The first table below looks at the demand for RDBMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 20 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 Watford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
Rank - 17 16
Contract jobs citing RDBMS 0 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford - 4.673% 2.667%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 22.73% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £331 £360
% change year-on-year
-1.88% -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
Watford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
19 22 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Watford 26.39% 20.56% 17.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 7
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £280 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £457 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
RDBMS
Hertfordshire

RDBMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford RDBMS Daily Rate Trend

RDBMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Retail
2 6 (85.71%) Subversion
2 6 (85.71%) Content Management
2 6 (85.71%) XMLBeans
2 6 (85.71%) Ajax
2 6 (85.71%) Blue Martini
2 6 (85.71%) Web 2.0
2 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
2 6 (85.71%) XPath
2 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 6 (85.71%) ATG
2 6 (85.71%) Log4j
2 6 (85.71%) JSTL
2 6 (85.71%) Bash shell
2 6 (85.71%) Elastic Path
2 6 (85.71%) UML
2 6 (85.71%) OO
2 6 (85.71%) RAD
2 6 (85.71%) XHTML
2 6 (85.71%) MQSeries
2 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
2 6 (85.71%) JMS
2 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 6 (85.71%) Eclipse
2 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 6 (85.71%) Interwoven
2 6 (85.71%) Tridion
2 6 (85.71%) Internet

RDBMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (85.71%) HTML
1 6 (85.71%) J2EE
1 6 (85.71%) EJB
1 6 (85.71%) JDBC
1 6 (85.71%) JSP
1 6 (85.71%) Servlets
1 6 (85.71%) Struts
1 6 (85.71%) XML
1 6 (85.71%) XSLT
1 6 (85.71%) XHTML
1 6 (85.71%) JMS
1 6 (85.71%) XMLBeans
1 6 (85.71%) Ajax
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
1 6 (85.71%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (85.71%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) DB2
2 1 (14.29%) OLTP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Ant
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Eclipse
1 6 (85.71%) Log4j
1 6 (85.71%) Subversion
General
1 7 (100.00%) Retail
2 6 (85.71%) Finance
3 5 (71.43%) Games
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
1 6 (85.71%) J2EE Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Database Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Web 2.0
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 6 (85.71%) HPUX
2 6 (85.71%) Solaris
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) UML
1 6 (85.71%) OO
1 6 (85.71%) RAD
1 6 (85.71%) E-Commerce
1 6 (85.71%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) XPath
2 6 (85.71%) Bash shell
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
1 6 (85.71%) Interwoven
1 6 (85.71%) ATG
1 6 (85.71%) Blue Martini
1 6 (85.71%) Elastic Path