North West Data Modelling Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Modeling skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Data Modelling over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham Chorley City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Rotherham Rugby Scotland Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Strathclyde Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	105
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	37	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.049 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	1.707 %	1.677 %
Daily rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£339
Average daily rate	£439	£401
% change on same period last year	+9.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£454	£464
UK excluding London average daily rate	£411	£393
% change on same period last year	+4.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£24.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.54	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-8.33 %
Processes & Methodologies North West
Matching contract IT job ads	2168	1848
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.858 %	1.932 %
Daily rates quoted	584	460
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£348
Average daily rate	£369	£365
% change on same period last year	+1.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	200	123
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.06	£23.92
Average hourly rate	£24.68	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-4.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.30	£27.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Data Modelling England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Modelling across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Modelling across the North West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Modelling across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Modelling across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Modelling across the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Data Modelling within the North West region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Lancashire	+22	18	£513	+11.59 %
Merseyside	-5	6	£467	-
Manchester	-26	3	£275	-
Cheshire	-32	2	£300	-14.28 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Data Modelling 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 Data Modelling.

1 38 (37.62 %) Oracle 2 36 (35.64 %) Datawarehouse 3 35 (34.65 %) Business Intelligence 4 34 (33.66 %) SQL 5 26 (25.74 %) Finance 6 19 (18.81 %) Data Architecture 7 18 (17.82 %) PL/SQL 7 18 (17.82 %) MS Visio 7 18 (17.82 %) CRM 8 17 (16.83 %) SQL Server 8 17 (16.83 %) Oracle EBS 9 16 (15.84 %) Workflow 10 15 (14.85 %) Oracle Workflow 10 15 (14.85 %) Risk Assessment 10 15 (14.85 %) Data Analysis

10 15 (14.85 %) Oracle Forms 10 15 (14.85 %) Oracle Reports 11 14 (13.86 %) Telecoms 11 14 (13.86 %) Security Cleared 11 14 (13.86 %) Knowledge Management 11 14 (13.86 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 13 (12.87 %) Government 13 12 (11.88 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 13 12 (11.88 %) Transact-SQL 14 11 (10.89 %) Java 14 11 (10.89 %) OLAP 15 10 (9.901 %) Migration 15 10 (9.901 %) Integration Testing 16 9 (8.911 %) SC Cleared 16 9 (8.911 %) Data Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Data Modelling 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 Data Modelling. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (7.921 %) .NET 2 6 (5.941 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (1.980 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.990 %) ISPF 4 1 (0.990 %) ODBC 4 1 (0.990 %) SAP XI	Application Platforms 1 15 (14.85 %) Oracle Workflow 2 6 (5.941 %) SharePoint 3 1 (0.990 %) CICS 3 1 (0.990 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 18 (17.82 %) MS Visio 2 7 (6.931 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.990 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 17 (16.83 %) Oracle EBS 2 6 (5.941 %) Oracle 11i 3 3 (2.970 %) Oracle CRM 4 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Financials 4 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Applications 4 1 (0.990 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.990 %) CTI 1 1 (0.990 %) Intranet 1 1 (0.990 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 36 (35.64 %) Datawarehouse 2 17 (16.83 %) SQL Server 3 15 (14.85 %) Oracle Reports 4 12 (11.88 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 11 (10.89 %) OLAP 6 8 (7.921 %) BusinessObjects 6 8 (7.921 %) DataStage 7 7 (6.931 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 6 (5.941 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 6 (5.941 %) ETL 9 4 (3.960 %) RDBMS 9 4 (3.960 %) SAP BI 9 4 (3.960 %) SQL Server 7 9 4 (3.960 %) Data Cleansing 9 4 (3.960 %) SQL Server 2005 10 3 (2.970 %) Data Mining 10 3 (2.970 %) Oracle 9i 11 2 (1.980 %) DB2 11 2 (1.980 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 1 (0.990 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 15 (14.85 %) Oracle Forms 2 4 (3.960 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.990 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 26 (25.74 %) Finance 2 14 (13.86 %) Telecoms 3 13 (12.87 %) Government 4 6 (5.941 %) Banking 5 5 (4.950 %) Retail 6 3 (2.970 %) Pensions 7 2 (1.980 %) Legal 7 2 (1.980 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.990 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.990 %) Health 8 1 (0.990 %) Law 8 1 (0.990 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 33 (32.67 %) Analyst 2 24 (23.76 %) Business Analyst 3 14 (13.86 %) Technical Lead 4 12 (11.88 %) Software Designer 5 10 (9.901 %) Data Manager 6 8 (7.921 %) Developer 6 8 (7.921 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 8 (7.921 %) Systems Analyst 7 7 (6.931 %) Architect 7 7 (6.931 %) Consultant 8 6 (5.941 %) Performance Analyst 9 4 (3.960 %) Business Intelligence Analyst 9 4 (3.960 %) SQL Developer 10 3 (2.970 %) SAP BI Consultant 10 3 (2.970 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 10 3 (2.970 %) Oracle Developer 10 3 (2.970 %) SQL Server Developer 10 3 (2.970 %) Data Modeller 10 3 (2.970 %) Excel Specialist 10 3 (2.970 %) Database Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.941 %) NHS 2 2 (1.980 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.990 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.990 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 3 (2.970 %) Unix 2 2 (1.980 %) zOS 3 1 (0.990 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (34.65 %) Business Intelligence 2 19 (18.81 %) Data Architecture 3 18 (17.82 %) CRM 4 16 (15.84 %) Workflow 5 15 (14.85 %) Risk Assessment 5 15 (14.85 %) Data Analysis 6 14 (13.86 %) Security Cleared 6 14 (13.86 %) Knowledge Management 6 14 (13.86 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 10 (9.901 %) Migration 7 10 (9.901 %) Integration Testing 8 9 (8.911 %) SC Cleared 8 9 (8.911 %) Data Management 9 7 (6.931 %) BC Cleared 9 7 (6.931 %) Dimensional Modelling 10 5 (4.950 %) Stakeholder Management 11 4 (3.960 %) GAP Analysis 11 4 (3.960 %) Data Migration 12 3 (2.970 %) Use Case 12 3 (2.970 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 34 (33.66 %) SQL 2 18 (17.82 %) PL/SQL 3 12 (11.88 %) Transact-SQL 4 11 (10.89 %) Java 5 2 (1.980 %) ABAP 6 1 (0.990 %) Assembly Language 6 1 (0.990 %) JCL 6 1 (0.990 %) C 6 1 (0.990 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 1 (0.990 %) Degree 1 1 (0.990 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (0.990 %) SAP Certification
Systems Management 1 1 (0.990 %) OMEGAMON	Vendors 1 38 (37.62 %) Oracle 2 8 (7.921 %) Business Objects 3 7 (6.931 %) Microsoft 4 5 (4.950 %) SAP 5 2 (1.980 %) IBM 6 1 (0.990 %) Informatica 6 1 (0.990 %) Compuware 6 1 (0.990 %) Cognos 6 1 (0.990 %) Ab Initio