East Midlands Oracle 9i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle9i Database skills within the East Midlands 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 9i over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle9i Database
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crewe Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Nantwich New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staines Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	89
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	31	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	8.052 %	2.020 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£267
Average daily rate	£347	£300
% change on same period last year	+15.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£340
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.28	£34.51
% change on same period last year	+25.39 %
Database & Business Intelligence East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	385	396
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.513 %	0.395 %
Daily rates quoted	101	48
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£328
Average daily rate	£361	£342
% change on same period last year	+5.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£356
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£358
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.11	£22.64
Average hourly rate	£33.91	£24.59
% change on same period last year	+37.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.71	£26.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.15	£32.12
% change on same period last year	+0.11 %
Oracle 9i England

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 9i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 9i across the East Midlands region.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 9i across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

Oracle 9i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the East Midlands region.

Oracle 9i
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 9i within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Nottinghamshire	-	12	£325	-
Derbyshire	+5	7	£400	+33.33 %
Leicestershire	+7	5	£320	-
Northamptonshire	-	1	£400	-

Oracle 9i England

Oracle 9i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i.

1 48 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 43 (89.58 %) Oracle 10g 3 18 (37.50 %) SQL 3 18 (37.50 %) UNIX 4 10 (20.83 %) Java 5 9 (18.75 %) PL/SQL 5 9 (18.75 %) J2EE 5 9 (18.75 %) Windows 5 9 (18.75 %) AIX 5 9 (18.75 %) Finance 6 8 (16.67 %) Hibernate 6 8 (16.67 %) Spring 6 8 (16.67 %) IBM 7 7 (14.58 %) WebServices 7 7 (14.58 %) XML

7 7 (14.58 %) Migration 8 6 (12.50 %) Shell Script 8 6 (12.50 %) Solaris 8 6 (12.50 %) JUnit 8 6 (12.50 %) WebLogic 8 6 (12.50 %) Eclipse 9 5 (10.42 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (10.42 %) UML 9 5 (10.42 %) ITIL 9 5 (10.42 %) Oracle RMAN 9 5 (10.42 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 4 (8.333 %) Health 10 4 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 10 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 4 (8.333 %) EJB

Oracle 9i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (18.75 %) J2EE 2 8 (16.67 %) Hibernate 2 8 (16.67 %) Spring 3 7 (14.58 %) WebServices 3 7 (14.58 %) XML 4 4 (8.333 %) EJB 4 4 (8.333 %) JSP 4 4 (8.333 %) Servlets 5 3 (6.250 %) HTML 5 3 (6.250 %) .NET 5 3 (6.250 %) WSDL 6 2 (4.167 %) NetBeans 6 2 (4.167 %) DAO 6 2 (4.167 %) SOAP 6 2 (4.167 %) XSD 6 2 (4.167 %) WebSphere 6 2 (4.167 %) JSR 168 6 2 (4.167 %) JAX-WS 7 1 (2.083 %) GWT 7 1 (2.083 %) DOM	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.50 %) WebLogic 2 2 (4.167 %) WebLogic Portal 2 2 (4.167 %) ESB 3 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (2.083 %) Apache 3 1 (2.083 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.167 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 43 (89.58 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 2 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 4 (8.333 %) RDBMS 3 3 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 6 (12.50 %) JUnit 1 6 (12.50 %) Eclipse 2 3 (6.250 %) JDeveloper 3 2 (4.167 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Forms 3 2 (4.167 %) Ant	General 1 9 (18.75 %) Finance 2 4 (8.333 %) Health 3 1 (2.083 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (2.083 %) Aerospace 3 1 (2.083 %) Automotive 3 1 (2.083 %) Government
Job Titles 1 24 (50.00 %) DBA 1 24 (50.00 %) Oracle DBA 2 16 (33.33 %) Developer 3 9 (18.75 %) Java Developer 4 5 (10.42 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (8.333 %) UNIX Engineer 5 4 (8.333 %) Oracle Developer 6 3 (6.250 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.167 %) J2EE Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) Applications Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) Senior Java Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) Senior Applications Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) Java Applications Developer 7 2 (4.167 %) Senior Java Applications Developer 8 1 (2.083 %) UNIX Support 8 1 (2.083 %) Developer Analyst 8 1 (2.083 %) Analyst Programmer 8 1 (2.083 %) Systems Support 8 1 (2.083 %) Programmer	Operating Systems 1 18 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 9 (18.75 %) Windows 2 9 (18.75 %) AIX 3 6 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 5 (10.42 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (10.42 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (14.58 %) Migration 2 5 (10.42 %) ITIL 2 5 (10.42 %) UML 3 3 (6.250 %) Validation 4 2 (4.167 %) Continuous Integration 4 2 (4.167 %) TDD 4 2 (4.167 %) OOD 4 2 (4.167 %) Disaster Recovery 5 1 (2.083 %) E-business 5 1 (2.083 %) Data Security 5 1 (2.083 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.083 %) AOP 5 1 (2.083 %) Load Testing 5 1 (2.083 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (2.083 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.083 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.083 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (2.083 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 18 (37.50 %) SQL 2 10 (20.83 %) Java 3 9 (18.75 %) PL/SQL 4 6 (12.50 %) Shell Script 5 4 (8.333 %) JavaScript 6 2 (4.167 %) C# 7 1 (2.083 %) C++ 7 1 (2.083 %) VB 7 1 (2.083 %) VC++
Qualifications 1 2 (4.167 %) OCP 1 2 (4.167 %) OCA 1 2 (4.167 %) Oracle Certification 1 2 (4.167 %) Sun Certification	System Software 1 5 (10.42 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (2.083 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 48 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 8 (16.67 %) IBM 3 4 (8.333 %) BEA 4 2 (4.167 %) Sun 5 1 (2.083 %) Empirix 5 1 (2.083 %) Microsoft