The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 17 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 South East 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 216 238 245
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +7
Contract jobs citing OLTP 7 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.090% 0.089% 0.067%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.472% 0.513% 0.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
Average daily rate £350 £315 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -6.66%
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1483 1756 2218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.98% 17.29% 21.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 880 1042
Average daily rate £355 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 48 123
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £38.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.90% -27.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £16.50 £19.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
OLTP
England

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East OLTP Daily Rate Trend

OLTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East OLTP Hourly 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 South East region over the 3 months to 17 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
Hampshire - 5 £350 -
Surrey - 2 £325 -
OLTP
England

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 10 (66.67%) Oracle
1 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (53.33%) CRM
2 8 (53.33%) Siebel
2 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (53.33%) Informatica
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (53.33%) Data Analysis
2 8 (53.33%) Marketing
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle 11g
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) Marketing Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (13.33%) Degree
6 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (13.33%) Korn
6 2 (13.33%) Perl
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (13.33%) Veritas File System
6 2 (13.33%) Bourne shell
6 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (13.33%) T-SQL

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (6.667%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (6.667%) Siebel Analytics
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle 11g
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 7 (46.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (13.33%) VLDB
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 8 (53.33%) Marketing
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Consultant
2 6 (40.00%) OBIEE Consultant
3 4 (26.67%) Architect
4 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (20.00%) SQL Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle BI Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) SQL DBA
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 2 (13.33%) DBA
5 2 (13.33%) Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Siebel Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle CRM Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) CRM Consultant
6 1 (6.667%) OBIEE Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
1 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) UNIX
1 2 (13.33%) HPUX
1 2 (13.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (53.33%) CRM
2 8 (53.33%) Data Analysis
2 8 (53.33%) Analytics
2 8 (53.33%) Marketing Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Benchmarking
5 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
6 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) AWK
2 2 (13.33%) Korn
2 2 (13.33%) Bourne shell
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Sun Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Veritas Volume Manager
1 2 (13.33%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (13.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Oracle
2 8 (53.33%) Siebel
2 8 (53.33%) Informatica
3 2 (13.33%) Veritas
3 2 (13.33%) Sun
3 2 (13.33%) BMC
4 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
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