The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC 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 RAC over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 113 136 123
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -13
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 10 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.413% 0.098% 0.067%
As % of the System Software category 3.745% 1.282% 0.760%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £458 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
267 234 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.03% 7.675% 8.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 84 102
Average daily rate £325 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £235 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 21
Average hourly rate £19.75 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £40.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
South East

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle RAC across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Berkshire Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bracknell - 5 - -
Reading +11 2 £415 -
Oracle RAC
South East

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) Linux
3 9 (69.23%) UNIX
4 8 (61.54%) Solaris
4 8 (61.54%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (46.15%) SQL
5 6 (46.15%) C
5 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
5 6 (46.15%) ProC
6 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
6 5 (38.46%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 5 (38.46%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
7 4 (30.77%) Windows
7 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
8 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (23.08%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (23.08%) VMware
8 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
9 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exalogic
9 2 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) ProC
2 5 (38.46%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) DBA
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Developer
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Lead Technical Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.692%) PL/SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) UNIX
3 8 (61.54%) Solaris
4 4 (30.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (30.77%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) SOA
3 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Time Management
3 1 (7.692%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
1 6 (46.15%) Shell Script
2 4 (30.77%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.692%) MCSE
2 1 (7.692%) CCNA
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) SLA
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.692%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Veritas