The first table below looks at the demand for OCP in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OCP 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 Qualifications for the Hampshire 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 Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank - - 106
Contract jobs citing OCP 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire - - 0.054%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 0.188%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £349 £319
% change year-on-year
-6.87% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Qualifications
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
480 512 532
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 31.01% 31.94% 28.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 247 223
Average daily rate £354 £363 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.34% +0.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £495 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 44 70
Average hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.87% -5.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.53 £12.35 £13.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
OCP
South East

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OCP across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Hampshire OCP Jobs Demand Trend

OCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire OCP Daily Rate Trend

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing OCP 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 OCP.

1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (66.67%) SQLPlus
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) TOAD
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) TOAD
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (66.67%) SQLPlus
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (33.33%) Hudson
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Sun Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Serena