Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for OLE skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLE over the 3 months to 22 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.

LinkObject Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank473443598
Rank change year-on-year
Down-30Up+155
Matching contract IT job ads438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.008 %0.008 %0.010 %
As % of the Application Development category0.031 %0.034 %0.040 %
Daily rates quoted010
Average daily rate-£226-
UK excluding London average daily rate-£226-
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate---
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12975880919822
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK26.70 %22.20 %24.17 %
Daily rates quoted663330866471
Average daily rate£375£350£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-3.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted4234961249
Average hourly rate£30.00£28.50£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.260 %-10.93 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£14.00£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£41.50£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£27.50£32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.630 %-15.38 %

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.

OLE
Demand Trend

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

OLE Demand Trend

OLE
Daily Rate Trend

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

OLE Daily Rate Trend

OLE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OLE Hourly Rate Trend

OLE
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLE within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
ScotlandDown-112--
EnglandDown-382--
LondonDown-692--
EdinburghNew entry-2--

OLE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OLE 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 OLE.

16 (46.15 %)Finance
25 (38.46 %)SQL
25 (38.46 %)VBA
34 (30.77 %).NET
34 (30.77 %)SQL Server
34 (30.77 %)T-SQL
34 (30.77 %)ADO
34 (30.77 %)Datawarehouse
34 (30.77 %)DTS
34 (30.77 %)OLE DB
43 (23.08 %)Management Information System
43 (23.08 %)Banking
43 (23.08 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
43 (23.08 %)SQL Server 2000
43 (23.08 %)BCP
43 (23.08 %)ODBC
43 (23.08 %)VB.NET
43 (23.08 %)ActiveX
43 (23.08 %)MS Office
43 (23.08 %)InvestOne
43 (23.08 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
52 (15.38 %)Fund Management
52 (15.38 %)Wealth Management
52 (15.38 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (15.38 %)SQL Server Integration Services
52 (15.38 %)MS Excel
52 (15.38 %)MS Access
52 (15.38 %)Cognos
52 (15.38 %)Microsoft
52 (15.38 %)SunGard

OLE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OLE 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 OLE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
14 (30.77 %).NET
14 (30.77 %)ADO
14 (30.77 %)OLE DB
23 (23.08 %)ODBC
23 (23.08 %)ActiveX
31 (7.692 %)SAP ALE
31 (7.692 %)SAP Basis
31 (7.692 %)FpML
31 (7.692 %)EDI
31 (7.692 %)XHTML
31 (7.692 %)ASP.NET
31 (7.692 %)CSS
31 (7.692 %)XML
31 (7.692 %)jQuery
31 (7.692 %)ASP.NET MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
13 (23.08 %)MS Office
22 (15.38 %)MS Excel
31 (7.692 %)Photoshop
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (23.08 %)InvestOne
21 (7.692 %)Khalix
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (7.692 %)HTTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (30.77 %)SQL Server
14 (30.77 %)Datawarehouse
14 (30.77 %)DTS
23 (23.08 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
23 (23.08 %)SQL Server 2000
23 (23.08 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
32 (15.38 %)SQL Server 2005
32 (15.38 %)SQL Server Integration Services
32 (15.38 %)MS Access
32 (15.38 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
41 (7.692 %)Essbase
41 (7.692 %)BusinessObjects
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (7.692 %)Visual Studio
11 (7.692 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
16 (46.15 %)Finance
23 (23.08 %)Banking
31 (7.692 %)Investment Banking
31 (7.692 %)Retail
31 (7.692 %)Corporate Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18 (61.54 %)Analyst
24 (30.77 %)Business Analyst
24 (30.77 %)Developer
33 (23.08 %)SQL Developer
41 (7.692 %)MI Analyst
41 (7.692 %)Senior Systems Analyst
41 (7.692 %)Senior Analyst
41 (7.692 %)SAP Basis Consultant
41 (7.692 %)Technical Analyst
41 (7.692 %)SAP Consultant
41 (7.692 %)Analyst Developer
41 (7.692 %)Systems Analyst
41 (7.692 %)Consultant
41 (7.692 %)Analyst Programmer
41 (7.692 %)Programmer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (23.08 %)Management Information System
21 (7.692 %)N-Tier
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (23.08 %)BCP
22 (15.38 %)Fund Management
22 (15.38 %)Wealth Management
22 (15.38 %)Project Management
22 (15.38 %)Validation
22 (15.38 %)Asset Management
22 (15.38 %)Business Analysis
31 (7.692 %)Systems Analysis
31 (7.692 %)Pair Programming
31 (7.692 %)MVC
31 (7.692 %)Scrum
31 (7.692 %)Web Design
31 (7.692 %)Data Modelling
31 (7.692 %)OOD
31 (7.692 %)UML
31 (7.692 %)OOA/OOD
31 (7.692 %)OO
31 (7.692 %)Investment Management
31 (7.692 %)Cash Management
31 (7.692 %)Information Architecture
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15 (38.46 %)SQL
15 (38.46 %)VBA
24 (30.77 %)T-SQL
33 (23.08 %)VB.NET
41 (7.692 %)VB6
41 (7.692 %)ABAP
41 (7.692 %)VB
41 (7.692 %)C#
41 (7.692 %)JavaScript
41 (7.692 %)PHP
41 (7.692 %)PHP5
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (7.692 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (15.38 %)Cognos
12 (15.38 %)Microsoft
12 (15.38 %)SunGard
21 (7.692 %)LatentZero
21 (7.692 %)SAP
21 (7.692 %)Business Objects
21 (7.692 %)thinkFolio