The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 11 12 12
Rank change year-on-year
+1 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle 71 85 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.523% 7.820% 7.645%
As % of the Vendors category 24.65% 25.07% 23.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 50
Average daily rate £425 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £225 £257
10% offered a daily rate of more than £560 £425 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £70.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -10.27%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
288 339 421
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 34.57% 31.19% 32.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 149 162
Average daily rate £396 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £207 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £440 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 19
Average hourly rate £20.50 £17.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.58% +11.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £13.65 £13.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £70.00 £25.25 £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Scotland

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 74 (43.53%) SQL
2 59 (34.71%) Finance
3 41 (24.12%) PL/SQL
4 34 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
4 34 (20.00%) Banking
4 34 (20.00%) UNIX
5 30 (17.65%) Windows
6 25 (14.71%) Linux
7 22 (12.94%) SQL Server
7 22 (12.94%) Java
7 22 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
8 20 (11.76%) Oracle EBS R12
9 19 (11.18%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
11 16 (9.412%) .NET
12 15 (8.824%) ETL
12 15 (8.824%) Oracle RAC
13 14 (8.235%) Data Guard
13 14 (8.235%) Shell Script
13 14 (8.235%) DB2
13 14 (8.235%) Oracle 8/8i
13 14 (8.235%) Migration
13 14 (8.235%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (7.647%) Oracle RMAN
14 13 (7.647%) Solaris
14 13 (7.647%) Project Management
14 13 (7.647%) Oracle BI EE
15 12 (7.059%) ERP
15 12 (7.059%) RDBMS

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (9.412%) .NET
2 8 (4.706%) XML
3 7 (4.118%) J2EE
4 6 (3.529%) JDBC
4 6 (3.529%) WebSphere
5 5 (2.941%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (2.941%) Middleware
5 5 (2.941%) Web Services
6 4 (2.353%) Struts
6 4 (2.353%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.765%) WebCenter
7 3 (1.765%) JSF
7 3 (1.765%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.765%) JavaBeans
7 3 (1.765%) CSS
7 3 (1.765%) HTML
8 2 (1.176%) XSLT
8 2 (1.176%) Spring
8 2 (1.176%) JPA
8 2 (1.176%) Facelets
Application Platforms
1 11 (6.471%) WebLogic
2 10 (5.882%) SAS
3 8 (4.706%) Oracle Application Server
4 4 (2.353%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.765%) PowerExchange
6 2 (1.176%) IIS
6 2 (1.176%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.176%) MTS
6 2 (1.176%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.176%) Apache
6 2 (1.176%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (1.176%) CMS
6 2 (1.176%) ArcSDE
6 2 (1.176%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.588%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.588%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.588%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.588%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.176%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.588%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.588%) MS Project
2 1 (0.588%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 34 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
2 20 (11.76%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (7.059%) Oracle Applications
4 9 (5.294%) Oracle Payroll
4 9 (5.294%) Oracle 11i
5 7 (4.118%) Oracle HRMS
6 4 (2.353%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (1.176%) Taleo
8 1 (0.588%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.588%) Oracle CRM
8 1 (0.588%) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.294%) Unified Communications
3 8 (4.706%) DNS
3 8 (4.706%) LDAP
4 6 (3.529%) SAN
5 3 (1.765%) SSL
6 2 (1.176%) MPLS
6 2 (1.176%) HTTP
7 1 (0.588%) Network Security
7 1 (0.588%) Firewall
7 1 (0.588%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 20 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
3 19 (11.18%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
5 14 (8.235%) DB2
5 14 (8.235%) Oracle 8/8i
6 13 (7.647%) Oracle BI EE
7 12 (7.059%) RDBMS
8 8 (4.706%) MySQL
8 8 (4.706%) SQLPlus
8 8 (4.706%) Oracle 10g
8 8 (4.706%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (4.706%) Oracle Exadata
9 7 (4.118%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.118%) SAP Data Services
10 6 (3.529%) Oracle 9i
10 6 (3.529%) Oracle Discoverer
11 5 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
11 5 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
11 5 (2.941%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 9 (5.294%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (1.765%) Subversion
2 3 (1.765%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.588%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.588%) Selenium
3 1 (0.588%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.588%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (0.588%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.588%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (0.588%) Maven
3 1 (0.588%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.588%) RequisitePro
3 1 (0.588%) XDE
3 1 (0.588%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.588%) ProC
3 1 (0.588%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.588%) JUnit
General
1 59 (34.71%) Finance
2 34 (20.00%) Banking
3 6 (3.529%) Retail
4 4 (2.353%) Investment Banking
5 3 (1.765%) Marketing
5 3 (1.765%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.176%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.176%) Back Office
6 2 (1.176%) Publishing
7 1 (0.588%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.588%) Electronics
7 1 (0.588%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 35 (20.59%) Analyst
2 32 (18.82%) Developer
3 30 (17.65%) Consultant
4 21 (12.35%) Oracle Consultant
5 14 (8.235%) Oracle Developer
6 12 (7.059%) DBA
6 12 (7.059%) Business Analyst
7 10 (5.882%) Architect
7 10 (5.882%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.882%) Business Consultant
7 10 (5.882%) Oracle Analyst
8 9 (5.294%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (4.118%) E-Business Consultant
9 7 (4.118%) Payroll Consultant
9 7 (4.118%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
9 7 (4.118%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.529%) Database Specialist
10 6 (3.529%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.529%) Functional Consultant
10 6 (3.529%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.706%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.941%) Data Integration
2 5 (2.941%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.176%) Clustering
3 2 (1.176%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (1.176%) Data Conversion
3 2 (1.176%) iSeries
3 2 (1.176%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.588%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.588%) Replication
4 1 (0.588%) N-Tier
4 1 (0.588%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.00%) UNIX
2 30 (17.65%) Windows
3 25 (14.71%) Linux
4 13 (7.647%) Solaris
5 8 (4.706%) AIX
6 7 (4.118%) HPUX
7 6 (3.529%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (2.353%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.765%) zOS
11 2 (1.176%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (8.824%) ETL
3 14 (8.235%) Migration
3 14 (8.235%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (7.647%) Project Management
5 12 (7.059%) ERP
6 11 (6.471%) SOA
7 10 (5.882%) ITIL
8 8 (4.706%) UML
8 8 (4.706%) Data Modelling
9 7 (4.118%) Service Delivery
10 6 (3.529%) Risk Analysis
11 5 (2.941%) Business Analysis
11 5 (2.941%) Kimball Methodology
11 5 (2.941%) Configuration Management
12 4 (2.353%) RAD
12 4 (2.353%) CRM
12 4 (2.353%) Change Management
12 4 (2.353%) Workflow
12 4 (2.353%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 74 (43.53%) SQL
2 41 (24.12%) PL/SQL
3 22 (12.94%) Java
4 14 (8.235%) Shell Script
5 9 (5.294%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.118%) Perl
7 6 (3.529%) C#
8 3 (1.765%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.765%) VB
8 3 (1.765%) VBA
9 2 (1.176%) PHP
9 2 (1.176%) Ruby
10 1 (0.588%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.588%) VB6
10 1 (0.588%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (4.706%) Degree
2 1 (0.588%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.588%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.588%) CISA
2 1 (0.588%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.353%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (1.176%) QA
3 1 (0.588%) ISO/IEC 17799
System Software
1 15 (8.824%) Oracle RAC
2 13 (7.647%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (4.118%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.765%) SRDF
5 2 (1.176%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.176%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.588%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.235%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.353%) Tivoli
2 4 (2.353%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (2.353%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 2 (1.176%) Netcool
3 2 (1.176%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (1.176%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.176%) Oracle Identity Management
3 2 (1.176%) Oracle Statspack
4 1 (0.588%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 12 (7.059%) Business Objects
2 8 (4.706%) SAP
2 8 (4.706%) JBoss
2 8 (4.706%) Informatica
2 8 (4.706%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.118%) IBM
3 7 (4.118%) PeopleSoft
4 4 (2.353%) VMware
5 3 (1.765%) Hyperion
5 3 (1.765%) HP
5 3 (1.765%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.765%) Sybase
6 2 (1.176%) Siebel
6 2 (1.176%) Sun
6 2 (1.176%) Trillium
6 2 (1.176%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.176%) Teradata
6 2 (1.176%) DataFlux
7 1 (0.588%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.588%) Red Gate
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