East of England Oracle Application Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Application Server (OAS) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle Application Server over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Huntingdon Lancashire Leeds Lewisham Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex North West Preston Reading South East South Wales South West Swindon UK Wales Warrington West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	126	158
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	12	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.166 %	0.423 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£425
Average daily rate	£430	£425
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£421	£406
% change on same period last year	+3.82 %
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	£38.80	£19.25
% change on same period last year	+101.57 %
Application Platforms East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	554	710
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.731 %	0.707 %
Daily rates quoted	171	215
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£328
Average daily rate	£348	£343
% change on same period last year	+1.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£347
% change on same period last year	+1.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	58	95
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.83	£28.23
Average hourly rate	£21.94	£29.53
% change on same period last year	-25.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.04	£30.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.22	£24.95
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Oracle Application Server 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 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 East of England 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 East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Oracle Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the East of England region.

Oracle Application Server
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Application Server within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Essex	-	8	£425	-
Cambridgeshire	+12	3	£450	+24.13 %
East Anglia	-	1	-	-

Oracle Application Server England

Oracle Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 16 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 10 (62.50 %) UNIX 2 10 (62.50 %) Solaris 3 7 (43.75 %) Sun 4 6 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 4 6 (37.50 %) SQL 4 6 (37.50 %) Java 5 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 9i 5 5 (31.25 %) Degree 6 4 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 6 4 (25.00 %) Migration 6 4 (25.00 %) Client/Server 6 4 (25.00 %) Linux 6 4 (25.00 %) PL/SQL

6 4 (25.00 %) Apache 6 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 10g 6 4 (25.00 %) SAN 6 4 (25.00 %) NetApp 6 4 (25.00 %) XML 7 3 (18.75 %) Windows 7 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 7 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 7 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Reports 7 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 7 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Applications 7 3 (18.75 %) Oracle RMAN 7 3 (18.75 %) Finance 7 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2008 7 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared

Oracle Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (25.00 %) XML 2 2 (12.50 %) JSP 3 1 (6.250 %) Servlets 3 1 (6.250 %) Struts 3 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 3 1 (6.250 %) EJB 3 1 (6.250 %) CSS 3 1 (6.250 %) HTML 3 1 (6.250 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 4 (25.00 %) Apache
Business Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 4 (25.00 %) SAN 2 1 (6.250 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 3 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2008 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (12.50 %) MS Access 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS 5 1 (6.250 %) Ingres 5 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 11g	General 1 3 (18.75 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Government
Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) DBA 1 8 (50.00 %) Oracle DBA 2 4 (25.00 %) Consultant 3 3 (18.75 %) Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Java Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Client/Server 2 2 (12.50 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 10 (62.50 %) UNIX 1 10 (62.50 %) Solaris 2 4 (25.00 %) Linux 3 3 (18.75 %) Windows 4 1 (6.250 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Disaster Recovery 2 4 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (25.00 %) Migration 3 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (6.250 %) Computer Security
Programming Languages 1 6 (37.50 %) SQL 1 6 (37.50 %) Java 2 4 (25.00 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 4 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript 4 1 (6.250 %) C	Qualifications 1 5 (31.25 %) Degree
System Software 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle RMAN 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 16 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 7 (43.75 %) Sun 3 4 (25.00 %) NetApp 4 3 (18.75 %) Microsoft 5 1 (6.250 %) Red Hat 5 1 (6.250 %) HP 5 1 (6.250 %) Intel 5 1 (6.250 %) VMware