West Sussex DTS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS) skills within the West Sussex 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 DTS over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Data Transformation Services (DTS)
Location Aylesbury Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Gatwick Glamorgan Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redhill Rotherham Salford Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	43
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	12	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	16.00 %	7.692 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£305	-
Average daily rate	£305	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£305	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£338
% change on same period last year	-6.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£44.25	£40.00
% change on same period last year	+10.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£48.50	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.80	£32.94
% change on same period last year	+2.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	75	130
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.100 %	0.130 %
Daily rates quoted	31	45
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£342
Average daily rate	£353	£357
% change on same period last year	-1.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.16	£25.17
Average hourly rate	£41.92	£27.78
% change on same period last year	+50.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.68	£30.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
DTS South East

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.

DTS
Demand Trend

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

DTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

DTS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

DTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DTS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTS across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

DTS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTS within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Gatwick	+5	6	£300	-
Crawley	-4	5	£320	-

DTS South East

DTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 16 (94.12 %) SQL Server 1 16 (94.12 %) SQL Server 2000 2 15 (88.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 14 (82.35 %) SQL 4 13 (76.47 %) Transact-SQL 4 13 (76.47 %) VB 4 13 (76.47 %) .NET 4 13 (76.47 %) VB6 5 12 (70.59 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 12 (70.59 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 11 (64.71 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 10 (58.82 %) BCP 8 9 (52.94 %) VBScript 8 9 (52.94 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 8 (47.06 %) Windows

9 8 (47.06 %) WSH 10 7 (41.18 %) Microsoft 11 6 (35.29 %) Business Continuity 11 6 (35.29 %) Disaster Recovery 11 6 (35.29 %) Release Management 12 5 (29.41 %) Migration 12 5 (29.41 %) VB.NET 13 4 (23.53 %) Health 14 3 (17.65 %) Intranet 14 3 (17.65 %) Internet 14 3 (17.65 %) Insurance 15 1 (5.882 %) C# 15 1 (5.882 %) HTML 15 1 (5.882 %) VSS/SourceSafe 15 1 (5.882 %) ASP

DTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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.

Application Development 1 13 (76.47 %) .NET 2 8 (47.06 %) WSH 3 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (5.882 %) HTML 3 1 (5.882 %) ASP 3 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (5.882 %) CSS 3 1 (5.882 %) XML	Communications & Networking 1 3 (17.65 %) Intranet 1 3 (17.65 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (94.12 %) SQL Server 1 16 (94.12 %) SQL Server 2000 2 15 (88.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 12 (70.59 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 12 (70.59 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 11 (64.71 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 9 (52.94 %) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 4 (23.53 %) Health 2 3 (17.65 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 13 (76.47 %) Analyst 1 13 (76.47 %) Support Analyst 2 12 (70.59 %) Applications Support 3 11 (64.71 %) Server Support 4 9 (52.94 %) Applications Support Analyst 5 8 (47.06 %) Server Support Analyst 5 8 (47.06 %) Server Analyst 5 8 (47.06 %) SQL Server Analyst 6 5 (29.41 %) SQL Server DBA 6 5 (29.41 %) SQL DBA 6 5 (29.41 %) DBA 7 3 (17.65 %) Database Analyst 8 2 (11.76 %) Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) .NET Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) C# Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) SQL Developer 9 1 (5.882 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems 1 8 (47.06 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (58.82 %) BCP 2 6 (35.29 %) Disaster Recovery 2 6 (35.29 %) Business Continuity 2 6 (35.29 %) Release Management 3 5 (29.41 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 14 (82.35 %) SQL 2 13 (76.47 %) Transact-SQL 2 13 (76.47 %) VB 2 13 (76.47 %) VB6 3 9 (52.94 %) VBScript 4 5 (29.41 %) VB.NET 5 1 (5.882 %) C#	Vendors 1 7 (41.18 %) Microsoft