North West ETL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) skills within the North West 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 ETL over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	67
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	48	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.086 %
As % of the category below	6.332 %	8.239 %
Daily rates quoted	4	25
Average minimum daily rate	£423	£387
Average daily rate	£424	£400
% change on same period last year	+5.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£414
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£407
% change on same period last year	+0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£32.67
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£32.67
% change on same period last year	+14.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£32.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.50	£46.47
% change on same period last year	-14.99 %
Database & Business Intelligence North West
Matching contract IT job ads	758	1056
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.025 %	1.041 %
Daily rates quoted	132	226
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£328
Average daily rate	£310	£345
% change on same period last year	-10.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	94	82
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.30	£26.56
Average hourly rate	£29.05	£28.88
% change on same period last year	+0.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.80	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
ETL 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 ETL across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence 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 ETL 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 ETL across the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 ETL 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 ETL across the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the North West region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Manchester	-14	16	£345	-4.93 %
Cheshire	-6	13	£450	+20.00 %
Merseyside	-	5	-	-

ETL England

ETL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ETL 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 ETL.

1 42 (48.28 %) Datawarehouse 2 31 (35.63 %) BusinessObjects 2 31 (35.63 %) Oracle 2 31 (35.63 %) Business Objects 3 30 (34.48 %) SQL 4 26 (29.89 %) SQL Server 5 22 (25.29 %) BusinessObjects XI 6 15 (17.24 %) PL/SQL 6 15 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2000 7 13 (14.94 %) Migration 7 13 (14.94 %) Informatica 8 11 (12.64 %) Ab Initio 9 10 (11.49 %) Data Migration 10 9 (10.34 %) DTS 10 9 (10.34 %) Business Intelligence

11 8 (9.195 %) Transact-SQL 12 7 (8.046 %) UNIX 12 7 (8.046 %) Oracle 9i 12 7 (8.046 %) SQL Server 2005 13 6 (6.897 %) Data Cleansing 13 6 (6.897 %) Finance 13 6 (6.897 %) EAI 13 6 (6.897 %) Oracle Reports 13 6 (6.897 %) .NET 14 5 (5.747 %) SAS 14 5 (5.747 %) Microsoft 15 4 (4.598 %) Oracle 10g 15 4 (4.598 %) PowerCenter 15 4 (4.598 %) DataStage 15 4 (4.598 %) ERP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ETL 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 ETL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (6.897 %) .NET 2 3 (3.448 %) XML 3 2 (2.299 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.149 %) COM 4 1 (1.149 %) DCOM 4 1 (1.149 %) CSS 4 1 (1.149 %) XSLT 4 1 (1.149 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (1.149 %) ASP 4 1 (1.149 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (5.747 %) SAS 2 2 (2.299 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (1.149 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 2 (2.299 %) MS Office 1 2 (2.299 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.149 %) Fireworks 2 1 (1.149 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (2.299 %) Oracle Financials 1 2 (2.299 %) Microsoft CRM 1 2 (2.299 %) ProfileStage 1 2 (2.299 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (1.149 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 2 1 (1.149 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.299 %) FTP 1 2 (2.299 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 42 (48.28 %) Datawarehouse 2 31 (35.63 %) BusinessObjects 3 26 (29.89 %) SQL Server 4 22 (25.29 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 15 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2000 6 9 (10.34 %) DTS 7 7 (8.046 %) Oracle 9i 7 7 (8.046 %) SQL Server 2005 8 6 (6.897 %) Data Cleansing 8 6 (6.897 %) Oracle Reports 9 4 (4.598 %) Oracle 10g 9 4 (4.598 %) PowerCenter 9 4 (4.598 %) DataStage 9 4 (4.598 %) Crystal Reports 9 4 (4.598 %) BODI 10 3 (3.448 %) Data Mart 10 3 (3.448 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 3 (3.448 %) Oracle OWB 10 3 (3.448 %) DB2 10 3 (3.448 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 3 (3.448 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.149 %) Visual Studio	General 1 6 (6.897 %) Finance 2 3 (3.448 %) Government 2 3 (3.448 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (3.448 %) Retail 3 2 (2.299 %) Billing 3 2 (2.299 %) Marketing 3 2 (2.299 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.149 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.149 %) Law 4 1 (1.149 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (1.149 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 52 (59.77 %) Developer 2 15 (17.24 %) SQL Developer 3 13 (14.94 %) Business Objects Developer 3 13 (14.94 %) Business Developer 4 12 (13.79 %) Consultant 5 10 (11.49 %) SQL Server Developer 5 10 (11.49 %) Database Developer 6 9 (10.34 %) SQL Database Developer 6 9 (10.34 %) Oracle Developer 7 7 (8.046 %) Analyst 7 7 (8.046 %) Ab Initio Developer 7 7 (8.046 %) Oracle Database Developer 7 7 (8.046 %) ETL Developer 8 6 (6.897 %) Data Analyst 9 5 (5.747 %) Architect 9 5 (5.747 %) PL/SQL Developer 10 4 (4.598 %) DBA 11 3 (3.448 %) Senior Developer 11 3 (3.448 %) Oracle DBA 11 3 (3.448 %) Informatica Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.598 %) Data Extraction 2 3 (3.448 %) Client/Server 3 2 (2.299 %) Mainframe 3 2 (2.299 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.149 %) Replication 4 1 (1.149 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.149 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 7 (8.046 %) UNIX 2 2 (2.299 %) HPUX 2 2 (2.299 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.149 %) Windows 3 1 (1.149 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (14.94 %) Migration 2 10 (11.49 %) Data Migration 3 9 (10.34 %) Business Intelligence 4 6 (6.897 %) EAI 5 4 (4.598 %) CRM 5 4 (4.598 %) ERP 5 4 (4.598 %) Zachman Framework 5 4 (4.598 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 4 (4.598 %) Performance Management 5 4 (4.598 %) Dimensional Modelling 6 3 (3.448 %) ITIL 6 3 (3.448 %) Service Management 7 2 (2.299 %) Quality Management 7 2 (2.299 %) E-business 7 2 (2.299 %) Validation 7 2 (2.299 %) RUP 7 2 (2.299 %) Data Management 7 2 (2.299 %) Information Management 7 2 (2.299 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (2.299 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 30 (34.48 %) SQL 2 15 (17.24 %) PL/SQL 3 8 (9.195 %) Transact-SQL 4 4 (4.598 %) VB.NET 5 2 (2.299 %) Perl 5 2 (2.299 %) Shell Script 5 2 (2.299 %) Korn 6 1 (1.149 %) SAS Macro 6 1 (1.149 %) Java 6 1 (1.149 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.149 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 3 (3.448 %) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.149 %) GAMP 1 1 (1.149 %) GxP	System Software 1 3 (3.448 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 31 (35.63 %) Oracle 1 31 (35.63 %) Business Objects 2 13 (14.94 %) Informatica 3 11 (12.64 %) Ab Initio 4 5 (5.747 %) Microsoft 5 3 (3.448 %) Cognos 5 3 (3.448 %) VMware 5 3 (3.448 %) Teradata 6 2 (2.299 %) IBM 6 2 (2.299 %) HP 6 2 (2.299 %) Genesys 7 1 (1.149 %) Hyperion 7 1 (1.149 %) SAP 7 1 (1.149 %) Brio 7 1 (1.149 %) Sage