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The table below looks at the demand for Oracle TopLink skills within the England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TopLink over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkOracle TopLink
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank512620
Rank change on same period last yearUp+108
Matching contract IT job ads75
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.011 %0.005 %
As % of the category below0.053 %0.023 %
Daily rates quoted22
Average minimum daily rate£263£425
Average daily rate£299£456
% change on same period last year-34.52 %
Average maximum daily rate£335£488
UK excluding London average daily rate£299£375
% change on same period last year-20.33 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
England
Matching contract IT job ads1322721300
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled20.83 %22.82 %
Daily rates quoted44576817
Average minimum daily rate£340£362
Average daily rate£364£384
% change on same period last year-5.19 %
Average maximum daily rate£389£407
UK excluding London average daily rate£327£334
% change on same period last year-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted8701276
Average minimum hourly rate£27.19£29.79
Average hourly rate£29.40£32.02
% change on same period last year-8.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate£31.61£34.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.92£31.53
% change on same period last year-8.25 %
TopLink UKTopLink
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.

TopLink
Demand Trend

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

England TopLink Demand Trend

TopLink
Daily Rate Trend

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

England TopLink Daily Rate Trend

TopLink
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England TopLink Hourly Rate Trend

TopLink
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TopLink within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
LondonUp+923--
East of EnglandUp+332£299-25.31 %
North WestNew entry-2--
TopLink UKTopLink
UK

TopLink
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TopLink 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 TopLink.

114 (82.35 %)Oracle
212 (70.59 %)XML
38 (47.06 %)J2EE
38 (47.06 %)Java
38 (47.06 %)PL/SQL
47 (41.18 %)Hibernate
47 (41.18 %)Oracle 10g
47 (41.18 %)SQL
47 (41.18 %)Oracle 9i
56 (35.29 %)Solaris
56 (35.29 %)ETL
56 (35.29 %)Oracle RAC
56 (35.29 %)Oracle Streams
64 (23.53 %)JSF
64 (23.53 %)UML
64 (23.53 %)XSL
64 (23.53 %)UNIX
64 (23.53 %)Migration
73 (17.65 %)JUnit
73 (17.65 %)WebLogic
73 (17.65 %)EJB
73 (17.65 %)Apache
73 (17.65 %)SC Cleared
73 (17.65 %)Security Cleared
73 (17.65 %)AJAX
82 (11.76 %)Marketing
82 (11.76 %)Use Case
82 (11.76 %)Lucene
82 (11.76 %)Spring
82 (11.76 %)XPath

TopLink
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing TopLink 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 TopLink. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
112 (70.59 %)XML
28 (47.06 %)J2EE
37 (41.18 %)Hibernate
46 (35.29 %)Oracle Streams
54 (23.53 %)JSF
54 (23.53 %)XSL
63 (17.65 %)EJB
63 (17.65 %)AJAX
72 (11.76 %)JCE
72 (11.76 %)MVC
72 (11.76 %)HTML
72 (11.76 %)Spring MVC
72 (11.76 %)JPA
72 (11.76 %)EJB 3.0
72 (11.76 %)CSS
72 (11.76 %)JSP
72 (11.76 %)Servlets
72 (11.76 %)XHTML
72 (11.76 %)J2SE
72 (11.76 %)XML Schema
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13 (17.65 %)Apache
13 (17.65 %)WebLogic
22 (11.76 %)Tomcat
31 (5.882 %)Oracle HTTP Server
31 (5.882 %)WebLogic Portal
31 (5.882 %)Oracle Application Server
31 (5.882 %)Oracle 10gAS
31 (5.882 %)JBoss
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
12 (11.76 %)LDAP
12 (11.76 %)SMTP
21 (5.882 %)HTTP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
17 (41.18 %)Oracle 9i
17 (41.18 %)Oracle 10g
26 (35.29 %)ETL
32 (11.76 %)RDBMS
32 (11.76 %)MySQL
32 (11.76 %)SQL Server
32 (11.76 %)PostgreSQL
41 (5.882 %)GIS
41 (5.882 %)Oracle 8/8i
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
13 (17.65 %)JUnit
22 (11.76 %)Log4j
31 (5.882 %)Subversion
31 (5.882 %)Eclipse
31 (5.882 %)Ant
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
12 (11.76 %)Marketing
21 (5.882 %)Finance
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
18 (47.06 %)DBA
18 (47.06 %)Oracle DBA
24 (23.53 %)Java Developer
24 (23.53 %)Developer
32 (11.76 %)Analyst
32 (11.76 %)Analyst Programmer
32 (11.76 %)Programmer
32 (11.76 %)Database Specialist
32 (11.76 %)Administrator
32 (11.76 %)Java/J2EE Developer
32 (11.76 %)Java Programmer
32 (11.76 %)J2EE Developer
32 (11.76 %)Java Analyst Programmer
41 (5.882 %)Java Consultant
41 (5.882 %)Oracle Consultant
41 (5.882 %)Senior Java Developer
41 (5.882 %)Consultant
41 (5.882 %)Senior Developer
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
12 (11.76 %)Client/Server
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
16 (35.29 %)Solaris
24 (23.53 %)UNIX
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
14 (23.53 %)UML
14 (23.53 %)Migration
23 (17.65 %)SC Cleared
23 (17.65 %)Security Cleared
32 (11.76 %)Use Case
41 (5.882 %)Agile Software Development
41 (5.882 %)AOP
41 (5.882 %)Identity Management
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
18 (47.06 %)Java
18 (47.06 %)PL/SQL
27 (41.18 %)SQL
32 (11.76 %)XPath
32 (11.76 %)JavaScript
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (5.882 %)Degree
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
16 (35.29 %)Oracle RAC
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
114 (82.35 %)Oracle
21 (5.882 %)BEA