The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 17 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 of the System Software category for the Glasgow 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 78 55 52
Rank change year-on-year
-23 -3
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 2 5 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.212% 0.648% 1.571%
As % of the System Software category 4.255% 7.692% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
Average daily rate £400 £311 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.61% +3.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
47 65 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.989% 8.420% 6.286%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 31 18
Average daily rate £360 £275 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.81% +1.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £234 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £420 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 1
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £175.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% -85.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
Scotland

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) OLAP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle OLAP
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) HP
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Skills /Essential: o R11/R12 Oracle e-Business Application Database Administration o e-Business Patching, Cloning, Installation o Oracle RMAN / DataGuard / RAC o Oracle RDBMS 9i,10g, 11g -...
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Posted: 17 May 2013