The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 8/8i over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 8/8i
Rank 62 65 58
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 1 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% 0.515% 0.680%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.847% 2.463% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
Average daily rate £250 £125 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -61.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £360 £367 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.90% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-13.24% +13.84%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
118 203 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.52% 20.91% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 84 82
Average daily rate £375 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £452 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 7
Average hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Oracle 8/8i
East of England

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Hertfordshire Oracle 8/8i Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Oracle 8/8i Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Stevenage +2 1 £250 -
Oracle 8/8i
East of England

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) NetWeaver
2 1 (50.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (50.00%) ReadSoft
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SAP PI
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Cygwin
2 1 (50.00%) Redmine
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PI
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) NetWeaver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Redmine
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Cygwin
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) ReadSoft