The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Farnborough region.

Note that 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 8 6 12
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 5 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 12.82% 14.04% 12.22%
As % of the Vendors category 22.73% 21.62% 20.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 10
Average daily rate £325 £368 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.56% -13.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £310 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £472 £479 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -10.27%
All Vendors
Farnborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22 37 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Farnborough 56.41% 64.91% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 42
Average daily rate £387 £420 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.81% +1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £310 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
Average hourly rate £11.00 £18.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% -28.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Hampshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the Farnborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Farnborough Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Farnborough Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Farnborough region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Farnborough Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Farnborough Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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.

1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 3 (33.33%) IIS
2 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 3 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 3 (33.33%) VB
2 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) UML
2 3 (33.33%) OO
2 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (33.33%) NUnit
2 3 (33.33%) Telerik
2 3 (33.33%) Ajax
2 3 (33.33%) Aquila
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (33.33%) jQuery
2 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) JSUnit
2 3 (33.33%) Highcharts JS
3 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) OOD

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) Ajax
1 3 (33.33%) jQuery
1 3 (33.33%) Highcharts JS
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 3 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (33.33%) NUnit
1 3 (33.33%) JSUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) COBOL Developer
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) VB.NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris Systems Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 3 (33.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) UML
1 3 (33.33%) OO
1 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (22.22%) OOD
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Data Security
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
1 3 (33.33%) VB
1 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) COBOL
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Sun Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
1 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Telerik
1 3 (33.33%) Aquila
2 2 (22.22%) Micro Focus
3 1 (11.11%) ESRI
3 1 (11.11%) Kofax