Hertfordshire Oracle 10g Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Database 10g skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 10g over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 10g
Location Aberdeen Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stirling Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	60
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	10	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	4.348 %	8.495 %
Daily rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£352
Average daily rate	£248	£397
% change on same period last year	-37.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£263	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£363
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.11	£36.97
% change on same period last year	+16.60 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	230	412
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.307 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	93	170
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£340
Average daily rate	£345	£369
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.48	£28.92
Average hourly rate	£27.86	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-12.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.24	£34.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Oracle 10g East of England

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.

Oracle 10g
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Hertfordshire region.

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Hertfordshire region.

Oracle 10g
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 10g within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Potters Bar	-	1	-	-
Watford	+2	1	£351	-18.48 %

Oracle 10g East of England

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g.

1 14 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 11 (78.57 %) SQL 3 9 (64.29 %) PL/SQL 4 4 (28.57 %) Oracle ADF 4 4 (28.57 %) J2EE 4 4 (28.57 %) Oracle Forms 4 4 (28.57 %) UNIX 4 4 (28.57 %) Java 5 3 (21.43 %) Perl 5 3 (21.43 %) Windows 5 3 (21.43 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 9i 5 3 (21.43 %) TestDirector 5 3 (21.43 %) JDeveloper 5 3 (21.43 %) Automotive

5 3 (21.43 %) Bugzilla 6 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Applications 6 2 (14.29 %) AWD 6 2 (14.29 %) PDA 6 2 (14.29 %) Informatica 6 2 (14.29 %) DataStage 6 2 (14.29 %) MS Excel 6 2 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 6 2 (14.29 %) ETL 6 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (14.29 %) Linux 6 2 (14.29 %) .NET 6 2 (14.29 %) WebLogic 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Project 7 1 (7.143 %) MS Office

Oracle 10g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (28.57 %) J2EE 1 4 (28.57 %) Oracle ADF 2 2 (14.29 %) .NET 3 1 (7.143 %) WebSphere 3 1 (7.143 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (14.29 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Excel 2 1 (7.143 %) MS Visio 2 1 (7.143 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (7.143 %) MS Project 2 1 (7.143 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) AWD 2 1 (7.143 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (21.43 %) Oracle Reports 1 3 (21.43 %) Oracle 9i 2 2 (14.29 %) ETL 2 2 (14.29 %) DataStage 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (21.43 %) JDeveloper 2 3 (21.43 %) TestDirector 2 3 (21.43 %) Bugzilla	General 1 3 (21.43 %) Automotive 2 1 (7.143 %) Chemicals 2 1 (7.143 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Developer 2 5 (35.71 %) Oracle Developer 3 2 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 2 (14.29 %) Senior Tester 3 2 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 2 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 3 2 (14.29 %) Tester 4 1 (7.143 %) DBA 4 1 (7.143 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Programmer 4 1 (7.143 %) Technical Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) PL/SQL Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Technical Tester 4 1 (7.143 %) PeopleSoft Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Forms Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) DataStage Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Peoplesoft Technical Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) PDA 2 1 (7.143 %) Blog 2 1 (7.143 %) Data Conversion
Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) UNIX 2 3 (21.43 %) Windows 3 2 (14.29 %) Linux 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (7.143 %) Scrum 2 1 (7.143 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (7.143 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (7.143 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 11 (78.57 %) SQL 2 9 (64.29 %) PL/SQL 3 4 (28.57 %) Java 4 3 (21.43 %) Perl 5 1 (7.143 %) PeopleCode 5 1 (7.143 %) SQR	Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) OCP 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Certification 1 1 (7.143 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) GxP	System Software 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 14 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (14.29 %) Informatica 3 1 (7.143 %) PeopleSoft 3 1 (7.143 %) IBM