The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP 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 OLTP over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 437 492 487
Rank change year-on-year
+55 -5
Contract jobs citing OLTP 77 78 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.182% 0.144% 0.139%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.879% 0.749% 0.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 38
Average daily rate £400 £400 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £315 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £519 £525 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £320 £320
% change year-on-year
+40.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8756 10415 11337
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.74% 19.20% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5377 6138 6447
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 £255 £260 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 244 362
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £13.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
OLTP
UK

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England OLTP Hourly Rate Trend

OLTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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 +27 53 £410 -11.35%
South East +16 10 £350 +11.11%
North West +9 7 £400 +16.78%
South West +30 4 £375 -28.57%
East of England +14 1 £450 +12.50%
East Midlands 0 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £320 -
OLTP
UK

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 68 (48.23%) SQL
2 66 (46.81%) Oracle
3 60 (42.55%) SQL Server
4 47 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (29.79%) UNIX
6 36 (25.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 35 (24.82%) Data Modelling
8 33 (23.40%) Finance
9 32 (22.70%) OLAP
10 29 (20.57%) ETL
10 29 (20.57%) Banking
10 29 (20.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 24 (17.02%) Unit Testing
11 24 (17.02%) SQL Server 2008
12 22 (15.60%) T-SQL
13 21 (14.89%) C++
14 20 (14.18%) STL
15 19 (13.48%) SQL Server 2005
16 18 (12.77%) Regression Testing
17 17 (12.06%) Data Analysis
18 16 (11.35%) Oracle 11g
19 15 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
19 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
19 15 (10.64%) PL/SQL
20 14 (9.929%) .NET
20 14 (9.929%) Cognos
20 14 (9.929%) RDBMS
20 14 (9.929%) Informatica
20 14 (9.929%) QA

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 20 (14.18%) STL
2 14 (9.929%) .NET
3 7 (4.965%) MDX
4 5 (3.546%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.837%) WebSphere
5 4 (2.837%) Middleware
6 3 (2.128%) REST
6 3 (2.128%) SOAP
6 3 (2.128%) XML
7 2 (1.418%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.418%) jQuery
7 2 (1.418%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.418%) WinForms
7 2 (1.418%) XHTML
7 2 (1.418%) XSLT
7 2 (1.418%) CSS
8 1 (0.709%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.709%) CORBA
8 1 (0.709%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.128%) Windows Azure
2 1 (0.709%) Escenic
2 1 (0.709%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.709%) IIS
2 1 (0.709%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (0.709%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.837%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.418%) MS Office
2 2 (1.418%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 14 (9.929%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 9 (6.383%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.418%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (1.418%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.709%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.709%) BASE24
4 1 (0.709%) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.837%) SAN
2 3 (2.128%) WAN
2 3 (2.128%) Internet
3 1 (0.709%) DNS
3 1 (0.709%) LAN
3 1 (0.709%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (42.55%) SQL Server
2 42 (29.79%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (25.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (22.70%) OLAP
5 29 (20.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 24 (17.02%) SQL Server 2008
7 19 (13.48%) SQL Server 2005
8 16 (11.35%) Oracle 11g
9 14 (9.929%) RDBMS
9 14 (9.929%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 13 (9.220%) Oracle BI EE
11 11 (7.801%) Oracle 8/8i
12 10 (7.092%) DB2
13 9 (6.383%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (6.383%) SQL Server 2000
14 8 (5.674%) SQL Server 2012
15 7 (4.965%) VLDB
15 7 (4.965%) Oracle OLAP
16 6 (4.255%) Oracle OWB
16 6 (4.255%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (2.837%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.418%) ERwin
3 1 (0.709%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 33 (23.40%) Finance
2 29 (20.57%) Banking
3 8 (5.674%) Investment Banking
3 8 (5.674%) Marketing
4 6 (4.255%) Retail
4 6 (4.255%) Financial Institution
5 4 (2.837%) Back Office
6 3 (2.128%) Publishing
7 2 (1.418%) Games
7 2 (1.418%) Front Office
8 1 (0.709%) Billing
8 1 (0.709%) Legal
8 1 (0.709%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (39.01%) Developer
2 38 (26.95%) DBA
3 27 (19.15%) SQL DBA
4 22 (15.60%) Architect
5 20 (14.18%) C++ Developer
6 14 (9.929%) Administrator
7 12 (8.511%) Consultant
8 10 (7.092%) Cognos Developer
8 10 (7.092%) Oracle Developer
9 8 (5.674%) Data Architect
9 8 (5.674%) Teradata DBA
10 7 (4.965%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.255%) SQL Server DBA
11 6 (4.255%) Analyst
11 6 (4.255%) OBIEE Consultant
12 5 (3.546%) OBIEE Architect
13 4 (2.837%) Oracle Consultant
13 4 (2.837%) Technical Architect
14 3 (2.128%) Designer
14 3 (2.128%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.220%) Replication
2 11 (7.801%) Data Integration
3 10 (7.092%) Equities
4 8 (5.674%) Market Risk
4 8 (5.674%) Blackberry
5 6 (4.255%) Clustering
5 6 (4.255%) Computer Science
6 5 (3.546%) SWIFT
6 5 (3.546%) N-Tier
6 5 (3.546%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.837%) Kindle
8 3 (2.128%) SaaS
8 3 (2.128%) PaaS
8 3 (2.128%) IaaS
8 3 (2.128%) HACMP
9 2 (1.418%) Statistics
9 2 (1.418%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.418%) Mathematics
9 2 (1.418%) iPad
10 1 (0.709%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 42 (29.79%) UNIX
2 13 (9.220%) Linux
2 13 (9.220%) Windows
3 3 (2.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.128%) AIX
4 2 (1.418%) HPUX
4 2 (1.418%) Solaris
5 1 (0.709%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (24.82%) Data Modelling
3 29 (20.57%) ETL
4 24 (17.02%) Unit Testing
5 18 (12.77%) Regression Testing
6 17 (12.06%) Data Analysis
7 15 (10.64%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (7.092%) OO
8 10 (7.092%) Analytics
9 9 (6.383%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (5.674%) Change Management
10 8 (5.674%) CRM
10 8 (5.674%) Marketing Analytics
10 8 (5.674%) Data Architecture
11 7 (4.965%) Waterfall
11 7 (4.965%) E-Commerce
11 7 (4.965%) Dimensional Modelling
12 6 (4.255%) ITIL
12 6 (4.255%) Test Automation
13 5 (3.546%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 68 (48.23%) SQL
2 22 (15.60%) T-SQL
3 21 (14.89%) C++
4 15 (10.64%) PL/SQL
5 11 (7.801%) Perl
6 9 (6.383%) Java
7 8 (5.674%) Bash shell
8 7 (4.965%) C
8 7 (4.965%) Korn
9 5 (3.546%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.546%) Python
10 4 (2.837%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.837%) C#
10 4 (2.837%) VB
11 3 (2.128%) Ruby
12 2 (1.418%) AWK
12 2 (1.418%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.418%) Bourne shell
13 1 (0.709%) VBScript
13 1 (0.709%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (9.929%) Degree
2 7 (4.965%) DV Cleared
2 7 (4.965%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.546%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.128%) IBM Certification
4 3 (2.128%) CIPD
5 2 (1.418%) Sun Certification
6 1 (0.709%) HND
6 1 (0.709%) MCDBA
6 1 (0.709%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.929%) QA
2 4 (2.837%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.709%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.965%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (2.837%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.128%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.418%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (1.418%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.709%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.128%) Tivoli
1 3 (2.128%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 3 (2.128%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (1.418%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.418%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.709%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 66 (46.81%) Oracle
2 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.929%) Cognos
3 14 (9.929%) Informatica
4 11 (7.801%) Sybase
5 8 (5.674%) Siebel
6 6 (4.255%) IBM
7 3 (2.128%) NetApp
7 3 (2.128%) Intel
7 3 (2.128%) Citrix
7 3 (2.128%) VMware
8 2 (1.418%) TIBCO
8 2 (1.418%) Sun
8 2 (1.418%) Veritas
8 2 (1.418%) BMC
9 1 (0.709%) Talend
9 1 (0.709%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.709%) Teradata
9 1 (0.709%) Ab Initio
9 1 (0.709%) Open Text
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