The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle APEX 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 APEX 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 Development Applications 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 Application Express (APEX)
Rank 56 61 67
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle APEX 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.120% 0.184% 0.077%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.471% 3.077% 1.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £450 £368 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.13% -13.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £350 £328
% change year-on-year
-3.57% +6.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Development Applications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
68 65 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.163% 5.980% 5.869%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 29 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £242 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Average hourly rate - £29.75 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +41.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Oracle APEX
Scotland

Oracle APEX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle APEX across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Edinburgh Oracle APEX Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle APEX Daily Rate Trend

Oracle APEX
Top 16 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Pegasus
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS R12

Oracle APEX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware Specialist
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Pegasus