The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC 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 RAC over the 3 months to 21 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 System Software 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 58 69 63
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -6
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 1 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.153% 0.312% 0.589%
As % of the System Software category 1.587% 5.172% 6.410%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
63 58 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 9.633% 6.023% 9.187%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 30
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £199 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 14
Average hourly rate £16.24 £12.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.88% -60.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £11.35 £11.86
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £34.25 £35.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
East of England

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle