South West Data Migration Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Data Migration skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Migration over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Argyll and Bute Atherstone Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Helensburgh Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redhill Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	89
Rank change on same period last year	+47
Matching contract IT job ads	122	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.163 %	0.079 %
As % of the category below	4.782 %	2.515 %
Daily rates quoted	61	39
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£387
Average daily rate	£456	£419
% change on same period last year	+8.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£482	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£426	£400
% change on same period last year	+6.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.20	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£27.70	£29.00
% change on same period last year	-4.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.20	£31.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.84	£24.64
% change on same period last year	+12.99 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2551	3102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.400 %	3.138 %
Daily rates quoted	961	998
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£362
Average daily rate	£399	£383
% change on same period last year	+4.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	271	366
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.93	£28.91
Average hourly rate	£33.62	£30.63
% change on same period last year	+9.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.31	£32.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Data Migration England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Data Migration across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Migration across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Migration across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Migration within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Wiltshire	+30	41	£420	-5.60 %
Gloucestershire	+18	24	£410	+9.40 %
Somerset	-	17	£638	-
Bristol	+13	10	£495	+1.53 %
Dorset	-3	8	£428	+5.79 %
Devon	+8	4	£381	-
Avon	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Data Migration 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 Data Migration.

1 196 (100.00 %) Migration 2 85 (43.37 %) Finance 3 49 (25.00 %) Banking 4 43 (21.94 %) Pensions 5 39 (19.90 %) Data Analysis 6 35 (17.86 %) CA Clarity 7 34 (17.35 %) Oracle 8 30 (15.31 %) Requirements Analysis 9 29 (14.80 %) GAP Analysis 9 29 (14.80 %) Data Modelling 10 28 (14.29 %) DSDM 10 28 (14.29 %) UML 10 28 (14.29 %) SSADM 10 28 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 11 25 (12.76 %) Retail

11 25 (12.76 %) SQL 12 24 (12.24 %) SAP 13 22 (11.22 %) Retail Banking 14 19 (9.694 %) Security Cleared 15 16 (8.163 %) ETL 15 16 (8.163 %) Government 16 15 (7.653 %) Data Mapping 17 14 (7.143 %) Project Management 17 14 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 18 12 (6.122 %) Marketing 18 12 (6.122 %) SC Cleared 18 12 (6.122 %) Data Cleansing 18 12 (6.122 %) Oracle Reports 19 11 (5.612 %) Oracle Financials 19 11 (5.612 %) ERP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Data Migration 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 Data Migration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (3.061 %) J2EE 1 6 (3.061 %) XML 2 2 (1.020 %) XML Schema 2 2 (1.020 %) .NET 2 2 (1.020 %) WebServices 3 1 (0.510 %) ASP 3 1 (0.510 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (0.510 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 4 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (1.020 %) Oracle Spatial 2 2 (1.020 %) SharePoint 2 2 (1.020 %) Oracle Workflow 3 1 (0.510 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 35 (17.86 %) CA Clarity 2 6 (3.061 %) MS Office 3 4 (2.041 %) MS Excel 3 4 (2.041 %) MS Project 4 3 (1.531 %) Spreadsheet 5 2 (1.020 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (1.020 %) Open Workbench 6 1 (0.510 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 11 (5.612 %) Oracle Financials 2 5 (2.551 %) Summit 3 4 (2.041 %) Oracle ERP 3 4 (2.041 %) Oracle EBS 4 3 (1.531 %) Oracle HRMS 5 2 (1.020 %) SAP HR 5 2 (1.020 %) SAP IS-U 5 2 (1.020 %) SAP Payroll 6 1 (0.510 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.510 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 3 (1.531 %) LAN 2 2 (1.020 %) WAN 3 1 (0.510 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.510 %) DNS 3 1 (0.510 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (8.163 %) ETL 2 12 (6.122 %) Oracle Reports 2 12 (6.122 %) Data Cleansing 3 10 (5.102 %) SQL Server 4 8 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2000 4 8 (4.082 %) SQL Server 2005 5 7 (3.571 %) DataStage 6 5 (2.551 %) Datawarehouse 7 4 (2.041 %) MS Access 7 4 (2.041 %) DB2 7 4 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (1.531 %) GIS 9 2 (1.020 %) SQLPlus 9 2 (1.020 %) Oracle 10g 9 2 (1.020 %) Oracle 9i 9 2 (1.020 %) Data Mining 10 1 (0.510 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (0.510 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 1 (0.510 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 1 (0.510 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 7 (3.571 %) LSMW 2 2 (1.020 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (1.020 %) QuickTest Pro 2 2 (1.020 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (0.510 %) JDeveloper	General 1 85 (43.37 %) Finance 2 49 (25.00 %) Banking 3 43 (21.94 %) Pensions 4 25 (12.76 %) Retail 5 22 (11.22 %) Retail Banking 6 16 (8.163 %) Government 7 12 (6.122 %) Marketing 8 9 (4.592 %) Insurance 9 8 (4.082 %) Legal 10 7 (3.571 %) Corporate Banking 11 5 (2.551 %) Investment Banking 11 5 (2.551 %) Back Office 12 1 (0.510 %) Telecoms 12 1 (0.510 %) Billing 12 1 (0.510 %) Military
Job Titles 1 75 (38.27 %) Analyst 2 52 (26.53 %) Business Analyst 3 31 (15.82 %) Project Manager 4 28 (14.29 %) Consultant 5 17 (8.673 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 16 (8.163 %) Data Analyst 7 15 (7.653 %) Data Manager 7 15 (7.653 %) Data Migration Analyst 8 13 (6.633 %) Oracle Consultant 9 11 (5.612 %) Developer 10 10 (5.102 %) Migration Consultant 10 10 (5.102 %) Data Consultant 11 8 (4.082 %) Oracle Financials Consultant 11 8 (4.082 %) SAP Consultant 12 7 (3.571 %) Senior Analyst 12 7 (3.571 %) Migration Project Manager 12 7 (3.571 %) Financial Business Analyst 13 6 (3.061 %) SAP Data Migration Consultant 13 6 (3.061 %) Financial Services Business Analyst 13 6 (3.061 %) DBA	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.061 %) Data Extraction 2 5 (2.551 %) APACS 3 3 (1.531 %) Data Conversion 3 3 (1.531 %) Client/Server 3 3 (1.531 %) PMI 4 2 (1.020 %) NHS 4 2 (1.020 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.020 %) Replication 4 2 (1.020 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.510 %) Spanish Language 5 1 (0.510 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 5 (2.551 %) Windows 1 5 (2.551 %) Windows NT 2 4 (2.041 %) AIX 3 3 (1.531 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.510 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (0.510 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 196 (100.00 %) Migration 2 39 (19.90 %) Data Analysis 3 30 (15.31 %) Requirements Analysis 4 29 (14.80 %) Data Modelling 4 29 (14.80 %) GAP Analysis 5 28 (14.29 %) UML 5 28 (14.29 %) SSADM 5 28 (14.29 %) DSDM 5 28 (14.29 %) Business Analysis 6 19 (9.694 %) Security Cleared 7 15 (7.653 %) Data Mapping 8 14 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 8 14 (7.143 %) Project Management 9 12 (6.122 %) SC Cleared 10 11 (5.612 %) ERP 10 11 (5.612 %) Data Management 11 10 (5.102 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 9 (4.592 %) Performance Testing 12 9 (4.592 %) Regression Testing 13 7 (3.571 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 25 (12.76 %) SQL 2 8 (4.082 %) ABAP 3 6 (3.061 %) Java 4 5 (2.551 %) PL/SQL 5 3 (1.531 %) VBA 6 2 (1.020 %) Shell Script 6 2 (1.020 %) C 7 1 (0.510 %) C#	Qualifications 1 8 (4.082 %) ISEB 2 4 (2.041 %) Citrix Certification 2 4 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (1.020 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (0.510 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (0.510 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (2.041 %) QA 2 1 (0.510 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 3 (1.531 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 34 (17.35 %) Oracle 2 24 (12.24 %) SAP 3 7 (3.571 %) Ascential 3 7 (3.571 %) Informatica 4 6 (3.061 %) Trillium 4 6 (3.061 %) Sybase 5 4 (2.041 %) Business Objects 5 4 (2.041 %) Siebel 6 3 (1.531 %) Microsoft 7 2 (1.020 %) VMware 7 2 (1.020 %) IBM 8 1 (0.510 %) Ericsson 8 1 (0.510 %) Capita 8 1 (0.510 %) Niku