The first table below looks at the demand for DTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTS over the 3 months to 24 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 London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Rank 344 369 384
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +15
Contract jobs citing DTS 33 46 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.152% 0.171% 0.187%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.729% 0.913% 0.934%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 27 36
Average daily rate £450 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £290 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £529 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £329
% change year-on-year
-4.61% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £26.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.25 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+19.65% -6.40%
All Database & Business Intelligence
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4528 5041 6211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.91% 18.71% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3111 3262 3947
Average daily rate £430 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 43 54
Average hourly rate £22.85 £26.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.11% +6.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £17.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DTS
England

DTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DTS Jobs Demand Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DTS Daily Rate Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTS across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London DTS Daily Rate Histogram

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DTS Hourly Rate Trend

DTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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
City of London +9 11 £500 +14.28%
Canary Wharf - 2 £285 -
DTS
England

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 69 (86.25%) SQL
2 66 (82.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 65 (81.25%) SQL Server
4 36 (45.00%) T-SQL
5 29 (36.25%) ETL
6 28 (35.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 27 (33.75%) Finance
8 22 (27.50%) SQL Server 2008
9 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
10 20 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
11 19 (23.75%) XML
11 19 (23.75%) SQL Server 2005
12 16 (20.00%) Data Analysis
12 16 (20.00%) Oracle
12 16 (20.00%) .NET
13 14 (17.50%) C#
14 12 (15.00%) Banking
14 12 (15.00%) Windows
15 11 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (12.50%) .NET Framework
16 10 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 10 (12.50%) Cadis
16 10 (12.50%) Data Mining
16 10 (12.50%) Internet
16 10 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
16 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
16 10 (12.50%) ASP.NET
16 10 (12.50%) IIS
17 9 (11.25%) MS Excel
17 9 (11.25%) Migration

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 19 (23.75%) XML
2 16 (20.00%) .NET
3 10 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 10 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 7 (8.750%) HTML
4 7 (8.750%) Ajax
4 7 (8.750%) jQuery
5 6 (7.500%) Web Services
6 5 (6.250%) WinForms
6 5 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (5.000%) JSON
7 4 (5.000%) ASP
7 4 (5.000%) CSS
7 4 (5.000%) SOAP
8 2 (2.500%) Silverlight
8 2 (2.500%) ADO.NET
8 2 (2.500%) XSL
8 2 (2.500%) XSLT
8 2 (2.500%) DHTML
9 1 (1.250%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (12.50%) IIS
2 4 (5.000%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.500%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.250%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.250%) Documentum
4 1 (1.250%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.250%) Apache
4 1 (1.250%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (11.25%) MS Excel
2 5 (6.250%) MS Office
3 3 (3.750%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.250%) SAP APO
1 1 (1.250%) Capstone
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) Internet
2 5 (6.250%) SAN
2 5 (6.250%) DNS
3 2 (2.500%) NetScaler
3 2 (2.500%) LAN
3 2 (2.500%) FTP
3 2 (2.500%) SSL
4 1 (1.250%) MPLS
4 1 (1.250%) HTTP
4 1 (1.250%) VPN
4 1 (1.250%) WAN
4 1 (1.250%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (82.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 65 (81.25%) SQL Server
3 28 (35.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 22 (27.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 20 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
6 19 (23.75%) SQL Server 2005
7 10 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (12.50%) Data Mining
7 10 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (7.500%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 6 (7.500%) ProClarity
8 6 (7.500%) Crystal Reports
8 6 (7.500%) Oracle 8/8i
8 6 (7.500%) Oracle 10g
9 5 (6.250%) Oracle 9i
9 5 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (5.000%) BusinessObjects XI
10 4 (5.000%) SQL Server 7
11 3 (3.750%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 4 (5.000%) Visual Studio
2 3 (3.750%) ERwin
3 1 (1.250%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 27 (33.75%) Finance
2 12 (15.00%) Banking
3 7 (8.750%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.000%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.750%) Front Office
5 3 (3.750%) Retail
6 2 (2.500%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.250%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.250%) Back Office
7 1 (1.250%) Publishing
7 1 (1.250%) Law
7 1 (1.250%) French Language
Job Titles
1 47 (58.75%) Developer
2 23 (28.75%) DBA
3 18 (22.50%) SQL Developer
4 14 (17.50%) SQL DBA
5 12 (15.00%) Administrator
6 11 (13.75%) .NET Developer
7 6 (7.500%) SQL Server DBA
7 6 (7.500%) SQL Server Developer
8 5 (6.250%) Oracle DBA
8 5 (6.250%) Oracle Developer
8 5 (6.250%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.000%) Architect
10 3 (3.750%) Analyst
10 3 (3.750%) ETL Developer
10 3 (3.750%) Teradata DBA
11 2 (2.500%) .NET Web Developer
11 2 (2.500%) Senior DBA
11 2 (2.500%) Data Analyst
11 2 (2.500%) Applications Support Specialist
11 2 (2.500%) Implementation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.25%) Equities
1 9 (11.25%) Derivative
2 8 (10.00%) Replication
3 5 (6.250%) N-Tier
4 4 (5.000%) Data Integration
4 4 (5.000%) Visualisation
4 4 (5.000%) Computer Science
5 3 (3.750%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.500%) Fat Client
6 2 (2.500%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.500%) Clustering
7 1 (1.250%) SaaS
7 1 (1.250%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Windows
2 8 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (7.500%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (5.000%) UNIX
4 4 (5.000%) Linux
5 3 (3.750%) Windows 2000
5 3 (3.750%) AIX
6 1 (1.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (36.25%) ETL
2 16 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 11 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 9 (11.25%) Migration
5 9 (11.25%) Waterfall
5 9 (11.25%) BDD
5 9 (11.25%) TDD
6 7 (8.750%) Data Management
6 7 (8.750%) Investment Management
7 6 (7.500%) OO
7 6 (7.500%) BCP
8 5 (6.250%) Validation
8 5 (6.250%) ITIL
8 5 (6.250%) OOD
8 5 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (6.250%) Data Validation
8 5 (6.250%) High Availability
9 4 (5.000%) Unit Testing
9 4 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 69 (86.25%) SQL
2 36 (45.00%) T-SQL
3 14 (17.50%) C#
4 9 (11.25%) XPath
5 8 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 8 (10.00%) VBA
6 7 (8.750%) JavaScript
7 5 (6.250%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.000%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.000%) VB
8 4 (5.000%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.750%) Java
10 2 (2.500%) C
10 2 (2.500%) VBScript
11 1 (1.250%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (6.250%) Degree
2 3 (3.750%) MCDBA
2 3 (3.750%) MCTS
3 2 (2.500%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.500%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.250%) Basel II
System Software
1 6 (7.500%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.250%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.750%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (2.500%) XenApp
4 2 (2.500%) XenDesktop
4 2 (2.500%) vSphere
5 1 (1.250%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (3.750%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.250%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.250%) Control-M
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.00%) Oracle
3 10 (12.50%) Cadis
4 6 (7.500%) VMware
5 4 (5.000%) Tableau
5 4 (5.000%) Business Objects
5 4 (5.000%) IBM
6 3 (3.750%) Informatica
6 3 (3.750%) Reuters
6 3 (3.750%) Bloomberg
6 3 (3.750%) Red Gate
7 2 (2.500%) Teradata
7 2 (2.500%) Capita
7 2 (2.500%) Sybase
7 2 (2.500%) Cognos
7 2 (2.500%) Citrix
7 2 (2.500%) Veritas
7 2 (2.500%) Dell
7 2 (2.500%) Sun
8 1 (1.250%) PTC
London
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Reflex Computer Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Potential to extend
Posted: 23 May 2013
City of London
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Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
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Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
London
analysis and data modelling... Completed Information & Business Intelligence project life-cycles. Understanding of leading technologies in Business Intelligence (Teradata, ORACLE, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) Any of the following experience...
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Rate: £420 - £500 per annum
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