The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 20 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 Staffordshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank - - 17
Contract jobs citing OLTP 0 0 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - - 11.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - - 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 8
Average daily rate - - £300
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
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
35 36 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 41.18% 16.59% 58.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 57
Average daily rate £250 £288 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £375 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
Average hourly rate £15.31 £28.75 £12.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.74% +137.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
OLTP
West Midlands

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire OLTP Daily Rate Trend

OLTP
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (85.71%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
4 1 (14.29%) Clustering

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) RDBMS
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) DBA
1 7 (100.00%) SQL DBA
2 6 (85.71%) Administrator
2 6 (85.71%) Teradata DBA
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (42.86%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA