The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 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 Vendors for the Croydon 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 10 11 3
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 5 12 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 10.20% 9.160% 23.40%
As % of the Vendors category 16.13% 23.53% 46.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 21
Average daily rate £225 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -10.27%
All Vendors
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
31 51 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 63.27% 38.93% 50.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 59
Average daily rate £255 £450 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.33% +5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £375 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £560 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -17.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
London

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Croydon Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Croydon Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Croydon Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon region citing Oracle 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.

1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle Payroll
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (20.00%) XenApp
4 2 (20.00%) vSphere
4 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (20.00%) SCCM
4 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) IPsec
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) .NET

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon region citing Oracle 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (20.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Payroll
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) IPsec
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Ingres
1 1 (10.00%) dBASE
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Payroll Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Support Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Business Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) AIX
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (20.00%) SOA
2 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) ERP
3 1 (10.00%) RAD
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Information Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) XenApp
1 2 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) JD Edwards
3 1 (10.00%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Sybase
3 1 (10.00%) Business Objects