The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 8/8i
Rank 54 56 69
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +13
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 9 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.224% 1.242% 0.719%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.087% 6.452% 3.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £357 £369 £390
% change year-on-year
-3.25% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-13.24% +13.84%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
127 155 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 17.28% 19.25% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 76 122
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 £283 £270 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
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 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
Oracle 8/8i
North West

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cheshire Oracle 8/8i Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Warrington -1 3 £475 -
Chester - 3 £425 -
Macclesfield - 1 - -
Oracle 8/8i
North West

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (45.45%) .NET
4 5 (45.45%) SAP
5 4 (36.36%) C#
6 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 3 (27.27%) Java
6 3 (27.27%) IBM
6 3 (27.27%) Windows
6 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
6 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
6 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
7 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
7 2 (18.18%) Java EE
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
7 2 (18.18%) WCF
7 2 (18.18%) WPF
7 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
7 2 (18.18%) Feature Driven Development
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (18.18%) Windows SharePoint Services

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 2 (18.18%) Java EE
3 2 (18.18%) WCF
3 2 (18.18%) WPF
3 2 (18.18%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 1 (9.091%) Middleware
4 1 (9.091%) Spring
4 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.091%) Web Services
4 1 (9.091%) XML
4 1 (9.091%) ODBC
4 1 (9.091%) J2EE
4 1 (9.091%) Flash
4 1 (9.091%) jQuery
4 1 (9.091%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
2 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Maximo
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) TELNET
2 1 (9.091%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (18.18%) DB2
5 1 (9.091%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (9.091%) MySQL
5 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Eclipse
2 1 (9.091%) TestNG
2 1 (9.091%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Financial Institution
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Migration Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Java Developer
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Payroll Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.091%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (9.091%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.091%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) AIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 8
3 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.091%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
1 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Feature Driven Development
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
2 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 1 (9.091%) Validation
3 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.091%) Document Management
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.091%) Data Validation
3 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Multithreading
3 1 (9.091%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SAP Certification
3 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) XenApp
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) SAP
4 3 (27.27%) IBM
5 1 (9.091%) Mercator
5 1 (9.091%) Hitachi
5 1 (9.091%) NetApp
5 1 (9.091%) Sage
5 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
5 1 (9.091%) Adobe
5 1 (9.091%) EMC
5 1 (9.091%) Citrix
5 1 (9.091%) VMware