The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 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 Vendors for the Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 10 12 17
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 50 75 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 9.141% 10.93% 7.561%
As % of the Vendors category 18.25% 23.15% 19.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 42 22
Average daily rate £313 £348 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.07% +15.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £278 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +45.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -10.27%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274 324 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 50.09% 47.23% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 159 78
Average daily rate £325 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £219 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 50
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.75 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.04% +164.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
East of England

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +4 39 £300 -13.04%
Peterborough +6 5 £288 -39.47%
Oracle
East of England

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 56 (37.33%) SQL
2 55 (36.67%) SQL Server
3 46 (30.67%) Linux
4 42 (28.00%) Microsoft
4 42 (28.00%) Finance
5 40 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (22.00%) Red Hat
7 32 (21.33%) .NET
8 30 (20.00%) T-SQL
8 30 (20.00%) TDD
8 30 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (18.67%) Java
10 26 (17.33%) PL/SQL
11 22 (14.67%) ITIL
11 22 (14.67%) Active Directory
12 20 (13.33%) Apache
12 20 (13.33%) SAP
12 20 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
12 20 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 20 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 20 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
12 20 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (12.67%) Unit Testing
13 19 (12.67%) WebLogic
13 19 (12.67%) MS Office
13 19 (12.67%) C#
13 19 (12.67%) Financial Institution
13 19 (12.67%) Oracle EBS
13 19 (12.67%) Hedge funds
14 18 (12.00%) Middleware

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 32 (21.33%) .NET
2 18 (12.00%) Middleware
3 16 (10.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (8.667%) XML
5 12 (8.000%) Web Services
6 11 (7.333%) NHibernate
6 11 (7.333%) CSS
6 11 (7.333%) ASP.NET
6 11 (7.333%) HTML
6 11 (7.333%) J2EE
7 10 (6.667%) DHTML
7 10 (6.667%) SAP PI
7 10 (6.667%) WebSphere
7 10 (6.667%) WCF
8 9 (6.000%) JSON
8 9 (6.000%) XML Schema
8 9 (6.000%) WSDL
9 8 (5.333%) LINQ
9 8 (5.333%) Spring
9 8 (5.333%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 20 (13.33%) Apache
2 19 (12.67%) WebLogic
3 13 (8.667%) IIS
4 11 (7.333%) ESB
4 11 (7.333%) MS Exchange
4 11 (7.333%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (6.667%) Windows Azure
5 10 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
6 8 (5.333%) SharePoint
7 6 (4.000%) Tomcat
7 6 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (3.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (2.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 4 (2.667%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.000%) SugarCRM
10 3 (2.000%) nginx
11 2 (1.333%) WebSphere MQ
11 2 (1.333%) Lync
12 1 (0.667%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (12.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 19 (12.67%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.000%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.000%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.333%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.667%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.00%) DHCP
1 15 (10.00%) DNS
2 5 (3.333%) NetScaler
3 2 (1.333%) Intranet
3 2 (1.333%) Extranet
4 1 (0.667%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 20 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 20 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 20 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 20 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 20 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (6.667%) VLDB
3 10 (6.667%) MySQL
3 10 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
3 10 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
4 8 (5.333%) Oracle 11g
5 7 (4.667%) Oracle 10g
6 6 (4.000%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (2.667%) Oracle Discoverer
7 4 (2.667%) TOAD
7 4 (2.667%) Oracle OWB
8 3 (2.000%) Redis
8 3 (2.000%) DB2
9 2 (1.333%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (5.333%) Subversion
2 7 (4.667%) Git (software)
3 4 (2.667%) Maven
4 2 (1.333%) TestNG
5 1 (0.667%) QUnit
5 1 (0.667%) JIRA
5 1 (0.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (28.00%) Finance
2 19 (12.67%) Financial Institution
3 4 (2.667%) Banking
4 3 (2.000%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.333%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.333%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.667%) Marketing
6 1 (0.667%) Publishing
6 1 (0.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 34 (22.67%) Administrator
3 32 (21.33%) Systems Administrator
4 30 (20.00%) Developer
5 18 (12.00%) Architect
6 15 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (8.000%) .NET Developer
8 10 (6.667%) Analyst
8 10 (6.667%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (5.333%) C# Developer
9 8 (5.333%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 8 (5.333%) Senior Support Engineer
10 7 (4.667%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (4.667%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (4.667%) ASP.NET Developer
10 7 (4.667%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.000%) Web Engineer
11 6 (4.000%) Web Support Engineer
11 6 (4.000%) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.67%) Hedge funds
2 15 (10.00%) PKI
3 11 (7.333%) Blackberry
4 10 (6.667%) Contract for Difference
5 9 (6.000%) N-Tier
6 7 (4.667%) Clustering
7 6 (4.000%) Computer Science
8 5 (3.333%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.667%) Informatics
10 3 (2.000%) Data Integration
11 2 (1.333%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.333%) LIMS
11 2 (1.333%) Biology
12 1 (0.667%) SWIFT
12 1 (0.667%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.667%) Equities
12 1 (0.667%) Wiki
12 1 (0.667%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.667%) Learning Management System
12 1 (0.667%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 46 (30.67%) Linux
2 30 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (8.000%) Windows
4 8 (5.333%) UNIX
5 7 (4.667%) HPUX
6 5 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (2.000%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.000%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 30 (20.00%) TDD
3 22 (14.67%) ITIL
4 19 (12.67%) Unit Testing
5 15 (10.00%) SOA
6 14 (9.333%) Agile Software Development
7 12 (8.000%) Information Security
8 11 (7.333%) Multithreading
9 9 (6.000%) Systems Analysis
9 9 (6.000%) ERP
9 9 (6.000%) Validation
10 8 (5.333%) Migration
10 8 (5.333%) E-business
10 8 (5.333%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (5.333%) Incident Management
11 6 (4.000%) Data Analysis
11 6 (4.000%) Software Engineering
11 6 (4.000%) MVVM
12 5 (3.333%) Information Management
12 5 (3.333%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (37.33%) SQL
2 30 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 28 (18.67%) Java
4 26 (17.33%) PL/SQL
5 19 (12.67%) C#
6 15 (10.00%) Perl
7 9 (6.000%) VB6
7 9 (6.000%) VB
8 7 (4.667%) PHP
9 5 (3.333%) Ruby
10 4 (2.667%) Lisp
10 4 (2.667%) JavaScript
10 4 (2.667%) Python
11 3 (2.000%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (4.000%) OCP
1 6 (4.000%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (4.000%) RHCE
2 4 (2.667%) PhD
2 4 (2.667%) Degree
3 3 (2.000%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.667%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.667%) GAMP
2 2 (1.333%) GxP
2 2 (1.333%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.667%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (14.67%) Active Directory
2 16 (10.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (4.667%) vSphere
3 7 (4.667%) VMware ESX
3 7 (4.667%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.333%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (3.333%) XenApp
5 3 (2.000%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 11 (7.333%) SCOM
2 9 (6.000%) WSUS
2 9 (6.000%) EMC NetWorker
2 9 (6.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 8 (5.333%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 6 (4.000%) Backup Exec
4 6 (4.000%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 3 (2.000%) SCCM
5 3 (2.000%) Control-M
6 1 (0.667%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 42 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.00%) Red Hat
3 20 (13.33%) SAP
4 13 (8.667%) VMware
5 9 (6.000%) EMC
5 9 (6.000%) Cisco
6 7 (4.667%) Citrix
7 6 (4.000%) Symantec
7 6 (4.000%) Northgate
8 5 (3.333%) Business Objects
9 3 (2.000%) BMC
9 3 (2.000%) webMethods
10 2 (1.333%) IBM
11 1 (0.667%) Sybase
11 1 (0.667%) Sage
11 1 (0.667%) Salesforce.com
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