Berkshire Oracle 8/8i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Database 8/8i skills within the Berkshire 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 Oracle 8/8i over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 8/8i
Location Alderley Edge Basildon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	110
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	28	56
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	4.118 %	5.268 %
Daily rates quoted	4	21
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£362
Average daily rate	£400	£396
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£431
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£371
% change on same period last year	+7.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.77	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£32.27	£20.00
% change on same period last year	+61.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.77	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.75	£33.39
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
Database & Business Intelligence Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	680	1063
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.897 %	1.059 %
Daily rates quoted	169	325
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£364
Average daily rate	£366	£380
% change on same period last year	-3.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.83	£38.54
Average hourly rate	£38.78	£39.47
% change on same period last year	-1.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.72	£40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Oracle 8/8i 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.

Oracle 8/8i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Berkshire region.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Berkshire region.

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Reading	-14	4	-	-
Wokingham	-	3	-	-
Maidenhead	+14	1	-	-
Bracknell	+8	1	-	-
Slough	-8	1	-	-

Oracle 8/8i South East

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 63 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 19 (30.16 %) SQL 3 14 (22.22 %) Oracle 10g 4 13 (20.63 %) Billing 5 11 (17.46 %) Telecoms 6 9 (14.29 %) Change Management 6 9 (14.29 %) PeopleSoft 6 9 (14.29 %) UNIX 6 9 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 7 8 (12.70 %) OpenVMS 7 8 (12.70 %) Project Management 8 7 (11.11 %) Linux 8 7 (11.11 %) Replication 8 7 (11.11 %) Oracle RAC 9 6 (9.524 %) PL/SQL

9 6 (9.524 %) HP 10 5 (7.937 %) Business Intelligence 10 5 (7.937 %) HPUX 10 5 (7.937 %) PRINCE2 10 5 (7.937 %) Migration 10 5 (7.937 %) Data Management 10 5 (7.937 %) Retail 10 5 (7.937 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (6.349 %) WebLogic 11 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 11 4 (6.349 %) Datawarehouse 11 4 (6.349 %) C 11 4 (6.349 %) VMS 11 4 (6.349 %) CRM 11 4 (6.349 %) CA

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (3.175 %) ASP 1 2 (3.175 %) HTML 2 1 (1.587 %) CGI 2 1 (1.587 %) .NET 2 1 (1.587 %) CSS 2 1 (1.587 %) JSP 2 1 (1.587 %) XML 2 1 (1.587 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (1.587 %) AJAX 2 1 (1.587 %) WebSphere 2 1 (1.587 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 4 (6.349 %) WebLogic 2 1 (1.587 %) NetWeaver 2 1 (1.587 %) Apache
Applications 1 1 (1.587 %) Photoshop 1 1 (1.587 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.587 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 3 (4.762 %) Oracle Clinical 2 1 (1.587 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (1.587 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (1.587 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (1.587 %) Retail-J
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.175 %) NGN 1 2 (3.175 %) 3G 2 1 (1.587 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (22.22 %) Oracle 10g 2 9 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 3 4 (6.349 %) Datawarehouse 4 3 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (4.762 %) SQL Server 5 2 (3.175 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.587 %) TOAD 6 1 (1.587 %) DataStage 6 1 (1.587 %) SAP BW 6 1 (1.587 %) SQLPlus 6 1 (1.587 %) DB2 6 1 (1.587 %) ETL 6 1 (1.587 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 1 (1.587 %) TestDirector 1 1 (1.587 %) Subversion	General 1 13 (20.63 %) Billing 2 11 (17.46 %) Telecoms 3 5 (7.937 %) Retail 4 3 (4.762 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (3.175 %) Finance 6 1 (1.587 %) Education 6 1 (1.587 %) Government 6 1 (1.587 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (1.587 %) Multimedia 6 1 (1.587 %) Local Government 6 1 (1.587 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 16 (25.40 %) DBA 2 15 (23.81 %) Oracle DBA 3 14 (22.22 %) Consultant 4 9 (14.29 %) Project Manager 5 6 (9.524 %) Developer 6 5 (7.937 %) Architect 6 5 (7.937 %) Linux Consultant 7 4 (6.349 %) Software Manager 7 4 (6.349 %) Software Project Manager 7 4 (6.349 %) Administrator 8 3 (4.762 %) Support Consultant 8 3 (4.762 %) Analyst 8 3 (4.762 %) Programmer 8 3 (4.762 %) Oracle Payroll Consultant 8 3 (4.762 %) Oracle HR Functional Consultant 8 3 (4.762 %) Oracle Consultant 8 3 (4.762 %) Oracle Developer 8 3 (4.762 %) Functional Consultant 8 3 (4.762 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 8 3 (4.762 %) Oracle HR Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.11 %) Replication 2 3 (4.762 %) Statistics 3 2 (3.175 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.587 %) EPoS 4 1 (1.587 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 9 (14.29 %) UNIX 2 8 (12.70 %) OpenVMS 3 7 (11.11 %) Linux 4 5 (7.937 %) HPUX 5 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 5 4 (6.349 %) VMS 6 2 (3.175 %) Red Hat Linux 6 2 (3.175 %) Windows 7 1 (1.587 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (1.587 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (14.29 %) Change Management 2 8 (12.70 %) Project Management 3 5 (7.937 %) Business Intelligence 3 5 (7.937 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (7.937 %) Migration 3 5 (7.937 %) Data Management 3 5 (7.937 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (6.349 %) CRM 5 3 (4.762 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (3.175 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (3.175 %) SAP Implementation 6 2 (3.175 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (3.175 %) ERP 6 2 (3.175 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (1.587 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.587 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.587 %) Risk Assessment 7 1 (1.587 %) Data Migration 7 1 (1.587 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 19 (30.16 %) SQL 2 6 (9.524 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (6.349 %) C 4 3 (4.762 %) Shell Script 5 2 (3.175 %) Java 5 2 (3.175 %) Perl 5 2 (3.175 %) JCL 5 2 (3.175 %) Uniface 6 1 (1.587 %) VB 6 1 (1.587 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.587 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 2 (3.175 %) Degree 2 1 (1.587 %) ACCA 2 1 (1.587 %) CIMA
System Software 1 7 (11.11 %) Oracle RAC 2 3 (4.762 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (1.587 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 1 (1.587 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (1.587 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 2 (3.175 %) Netcool/Proviso 1 2 (3.175 %) Netcool 1 2 (3.175 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.587 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.587 %) Tivoli Monitoring 2 1 (1.587 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 63 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 9 (14.29 %) PeopleSoft 3 6 (9.524 %) HP 4 4 (6.349 %) CA 5 3 (4.762 %) IBM 5 3 (4.762 %) SAP 5 3 (4.762 %) Business Objects 6 2 (3.175 %) Red Hat 6 2 (3.175 %) Informatica 7 1 (1.587 %) VERITAS 7 1 (1.587 %) BMC 7 1 (1.587 %) Siebel 7 1 (1.587 %) Hummingbird 7 1 (1.587 %) VMware 7 1 (1.587 %) Epiphany