The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 11g 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Cheshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 11g
Rank 54 50 70
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +20
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11g 7 17 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.970% 2.104% 0.302%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.512% 10.49% 1.288%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 2
Average daily rate £375 £328 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.50% +6.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £354 £325 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £355 £311
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £380 £384
% change year-on-year
-1.31% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £46.25 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.77% +50.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
127 162 233
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.59% 20.05% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 80 126
Average daily rate £388 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.16% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £260 £277
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +81.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.40 £30.00 £12.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £32.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Oracle 11g
North West

Oracle 11g
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cheshire Oracle 11g Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Oracle 11g Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 11g within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Knutsford -12 1 £388 +6.16%
Oracle 11g
North West

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Oracle 11g 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 11g.

1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (43.48%) Oracle BI EE
3 9 (39.13%) Regression Testing
4 8 (34.78%) Migration
4 8 (34.78%) UNIX
4 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (30.43%) Linux
6 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (21.74%) Windows
7 5 (21.74%) AIX
7 5 (21.74%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (21.74%) VB
7 5 (21.74%) C++
7 5 (21.74%) PL/SQL
8 4 (17.39%) Finance
9 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
9 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
9 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
9 3 (13.04%) IBM
9 3 (13.04%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (8.696%) SAP Certification
10 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (8.696%) ETL
10 2 (8.696%) DB2
10 2 (8.696%) SAP
10 2 (8.696%) Data Migration
10 2 (8.696%) Data Integration
10 2 (8.696%) Business Analysis

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Oracle 11g 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 11g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.348%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (43.48%) Oracle BI EE
2 8 (34.78%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (21.74%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (13.04%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (8.696%) DB2
6 1 (4.348%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (4.348%) Essbase
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 10 (43.48%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Architect
4 5 (21.74%) Technical Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (8.696%) OBIEE Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (8.696%) Consultant
6 2 (8.696%) Management Consultant
7 1 (4.348%) Security Architect
7 1 (4.348%) Applications Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Clustering
1 2 (8.696%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) UNIX
2 7 (30.43%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Regression Testing
2 8 (34.78%) Migration
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
5 2 (8.696%) ETL
5 2 (8.696%) Business Analysis
5 2 (8.696%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.348%) Change Data Capture
6 1 (4.348%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (4.348%) SOA
6 1 (4.348%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) VB
2 5 (21.74%) C++
2 5 (21.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.696%) SAP Certification
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
3 2 (8.696%) SAP
4 1 (4.348%) VMware