The first table below looks at the demand for DTS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTS 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 for the Wales 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Rank - 52 56
Contract jobs citing DTS 0 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - 0.699% 0.452%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 4.396% 2.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £325 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £325 £329
% change year-on-year
-4.61% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.25 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+19.65% -6.40%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
95 91 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 22.25% 15.91% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 49 64
Average daily rate £375 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £198 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.94% -37.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
DTS
UK

DTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales DTS Jobs Demand Trend

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DTS across the Wales region.

Wales DTS Daily Rate Trend

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DTS across the Wales region.

Wales DTS Hourly Rate Trend

DTS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing DTS 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 DTS.

1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Cognos
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) AS400
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 4 (80.00%) OLTP

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region citing DTS 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 DTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) OLTP
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DBA
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 4 (80.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) AS400
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
1 5 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Project Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cognos
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft