The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 19 12 15
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 25 46 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 5.708% 7.504% 6.400%
As % of the Vendors category 11.47% 15.65% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 10
Average daily rate £340 £443 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.16% +10.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £238 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £590 £456
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £65.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.97% -56.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
218 294 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 49.77% 47.96% 46.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 135 112
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £194 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 23 25
Average hourly rate £18.46 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.15% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.26 £10.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £32.70 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
West Midlands

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 18 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 17 (28.33%) SQL
4 14 (23.33%) .NET
4 14 (23.33%) UNIX
5 13 (21.67%) Shell Script
6 10 (16.67%) Middleware
6 10 (16.67%) Linux
6 10 (16.67%) AIX
6 10 (16.67%) MS Excel
7 9 (15.00%) SOA
7 9 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
7 9 (15.00%) Web Services
7 9 (15.00%) J2EE
8 8 (13.33%) C
8 8 (13.33%) C#
8 8 (13.33%) Solaris
8 8 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
9 7 (11.67%) SLA
9 7 (11.67%) IBM
9 7 (11.67%) HTTP
9 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (11.67%) C++
9 7 (11.67%) DB2
9 7 (11.67%) XML
9 7 (11.67%) Retail
9 7 (11.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (10.00%) WebSphere
10 6 (10.00%) BusinessObjects XI
10 6 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (23.33%) .NET
2 10 (16.67%) Middleware
3 9 (15.00%) J2EE
3 9 (15.00%) Web Services
4 7 (11.67%) XML
5 6 (10.00%) CSS
5 6 (10.00%) JMS
5 6 (10.00%) WebSphere
6 5 (8.333%) CGI
6 5 (8.333%) HTML
7 4 (6.667%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.667%) jQuery
8 3 (5.000%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (5.000%) WCF
8 3 (5.000%) XSLT
8 3 (5.000%) ASP
8 3 (5.000%) ASP.NET
9 2 (3.333%) XHTML
9 2 (3.333%) WSDL
9 2 (3.333%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 6 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 6 (10.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (1.667%) ESB
2 1 (1.667%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 10 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.667%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.667%) OmniGraffle
2 1 (1.667%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.000%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.333%) Agresso
3 2 (3.333%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (3.333%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (3.333%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (3.333%) Misys Midas
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) HTTP
2 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (10.00%) DNS
2 6 (10.00%) LDAP
3 3 (5.000%) SAN
4 1 (1.667%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.667%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (11.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (11.67%) DB2
4 6 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 6 (10.00%) BusinessObjects XI
5 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (8.333%) ProC
3 3 (5.000%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.667%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.667%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.667%) JDeveloper
General
1 23 (38.33%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Retail
3 5 (8.333%) Investment Banking
3 5 (8.333%) Banking
4 3 (5.000%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.667%) German Language
5 1 (1.667%) Japanese Language
5 1 (1.667%) Automotive
5 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.667%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Developer
2 15 (25.00%) Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Systems Analyst
4 7 (11.67%) .NET Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Business Objects Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Business Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Business Objects Analyst
6 5 (8.333%) C Developer
6 5 (8.333%) UNIX Developer
6 5 (8.333%) DBA
6 5 (8.333%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (6.667%) Administrator
7 4 (6.667%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.667%) Systems Tester
7 4 (6.667%) Systems Support Analyst
7 4 (6.667%) WebSphere Administrator
7 4 (6.667%) Systems Support
7 4 (6.667%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.000%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (1.667%) Open Source
2 1 (1.667%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (1.667%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.667%) Web 2.0
2 1 (1.667%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) UNIX
2 10 (16.67%) AIX
2 10 (16.67%) Linux
3 8 (13.33%) Solaris
4 6 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.000%) SUSE
6 1 (1.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.00%) SOA
2 7 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (8.333%) ERP
3 5 (8.333%) System Testing
4 4 (6.667%) Software Testing
4 4 (6.667%) Web Development
4 4 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (6.667%) Integration Testing
5 3 (5.000%) Fund Management
5 3 (5.000%) Wealth Management
5 3 (5.000%) Release Management
5 3 (5.000%) RDF
5 3 (5.000%) Business Transformation
6 2 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (1.667%) Scrum
7 1 (1.667%) BPEL
7 1 (1.667%) ITIL
7 1 (1.667%) Service Delivery
7 1 (1.667%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (1.667%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) SQL
2 13 (21.67%) Shell Script
3 8 (13.33%) C
3 8 (13.33%) C#
4 7 (11.67%) C++
5 6 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.333%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.000%) Korn
7 3 (5.000%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.333%) Java
9 1 (1.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.333%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.333%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.333%) ACCA
2 2 (3.333%) CIMA
3 1 (1.667%) OCP
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.667%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) SLA
2 4 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 3 (5.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (3.333%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.667%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.667%) vSphere
4 1 (1.667%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) Tivoli
1 1 (1.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (1.667%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) IBM
2 6 (10.00%) Business Objects
2 6 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.667%) JD Edwards
4 4 (6.667%) VMware
4 4 (6.667%) EMC
5 3 (5.000%) Veritas
5 3 (5.000%) Sybase
5 3 (5.000%) Sun
6 2 (3.333%) SAP
7 1 (1.667%) Cisco
7 1 (1.667%) Cordys
Birmingham, West Midlands
Must have skillsVisual Basic 6 Visual Basic .NET (ideally Visual Studio 2008 or above) Ideally have (but not absolutely essential) Oracle PL/SQL (10g or higher) ViewStar (OpenText...
Capita Resourcing
Rate: £25000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 1 May 2013