RDBMS Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for RDBMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RDBMS over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) England / London
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	244	256	222
Rank change year-on-year	+12	-34
Contract jobs citing RDBMS	190	176	218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	0.92%	0.81%	0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.86%	3.56%	3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted	135	133	153
Median daily rate	£500	£513	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.43%	+13.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£400	£378	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£650	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£350
% change year-on-year	-	+14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.00	£36.00	£65.00
% change year-on-year	-52.77%	-44.61%

RDBMS is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	4922	4937	5577
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	23.80%	22.82%	23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	3577	3645	3918
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£365	£335	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£625	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£388	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.22%	+10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted	30	21	51
Median hourly rate	£24.66	£35.00	£27.78
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-29.54%	+25.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.33	£16.75	£15.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.43	£100.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£30.35	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+25.19%	+16.74%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing RDBMS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category.

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing RDBMS in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing RDBMS in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for RDBMS in London

RDBMS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the London region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	0	30	£525	-	9
Heathrow	+6	1	£600	-7.69%
Feltham	-	1	£460	-
Hounslow	-	1	£600	-
Canary Wharf	-	1	£625	-
RDBMS England

RDBMS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing RDBMS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for RDBMS.

1	354 (100.00%)	Relational Database
2	178 (50.28%)	SQL
3	164 (46.33%)	Agile Software Development
4	153 (43.22%)	Java
5	119 (33.62%)	Oracle
6	111 (31.36%)	Python
7	110 (31.07%)	Finance
8	106 (29.94%)	Linux
9	102 (28.81%)	NoSQL
10	85 (24.01%)	Git (software)
11	82 (23.16%)	MySQL
12	81 (22.88%)	DevOps
13	77 (21.75%)	PostgreSQL
14	76 (21.47%)	TDD
15	72 (20.34%)	SQL Server

16	71 (20.06%)	Banking
17	67 (18.93%)	JavaScript
18	64 (18.08%)	Unix
19	63 (17.80%)	Data Modelling
19	63 (17.80%)	Continuous Integration
20	62 (17.51%)	RESTful
21	59 (16.67%)	Perl
22	56 (15.82%)	Microservices
23	54 (15.25%)	BDD
23	54 (15.25%)	Spring
24	53 (14.97%)	Big Data
25	52 (14.69%)	SDLC
25	52 (14.69%)	Hadoop
25	52 (14.69%)	Web Services
26	50 (14.12%)	Scrum

RDBMS
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	32 (9.04%)	Apache Spark
2	19 (5.37%)	Apache
3	16 (4.52%)	OpenStack
4	14 (3.95%)	WebSphere
5	12 (3.39%)	Tomcat
6	10 (2.82%)	IIS
7	8 (2.26%)	Confluence
8	6 (1.69%)	Elasticsearch
8	6 (1.69%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	6 (1.69%)	SAS
9	5 (1.41%)	JBoss
10	4 (1.13%)	Apache Pig
10	4 (1.13%)	MQSeries
10	4 (1.13%)	WebLogic
11	3 (0.85%)	Cloud Foundry
11	3 (0.85%)	SharePoint
11	3 (0.85%)	WebLogic Portal
12	2 (0.56%)	Oracle Workflow
12	2 (0.56%)	WebSphere Application Server
12	2 (0.56%)	WebSphere Process Server

Applications
1	6 (1.69%)	SPSS
2	5 (1.41%)	Microsoft Excel
3	4 (1.13%)	Microsoft Office
4	3 (0.85%)	GNU Octave
5	2 (0.56%)	HipChat
6	1 (0.28%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	10 (2.82%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	4 (1.13%)	Eagle PACE
2	4 (1.13%)	Markit EDM
3	3 (0.85%)	Oracle iProcurement
4	2 (0.56%)	Global One
4	2 (0.56%)	Oracle Applications
4	2 (0.56%)	Oracle EBS
4	2 (0.56%)	Salesforce.com CRM
4	2 (0.56%)	SunGard GMI
4	2 (0.56%)	SunGard Martini
5	1 (0.28%)	Adobe Campaign
5	1 (0.28%)	BASE24
5	1 (0.28%)	Endur
5	1 (0.28%)	Oracle Assets
5	1 (0.28%)	Oracle BPM
5	1 (0.28%)	Oracle Financials
5	1 (0.28%)	Oracle iSupplier
5	1 (0.28%)	Oracle Payables
5	1 (0.28%)	Oracle Receivables
5	1 (0.28%)	SAP BPC

Cloud Services
1	42 (11.86%)	Amazon AWS
2	15 (4.24%)	Amazon EC2
3	13 (3.67%)	Amazon EMR
4	12 (3.39%)	Amazon S3
5	10 (2.82%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
5	10 (2.82%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
6	9 (2.54%)	Microsoft Azure
7	6 (1.69%)	GitHub
8	5 (1.41%)	AWS Lambda
9	4 (1.13%)	Amazon ElastiCache
9	4 (1.13%)	Cloud Computing
9	4 (1.13%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	4 (1.13%)	Route 53
9	4 (1.13%)	SaaS
10	3 (0.85%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	3 (0.85%)	Bluemix
10	3 (0.85%)	IBM Cloud
10	3 (0.85%)	OpenShift
11	2 (0.56%)	Amazon Kinesis
11	2 (0.56%)	Azure Data Factory

Communications & Networking
1	22 (6.21%)	Internet
2	11 (3.11%)	SSL
3	7 (1.98%)	TCP/IP
4	5 (1.41%)	HTTP
5	4 (1.13%)	DNS
6	3 (0.85%)	SAN
7	2 (0.56%)	DHCP
7	2 (0.56%)	FTP
7	2 (0.56%)	IPsec
7	2 (0.56%)	Network Security
8	1 (0.28%)	AMQP
8	1 (0.28%)	BIG-IP
8	1 (0.28%)	Kerberos
8	1 (0.28%)	Skype
8	1 (0.28%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	354 (100.00%)	Relational Database
2	102 (28.81%)	NoSQL
3	82 (23.16%)	MySQL
4	77 (21.75%)	PostgreSQL
5	72 (20.34%)	SQL Server
6	53 (14.97%)	Big Data
7	52 (14.69%)	Hadoop
8	41 (11.58%)	Data Warehouse
9	32 (9.04%)	Oracle Database
10	30 (8.47%)	Apache Cassandra
10	30 (8.47%)	DB2
11	23 (6.50%)	Apache Hive
11	23 (6.50%)	HBase
12	22 (6.21%)	MongoDB
13	12 (3.39%)	Neo4j
14	8 (2.26%)	MarkLogic
15	7 (1.98%)	Impala
15	7 (1.98%)	SQL Server 2012
16	6 (1.69%)	Data Lake
16	6 (1.69%)	MariaDB

Development Applications
1	85 (24.01%)	Git (software)
2	46 (12.99%)	Jenkins
3	27 (7.63%)	Maven
4	25 (7.06%)	JIRA
4	25 (7.06%)	Selenium
5	22 (6.21%)	Subversion
6	21 (5.93%)	Cucumber
7	20 (5.65%)	JUnit
8	12 (3.39%)	Oracle APEX
8	12 (3.39%)	WebDriver
9	10 (2.82%)	Eclipse
9	10 (2.82%)	Hudson
9	10 (2.82%)	Talend Open Studio
10	9 (2.54%)	TeamCity
11	8 (2.26%)	Ant
12	7 (1.98%)	JBehave
12	7 (1.98%)	Team Foundation Server
13	6 (1.69%)	Atlassian Bamboo
13	6 (1.69%)	Gradle
13	6 (1.69%)	Vagrant

General
1	110 (31.07%)	Finance
2	71 (20.06%)	Banking
3	36 (10.17%)	Front Office
4	24 (6.78%)	Investment Banking
5	20 (5.65%)	Telecoms
6	16 (4.52%)	Marketing
7	13 (3.67%)	Retail
8	12 (3.39%)	Legal
9	11 (3.11%)	Manufacturing
10	10 (2.82%)	Electronics
11	8 (2.26%)	Games
12	6 (1.69%)	Law
13	5 (1.41%)	Pharmaceutical
14	2 (0.56%)	Advertising
14	2 (0.56%)	Back Office
14	2 (0.56%)	Billing
14	2 (0.56%)	International Banking
14	2 (0.56%)	Prime Brokerage
15	1 (0.28%)	General Ledger
15	1 (0.28%)	German Language

Job Titles
1	170 (48.02%)	Developer
2	70 (19.77%)	Java Developer
3	42 (11.86%)	Architect
4	35 (9.89%)	Senior Developer
5	26 (7.34%)	Analyst
5	26 (7.34%)	Data Architect
6	24 (6.78%)	Web Developer
7	21 (5.93%)	Data Engineer
8	20 (5.65%)	Consultant
9	19 (5.37%)	Perl Developer
9	19 (5.37%)	Python Developer
10	16 (4.52%)	Scala Developer
10	16 (4.52%)	Senior Web Developer
11	14 (3.95%)	Agile Developer
11	14 (3.95%)	Node.js Developer
12	13 (3.67%)	DBA
12	13 (3.67%)	Front Office Developer
12	13 (3.67%)	Senior Java Developer
13	12 (3.39%)	Big Data Engineer
14	11 (3.11%)	E-Commerce Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	62 (17.51%)	RESTful
2	54 (15.25%)	Spring
3	52 (14.69%)	Web Services
4	46 (12.99%)	HTML
5	45 (12.71%)	Node.js
6	39 (11.02%)	XML
7	37 (10.45%)	CSS
8	31 (8.76%)	JSON
9	30 (8.47%)	JMS
10	26 (7.34%)	.NET
11	24 (6.78%)	Kafka
11	24 (6.78%)	REST
12	22 (6.21%)	SOAP
13	18 (5.08%)	AngularJS
13	18 (5.08%)	Hibernate
14	17 (4.80%)	ActiveMQ
15	16 (4.52%)	jQuery
15	16 (4.52%)	Middleware
16	15 (4.24%)	Moose
17	14 (3.95%)	J2SE

Miscellaneous
1	35 (9.89%)	Analytical Skills
2	24 (6.78%)	Equities
3	23 (6.50%)	Computer Science
3	23 (6.50%)	Greenfield Project
4	21 (5.93%)	Equity Derivative
5	19 (5.37%)	Derivative
6	16 (4.52%)	Algorithms
7	7 (1.98%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
7	7 (1.98%)	Linux Command Line
8	6 (1.69%)	Fintech
8	6 (1.69%)	Management Information System
9	5 (1.41%)	Clustering
9	5 (1.41%)	Data Structures
9	5 (1.41%)	Fixed Income
9	5 (1.41%)	Life Science
9	5 (1.41%)	PKI
9	5 (1.41%)	Replication
10	4 (1.13%)	Data Centre
10	4 (1.13%)	Enterprise Software
10	4 (1.13%)	Reference Data

Operating Systems
1	106 (29.94%)	Linux
2	64 (18.08%)	Unix
3	22 (6.21%)	Windows
4	7 (1.98%)	Solaris
5	4 (1.13%)	Android
5	4 (1.13%)	Apple iOS
6	3 (0.85%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	2 (0.56%)	Mac OS X
7	2 (0.56%)	Windows Server
8	1 (0.28%)	AIX
8	1 (0.28%)	CentOS
8	1 (0.28%)	Debian
8	1 (0.28%)	Ubuntu
8	1 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2003
8	1 (0.28%)	Windows Server 2008

Processes & Methodologies
1	164 (46.33%)	Agile Software Development
2	81 (22.88%)	DevOps
3	76 (21.47%)	TDD
4	63 (17.80%)	Continuous Integration
4	63 (17.80%)	Data Modelling
5	56 (15.82%)	Microservices
6	54 (15.25%)	BDD
7	52 (14.69%)	SDLC
8	50 (14.12%)	Scrum
9	46 (12.99%)	Analytics
10	44 (12.43%)	Continuous Delivery
10	44 (12.43%)	OO
11	41 (11.58%)	Test Automation
12	39 (11.02%)	Continuous Deployment
12	39 (11.02%)	ETL
13	33 (9.32%)	SOA
14	31 (8.76%)	Software Delivery
14	31 (8.76%)	User Stories
15	30 (8.47%)	Business Intelligence
16	28 (7.91%)	E-Commerce

Programming Languages
1	178 (50.28%)	SQL
2	153 (43.22%)	Java
3	111 (31.36%)	Python
4	67 (18.93%)	JavaScript
5	59 (16.67%)	Perl
6	41 (11.58%)	Scala
7	31 (8.76%)	Shell Script
8	30 (8.47%)	PL/SQL
9	29 (8.19%)	Ruby
10	23 (6.50%)	C++
11	18 (5.08%)	R
12	14 (3.95%)	C#
13	13 (3.67%)	T-SQL
14	12 (3.39%)	PowerShell
15	11 (3.11%)	Bash Shell
16	10 (2.82%)	Apex Code
16	10 (2.82%)	SOQL
17	9 (2.54%)	VB
18	7 (1.98%)	PHP
19	4 (1.13%)	Korn

Qualifications
1	28 (7.91%)	Degree
2	23 (6.50%)	Security Cleared
3	21 (5.93%)	SC Cleared
4	13 (3.67%)	Computer Science Degree
5	9 (2.54%)	ISEB
5	9 (2.54%)	Numerate Degree
6	3 (0.85%)	PhD
7	2 (0.56%)	DV Cleared
7	2 (0.56%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	1 (0.28%)	DBS Check
8	1 (0.28%)	Master's Degree
8	1 (0.28%)	Postgraduate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	22 (6.21%)	QA
2	21 (5.93%)	Data Quality
3	4 (1.13%)	GAAP
4	3 (0.85%)	MiFID
5	2 (0.56%)	GCP
5	2 (0.56%)	PMO
5	2 (0.56%)	SLA
6	1 (0.28%)	PCI DSS
6	1 (0.28%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	44 (12.43%)	Docker
2	12 (3.39%)	HDFS
3	5 (1.41%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4	2 (0.56%)	Apache Flume
4	2 (0.56%)	Oracle RAC
4	2 (0.56%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	1 (0.28%)	Active Directory
5	1 (0.28%)	Cronacle
5	1 (0.28%)	Postfix

Systems Management
1	33 (9.32%)	Kubernetes
2	31 (8.76%)	Ansible
3	20 (5.65%)	Puppet
4	18 (5.08%)	Opscode Chef
5	14 (3.95%)	Terraform
6	12 (3.39%)	Hadoop YARN
7	5 (1.41%)	Tivoli
8	4 (1.13%)	Control-M
8	4 (1.13%)	Oozie
9	3 (0.85%)	BladeLogic
10	2 (0.56%)	Docker Swarm
10	2 (0.56%)	Mesos
10	2 (0.56%)	Rancher
11	1 (0.28%)	Icinga
11	1 (0.28%)	Pingdom

Vendors
1	119 (33.62%)	Oracle
2	49 (13.84%)	Sybase
3	23 (6.50%)	IBM
4	20 (5.65%)	Microsoft
5	19 (5.37%)	SAP
6	17 (4.80%)	Salesforce.com
7	14 (3.95%)	TIBCO
8	12 (3.39%)	Informatica
9	11 (3.11%)	Cloudera
10	10 (2.82%)	Fidessa
10	10 (2.82%)	Talend
11	8 (2.26%)	Murex
11	8 (2.26%)	Tableau
12	7 (1.98%)	Atlassian
13	6 (1.69%)	Remedy
13	6 (1.69%)	Teradata
13	6 (1.69%)	TOWER Software
14	5 (1.41%)	Calypso
14	5 (1.41%)	MicroStrategy
14	5 (1.41%)	Serena