The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 11g over the 3 months to 23 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 Berkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 11g
Rank 105 126 120
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11g 16 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.666% 0.381% 0.496%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.800% 3.762% 2.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
Average daily rate £370 £413 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.30% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £344 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £461 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £380 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £46.25 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.77% +50.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
421 319 554
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 17.53% 10.12% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 145 254
Average daily rate £375 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 48
Average hourly rate £33.75 £45.00 £43.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +3.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £11.50 £32.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Oracle 11g
South East

Oracle 11g
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Berkshire Oracle 11g Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Oracle 11g Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire Oracle 11g Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle 11g
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Oracle 11g Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 11g within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Reading +18 10 £335 -23.42%
Bracknell - 2 - -
Oracle 11g
South East

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle 11g 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 Oracle 11g.

1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 21 (72.41%) Oracle 10g
3 19 (65.52%) UNIX
4 18 (62.07%) PL/SQL
4 18 (62.07%) SQL
5 11 (37.93%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (31.03%) Windows
7 8 (27.59%) Shell Script
7 8 (27.59%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (24.14%) ProC
8 7 (24.14%) .NET
8 7 (24.14%) C
9 6 (20.69%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 6 (20.69%) Linux
9 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
10 5 (17.24%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (17.24%) ETL
10 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (17.24%) Oracle 8/8i
10 5 (17.24%) ITIL
10 5 (17.24%) Java
10 5 (17.24%) Finance
10 5 (17.24%) Migration
11 4 (13.79%) Oracle Applications
11 4 (13.79%) Firewall
11 4 (13.79%) GIS
11 4 (13.79%) ESRI
11 4 (13.79%) ArcGIS
11 4 (13.79%) Oracle 9i
11 4 (13.79%) Python

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle 11g 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 Oracle 11g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (24.14%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) ArcObjects
3 2 (6.897%) Middleware
3 2 (6.897%) Web Services
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.448%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) ArcGIS
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (10.34%) Apache
2 3 (10.34%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (6.897%) IIS
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (6.897%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
1 4 (13.79%) LAN
2 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.34%) SSL
3 2 (6.897%) SAN
3 2 (6.897%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (72.41%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle Exadata
2 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (13.79%) GIS
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (3.448%) BusinessObjects XI
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.448%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) ProC
2 6 (20.69%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.448%) ERwin
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 1 (3.448%) Banking
3 1 (3.448%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) DBA
1 14 (48.28%) Oracle DBA
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) GIS Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Consultant
6 2 (6.897%) Administrator
7 1 (3.448%) Release Manager
7 1 (3.448%) SQL Developer
7 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Informatica Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 1 (3.448%) ETL Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Informatica ETL Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Statistics
2 3 (10.34%) Data Conversion
2 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.897%) Oracle Exalogic
3 2 (6.897%) Clustering
4 1 (3.448%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.448%) Chemistry
4 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.448%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (65.52%) UNIX
2 9 (31.03%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Linux
4 4 (13.79%) Solaris
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (6.897%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
3 5 (17.24%) ETL
3 5 (17.24%) ITIL
3 5 (17.24%) Migration
4 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (6.897%) SOA
4 2 (6.897%) Performance Management
4 2 (6.897%) Data Migration
4 2 (6.897%) Unit Testing
4 2 (6.897%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.448%) Project Planning
5 1 (3.448%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (3.448%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (3.448%) Data Management
5 1 (3.448%) BPEL
5 1 (3.448%) Bioinformatics
5 1 (3.448%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.448%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) PL/SQL
1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Shell Script
3 7 (24.14%) C
4 5 (17.24%) Java
5 4 (13.79%) Python
6 1 (3.448%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.897%) OCP
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (6.897%) Degree
3 1 (3.448%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.448%) HNC
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.897%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Data Guard
2 2 (6.897%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (6.897%) MOM
2 2 (6.897%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) ESRI
3 2 (6.897%) IBM
3 2 (6.897%) HP
3 2 (6.897%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.897%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.897%) VMware
4 1 (3.448%) Business Objects
4 1 (3.448%) Informatica