City of London Oracle 10g Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Database 10g skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 10g over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 10g
Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stirling Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	77
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	170	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.227 %	0.146 %
As % of the category below	9.947 %	9.730 %
Daily rates quoted	90	76
Average minimum daily rate	£437	£443
Average daily rate	£472	£469
% change on same period last year	+0.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£506	£495
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£363
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.50	-
Average hourly rate	£40.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.11	£36.97
% change on same period last year	+16.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1709	1480
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.278 %	1.497 %
Daily rates quoted	980	682
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£420
Average daily rate	£433	£453
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£467	£486
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.74	£21.35
Average hourly rate	£32.13	£23.21
% change on same period last year	+38.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.52	£25.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Oracle 10g London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Oracle 10g
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 10g across the City of London region.

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 10g across the City of London region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the City of London region.

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g.

1 365 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 198 (54.25 %) SQL 3 171 (46.85 %) Banking 4 129 (35.34 %) PL/SQL 5 127 (34.79 %) Oracle 9i 6 108 (29.59 %) Finance 7 107 (29.32 %) UNIX 7 107 (29.32 %) Investment Banking 8 72 (19.73 %) SQL Server 9 71 (19.45 %) Datawarehouse 10 65 (17.81 %) Linux 11 57 (15.62 %) Oracle RAC 12 53 (14.52 %) Shell Script 13 51 (13.97 %) Sybase 14 47 (12.88 %) Oracle RMAN

15 45 (12.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 16 43 (11.78 %) ETL 16 43 (11.78 %) Windows 17 42 (11.51 %) Security Cleared 18 40 (10.96 %) Java 19 39 (10.68 %) Solaris 19 39 (10.68 %) Data Modelling 20 35 (9.589 %) RDBMS 20 35 (9.589 %) BusinessObjects 20 35 (9.589 %) Business Objects 21 33 (9.041 %) Oracle Reports 21 33 (9.041 %) Business Intelligence 22 32 (8.767 %) C# 23 31 (8.493 %) Informatica 23 31 (8.493 %) Migration

Oracle 10g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 27 (7.397 %) .NET 2 19 (5.205 %) Middleware 3 17 (4.658 %) HTML 4 16 (4.384 %) XML 5 13 (3.562 %) ASP.NET 6 11 (3.014 %) CSS 6 11 (3.014 %) J2EE 6 11 (3.014 %) Hibernate 7 10 (2.740 %) JSP 8 9 (2.466 %) Spring 8 9 (2.466 %) Oracle Streams 9 8 (2.192 %) WebServices 10 6 (1.644 %) WebSphere 10 6 (1.644 %) XSLT 11 5 (1.370 %) AJAX 12 4 (1.096 %) .NET Framework 12 4 (1.096 %) Struts 13 3 (0.822 %) MVC 13 3 (0.822 %) ASP.NET 2.0 14 2 (0.548 %) NHibernate	Application Platforms 1 28 (7.671 %) WebLogic 2 6 (1.644 %) Oracle Spatial 2 6 (1.644 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 5 (1.370 %) Oracle Workflow 3 5 (1.370 %) Oracle Application Server 4 4 (1.096 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 3 (0.822 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (0.548 %) Oracle 9iAS 6 2 (0.548 %) ArcGIS 6 2 (0.548 %) ArcSDE 6 2 (0.548 %) MapXtreme 6 2 (0.548 %) JBoss 6 2 (0.548 %) Apache 6 2 (0.548 %) Tomcat 6 2 (0.548 %) Tuxedo 6 2 (0.548 %) TIBCO EMS 7 1 (0.274 %) Oracle BPEL 7 1 (0.274 %) MS Exchange 7 1 (0.274 %) IIS 7 1 (0.274 %) NetWeaver
Applications 1 5 (1.370 %) MS Excel 2 3 (0.822 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.274 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 8 (2.192 %) Oracle Applications 2 4 (1.096 %) Oracle 11i 3 3 (0.822 %) AWD 4 2 (0.548 %) Oracle EBS 4 2 (0.548 %) Oracle Payroll 5 1 (0.274 %) Hyperion Enterprise 5 1 (0.274 %) Siebel Analytics 5 1 (0.274 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 5 1 (0.274 %) BusinessWorks 5 1 (0.274 %) SAP R/3 5 1 (0.274 %) Oracle Financials 5 1 (0.274 %) Remedy ITSM 5 1 (0.274 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 9 (2.466 %) SAN 1 9 (2.466 %) Intranet 1 9 (2.466 %) LDAP 2 2 (0.548 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (0.548 %) DNS 2 2 (0.548 %) Network Security 3 1 (0.274 %) Internet 3 1 (0.274 %) DAB 3 1 (0.274 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 127 (34.79 %) Oracle 9i 2 72 (19.73 %) SQL Server 3 71 (19.45 %) Datawarehouse 4 45 (12.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 43 (11.78 %) ETL 6 35 (9.589 %) RDBMS 6 35 (9.589 %) BusinessObjects 7 33 (9.041 %) Oracle Reports 8 26 (7.123 %) SQL Server 2005 9 22 (6.027 %) SQL Server 2000 10 20 (5.479 %) Oracle OWB 11 18 (4.932 %) TOAD 12 15 (4.110 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 12 (3.288 %) SQL Server 7 14 10 (2.740 %) DTS 15 9 (2.466 %) OLAP 15 9 (2.466 %) Oracle OLAP 16 8 (2.192 %) DB2 16 8 (2.192 %) OLTP 17 7 (1.918 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 8 (2.192 %) Oracle Forms 2 7 (1.918 %) Oracle APEX 3 5 (1.370 %) ERwin 3 5 (1.370 %) Eclipse 4 4 (1.096 %) NUnit 4 4 (1.096 %) LoadRunner 5 3 (0.822 %) Subversion 5 3 (0.822 %) Visual Studio 6 2 (0.548 %) Ant 6 2 (0.548 %) JUnit 6 2 (0.548 %) IntelliJ 6 2 (0.548 %) WinRunner 6 2 (0.548 %) QuickTest Pro 7 1 (0.274 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.274 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 1 (0.274 %) Synon	General 1 171 (46.85 %) Banking 2 108 (29.59 %) Finance 3 107 (29.32 %) Investment Banking 4 28 (7.671 %) Government 5 8 (2.192 %) Publishing 5 8 (2.192 %) Insurance 5 8 (2.192 %) Corporate Banking 6 6 (1.644 %) Retail 6 6 (1.644 %) Back Office 7 5 (1.370 %) Education 7 5 (1.370 %) Auditing 8 4 (1.096 %) Front Office 9 3 (0.822 %) Financial Institution 9 3 (0.822 %) Wholesale Banking 9 3 (0.822 %) General Ledger 10 2 (0.548 %) Retail Banking 10 2 (0.548 %) Telecoms 11 1 (0.274 %) Criminal Justice 11 1 (0.274 %) Police 11 1 (0.274 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 152 (41.64 %) Developer 2 121 (33.15 %) DBA 3 108 (29.59 %) Oracle DBA 4 92 (25.21 %) Oracle Developer 5 33 (9.041 %) Analyst 6 26 (7.123 %) Administrator 7 21 (5.753 %) Architect 8 17 (4.658 %) C# Developer 9 16 (4.384 %) SQL Developer 10 15 (4.110 %) Java Developer 10 15 (4.110 %) Database Designer 11 11 (3.014 %) Senior Developer 12 10 (2.740 %) PL/SQL Developer 12 10 (2.740 %) Senior DBA 12 10 (2.740 %) Cognos Developer 13 9 (2.466 %) Business Analyst 14 8 (2.192 %) SQL DBA 14 8 (2.192 %) Datawarehouse Developer 14 8 (2.192 %) Business Intelligence Developer 15 7 (1.918 %) Senior Oracle DBA	Miscellaneous 1 12 (3.288 %) Derivative 2 10 (2.740 %) Clustering 3 9 (2.466 %) Replication 3 9 (2.466 %) Fixed Income 4 8 (2.192 %) Equities 5 6 (1.644 %) Management Information System 5 6 (1.644 %) Data Extraction 6 3 (0.822 %) Data Integration 6 3 (0.822 %) Credit Derivative 6 3 (0.822 %) N-Tier 6 3 (0.822 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 2 (0.548 %) Multithreading 7 2 (0.548 %) Interest Rate Derivative 7 2 (0.548 %) Equity Derivative 8 1 (0.274 %) Contract for Difference 8 1 (0.274 %) French Language 8 1 (0.274 %) Credit Risk 8 1 (0.274 %) Fat Client 8 1 (0.274 %) Firmware 8 1 (0.274 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 107 (29.32 %) UNIX 2 65 (17.81 %) Linux 3 43 (11.78 %) Windows 4 39 (10.68 %) Solaris 5 13 (3.562 %) AIX 6 11 (3.014 %) Windows Server 2003 7 7 (1.918 %) HPUX 8 4 (1.096 %) Windows 2000 9 2 (0.548 %) Windows NT 10 1 (0.274 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 42 (11.51 %) Security Cleared 2 39 (10.68 %) Data Modelling 3 33 (9.041 %) Business Intelligence 4 31 (8.493 %) Migration 5 25 (6.849 %) SC Cleared 6 18 (4.932 %) Data Migration 7 17 (4.658 %) Asset Management 8 12 (3.288 %) OO 8 12 (3.288 %) Data Analysis 9 10 (2.740 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 8 (2.192 %) Configuration Management 10 8 (2.192 %) Disaster Recovery 11 7 (1.918 %) Project Management 12 5 (1.370 %) PRINCE2 12 5 (1.370 %) CRM 12 5 (1.370 %) Scrum 12 5 (1.370 %) Workflow 12 5 (1.370 %) Load Balancing 13 4 (1.096 %) Technical Architecture 13 4 (1.096 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 198 (54.25 %) SQL 2 129 (35.34 %) PL/SQL 3 53 (14.52 %) Shell Script 4 40 (10.96 %) Java 5 32 (8.767 %) C# 6 22 (6.027 %) Perl 7 13 (3.562 %) VB 8 12 (3.288 %) Korn 9 11 (3.014 %) Transact-SQL 10 8 (2.192 %) JavaScript 11 7 (1.918 %) VBA 12 4 (1.096 %) VBScript 12 4 (1.096 %) C 13 3 (0.822 %) VB6 14 2 (0.548 %) XQuery 14 2 (0.548 %) C++ 15 1 (0.274 %) ABAP 15 1 (0.274 %) JCL 15 1 (0.274 %) Lingo	Qualifications 1 8 (2.192 %) Degree 2 4 (1.096 %) Oracle Certification 3 3 (0.822 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (0.548 %) OCP 4 2 (0.548 %) MCSE 4 2 (0.548 %) CCNA 4 2 (0.548 %) ISEB 4 2 (0.548 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (0.548 %) RHCE 4 2 (0.548 %) SCSA 4 2 (0.548 %) ISTQB 5 1 (0.274 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 5 1 (0.274 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.822 %) QA 2 1 (0.274 %) SLA 2 1 (0.274 %) Basel II	System Software 1 57 (15.62 %) Oracle RAC 2 47 (12.88 %) Oracle RMAN 3 15 (4.110 %) AquaLogic 4 9 (2.466 %) Active Directory 5 2 (0.548 %) VMware ESX 5 2 (0.548 %) NetBackup 5 2 (0.548 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (0.274 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 5 (1.370 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 1 5 (1.370 %) AutoSys 1 5 (1.370 %) Oracle Statspack 2 1 (0.274 %) Tivoli 2 1 (0.274 %) Tivoli Monitoring 2 1 (0.274 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (0.274 %) Netcool	Vendors 1 365 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 51 (13.97 %) Sybase 3 35 (9.589 %) Business Objects 4 31 (8.493 %) Informatica 5 23 (6.301 %) BEA 6 16 (4.384 %) Sun 7 15 (4.110 %) Cognos 8 14 (3.836 %) Microsoft 9 13 (3.562 %) SmartStream 10 11 (3.014 %) Murex 11 10 (2.740 %) Calypso 12 8 (2.192 %) Red Hat 13 6 (1.644 %) HP 13 6 (1.644 %) VMware 14 5 (1.370 %) Charles River 14 5 (1.370 %) OpenLink 15 4 (1.096 %) Hyperion 15 4 (1.096 %) Siebel 16 3 (0.822 %) Cisco 16 3 (0.822 %) EMC