The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank - 77 -
Contract jobs citing OLTP 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.102% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 0.422% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £320 £315
% change year-on-year
+21.09% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
126 237 187
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 19.33% 24.06% 20.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 111 97
Average daily rate £338 £325 £312
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £438 £424
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 5
Average hourly rate £140.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+300.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
OLTP
East of England

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire OLTP Daily 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Rickmansworth - - - -
Watford - - - -
OLTP
East of England

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (25.00%) Teradata
3 1 (25.00%) OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 1 (25.00%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) OLAP
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (25.00%) SOA
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (25.00%) Teradata
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