Kent DTS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DTS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Location Aylesbury Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hertfordshire Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Salford Somerset South East South Wales South West Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	55
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	3.306 %	0.585 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£225	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£317
% change on same period last year	+3.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£22.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.79	£30.30
% change on same period last year	+14.82 %
Database & Business Intelligence Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	121	171
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.161 %	0.173 %
Daily rates quoted	25	38
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£260
Average daily rate	£346	£267
% change on same period last year	+29.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£274
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.15	£30.46
Average hourly rate	£29.06	£35.02
% change on same period last year	-17.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.98	£39.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
DTS South East

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.

DTS
Demand Trend

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

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 14 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 11 (78.57 %) Datawarehouse 3 10 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2000 4 9 (64.29 %) Insurance 5 8 (57.14 %) Star Schema 6 6 (42.86 %) SQL 7 3 (21.43 %) Financial Institution 7 3 (21.43 %) Finance 7 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 7 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 3 (21.43 %) Crystal Reports 7 3 (21.43 %) Business Objects 7 3 (21.43 %) MS Excel 7 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft 7 3 (21.43 %) BusinessObjects

7 3 (21.43 %) ETL 8 2 (14.29 %) SAS 8 2 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (14.29 %) SAN 8 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 7 8 2 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (14.29 %) MS Visio 8 2 (14.29 %) .NET 8 2 (14.29 %) Banking 9 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (14.29 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (14.29 %) SAS
Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) MS Excel 2 2 (14.29 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 2 (14.29 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 11 (78.57 %) Datawarehouse 3 10 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (57.14 %) Star Schema 5 3 (21.43 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (21.43 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (21.43 %) ETL 5 3 (21.43 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 9 (64.29 %) Insurance 2 3 (21.43 %) Financial Institution 2 3 (21.43 %) Finance 3 2 (14.29 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (71.43 %) Developer 2 6 (42.86 %) Datawarehouse Developer 3 4 (28.57 %) SQL Developer 3 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server Developer 4 3 (21.43 %) Consultant 4 3 (21.43 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 5 2 (14.29 %) Database Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (7.143 %) Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 6 (42.86 %) SQL 2 2 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET	Vendors 1 3 (21.43 %) Business Objects 1 3 (21.43 %) Microsoft