Halifax Oracle Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the Halifax region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Amersham Atherstone Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Driffield Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	9
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	6.667 %	17.65 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£366
% change on same period last year	+2.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.06	£32.59
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Vendors Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	15	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.018 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£276	-
Average daily rate	£280	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£284	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Oracle West Yorkshire

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 7 (87.50 %) VB6 1 7 (87.50 %) C# 1 7 (87.50 %) VB 1 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 5 (62.50 %) JavaScript 2 5 (62.50 %) VBScript 2 5 (62.50 %) IIS 2 5 (62.50 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (62.50 %) XML 2 5 (62.50 %) XSL 2 5 (62.50 %) Finance 3 4 (50.00 %) HTML 3 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server

4 3 (37.50 %) CSS 4 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 4 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 4 3 (37.50 %) Insurance 5 2 (25.00 %) NUnit 5 2 (25.00 %) Web Development 5 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (25.00 %) XML Messaging 5 2 (25.00 %) OOD 5 2 (25.00 %) SOA 5 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 5 2 (25.00 %) OO 6 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP 2 5 (62.50 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (62.50 %) XML 2 5 (62.50 %) XSL 3 4 (50.00 %) HTML 4 3 (37.50 %) CSS 4 3 (37.50 %) WebServices 5 2 (25.00 %) XML Messaging 5 2 (25.00 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 5 (62.50 %) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (25.00 %) NUnit
General 1 5 (62.50 %) Finance 2 3 (37.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 8 (100.00 %) Developer 2 5 (62.50 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (37.50 %) C# Developer 3 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 2 (25.00 %) Systems Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects Developer 5 1 (12.50 %) Business Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) OO 1 2 (25.00 %) OOD 1 2 (25.00 %) SOA 1 2 (25.00 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 7 (87.50 %) C# 1 7 (87.50 %) VB 1 7 (87.50 %) VB6 2 5 (62.50 %) JavaScript 2 5 (62.50 %) VBScript
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Objects