The first table below looks at the demand for DTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 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 417 422 450
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +28
Contract jobs citing DTS 96 137 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.231% 0.257% 0.215%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.117% 1.341% 1.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 64 52
Average daily rate £375 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £275 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £329
% change year-on-year
-4.61% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 6
Average hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.61% -16.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.25 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+19.65% -6.40%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8593 10220 11506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.67% 19.16% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 5272 6030 6543
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 241 362
Average hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.28% -8.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.36 £14.16 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DTS
UK

DTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

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 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
London +25 33 £450 +5.88%
South East +12 29 £375 +3.44%
Yorkshire - 11 £216 -
North West +16 9 £275 -4.34%
South West +24 6 £365 +35.18%
East of England -10 3 £275 -21.42%
West Midlands +1 2 £375 +20.00%
East Midlands -3 2 £310 +20.97%
North East - 1 - -
DTS
UK

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 157 (88.20%) SQL
2 154 (86.52%) SQL Server
3 123 (69.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 104 (58.43%) T-SQL
5 68 (38.20%) Microsoft
6 60 (33.71%) .NET
7 59 (33.15%) ETL
8 57 (32.02%) SQL Server 2005
9 53 (29.78%) ASP.NET
10 51 (28.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 50 (28.09%) Windows
12 49 (27.53%) SQL Server 2008
13 39 (21.91%) C#
13 39 (21.91%) Windows Server 2003
14 37 (20.79%) Finance
15 35 (19.66%) HTML
16 34 (19.10%) JavaScript
16 34 (19.10%) .NET Framework
17 33 (18.54%) Web Services
17 33 (18.54%) SQL Server 2000
18 32 (17.98%) Business Intelligence
18 32 (17.98%) XML
18 32 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
19 31 (17.42%) MS Office
20 29 (16.29%) Oracle
20 29 (16.29%) Migration
20 29 (16.29%) jQuery
21 28 (15.73%) VB.NET
22 25 (14.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
23 24 (13.48%) VBScript

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 60 (33.71%) .NET
2 53 (29.78%) ASP.NET
3 35 (19.66%) HTML
4 34 (19.10%) .NET Framework
5 33 (18.54%) Web Services
6 32 (17.98%) XML
7 29 (16.29%) jQuery
8 24 (13.48%) Ajax
9 22 (12.36%) WinForms
9 22 (12.36%) DHTML
10 21 (11.80%) ADO.NET
11 14 (7.865%) Windows SharePoint Services
12 13 (7.303%) ASP
13 7 (3.933%) XSL
14 6 (3.371%) CSS
14 6 (3.371%) SOAP
14 6 (3.371%) COM+
15 5 (2.809%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 4 (2.247%) JSON
17 3 (1.685%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 18 (10.11%) SharePoint
2 14 (7.865%) SharePoint Server
3 12 (6.742%) IIS
4 5 (2.809%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.247%) CM System
5 4 (2.247%) MS Project Server
6 2 (1.124%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.124%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (1.124%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.562%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.562%) Apache
7 1 (0.562%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.562%) Documentum
7 1 (0.562%) Oracle 9iAS
7 1 (0.562%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (17.42%) MS Office
2 19 (10.67%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.247%) MS Project
4 3 (1.685%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.124%) InfoPath
5 2 (1.124%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.562%) SAP APO
1 1 (0.562%) Capstone
1 1 (0.562%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.562%) Movex
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.67%) FTP
2 13 (7.303%) LDAP
2 13 (7.303%) Internet
3 6 (3.371%) Ethernet
3 6 (3.371%) DNS
3 6 (3.371%) SAN
4 2 (1.124%) NetScaler
4 2 (1.124%) SSL
4 2 (1.124%) LAN
5 1 (0.562%) WAN
5 1 (0.562%) HTTP
5 1 (0.562%) VPN
5 1 (0.562%) Intranet
5 1 (0.562%) MPLS
5 1 (0.562%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (86.52%) SQL Server
2 123 (69.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 57 (32.02%) SQL Server 2005
4 51 (28.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 49 (27.53%) SQL Server 2008
6 33 (18.54%) SQL Server 2000
7 32 (17.98%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (14.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 22 (12.36%) OLAP
10 17 (9.551%) RDBMS
11 16 (8.989%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (6.180%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 10 (5.618%) Data Mining
14 9 (5.056%) Oracle OWB
14 9 (5.056%) IDOL
15 8 (4.494%) Crystal Reports
15 8 (4.494%) Oracle 8/8i
16 7 (3.933%) Oracle 10g
16 7 (3.933%) Star Schema
17 6 (3.371%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 21 (11.80%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.685%) PVCS
2 3 (1.685%) ERwin
3 2 (1.124%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (0.562%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.562%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 37 (20.79%) Finance
2 15 (8.427%) Banking
3 14 (7.865%) Telecoms
4 8 (4.494%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.371%) Retail
6 3 (1.685%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.685%) Front Office
7 2 (1.124%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.562%) Local Government
8 1 (0.562%) French Language
8 1 (0.562%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.562%) Publishing
8 1 (0.562%) Law
8 1 (0.562%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 111 (62.36%) Developer
2 34 (19.10%) DBA
2 34 (19.10%) SQL Developer
3 24 (13.48%) SQL DBA
4 21 (11.80%) Web Developer
5 16 (8.989%) Administrator
6 12 (6.742%) .NET Developer
6 12 (6.742%) SQL Server Developer
7 9 (5.056%) SQL Server DBA
8 8 (4.494%) Architect
8 8 (4.494%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (4.494%) SharePoint Developer
8 8 (4.494%) Analyst
9 7 (3.933%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.371%) Teradata DBA
10 6 (3.371%) Team Leader
10 6 (3.371%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 5 (2.809%) Oracle DBA
12 4 (2.247%) Data Migration Specialist
13 3 (1.685%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.11%) Replication
2 13 (7.303%) Data Integration
3 9 (5.056%) Derivative
3 9 (5.056%) Equities
4 5 (2.809%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.809%) Computer Science
4 5 (2.809%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.247%) Visualisation
5 4 (2.247%) Clustering
6 3 (1.685%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.124%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.124%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.562%) NHS
8 1 (0.562%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.562%) SaaS
8 1 (0.562%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.09%) Windows
2 39 (21.91%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (3.933%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (3.371%) UNIX
5 4 (2.247%) AIX
5 4 (2.247%) Linux
5 4 (2.247%) Windows 2000
6 2 (1.124%) VMS
7 1 (0.562%) Solaris
7 1 (0.562%) Tru64
7 1 (0.562%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (33.15%) ETL
2 32 (17.98%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (16.29%) Migration
4 24 (13.48%) Data Modelling
5 17 (9.551%) Data Analysis
5 17 (9.551%) Data Transformation
6 14 (7.865%) Kimball Methodology
6 14 (7.865%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (6.742%) Project Management
8 9 (5.056%) TDD
8 9 (5.056%) Workflow
8 9 (5.056%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (5.056%) Waterfall
8 9 (5.056%) BDD
9 8 (4.494%) Technical Architecture
9 8 (4.494%) Web Development
9 8 (4.494%) BCP
9 8 (4.494%) OO
10 7 (3.933%) Data Management
10 7 (3.933%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (88.20%) SQL
2 104 (58.43%) T-SQL
3 39 (21.91%) C#
4 34 (19.10%) JavaScript
5 28 (15.73%) VB.NET
6 24 (13.48%) VBScript
7 20 (11.24%) PL/SQL
8 12 (6.742%) VB
9 10 (5.618%) VBA
10 9 (5.056%) XPath
11 8 (4.494%) VB6
12 7 (3.933%) Shell Script
13 6 (3.371%) Java
14 4 (2.247%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.124%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (6.742%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (6.180%) Security Cleared
3 7 (3.933%) MCSD
3 7 (3.933%) Degree
3 7 (3.933%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.685%) MCDBA
4 3 (1.685%) MCTS
5 2 (1.124%) MCP
6 1 (0.562%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.124%) QA
1 2 (1.124%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.124%) Basel II
System Software
1 6 (3.371%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (3.371%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.809%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.247%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.124%) vSphere
4 2 (1.124%) XenApp
4 2 (1.124%) XenDesktop
4 2 (1.124%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.562%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 4 (2.247%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.124%) Control-M
3 1 (0.562%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.562%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.562%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 68 (38.20%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.29%) Oracle
3 10 (5.618%) Cadis
3 10 (5.618%) Business Objects
4 9 (5.056%) Meridio
5 7 (3.933%) VMware
6 4 (2.247%) Tableau
6 4 (2.247%) IBM
6 4 (2.247%) Sage
6 4 (2.247%) Cognos
7 3 (1.685%) SAP
7 3 (1.685%) Informatica
7 3 (1.685%) Reuters
7 3 (1.685%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.685%) Red Gate
8 2 (1.124%) Teradata
8 2 (1.124%) Capita
8 2 (1.124%) Veritas
8 2 (1.124%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.124%) Citrix
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