Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the England region.

 Oracle
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank867
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads495837408294
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England11.06 %10.23 %10.81 %
As % of the Vendors category25.45 %23.54 %25.10 %
Daily rates quoted242312112612
Average daily rate£425£400£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-5.880 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£275£263£280
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£375
% change year-on-year
--6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted106118316
Average hourly rate£31.00£30.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.330 %-14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.38£15.90£18.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.00£46.38£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£29.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.560 %-16.42 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
194851588733044
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England43.48 %43.47 %43.05 %
Daily rates quoted869847749707
Average daily rate£400£375£413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£235£220£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£350£360
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted115912712974
Average hourly rate£20.00£21.50£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.970 %+2.380 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.50£11.50£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.00£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %+5.000 %
Oracle UKOracle
UK

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.

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 19 March 2010.

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 19 March 2010.

England Oracle Hourly Rate Histogram

Oracle
Contract Locations

The table below 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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonDown-23098£475+11.76 %
South EastDown-1702£350-3.44 %
South WestUp+1281£363+0.69 %
North WestDown-4200£345-8.00 %
East of EnglandDown-2168£300-20.00 %
YorkshireUp+1150£325+8.33 %
East MidlandsUp+3117£375+19.52 %
West MidlandsDown-4112£340+12.39 %
North EastNo change036£233-7.00 %
MidlandsUp+331£375+25.00 %
South CoastUp+77£450+44.57 %
Oracle UKOracle
UK

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

13680 (38.94 %)SQL
22504 (26.49 %)Java
32157 (22.82 %)Finance
42121 (22.44 %)UNIX
52045 (21.64 %)Banking
61732 (18.33 %)PL/SQL
71364 (14.43 %)Investment Banking
81350 (14.28 %)SQL Server
91343 (14.21 %)Oracle 10g
101271 (13.45 %)XML
111252 (13.25 %)Windows
121148 (12.15 %).NET
131114 (11.79 %)Linux
141064 (11.26 %)C#
15885 (9.364 %)Datawarehouse
16883 (9.343 %)J2EE
17767 (8.116 %)Sybase
18766 (8.105 %)Security Cleared
19743 (7.862 %)Business Intelligence
20649 (6.867 %)Derivative
21642 (6.793 %)Oracle Reports
22640 (6.772 %)C++
23632 (6.687 %)Web Services
24615 (6.507 %)Spring
25604 (6.391 %)Solaris
26594 (6.285 %)Oracle 8/8i
27565 (5.978 %)Front Office
28555 (5.872 %)Migration
29554 (5.862 %)ETL
30526 (5.566 %)SC Cleared

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 Development CategoryApplication Development
11271 (13.45 %)XML
21148 (12.15 %).NET
3883 (9.343 %)J2EE
4632 (6.687 %)Web Services
5615 (6.507 %)Spring
6448 (4.740 %)Hibernate
7393 (4.158 %)Middleware
8332 (3.513 %)WebSphere
9319 (3.375 %)HTML
10302 (3.195 %)ASP.NET
11279 (2.952 %)JSP
12250 (2.645 %)STL
13225 (2.381 %)Oracle Coherence
14222 (2.349 %)XSLT
15193 (2.042 %)JMS
16190 (2.010 %)CSS
17177 (1.873 %)Struts
18172 (1.820 %)WinForms
19151 (1.598 %)JDBC
20140 (1.481 %).NET Framework
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1484 (5.121 %)WebLogic
2249 (2.635 %)Apache
3226 (2.391 %)Oracle Workflow
4170 (1.799 %)SharePoint
5162 (1.714 %)AquaLogic
5162 (1.714 %)ESB
6150 (1.587 %)Tomcat
7146 (1.545 %)IIS
8134 (1.418 %)Oracle Application Server
9121 (1.280 %)MQSeries
10119 (1.259 %)TIBCO EMS
11115 (1.217 %)Oracle Service Bus
1297 (1.026 %)Rendezvous
1384 (0.889 %)SAS
1480 (0.846 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1574 (0.783 %)WebSphere MQ
1574 (0.783 %)WebSphere Application Server
1663 (0.667 %)CMS
1761 (0.645 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1857 (0.603 %)WebLogic Portal
England IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1265 (2.804 %)MS Excel
2150 (1.587 %)MS Office
391 (0.963 %)MS Visio
471 (0.751 %)MS Project
565 (0.688 %)Spreadsheet
635 (0.370 %)MS PowerPoint
721 (0.222 %)InfoPath
814 (0.148 %)CA Clarity
913 (0.138 %)MATLAB
109 (0.095 %)Photoshop
109 (0.095 %)SPSS
114 (0.042 %)GeoMedia
114 (0.042 %)Fireworks
123 (0.032 %)CATIA
131 (0.011 %)Adobe Captivate
131 (0.011 %)AutoCAD
131 (0.011 %)Acrobat
131 (0.011 %)Windchill
131 (0.011 %)Adobe Illustrator
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1329 (3.481 %)Oracle EBS
2289 (3.058 %)Oracle EBS R12
3254 (2.688 %)Oracle Applications
4238 (2.518 %)Oracle Financials
5153 (1.619 %)Oracle BPM
6114 (1.206 %)Oracle 11i
773 (0.772 %)Oracle ERP
866 (0.698 %)Oracle HRMS
959 (0.624 %)Oracle iProcurement
1057 (0.603 %)AquaLogic BPM
1147 (0.497 %)Oracle CRM
1246 (0.487 %)Oracle General Ledger
1345 (0.476 %)Siebel Analytics
1441 (0.434 %)Endur
1539 (0.413 %)Summit
1636 (0.381 %)Oracle Payroll
1735 (0.370 %)Singl.eView
1830 (0.317 %)BusinessWorks
1927 (0.286 %)Oracle iStore
2025 (0.265 %)SAP R/3
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1154 (1.629 %)SAN
2122 (1.291 %)Internet
3110 (1.164 %)Firewall
4107 (1.132 %)HTTP
5105 (1.111 %)TCP/IP
693 (0.984 %)LAN
792 (0.973 %)LDAP
891 (0.963 %)WAN
949 (0.518 %)Intranet
1048 (0.508 %)DNS
1144 (0.466 %)SSL
1239 (0.413 %)SMTP
1336 (0.381 %)3G
1429 (0.307 %)BSS
1526 (0.275 %)NAS
1526 (0.275 %)Nokia NetAct
1625 (0.265 %)Network Security
1625 (0.265 %)FTP
1720 (0.212 %)GSM
1818 (0.190 %)2G
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11350 (14.28 %)SQL Server
21343 (14.21 %)Oracle 10g
3885 (9.364 %)Datawarehouse
4642 (6.793 %)Oracle Reports
5594 (6.285 %)Oracle 8/8i
6554 (5.862 %)ETL
7475 (5.026 %)Oracle 9i
8424 (4.486 %)BusinessObjects
8424 (4.486 %)Oracle 11g
9396 (4.190 %)RDBMS
10286 (3.026 %)Oracle BI EE
11249 (2.635 %)SQL Server 2005
12219 (2.317 %)Oracle OWB
13199 (2.106 %)DB2
14177 (1.873 %)Oracle Discoverer
15147 (1.555 %)MySQL
16141 (1.492 %)OLTP
17135 (1.428 %)TOAD
18131 (1.386 %)BusinessObjects XI
19121 (1.280 %)OLAP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1313 (3.312 %)Oracle Forms
2284 (3.005 %)Subversion
3236 (2.497 %)JUnit
4196 (2.074 %)ClearCase
5187 (1.979 %)Maven
6172 (1.820 %)Visual Studio
7167 (1.767 %)Eclipse
8113 (1.196 %)Ant
993 (0.984 %)Oracle APEX
1089 (0.942 %)LoadRunner
1185 (0.899 %)JDeveloper
1279 (0.836 %)JIRA
1366 (0.698 %)NUnit
1457 (0.603 %)TeamCity
1555 (0.582 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1652 (0.550 %)ClearQuest
1751 (0.540 %)ProC
1849 (0.518 %)TestDirector
1948 (0.508 %)PowerBuilder
2034 (0.360 %)Selenium
England IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12157 (22.82 %)Finance
22045 (21.64 %)Banking
31364 (14.43 %)Investment Banking
4565 (5.978 %)Front Office
5437 (4.624 %)Government
6337 (3.566 %)Back Office
7258 (2.730 %)Telecoms
8235 (2.487 %)Retail
9130 (1.376 %)Insurance
10119 (1.259 %)Financial Institution
11118 (1.249 %)General Ledger
1294 (0.995 %)Billing
1383 (0.878 %)Health
1465 (0.688 %)Marketing
1560 (0.635 %)Pensions
1657 (0.603 %)Manufacturing
1747 (0.497 %)Construction
1844 (0.466 %)Education
1943 (0.455 %)Law
2042 (0.444 %)Retail Banking
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13872 (40.97 %)Developer
21509 (15.97 %)Analyst
3921 (9.745 %)Java Developer
4872 (9.227 %)Oracle Developer
5861 (9.110 %)Consultant
6689 (7.290 %)Architect
7523 (5.534 %)DBA
8470 (4.973 %)Business Analyst
9446 (4.719 %)Oracle Consultant
10420 (4.444 %)C# Developer
11406 (4.296 %)Oracle DBA
12394 (4.169 %)Project Manager
13327 (3.460 %)Senior Developer
14281 (2.973 %)Administrator
15246 (2.603 %)C++ Developer
16245 (2.592 %).NET Developer
17229 (2.423 %)Support Analyst
18224 (2.370 %)Designer
19185 (1.957 %)Solutions Architect
20183 (1.936 %)Test Analyst
England IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1649 (6.867 %)Derivative
2330 (3.492 %)Fixed Income
3268 (2.836 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4230 (2.434 %)Equities
5176 (1.862 %)Client/Server
6166 (1.756 %)Multithreading
7159 (1.682 %)Credit Derivative
8154 (1.629 %)Credit Risk
9136 (1.439 %)Equity Derivative
10119 (1.259 %)Clustering
11118 (1.249 %)Replication
12109 (1.153 %)Management Information System
13108 (1.143 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1499 (1.048 %)N-Tier
1589 (0.942 %)NHS
1682 (0.868 %)Market Risk
1769 (0.730 %)Computer Science
1864 (0.677 %)Grid Computing
1963 (0.667 %)Mainframe
2054 (0.571 %)Data Integration
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12121 (22.44 %)UNIX
21252 (13.25 %)Windows
31114 (11.79 %)Linux
4604 (6.391 %)Solaris
5275 (2.910 %)Windows Server 2003
6232 (2.455 %)AIX
7198 (2.095 %)Red Hat Linux
8107 (1.132 %)Windows XP
9102 (1.079 %)HPUX
1072 (0.762 %)Windows Server 2008
1147 (0.497 %)Windows 2000
1238 (0.402 %)VMS
1238 (0.402 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1324 (0.254 %)Windows NT
1417 (0.180 %)Windows 2000 Server
1514 (0.148 %)MVS
1610 (0.106 %)zOS
1610 (0.106 %)Oracle Enterprise Linux
179 (0.095 %)CentOS
188 (0.085 %)Windows Mobile
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1743 (7.862 %)Business Intelligence
2555 (5.872 %)Migration
3505 (5.343 %)OO
4503 (5.322 %)SOA
5439 (4.645 %)Agile Software Development
6372 (3.936 %)UML
7370 (3.915 %)Data Modelling
8348 (3.682 %)Project Management
9310 (3.280 %)CRM
10298 (3.153 %)Workflow
11290 (3.068 %)User Acceptance Testing
12275 (2.910 %)Unit Testing
13251 (2.656 %)ERP
14249 (2.635 %)Scrum
15248 (2.624 %)Business Analysis
16242 (2.561 %)Data Migration
17224 (2.370 %)TDD
18219 (2.317 %)ITIL
19205 (2.169 %)PRINCE2
19205 (2.169 %)E-Commerce
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13680 (38.94 %)SQL
22504 (26.49 %)Java
31732 (18.33 %)PL/SQL
41064 (11.26 %)C#
5640 (6.772 %)C++
6474 (5.015 %)C
7463 (4.899 %)Shell Script
8454 (4.804 %)Perl
9328 (3.471 %)JavaScript
10274 (2.899 %)VB
11214 (2.264 %)VBA
12144 (1.524 %)VC++
13138 (1.460 %)VB.NET
14116 (1.227 %)PHP
15113 (1.196 %)T-SQL
16105 (1.111 %)Python
17104 (1.100 %)VB6
1863 (0.667 %)Bash shell
1959 (0.624 %)Korn
2055 (0.582 %)VBScript
England IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1766 (8.105 %)Security Cleared
2526 (5.566 %)SC Cleared
3249 (2.635 %)Degree
4110 (1.164 %)Oracle Certification
5104 (1.100 %)ISEB
696 (1.016 %)DV Cleared
764 (0.677 %)BC Cleared
856 (0.593 %)OCP
941 (0.434 %)Microsoft Certification
1040 (0.423 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1127 (0.286 %)CTC Cleared
1225 (0.265 %)OCA
1323 (0.243 %)ITIL Certification
1323 (0.243 %)PMI Certification
1420 (0.212 %)CIMA
1420 (0.212 %)ACCA
1420 (0.212 %)Sun Certification
1519 (0.201 %)CISSP
1617 (0.180 %)MCSE
1716 (0.169 %)MCP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1234 (2.476 %)QA
250 (0.529 %)SLA
332 (0.339 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
417 (0.180 %)Basel II
510 (0.106 %)HL7
67 (0.074 %)WCAG
67 (0.074 %)PCI DSS
76 (0.063 %)COBIT
85 (0.053 %)ISO27001
85 (0.053 %)GAMP
85 (0.053 %)GxP
85 (0.053 %)TickIT
93 (0.032 %)ISO17799
93 (0.032 %)GCP
102 (0.021 %)GAAP
102 (0.021 %)MiFID
102 (0.021 %)PAS 78
111 (0.011 %)HMG Infosec
111 (0.011 %)GMP
111 (0.011 %)ISO9001
England IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1296 (3.132 %)Oracle RAC
2136 (1.439 %)Oracle RMAN
3101 (1.069 %)VMware Infrastructure
493 (0.984 %)Active Directory
540 (0.423 %)VMware ESX
619 (0.201 %)Veritas Cluster Server
714 (0.148 %)NFS
812 (0.127 %)MSMQ
911 (0.116 %)OpenSSO
109 (0.095 %)Squid
116 (0.063 %)Terminal Services
116 (0.063 %)Veritas Volume Manager
116 (0.063 %)Veritas File System
116 (0.063 %)Xen
124 (0.042 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
124 (0.042 %)Hyper-V
133 (0.032 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
133 (0.032 %)Sendmail
133 (0.032 %)VMware Workstation
142 (0.021 %)ISA Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1184 (1.947 %)Data Guard
281 (0.857 %)AutoSys
368 (0.720 %)Tivoli
438 (0.402 %)NetBackup
529 (0.307 %)CONTROL-M
626 (0.275 %)HP Quality Center
725 (0.265 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
820 (0.212 %)OpenView
918 (0.190 %)BMC PATROL
1016 (0.169 %)MOM
1016 (0.169 %)Nagios
1016 (0.169 %)Dollar Universe
1114 (0.148 %)Tivoli NetView
1114 (0.148 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1213 (0.138 %)SCOM
1311 (0.116 %)ServiceCenter
1410 (0.106 %)MSI
159 (0.095 %)ZENworks
159 (0.095 %)Netcool
168 (0.085 %)Foglight
England IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1767 (8.116 %)Sybase
2495 (5.238 %)Microsoft
3424 (4.486 %)Business Objects
4406 (4.296 %)SAP
5330 (3.492 %)IBM
6297 (3.143 %)TIBCO
7260 (2.751 %)Informatica
8238 (2.518 %)Siebel
9218 (2.307 %)HP
10215 (2.275 %)Sun
11205 (2.169 %)Red Hat
12191 (2.021 %)VMware
13173 (1.830 %)Cognos
14167 (1.767 %)JBoss
15127 (1.344 %)BEA
16126 (1.333 %)Hyperion
1778 (0.825 %)DataSynapse
1870 (0.741 %)Cisco
1962 (0.656 %)Ab Initio
2057 (0.603 %)Bloomberg