The first table below looks at the demand for DTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTS over the 3 months to 24 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 Scotland 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Rank 107 108 108
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing DTS 11 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.075% 0.109%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.060% 0.406% 0.555%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £438 £260 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.26% -1.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £260 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £260 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £329
% change year-on-year
-4.61% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.25 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+19.65% -6.40%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
534 493 541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 21.89% 18.53% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 215 257
Average daily rate £350 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £235 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 23 14
Average hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £14.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £32.90 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DTS
UK

DTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland DTS Jobs Demand Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland DTS Daily Rate Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTS across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland DTS Daily Rate Histogram

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland DTS Hourly Rate Trend

DTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 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
Stirling -7 5 £550 -
Edinburgh - 3 - -
Glasgow - 2 £318 -
DTS
UK

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing DTS 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 DTS.

1 22 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 21 (95.45%) SQL
3 18 (81.82%) SQL Server
4 15 (68.18%) SQL Server 2008
5 14 (63.64%) Finance
6 13 (59.09%) XML
7 12 (54.55%) T-SQL
7 12 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
9 8 (36.36%) ETL
9 8 (36.36%) SQL Server 2000
10 7 (31.82%) XSL
10 7 (31.82%) Sybase
10 7 (31.82%) Data Mining
10 7 (31.82%) Cadis
11 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
11 6 (27.27%) Banking
11 6 (27.27%) XSLT
11 6 (27.27%) VBA
11 6 (27.27%) Oracle
12 5 (22.73%) TDD
12 5 (22.73%) XPath
12 5 (22.73%) Migration
12 5 (22.73%) Equities
12 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
12 5 (22.73%) BDD
12 5 (22.73%) Derivative
13 4 (18.18%) Silverlight
13 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
13 4 (18.18%) Windows

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing DTS 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 DTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (59.09%) XML
2 7 (31.82%) XSL
3 6 (27.27%) XSLT
4 4 (18.18%) Silverlight
5 2 (9.091%) MDX
5 2 (9.091%) ActiveX
5 2 (9.091%) .NET
5 2 (9.091%) ODBC
5 2 (9.091%) ADO
5 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
5 2 (9.091%) DCOM
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) SharePoint 2013
1 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 18 (81.82%) SQL Server
3 15 (68.18%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (36.36%) SQL Server 2000
7 7 (31.82%) Data Mining
8 3 (13.64%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (9.091%) QlikView
9 2 (9.091%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (9.091%) OLAP
10 1 (4.545%) MySQL
General
1 14 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Applications Developer
3 3 (13.64%) DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Consultant
4 2 (9.091%) SQL DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Sybase Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior SQL DBA
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior DBA
5 1 (4.545%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Equities
1 5 (22.73%) Derivative
2 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
3 2 (9.091%) Data Conversion
3 2 (9.091%) Mathematics
4 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ETL
2 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) TDD
3 5 (22.73%) Migration
3 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
3 5 (22.73%) BDD
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Data Architecture
5 2 (9.091%) Master Data Management
5 2 (9.091%) Metadata Management
5 2 (9.091%) Time Management
5 2 (9.091%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (9.091%) Data Management
5 2 (9.091%) Release Management
5 2 (9.091%) RAD
6 1 (4.545%) CRM
6 1 (4.545%) ERP
6 1 (4.545%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) T-SQL
3 6 (27.27%) VBA
4 5 (22.73%) XPath
5 2 (9.091%) C#
5 2 (9.091%) VB
5 2 (9.091%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Sybase
1 7 (31.82%) Cadis
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) DataFlux
3 2 (9.091%) Trillium
3 2 (9.091%) CommVault
3 2 (9.091%) Informatica
3 2 (9.091%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
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