The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 22 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 Bracknell 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 10 14 7
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 37 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 15.35% 7.190% 10.98%
As % of the Vendors category 25.34% 14.29% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
Average daily rate £510 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.71% +55.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £310 £136
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £350 £389
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -15.67%
All Vendors
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
146 77 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 60.58% 50.33% 50.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 22 25
Average daily rate £375 £350 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +21.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £225 £186
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £397 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
Average hourly rate £17.50 £27.75 £36.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.93% -24.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £27.55 £29.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £101.25 £27.95 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Berkshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bracknell Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 38 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 37 (68.52%) SC Cleared
3 33 (61.11%) Windows
4 32 (59.26%) SQL
5 28 (51.85%) VMware
6 27 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 26 (48.15%) SQL Server
8 24 (44.44%) Migration
9 22 (40.74%) Active Directory
9 22 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
10 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
11 18 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
11 18 (33.33%) Test Scripting
12 14 (25.93%) Regression Testing
13 13 (24.07%) VMware ESX
13 13 (24.07%) LAN
13 13 (24.07%) Windows 7
14 12 (22.22%) Tomcat
14 12 (22.22%) Windows XP
14 12 (22.22%) HP
14 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
15 11 (20.37%) LoadRunner
15 11 (20.37%) WAN
15 11 (20.37%) Linux
15 11 (20.37%) IIS
15 11 (20.37%) HP Quality Center
16 10 (18.52%) Non-Functional Testing
16 10 (18.52%) UNIX
16 10 (18.52%) Validation
17 9 (16.67%) Data Migration

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 3 (5.556%) Web Services
2 2 (3.704%) HTML
2 2 (3.704%) JSP
2 2 (3.704%) XML
2 2 (3.704%) J2EE
3 1 (1.852%) EDI
3 1 (1.852%) XSL
3 1 (1.852%) XSLT
3 1 (1.852%) Servlets
3 1 (1.852%) CSS
3 1 (1.852%) JDBC
3 1 (1.852%) .NET
3 1 (1.852%) Hibernate
3 1 (1.852%) Spring
3 1 (1.852%) Ajax
3 1 (1.852%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 12 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 11 (20.37%) IIS
3 1 (1.852%) Apache
3 1 (1.852%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (3.704%) MS Office
1 2 (3.704%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.704%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (3.704%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.852%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Communications & Networking
1 13 (24.07%) LAN
2 11 (20.37%) WAN
3 6 (11.11%) SAN
4 4 (7.407%) Firewall
5 1 (1.852%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (48.15%) SQL Server
2 18 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (9.259%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (3.704%) TOAD
6 1 (1.852%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.852%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.852%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) LoadRunner
2 5 (9.259%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 4 (7.407%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (7.407%) ProC
General
1 4 (7.407%) Finance
2 2 (3.704%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.852%) Back Office
3 1 (1.852%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Tester
2 9 (16.67%) Architect
3 5 (9.259%) Developer
3 5 (9.259%) Analyst
3 5 (9.259%) Test Manager
3 5 (9.259%) Test Analyst
4 4 (7.407%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (5.556%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.556%) Consultant
5 3 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.704%) Build Engineer
6 2 (3.704%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.704%) Applications Architect
6 2 (3.704%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.704%) Data Migration Specialist
6 2 (3.704%) Systems Test Analyst
6 2 (3.704%) DBA
6 2 (3.704%) Test Specialist
6 2 (3.704%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (3.704%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 33 (61.11%) Windows
2 27 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (24.07%) Windows 7
5 12 (22.22%) Windows XP
6 11 (20.37%) Linux
7 10 (18.52%) UNIX
8 6 (11.11%) Solaris
9 5 (9.259%) HPUX
9 5 (9.259%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (5.556%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Migration
2 18 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 14 (25.93%) Regression Testing
4 10 (18.52%) Non-Functional Testing
4 10 (18.52%) Validation
5 9 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 7 (12.96%) Release Management
7 6 (11.11%) Business Continuity
7 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.11%) Integration Testing
8 5 (9.259%) Configuration Management
8 5 (9.259%) Test Automation
9 3 (5.556%) Reverse Engineering
9 3 (5.556%) Network Management
10 2 (3.704%) SIEM
10 2 (3.704%) Project Management
11 1 (1.852%) Business Intelligence
11 1 (1.852%) CRM
11 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2
11 1 (1.852%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (59.26%) SQL
2 7 (12.96%) PL/SQL
3 6 (11.11%) C
4 4 (7.407%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.556%) Java
6 2 (3.704%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.704%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.852%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 37 (68.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.852%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Active Directory
1 22 (40.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (24.07%) VMware ESX
3 7 (12.96%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (12.96%) VMware Workstation
4 5 (9.259%) Xen
5 3 (5.556%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (3.704%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (9.259%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (51.85%) VMware
2 12 (22.22%) HP
2 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) NetApp
3 6 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 4 (7.407%) CA
5 2 (3.704%) Symantec
5 2 (3.704%) Cisco
6 1 (1.852%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.852%) JD Edwards
6 1 (1.852%) Siebel