OLTP Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 456 481 491
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +10
Contract jobs citing OLTP 85 84 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.183% 0.144% 0.153%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.883% 0.756% 0.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 37 41
Average daily rate £400 £400 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £315 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £320 £320
% change year-on-year
+32.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		 9625 11115 12673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.77% 19.04% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5819 6381 7051
Average daily rate £388 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £255 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 267 393
Average hourly rate £25.85 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.55 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

OLTP Daily Rate Trend

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLTP within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

OLTP Daily Rate Histogram

OLTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OLTP Hourly Rate Trend

OLTP
Top 29 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank 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
England +47 79 £400 -
London +29 52 £400 -11.11%
City of London +27 19 £400 -17.94%
South East +18 10 £350 +11.11%
South West +35 7 £375 -28.57%
North West +14 7 £400 +19.85%
Bournemouth +5 6 £375 -28.57%
Dorset +3 6 £375 -28.57%
Chester - 6 £394 -
Cheshire - 6 £394 -
Hampshire - 5 £350 -
Buckinghamshire +3 3 - -
Scotland -17 3 £450 +40.62%
Glasgow -27 3 £450 +40.62%
Milton Keynes +3 2 - -
Surrey - 2 £325 -
East of England +17 1 £450 +12.50%
Edinburgh +7 1 £450 +40.62%
East Midlands +1 1 £450 -
West Midlands - 1 £320 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £450 -
Lancashire - 1 £500 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £450 -
St Albans - 1 £450 -
Southampton - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 £450 -
Leatherhead - 1 - -
Fareham - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 78 (48.45%) SQL
2 75 (46.58%) Oracle
3 73 (45.34%) SQL Server
4 58 (36.02%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (35.40%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (28.57%) UNIX
7 44 (27.33%) Finance
8 41 (25.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 37 (22.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 37 (22.98%) ETL
10 35 (21.74%) Data Modelling
10 35 (21.74%) OLAP
11 32 (19.88%) T-SQL
11 32 (19.88%) SQL Server 2008
12 30 (18.63%) Banking
13 27 (16.77%) SQL Server 2005
14 24 (14.91%) Unit Testing
15 23 (14.29%) Microsoft
16 22 (13.66%) Oracle 11g
17 21 (13.04%) C++
18 20 (12.42%) STL
18 20 (12.42%) Data Analysis
19 19 (11.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 18 (11.18%) Cognos Business Intelligence
20 18 (11.18%) Cognos
20 18 (11.18%) Regression Testing
21 17 (10.56%) Informatica
22 16 (9.938%) Disaster Recovery
22 16 (9.938%) Linux
22 16 (9.938%) Oracle BI EE

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 20 (12.42%) STL
2 14 (8.696%) .NET
3 9 (5.590%) Middleware
4 7 (4.348%) MDX
5 6 (3.727%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (3.106%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.106%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.863%) XML
7 3 (1.863%) SOAP
7 3 (1.863%) REST
8 2 (1.242%) jQuery
8 2 (1.242%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.242%) WinForms
8 2 (1.242%) Hibernate
8 2 (1.242%) XHTML
8 2 (1.242%) XSLT
8 2 (1.242%) CSS
9 1 (0.621%) COM
9 1 (0.621%) CORBA
9 1 (0.621%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 6 (3.727%) Oracle Application Server
1 6 (3.727%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.863%) Windows Azure
3 1 (0.621%) IIS
3 1 (0.621%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.621%) Escenic
Applications
1 7 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.242%) PowerPivot
2 2 (1.242%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 18 (11.18%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 12 (7.453%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.242%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.242%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.621%) Agresso
4 1 (0.621%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.621%) BASE24
4 1 (0.621%) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.106%) SAN
2 4 (2.484%) WAN
2 4 (2.484%) Internet
3 2 (1.242%) VLAN
3 2 (1.242%) LAN
4 1 (0.621%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (45.34%) SQL Server
2 58 (36.02%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (25.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 37 (22.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 35 (21.74%) OLAP
6 32 (19.88%) SQL Server 2008
7 27 (16.77%) SQL Server 2005
8 22 (13.66%) Oracle 11g
9 19 (11.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (9.938%) Oracle BI EE
11 14 (8.696%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (8.696%) Oracle 8/8i
12 13 (8.075%) SQL Server 2000
12 13 (8.075%) RDBMS
13 11 (6.832%) DB2
13 11 (6.832%) SQL Server 2012
14 10 (6.211%) Oracle 10g
15 7 (4.348%) VLDB
15 7 (4.348%) Oracle OLAP
16 6 (3.727%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (5.590%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (1.242%) ERwin
3 1 (0.621%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 44 (27.33%) Finance
2 30 (18.63%) Banking
3 11 (6.832%) Marketing
4 8 (4.969%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.727%) Retail
5 6 (3.727%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.484%) Back Office
7 3 (1.863%) Publishing
8 2 (1.242%) Games
8 2 (1.242%) Front Office
9 1 (0.621%) Billing
9 1 (0.621%) Legal
9 1 (0.621%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (34.16%) Developer
2 48 (29.81%) DBA
3 31 (19.25%) SQL DBA
4 22 (13.66%) Architect
5 20 (12.42%) C++ Developer
6 17 (10.56%) Consultant
7 14 (8.696%) Administrator
8 10 (6.211%) Cognos Developer
8 10 (6.211%) SQL Server DBA
8 10 (6.211%) Oracle Developer
9 9 (5.590%) OBIEE Consultant
10 8 (4.969%) Teradata DBA
10 8 (4.969%) Data Architect
11 7 (4.348%) Oracle DBA
11 7 (4.348%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.727%) Analyst
13 5 (3.106%) OBIEE Architect
14 4 (2.484%) DB2 DBA
14 4 (2.484%) Oracle Consultant
14 4 (2.484%) Business Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.696%) Clustering
2 13 (8.075%) Replication
3 11 (6.832%) Data Integration
4 10 (6.211%) Equities
5 8 (4.969%) Market Risk
5 8 (4.969%) Blackberry
6 6 (3.727%) Computer Science
7 5 (3.106%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.106%) N-Tier
7 5 (3.106%) Statistics
7 5 (3.106%) SWIFT
8 4 (2.484%) Kindle
8 4 (2.484%) HACMP
8 4 (2.484%) AS400
9 3 (1.863%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.863%) IaaS
9 3 (1.863%) SaaS
9 3 (1.863%) PaaS
10 2 (1.242%) iPad
10 2 (1.242%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 46 (28.57%) UNIX
2 16 (9.938%) Linux
3 13 (8.075%) Windows
4 4 (2.484%) AIX
5 3 (1.863%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.242%) HPUX
6 2 (1.242%) Solaris
7 1 (0.621%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (35.40%) Business Intelligence
2 37 (22.98%) ETL
3 35 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 24 (14.91%) Unit Testing
5 20 (12.42%) Data Analysis
6 18 (11.18%) Regression Testing
7 16 (9.938%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (8.075%) Analytics
9 11 (6.832%) CRM
9 11 (6.832%) Marketing Analytics
10 10 (6.211%) Dimensional Modelling
10 10 (6.211%) OO
11 9 (5.590%) Change Management
11 9 (5.590%) Agile Software Development
12 8 (4.969%) Data Architecture
13 7 (4.348%) E-Commerce
13 7 (4.348%) Waterfall
14 6 (3.727%) Test Automation
14 6 (3.727%) User Acceptance Testing
14 6 (3.727%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 78 (48.45%) SQL
2 32 (19.88%) T-SQL
3 21 (13.04%) C++
4 15 (9.317%) PL/SQL
5 12 (7.453%) Perl
6 9 (5.590%) Java
6 9 (5.590%) Korn
6 9 (5.590%) Bash shell
7 7 (4.348%) C
8 5 (3.106%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.106%) Python
9 4 (2.484%) C#
9 4 (2.484%) VB
9 4 (2.484%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.863%) Ruby
11 2 (1.242%) Bourne shell
11 2 (1.242%) AWK
11 2 (1.242%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.621%) VBScript
12 1 (0.621%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (9.317%) Degree
2 8 (4.969%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.348%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.727%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.863%) IBM Certification
5 3 (1.863%) CIPD
6 2 (1.242%) HND
6 2 (1.242%) Sun Certification
7 1 (0.621%) MCSE
7 1 (0.621%) MCDBA
7 1 (0.621%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.075%) QA
2 4 (2.484%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.621%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.348%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (2.484%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.863%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.242%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 2 (1.242%) Veritas File System
4 2 (1.242%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (2.484%) Tivoli
1 4 (2.484%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 4 (2.484%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (1.242%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.242%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (0.621%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 75 (46.58%) Oracle
2 23 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.18%) Cognos
4 17 (10.56%) Informatica
5 11 (6.832%) Sybase
5 11 (6.832%) Siebel
6 7 (4.348%) IBM
7 4 (2.484%) NetApp
8 3 (1.863%) Intel
8 3 (1.863%) Citrix
8 3 (1.863%) VMware
9 2 (1.242%) Sun
9 2 (1.242%) BMC
9 2 (1.242%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.242%) Veritas
10 1 (0.621%) Business Objects
10 1 (0.621%) Open Text
10 1 (0.621%) Teradata
10 1 (0.621%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.621%) DoubleClick
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