The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Financials 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 Financials over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Financials
Rank - 64 70
Contract jobs citing Oracle Financials 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh - 0.092% 0.303%
As % of the Business Applications category - 2.564% 6.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.70 - £30.00
All Business Applications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
30 39 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.654% 3.588% 4.701%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 31
Average daily rate £425 £325 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £450 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Oracle Financials
Scotland

Oracle Financials
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle Financials Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Financials
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle Financials Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Financials
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle Financials Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Financials
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Oracle Financials 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 Financials.

1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (75.00%) Data Guard
2 3 (75.00%) SRDF
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) LDAP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (75.00%) SQLPlus
2 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (25.00%) E-business
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Oracle Financials
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Oracle Financials 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 Financials. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 3 (75.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) SQLPlus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) E-Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) E-business
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RAC
1 3 (75.00%) SRDF
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle