VLDB Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VLDB skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VLDB over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Very Large Database (VLDB)
Rank 516 581 564
Rank change year-on-year
+65 -17
Contract jobs citing VLDB 13 3 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.005% 0.033%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.136% 0.027% 0.161%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 17
Average daily rate £400 £340 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -13.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £236 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £408 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 - £333
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 11 VLDB jobs
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		 9589 11093 12450
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.67% 19.02% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5784 6372 6932
Average daily rate £388 £375 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -4.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £258 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 268 387
Average hourly rate £25.60 £28.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.67 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.70 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%

VLDB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VLDB Jobs Demand Trend

VLDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

VLDB Daily Rate Trend

VLDB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VLDB within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

VLDB Daily Rate Histogram

VLDB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VLDB Hourly Rate Trend

VLDB
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VLDB within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +55 12 £400 +17.64%
North West - 8 £400 -
Cheshire - 8 £400 -
Chester - 7 £394 -
London +38 3 £519 +52.64%
City of London +15 2 £519 +35.68%
Wales - 1 £375 -
South East - 1 £400 -

VLDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VLDB 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 VLDB.

1 24 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 15 (55.56%) Oracle
3 13 (48.15%) SQL
4 12 (44.44%) T-SQL
4 12 (44.44%) Data Modelling
4 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (40.74%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (40.74%) .NET
5 11 (40.74%) SAP
6 10 (37.04%) Java
6 10 (37.04%) SOA
6 10 (37.04%) BizTalk Server
6 10 (37.04%) TDD
6 10 (37.04%) ESB
6 10 (37.04%) Contract for Difference
6 10 (37.04%) Multithreading
6 10 (37.04%) SAP PI
6 10 (37.04%) Windows Azure
7 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
7 9 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
7 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
7 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (33.33%) Validation
7 9 (33.33%) Finance
7 9 (33.33%) N-Tier
7 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
7 9 (33.33%) WSDL
7 9 (33.33%) XML Schema
7 9 (33.33%) XML
8 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse

VLDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VLDB 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 VLDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (40.74%) .NET
2 10 (37.04%) SAP PI
3 9 (33.33%) WSDL
3 9 (33.33%) XML Schema
3 9 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (7.407%) COM
5 1 (3.704%) Web Services
5 1 (3.704%) WPF
5 1 (3.704%) REST
Application Platforms
1 10 (37.04%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (37.04%) ESB
1 10 (37.04%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) HTTP
1 2 (7.407%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
3 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (25.93%) OLTP
4 5 (18.52%) IDMS
5 3 (11.11%) MySQL
5 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 3 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.704%) dBASE
6 1 (3.704%) DB2
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (7.407%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Advertising
3 1 (3.704%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (51.85%) Architect
2 11 (40.74%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (37.04%) DBA
4 5 (18.52%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Administrator
5 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 3 (11.11%) SQL DBA
6 2 (7.407%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (7.407%) Data Warehouse Architect
6 2 (7.407%) UNIX Administrator
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Programmer
7 1 (3.704%) DB2 DBA
7 1 (3.704%) Mainframe DBA
7 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (3.704%) Teradata DBA
7 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Contract for Difference
2 9 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 7 (25.93%) Replication
4 5 (18.52%) Data Integration
5 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
6 2 (7.407%) Mathematics
6 2 (7.407%) Clustering
7 1 (3.704%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.407%) UNIX
1 2 (7.407%) HPUX
1 2 (7.407%) Solaris
2 1 (3.704%) zOS
2 1 (3.704%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Data Modelling
1 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (40.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (37.04%) SOA
3 10 (37.04%) TDD
3 10 (37.04%) Multithreading
4 9 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
4 9 (33.33%) Validation
5 6 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (18.52%) E-business
6 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
7 3 (11.11%) ETL
7 3 (11.11%) Load Testing
7 3 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (7.407%) Kimball Methodology
8 2 (7.407%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (7.407%) Enterprise Architecture
8 2 (7.407%) ITIL
8 2 (7.407%) Benchmarking
8 2 (7.407%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) T-SQL
3 10 (37.04%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) Perl
5 2 (7.407%) Bourne shell
5 2 (7.407%) Korn
5 2 (7.407%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.407%) AWK
6 1 (3.704%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 2 (7.407%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (7.407%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (7.407%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Oracle
2 11 (40.74%) SAP
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.11%) Netezza
5 2 (7.407%) Sun
5 2 (7.407%) BMC
5 2 (7.407%) Veritas
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