The first table below looks at the demand for Database Tuning skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Database Tuning 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire 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
Database Tuning
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Database Tuning 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.00
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
908 1190 737
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.55% 73.55% 65.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 686 351
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Database Tuning
Yorkshire

Database Tuning
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Database Tuning across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Database Tuning Jobs Demand Trend

Database Tuning
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Database Tuning across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Database Tuning Daily Rate Trend

Database Tuning
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Database Tuning 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 Database Tuning.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle OWB
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) StarTeam
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell

Database Tuning
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Database Tuning 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 Database Tuning. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle OWB
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (50.00%) StarTeam
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Korn
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle