The first table below looks at the demand for DTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTS 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 City of London 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
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Rank 192 201 228
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +27
Contract jobs citing DTS 11 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.172% 0.216% 0.174%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.801% 1.183% 0.936%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 8
Average daily rate £500 £438 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -10.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £379 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £560
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £329
% change year-on-year
-4.61% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.25 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+19.65% -6.40%
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1374 1437 1816
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.54% 18.27% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1030 1034 1360
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 14
Average hourly rate £36.04 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.75 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DTS
London

DTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London DTS Jobs Demand Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DTS across the City of London region.

City of London DTS Daily Rate Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London DTS Daily Rate Histogram

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DTS across the City of London region.

City of London DTS Hourly Rate Trend

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 20 (95.24%) SQL
1 20 (95.24%) SQL Server
1 20 (95.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 13 (61.90%) T-SQL
3 12 (57.14%) Finance
4 10 (47.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (42.86%) XML
5 9 (42.86%) ETL
6 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2008
7 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
7 7 (33.33%) BDD
7 7 (33.33%) Derivative
7 7 (33.33%) Data Analysis
7 7 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
7 7 (33.33%) XPath
7 7 (33.33%) Cadis
7 7 (33.33%) Equities
7 7 (33.33%) TDD
7 7 (33.33%) Data Mining
8 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2000
9 4 (19.05%) Banking
9 4 (19.05%) Migration
9 4 (19.05%) .NET
10 3 (14.29%) C#
10 3 (14.29%) Oracle
10 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
10 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 3 (14.29%) Investment Management
11 2 (9.524%) BusinessObjects XI

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 9 (42.86%) XML
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
3 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.762%) XSL
3 1 (4.762%) XSLT
3 1 (4.762%) WinForms
3 1 (4.762%) Silverlight
3 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) SAN
2 1 (4.762%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (95.24%) SQL Server
1 20 (95.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (47.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (38.10%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (33.33%) Data Mining
5 5 (23.81%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (9.524%) BusinessObjects XI
7 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 7
7 2 (9.524%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (4.762%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (4.762%) MySQL
8 1 (4.762%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (4.762%) ProClarity
8 1 (4.762%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.762%) Retail
4 1 (4.762%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.762%) Front Office
4 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) DBA
3 6 (28.57%) SQL Developer
4 5 (23.81%) SQL DBA
5 3 (14.29%) Administrator
5 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Developer
6 2 (9.524%) .NET Developer
6 2 (9.524%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (4.762%) Database Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Sybase Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Business Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Senior SQL DBA
7 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Senior DBA
7 1 (4.762%) Teradata DBA
7 1 (4.762%) Senior SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Derivative
1 7 (33.33%) Equities
2 2 (9.524%) Visualisation
2 2 (9.524%) Replication
3 1 (4.762%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.762%) SaaS
3 1 (4.762%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.762%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.762%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (4.762%) Windows
1 1 (4.762%) AIX
1 1 (4.762%) Windows 2000
1 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) ETL
2 7 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 7 (33.33%) BDD
2 7 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 7 (33.33%) TDD
3 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Investment Management
5 2 (9.524%) System Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Change Management
5 2 (9.524%) E-Commerce
5 2 (9.524%) ITIL
5 2 (9.524%) Data Modelling
6 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.762%) RAD
6 1 (4.762%) CRM
6 1 (4.762%) ERP
6 1 (4.762%) Data Management
6 1 (4.762%) Validation
6 1 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.762%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) T-SQL
3 7 (33.33%) XPath
4 3 (14.29%) C#
5 2 (9.524%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL
5 2 (9.524%) VB
5 2 (9.524%) VB.NET
5 2 (9.524%) VBA
6 1 (4.762%) VB6
6 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) MCDBA
1 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.762%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Cadis
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.524%) Tableau
3 2 (9.524%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.762%) Sybase
4 1 (4.762%) Informatica
4 1 (4.762%) VMware
4 1 (4.762%) Reuters
4 1 (4.762%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.762%) Red Gate
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