The first table below looks at the demand for Data Guard skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Guard over the 3 months to 23 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 Systems Management category for the City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Data Guard
Rank 188 215 232
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 11 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.173% 0.051% 0.130%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.081% 0.943% 2.720%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £400 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £460 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £338
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +18.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £55.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year
- +88.03%
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
357 424 478
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.620% 5.386% 4.793%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 268 304
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 33
Average hourly rate £30.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.55% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £16.60 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £34.20 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Data Guard
London

Data Guard
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Guard across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

City of London Data Guard Jobs Demand Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Guard across the City of London region.

City of London Data Guard Daily Rate Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Guard across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Data Guard Daily Rate Histogram

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Guard across the City of London region.

City of London Data Guard Hourly Rate Trend

Data Guard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard.

1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (95.00%) Oracle 11g
3 13 (65.00%) Oracle 10g
3 13 (65.00%) Oracle RAC
3 13 (65.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 12 (60.00%) SQL
5 11 (55.00%) Linux
5 11 (55.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
6 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 10 (50.00%) Shell Script
6 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
7 9 (45.00%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (40.00%) High Availability
8 8 (40.00%) Nagios
8 8 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (40.00%) Java
9 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
9 4 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 4 (20.00%) AIX
9 4 (20.00%) Finance
10 3 (15.00%) Migration
10 3 (15.00%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (15.00%) Clustering
10 3 (15.00%) Banking
10 3 (15.00%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
10 3 (15.00%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (10.00%) NetApp

Data Guard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (5.000%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (5.000%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (95.00%) Oracle 11g
2 13 (65.00%) Oracle 10g
3 8 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (15.00%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (5.000%) Essbase
7 1 (5.000%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
7 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (5.000%) MySQL
7 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (5.000%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) DBA
2 13 (65.00%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
1 11 (55.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.000%) Windows
4 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) High Availability
2 3 (15.00%) Migration
2 3 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.00%) BCP
3 2 (10.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.000%) Build Automation
4 1 (5.000%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.000%) Perl
5 1 (5.000%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 10 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Degree
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle RAC
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Nagios
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) NetApp
3 2 (10.00%) EMC
4 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.000%) TIBCO
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