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This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkOracle
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank77
Rank change on same period last yearNo change0
Matching contract IT job ads71099925
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled9.476 %10.04 %
As % of the category below23.91 %24.93 %
Daily rates quoted23893289
Average minimum daily rate£401£399
Average daily rate£425£423
% change on same period last year+0.60 %
Average maximum daily rate£450£446
UK excluding London average daily rate£375£371
% change on same period last year+1.14 %
Hourly rates quoted297448
Average minimum hourly rate£30.66£32.98
Average hourly rate£32.74£34.86
% change on same period last year-6.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate£34.81£36.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.07£31.53
% change on same period last year+8.06 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
England
Matching contract IT job ads2973439815
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled39.63 %40.28 %
Daily rates quoted913111801
Average minimum daily rate£384£388
Average daily rate£408£412
% change on same period last year-0.92 %
Average maximum daily rate£433£436
UK excluding London average daily rate£357£359
% change on same period last year-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted26843366
Average minimum hourly rate£21.99£24.20
Average hourly rate£23.52£25.82
% change on same period last year-8.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.05£27.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.25£24.99
% change on same period last year-6.94 %
Oracle UKOracle
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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

Oracle
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

England Oracle Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England Oracle Hourly Rate Histogram

Oracle
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 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.

LocationRank 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
LondonDown-33439£460+1.51 %
South EastUp+11292£366+0.63 %
North WestUp+3434£366-3.65 %
East of EnglandNo change0423£387-0.94 %
South WestDown-4385£404+7.39 %
YorkshireDown-3331£377+2.09 %
East MidlandsUp+9231£350+13.61 %
West MidlandsDown-9228£333+5.74 %
MidlandsUp+1192£356-10.45 %
North EastNo change0120£385-0.66 %
South CoastDown-75--
Oracle UKOracle
UK

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

15962 (38.88 %)SQL
23693 (24.09 %)Java
33366 (21.95 %)UNIX
43352 (21.86 %)Finance
52956 (19.28 %)PL/SQL
62776 (18.10 %)Oracle 10g
72122 (13.84 %)SQL Server
82117 (13.81 %)Banking
91872 (12.21 %)XML
101867 (12.18 %)J2EE
111849 (12.06 %)Windows
121573 (10.26 %).NET
131432 (9.339 %)Oracle 9i
141419 (9.255 %)C#
141419 (9.255 %)Security Cleared
151390 (9.065 %)Oracle Reports
161347 (8.785 %)Investment Banking
171318 (8.596 %)Linux
181191 (7.768 %)Oracle 8/8i
191182 (7.709 %)Government
201159 (7.559 %)Datawarehouse
211154 (7.526 %)Solaris
221021 (6.659 %)Sybase
231002 (6.535 %)Migration
24941 (6.137 %)Microsoft
25905 (5.902 %)UML
26904 (5.896 %)OO
27888 (5.791 %)HTML
28869 (5.668 %)WebServices
29849 (5.537 %)WebLogic

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11872 (12.21 %)XML
21867 (12.18 %)J2EE
31573 (10.26 %).NET
4888 (5.791 %)HTML
5869 (5.668 %)WebServices
6826 (5.387 %)Spring
7766 (4.996 %)Hibernate
8658 (4.291 %)WebSphere
9593 (3.867 %)JSP
10510 (3.326 %)ASP.NET
11479 (3.124 %)Struts
12380 (2.478 %)CSS
13362 (2.361 %)Middleware
14351 (2.289 %)EJB
15303 (1.976 %)XSLT
16298 (1.944 %)Servlets
17293 (1.911 %)AJAX
18290 (1.891 %)ASP
19260 (1.696 %)WinForms
20247 (1.611 %)JDBC
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1849 (5.537 %)WebLogic
2388 (2.530 %)Apache
3338 (2.204 %)Tomcat
4266 (1.735 %)Oracle Application Server
5248 (1.617 %)JBoss
6237 (1.546 %)IIS
7229 (1.494 %)Oracle Workflow
8187 (1.220 %)SharePoint
9152 (0.991 %)MQSeries
10151 (0.985 %)WebSphere Application Server
11128 (0.835 %)BizTalk Server
12124 (0.809 %)Oracle 10gAS
13102 (0.665 %)ESB
14100 (0.652 %)MS Exchange
1598 (0.639 %)WebLogic Portal
1696 (0.626 %)SAS
1790 (0.587 %)CMS
1885 (0.554 %)TIBCO EMS
1982 (0.535 %)ArcGIS
2081 (0.528 %)Oracle Spatial
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1424 (2.765 %)MS Excel
2392 (2.557 %)MS Office
3179 (1.167 %)MS Project
4127 (0.828 %)MS Visio
5122 (0.796 %)Spreadsheet
637 (0.241 %)MS PowerPoint
728 (0.183 %)CA Clarity
817 (0.111 %)InfoPath
912 (0.078 %)Open Workbench
109 (0.059 %)Quicktime
118 (0.052 %)Photoshop
118 (0.052 %)AutoCAD
126 (0.039 %)DOC1
134 (0.026 %)FrameMaker
134 (0.026 %)Acrobat
143 (0.020 %)SPSS
143 (0.020 %)Adobe Illustrator
143 (0.020 %)ArcView
152 (0.013 %)Pro/ENGINEER
152 (0.013 %)Paint Shop Pro
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1503 (3.281 %)Oracle EBS
2457 (2.980 %)Oracle Applications
3374 (2.439 %)Oracle Financials
4274 (1.787 %)Oracle 11i
5154 (1.004 %)Oracle HRMS
6129 (0.841 %)Oracle ERP
767 (0.437 %)Oracle Payroll
861 (0.398 %)Siebel Analytics
959 (0.385 %)Oracle CRM
1053 (0.346 %)Summit
1143 (0.280 %)BusinessWorks
1239 (0.254 %)Oracle iRecruitment
1337 (0.241 %)Remedy ITSM
1433 (0.215 %)Loan IQ
1531 (0.202 %)SAP HR
1629 (0.189 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1629 (0.189 %)Oracle Financial Analyzer
1727 (0.176 %)TIBCO iProcess
1824 (0.157 %)Oracle Clinical
1920 (0.130 %)RMDS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1365 (2.380 %)SAN
2260 (1.696 %)Internet
3253 (1.650 %)TCP/IP
4144 (0.939 %)LDAP
5135 (0.880 %)WAN
6127 (0.828 %)LAN
7125 (0.815 %)Firewall
8108 (0.704 %)Intranet
9104 (0.678 %)HTTP
1054 (0.352 %)DNS
1139 (0.254 %)BIG-IP
1236 (0.235 %)SSL
1329 (0.189 %)FTP
1428 (0.183 %)VPN
1527 (0.176 %)CTI
1527 (0.176 %)SSH
1527 (0.176 %)Network Security
1625 (0.163 %)DHCP
1724 (0.157 %)BSS
1822 (0.143 %)SNMP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12776 (18.10 %)Oracle 10g
22122 (13.84 %)SQL Server
31432 (9.339 %)Oracle 9i
41390 (9.065 %)Oracle Reports
51191 (7.768 %)Oracle 8/8i
61159 (7.559 %)Datawarehouse
7773 (5.041 %)BusinessObjects
8758 (4.944 %)ETL
9668 (4.357 %)RDBMS
10470 (3.065 %)Oracle Discoverer
11410 (2.674 %)DB2
12361 (2.354 %)SQL Server 2005
13339 (2.211 %)TOAD
14328 (2.139 %)MySQL
15318 (2.074 %)Crystal Reports
16289 (1.885 %)SQL Server 2000
17254 (1.657 %)Oracle OWB
18191 (1.246 %)GIS
18191 (1.246 %)Oracle OLAP
18191 (1.246 %)OLAP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1716 (4.670 %)Oracle Forms
2469 (3.059 %)Eclipse
3394 (2.570 %)JUnit
4364 (2.374 %)Ant
5218 (1.422 %)Visual Studio
6204 (1.330 %)ClearCase
7203 (1.324 %)TestDirector
8165 (1.076 %)Subversion
9156 (1.017 %)JDeveloper
10129 (0.841 %)LoadRunner
11126 (0.822 %)Rational Rose
12123 (0.802 %)QuickTest Pro
13120 (0.783 %)ClearQuest
14114 (0.743 %)Oracle APEX
1595 (0.620 %)NUnit
1676 (0.496 %)ERwin
1769 (0.450 %)RequisitePro
1769 (0.450 %)PVCS
1863 (0.411 %)WinRunner
1955 (0.359 %)ProC
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
13352 (21.86 %)Finance
22117 (13.81 %)Banking
31347 (8.785 %)Investment Banking
41182 (7.709 %)Government
5463 (3.020 %)Front Office
6462 (3.013 %)Telecoms
7373 (2.433 %)Retail
8360 (2.348 %)Back Office
9309 (2.015 %)Insurance
10261 (1.702 %)Pensions
11236 (1.539 %)Financial Institution
12109 (0.711 %)Billing
13108 (0.704 %)Health
14107 (0.698 %)Marketing
15102 (0.665 %)General Ledger
1694 (0.613 %)Education
1793 (0.607 %)Manufacturing
1888 (0.574 %)Pharmaceutical
1888 (0.574 %)Local Government
1967 (0.437 %)Legal
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
15796 (37.80 %)Developer
22520 (16.44 %)Analyst
31514 (9.874 %)Oracle Developer
41509 (9.842 %)Java Developer
51362 (8.883 %)DBA
61220 (7.957 %)Consultant
71142 (7.448 %)Oracle DBA
8840 (5.478 %)Architect
9670 (4.370 %)Project Manager
10601 (3.920 %)Administrator
11559 (3.646 %)Oracle Consultant
12543 (3.541 %)Business Analyst
13474 (3.091 %)J2EE Developer
14470 (3.065 %)Support Analyst
14470 (3.065 %)Java/J2EE Developer
15437 (2.850 %)C# Developer
16374 (2.439 %)Senior Developer
17370 (2.413 %).NET Developer
18369 (2.407 %)SQL Developer
19336 (2.191 %)Programmer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1558 (3.639 %)Derivative
2449 (2.928 %)Fixed Income
3251 (1.637 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4246 (1.604 %)Credit Risk
5176 (1.148 %)Client/Server
5176 (1.148 %)N-Tier
6167 (1.089 %)Equities
7161 (1.050 %)Clustering
8160 (1.044 %)Credit Derivative
9157 (1.024 %)Management Information System
10155 (1.011 %)Multithreading
11151 (0.985 %)Replication
12134 (0.874 %)Equity Derivative
1390 (0.587 %)NHS
1489 (0.580 %)Computer Science
1588 (0.574 %)Mainframe
1680 (0.522 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1779 (0.515 %)Data Extraction
1875 (0.489 %)Data Integration
1959 (0.385 %)Market Risk
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
13366 (21.95 %)UNIX
21849 (12.06 %)Windows
31318 (8.596 %)Linux
41154 (7.526 %)Solaris
5334 (2.178 %)AIX
6248 (1.617 %)Windows NT
7213 (1.389 %)HPUX
8187 (1.220 %)Windows Server 2003
9164 (1.070 %)Windows 2000
1054 (0.352 %)VMS
1148 (0.313 %)Windows XP
1230 (0.196 %)SUSE
1316 (0.104 %)MVS
1316 (0.104 %)Tru64
1410 (0.065 %)Windows Mobile
158 (0.052 %)OpenVMS
167 (0.046 %)Fedora
167 (0.046 %)IRIX
176 (0.039 %)VME
184 (0.026 %)Mac OS X Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11419 (9.255 %)Security Cleared
21002 (6.535 %)Migration
3905 (5.902 %)UML
4904 (5.896 %)OO
5817 (5.328 %)SC Cleared
6699 (4.559 %)Business Intelligence
7594 (3.874 %)Project Management
8592 (3.861 %)Data Modelling
9468 (3.052 %)PRINCE2
10467 (3.046 %)Data Migration
11417 (2.720 %)ERP
12393 (2.563 %)SOA
13373 (2.433 %)ITIL
14362 (2.361 %)CRM
15358 (2.335 %)User Acceptance Testing
16309 (2.015 %)Workflow
17302 (1.970 %)RUP
18288 (1.878 %)Data Analysis
19282 (1.839 %)Agile Software Development
20263 (1.715 %)Asset Management
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
15962 (38.88 %)SQL
23693 (24.09 %)Java
32956 (19.28 %)PL/SQL
41419 (9.255 %)C#
5749 (4.885 %)C++
6740 (4.826 %)Shell Script
7683 (4.454 %)JavaScript
8679 (4.428 %)Perl
9577 (3.763 %)VB
10416 (2.713 %)C
11373 (2.433 %)VBA
12261 (1.702 %)VB.NET
13190 (1.239 %)PHP
14184 (1.200 %)VB6
15155 (1.011 %)Korn
16131 (0.854 %)VBScript
17129 (0.841 %)Transact-SQL
18104 (0.678 %)COBOL
1992 (0.600 %)Python
2076 (0.496 %)Delphi
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1401 (2.615 %)Degree
2269 (1.754 %)ISEB
3103 (0.672 %)Microsoft Certification
486 (0.561 %)Oracle Certification
580 (0.522 %)PRINCE2 Certification
674 (0.483 %)MCSE
764 (0.417 %)Sun Certification
831 (0.202 %)ITIL Certification
831 (0.202 %)Cisco Certification
927 (0.176 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1026 (0.170 %)RHCE
1026 (0.170 %)OCP
1125 (0.163 %)CCNA
1224 (0.157 %)ISTQB
1321 (0.137 %)CISSP
1418 (0.117 %)MCP
1516 (0.104 %)CIMA
1615 (0.098 %)ISEB Practitioner
1615 (0.098 %)Citrix Certification
1714 (0.091 %)CNE
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1265 (1.728 %)QA
282 (0.535 %)SLA
364 (0.417 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
436 (0.235 %)Basel II
522 (0.143 %)ISO9001
616 (0.104 %)HL7
715 (0.098 %)ISO9000
811 (0.072 %)BS7799
99 (0.059 %)ISO27001
108 (0.052 %)PCI DSS
108 (0.052 %)GxP
117 (0.046 %)WAI
126 (0.039 %)JSP 440
134 (0.026 %)CDISC
134 (0.026 %)GLP
134 (0.026 %)EFQM
143 (0.020 %)TickIT
143 (0.020 %)GCP
152 (0.013 %)ISO17799
152 (0.013 %)BS7666
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1517 (3.372 %)Oracle RAC
2332 (2.165 %)Oracle RMAN
3195 (1.272 %)Active Directory
4124 (0.809 %)NetBackup
5108 (0.704 %)AquaLogic
677 (0.502 %)VMware ESX
744 (0.287 %)VMware Infrastructure
834 (0.222 %)Samba
834 (0.222 %)NFS
923 (0.150 %)Backup Exec
1010 (0.065 %)MetaFrame
119 (0.059 %)VMware GSX
119 (0.059 %)Citrix Presentation Server
119 (0.059 %)Squid
128 (0.052 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
135 (0.033 %)ISA Server
135 (0.033 %)MSMQ
135 (0.033 %)ClearTrust
144 (0.026 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
153 (0.020 %)Xen
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1104 (0.678 %)Tivoli
295 (0.620 %)AutoSys
394 (0.613 %)OpenView
467 (0.437 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
553 (0.346 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
631 (0.202 %)Tivoli Monitoring
631 (0.202 %)OVOW
728 (0.183 %)Legato
827 (0.176 %)EMC NetWorker
925 (0.163 %)BMC PATROL
1024 (0.157 %)OVPA
1123 (0.150 %)OVPI
1123 (0.150 %)MOM
1123 (0.150 %)Netcool
1222 (0.143 %)HP Data Protector
1321 (0.137 %)Oracle Statspack
1420 (0.130 %)CiscoWorks
1519 (0.124 %)CONTROL-M
1616 (0.104 %)CA SiteMinder
1713 (0.085 %)EMC TimeFinder
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
11021 (6.659 %)Sybase
2941 (6.137 %)Microsoft
3773 (5.041 %)Business Objects
4497 (3.241 %)IBM
5494 (3.222 %)SAP
6466 (3.039 %)Sun
7394 (2.570 %)HP
8311 (2.028 %)BEA
9288 (1.878 %)Siebel
10287 (1.872 %)TIBCO
11284 (1.852 %)Red Hat
12269 (1.754 %)Cognos
13250 (1.630 %)Informatica
14191 (1.246 %)VERITAS
15187 (1.220 %)Calypso
16185 (1.207 %)VMware
17169 (1.102 %)Cisco
18167 (1.089 %)Citrix
19152 (0.991 %)Murex
20151 (0.985 %)EMC
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