OLTP Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 112 131 123
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -8
Contract jobs citing OLTP 7 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.296% 0.127% 0.233%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.296% 0.568% 1.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £400 £343 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.78% +7.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £320 £315
% change year-on-year
+40.62% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		 540 704 669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 22.87% 22.32% 22.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 370 371
Average daily rate £325 £300 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £453 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 33 41
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.57 £10.80 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £71.50 £35.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
OLTP
England

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West OLTP Jobs Demand Trend

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West OLTP Daily Rate Trend

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLTP across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West OLTP Daily Rate Histogram

OLTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cheshire - 6 £394 -
Lancashire - 1 £500 -
OLTP
England

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing OLTP 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 OLTP.

1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 11 (84.62%) SQL Server
2 11 (84.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (69.23%) Replication
4 7 (53.85%) T-SQL
5 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
5 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2000
5 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (46.15%) Data Integration
5 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
5 6 (46.15%) Unit Testing
6 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (38.46%) IDMS
6 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (38.46%) QA
6 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
6 5 (38.46%) VLDB
6 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (30.77%) Load Testing
7 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
8 3 (23.08%) Change Management
8 3 (23.08%) ITIL
8 3 (23.08%) MySQL
9 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
9 2 (15.38%) Degree
9 2 (15.38%) Retail

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing OLTP 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 OLTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (84.62%) SQL Server
1 11 (84.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2000
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (38.46%) IDMS
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (38.46%) RDBMS
3 5 (38.46%) VLDB
3 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (23.08%) MySQL
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (7.692%) OLAP
6 1 (7.692%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (7.692%) TOAD
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
2 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) DBA
2 9 (69.23%) SQL DBA
3 6 (46.15%) Administrator
3 6 (46.15%) Teradata DBA
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Server Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) E-Business Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Replication
2 6 (46.15%) Data Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) UNIX
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
1 6 (46.15%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (46.15%) Unit Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (30.77%) Load Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (7.692%) BPEL
6 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (7.692%) Change Control
6 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
6 1 (7.692%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (7.692%) Data Security
6 1 (7.692%) Workflow
6 1 (7.692%) SOA
6 1 (7.692%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Java
3 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle
1 1 (7.692%) Cognos
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