The first table below looks at the demand for DTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 111 101 119
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +18
Contract jobs citing DTS 3 31 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.140% 1.049% 0.303%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.756% 4.566% 1.401%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
Average daily rate £275 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +12.00%
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
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
397 679 571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 18.56% 22.98% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 357 265
Average daily rate £313 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 36 41
Average hourly rate £27.49 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.45% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £21.85 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DTS
England

DTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England DTS Daily Rate Trend

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England DTS Hourly Rate Trend

DTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hertfordshire -15 3 £275 -
DTS
England

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 17 (100.00%) HTML
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
1 17 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 16 (94.12%) WinForms
2 16 (94.12%) ADO.NET
2 16 (94.12%) VB.NET
2 16 (94.12%) FTP
2 16 (94.12%) Web Services
2 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 16 (94.12%) VBScript
2 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
2 16 (94.12%) DHTML
2 16 (94.12%) jQuery
2 16 (94.12%) Ajax
3 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2003
3 15 (88.24%) .NET Framework
4 10 (58.82%) Telecoms
4 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
4 10 (58.82%) MS Office
5 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
5 6 (35.29%) Migration
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) C#
7 1 (5.882%) VB
7 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
7 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 17 (100.00%) HTML
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 16 (94.12%) WinForms
2 16 (94.12%) ADO.NET
2 16 (94.12%) Web Services
2 16 (94.12%) DHTML
2 16 (94.12%) jQuery
2 16 (94.12%) Ajax
3 15 (88.24%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.882%) ASP
Applications
1 10 (58.82%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) FTP
2 6 (35.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.882%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (58.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (94.12%) Web Developer
3 1 (5.882%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 15 (88.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Migration
1 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
2 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (5.882%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
1 17 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 16 (94.12%) VB.NET
2 16 (94.12%) VBScript
2 16 (94.12%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) C#
4 1 (5.882%) VB
4 1 (5.882%) VB6
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
Witham, South East
To be successful in this role you will need to have experience with Classic ASP, VBScript, Windows Server 2000 - 2003, MS SQL Server 8, DTS and IIS 6.
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £125 - £175 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013