Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OLE 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 OLE over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the England region.

 Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank475431583
Rank change year-on-year
Down-44Up+152
Matching contract IT job ads226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England0.004 %0.005 %0.008 %
As % of the Application Development category0.016 %0.024 %0.032 %
Daily rates quoted000
Average daily rate---
UK excluding London average daily rate-£226-
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12224817218836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England27.28 %22.36 %24.54 %
Daily rates quoted634629246226
Average daily rate£385£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4074591222
Average hourly rate£30.00£28.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-10.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.25£15.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %
OLE UKOLE
UK

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.

OLE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OLE across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

England OLE Demand Trend

OLE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OLE across the England region.

England OLE Daily Rate Trend

OLE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OLE across the England region.

England OLE Hourly Rate Trend

OLE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLE within the England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-642--
OLE UKOLE
UK

OLE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OLE 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 OLE.

15 (45.45 %)Finance
15 (45.45 %)SQL
24 (36.36 %)T-SQL
24 (36.36 %)VBA
24 (36.36 %).NET
24 (36.36 %)SQL Server
24 (36.36 %)ADO
24 (36.36 %)DTS
24 (36.36 %)OLE DB
33 (27.27 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
33 (27.27 %)SQL Server 2000
33 (27.27 %)BCP
33 (27.27 %)Datawarehouse
33 (27.27 %)Management Information System
33 (27.27 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
33 (27.27 %)ODBC
33 (27.27 %)ActiveX
33 (27.27 %)MS Office
33 (27.27 %)VB.NET
42 (18.18 %)MS Excel
42 (18.18 %)MS Access
42 (18.18 %)Microsoft
42 (18.18 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
42 (18.18 %)Asset Management
42 (18.18 %)SQL Server 2005
42 (18.18 %)SQL Server Integration Services
42 (18.18 %)Banking
42 (18.18 %)Project Management
42 (18.18 %)Validation
42 (18.18 %)Wealth Management

OLE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OLE 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 OLE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (36.36 %).NET
14 (36.36 %)ADO
14 (36.36 %)OLE DB
23 (27.27 %)ODBC
23 (27.27 %)ActiveX
31 (9.091 %)jQuery
31 (9.091 %)ASP.NET MVC
31 (9.091 %)SAP Basis
31 (9.091 %)FpML
31 (9.091 %)SAP ALE
31 (9.091 %)EDI
31 (9.091 %)XHTML
31 (9.091 %)ASP.NET
31 (9.091 %)CSS
31 (9.091 %)XML
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (27.27 %)MS Office
22 (18.18 %)MS Excel
31 (9.091 %)Photoshop
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (9.091 %)InvestOne
11 (9.091 %)Khalix
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (9.091 %)HTTP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (36.36 %)SQL Server
14 (36.36 %)DTS
23 (27.27 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
23 (27.27 %)SQL Server 2000
23 (27.27 %)Datawarehouse
23 (27.27 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
32 (18.18 %)MS Access
32 (18.18 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
32 (18.18 %)SQL Server 2005
32 (18.18 %)SQL Server Integration Services
41 (9.091 %)Essbase
41 (9.091 %)BusinessObjects
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (9.091 %)Visual Studio
11 (9.091 %)VSS/SourceSafe
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
15 (45.45 %)Finance
22 (18.18 %)Banking
31 (9.091 %)Retail
31 (9.091 %)Corporate Banking
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (54.55 %)Analyst
24 (36.36 %)Developer
33 (27.27 %)Business Analyst
33 (27.27 %)SQL Developer
41 (9.091 %)Senior Analyst
41 (9.091 %)SAP Basis Consultant
41 (9.091 %)SAP Consultant
41 (9.091 %)Analyst Developer
41 (9.091 %)Systems Analyst
41 (9.091 %)Consultant
41 (9.091 %)Analyst Programmer
41 (9.091 %)Programmer
41 (9.091 %)Senior Systems Analyst
41 (9.091 %)MI Analyst
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (27.27 %)Management Information System
21 (9.091 %)N-Tier
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (27.27 %)BCP
22 (18.18 %)Asset Management
22 (18.18 %)Project Management
22 (18.18 %)Validation
22 (18.18 %)Wealth Management
31 (9.091 %)Investment Management
31 (9.091 %)Cash Management
31 (9.091 %)Information Architecture
31 (9.091 %)Scrum
31 (9.091 %)Web Design
31 (9.091 %)Pair Programming
31 (9.091 %)MVC
31 (9.091 %)Systems Analysis
31 (9.091 %)Data Modelling
31 (9.091 %)OOD
31 (9.091 %)UML
31 (9.091 %)OOA/OOD
31 (9.091 %)OO
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (45.45 %)SQL
24 (36.36 %)T-SQL
24 (36.36 %)VBA
33 (27.27 %)VB.NET
41 (9.091 %)PHP5
41 (9.091 %)C#
41 (9.091 %)JavaScript
41 (9.091 %)PHP
41 (9.091 %)ABAP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (9.091 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (18.18 %)Microsoft
21 (9.091 %)thinkFolio
21 (9.091 %)LatentZero
21 (9.091 %)Cognos
21 (9.091 %)Business Objects
21 (9.091 %)SAP