The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC 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 RAC over the 3 months to 22 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 System Software 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 111 125 123
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -2
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 5 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.230% 0.201% 0.268%
As % of the System Software category 1.724% 1.980% 2.465%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
Average daily rate £338 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £318 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £348 £448 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
290 303 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.32% 10.16% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 112
Average daily rate £293 £305 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.09% +6.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 65 78
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.22 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.24% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £37.75 £33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 £350 -
Hertfordshire +9 1 £325 -
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Clustering
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) SOA
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
5 1 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (12.50%) Solaris
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) BMC
5 1 (12.50%) CA
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server DBA
2 2 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (12.50%) SOA
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) BMC
2 1 (12.50%) CA
2 1 (12.50%) VMware