The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g 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 Oracle 11g 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 Database & Business Intelligence 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 Database 11g
Rank 42 48 41
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11g 1 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.816% 0.800%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.020% 2.890% 4.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £380 £384
% change year-on-year
-1.31% -0.97%
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
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
98 173 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.37% 28.22% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 103 62
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Oracle 11g
West Midlands

Oracle 11g
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Oracle 11g Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) JDeveloper
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmacovigilance
2 1 (50.00%) German Language
2 1 (50.00%) Japanese Language
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JDeveloper
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmacovigilance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle