Watford OLTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) skills within the Watford 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 OLTP over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Location Bournemouth Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London Dorset East of England England Farnborough Hampshire Hertfordshire Leeds London Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes South Coast South East South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent UK Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	35
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	29.17 %	4.878 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£400
Average daily rate	£375	£400
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£506
% change on same period last year	-22.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£31.75
% change on same period last year	-
Database & Business Intelligence Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	24	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	12	16
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£387
Average daily rate	£390	£398
% change on same period last year	-1.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
OLTP Hertfordshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

OLTP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OLTP across the Watford region.

OLTP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OLTP across the Watford region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region 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 8 (100.00 %) SQL 1 8 (100.00 %) DB2 2 7 (87.50 %) AIX 3 3 (37.50 %) Games

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (100.00 %) DB2	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Games
Job Titles 1 8 (100.00 %) DBA 1 8 (100.00 %) Administrator 1 8 (100.00 %) DB2 DBA 2 4 (50.00 %) AIX Administrator	Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) AIX
Programming Languages 1 8 (100.00 %) SQL