The first table below looks at the demand for Data Guard skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Guard 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 Systems Management category for the Birmingham 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 Data Guard
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Systems Management category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £55.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year
- +88.03%
All Systems Management
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
16 26 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 3.653% 4.241% 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 16
Average daily rate £303 £293 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.41% -2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £177 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £352 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Data Guard
West Midlands

Data Guard
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Guard across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Birmingham Data Guard Jobs Demand Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Guard across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Data Guard Daily Rate Trend

Data Guard
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus

Data Guard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) VMware