The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i 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 Oracle 8/8i 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 8/8i
Rank 51 62 64
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 6 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.733% 0.273% 0.617%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.225% 2.158% 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
Average daily rate £368 £350 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £350 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £350 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £357 £369 £390
% change year-on-year
-3.25% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-13.24% +13.84%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
142 139 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 17.34% 12.67% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 70
Average daily rate £375 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £70.00 £16.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+337.50% +10.34%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
Oracle 8/8i
Scotland

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Edinburgh Oracle 8/8i Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Oracle 8/8i Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) UNIX
3 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
4 8 (57.14%) Finance
5 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
6 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
6 6 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (42.86%) Banking
6 6 (42.86%) Windows
6 6 (42.86%) Degree
7 5 (35.71%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (35.71%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
8 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
8 4 (28.57%) Project Management
8 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
8 4 (28.57%) XML
8 4 (28.57%) Linux
8 4 (28.57%) ETL
8 4 (28.57%) Oracle Discoverer
8 4 (28.57%) Informatica
8 4 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (21.43%) Capacity Management
9 3 (21.43%) Oracle 10g
9 3 (21.43%) JDBC
9 3 (21.43%) Web Services
9 3 (21.43%) PowerExchange
9 3 (21.43%) CheckPoint

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) XML
2 3 (21.43%) JDBC
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
3 1 (7.143%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) PowerExchange
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.143%) SAS
2 1 (7.143%) Apache
2 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (7.143%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle HRMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Discoverer
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle 9i
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (14.29%) BusinessObjects XI
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (7.143%) MS Access
5 1 (7.143%) TOAD
5 1 (7.143%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (7.143%) TortoiseSVN
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Consultant
1 5 (35.71%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) E-Business Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Payroll Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle HR Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Business Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Administrator
4 1 (7.143%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.143%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) UNIX
2 6 (42.86%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) zOS
4 1 (7.143%) Solaris
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Service Delivery
2 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Capacity Management
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
4 2 (14.29%) Investment Management
5 1 (7.143%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
3 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.143%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (7.143%) vSphere
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (28.57%) Informatica
3 3 (21.43%) CheckPoint
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.143%) Red Gate
5 1 (7.143%) Sun
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) Embarcadero
5 1 (7.143%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.143%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (7.143%) VMware
5 1 (7.143%) Teradata
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