The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Leeds 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 3 8 8
Rank change year-on-year
+5 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle 125 86 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 16.91% 9.896% 9.591%
As % of the Vendors category 37.76% 20.09% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 47 27
Average daily rate £263 £318 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.32% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £166 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £435 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -10.27%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
331 428 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 44.79% 49.25% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 248 105
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £445 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 25
Average hourly rate £33.00 £14.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+123.72% -15.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £24.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
West Yorkshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 83 (36.09%) SQL
2 82 (35.65%) Linux
3 65 (28.26%) Java
4 57 (24.78%) Web Services
5 55 (23.91%) MySQL
6 54 (23.48%) Finance
7 46 (20.00%) PHP
8 45 (19.57%) Apache
9 41 (17.83%) .NET
10 36 (15.65%) PL/SQL
10 36 (15.65%) MongoDB
11 35 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (15.22%) Amazon S3
11 35 (15.22%) Amazon AWS
11 35 (15.22%) Redis
11 35 (15.22%) Route 53
11 35 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
11 35 (15.22%) SQL Server
11 35 (15.22%) UNIX
12 33 (14.35%) Oracle EBS
12 33 (14.35%) Bash shell
13 32 (13.91%) Telecoms
13 32 (13.91%) Windows
13 32 (13.91%) Perl
13 32 (13.91%) Client/Server
14 31 (13.48%) C++
14 31 (13.48%) Tomcat
15 30 (13.04%) Internet
16 29 (12.61%) Python
16 29 (12.61%) Data Warehouse

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 57 (24.78%) Web Services
2 41 (17.83%) .NET
3 26 (11.30%) Node.js
4 22 (9.565%) jQuery
4 22 (9.565%) J2EE
5 20 (8.696%) REST
6 19 (8.261%) SOAP
7 18 (7.826%) HTML5
8 17 (7.391%) XML
9 16 (6.957%) CSS
9 16 (6.957%) Java EE
10 15 (6.522%) Spring
10 15 (6.522%) ASP.NET
10 15 (6.522%) Hibernate
11 12 (5.217%) WebSphere
11 12 (5.217%) Ajax
11 12 (5.217%) CSS3
12 10 (4.348%) LAMP
13 9 (3.913%) Middleware
13 9 (3.913%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 45 (19.57%) Apache
2 35 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
2 35 (15.22%) Amazon S3
2 35 (15.22%) Amazon AWS
2 35 (15.22%) Route 53
3 31 (13.48%) Tomcat
4 26 (11.30%) nginx
5 13 (5.652%) SharePoint
6 12 (5.217%) WebLogic
6 12 (5.217%) Adobe CQ
7 9 (3.913%) ESB
8 8 (3.478%) WebSphere Application Server
9 7 (3.043%) Apache Solr
10 6 (2.609%) Oracle Application Server
11 5 (2.174%) IIS
11 5 (2.174%) BizTalk Server
11 5 (2.174%) SAS
11 5 (2.174%) Documentum
12 4 (1.739%) FileNet
12 4 (1.739%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 10 (4.348%) MS Office
2 9 (3.913%) MS Excel
3 7 (3.043%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.435%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 33 (14.35%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (5.652%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (2.609%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (1.739%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (1.304%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (1.304%) Oracle CRM
6 2 (0.870%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.870%) JDE OneWorld
7 1 (0.435%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.435%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
7 1 (0.435%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.435%) HFM
7 1 (0.435%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.04%) Internet
2 26 (11.30%) DNS
3 20 (8.696%) HTTP
4 19 (8.261%) Firewall
5 18 (7.826%) TCP/IP
6 17 (7.391%) SSL
6 17 (7.391%) DHCP
7 13 (5.652%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (3.478%) SAN
9 4 (1.739%) FTP
9 4 (1.739%) WAN
10 3 (1.304%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.304%) VPN
11 2 (0.870%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (0.870%) NAS
12 1 (0.435%) OpenLDAP
12 1 (0.435%) Network Security
12 1 (0.435%) SSH
12 1 (0.435%) LAN
12 1 (0.435%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.91%) MySQL
2 36 (15.65%) MongoDB
3 35 (15.22%) Redis
3 35 (15.22%) Amazon RDS
3 35 (15.22%) SQL Server
4 29 (12.61%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (10.87%) Oracle 11g
6 24 (10.43%) Oracle 10g
7 22 (9.565%) Oracle BI EE
8 21 (9.130%) Oracle 8/8i
9 19 (8.261%) Oracle Reports
10 16 (6.957%) Oracle OWB
11 11 (4.783%) SQL Server 2005
12 8 (3.478%) SQL Server 2008
13 6 (2.609%) Oracle 9i
14 5 (2.174%) DB2
15 4 (1.739%) GIS
15 4 (1.739%) RDBMS
15 4 (1.739%) SQLPlus
16 3 (1.304%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.261%) Jenkins
1 19 (8.261%) Git (software)
2 16 (6.957%) Maven
3 9 (3.913%) Selenium
4 5 (2.174%) Subversion
4 5 (2.174%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (1.739%) JUnit
5 4 (1.739%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.739%) Hudson
6 3 (1.304%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.304%) WebDriver
6 3 (1.304%) MSTest
6 3 (1.304%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.304%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.304%) NUnit
6 3 (1.304%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 3 (1.304%) MSI
7 2 (0.870%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.870%) Ant
7 2 (0.870%) JIRA
General
1 54 (23.48%) Finance
2 32 (13.91%) Telecoms
3 17 (7.391%) Banking
4 11 (4.783%) Investment Banking
5 10 (4.348%) Retail
6 4 (1.739%) Games
7 3 (1.304%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.304%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.435%) German Language
8 1 (0.435%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.435%) Billing
8 1 (0.435%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (29.13%) Developer
2 35 (15.22%) Architect
3 23 (10.00%) Analyst
4 20 (8.696%) Consultant
5 17 (7.391%) Project Manager
5 17 (7.391%) Java Developer
5 17 (7.391%) Oracle Developer
6 14 (6.087%) DBA
7 13 (5.652%) Oracle DBA
8 11 (4.783%) Infrastructure Architect
9 10 (4.348%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 10 (4.348%) Oracle Consultant
9 10 (4.348%) Administrator
9 10 (4.348%) Designer
10 9 (3.913%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (3.913%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.478%) .NET Developer
11 8 (3.478%) Test Analyst
11 8 (3.478%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
11 8 (3.478%) OBIEE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.91%) Client/Server
2 11 (4.783%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (4.783%) Data Integration
3 6 (2.609%) NHS
4 5 (2.174%) Open Source
5 4 (1.739%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.304%) Computer Science
6 3 (1.304%) Informatics
7 2 (0.870%) Web 2.0
8 1 (0.435%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.435%) Heroku
8 1 (0.435%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.435%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (0.435%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.435%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.435%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.435%) Streaming Video
8 1 (0.435%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 82 (35.65%) Linux
2 35 (15.22%) UNIX
3 32 (13.91%) Windows
4 20 (8.696%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (6.957%) Solaris
6 13 (5.652%) AIX
7 12 (5.217%) HPUX
8 5 (2.174%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (1.739%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.435%) Android
10 1 (0.435%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.435%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (12.61%) Security Testing
2 27 (11.74%) SOA
3 26 (11.30%) Test Automation
4 25 (10.87%) Kanban
5 23 (10.00%) Configuration Management
5 23 (10.00%) TDD
6 22 (9.565%) ETL
7 20 (8.696%) Scrum
7 20 (8.696%) Load Balancing
8 19 (8.261%) Project Management
8 19 (8.261%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (7.826%) BDD
10 16 (6.957%) Incident Management
10 16 (6.957%) Capacity Management
11 15 (6.522%) Performance Testing
11 15 (6.522%) ITIL
12 14 (6.087%) PRINCE2
12 14 (6.087%) Data Modelling
13 12 (5.217%) Kimball Methodology
14 11 (4.783%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 83 (36.09%) SQL
2 65 (28.26%) Java
3 46 (20.00%) PHP
4 36 (15.65%) PL/SQL
5 33 (14.35%) Bash shell
6 32 (13.91%) Perl
7 31 (13.48%) C++
8 29 (12.61%) Python
9 28 (12.17%) JavaScript
10 27 (11.74%) Ruby
11 13 (5.652%) C#
12 10 (4.348%) VB.NET
13 5 (2.174%) VB
14 3 (1.304%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.870%) Jython
15 2 (0.870%) C
16 1 (0.435%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
16 1 (0.435%) Scala
16 1 (0.435%) AWK
Qualifications
1 12 (5.217%) SC Cleared
1 12 (5.217%) Degree
1 12 (5.217%) Security Cleared
2 6 (2.609%) ISEB
2 6 (2.609%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 6 (2.609%) BC Cleared
3 5 (2.174%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.304%) CCAB
5 2 (0.870%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.435%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.435%) PMP
6 1 (0.435%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.043%) QA
2 4 (1.739%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.304%) GAAP
4 1 (0.435%) COBIT
System Software
1 17 (7.391%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.739%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (1.739%) vSphere
3 2 (0.870%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (0.870%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.870%) VMware Server
4 1 (0.435%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 18 (7.826%) Puppet
2 2 (0.870%) NetBackup
2 2 (0.870%) OpenView
2 2 (0.870%) SCCM
2 2 (0.870%) CA Wily
3 1 (0.435%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.435%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (0.435%) PureDisk
3 1 (0.435%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.435%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.435%) Tivoli Remote Control
3 1 (0.435%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.435%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 27 (11.74%) Percona
2 23 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 23 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.696%) VMware
4 14 (6.087%) Adobe
4 14 (6.087%) IBM
4 14 (6.087%) hybris
5 12 (5.217%) Informatica
6 9 (3.913%) HP
6 9 (3.913%) NetApp
7 6 (2.609%) Cisco
7 6 (2.609%) Hyperion
7 6 (2.609%) Business Objects
7 6 (2.609%) Siebel
8 5 (2.174%) Sun
9 4 (1.739%) Symantec
9 4 (1.739%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.739%) JBoss
10 3 (1.304%) DataFlux
10 3 (1.304%) Blue Coat
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