The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 17 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 for the Wales region.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank 38 50 52
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +2
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 5 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 1.238% 0.721% 1.080%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.263% 4.598% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
Average daily rate £301 - £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £322 £331 £360
% change year-on-year
-2.79% -7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+8.82% -15.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
95 87 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 23.51% 15.68% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 44 60
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £182 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 10
Average hourly rate £17.00 £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.84% -37.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales RDBMS Jobs Demand Trend

RDBMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales RDBMS Hourly Rate Trend

RDBMS
Contract Locations

The table below 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 17 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
West Wales - 2 £293 -
South Wales 0 1 - -
RDBMS
UK

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 (45.45%) NHS
1 5 (45.45%) Delphi
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle
1 5 (45.45%) Firebird
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) JPA
2 4 (36.36%) TDD
2 4 (36.36%) JSF
2 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 4 (36.36%) Java EE
2 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
2 4 (36.36%) XSLT
2 4 (36.36%) ClearQuest
2 4 (36.36%) InterBase
2 4 (36.36%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) ClearCase
2 4 (36.36%) Client/Server
2 4 (36.36%) Eclipse
3 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 1 (9.091%) ISEB Practitioner

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 4 (36.36%) XML
1 4 (36.36%) XSLT
1 4 (36.36%) JSF
1 4 (36.36%) Java EE
1 4 (36.36%) JPA
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Batch
2 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 1 (9.091%) JAXP
3 1 (9.091%) SAX
3 1 (9.091%) XSD
3 1 (9.091%) DOM
3 1 (9.091%) HTML
3 1 (9.091%) J2EE
3 1 (9.091%) CSS
3 1 (9.091%) JDBC
3 1 (9.091%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Firebird
2 4 (36.36%) InterBase
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (9.091%) TOAD
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) ClearCase
1 4 (36.36%) Eclipse
1 4 (36.36%) ClearQuest
1 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 1 (9.091%) Ant
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (9.091%) UNIX Support
4 1 (9.091%) Designer
4 1 (9.091%) Delphi Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) NHS
2 4 (36.36%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
1 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) TDD
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) UML
4 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (9.091%) RUP
4 1 (9.091%) DSDM
4 1 (9.091%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Delphi
2 4 (36.36%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) PL/SQL
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) XPath
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) ISEB
3 1 (9.091%) ISEB Practitioner
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle