Essex Oracle 9i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle9i Database skills within the Essex 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 9i over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle9i Database
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Nantwich Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staines Stirling Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	35
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	27	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	23.68 %	14.37 %
Daily rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£417
Average daily rate	£420	£467
% change on same period last year	-9.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£460	£517
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£34.20
Average hourly rate	£34.75	£34.45
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.50	£34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.82	£32.52
% change on same period last year	+34.75 %
Database & Business Intelligence Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	114	174
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.152 %	0.176 %
Daily rates quoted	42	58
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£394
Average daily rate	£385	£408
% change on same period last year	-5.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.41	£32.13
Average hourly rate	£34.24	£32.46
% change on same period last year	+5.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.08	£32.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Oracle 9i East of England

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 9i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Essex region.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle 9i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Essex region.

Oracle 9i
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle 9i
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 9i within the Essex 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
Basildon	+6	6	-	-
Southend-on-Sea	-	4	£650	-

Oracle 9i East of England

Oracle 9i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i.

1 46 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 28 (60.87 %) SQL 3 21 (45.65 %) Oracle 10g 4 19 (41.30 %) UNIX 5 17 (36.96 %) Solaris 6 16 (34.78 %) Java 6 16 (34.78 %) J2EE 7 15 (32.61 %) Finance 8 13 (28.26 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 11 (23.91 %) Oracle Reports 9 11 (23.91 %) PL/SQL 9 11 (23.91 %) JSP 9 11 (23.91 %) Servlets 9 11 (23.91 %) XML 9 11 (23.91 %) Sarbanes-Oxley

10 10 (21.74 %) JRules 10 10 (21.74 %) Linux 10 10 (21.74 %) Windows NT 10 10 (21.74 %) N-Tier 10 10 (21.74 %) JavaBeans 10 10 (21.74 %) Sun 10 10 (21.74 %) ILOG 11 9 (19.57 %) IBM 11 9 (19.57 %) HTTP 11 9 (19.57 %) IBM HTTP Server 12 8 (17.39 %) Oracle HTTP Server 12 8 (17.39 %) Marketing 13 7 (15.22 %) SQL Server 13 7 (15.22 %) VB 13 7 (15.22 %) SQL Server 2005

Oracle 9i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 16 (34.78 %) J2EE 2 11 (23.91 %) JSP 2 11 (23.91 %) Servlets 2 11 (23.91 %) XML 3 10 (21.74 %) JavaBeans 3 10 (21.74 %) JRules 4 6 (13.04 %) .NET 5 5 (10.87 %) ASP.NET 6 3 (6.522 %) Ruby on Rails 6 3 (6.522 %) WebSphere 7 2 (4.348 %) Java EE 7 2 (4.348 %) SAX 8 1 (2.174 %) COM+ 8 1 (2.174 %) XSLT 8 1 (2.174 %) XHTML 8 1 (2.174 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 9 (19.57 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 8 (17.39 %) Oracle HTTP Server 3 5 (10.87 %) Apache 3 5 (10.87 %) Oracle Application Server 4 1 (2.174 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 1 (2.174 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (10.87 %) MS Visio 2 2 (4.348 %) MS Excel 3 1 (2.174 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 5 (10.87 %) Oracle 11i 2 4 (8.696 %) Oracle Applications 3 2 (4.348 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 9 (19.57 %) HTTP 2 5 (10.87 %) SAN 3 4 (8.696 %) Intranet 4 1 (2.174 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (45.65 %) Oracle 10g 2 13 (28.26 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 11 (23.91 %) Oracle Reports 4 7 (15.22 %) SQL Server 4 7 (15.22 %) SQL Server 2005 5 6 (13.04 %) SQL Server 2000 5 6 (13.04 %) ETL 6 5 (10.87 %) Crystal Reports 7 2 (4.348 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 1 (2.174 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (2.174 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 1 (2.174 %) MySQL 8 1 (2.174 %) TOAD 8 1 (2.174 %) RDBMS 8 1 (2.174 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 3 (6.522 %) TestDirector 1 3 (6.522 %) Selenium 1 3 (6.522 %) FitNesse 2 2 (4.348 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 3 1 (2.174 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 1 (2.174 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 15 (32.61 %) Finance 2 8 (17.39 %) Marketing 3 5 (10.87 %) Government 4 3 (6.522 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (4.348 %) Automotive 6 1 (2.174 %) Health 6 1 (2.174 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 16 (34.78 %) DBA 2 15 (32.61 %) Developer 3 14 (30.43 %) Oracle DBA 4 7 (15.22 %) Architect 5 5 (10.87 %) Consultant 6 3 (6.522 %) Applications Support 7 2 (4.348 %) Administrator 7 2 (4.348 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (4.348 %) Software Engineer 7 2 (4.348 %) Systems Engineer 7 2 (4.348 %) Technical Architect 7 2 (4.348 %) Management Consultant 7 2 (4.348 %) Oracle Developer 7 2 (4.348 %) Test Engineer 7 2 (4.348 %) J2EE Developer 7 2 (4.348 %) Systems Test Engineer 7 2 (4.348 %) Oracle Consultant 7 2 (4.348 %) Software Test Engineer 7 2 (4.348 %) Technical Solutions Architect 7 2 (4.348 %) Service Management Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 10 (21.74 %) N-Tier 2 6 (13.04 %) Client/Server 3 3 (6.522 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 19 (41.30 %) UNIX 2 17 (36.96 %) Solaris 3 10 (21.74 %) Linux 3 10 (21.74 %) Windows NT 4 4 (8.696 %) Windows 5 1 (2.174 %) HPUX 5 1 (2.174 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.04 %) EAI 1 6 (13.04 %) E-business 2 5 (10.87 %) Document Management 2 5 (10.87 %) Technical Architecture 2 5 (10.87 %) Change Management 3 4 (8.696 %) OO 4 3 (6.522 %) Service Delivery 4 3 (6.522 %) Security Management 4 3 (6.522 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (6.522 %) ITIL 4 3 (6.522 %) Software Testing 5 2 (4.348 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (4.348 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (4.348 %) UML 5 2 (4.348 %) Service Management 6 1 (2.174 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 28 (60.87 %) SQL 2 16 (34.78 %) Java 3 11 (23.91 %) PL/SQL 4 7 (15.22 %) VB 5 6 (13.04 %) VB6 6 5 (10.87 %) VB.NET 7 4 (8.696 %) C# 8 3 (6.522 %) Ruby 9 2 (4.348 %) C 10 1 (2.174 %) JavaScript 10 1 (2.174 %) VBA 10 1 (2.174 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 4 (8.696 %) Degree 2 2 (4.348 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (23.91 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 5 (10.87 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 46 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 10 (21.74 %) Sun 2 10 (21.74 %) ILOG 3 9 (19.57 %) IBM 4 5 (10.87 %) Microsoft 5 4 (8.696 %) Sybase 5 4 (8.696 %) VERITAS 5 4 (8.696 %) Brocade 6 2 (4.348 %) Business Objects 7 1 (2.174 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.174 %) VMware 7 1 (2.174 %) HP 7 1 (2.174 %) Intel