Hertfordshire OLAP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited OLAP over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Rugby Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	96	92
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.794 %	0.282 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£350	£375
% change on same period last year	-6.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£354
% change on same period last year	+4.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.60	£37.09
% change on same period last year	+4.04 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	252	354
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.332 %	0.370 %
Daily rates quoted	92	156
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£342
Average daily rate	£336	£372
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.38	£26.80
Average hourly rate	£28.59	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.79	£31.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
OLAP East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

OLAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OLAP across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

OLAP
Daily Rate Trend

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

OLAP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OLAP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing OLAP within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	-	2	£350	-

OLAP East of England

OLAP
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing OLAP 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 OLAP.

1 2 (100.00 %) VB 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) IIS 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) C# 1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (50.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (50.00 %) Finance 2 1 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL 2 1 (50.00 %) VBScript 2 1 (50.00 %) DHTML

2 1 (50.00 %) HTML 2 1 (50.00 %) ActiveX 2 1 (50.00 %) MS Access 2 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (50.00 %) Intranet 2 1 (50.00 %) Internet

OLAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing OLAP 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 OLAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (50.00 %) HTML 2 1 (50.00 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 2 (100.00 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 1 (50.00 %) Intranet 1 1 (50.00 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 1 (50.00 %) MS Access
General 1 1 (50.00 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Developer 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) VB 1 2 (100.00 %) C# 1 2 (100.00 %) JavaScript 2 1 (50.00 %) SQL 2 1 (50.00 %) VBScript 2 1 (50.00 %) DHTML
Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft