The first table below looks at the demand for TOAD 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 TOAD over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quest TOAD
Rank 314 325 356
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +31
Contract jobs citing TOAD 76 91 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.330% 0.341% 0.274%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.559% 1.801% 1.328%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 64 43
Average daily rate £430 £375 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.66% -10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £265 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £547 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £308 £365
% change year-on-year
+21.95% -15.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.25 £33.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
+34.09% -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
4875 5054 6401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 21.17% 18.96% 20.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3344 3311 4109
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 48 49
Average hourly rate £23.20 £26.00 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +10.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.30 £16.00 £15.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+7.54% -15.87%
TOAD
England

TOAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London TOAD Jobs Demand Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

London TOAD Daily Rate Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TOAD across the London region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

London TOAD Daily Rate Histogram

TOAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London TOAD Hourly Rate Trend

TOAD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOAD within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -4 10 £401 +0.12% 6
Canary Wharf +10 8 £588 -2.08%
Hammersmith - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
TOAD
England

TOAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing TOAD 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 TOAD.

1 127 (96.95%) SQL
2 107 (81.68%) Oracle
3 60 (45.80%) Finance
4 45 (34.35%) PL/SQL
5 41 (31.30%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (29.77%) Business Objects
8 36 (27.48%) C#
8 36 (27.48%) Banking
9 35 (26.72%) ETL
10 34 (25.95%) Oracle 10g
11 32 (24.43%) SQLPlus
11 32 (24.43%) QlikView
11 32 (24.43%) Oracle 11g
12 31 (23.66%) Waterfall
13 30 (22.90%) Oracle OLAP
13 30 (22.90%) OLAP
14 29 (22.14%) Derivative
15 28 (21.37%) Cognos
16 27 (20.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 25 (19.08%) Data Modelling
18 24 (18.32%) Market Risk
18 24 (18.32%) Investment Banking
19 23 (17.56%) Credit Derivative
19 23 (17.56%) Risk Management
20 22 (16.79%) RDBMS
21 19 (14.50%) MS Excel
21 19 (14.50%) OOP
22 17 (12.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
22 17 (12.98%) Windows

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing TOAD 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 TOAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (12.21%) MDX
2 12 (9.160%) XML
3 11 (8.397%) WCF
3 11 (8.397%) WPF
4 10 (7.634%) .NET
5 4 (3.053%) XBRL
5 4 (3.053%) Web Services
5 4 (3.053%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.290%) Silverlight
6 3 (2.290%) soapUI
7 2 (1.527%) ASP
7 2 (1.527%) HTML
7 2 (1.527%) SOAP
8 1 (0.763%) DCOM
8 1 (0.763%) Middleware
8 1 (0.763%) XML Messaging
8 1 (0.763%) Hibernate
8 1 (0.763%) Spring
8 1 (0.763%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.763%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.527%) AquaLogic
2 1 (0.763%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.763%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.763%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (14.50%) MS Excel
2 13 (9.924%) MS Office
3 11 (8.397%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.527%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.763%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.763%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.580%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 3 (2.290%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.527%) Summit
4 1 (0.763%) HFM
4 1 (0.763%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.763%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.763%) DNS
1 1 (0.763%) Intranet
1 1 (0.763%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (25.95%) Oracle 10g
3 32 (24.43%) SQLPlus
3 32 (24.43%) QlikView
3 32 (24.43%) Oracle 11g
4 30 (22.90%) Oracle OLAP
4 30 (22.90%) OLAP
5 22 (16.79%) RDBMS
6 17 (12.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 15 (11.45%) Oracle BI EE
8 14 (10.69%) Oracle 8/8i
9 13 (9.924%) DecisionStream
10 12 (9.160%) Oracle ODI
11 11 (8.397%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (6.870%) SQL Server
13 6 (4.580%) Cognos Powerplay
13 6 (4.580%) Essbase
14 5 (3.817%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 4 (3.053%) BusinessObjects XI
15 4 (3.053%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (11.45%) ERwin
2 4 (3.053%) Visual Studio
2 4 (3.053%) Rational Rose
2 4 (3.053%) JIRA
3 3 (2.290%) Subversion
4 2 (1.527%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.527%) Balsamiq Mockups
4 2 (1.527%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.763%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.763%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.763%) Maven
5 1 (0.763%) FrontPage
5 1 (0.763%) Selenium
5 1 (0.763%) Git (software)
5 1 (0.763%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.763%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.763%) RequisitePro
5 1 (0.763%) XDE
5 1 (0.763%) PVCS
5 1 (0.763%) Oracle Forms
General
1 60 (45.80%) Finance
2 36 (27.48%) Banking
3 24 (18.32%) Investment Banking
4 7 (5.344%) Publishing
5 6 (4.580%) Front Office
6 4 (3.053%) Back Office
6 4 (3.053%) Retail
7 3 (2.290%) Legal
8 2 (1.527%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.527%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.527%) German Language
9 1 (0.763%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.763%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 78 (59.54%) Developer
2 35 (26.72%) Analyst
3 23 (17.56%) Business Analyst
4 19 (14.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 14 (10.69%) Market Risk Developer
6 12 (9.160%) Oracle Developer
7 10 (7.634%) Solutions Designer
7 10 (7.634%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.634%) Designer
8 9 (6.870%) Cognos Developer
9 8 (6.107%) Architect
10 7 (5.344%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (5.344%) Technical Business Analyst
11 6 (4.580%) Oracle Architect
11 6 (4.580%) Banking Business Analyst
11 6 (4.580%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.817%) Systems Analyst
12 5 (3.817%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
12 5 (3.817%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
13 4 (3.053%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.14%) Derivative
2 27 (20.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (18.32%) Market Risk
4 23 (17.56%) Credit Derivative
5 12 (9.160%) Credit Risk
6 7 (5.344%) Reference Data
7 6 (4.580%) Computer Science
8 4 (3.053%) Economics
8 4 (3.053%) Visualisation
9 2 (1.527%) Data Integration
9 2 (1.527%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.527%) Equities
10 1 (0.763%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Windows
2 11 (8.397%) Windows XP
3 9 (6.870%) UNIX
4 5 (3.817%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (3.817%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.527%) Linux
6 1 (0.763%) AIX
6 1 (0.763%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.30%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (26.72%) ETL
3 31 (23.66%) Waterfall
4 25 (19.08%) Data Modelling
5 23 (17.56%) Risk Management
6 19 (14.50%) OOP
7 16 (12.21%) Software Engineering
7 16 (12.21%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (10.69%) Data Analysis
8 14 (10.69%) OO
9 12 (9.160%) Business Analysis
10 11 (8.397%) Data Management
10 11 (8.397%) Use Case
10 11 (8.397%) Multithreading
11 10 (7.634%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (7.634%) UML
12 9 (6.870%) Project Management
12 9 (6.870%) Workflow
12 9 (6.870%) Data Cleansing
12 9 (6.870%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 127 (96.95%) SQL
2 45 (34.35%) PL/SQL
3 36 (27.48%) C#
4 6 (4.580%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.580%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.817%) Python
5 5 (3.817%) VB
6 4 (3.053%) C++
6 4 (3.053%) Java
6 4 (3.053%) Ruby
7 3 (2.290%) Perl
7 3 (2.290%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.527%) VBA
8 2 (1.527%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.527%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.527%) R
9 1 (0.763%) VB6
9 1 (0.763%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.763%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (6.107%) ITIL Certification
1 8 (6.107%) Degree
2 5 (3.817%) ISEB
3 3 (2.290%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.763%) OCP
4 1 (0.763%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.763%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.344%) QA
2 2 (1.527%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.527%) Basel II
3 1 (0.763%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 8 (6.107%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.763%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (0.763%) Control-M
Vendors
1 107 (81.68%) Oracle
2 39 (29.77%) Business Objects
3 28 (21.37%) Cognos
4 12 (9.160%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.107%) HP
6 7 (5.344%) IBM
7 6 (4.580%) Pega
8 5 (3.817%) Informatica
9 4 (3.053%) Remedy
9 4 (3.053%) Tableau
10 2 (1.527%) iRise
10 2 (1.527%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (1.527%) Lombardi
10 2 (1.527%) BEA
10 2 (1.527%) Hyperion
10 2 (1.527%) Trillium
11 1 (0.763%) Sun
11 1 (0.763%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.763%) Brio
11 1 (0.763%) Casewise
City of London
My client, a leading global banking organisation is seeking a Systems Analyst/Administrator to manage the end-to-end transition of the current Data Quality UAT data repository...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £401 per day
Posted: 30 May 2013
London
Oracle, Toad, RDMS, ETL, Informatica, Trillium, SQL, Banking System Analyst / Administrator - Oracle, RDMS, ETL My client, a leading investment bank, is currently searching for a System Analyst / Administrator...
Orgtel
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
City of London
The successful OBIEE DBA will have very good knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g and will be responsible for Installation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting and support,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £55000 - £58000 per annum + BONUS, PENSION, LIFE ASSURANCE
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
Main responsibilities: Implement business analysis best practices/standards within the team... Funtional analysis (data, systems, interfaces) Support design & development, systems testing and UAT... in order to be considered...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
This IT area supplies solutions to the business globally covering the following functional areas :-*Entity*Counterparty Maintenance*Settlement Instruction Maintenance*Document ManagementIDEAL EXPERIENCE OF THE BUSINESS ANALYST:*Investment...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £450 - £700 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
City of London
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £450 - £700 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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