England Oracle 8/8i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Database 8/8i skills within the England region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 8/8i over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 8/8i
Location Alderley Edge Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Driffield Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Ware Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	197	226
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	534	620
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.712 %	0.627 %
As % of the category below	4.006 %	3.257 %
Daily rates quoted	161	194
Average minimum daily rate	£405	£367
Average daily rate	£427	£392
% change on same period last year	+8.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£448	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£372
% change on same period last year	+3.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.17	£32.43
Average hourly rate	£35.33	£33.64
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.49	£34.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.22	£32.70
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Database & Business Intelligence England
Matching contract IT job ads	13330	19036
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	17.77 %	19.26 %
Daily rates quoted	4311	5676
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£375
Average daily rate	£390	£400
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	949	1222
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.37	£28.79
Average hourly rate	£31.68	£31.03
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.99	£33.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Oracle 8/8i UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Oracle 8/8i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+37	273	£458	+13.46 %
South East	+2	80	£401	+3.51 %
Yorkshire	+46	52	£268	-45.80 %
East of England	+19	35	£402	+10.76 %
South West	+13	29	£375	+14.05 %
East Midlands	+22	23	£336	+11.94 %
North West	-25	16	£400	+10.58 %
West Midlands	+5	15	£363	+8.66 %
North East	+11	5	£360	-
Midlands	+4	4	£301	-14.14 %

Oracle 8/8i UK

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1191 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 455 (38.20 %) SQL 3 316 (26.53 %) Oracle 10g 4 290 (24.35 %) UNIX 5 264 (22.17 %) Java 5 264 (22.17 %) PL/SQL 6 198 (16.62 %) Finance 7 197 (16.54 %) SQL Server 8 171 (14.36 %) Windows 9 162 (13.60 %) Oracle 9i 10 147 (12.34 %) XML 11 140 (11.75 %) .NET 12 138 (11.59 %) Banking 13 133 (11.17 %) Security Cleared 14 125 (10.50 %) Solaris

15 120 (10.08 %) C# 16 117 (9.824 %) J2EE 17 116 (9.740 %) Datawarehouse 18 114 (9.572 %) Migration 19 107 (8.984 %) Oracle Reports 20 90 (7.557 %) Business Intelligence 21 87 (7.305 %) Microsoft 22 84 (7.053 %) Telecoms 23 81 (6.801 %) Linux 24 80 (6.717 %) SC Cleared 24 80 (6.717 %) Oracle RAC 25 79 (6.633 %) Sybase 25 79 (6.633 %) Oracle Forms 26 76 (6.381 %) WebLogic 27 75 (6.297 %) Shell Script

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 1 147 (12.34 %) XML 2 140 (11.75 %) .NET 3 117 (9.824 %) J2EE 4 66 (5.542 %) Hibernate 4 66 (5.542 %) Spring 5 60 (5.038 %) WebSphere 6 52 (4.366 %) XSLT 7 49 (4.114 %) JSP 8 47 (3.946 %) HTML 9 43 (3.610 %) WebServices 10 37 (3.107 %) EJB 11 35 (2.939 %) ASP.NET 12 21 (1.763 %) WinForms 13 19 (1.595 %) Middleware 14 16 (1.343 %) Servlets 15 15 (1.259 %) CSS 16 13 (1.092 %) ASP 16 13 (1.092 %) Struts 16 13 (1.092 %) ODBC 16 13 (1.092 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 76 (6.381 %) WebLogic 2 43 (3.610 %) Apache 3 27 (2.267 %) Tomcat 4 17 (1.427 %) Oracle Workflow 4 17 (1.427 %) Oracle Application Server 4 17 (1.427 %) Oracle Spatial 5 12 (1.008 %) TIBCO EMS 6 11 (0.924 %) ESB 6 11 (0.924 %) Oracle 10gAS 7 10 (0.840 %) SharePoint 8 9 (0.756 %) SAS 8 9 (0.756 %) Tuxedo 8 9 (0.756 %) IIS 9 8 (0.672 %) JBoss 9 8 (0.672 %) ArcGIS 10 6 (0.504 %) WebLogic Portal 10 6 (0.504 %) Lotus Notes 10 6 (0.504 %) Oracle 9iAS 11 5 (0.420 %) Oracle HTTP Server 11 5 (0.420 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 39 (3.275 %) MS Excel 2 21 (1.763 %) MS Project 3 16 (1.343 %) CA Clarity 4 12 (1.008 %) Open Workbench 5 9 (0.756 %) MS Office 6 6 (0.504 %) MS Visio 7 3 (0.252 %) Spreadsheet 7 3 (0.252 %) MS PowerPoint 8 1 (0.084 %) Photoshop 8 1 (0.084 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 34 (2.855 %) Oracle Applications 2 30 (2.519 %) Oracle Financials 3 26 (2.183 %) Oracle EBS 4 16 (1.343 %) RMDS 5 14 (1.175 %) Oracle 11i 6 11 (0.924 %) BusinessWorks 6 11 (0.924 %) TIBCO iProcess 7 10 (0.840 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 8 7 (0.588 %) Oracle Clinical 9 6 (0.504 %) Summit 10 5 (0.420 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 10 5 (0.420 %) Oracle ERP 11 4 (0.336 %) Pivotal CRM 11 4 (0.336 %) Siebel Analytics 11 4 (0.336 %) Oracle HRMS 12 3 (0.252 %) Endur 12 3 (0.252 %) Oracle CRM 12 3 (0.252 %) PeopleSoft Financials 12 3 (0.252 %) SAP PM 12 3 (0.252 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 39 (3.275 %) SAN 2 15 (1.259 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (0.924 %) Internet 4 9 (0.756 %) LAN 5 8 (0.672 %) WAN 6 6 (0.504 %) HTTP 6 6 (0.504 %) DNS 6 6 (0.504 %) Firewall 7 5 (0.420 %) Broadband 7 5 (0.420 %) LDAP 8 4 (0.336 %) Intranet 8 4 (0.336 %) LLU 8 4 (0.336 %) Wireless 8 4 (0.336 %) SSH 9 3 (0.252 %) Extranet 10 2 (0.168 %) 3G 10 2 (0.168 %) DSL 10 2 (0.168 %) DHCP 10 2 (0.168 %) NGN 11 1 (0.084 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 316 (26.53 %) Oracle 10g 2 197 (16.54 %) SQL Server 3 162 (13.60 %) Oracle 9i 4 116 (9.740 %) Datawarehouse 5 107 (8.984 %) Oracle Reports 6 74 (6.213 %) ETL 7 71 (5.961 %) SQL Server 2005 8 67 (5.626 %) TOAD 9 59 (4.954 %) BusinessObjects 10 48 (4.030 %) RDBMS 11 46 (3.862 %) SQL Server 2000 12 45 (3.778 %) SQL Server 7 13 27 (2.267 %) DB2 14 19 (1.595 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 15 16 (1.343 %) Data Mart 15 16 (1.343 %) Oracle Discoverer 15 16 (1.343 %) OLAP 15 16 (1.343 %) Oracle OLAP 16 14 (1.175 %) PowerCenter 17 13 (1.092 %) Cognos Powerplay
Development Applications 1 79 (6.633 %) Oracle Forms 2 40 (3.359 %) JUnit 3 32 (2.687 %) Eclipse 4 24 (2.015 %) Ant 5 19 (1.595 %) ClearCase 6 16 (1.343 %) Rational Rose 7 12 (1.008 %) WebLogic Workshop 8 11 (0.924 %) JDeveloper 9 10 (0.840 %) TestDirector 9 10 (0.840 %) ERwin 10 9 (0.756 %) QuickTest Pro 10 9 (0.756 %) Visual Studio 11 7 (0.588 %) LoadRunner 12 5 (0.420 %) ClearQuest 13 4 (0.336 %) NetAdvantage 13 4 (0.336 %) Oracle APEX 13 4 (0.336 %) Selenium 13 4 (0.336 %) FitNesse 13 4 (0.336 %) VSS/SourceSafe 14 3 (0.252 %) NUnit	General 1 198 (16.62 %) Finance 2 138 (11.59 %) Banking 3 84 (7.053 %) Telecoms 4 70 (5.877 %) Government 5 66 (5.542 %) Investment Banking 6 53 (4.450 %) Retail 7 36 (3.023 %) Front Office 8 25 (2.099 %) Education 9 24 (2.015 %) Financial Institution 10 23 (1.931 %) Pharmaceutical 11 22 (1.847 %) Back Office 12 18 (1.511 %) Billing 13 16 (1.343 %) Retail Banking 13 16 (1.343 %) Marketing 14 15 (1.259 %) Pensions 15 12 (1.008 %) Insurance 16 10 (0.840 %) Local Government 17 9 (0.756 %) Health 18 6 (0.504 %) Publishing 18 6 (0.504 %) Music
Job Titles 1 435 (36.52 %) Developer 2 168 (14.11 %) DBA 3 144 (12.09 %) Oracle DBA 4 136 (11.42 %) Analyst 5 127 (10.66 %) Oracle Developer 6 102 (8.564 %) Java Developer 7 87 (7.305 %) Consultant 8 60 (5.038 %) Project Manager 8 60 (5.038 %) Administrator 9 56 (4.702 %) Architect 9 56 (4.702 %) Java/J2EE Developer 10 42 (3.526 %) J2EE Developer 11 39 (3.275 %) C# Developer 12 29 (2.435 %) Applications Support 13 28 (2.351 %) Programmer 13 28 (2.351 %) Support Analyst 13 28 (2.351 %) Oracle Consultant 14 25 (2.099 %) Business Analyst 15 22 (1.847 %) Oracle Analyst 16 21 (1.763 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 46 (3.862 %) Derivative 2 30 (2.519 %) Replication 3 24 (2.015 %) Fixed Income 4 23 (1.931 %) Computer Science 5 20 (1.679 %) Credit Derivative 6 17 (1.427 %) Credit Risk 7 16 (1.343 %) French Language 8 14 (1.175 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 13 (1.092 %) N-Tier 10 11 (0.924 %) Data Integration 11 10 (0.840 %) Equities 12 9 (0.756 %) Market Risk 12 9 (0.756 %) Data Extraction 13 8 (0.672 %) Management Information System 13 8 (0.672 %) NHS 13 8 (0.672 %) Client/Server 14 7 (0.588 %) Statistics 15 6 (0.504 %) Clustering 15 6 (0.504 %) E-Learning 15 6 (0.504 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 290 (24.35 %) UNIX 2 171 (14.36 %) Windows 3 125 (10.50 %) Solaris 4 81 (6.801 %) Linux 5 59 (4.954 %) HPUX 6 38 (3.191 %) AIX 7 29 (2.435 %) Windows Server 2003 8 23 (1.931 %) Windows NT 9 8 (0.672 %) Windows 2000 10 3 (0.252 %) VMS 10 3 (0.252 %) OpenVMS 10 3 (0.252 %) zOS 10 3 (0.252 %) SUSE 11 2 (0.168 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.084 %) Tru64 12 1 (0.084 %) NetWare 12 1 (0.084 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 133 (11.17 %) Security Cleared 2 114 (9.572 %) Migration 3 90 (7.557 %) Business Intelligence 4 80 (6.717 %) SC Cleared 5 50 (4.198 %) UML 6 49 (4.114 %) OO 7 45 (3.778 %) ITIL 8 39 (3.275 %) Data Modelling 9 35 (2.939 %) PRINCE2 9 35 (2.939 %) Data Migration 10 33 (2.771 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 33 (2.771 %) Data Analysis 11 31 (2.603 %) Agile Software Development 12 29 (2.435 %) Project Management 12 29 (2.435 %) Change Management 12 29 (2.435 %) ITSM 13 27 (2.267 %) Configuration Management 14 26 (2.183 %) Investment Management 15 25 (2.099 %) Asset Management 16 23 (1.931 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 455 (38.20 %) SQL 2 264 (22.17 %) PL/SQL 2 264 (22.17 %) Java 3 120 (10.08 %) C# 4 75 (6.297 %) Shell Script 5 51 (4.282 %) C++ 6 49 (4.114 %) C 7 47 (3.946 %) Perl 8 42 (3.526 %) VB 9 38 (3.191 %) JavaScript 10 32 (2.687 %) VBA 11 17 (1.427 %) VB.NET 12 13 (1.092 %) Korn 13 10 (0.840 %) Uniface 14 9 (0.756 %) VB6 15 8 (0.672 %) Transact-SQL 16 7 (0.588 %) VBScript 17 6 (0.504 %) AWK 18 5 (0.420 %) PHP 18 5 (0.420 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 46 (3.862 %) Degree 2 22 (1.847 %) ISEB 3 17 (1.427 %) Oracle Certification 4 14 (1.175 %) CNE 4 14 (1.175 %) Novell Certification 4 14 (1.175 %) MCSE 4 14 (1.175 %) Microsoft Certification 5 9 (0.756 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 8 (0.672 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 7 (0.588 %) OCP 8 3 (0.252 %) CISSP 9 2 (0.168 %) OCA 9 2 (0.168 %) ACCA 9 2 (0.168 %) CIMA 9 2 (0.168 %) Sun Certification 9 2 (0.168 %) HND 9 2 (0.168 %) ISTQB 10 1 (0.084 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 1 (0.084 %) PMI Certification 10 1 (0.084 %) SCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (1.427 %) QA 2 4 (0.336 %) CDISC 3 3 (0.252 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 2 (0.168 %) SLA 5 1 (0.084 %) JSP 440 5 1 (0.084 %) Basel II 5 1 (0.084 %) IAS 39 5 1 (0.084 %) WAI 5 1 (0.084 %) HL7 5 1 (0.084 %) 21 CFR Part 11 5 1 (0.084 %) GxP	System Software 1 80 (6.717 %) Oracle RAC 2 41 (3.442 %) Oracle RMAN 3 17 (1.427 %) NetBackup 4 5 (0.420 %) Active Directory 5 4 (0.336 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 6 2 (0.168 %) NFS 6 2 (0.168 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 2 (0.168 %) AquaLogic 7 1 (0.084 %) ClearTrust 7 1 (0.084 %) VMware ESX 7 1 (0.084 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 39 (3.275 %) OpenView 2 15 (1.259 %) OVPA 3 14 (1.175 %) OVPI 3 14 (1.175 %) CiscoWorks 3 14 (1.175 %) OVOW 4 8 (0.672 %) Tivoli 5 7 (0.588 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 6 6 (0.504 %) AutoSys 7 5 (0.420 %) OVSD 7 5 (0.420 %) AssetCenter 7 5 (0.420 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 8 4 (0.336 %) Netcool 9 3 (0.252 %) Tivoli Monitoring 9 3 (0.252 %) Unicenter 10 2 (0.168 %) Legato 10 2 (0.168 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 2 (0.168 %) Netcool/Proviso 10 2 (0.168 %) Oracle Statspack 10 2 (0.168 %) HP Data Protector 11 1 (0.084 %) BMC PATROL	Vendors 1 1191 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 87 (7.305 %) Microsoft 3 79 (6.633 %) Sybase 4 63 (5.290 %) Sun 5 59 (4.954 %) Business Objects 6 57 (4.786 %) HP 7 54 (4.534 %) Cognos 8 46 (3.862 %) Informatica 9 36 (3.023 %) Siebel 10 34 (2.855 %) SAP 11 32 (2.687 %) IBM 12 25 (2.099 %) CA 13 24 (2.015 %) Intel 13 24 (2.015 %) BEA 13 24 (2.015 %) PeopleSoft 14 23 (1.931 %) Red Hat 15 20 (1.679 %) Cisco 15 20 (1.679 %) Calypso 16 19 (1.595 %) Reuters 17 18 (1.511 %) Murex