City of London Oracle 8/8i Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Database 8/8i 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 8/8i over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 8/8i
Location Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	176	115
Rank change on same period last year	-61
Matching contract IT job ads	30	80
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.081 %
As % of the category below	2.023 %	5.735 %
Daily rates quoted	19	32
Average minimum daily rate	£437	£435
Average daily rate	£468	£456
% change on same period last year	+2.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£477
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£395
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£42.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.30	£36.93
% change on same period last year	+9.12 %
Database & Business Intelligence City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	1483	1395
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.088 %	1.410 %
Daily rates quoted	835	615
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£418
Average daily rate	£415	£446
% change on same period last year	-6.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£445	£474
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.68	£24.38
Average hourly rate	£30.27	£25.72
% change on same period last year	+17.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.87	£27.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.90
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the City of London region.

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 110 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 49 (44.55 %) SQL 3 45 (40.91 %) UNIX 4 43 (39.09 %) Banking 5 33 (30.00 %) SQL Server 6 31 (28.18 %) Oracle 10g 6 31 (28.18 %) Investment Banking 7 28 (25.45 %) Finance 7 28 (25.45 %) Sybase 8 23 (20.91 %) PL/SQL 9 20 (18.18 %) Shell Script 9 20 (18.18 %) Java 10 18 (16.36 %) Solaris 11 17 (15.45 %) Windows 12 15 (13.64 %) C#

13 13 (11.82 %) Oracle 9i 14 11 (10.00 %) OO 14 11 (10.00 %) .NET 14 11 (10.00 %) Informatica 15 10 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 16 9 (8.182 %) RDBMS 17 8 (7.273 %) ETL 17 8 (7.273 %) Oracle Reports 17 8 (7.273 %) Datawarehouse 17 8 (7.273 %) Business Objects 17 8 (7.273 %) BusinessObjects 17 8 (7.273 %) Microsoft 17 8 (7.273 %) Replication 17 8 (7.273 %) Front Office 17 8 (7.273 %) Oracle RAC

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 11 (10.00 %) .NET 2 6 (5.455 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (4.545 %) XML 4 4 (3.636 %) WinForms 5 3 (2.727 %) WebSphere 5 3 (2.727 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (0.909 %) COM+ 6 1 (0.909 %) WebServices 6 1 (0.909 %) CORBA 6 1 (0.909 %) Swing 6 1 (0.909 %) XML Messaging 6 1 (0.909 %) Hibernate 6 1 (0.909 %) .NET Remoting 6 1 (0.909 %) Oracle Coherence 6 1 (0.909 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.545 %) Apache 2 3 (2.727 %) Tomcat 2 3 (2.727 %) WebLogic 3 2 (1.818 %) ArcGIS 3 2 (1.818 %) ArcSDE 3 2 (1.818 %) MapXtreme 3 2 (1.818 %) Oracle Spatial 4 1 (0.909 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 4 (3.636 %) CA Clarity 2 3 (2.727 %) MS Project 3 2 (1.818 %) MS Excel 3 2 (1.818 %) Open Workbench 4 1 (0.909 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.818 %) Oracle Financials 1 2 (1.818 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.909 %) Oracle CRM 2 1 (0.909 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.909 %) SAP FI/CO 2 1 (0.909 %) SAP CO 2 1 (0.909 %) Loan IQ 2 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 11i 2 1 (0.909 %) SAP FI 2 1 (0.909 %) Endur
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.818 %) SAN 2 1 (0.909 %) LAN 2 1 (0.909 %) WAN 2 1 (0.909 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.909 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 33 (30.00 %) SQL Server 2 31 (28.18 %) Oracle 10g 3 13 (11.82 %) Oracle 9i 4 10 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 5 9 (8.182 %) RDBMS 6 8 (7.273 %) BusinessObjects 6 8 (7.273 %) Datawarehouse 6 8 (7.273 %) ETL 6 8 (7.273 %) Oracle Reports 7 6 (5.455 %) TOAD 8 5 (4.545 %) DB2 8 5 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2000 9 4 (3.636 %) OLTP 10 3 (2.727 %) BusinessObjects XI 11 2 (1.818 %) SQL Server Integration Services 11 2 (1.818 %) Data Mart 11 2 (1.818 %) Sybase ASE 11 2 (1.818 %) DTS 11 2 (1.818 %) GIS 11 2 (1.818 %) PowerCenter
Development Applications 1 3 (2.727 %) Oracle Forms 1 3 (2.727 %) NetAdvantage 1 3 (2.727 %) Oracle APEX 2 2 (1.818 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (1.818 %) WebLogic Workshop 2 2 (1.818 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.909 %) VisiBroker 3 1 (0.909 %) ClearCase 3 1 (0.909 %) Ant 3 1 (0.909 %) Visual Studio	General 1 43 (39.09 %) Banking 2 31 (28.18 %) Investment Banking 3 28 (25.45 %) Finance 4 8 (7.273 %) Front Office 5 5 (4.545 %) Back Office 5 5 (4.545 %) Education 6 3 (2.727 %) Government 7 2 (1.818 %) Telecoms 7 2 (1.818 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.909 %) International Banking 8 1 (0.909 %) Financial Institution 8 1 (0.909 %) Retail 8 1 (0.909 %) Health 8 1 (0.909 %) Legal 8 1 (0.909 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 45 (40.91 %) Developer 2 22 (20.00 %) DBA 3 20 (18.18 %) Oracle DBA 4 16 (14.55 %) Analyst 5 15 (13.64 %) Oracle Developer 6 9 (8.182 %) C# Developer 7 8 (7.273 %) SQL DBA 7 8 (7.273 %) Administrator 8 7 (6.364 %) Senior Developer 9 6 (5.455 %) Calypso Developer 10 5 (4.545 %) Risk Analyst 10 5 (4.545 %) SQL Developer 10 5 (4.545 %) SQL Server DBA 11 4 (3.636 %) Java Developer 12 3 (2.727 %) Credit Analyst 12 3 (2.727 %) Cognos Developer 12 3 (2.727 %) Credit Risk Analyst 12 3 (2.727 %) UNIX Administrator 12 3 (2.727 %) Support Analyst 12 3 (2.727 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 8 (7.273 %) Replication 2 7 (6.364 %) Credit Risk 3 6 (5.455 %) Fixed Income 4 5 (4.545 %) Clustering 4 5 (4.545 %) Market Risk 5 4 (3.636 %) Derivative 6 3 (2.727 %) Management Information System 6 3 (2.727 %) Credit Derivative 7 2 (1.818 %) Multithreading 7 2 (1.818 %) Interest Rate Derivative 7 2 (1.818 %) Equities 8 1 (0.909 %) Tandem 8 1 (0.909 %) Firmware 8 1 (0.909 %) Grid Computing 8 1 (0.909 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 45 (40.91 %) UNIX 2 18 (16.36 %) Solaris 3 17 (15.45 %) Windows 4 6 (5.455 %) Linux 5 5 (4.545 %) HPUX 6 4 (3.636 %) AIX 6 4 (3.636 %) Red Hat Linux 6 4 (3.636 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 2 (1.818 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (0.909 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.909 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (10.00 %) OO 2 6 (5.455 %) Asset Management 3 5 (4.545 %) Data Modelling 4 4 (3.636 %) Business Intelligence 4 4 (3.636 %) UML 4 4 (3.636 %) Migration 4 4 (3.636 %) Security Cleared 5 3 (2.727 %) Data Analysis 5 3 (2.727 %) Investment Management 5 3 (2.727 %) Data Migration 5 3 (2.727 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (1.818 %) Risk Management 6 2 (1.818 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (1.818 %) B2B 6 2 (1.818 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (1.818 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (0.909 %) Fund Management 7 1 (0.909 %) Risk Analysis 7 1 (0.909 %) Data Mapping 7 1 (0.909 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 49 (44.55 %) SQL 2 23 (20.91 %) PL/SQL 3 20 (18.18 %) Shell Script 3 20 (18.18 %) Java 4 15 (13.64 %) C# 5 6 (5.455 %) Perl 6 5 (4.545 %) C++ 7 4 (3.636 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (2.727 %) VBScript 9 2 (1.818 %) C 9 2 (1.818 %) VBA 10 1 (0.909 %) Korn 10 1 (0.909 %) VB 10 1 (0.909 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 6 (5.455 %) Degree 2 1 (0.909 %) OCP 2 1 (0.909 %) Oracle Certification 2 1 (0.909 %) ACCA 2 1 (0.909 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.909 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (0.909 %) Basel II	System Software 1 8 (7.273 %) Oracle RAC 2 7 (6.364 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (0.909 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (2.727 %) AutoSys 2 2 (1.818 %) Tivoli 3 1 (0.909 %) Tivoli Configuration Manager 3 1 (0.909 %) Tivoli NetView 3 1 (0.909 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 1 (0.909 %) CONTROL-M 3 1 (0.909 %) Foglight 3 1 (0.909 %) SCOM 3 1 (0.909 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 110 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 28 (25.45 %) Sybase 3 11 (10.00 %) Informatica 4 8 (7.273 %) Business Objects 4 8 (7.273 %) Microsoft 5 7 (6.364 %) Sun 6 6 (5.455 %) Calypso 6 6 (5.455 %) OpenLink 7 5 (4.545 %) HP 7 5 (4.545 %) IBM 8 4 (3.636 %) Cognos 8 4 (3.636 %) Dell 8 4 (3.636 %) EMC 8 4 (3.636 %) NetApp 8 4 (3.636 %) VERITAS 8 4 (3.636 %) Red Hat 9 3 (2.727 %) Niku 9 3 (2.727 %) Actuate 9 3 (2.727 %) CA 10 2 (1.818 %) SAP