The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP 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 OLTP over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 198 213 242
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +29
Contract jobs citing OLTP 17 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.247% 0.117% 0.060%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.130% 0.630% 0.309%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 3
Average daily rate £425 £475 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% +26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £320 £315
% change year-on-year
+21.09% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1505 1429 1939
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.83% 18.53% 19.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1114 1044 1465
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 18
Average hourly rate £39.51 £39.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.29% +56.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £19.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.05 £50.00 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
OLTP
London

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London OLTP Daily Rate Trend

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLTP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London OLTP Daily Rate Histogram

OLTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London OLTP Hourly Rate Trend

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 20 (68.97%) Business Intelligence
1 20 (68.97%) Banking
2 17 (58.62%) OLAP
3 15 (51.72%) SQL Server
3 15 (51.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (48.28%) SQL
5 13 (44.83%) Finance
5 13 (44.83%) ETL
6 12 (41.38%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
8 8 (27.59%) T-SQL
8 8 (27.59%) Cognos
8 8 (27.59%) Cognos Business Intelligence
8 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (24.14%) Investment Banking
10 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
10 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
10 6 (20.69%) Oracle
11 5 (17.24%) Blackberry
12 4 (13.79%) Degree
12 4 (13.79%) Release Management
12 4 (13.79%) Oracle 11g
12 4 (13.79%) Kindle
12 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
12 4 (13.79%) Data Security
12 4 (13.79%) Data Mining
12 4 (13.79%) ISO 9001
12 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (13.79%) Sybase

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 1 (3.448%) Middleware
1 1 (3.448%) MDX
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
1 1 (3.448%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Office
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.448%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (3.448%) Dynamics NAV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (58.62%) OLAP
2 15 (51.72%) SQL Server
2 15 (51.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (41.38%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (13.79%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (13.79%) Data Mining
7 3 (10.34%) DB2
7 3 (10.34%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (10.34%) Oracle OLAP
7 3 (10.34%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (6.897%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (6.897%) Oracle Discoverer
8 2 (6.897%) RDBMS
9 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (3.448%) Data Mart
9 1 (3.448%) BusinessObjects XI
9 1 (3.448%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (3.448%) ERwin
2 1 (3.448%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 20 (68.97%) Banking
2 13 (44.83%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Investment Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.897%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Cognos Developer
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) DBA
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (6.897%) Cognos Consultant
5 2 (6.897%) Software Support Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) SQL DBA
5 2 (6.897%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.897%) Architect
5 2 (6.897%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (6.897%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Administrator
6 1 (3.448%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Blackberry
2 4 (13.79%) Kindle
3 3 (10.34%) Market Risk
4 2 (6.897%) iPad
4 2 (6.897%) Credit Risk
4 2 (6.897%) Equities
4 2 (6.897%) SWIFT
5 1 (3.448%) Statistics
5 1 (3.448%) Replication
5 1 (3.448%) Clustering
5 1 (3.448%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (44.83%) ETL
3 9 (31.03%) Data Modelling
4 4 (13.79%) Data Security
4 4 (13.79%) Release Management
5 3 (10.34%) Data Analysis
6 2 (6.897%) Waterfall
6 2 (6.897%) Data Architecture
7 1 (3.448%) Information Architecture
7 1 (3.448%) Parallel Processing
7 1 (3.448%) Risk Analytics
7 1 (3.448%) Analytics
7 1 (3.448%) Data Transformation
7 1 (3.448%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (3.448%) Data Migration
7 1 (3.448%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (3.448%) Migration
7 1 (3.448%) Data Management
7 1 (3.448%) Information Management
7 1 (3.448%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) T-SQL
3 4 (13.79%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Perl
5 1 (3.448%) VB
5 1 (3.448%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO 9001
2 2 (6.897%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.448%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Cognos
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle
3 4 (13.79%) Sybase
4 2 (6.897%) Business Objects
4 2 (6.897%) Informatica
5 1 (3.448%) Talend
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