Wales RDBMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Location Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Brentford Bristol Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	57
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	6	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.448 %	2.740 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£405
Average daily rate	-	£405
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£405
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£359
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£23.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.57	£28.61
% change on same period last year	+24.30 %
Database & Business Intelligence Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	174	146
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.148 %
Daily rates quoted	44	30
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£375
Average daily rate	£351	£407
% change on same period last year	-13.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.29	£21.58
Average hourly rate	£18.56	£23.37
% change on same period last year	-20.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.83	£25.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
RDBMS UK

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.

RDBMS
Demand Trend

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

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing RDBMS across the Wales region.

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing RDBMS across the Wales region.

RDBMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the Wales region over the 3 months to 25 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.

Location	Rank 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
South Wales	-3	3	-	-
West Wales	+3	2	-	-

RDBMS UK

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing RDBMS 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 RDBMS.

1 5 (62.50 %) Oracle 1 5 (62.50 %) UNIX 2 4 (50.00 %) Java 2 4 (50.00 %) Finance 3 3 (37.50 %) Government 3 3 (37.50 %) HTML 3 3 (37.50 %) SAP Basis 3 3 (37.50 %) HP 3 3 (37.50 %) NetWeaver 3 3 (37.50 %) ERP 3 3 (37.50 %) AIX 3 3 (37.50 %) HPUX 3 3 (37.50 %) SAP 3 3 (37.50 %) XML 4 2 (25.00 %) EJB

4 2 (25.00 %) JSP 4 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 4 2 (25.00 %) C++ 4 2 (25.00 %) SQL 4 2 (25.00 %) J2EE 4 2 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (12.50 %) Data Conversion 5 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (12.50 %) Migration 5 1 (12.50 %) BPEL 5 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 5 1 (12.50 %) JMS 5 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 5 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 5 1 (12.50 %) C

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing RDBMS 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 RDBMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (37.50 %) HTML 1 3 (37.50 %) XML 1 3 (37.50 %) SAP Basis 2 2 (25.00 %) J2EE 2 2 (25.00 %) EJB 2 2 (25.00 %) JSP 3 1 (12.50 %) XSD 3 1 (12.50 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) NetWeaver
Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Financials	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 2 3 (37.50 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) DBA 2 2 (25.00 %) Java Developer 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Database Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Database Architect 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Oracle Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 5 (62.50 %) UNIX 2 3 (37.50 %) AIX 2 3 (37.50 %) HPUX 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ERP 2 2 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (12.50 %) BPEL 3 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (50.00 %) Java 2 2 (25.00 %) JavaScript 2 2 (25.00 %) C++ 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Shell Script 3 1 (12.50 %) C 3 1 (12.50 %) PL/SQL	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Oracle 2 3 (37.50 %) SAP 2 3 (37.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) Sybase