The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Gloucestershire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 29 50 50
Rank change year-on-year
+21 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.417% 0.397% 0.222%
As % of the System Software category 2.564% 7.407% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £411 £350 £390
% change year-on-year
+17.28% -10.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £27.37
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +100.94%
All System Software
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
39 27 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 16.25% 5.357% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 25
Average daily rate £387 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £180 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £450 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -45.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Oracle RAC
South West

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cirencester - - - -
Oracle RAC
South West

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (87.50%) Sun
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) SAN
2 7 (87.50%) DHCP
2 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Solaris
2 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
2 7 (87.50%) Middleware
2 7 (87.50%) MPLS
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (87.50%) GlassFish
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Azure
2 7 (87.50%) PaaS
2 7 (87.50%) IaaS
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon AWS
3 6 (75.00%) vSphere
3 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) WebLogic
1 7 (87.50%) GlassFish
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) MPLS
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Architect
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (12.50%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) PaaS
1 7 (87.50%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) UNIX
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Solaris
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
3 1 (12.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) Sun
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
3 6 (75.00%) Red Hat