RDBMS Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 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) UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	263	294	263
Rank change year-on-year	+31	-31
Contract jobs citing RDBMS	420	431	470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.89%	0.80%	0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	3.98%	3.66%	3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	261	296	303
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£318	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£350
% change year-on-year	-	+14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	5	1
Median hourly rate	£17.00	£36.00	£65.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-52.77%	-44.61%
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 with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	10550	11771	13011
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	22.39%	21.80%	23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted	6895	7962	8488
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£383	£350
% change year-on-year	+4.57%	+9.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	141	202	180
Median hourly rate	£31.25	£32.15	£27.64
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-2.79%	+16.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.15	£12.00	£16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£31.14	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+22.04%	+19.75%

RDBMS
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised 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

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

Contractor daily rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing RDBMS over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for RDBMS in the UK

RDBMS
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RDBMS within the UK over the 3 months to 27 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
England	+5	323	£475	+5.55%	110
London	+8	184	£500	-2.43%	48
South East	+25	49	£406	+1.56%	14
Scotland	+13	39	£388	-3.12%	11
South Wales	+23	31	£375	-6.25%	2
Wales	+22	31	£375	-6.25%	2
City of London	0	31	£525	-	6
County Antrim	-20	26	£463	-
Northern Ireland	-22	26	£463	-
Belfast	-24	26	£463	-
Yorkshire	+31	22	£400	-5.88%	6
Cardiff	+18	20	£375	-6.25%	2
Glasgow	-13	20	£425	+6.25%	7
North West	+10	18	£413	+13.01%	16
Edinburgh	+33	17	£375	-6.25%	3
Hampshire	+21	17	£431	+7.81%	3
East of England	0	17	£338	-22.85%	8
West Sussex	+29	15	£400	-11.11%	1
East Midlands	-1	15	£405	+24.61%	3
South Yorkshire	-	13	£500	-
Sheffield	-	13	£500	-
Newport	+9	11	£375	-
West Midlands	-4	10	£400	-9.09%	6
Surrey	+12	9	£450	-18.18%	6
West Yorkshire	+10	9	£395	-1.25%	4
Cheshire	+27	8	£400	+23.07%	3
Leeds	+10	7	£395	-8.40%	2
Derbyshire	-9	7	£415	-15.30%
Essex	-9	7	-	-	4
Derby	-13	7	£415	-15.30%

RDBMS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 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 with a requirement for RDBMS.

1	739 (100.00%)	Relational Database
2	410 (55.48%)	SQL
3	339 (45.87%)	Agile Software Development
4	332 (44.93%)	Oracle
5	298 (40.32%)	Java
6	219 (29.63%)	SQL Server
7	192 (25.98%)	Linux
8	183 (24.76%)	Finance
9	165 (22.33%)	Unix
10	140 (18.94%)	Python
11	137 (18.54%)	NoSQL
12	136 (18.40%)	Oracle Database
13	134 (18.13%)	JavaScript
14	125 (16.91%)	TDD
15	119 (16.10%)	Spring

16	118 (15.97%)	Git (software)
17	117 (15.83%)	Data Modelling
18	115 (15.56%)	Banking
19	113 (15.29%)	Web Services
20	110 (14.88%)	PostgreSQL
21	107 (14.48%)	MySQL
21	107 (14.48%)	Continuous Integration
22	103 (13.94%)	DevOps
23	102 (13.80%)	HTML
24	99 (13.40%)	Scrum
25	97 (13.13%)	SDLC
26	94 (12.72%)	PL/SQL
26	94 (12.72%)	OO
27	92 (12.45%)	Test Automation
28	91 (12.31%)	Analytical Skills

RDBMS
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	49 (6.63%)	Tomcat
2	44 (5.95%)	Apache
3	37 (5.01%)	Apache Spark
4	35 (4.74%)	JBoss
5	21 (2.84%)	WebLogic
6	16 (2.17%)	OpenStack
6	16 (2.17%)	WebSphere
7	13 (1.76%)	Confluence
7	13 (1.76%)	IIS
7	13 (1.76%)	SAS
8	10 (1.35%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	8 (1.08%)	OpenROAD
9	8 (1.08%)	SharePoint
10	7 (0.95%)	Elasticsearch
10	7 (0.95%)	MQSeries
10	7 (0.95%)	Mule
11	6 (0.81%)	Oracle Coherence
12	5 (0.68%)	CMS
12	5 (0.68%)	GlassFish
13	4 (0.54%)	Oracle Application Server

Applications
1	15 (2.03%)	Microsoft Office
2	11 (1.49%)	Microsoft Excel
3	8 (1.08%)	SPSS
4	4 (0.54%)	GNU Octave
5	3 (0.41%)	MS Visio
6	2 (0.27%)	HipChat
7	1 (0.14%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	15 (2.03%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	6 (0.81%)	Oracle EBS
3	4 (0.54%)	Eagle PACE
3	4 (0.54%)	Markit EDM
3	4 (0.54%)	SAP ERP
4	3 (0.41%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	3 (0.41%)	Oracle iProcurement
5	2 (0.27%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.27%)	Global One
5	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Applications
5	2 (0.27%)	Oracle BPM
5	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Financials
5	2 (0.27%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	2 (0.27%)	SAP Hybris
5	2 (0.27%)	SunGard GMI
5	2 (0.27%)	SunGard Martini
6	1 (0.14%)	Actimize
6	1 (0.14%)	Dynamics AX
6	1 (0.14%)	Endur
6	1 (0.14%)	Oracle iSupplier

Cloud Services
1	49 (6.63%)	Amazon AWS
2	15 (2.03%)	Amazon EC2
2	15 (2.03%)	Microsoft Azure
3	14 (1.89%)	Amazon EMR
4	13 (1.76%)	Amazon S3
5	10 (1.35%)	GitHub
5	10 (1.35%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
5	10 (1.35%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
6	8 (1.08%)	SaaS
7	6 (0.81%)	IaaS
7	6 (0.81%)	PaaS
8	5 (0.68%)	AWS Lambda
8	5 (0.68%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	4 (0.54%)	Amazon ElastiCache
9	4 (0.54%)	Cloud Computing
9	4 (0.54%)	Route 53
10	3 (0.41%)	Amazon Kinesis
10	3 (0.41%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	3 (0.41%)	Bluemix
10	3 (0.41%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	29 (3.92%)	Internet
2	22 (2.98%)	TCP/IP
3	18 (2.44%)	DNS
4	17 (2.30%)	SSL
5	13 (1.76%)	DHCP
6	12 (1.62%)	SAN
7	11 (1.49%)	HTTP
8	7 (0.95%)	Wireshark
9	6 (0.81%)	LAN
9	6 (0.81%)	NAS
9	6 (0.81%)	WAN
10	5 (0.68%)	SSH
11	4 (0.54%)	Network Security
12	3 (0.41%)	Cisco ASA
12	3 (0.41%)	F5 BIG-IP LTM
12	3 (0.41%)	Firewall
12	3 (0.41%)	Kerberos
12	3 (0.41%)	LDAP
13	2 (0.27%)	FTP
13	2 (0.27%)	IPv6

Database & Business Intelligence
1	739 (100.00%)	Relational Database
2	219 (29.63%)	SQL Server
3	137 (18.54%)	NoSQL
4	136 (18.40%)	Oracle Database
5	110 (14.88%)	PostgreSQL
6	107 (14.48%)	MySQL
7	78 (10.55%)	Data Warehouse
8	75 (10.15%)	Big Data
9	73 (9.88%)	Hadoop
10	64 (8.66%)	DB2
11	40 (5.41%)	MongoDB
12	39 (5.28%)	Oracle Database 11g
13	33 (4.47%)	Apache Cassandra
13	33 (4.47%)	SQLPlus
14	32 (4.33%)	SQL Server Integration Services
15	29 (3.92%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
16	28 (3.79%)	Apache Hive
17	24 (3.25%)	HBase
18	20 (2.71%)	Oracle9i Database
18	20 (2.71%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	118 (15.97%)	Git (software)
2	72 (9.74%)	Jenkins
3	49 (6.63%)	Maven
4	48 (6.50%)	JIRA
5	45 (6.09%)	JUnit
6	34 (4.60%)	Team Foundation Server
7	33 (4.47%)	Visual Studio
8	32 (4.33%)	Eclipse
9	29 (3.92%)	Selenium
10	27 (3.65%)	Cucumber
11	26 (3.52%)	Subversion
12	24 (3.25%)	Oracle Forms
13	18 (2.44%)	Gradle
13	18 (2.44%)	Talend Open Studio
14	17 (2.30%)	TeamCity
15	15 (2.03%)	Ant
16	13 (1.76%)	MSBuild
16	13 (1.76%)	Oracle APEX
16	13 (1.76%)	WebDriver
17	12 (1.62%)	JProfiler

General
1	183 (24.76%)	Finance
2	115 (15.56%)	Banking
3	37 (5.01%)	Manufacturing
4	35 (4.74%)	Front Office
5	33 (4.47%)	Telecoms
6	29 (3.92%)	Investment Banking
7	26 (3.52%)	Marketing
8	18 (2.44%)	Retail
9	16 (2.17%)	Electronics
10	15 (2.03%)	Legal
11	14 (1.89%)	Law
12	11 (1.49%)	Games
13	8 (1.08%)	Automotive
14	7 (0.95%)	Pharmaceutical
15	6 (0.81%)	Back Office
15	6 (0.81%)	Financial Institution
16	4 (0.54%)	Billing
17	2 (0.27%)	Advertising
17	2 (0.27%)	Local Government
17	2 (0.27%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	374 (50.61%)	Developer
2	138 (18.67%)	Java Developer
3	74 (10.01%)	Architect
4	50 (6.77%)	Analyst
5	49 (6.63%)	Senior Developer
6	47 (6.36%)	SQL Developer
7	45 (6.09%)	DBA
8	43 (5.82%)	Oracle Developer
9	40 (5.41%)	.NET Developer
10	34 (4.60%)	Data Architect
11	33 (4.47%)	Consultant
12	28 (3.79%)	Web Developer
13	27 (3.65%)	PL/SQL Developer
14	25 (3.38%)	Agile Developer
14	25 (3.38%)	SQL DBA
15	24 (3.25%)	Technical Architect
16	23 (3.11%)	Data Engineer
17	21 (2.84%)	Python Developer
18	20 (2.71%)	Technical Leader
19	19 (2.57%)	C# Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	119 (16.10%)	Spring
2	113 (15.29%)	Web Services
3	102 (13.80%)	HTML
4	88 (11.91%)	.NET
5	79 (10.69%)	XML
6	78 (10.55%)	RESTful
7	69 (9.34%)	SOAP
8	67 (9.07%)	CSS
9	63 (8.53%)	REST
10	62 (8.39%)	jQuery
11	58 (7.85%)	JMS
12	55 (7.44%)	Hibernate
13	54 (7.31%)	JSON
14	53 (7.17%)	Node.js
15	46 (6.22%)	Java EE
16	45 (6.09%)	HTML5
17	42 (5.68%)	.NET Framework
17	42 (5.68%)	Middleware
18	41 (5.55%)	AngularJS
19	40 (5.41%)	J2EE

Miscellaneous
1	91 (12.31%)	Analytical Skills
2	34 (4.60%)	Computer Science
3	27 (3.65%)	Greenfield Project
4	26 (3.52%)	Derivative
5	24 (3.25%)	Equities
6	23 (3.11%)	Algorithms
7	22 (2.98%)	Enterprise Software
8	21 (2.84%)	Equity Derivative
8	21 (2.84%)	Replication
9	18 (2.44%)	Clustering
10	15 (2.03%)	Management Information System
11	14 (1.89%)	Data Structures
12	12 (1.62%)	Data Centre
12	12 (1.62%)	Virtual Team
13	10 (1.35%)	Linux Command Line
14	9 (1.22%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
14	9 (1.22%)	NHS
15	8 (1.08%)	Reference Data
15	8 (1.08%)	SCADA
15	8 (1.08%)	User Experience

Operating Systems
1	192 (25.98%)	Linux
2	165 (22.33%)	Unix
3	86 (11.64%)	Windows
4	32 (4.33%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	31 (4.19%)	AIX
6	28 (3.79%)	Solaris
7	20 (2.71%)	Windows Server 2012
8	18 (2.44%)	Windows Server
9	13 (1.76%)	Windows Server 2008
10	8 (1.08%)	Android
10	8 (1.08%)	Apple iOS
11	6 (0.81%)	HPUX
12	4 (0.54%)	CentOS
13	2 (0.27%)	Mac OS X
13	2 (0.27%)	Windows Server 2003
14	1 (0.14%)	Debian
14	1 (0.14%)	Embedded Linux
14	1 (0.14%)	Tru64
14	1 (0.14%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	339 (45.87%)	Agile Software Development
2	125 (16.91%)	TDD
3	117 (15.83%)	Data Modelling
4	107 (14.48%)	Continuous Integration
5	103 (13.94%)	DevOps
6	99 (13.40%)	Scrum
7	97 (13.13%)	SDLC
8	94 (12.72%)	OO
9	92 (12.45%)	Test Automation
10	90 (12.18%)	ETL
11	75 (10.15%)	Microservices
12	71 (9.61%)	BDD
13	65 (8.80%)	Business Intelligence
14	64 (8.66%)	Migration
15	61 (8.25%)	Unit Testing
16	58 (7.85%)	Performance Tuning
17	57 (7.71%)	Analytics
18	55 (7.44%)	Software Engineering
19	46 (6.22%)	Continuous Delivery
20	45 (6.09%)	MVC

Programming Languages
1	410 (55.48%)	SQL
2	298 (40.32%)	Java
3	140 (18.94%)	Python
4	134 (18.13%)	JavaScript
5	94 (12.72%)	PL/SQL
6	83 (11.23%)	Perl
7	79 (10.69%)	Shell Script
8	74 (10.01%)	C#
9	50 (6.77%)	Scala
10	35 (4.74%)	C++
11	33 (4.47%)	Ruby
12	31 (4.19%)	Bash Shell
13	29 (3.92%)	T-SQL
14	24 (3.25%)	C
14	24 (3.25%)	R
15	21 (2.84%)	PowerShell
16	18 (2.44%)	VB
17	17 (2.30%)	PHP
18	12 (1.62%)	Korn
19	10 (1.35%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	81 (10.96%)	Degree
2	75 (10.15%)	Security Cleared
3	62 (8.39%)	SC Cleared
4	17 (2.30%)	Computer Science Degree
5	16 (2.17%)	CISSP
5	16 (2.17%)	RHCE
5	16 (2.17%)	RHCSA
6	10 (1.35%)	ISEB
6	10 (1.35%)	Microsoft Certification
7	9 (1.22%)	Numerate Degree
8	8 (1.08%)	MCDBA
9	5 (0.68%)	BPSS Clearance
10	4 (0.54%)	PhD
11	3 (0.41%)	Master's Degree
11	3 (0.41%)	PMI Certification
11	3 (0.41%)	PMP
11	3 (0.41%)	SAP Certification
12	2 (0.27%)	Cisco Certification
12	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Certification
12	2 (0.27%)	SANS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	36 (4.87%)	Data Quality
2	29 (3.92%)	QA
3	8 (1.08%)	PMO
4	5 (0.68%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	4 (0.54%)	GAAP
6	3 (0.41%)	MiFID
6	3 (0.41%)	PCI DSS
6	3 (0.41%)	SLA
7	2 (0.27%)	Basel II
7	2 (0.27%)	GCP
7	2 (0.27%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	1 (0.14%)	IFRS
8	1 (0.14%)	IFRS 9
8	1 (0.14%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	57 (7.71%)	Docker
2	21 (2.84%)	Active Directory
3	12 (1.62%)	HDFS
4	10 (1.35%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	9 (1.22%)	Oracle RAC
6	6 (0.81%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7	5 (0.68%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
7	5 (0.68%)	Virtual Machines
7	5 (0.68%)	Virtual Servers
8	3 (0.41%)	ISA Server
8	3 (0.41%)	Shibboleth
9	2 (0.27%)	Apache Flume
9	2 (0.27%)	vSphere
10	1 (0.14%)	Cronacle
10	1 (0.14%)	Firmware
10	1 (0.14%)	Postfix

Systems Management
1	39 (5.28%)	Ansible
1	39 (5.28%)	Puppet
2	38 (5.14%)	Opscode Chef
3	34 (4.60%)	Kubernetes
4	16 (2.17%)	Terraform
5	14 (1.89%)	Oracle RMAN
6	12 (1.62%)	Data Guard
6	12 (1.62%)	Hadoop YARN
7	8 (1.08%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
8	6 (0.81%)	Microsoft Clustering
8	6 (0.81%)	Oozie
8	6 (0.81%)	Tivoli
9	5 (0.68%)	Cobbler
9	5 (0.68%)	Control-M
10	3 (0.41%)	BladeLogic
10	3 (0.41%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11	2 (0.27%)	Docker Swarm
11	2 (0.27%)	Mesos
11	2 (0.27%)	Rancher
11	2 (0.27%)	vCenter Server

Vendors
1	332 (44.93%)	Oracle
2	77 (10.42%)	Microsoft
3	58 (7.85%)	Sybase
4	46 (6.22%)	SAP
5	31 (4.19%)	IBM
6	29 (3.92%)	Red Hat
7	22 (2.98%)	Informatica
8	21 (2.84%)	Perforce
9	18 (2.44%)	Talend
10	17 (2.30%)	HP
10	17 (2.30%)	Salesforce.com
11	16 (2.17%)	Murex
11	16 (2.17%)	Teradata
12	14 (1.89%)	TIBCO
12	14 (1.89%)	VMware
13	13 (1.76%)	Ab Initio
14	12 (1.62%)	Cloudera
14	12 (1.62%)	Cognos
15	10 (1.35%)	Cisco
15	10 (1.35%)	Fidessa