (0.226 %)Billing
176 (0.193 %)Online Games
185 (0.161 %)Online Betting
Job Titles
11633 (52.64 %)Developer
2618 (19.92 %)Java Developer
3581 (18.73 %)Analyst
4384 (12.38 %)DBA
5288 (9.284 %)Support Analyst
6256 (8.253 %)Sybase Developer
7239 (7.705 %)Sybase DBA
8172 (5.545 %)Applications Support
9169 (5.448 %)C# Developer
10148 (4.771 %)C++ Developer
11106 (3.417 %)Senior Developer
12104 (3.353 %)Oracle DBA
1394 (3.030 %)Administrator
1489 (2.869 %)Programmer
1587 (2.805 %)Applications Support Analyst
1685 (2.740 %)Analyst Developer
1783 (2.676 %)Perl Developer
1880 (2.579 %)Consultant
1979 (2.547 %)Architect
2069 (2.224 %)Murex Developer
Miscellaneous
1662 (21.34 %)Derivative
2406 (13.09 %)Fixed Income
3290 (9.349 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4264 (8.511 %)Equities
5184 (5.932 %)Equity Derivative
6163 (5.255 %)Credit Risk
7153 (4.932 %)Replication
8143 (4.610 %)Credit Derivative
9107 (3.449 %)Market Risk
1086 (2.772 %)Asset Management
1173 (2.353 %)Multithreading
1268 (2.192 %)N-Tier
1360 (1.934 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1428 (0.903 %)Mathematics
1428 (0.903 %)Grid Computing
1527 (0.870 %)Data Integration
1625 (0.806 %)Client/Server
1721 (0.677 %)Contract for Difference
1721 (0.677 %)Fund Management
1816 (0.516 %)French Language
Operating Systems
11592 (51.32 %)Unix
2402 (12.96 %)Linux
3401 (12.93 %)Solaris
4373 (12.02 %)Windows
578 (2.515 %)Windows NT
639 (1.257 %)HPUX
738 (1.225 %)Windows XP
831 (0.999 %)AIX
922 (0.709 %)Windows 2000
1018 (0.580 %)Windows Server 2003
1111 (0.355 %)VMS
123 (0.097 %)OpenVMS
132 (0.064 %)SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1383 (12.35 %)OO
2159 (5.126 %)Migration
395 (3.063 %)Risk Management
493 (2.998 %)Investment Management
592 (2.966 %)UML
689 (2.869 %)Data Modelling
779 (2.547 %)User Acceptance Testing
779 (2.547 %)Electronic Trading
870 (2.257 %)OOD
966 (2.128 %)Data Migration
1057 (1.838 %)Project Management
1153 (1.709 %)E-Commerce
1153 (1.709 %)Web Development
1251 (1.644 %)Workflow
1344 (1.418 %)Disaster Recovery
1440 (1.289 %)Business Analysis
1539 (1.257 %)TDD
1539 (1.257 %)SOA
1636 (1.161 %)Release Management
1729 (0.935 %)Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
11522 (49.07 %)SQL
21238 (39.91 %)Java
3637 (20.54 %)Perl
4576 (18.57 %)C++
5529 (17.05 %)C#
6324 (10.44 %)Shell Script
7222 (7.157 %)Transact-SQL
8164 (5.287 %)C
9160 (5.158 %)VBA
10140 (4.513 %)VB
1182 (2.643 %)JavaScript
1276 (2.450 %)Korn
1374 (2.386 %)PL/SQL
1450 (1.612 %)VC++
1549 (1.580 %)VB.NET
1635 (1.128 %)VBScript
1731 (0.999 %)VB6
1830 (0.967 %)Python
1924 (0.774 %)DHTML
2020 (0.645 %)Tcl
Qualifications
196 (3.095 %)Degree
26 (0.193 %)Oracle Certification
34 (0.129 %)PRINCE2 Certification
34 (0.129 %)ISEB
34 (0.129 %)OCP
42 (0.064 %)OCA
42 (0.064 %)CISSP
51 (0.032 %)Microsoft Certification
51 (0.032 %)PMI Certification
51 (0.032 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
51 (0.032 %)MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
128 (0.903 %)QA
213 (0.419 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
38 (0.258 %)SLA
45 (0.161 %)Basel II
54 (0.129 %)MiFID
63 (0.097 %)BS7799
71 (0.032 %)ISO27001
System Software
147 (1.515 %)Oracle RAC
224 (0.774 %)Oracle RMAN
314 (0.451 %)Active Directory
413 (0.419 %)VMware ESX
512 (0.387 %)NetBackup
611 (0.355 %)Orbix
78 (0.258 %)ISA Server
86 (0.193 %)VMware Infrastructure
93 (0.097 %)AquaLogic
101 (0.032 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1133 (4.288 %)AutoSys
227 (0.870 %)CONTROL-M
313 (0.419 %)CA SiteMinder
313 (0.419 %)MOM
47 (0.226 %)Tivoli
54 (0.129 %)DameWare
63 (0.097 %)OpenView
63 (0.097 %)BMC PATROL
71 (0.032 %)Foglight
71 (0.032 %)Legato
71 (0.032 %)BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
11127 (36.33 %)Oracle
2234 (7.544 %)Murex
3187 (6.028 %)Calypso
4183 (5.899 %)TIBCO
5107 (3.449 %)Microsoft
684 (2.708 %)Bloomberg
782 (2.643 %)Reuters
868 (2.192 %)Fidessa
957 (1.838 %)Sun
1051 (1.644 %)IBM
1147 (1.515 %)Informatica
1241 (1.322 %)HP
1332 (1.032 %)VERITAS
1430 (0.967 %)GL TRADE
1528 (0.903 %)Remedy
1528 (0.903 %)Tangosol
1627 (0.870 %)Red Hat
1726 (0.838 %)Citrix
1825 (0.806 %)DataSynapse
1922 (0.709 %)VMware
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