The first table below looks at the demand for RDF 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 RDF over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Rank 89 86 71
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -15
Contract jobs citing RDF 6 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.433% 0.528% 0.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.611% 0.712% 0.376%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £550 £550 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £416 £350
% change year-on-year
-22.52% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
982 1264 797
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.90% 74.22% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 721 395
Average daily rate £320 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 34
Average hourly rate £29.25 £15.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -31.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £62.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
RDF
Yorkshire

RDF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire RDF Jobs Demand Trend

RDF
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire RDF Daily Rate Trend

RDF
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing RDF 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 RDF.

1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (75.00%) Retail
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (62.50%) HPUX
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
4 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
4 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
5 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (25.00%) Big Data
5 2 (25.00%) Talend
5 2 (25.00%) Online Games
5 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Talend Open Studio
5 2 (25.00%) Games
5 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
6 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
6 1 (12.50%) Retek
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications

RDF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing RDF 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 RDF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle 8/8i
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Big Data
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 6 (75.00%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) DBA
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) HPUX
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Talend
4 1 (12.50%) Retek
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