Cheshire Oracle APEX Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Oracle APEX 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 APEX over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Cheshire region.

Oracle Application Express (APEX)
Location Buckinghamshire Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Edinburgh England Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire London Luton Milton Keynes Newport North West Scotland South East South Wales South West Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	50	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	- 0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0	0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire	0.158 %	-	-
As % of the Development Applications category	3.226 %	-	-
Daily rates quoted	0	0	0
Average daily rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	-	£350
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£20.50	£34.50
% change year-on-year	- -40.57 %
All Development Applications Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Development Applications category	31	46	64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire	4.913 %	10.87 %	7.960 %
Daily rates quoted	17	15	16
Average daily rate	£273	£350	£315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-22.00 % +11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£205	£290	£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£420	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£340	£350
% change year-on-year	-7.350 % -2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3	3
Average hourly rate	£38.50	£37.50	£31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.660 % +20.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.50	£31.75	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+5.510 % -9.280 %
Oracle APEX North West

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.

Oracle APEX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle APEX across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle APEX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle APEX within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 12 March 2010. 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	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
Chester	-	1	-	-

Oracle APEX North West

Oracle APEX
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Oracle APEX 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 APEX.

1 2 (100.00 %) SQL 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) PeopleSoft 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle RMAN 1 2 (100.00 %) Incident Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer

Oracle APEX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Oracle APEX 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 APEX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) DBA 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle DBA	Operating Systems 1 2 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 2 (100.00 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL
System Software 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle RMAN	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 2 (100.00 %) PeopleSoft