The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle APEX 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 Oracle APEX over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Application Express (APEX)
Rank 188 215 239
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +24
Contract jobs citing Oracle APEX 15 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.235% 0.038% 0.061%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.911% 0.460% 0.597%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 5
Average daily rate £500 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £332 £355 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £555 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £328
% change year-on-year
-3.57% +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Oracle APEX
London

Oracle APEX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle APEX across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London Oracle APEX Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Oracle APEX Daily Rate Trend

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle APEX across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Oracle APEX Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle APEX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
3 9 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 7 (38.89%) Finance
4 7 (38.89%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (33.33%) Linux
6 5 (27.78%) UNIX
6 5 (27.78%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (22.22%) Java
7 4 (22.22%) XML
8 3 (16.67%) Web Services
8 3 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (16.67%) HTML
8 3 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
8 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (11.11%) Ajax
9 2 (11.11%) ION Trading
9 2 (11.11%) RMDS
9 2 (11.11%) Web Development
9 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 2 (11.11%) ION MarketView
9 2 (11.11%) Sun
9 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
9 2 (11.11%) LAN
9 2 (11.11%) HTTP
9 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 2 (11.11%) PMP

Oracle APEX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) XML
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) Ajax
3 2 (11.11%) XHTML
3 2 (11.11%) SOAP
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (5.556%) ASP
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.556%) CSS
4 1 (5.556%) Visualforce
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (5.556%) LiveCycle
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (11.11%) RMDS
1 2 (11.11%) ION MarketView
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) LAN
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (11.11%) SQLPlus
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.11%) OLAP
5 1 (5.556%) MS Access
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) DBA
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Programmer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Programmer
5 2 (11.11%) Support Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Administrator
6 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Salesforce.com Developer
6 1 (5.556%) CRM Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Database Architect
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Web Development
1 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
1 2 (11.11%) Project Management
1 2 (11.11%) Regression Testing
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL
1 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
2 1 (5.556%) CRM
2 1 (5.556%) Scrum
2 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
2 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (5.556%) Information Architecture
2 1 (5.556%) Waterfall
2 1 (5.556%) Release Management
2 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
2 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
2 1 (5.556%) TDD
2 1 (5.556%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) C
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (5.556%) C#
5 1 (5.556%) VBScript
5 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.556%) VBA
5 1 (5.556%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) PMP
2 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) BC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) ION Trading
2 2 (11.11%) Sun
2 2 (11.11%) Sybase
3 1 (5.556%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Adobe
City of London
Data Analysis & Database Design4... Ability to work on several development and support tasks at any one time Formal Qualifications Required ESSENTIAL Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2010-...
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Rate: £200.00 - £330 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013