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

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for TOAD skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited TOAD over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 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 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.

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Location
3 months to
21 May 2012		Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank418400382
Rank change year-on-year
Down-18Down-18
Matching contract IT job ads161183160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.275 %0.304 %0.290 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category1.424 %1.467 %1.384 %
Number of daily rates quoted998475
Average daily rate£363£375£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£260£288£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£475£490
UK excluding London average daily rate£313£350£300
% change year-on-year
-10.71 %+16.66 %
Number of hourly rates quoted1125
Average hourly rate£33.00£36.25£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.96 %+45.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.00£39.00£50.00
% change year-on-year
-15.38 %-22.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category		113051247511561
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK19.34 %20.74 %20.95 %
Number of daily rates quoted648469595750
Average daily rate£375£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£260£260£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£529£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£335£340£320
% change year-on-year
-1.47 %+6.25 %
Number of hourly rates quoted260395412
Average hourly rate£26.50£32.50£28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.46 %+16.07 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£16.50£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£45.00£42.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.50£32.50£27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.46 %+18.18 %

TOAD
Demand Trend

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

TOAD Demand Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

TOAD Daily Rate Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TOAD within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

TOAD Daily Rate Histogram

TOAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TOAD Hourly Rate Trend

TOAD
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOAD within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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-3151£365-2.66 %
LondonUp+1682£375-6.25 %
South WestUp+627£365-
City of LondonUp+1924£400-5.88 %
South EastDown-220£275-24.13 %
DevonNew entry-13£338-
HampshireUp+98£275-16.66 %
GloucestershireNew entry-8£373-
Canary WharfUp+97£600+20.00 %
North WestDown-77£300-8.39 %
PlymouthNew entry-7£325-
ScotlandDown-126£268-33.12 %
ExeterNew entry-6£463-
HertfordshireNo change05£213-
East of EnglandDown-75£213-
GloucesterNew entry-5£365-
West YorkshireDown-214£270-
YorkshireDown-224£270-15.62 %
ManchesterNew entry-4--
SurreyUp+53--
BerkshireDown-93£325-13.33 %
LeedsDown-103£275-
GlasgowNew entry-3£268-
FarehamNew entry-3£275-
GreenwichNew entry-3£365-
CheshireUp+112£300-
StirlingUp+52£300-14.28 %
West MidlandsDown-182--
West SussexNew entry-2£294-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-2£256-

TOAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TOAD 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 TOAD.

1260 (84.97 %)SQL
2237 (77.45 %)Oracle
3131 (42.81 %)PL/SQL
4109 (35.62 %)Finance
582 (26.80 %)Data Warehouse
663 (20.59 %)Oracle 10g
759 (19.28 %)UNIX
857 (18.63 %)Business Objects
953 (17.32 %)Data Modelling
1047 (15.36 %)SQL Server
1143 (14.05 %)Banking
1240 (13.07 %)Oracle 11g
1240 (13.07 %)XML
1337 (12.09 %)Microsoft
1337 (12.09 %)Migration
1436 (11.76 %)Java
1533 (10.78 %)Business Intelligence
1632 (10.46 %)Oracle EBS
1632 (10.46 %)Data Analysis
1731 (10.13 %)ETL
1830 (9.804 %)Oracle Reports
1830 (9.804 %)Security Cleared
1929 (9.477 %).NET
2028 (9.150 %)SAS
2127 (8.824 %)HP Quality Center
2226 (8.497 %)Oracle EBS R12
2325 (8.170 %)Test Scripting
2325 (8.170 %)ITIL
2424 (7.843 %)Linux
2424 (7.843 %)Xcelsius

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing TOAD 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 TOAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
140 (13.07 %)XML
229 (9.477 %).NET
315 (4.902 %)HTML
413 (4.248 %)ASP.NET
512 (3.922 %)J2EE
610 (3.268 %)WCF
610 (3.268 %)Web Services
79 (2.941 %)CSS
79 (2.941 %)jQuery
86 (1.961 %)WebSphere
86 (1.961 %).NET Framework
86 (1.961 %)Java EE
86 (1.961 %)ASP.NET MVC
86 (1.961 %)Middleware
95 (1.634 %)XHTML
95 (1.634 %)Hibernate
95 (1.634 %)Spring
104 (1.307 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
104 (1.307 %)SOAP
104 (1.307 %)XSL
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
128 (9.150 %)SAS
217 (5.556 %)SharePoint
316 (5.229 %)Oracle Workflow
49 (2.941 %)SharePoint 2010
58 (2.614 %)WebLogic
67 (2.288 %)IIS
76 (1.961 %)Oracle Application Server
85 (1.634 %)LiveLink
94 (1.307 %)Oracle Spatial
94 (1.307 %)Force.com
94 (1.307 %)Oracle Service Bus
102 (0.654 %)Oracle 10gAS
102 (0.654 %)CMS
102 (0.654 %)Tomcat
102 (0.654 %)Apache
111 (0.327 %)iPlanet
111 (0.327 %)Documentum
111 (0.327 %)MQSeries
111 (0.327 %)MSMQ
111 (0.327 %)WebSphere MQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
123 (7.516 %)MS Excel
219 (6.209 %)MS Office
310 (3.268 %)MS Visio
41 (0.327 %)MS Project
41 (0.327 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
132 (10.46 %)Oracle EBS
226 (8.497 %)Oracle EBS R12
322 (7.190 %)Oracle Financials
415 (4.902 %)Oracle Applications
511 (3.595 %)Oracle 11i
68 (2.614 %)Oracle iProcurement
77 (2.288 %)Oracle CRM
86 (1.961 %)Oracle BPM
86 (1.961 %)Oracle Payroll
95 (1.634 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
102 (0.654 %)Dynamics CRM
102 (0.654 %)WebTrends
102 (0.654 %)SAP HR
111 (0.327 %)SAP R/3
111 (0.327 %)Oracle ERP
111 (0.327 %)MoSes
111 (0.327 %)Prophet
111 (0.327 %)Oracle iStore
111 (0.327 %)Oracle BRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (1.307 %)Internet
23 (0.980 %)LDAP
32 (0.654 %)3G
41 (0.327 %)SAN
41 (0.327 %)FTP
41 (0.327 %)HTTP
41 (0.327 %)TCP/IP
41 (0.327 %)Firewall
41 (0.327 %)SSH
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
182 (26.80 %)Data Warehouse
263 (20.59 %)Oracle 10g
347 (15.36 %)SQL Server
440 (13.07 %)Oracle 11g
531 (10.13 %)ETL
630 (9.804 %)Oracle Reports
724 (7.843 %)Xcelsius
823 (7.516 %)BusinessObjects XI
823 (7.516 %)SQLPlus
922 (7.190 %)Oracle Discoverer
1010 (3.268 %)SQL Server 2005
1010 (3.268 %)Oracle 8/8i
119 (2.941 %)Oracle 9i
119 (2.941 %)OLAP
119 (2.941 %)MS Access
119 (2.941 %)Oracle OLAP
128 (2.614 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
128 (2.614 %)RDBMS
128 (2.614 %)Crystal Reports
128 (2.614 %)MySQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
118 (5.882 %)TestDirector
217 (5.556 %)Visual Studio
217 (5.556 %)Oracle Forms
313 (4.248 %)Eclipse
49 (2.941 %)Subversion
55 (1.634 %)JDeveloper
55 (1.634 %)Team Foundation Server
55 (1.634 %)Selenium
55 (1.634 %)Maven
64 (1.307 %)Oracle APEX
64 (1.307 %)JIRA
64 (1.307 %)Git (software)
64 (1.307 %)PVCS
64 (1.307 %)QuickTest Pro
73 (0.980 %)Ant
73 (0.980 %)JUnit
82 (0.654 %)NUnit
82 (0.654 %)Fiddler
82 (0.654 %)TestComplete
82 (0.654 %)StyleCop
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1109 (35.62 %)Finance
243 (14.05 %)Banking
315 (4.902 %)Back Office
412 (3.922 %)Investment Banking
58 (2.614 %)Retail
67 (2.288 %)General Ledger
75 (1.634 %)Retail Banking
84 (1.307 %)Front Office
93 (0.980 %)Automotive
93 (0.980 %)Legal
93 (0.980 %)Manufacturing
102 (0.654 %)Telecoms
102 (0.654 %)Financial Institution
111 (0.327 %)Games
111 (0.327 %)Private Banking
111 (0.327 %)Corporate Banking
111 (0.327 %)Billing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1137 (44.77 %)Developer
2122 (39.87 %)Analyst
348 (15.69 %)Test Analyst
443 (14.05 %)Oracle Developer
533 (10.78 %)Data Analyst
627 (8.824 %)Business Analyst
718 (5.882 %)SQL Developer
817 (5.556 %)DBA
913 (4.248 %)PL/SQL Developer
1012 (3.922 %)Senior Analyst
1111 (3.595 %)Business Developer
1111 (3.595 %)Oracle DBA
1210 (3.268 %)Data Migration Analyst
1210 (3.268 %)Analyst Developer
1210 (3.268 %)Architect
1210 (3.268 %)Senior Developer
1210 (3.268 %)Administrator
139 (2.941 %)Tester
139 (2.941 %)Consultant
139 (2.941 %)Java Developer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
120 (6.536 %)Visualisation
216 (5.229 %)Credit Risk
311 (3.595 %)Market Risk
49 (2.941 %)Reference Data
56 (1.961 %)Artificial Intelligence
56 (1.961 %)Replication
56 (1.961 %)NHS
65 (1.634 %)Computer Science
65 (1.634 %)Neural Network
74 (1.307 %)Management Information System
74 (1.307 %)Mainframe
83 (0.980 %)W3C
83 (0.980 %)Grid Computing
83 (0.980 %)iSeries
83 (0.980 %)Mashup
92 (0.654 %)Inversion of Control
92 (0.654 %)AS400
101 (0.327 %)N-Tier
101 (0.327 %)Client/Server
101 (0.327 %)Clustering
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
159 (19.28 %)UNIX
224 (7.843 %)Linux
321 (6.863 %)Windows
46 (1.961 %)Windows 7
46 (1.961 %)Solaris
55 (1.634 %)Windows 2000
64 (1.307 %)AIX
72 (0.654 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
81 (0.327 %)HPUX
81 (0.327 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
153 (17.32 %)Data Modelling
237 (12.09 %)Migration
333 (10.78 %)Business Intelligence
432 (10.46 %)Data Analysis
525 (8.170 %)Test Scripting
525 (8.170 %)ITIL
623 (7.516 %)Workflow
722 (7.190 %)Data Migration
821 (6.863 %)User Acceptance Testing
821 (6.863 %)UML
917 (5.556 %)Data Mapping
1016 (5.229 %)ERP
1016 (5.229 %)Waterfall
1016 (5.229 %)Business Analysis
1115 (4.902 %)Cash Management
1115 (4.902 %)CRM
1212 (3.922 %)Asset Management
1311 (3.595 %)Configuration Management
1311 (3.595 %)Agile Software Development
1311 (3.595 %)Test Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1260 (84.97 %)SQL
2131 (42.81 %)PL/SQL
336 (11.76 %)Java
420 (6.536 %)C#
519 (6.209 %)VB
617 (5.556 %)JavaScript
713 (4.248 %)Shell Script
810 (3.268 %)C
99 (2.941 %)Perl
99 (2.941 %)T-SQL
106 (1.961 %)VB6
106 (1.961 %)R
114 (1.307 %)Apex Code
114 (1.307 %)VBScript
114 (1.307 %)VB.NET
123 (0.980 %)VBA
123 (0.980 %)RPG
123 (0.980 %)PowerHouse
132 (0.654 %)RPG IV
141 (0.327 %)C++
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
130 (9.804 %)Security Cleared
221 (6.863 %)ISEB
318 (5.882 %)Degree
416 (5.229 %)SC Cleared
515 (4.902 %)ISTQB
612 (3.922 %)ITIL Certification
74 (1.307 %)DV Cleared
82 (0.654 %)MCSE
82 (0.654 %)Microsoft Certification
91 (0.327 %)BC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
113 (4.248 %)Data Quality
24 (1.307 %)Basel II
33 (0.980 %)SLA
42 (0.654 %)QA
42 (0.654 %)MiFID
51 (0.327 %)PCI DSS
51 (0.327 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (1.307 %)Oracle RAC
14 (1.307 %)Oracle RMAN
21 (0.327 %)Active Directory
21 (0.327 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (0.327 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
127 (8.824 %)HP Quality Center
217 (5.556 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
32 (0.654 %)Data Guard
41 (0.327 %)Tivoli
41 (0.327 %)MOM
41 (0.327 %)Oracle Statspack
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1237 (77.45 %)Oracle
257 (18.63 %)Business Objects
337 (12.09 %)Microsoft
417 (5.556 %)Remedy
512 (3.922 %)Informatica
611 (3.595 %)Cognos
710 (3.268 %)HP
88 (2.614 %)IBM
88 (2.614 %)Plumtree
96 (1.961 %)Serena
96 (1.961 %)SunGard
105 (1.634 %)Salesforce.com
105 (1.634 %)CA
114 (1.307 %)Teradata
114 (1.307 %)webMethods
114 (1.307 %)SAP
114 (1.307 %)Sun
114 (1.307 %)Siebel
123 (0.980 %)Pega
132 (0.654 %)i-GRasp
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