The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 8/8i
Rank 43 49 48
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 1 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.229% 1.118% 0.193%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.075% 3.955% 0.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £268 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -23.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £367 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.90% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-13.24% +13.84%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
93 177 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.28% 28.27% 19.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 105 61
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
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 8/8i
West Midlands

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle 8/8i Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle 8/8i Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 2 (100.00%) SOA
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JMS
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat