Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ODBC skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ODBC over the 3 months to 15 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

LinkOpen Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Location
3 months to
15 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank462425527
Rank change year-on-year
Down-37Up+102
Matching contract IT job ads152979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.032 %0.072 %0.097 %
As % of the Application Development category0.118 %0.329 %0.403 %
Daily rates quoted13533
Average daily rate£375£410£285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.530 %+43.85 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£260£282£171
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£453£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£288£485
% change year-on-year
+4.340 %-40.72 %
Hourly rates quoted0412
Average hourly rate-£22.75£21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+7.050 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£22.75£30.00
% change year-on-year
--24.16 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12670882219621
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.81 %21.95 %24.06 %
Daily rates quoted644230636322
Average daily rate£380£350£360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-2.770 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£218£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4235001242
Average hourly rate£30.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.00£15.00£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£42.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.25£30.00£32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.830 %-7.690 %

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.

ODBC
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ODBC within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

ODBC Demand Trend

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ODBC within the UK.

ODBC Daily Rate Trend

ODBC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ODBC within the UK over the 3 months to 15 March 2010.

ODBC Daily Rate Histogram

ODBC
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ODBC within the UK.

ODBC Hourly Rate Trend

ODBC
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the UK over the 3 months to 15 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-4214£375-8.53 %
LondonDown-5610£423-3.42 %
City of LondonDown-596£475+2.70 %
East of EnglandUp+183£300-
CambridgeshireUp+62£300-
West MidlandsNew entry-1£250-
East AngliaNew entry-1£300-
CambridgeNew entry-1--
BirminghamNew entry-1£250-

ODBC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ODBC 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 ODBC.

130 (76.92 %)SQL
220 (51.28 %)Oracle
317 (43.59 %)SQL Server
413 (33.33 %)Finance
512 (30.77 %)VBA
512 (30.77 %)Java
611 (28.21 %)MS Access
710 (25.64 %)PL/SQL
710 (25.64 %)JDBC
710 (25.64 %)Oracle 10g
89 (23.08 %)Perl
89 (23.08 %).NET
89 (23.08 %)Datawarehouse
89 (23.08 %)UNIX
89 (23.08 %)Banking
98 (20.51 %)XML
98 (20.51 %)T-SQL
98 (20.51 %)HTML
107 (17.95 %)RDBMS
116 (15.38 %)ETL
116 (15.38 %)Configuration Management
116 (15.38 %)Telecoms
116 (15.38 %)C++
116 (15.38 %)Sybase
116 (15.38 %)MS Excel
125 (12.82 %)Oracle 9i
125 (12.82 %)JavaScript
125 (12.82 %)VB
125 (12.82 %)Oracle RMAN
125 (12.82 %)NHS

ODBC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ODBC 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 ODBC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (25.64 %)JDBC
29 (23.08 %).NET
38 (20.51 %)HTML
38 (20.51 %)XML
44 (10.26 %)ActiveX
44 (10.26 %)CSS
53 (7.692 %)ASP.NET
53 (7.692 %)ADO
53 (7.692 %)OLE
53 (7.692 %)OLE DB
62 (5.128 %)AJAX
62 (5.128 %).NET Framework
62 (5.128 %)XHTML
62 (5.128 %)CPAN
62 (5.128 %)ASP
62 (5.128 %)J2EE
71 (2.564 %)MFC
71 (2.564 %)DHTML
71 (2.564 %)Dojo
71 (2.564 %)Apache Axis
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (5.128 %)Lotus Domino
12 (5.128 %)Apache
12 (5.128 %)SharePoint
21 (2.564 %)Documentum
21 (2.564 %)ColdFusion
21 (2.564 %)BizTalk Server
21 (2.564 %)Oracle Workflow
21 (2.564 %)Captiva
21 (2.564 %)Lotus Notes
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (15.38 %)MS Excel
23 (7.692 %)Spreadsheet
32 (5.128 %)MS Office
32 (5.128 %)MATLAB
41 (2.564 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (2.564 %)JDE OneWorld
11 (2.564 %)Cerner Millennium
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (10.26 %)3G
14 (10.26 %)RNC
14 (10.26 %)Nokia NetAct
23 (7.692 %)UMTS
32 (5.128 %)LDAP
32 (5.128 %)LAN
41 (2.564 %)X.400
41 (2.564 %)VoIP
41 (2.564 %)WAN
41 (2.564 %)FTP
41 (2.564 %)HTTP
41 (2.564 %)TCP/IP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
117 (43.59 %)SQL Server
211 (28.21 %)MS Access
310 (25.64 %)Oracle 10g
49 (23.08 %)Datawarehouse
57 (17.95 %)RDBMS
66 (15.38 %)ETL
75 (12.82 %)Oracle 9i
75 (12.82 %)SQL Server 2005
75 (12.82 %)Oracle 11g
84 (10.26 %)Sybase ASE
84 (10.26 %)SQL Server 2000
84 (10.26 %)Oracle OWB
93 (7.692 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
93 (7.692 %)TOAD
93 (7.692 %)MySQL
93 (7.692 %)DTS
93 (7.692 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
102 (5.128 %)SQL Server Integration Services
102 (5.128 %)Crystal Reports
102 (5.128 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (10.26 %)Eclipse
23 (7.692 %)Subversion
23 (7.692 %)ClearCase
32 (5.128 %)JIRA
32 (5.128 %)ClearQuest
41 (2.564 %)Visual Studio
41 (2.564 %)Oracle Forms
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
113 (33.33 %)Finance
29 (23.08 %)Banking
36 (15.38 %)Telecoms
45 (12.82 %)Investment Banking
53 (7.692 %)Insurance
62 (5.128 %)Back Office
71 (2.564 %)Front Office
71 (2.564 %)Health
71 (2.564 %)Manufacturing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
118 (46.15 %)Developer
25 (12.82 %)DBA
25 (12.82 %)Programmer
25 (12.82 %)Oracle DBA
34 (10.26 %)Architect
34 (10.26 %)RAN Engineer
34 (10.26 %)Configuration Engineer
34 (10.26 %)RAN Configuration Engineer
43 (7.692 %)SQL Developer
43 (7.692 %)Administrator
52 (5.128 %)Java Developer
52 (5.128 %)Analyst
52 (5.128 %)C# Developer
52 (5.128 %)SharePoint Architect
52 (5.128 %)Domino Developer
52 (5.128 %)Web Programmer
52 (5.128 %)Cognos Developer
61 (2.564 %)Financial Analyst
61 (2.564 %)Credit Risk Analyst
61 (2.564 %)JDE Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
15 (12.82 %)NHS
24 (10.26 %)Replication
24 (10.26 %)Fixed Income
24 (10.26 %)Clustering
24 (10.26 %)Derivative
33 (7.692 %)Statistics
42 (5.128 %)Blackberry
42 (5.128 %)Management Information System
42 (5.128 %)CMDB
51 (2.564 %)Credit Risk
51 (2.564 %)SCADA
51 (2.564 %)Ergonomics
51 (2.564 %)Equities
51 (2.564 %)Tandem
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (23.08 %)UNIX
24 (10.26 %)Linux
33 (7.692 %)Windows
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (15.38 %)Configuration Management
25 (12.82 %)Data Management
34 (10.26 %)ITIL
43 (7.692 %)OO
43 (7.692 %)Business Intelligence
43 (7.692 %)BCP
43 (7.692 %)Workflow
52 (5.128 %)Migration
52 (5.128 %)Asset Management
52 (5.128 %)UML
52 (5.128 %)Project Management
52 (5.128 %)Change Management
52 (5.128 %)Identity Management
52 (5.128 %)User Acceptance Testing
52 (5.128 %)Wealth Management
52 (5.128 %)Data Modelling
61 (2.564 %)Release Management
61 (2.564 %)Unit Testing
61 (2.564 %)Integration Testing
61 (2.564 %)Test Scripting
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
130 (76.92 %)SQL
212 (30.77 %)Java
212 (30.77 %)VBA
310 (25.64 %)PL/SQL
49 (23.08 %)Perl
58 (20.51 %)T-SQL
66 (15.38 %)C++
75 (12.82 %)Shell Script
75 (12.82 %)VB
75 (12.82 %)JavaScript
83 (7.692 %)C#
83 (7.692 %)VB.NET
92 (5.128 %)C
92 (5.128 %)LotusScript
92 (5.128 %)Ruby
92 (5.128 %)Bash shell
92 (5.128 %)Python
101 (2.564 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (2.564 %)Degree
11 (2.564 %)SC Cleared
11 (2.564 %)BC Cleared
11 (2.564 %)Security Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (5.128 %)HL7
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (12.82 %)Oracle RMAN
24 (10.26 %)Oracle RAC
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
15 (12.82 %)Data Guard
24 (10.26 %)BMC PATROL
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
120 (51.28 %)Oracle
26 (15.38 %)Sybase
34 (10.26 %)SAP
34 (10.26 %)Microsoft
34 (10.26 %)Nokia
34 (10.26 %)BMC
43 (7.692 %)Cognos
52 (5.128 %)Novell
52 (5.128 %)Lotus
61 (2.564 %)JD Edwards
61 (2.564 %)SeeBeyond
61 (2.564 %)Reuters
61 (2.564 %)Bloomberg
61 (2.564 %)Cerner
61 (2.564 %)Business Objects
61 (2.564 %)Fidessa
61 (2.564 %)HP
61 (2.564 %)EMC
61 (2.564 %)Nortel