Warwickshire TOAD Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quest TOAD skills within the Warwickshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TOAD over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quest TOAD
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Bath Berkshire Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxfordshire Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West Staines Surrey Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wimbledon Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	46
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.273 %	1.149 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£327
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.50	-
Average hourly rate	£38.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.41	-
% change on same period last year	-
Database & Business Intelligence Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	88	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	24	12
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£233
Average daily rate	£305	£277
% change on same period last year	+9.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.50	£34.31
Average hourly rate	£33.48	£38.20
% change on same period last year	-12.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.45	£42.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
TOAD West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

TOAD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TOAD across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

TOAD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

TOAD
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TOAD within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warwick	-	1	-	-

TOAD West Midlands

TOAD
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) RDBMS 2 2 (66.67 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle RMAN 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Korn 3 1 (33.33 %) Wiki 3 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Statspack 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (33.33 %) SQLPlus 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (33.33 %) FTP

3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) PVCS 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) Perl

TOAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) RDBMS 2 1 (33.33 %) SQLPlus 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) PVCS
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) DBA 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle DBA 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Wiki
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (33.33 %) Problem Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Korn 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl	System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle