Docklands, London Oracle Application Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Application Server (OAS) skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Oracle Application Server over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Middlesex North East North West Northern Ireland Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon UK Wales Warrington West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	82
Rank change on same period last year	+26
Matching contract IT job ads	15	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	7.407 %
Daily rates quoted	15	9
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£293
Average daily rate	£310	£293
% change on same period last year	+5.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£293
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£357
% change on same period last year	+6.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.18	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+52.71 %
Application Platforms Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	120	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.158 %	0.143 %
Daily rates quoted	70	55
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£392
Average daily rate	£348	£420
% change on same period last year	-17.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£448
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£23.64
Average hourly rate	£20.25	£24.48
% change on same period last year	-17.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	£25.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the Docklands, London region.

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Oracle Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 38 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 35 (92.11 %) SQL 3 34 (89.47 %) Oracle 10g 4 32 (84.21 %) XML 5 30 (78.95 %) Java 6 28 (73.68 %) OO 7 26 (68.42 %) PL/SQL 8 25 (65.79 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 23 (60.53 %) Hibernate 10 22 (57.89 %) XSL 10 22 (57.89 %) RUP 11 21 (55.26 %) JavaBeans 12 20 (52.63 %) Rational Rose 12 20 (52.63 %) Unified Process 13 19 (50.00 %) RequisitePro

14 18 (47.37 %) IBM 14 18 (47.37 %) J2EE 15 17 (44.74 %) JUnit 16 16 (42.11 %) MS Project 16 16 (42.11 %) MS Office 16 16 (42.11 %) HTML 16 16 (42.11 %) JSP 16 16 (42.11 %) Struts 17 15 (39.47 %) SOAP 18 14 (36.84 %) OOA/OOD 19 13 (34.21 %) Oracle 9i 19 13 (34.21 %) PRINCE2 19 13 (34.21 %) UML 19 13 (34.21 %) Use Case 20 12 (31.58 %) JSTL

Oracle Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 32 (84.21 %) XML 2 23 (60.53 %) Hibernate 3 22 (57.89 %) XSL 4 21 (55.26 %) JavaBeans 5 18 (47.37 %) J2EE 6 16 (42.11 %) HTML 6 16 (42.11 %) JSP 6 16 (42.11 %) Struts 7 15 (39.47 %) SOAP 8 12 (31.58 %) JDBC 8 12 (31.58 %) JSTL 9 11 (28.95 %) EJB 9 11 (28.95 %) WebServices 10 10 (26.32 %) CSS 11 4 (10.53 %) ASP 11 4 (10.53 %) ODBC 11 4 (10.53 %) Swing 11 4 (10.53 %) Spring 12 2 (5.263 %) XML Schema 13 1 (2.632 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 25 (65.79 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 6 (15.79 %) Oracle 9iAS 3 4 (10.53 %) IIS 4 1 (2.632 %) JRun 4 1 (2.632 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (2.632 %) WebLogic 4 1 (2.632 %) iPlanet
Applications 1 16 (42.11 %) MS Project 1 16 (42.11 %) MS Office 2 5 (13.16 %) MS Visio 3 4 (10.53 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 10 (26.32 %) HTTP 2 8 (21.05 %) LDAP 3 5 (13.16 %) Internet 4 2 (5.263 %) SAN 5 1 (2.632 %) Firewall 5 1 (2.632 %) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 34 (89.47 %) Oracle 10g 2 13 (34.21 %) Oracle 9i 3 4 (10.53 %) MS Access 4 2 (5.263 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 1 (2.632 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 20 (52.63 %) Rational Rose 2 19 (50.00 %) RequisitePro 3 17 (44.74 %) JUnit 4 12 (31.58 %) JDeveloper 5 4 (10.53 %) ClearQuest 5 4 (10.53 %) Visual Studio 5 4 (10.53 %) Eclipse 6 2 (5.263 %) Ant
General 1 2 (5.263 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (2.632 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 18 (47.37 %) Developer 2 15 (39.47 %) Java Developer 2 15 (39.47 %) J2EE Developer 2 15 (39.47 %) Java/J2EE Developer 3 13 (34.21 %) Project Manager 4 3 (7.895 %) Oracle Developer 5 2 (5.263 %) Oracle DBA 5 2 (5.263 %) Test Manager 5 2 (5.263 %) DBA 5 2 (5.263 %) Senior Developer 5 2 (5.263 %) UNIX Engineer 6 1 (2.632 %) Senior J2EE Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) WebSphere Administrator 6 1 (2.632 %) Senior Oracle Developer 6 1 (2.632 %) Development DBA 6 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Development DBA 6 1 (2.632 %) Administrator
Operating Systems 1 5 (13.16 %) Unix 2 4 (10.53 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.632 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (73.68 %) OO 2 22 (57.89 %) RUP 3 20 (52.63 %) Unified Process 4 14 (36.84 %) OOA/OOD 5 13 (34.21 %) Use Case 5 13 (34.21 %) PRINCE2 5 13 (34.21 %) UML 6 11 (28.95 %) OOD 7 8 (21.05 %) Web Development 8 4 (10.53 %) Project Management 9 2 (5.263 %) Configuration Management 9 2 (5.263 %) Validation 9 2 (5.263 %) Migration 9 2 (5.263 %) Test Scripting 10 1 (2.632 %) Wealth Management 10 1 (2.632 %) Change Management 10 1 (2.632 %) Security Management
Programming Languages 1 35 (92.11 %) SQL 2 30 (78.95 %) Java 3 26 (68.42 %) PL/SQL 4 12 (31.58 %) VBA 5 9 (23.68 %) JavaScript 6 4 (10.53 %) VB 6 4 (10.53 %) VB6 7 1 (2.632 %) Korn 7 1 (2.632 %) Shell Script 7 1 (2.632 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 2 (5.263 %) CCNA 1 2 (5.263 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (5.263 %) OCP 1 2 (5.263 %) OCA 1 2 (5.263 %) Oracle Certification 1 2 (5.263 %) SCSA
System Software 1 2 (5.263 %) VMware GSX 1 2 (5.263 %) VMware ESX 1 2 (5.263 %) NetBackup 2 1 (2.632 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (2.632 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 38 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 18 (47.37 %) IBM 3 12 (31.58 %) Altova 4 6 (15.79 %) Macromedia 5 4 (10.53 %) Sun 5 4 (10.53 %) Microsoft 6 2 (5.263 %) Adobe 6 2 (5.263 %) StorageTek 6 2 (5.263 %) VMware 6 2 (5.263 %) BladeLogic