Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OLE 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 OLE over the 3 months to 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the London region.

 Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank369300426
Rank change year-on-year
Down-69Up+126
Matching contract IT job ads123
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London0.004 %0.012 %0.008 %
As % of the Application Development category0.013 %0.047 %0.030 %
Daily rates quoted000
Average daily rate---
UK excluding London average daily rate-£226-
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
781342879979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London30.19 %25.89 %27.49 %
Daily rates quoted454618364115
Average daily rate£450£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£270£235£255
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted96104327
Average hourly rate£38.25£30.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.50 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.25£16.70£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£50.00£45.88£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.00£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-6.660 %-7.690 %
OLE EnglandOLE
England

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.

OLE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OLE across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London OLE Demand Trend

OLE
Daily Rate Trend

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

London OLE Daily Rate Trend

OLE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London OLE Hourly Rate Trend

OLE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OLE 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 OLE.

14 (50.00 %)SQL
14 (50.00 %)VBA
14 (50.00 %)Finance
23 (37.50 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
23 (37.50 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
23 (37.50 %)Management Information System
23 (37.50 %)SQL Server 2000
23 (37.50 %)BCP
23 (37.50 %)OLE DB
23 (37.50 %)Datawarehouse
23 (37.50 %)DTS
23 (37.50 %)MS Office
23 (37.50 %).NET
23 (37.50 %)SQL Server
23 (37.50 %)T-SQL
23 (37.50 %)VB.NET
23 (37.50 %)ADO
23 (37.50 %)ODBC
23 (37.50 %)ActiveX
32 (25.00 %)MS Excel
32 (25.00 %)MS Access
32 (25.00 %)Microsoft
32 (25.00 %)Project Management
32 (25.00 %)Wealth Management
32 (25.00 %)Asset Management
32 (25.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
32 (25.00 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
32 (25.00 %)Validation
41 (12.50 %)Essbase
41 (12.50 %)SAP Basis

OLE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OLE 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 OLE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (37.50 %)OLE DB
13 (37.50 %).NET
13 (37.50 %)ADO
13 (37.50 %)ODBC
13 (37.50 %)ActiveX
21 (12.50 %)SAP Basis
21 (12.50 %)SAP ALE
21 (12.50 %)FpML
21 (12.50 %)EDI
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (37.50 %)MS Office
22 (25.00 %)MS Excel
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (12.50 %)Khalix
11 (12.50 %)InvestOne
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13 (37.50 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
13 (37.50 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13 (37.50 %)SQL Server 2000
13 (37.50 %)Datawarehouse
13 (37.50 %)DTS
13 (37.50 %)SQL Server
22 (25.00 %)MS Access
22 (25.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
22 (25.00 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
31 (12.50 %)Essbase
31 (12.50 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (12.50 %)BusinessObjects
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (50.00 %)Finance
21 (12.50 %)Banking
21 (12.50 %)Corporate Banking
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14 (50.00 %)Developer
14 (50.00 %)Analyst
23 (37.50 %)SQL Developer
32 (25.00 %)Business Analyst
41 (12.50 %)Senior Analyst
41 (12.50 %)SAP Basis Consultant
41 (12.50 %)SAP Consultant
41 (12.50 %)Analyst Developer
41 (12.50 %)MI Analyst
41 (12.50 %)Senior Systems Analyst
41 (12.50 %)Systems Analyst
41 (12.50 %)Consultant
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (37.50 %)Management Information System
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (37.50 %)BCP
22 (25.00 %)Project Management
22 (25.00 %)Wealth Management
22 (25.00 %)Asset Management
22 (25.00 %)Validation
31 (12.50 %)Systems Analysis
31 (12.50 %)Investment Management
31 (12.50 %)Cash Management
31 (12.50 %)Information Architecture
31 (12.50 %)Data Modelling
31 (12.50 %)OOD
31 (12.50 %)UML
31 (12.50 %)OOA/OOD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (50.00 %)SQL
14 (50.00 %)VBA
23 (37.50 %)T-SQL
23 (37.50 %)VB.NET
31 (12.50 %)ABAP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (25.00 %)Microsoft
21 (12.50 %)LatentZero
21 (12.50 %)thinkFolio
21 (12.50 %)SAP
21 (12.50 %)Cognos
21 (12.50 %)Business Objects