The first table below looks at the demand for TOAD 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 TOAD over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quest TOAD
Rank 41 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing TOAD 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.485% 0.358% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.105% 2.128% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £313 £350
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £33.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
95 94 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 23.06% 16.82% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 49 60
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £204 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 10
Average hourly rate £17.00 £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.84% -37.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
TOAD
UK

TOAD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales TOAD Jobs Demand Trend

TOAD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Wales TOAD Daily Rate Trend

TOAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wales TOAD Hourly Rate Trend

TOAD
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 20 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
South Wales - 2 £325 -
TOAD
UK

TOAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JPA
3 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Ant
3 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (33.33%) PVCS
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSD
3 1 (33.33%) DOM
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (33.33%) JAXP

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) J2EE
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) Servlets
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSD
1 1 (33.33%) DOM
1 1 (33.33%) XSLT
1 1 (33.33%) JAXP
1 1 (33.33%) SAX
1 1 (33.33%) JSF
1 1 (33.33%) Java EE
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) PVCS
1 1 (33.33%) ClearCase
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) TestDirector
1 1 (33.33%) ClearQuest
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle