The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 20 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 Gloucester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 16 12 7
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1 37 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 1.449% 13.75% 13.64%
As % of the Vendors category 5.882% 30.58% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 26 1
Average daily rate £375 £400 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +3.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -13.07%
All Vendors
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
17 121 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 24.64% 44.98% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 84 17
Average daily rate £378 £400 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.62% +105.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £350 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 4
Average hourly rate £11.00 £50.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-78.00% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Gloucestershire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucester Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
3 8 (80.00%) .NET
3 8 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (70.00%) Visual Studio
5 5 (50.00%) Business Objects
5 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (40.00%) TOAD
6 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (40.00%) MCP
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (40.00%) C#
6 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (40.00%) Stochastic Modelling
6 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (30.00%) Basel II
7 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 3 (30.00%) Silverlight
7 3 (30.00%) QA

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (10.00%) GlassFish
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) TOAD
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Business Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) PaaS
2 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Solaris
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) SUSE
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Data Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Stochastic Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) OOP
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
4 4 (40.00%) C#
4 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCP
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Basel II
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Business Objects
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Sun
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco