The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC 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 RAC over the 3 months to 17 June 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 System Software 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 186 200 202
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 21 20 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.305% 0.259% 0.446%
As % of the System Software category 3.875% 3.279% 7.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 36
Average daily rate £513 £413 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.24% -13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £361 £394
10% offered a daily rate of more than £576 £510 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £415 £358 £375
% change year-on-year
+16.08% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £47.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £27.37
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +100.94%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
542 610 551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.870% 7.897% 5.583%
Number of daily rates quoted 348 349 329
Average daily rate £400 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £225 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 62 82
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.23% -1.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.99 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Oracle RAC
London

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

City of London Oracle RAC Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 27 (67.50%) Oracle 11g
3 26 (65.00%) Linux
4 21 (52.50%) SQL
5 17 (42.50%) Data Guard
6 16 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
7 15 (37.50%) Red Hat
7 15 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
7 15 (37.50%) Banking
8 14 (35.00%) Shell Script
9 13 (32.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
11 11 (27.50%) Java
12 9 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (22.50%) DV Cleared
12 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
12 9 (22.50%) High Availability
13 8 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
13 8 (20.00%) Solaris
13 8 (20.00%) Nagios
14 7 (17.50%) Oracle 8/8i
14 7 (17.50%) PL/SQL
14 7 (17.50%) Windows
15 6 (15.00%) SAN
16 5 (12.50%) IBM
16 5 (12.50%) UNIX
16 5 (12.50%) Finance
16 5 (12.50%) Investment Banking
17 4 (10.00%) Veritas
17 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (7.500%) XML
1 3 (7.500%) Middleware
2 2 (5.000%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.000%) XSLT
2 2 (5.000%) Rendezvous
2 2 (5.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.000%) WebLogic
1 2 (5.000%) IIS
1 2 (5.000%) Apache
1 2 (5.000%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (5.000%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (2.500%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (2.500%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (2.500%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.500%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.000%) RMDS
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) SAN
2 3 (7.500%) NAS
3 2 (5.000%) FCoE
3 2 (5.000%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (5.000%) LAN
3 2 (5.000%) WAN
3 2 (5.000%) HTTP
4 1 (2.500%) Firewall
4 1 (2.500%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (67.50%) Oracle 11g
2 16 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
3 12 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (17.50%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (7.500%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (5.000%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.000%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (5.000%) HBase
7 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.500%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (2.500%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
8 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (2.500%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.500%) Oracle OWB
8 1 (2.500%) Essbase
8 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (2.500%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (2.500%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.500%) Hudson
1 1 (2.500%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (37.50%) Banking
2 5 (12.50%) Finance
2 5 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.500%) Back Office
3 1 (2.500%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (70.00%) DBA
2 25 (62.50%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Administrator
4 2 (5.000%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (2.500%) Analyst
5 1 (2.500%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.500%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 1 (2.500%) SQL DBA
5 1 (2.500%) Systems Architect
5 1 (2.500%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (2.500%) Senior DBA
5 1 (2.500%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.500%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.500%) Replication
2 2 (5.000%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Linux
2 13 (32.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (20.00%) Solaris
4 7 (17.50%) Windows
5 5 (12.50%) UNIX
6 4 (10.00%) AIX
7 2 (5.000%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) High Availability
2 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (7.500%) Data Modelling
3 3 (7.500%) Migration
4 2 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.000%) Data Management
4 2 (5.000%) ITIL
4 2 (5.000%) Benchmarking
4 2 (5.000%) Configuration Management
4 2 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (2.500%) Build Automation
5 1 (2.500%) Master Data Management
5 1 (2.500%) Database Security
5 1 (2.500%) Service Management
5 1 (2.500%) Change Management
5 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.500%) ETL
5 1 (2.500%) BCP
5 1 (2.500%) Data Validation
5 1 (2.500%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) SQL
2 14 (35.00%) Shell Script
3 11 (27.50%) Java
4 7 (17.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.000%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.500%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) DV Cleared
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.500%) IBM Certification
3 1 (2.500%) MCITP
3 1 (2.500%) Degree
3 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.500%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (7.500%) SRDF
3 2 (5.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (5.000%) NFS
4 1 (2.500%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.500%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 17 (42.50%) Data Guard
2 8 (20.00%) Nagios
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (5.000%) Legato
4 1 (2.500%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (2.500%) Foglight
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 15 (37.50%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.50%) IBM
4 4 (10.00%) EMC
4 4 (10.00%) Veritas
5 3 (7.500%) Microsoft
5 3 (7.500%) Cisco
6 2 (5.000%) NetApp
6 2 (5.000%) TIBCO
6 2 (5.000%) VMware
6 2 (5.000%) HP
6 2 (5.000%) Sybase
6 2 (5.000%) Intel
6 2 (5.000%) 29West
6 2 (5.000%) DataSynapse
7 1 (2.500%) DataFlux
7 1 (2.500%) Crossbeam
7 1 (2.500%) Citrix
7 1 (2.500%) Informatica
7 1 (2.500%) Serena
City, London
DBA - Oracle - Exadata - RAC - City - London - Banking - £Excellent daily rate - Contract. My client is a global organisation seeks a technically astute Oracle dba to join their team. They...
McGregor Boyall
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Oracle DBA, 11g, RAC, ASM, Clusterware, Goldengate... Very strong Oracle 11g R2 DBA with RAC, ASM, Clusterware, OEM, SAN experience with Goldengate, Project delivery & Production support. Experience of...
Aston Carter
Rate: market rate
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Skills and Experience Required Proven prior experience of technical service delivery Advanced experience of Oracle Database infrastructures in large corporate organisations Knowledge of Oracle 9i/10g/11g server...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £475 - £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
A summary of the key skills are as follows: Networking (Cisco, TCP/UDP, Broadcast/Multicast, LAN/WAN) Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance tuning (Linux, Windows, Solaris) &...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £575 - £576 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013