South Wales DTS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) skills within the South Wales 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 DTS over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Location Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dover Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Gatwick Glamorgan Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rotherham Salford Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southall Surbiton Surrey Taunton UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wirral Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	39
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	19	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	14.50 %	7.207 %
Daily rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum daily rate	£231	£250
Average daily rate	£245	£270
% change on same period last year	-9.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£259	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£353
% change on same period last year	-9.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.71	£34.42
% change on same period last year	-7.88 %
Database & Business Intelligence South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	131	111
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.184 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	39	18
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£339
Average daily rate	£333	£374
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.29	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£37.65	£26.00
% change on same period last year	+44.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.02	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.90
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
DTS Wales

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.

DTS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DTS across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

DTS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTS across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Cardiff	+9	17	£244	-9.52 %
Glamorgan	-	2	£250	-

DTS Wales

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 21 (87.50 %) SQL 2 18 (75.00 %) SQL Server 3 17 (70.83 %) Transact-SQL 4 16 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 14 (58.33 %) VBA 5 14 (58.33 %) Crystal Reports 5 14 (58.33 %) MS Access 6 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel 7 7 (29.17 %) Datawarehouse 8 5 (20.83 %) SQL Server 2005 8 5 (20.83 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 5 (20.83 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 8 5 (20.83 %) Cognos 8 5 (20.83 %) Finance 8 5 (20.83 %) Data Modelling

8 5 (20.83 %) ETL 8 5 (20.83 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 9 4 (16.67 %) VB 10 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 3 (12.50 %) Dimensional Modelling 10 3 (12.50 %) C# 10 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 10 3 (12.50 %) PHP 10 3 (12.50 %) .NET 10 3 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 10 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (12.50 %) CSS 11 2 (8.333 %) Law 11 2 (8.333 %) N-Tier

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 3 (12.50 %) .NET 1 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (12.50 %) CSS 1 3 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 2 2 (8.333 %) AJAX 2 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (4.167 %) MDX 3 1 (4.167 %) XML 3 1 (4.167 %) XHTML	Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) Cognos Business Intelligence	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (75.00 %) SQL Server 2 16 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 14 (58.33 %) Crystal Reports 3 14 (58.33 %) MS Access 4 7 (29.17 %) Datawarehouse 5 5 (20.83 %) ETL 5 5 (20.83 %) SQL Server 2005 5 5 (20.83 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 4 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 1 (4.167 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (20.83 %) Finance 2 2 (8.333 %) Law 3 1 (4.167 %) Legal 3 1 (4.167 %) Games
Job Titles 1 15 (62.50 %) Developer 2 7 (29.17 %) Analyst 2 7 (29.17 %) Programmer 3 6 (25.00 %) Analyst Programmer 4 5 (20.83 %) Cognos Developer 4 5 (20.83 %) SQL Developer 5 4 (16.67 %) Crystal Reports Developer 5 4 (16.67 %) Report Developer 6 3 (12.50 %) SQL DBA 6 3 (12.50 %) DBA 6 3 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) C# Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) Report Analyst 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server DBA 8 1 (4.167 %) Analyst Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) .NET Programmer 8 1 (4.167 %) VB Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (20.83 %) Data Modelling 1 5 (20.83 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (12.50 %) Dimensional Modelling 3 2 (8.333 %) Software Testing 4 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 21 (87.50 %) SQL 2 17 (70.83 %) Transact-SQL 3 14 (58.33 %) VBA 4 4 (16.67 %) VB 5 3 (12.50 %) C# 5 3 (12.50 %) JavaScript 5 3 (12.50 %) PHP 6 2 (8.333 %) VB6
Vendors 1 5 (20.83 %) Cognos