The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP 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 OLTP 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
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 115 102 101
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -1
Contract jobs citing OLTP 3 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.123% 0.301% 0.362%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.562% 1.623% 1.848%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 1
Average daily rate £450 £320 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.62% -24.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £320 £320
% change year-on-year
+28.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
OLTP
UK

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland OLTP Daily Rate Trend

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 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
Glasgow -16 3 £450 +40.62%
Edinburgh +4 1 £450 +40.62%
OLTP
UK

OLTP
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) OLAP
2 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Data Mart
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (50.00%) Statistics
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (16.67%) Agresso
4 1 (16.67%) COM
4 1 (16.67%) MCSE
4 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (16.67%) COM
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Agresso
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) OLAP
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Data Mart
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Business Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Server Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft BI Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ERP
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Information Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft