The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle EBS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle EBS over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Business Applications category for the East of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS)
Rank 106 122 118
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 14 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.642% 0.306% 0.309%
As % of the Business Applications category 11.97% 4.813% 5.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
Average daily rate £438 £475 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +58.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £15.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+217.46% -58.00%
All Business Applications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
117 187 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 5.367% 6.367% 5.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 90 48
Average daily rate £425 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £290 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 4
Average hourly rate £75.50 £36.11 £15.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+109.08% +133.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.90 £28.55 £10.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £127.10 £42.00 £26.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+68.00% +2.45%
Oracle EBS
England

Oracle EBS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle EBS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

East of England Oracle EBS Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Oracle EBS Daily Rate Trend

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle EBS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England Oracle EBS Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle EBS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Oracle EBS Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle EBS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle EBS within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire +4 6 £475 -
Cambridgeshire - 4 - -
Essex - 3 £425 -
Hertfordshire +11 1 £350 -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Oracle EBS
England

Oracle EBS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Oracle EBS 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 EBS.

1 38 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 19 (50.00%) Linux
2 19 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 13 (34.21%) Cisco
4 11 (28.95%) Finance
5 10 (26.32%) VMware
5 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
5 10 (26.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 8 (21.05%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (18.42%) Migration
7 7 (18.42%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (18.42%) ERP
7 7 (18.42%) SQL
8 6 (15.79%) T-SQL
8 6 (15.79%) SAP
8 6 (15.79%) ITIL
8 6 (15.79%) Apache
8 6 (15.79%) Perl
8 6 (15.79%) DHCP
8 6 (15.79%) DNS
8 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
8 6 (15.79%) EMC
8 6 (15.79%) OCP
8 6 (15.79%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (15.79%) RHCE
8 6 (15.79%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (15.79%) Data Analysis
9 5 (13.16%) Retail
10 4 (10.53%) TOGAF

Oracle EBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Oracle EBS 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 EBS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Apache
2 4 (10.53%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.632%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (7.895%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (5.263%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle iRecruitment
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) DHCP
1 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) Nortel Meridian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.632%) Essbase
3 1 (2.632%) Data Mart
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.632%) Oracle 11g
General
1 11 (28.95%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (52.63%) Administrator
2 19 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 9 (23.68%) Consultant
4 8 (21.05%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Architect
6 3 (7.895%) Analyst
6 3 (7.895%) Business Consultant
6 3 (7.895%) Oracle Analyst
6 3 (7.895%) E-Business Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Oracle Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.263%) DBA
7 2 (5.263%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Functional Consultant
7 2 (5.263%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.632%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 1 (2.632%) Applications Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Support Consultant
8 1 (2.632%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) PKI
1 4 (10.53%) IVR
2 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (50.00%) Linux
1 19 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (10.53%) Windows 7
2 4 (10.53%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) HPUX
3 1 (2.632%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (18.42%) Migration
1 7 (18.42%) ERP
2 6 (15.79%) ITIL
2 6 (15.79%) Data Analysis
3 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
4 3 (7.895%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.632%) ETL
5 1 (2.632%) Programme Management
5 1 (2.632%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.632%) Project Management
5 1 (2.632%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.632%) Analytics
5 1 (2.632%) Revenue Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 6 (15.79%) T-SQL
2 6 (15.79%) Perl
3 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) OCP
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (15.79%) RHCE
2 1 (2.632%) ISEB
2 1 (2.632%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.632%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.263%) GAMP
1 2 (5.263%) GxP
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.53%) VMware Server
3 4 (10.53%) XenApp
3 4 (10.53%) XenDesktop
3 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.53%) vSphere
3 4 (10.53%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (15.79%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 38 (100.00%) Oracle
2 19 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 13 (34.21%) Cisco
4 10 (26.32%) VMware
4 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
5 6 (15.79%) SAP
5 6 (15.79%) EMC
6 4 (10.53%) Citrix
6 4 (10.53%) Nortel
7 3 (7.895%) Capita
8 2 (5.263%) Mercator
9 1 (2.632%) IBM
9 1 (2.632%) Cognos
9 1 (2.632%) Hyperion