The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RMAN 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 RMAN 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 System Software 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 Recovery Manager (RMAN)
Rank 54 - 69
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle RMAN 2 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.244% - 0.379%
As % of the System Software category 3.226% - 4.717%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £450 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £367 £400 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.18% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £33.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year
+21.21% +15.78%
All System Software
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
62 69 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.552% 6.348% 8.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 33 20
Average daily rate £260 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £215 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £409 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
Average hourly rate - £16.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RMAN
Scotland

Oracle RMAN
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle RMAN Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RMAN
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle RMAN Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RMAN
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 12 (92.31%) Oracle RAC
2 12 (92.31%) Data Guard
3 9 (69.23%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (61.54%) SQLPlus
4 8 (61.54%) DNS
4 8 (61.54%) UNIX
4 8 (61.54%) LDAP
4 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
5 7 (53.85%) SQL
5 7 (53.85%) RDBMS
5 7 (53.85%) Oracle BI EE
6 6 (46.15%) Finance
6 6 (46.15%) PL/SQL
6 6 (46.15%) Windows
7 5 (38.46%) WebLogic
7 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle Application Server
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (38.46%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (30.77%) Essbase
8 4 (30.77%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (23.08%) Linux
9 3 (23.08%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (23.08%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (23.08%) SRDF
10 2 (15.38%) Oracle Statspack
10 2 (15.38%) Banking
10 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (15.38%) BCP

Oracle RMAN
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) WebLogic
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (7.692%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.692%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (23.08%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
1 8 (61.54%) LDAP
1 8 (61.54%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQLPlus
2 7 (53.85%) RDBMS
2 7 (53.85%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (30.77%) Essbase
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (7.692%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (7.692%) TOAD
7 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
7 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Subversion
1 1 (7.692%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle DBA
1 6 (46.15%) DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Business Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Oracle Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) E-Business Consultant
2 4 (30.77%) Consultant
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) UNIX
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.692%) Solaris
4 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) BCP
1 2 (15.38%) Workflow
2 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (7.692%) Change Control
2 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 6 (46.15%) PL/SQL
3 5 (38.46%) Shell Script
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (23.08%) SRDF
3 1 (7.692%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Data Guard
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Sun
2 1 (7.692%) HP
2 1 (7.692%) Embarcadero
2 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.692%) VMware
2 1 (7.692%) Red Gate