The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheltenham 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 5 13 9
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 10 13 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 12.35% 10.48% 14.55%
As % of the Vendors category 25.64% 20.63% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 10
Average daily rate £334 £385 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.31% -3.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £335 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £439 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -11.42%
All Vendors
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
39 63 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 48.15% 50.81% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 48 28
Average daily rate £343 £450 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.88% +34.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £400 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £693 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.49 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.83% -61.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £9.68 £36.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £19.30 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Oracle
Gloucestershire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 6 (40.00%) Java
3 6 (40.00%) XML
4 5 (33.33%) XSL
4 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 5 (33.33%) UNIX
4 5 (33.33%) CSS
4 5 (33.33%) Spring
4 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 5 (33.33%) Web Development
4 5 (33.33%) System Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Kanban
5 4 (26.67%) Oracle 11g
5 4 (26.67%) Degree
5 4 (26.67%) VMware
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco
5 4 (26.67%) Windows
5 4 (26.67%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (20.00%) Linux
6 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (13.33%) IaaS
7 2 (13.33%) vSphere
7 2 (13.33%) PaaS
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 6 (40.00%) XML
2 5 (33.33%) XSL
2 5 (33.33%) CSS
2 5 (33.33%) Spring
2 5 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Middleware
4 1 (6.667%) XSLT
4 1 (6.667%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GlassFish
2 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) DHCP
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.667%) TOAD
3 1 (6.667%) Informix
3 1 (6.667%) MS Access
3 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (6.667%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Operations Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Database Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) DBA
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) IaaS
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 1 (6.667%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) UNIX
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
3 3 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (13.33%) Solaris
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) Web Development
3 5 (33.33%) System Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
5 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
5 1 (6.667%) TDD
5 1 (6.667%) Data Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
5 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.667%) Manual Testing
5 1 (6.667%) V-Model
5 1 (6.667%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.667%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESX
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Sun
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.667%) HP
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