Lancashire Oracle Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barking Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Driffield Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Rugby 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 Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	5
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	60	76
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.080 %	0.076 %
As % of the category below	41.10 %	34.86 %
Daily rates quoted	8	18
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£313
Average daily rate	£367	£329
% change on same period last year	+11.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£376	£369
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.22	£23.20
Average hourly rate	£23.97	£24.80
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.72	£26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.66	£32.03
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Vendors Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	146	218
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.195 %	0.217 %
Daily rates quoted	26	48
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£345
Average daily rate	£336	£356
% change on same period last year	-5.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.23	£25.32
Average hourly rate	£20.16	£26.60
% change on same period last year	-24.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.10	£27.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
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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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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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 Lancashire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Blackpool	+2	20	£417	+28.80 %
Preston	+5	18	£198	-
Newton-le-Willows	-2	2	-	-
Burnley	-	1	-	-
Blackburn	-	1	£285	-
Lancaster	+1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 69 (41.07 %) Government 2 51 (30.36 %) SQL 3 40 (23.81 %) Finance 4 32 (19.05 %) PL/SQL 4 32 (19.05 %) Oracle Reports 5 28 (16.67 %) UNIX 6 24 (14.29 %) Oracle EBS 7 20 (11.90 %) Oracle 11i 8 17 (10.12 %) Oracle 10g 8 17 (10.12 %) CSS 9 16 (9.524 %) ASP 9 16 (9.524 %) JavaScript 9 16 (9.524 %) ERP 10 15 (8.929 %) .NET 11 14 (8.333 %) VBScript

12 13 (7.738 %) Crystal Reports 13 12 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 14 11 (6.548 %) Resource Management 14 11 (6.548 %) Windows 14 11 (6.548 %) Oracle Discoverer 15 10 (5.952 %) Visual Studio 16 9 (5.357 %) Oracle Financials 16 9 (5.357 %) CRM 16 9 (5.357 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 9 (5.357 %) Data Integration 16 9 (5.357 %) InterDev 17 8 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 17 8 (4.762 %) Solaris 17 8 (4.762 %) XML 17 8 (4.762 %) Java

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 17 (10.12 %) CSS 2 16 (9.524 %) ASP 3 15 (8.929 %) .NET 4 8 (4.762 %) XML 5 6 (3.571 %) HTML 6 4 (2.381 %) JSP 6 4 (2.381 %) Servlets 7 3 (1.786 %) JDBC 8 2 (1.190 %) J2EE 8 2 (1.190 %) Hibernate 8 2 (1.190 %) WebSphere 9 1 (0.595 %) Spring 9 1 (0.595 %) AJAX 9 1 (0.595 %) XSL 9 1 (0.595 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.381 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (0.595 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 1 (0.595 %) Oracle 9iAS
Applications 1 3 (1.786 %) MS Office 1 3 (1.786 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 24 (14.29 %) Oracle EBS 2 20 (11.90 %) Oracle 11i 3 9 (5.357 %) Oracle Financials 4 7 (4.167 %) Oracle ERP 5 6 (3.571 %) Oracle Applications 6 3 (1.786 %) Summit 7 1 (0.595 %) HFM 7 1 (0.595 %) Hyperion Enterprise
Communications & Networking 1 5 (2.976 %) SAN 1 5 (2.976 %) WAN 2 3 (1.786 %) VPN 2 3 (1.786 %) LAN 2 3 (1.786 %) Intranet 2 3 (1.786 %) Internet 2 3 (1.786 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (19.05 %) Oracle Reports 2 17 (10.12 %) Oracle 10g 3 13 (7.738 %) Crystal Reports 4 11 (6.548 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 8 (4.762 %) Datawarehouse 6 7 (4.167 %) Oracle 9i 7 6 (3.571 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 4 (2.381 %) SQL Server 9 3 (1.786 %) TOAD 9 3 (1.786 %) SQLPlus 10 2 (1.190 %) Hyperion Essbase 10 2 (1.190 %) BusinessObjects 11 1 (0.595 %) RDBMS 11 1 (0.595 %) Oracle OWB 11 1 (0.595 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 10 (5.952 %) Visual Studio 2 9 (5.357 %) InterDev 3 4 (2.381 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.190 %) Eclipse 4 2 (1.190 %) PVCS 4 2 (1.190 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.595 %) Ant 5 1 (0.595 %) Oracle Developer 2000 5 1 (0.595 %) ProC	General 1 69 (41.07 %) Government 2 40 (23.81 %) Finance 3 6 (3.571 %) Local Government 3 6 (3.571 %) Pensions 4 4 (2.381 %) General Ledger 4 4 (2.381 %) Legal 4 4 (2.381 %) Military 5 2 (1.190 %) Retail 6 1 (0.595 %) Billing 6 1 (0.595 %) Banking 6 1 (0.595 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.595 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.595 %) Telecoms 6 1 (0.595 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 35 (20.83 %) Developer 2 28 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 19 (11.31 %) Consultant 4 18 (10.71 %) Architect 5 17 (10.12 %) Oracle Consultant 6 16 (9.524 %) Project Manager 6 16 (9.524 %) Web Developer 7 12 (7.143 %) Oracle Developer 8 11 (6.548 %) Technical Analyst 8 11 (6.548 %) Performance Analyst 9 8 (4.762 %) Test Manager 10 7 (4.167 %) Solutions Architect 11 6 (3.571 %) Administrator 12 5 (2.976 %) Senior Analyst 12 5 (2.976 %) Functional Consultant 12 5 (2.976 %) DBA 12 5 (2.976 %) Systems Administrator 12 5 (2.976 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 13 4 (2.381 %) Deployment Engineer 13 4 (2.381 %) Senior Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 9 (5.357 %) Data Integration 2 4 (2.381 %) VAX 3 3 (1.786 %) Management Information System 4 2 (1.190 %) Statistics 4 2 (1.190 %) NHS 4 2 (1.190 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.595 %) CMDB 5 1 (0.595 %) Data Conversion 5 1 (0.595 %) Data Extraction 5 1 (0.595 %) Mainframe 5 1 (0.595 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 28 (16.67 %) UNIX 2 11 (6.548 %) Windows 3 8 (4.762 %) Solaris 4 7 (4.167 %) Linux 5 3 (1.786 %) VMS 5 3 (1.786 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (1.190 %) Windows XP 6 2 (1.190 %) AIX 6 2 (1.190 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (9.524 %) ERP 2 12 (7.143 %) Data Modelling 3 11 (6.548 %) Resource Management 4 9 (5.357 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 9 (5.357 %) CRM 5 7 (4.167 %) Business Intelligence 5 7 (4.167 %) e-GIF 5 7 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 6 6 (3.571 %) PRINCE 6 6 (3.571 %) Migration 7 5 (2.976 %) Unit Testing 7 5 (2.976 %) Project Management 7 5 (2.976 %) Disaster Recovery 7 5 (2.976 %) BC Cleared 8 4 (2.381 %) Data Migration 8 4 (2.381 %) SC Cleared 8 4 (2.381 %) Service Management 8 4 (2.381 %) Asset Management 9 3 (1.786 %) Data Management 9 3 (1.786 %) Data Analysis
Programming Languages 1 51 (30.36 %) SQL 2 32 (19.05 %) PL/SQL 3 16 (9.524 %) JavaScript 4 14 (8.333 %) VBScript 5 8 (4.762 %) Java 6 5 (2.976 %) VB 7 3 (1.786 %) VB.NET 7 3 (1.786 %) C 7 3 (1.786 %) Pascal 7 3 (1.786 %) Uniface 7 3 (1.786 %) DCL 8 2 (1.190 %) VB6 8 2 (1.190 %) Fortran 8 2 (1.190 %) C++ 9 1 (0.595 %) VBA 9 1 (0.595 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (2.381 %) Oracle Certification 2 3 (1.786 %) ITIL Certification 2 3 (1.786 %) Degree 3 1 (0.595 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (0.595 %) MCDBA 3 1 (0.595 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.595 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.595 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (4.167 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (0.595 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 5 (2.976 %) AutoSys 2 1 (0.595 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 7 (4.167 %) Microsoft 1 7 (4.167 %) Informatica 1 7 (4.167 %) Fujitsu 2 6 (3.571 %) Hyperion 3 3 (1.786 %) Intel 3 3 (1.786 %) Citrix 3 3 (1.786 %) BT 3 3 (1.786 %) Sun 3 3 (1.786 %) Siebel 3 3 (1.786 %) Cisco 4 2 (1.190 %) IBM 4 2 (1.190 %) Business Objects 4 2 (1.190 %) SAP 4 2 (1.190 %) HP 4 2 (1.190 %) EMC 4 2 (1.190 %) Genesys 5 1 (0.595 %) Sybase 5 1 (0.595 %) VMware 5 1 (0.595 %) JD Edwards 5 1 (0.595 %) Agresso