The first table below looks at the demand for Essbase skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Essbase over the 3 months to 24 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Essbase
Rank 55 52 66
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +14
Contract jobs citing Essbase 2 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.240% 1.012% 0.154%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.333% 8.209% 1.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
Average daily rate £450 £275 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+63.63% -31.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £513 £310 £420
% change year-on-year
+65.32% -26.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £26.28 -
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
150 134 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 18.01% 12.33% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 63 70
Average daily rate £394 £335 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.53% -0.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £516 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
Average hourly rate £70.00 £40.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% +175.86%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Essbase
Scotland

Essbase
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Essbase across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Edinburgh Essbase Jobs Demand Trend

Essbase
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Essbase across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Essbase Daily Rate Trend

Essbase
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Essbase 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 Essbase.

1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (50.00%) Clustering
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Statspack
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (25.00%) Informatica
3 2 (25.00%) SQLPlus
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) LDAP
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS

Essbase
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Essbase 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 Essbase. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (25.00%) SQLPlus
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) Business Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) E-Business Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Workflow
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Hyperion
2 2 (25.00%) Informatica