Bristol DTS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DTS over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Location Aylesbury Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England England Gatwick Glamorgan Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Rotherham Salford Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	58
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	1.563 %	6.167 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£280
Average daily rate	£280	£320
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£333
% change on same period last year	-6.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£31.44
Average hourly rate	-	£33.22
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.49	£31.94
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Database & Business Intelligence Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	128	227
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.169 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	47	62
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£369
Average daily rate	£337	£429
% change on same period last year	-21.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£490
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.18	£30.86
Average hourly rate	£34.75	£33.96
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.32	£37.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
DTS South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DTS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DTS across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DTS across the Bristol region.

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DTS across the Bristol region.

DTS
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing DTS 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 DTS.

1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 1 3 (100.00 %) Transact-SQL 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (66.67 %) VBA 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Access 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing DTS 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 DTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Access 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) DBA 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst Programmer 1 1 (33.33 %) Programmer 1 1 (33.33 %) Report Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server DBA 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Crystal Reports Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL DBA 1 1 (33.33 %) Report Developer	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 1 3 (100.00 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) VBA