The first table below looks at the demand for OLTP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OLTP over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
Rank 191 166 143
Rank change year-on-year
-25 -23
Permanent jobs citing OLTP 13 19 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.259% 0.417% 0.791%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.834% 1.236% 2.468%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 22
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.39%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £44,000 £39,550
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.88%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1559 1537 1337
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 31.01% 33.72% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1381 1377 1207
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
OLTP
England

OLTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OLTP across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

West Midlands OLTP Jobs Demand Trend

OLTP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OLTP across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands OLTP Salary Trend

OLTP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OLTP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands OLTP Salary Histogram

OLTP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OLTP within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Staffordshire +4 12 £47,500 -2.56%
Birmingham -23 1 £50,000 +2.56%
OLTP
England

OLTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OLTP.

1 31 (86.11%) SQL
1 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (38.89%) SQL Server 2005
3 13 (36.11%) .NET
3 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
4 12 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 12 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (30.56%) C#
5 11 (30.56%) HTTP
5 11 (30.56%) N-Tier
6 10 (27.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (27.78%) T-SQL
6 10 (27.78%) OO
7 9 (25.00%) VB
7 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (25.00%) OLAP
7 9 (25.00%) E-Commerce
7 9 (25.00%) VB6
7 9 (25.00%) .NET Remoting
7 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
8 8 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (22.22%) WCF
8 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 8 (22.22%) Windows
9 7 (19.44%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (16.67%) Database Security
10 6 (16.67%) Replication
10 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (13.89%) ASP

OLTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OLTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (36.11%) .NET
2 12 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 9 (25.00%) .NET Remoting
4 8 (22.22%) WCF
5 5 (13.89%) ASP
6 1 (2.778%) XML
6 1 (2.778%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.778%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (86.11%) SQL Server
2 14 (38.89%) SQL Server 2005
3 12 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (27.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (25.00%) OLAP
6 7 (19.44%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (11.11%) RDBMS
7 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
8 3 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
9 2 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (2.778%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (2.778%) Big Data
10 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
1 1 (2.778%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (2.778%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Developer
2 15 (41.67%) DBA
3 11 (30.56%) SQL DBA
4 8 (22.22%) SQL Server DBA
5 7 (19.44%) Senior Developer
6 6 (16.67%) Administrator
7 4 (11.11%) SQL Developer
7 4 (11.11%) .NET Developer
8 3 (8.333%) Oracle DBA
8 3 (8.333%) Systems Developer
9 2 (5.556%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 2 (5.556%) Teradata DBA
9 2 (5.556%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (5.556%) Server Administrator
9 2 (5.556%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (5.556%) Data Architect
9 2 (5.556%) C# Developer
9 2 (5.556%) Architect
10 1 (2.778%) Junior
10 1 (2.778%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) N-Tier
2 6 (16.67%) Replication
3 3 (8.333%) Speech Recognition
4 2 (5.556%) Streaming Video
5 1 (2.778%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (8.333%) UNIX
2 3 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) OO
2 9 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 8 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 6 (16.67%) Database Security
4 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (13.89%) Database Tuning
6 4 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (8.333%) Migration
7 3 (8.333%) ETL
7 3 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (8.333%) Data Architecture
8 2 (5.556%) Data Governance
8 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (5.556%) Data Migration
8 2 (5.556%) SOA
8 2 (5.556%) Data Management
9 1 (2.778%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (2.778%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 31 (86.11%) SQL
2 12 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 11 (30.56%) C#
4 10 (27.78%) T-SQL
5 9 (25.00%) VB
5 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (25.00%) VB6
6 3 (8.333%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.778%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.333%) SLA
2 2 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.333%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (8.333%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.333%) Oracle
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
SQL Server DBA... - Experience of managing multiple SQL 2000/2005 RDBMS in a large scale, high volume OLTP environment supporting transactional replication and log shipping . - SQL Server Replication -...
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Salary: Unspecified Highly negotiable salary plus Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Staffordshire, West Midlands
You should have experience of: Gathering requirements and proficiency in developing complex database solutions from informal specifications Experience of large transactional databases (100GB+) Excellent TSQL Good knowledge of...
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Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Car, Bonus, Pension, 5 weeks holiday
Posted: 22 May 2013