The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 24 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cardiff 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank - - 32
Contract jobs citing OLTP 0 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff - - 1.240%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - 4.918%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £320 £320
% change year-on-year
+28.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
34 50 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 18.48% 22.22% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 30 35
Average daily rate £400 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
OLTP
South Wales

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OLTP across the Cardiff region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cardiff OLTP Jobs Demand Trend

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff OLTP Daily Rate Trend

OLTP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing OLTP 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 OLTP.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 4 (80.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) AS400
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) DTS
2 4 (80.00%) Cognos
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) OpenUP

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region citing OLTP 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 OLTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (80.00%) DTS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DBA
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 5 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 4 (80.00%) Project Management
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Cognos