The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 24 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 System Software category for the Cambridge 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £378
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
53 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 16.11% 8.962% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 12
Average daily rate £310 £290 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% -14.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 11
Average hourly rate £16.38 £37.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.33% +200.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £47.50 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Oracle RAC
Cambridgeshire

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle