The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Leicestershire 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 Database 8/8i
Rank - 19 32
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 0 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire - 2.844% 1.724%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 12.77% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £357 £369 £390
% change year-on-year
-3.25% -5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £37.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-13.24% +13.84%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
52 47 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 24.53% 22.27% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 15
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.08% +0.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £191 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £431 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 14
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.00 £8.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
Oracle 8/8i
East Midlands

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Oracle 8/8i Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 8 (100.00%) Oracle
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (75.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Siemens
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) .NET
3 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
3 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 5 (62.50%) Modbus
4 3 (37.50%) MVVM
4 3 (37.50%) Expression Blend
4 3 (37.50%) WPF
4 3 (37.50%) Silverlight
4 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Telerik
4 3 (37.50%) Infragistics
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
6 1 (12.50%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) MS Excel

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (62.50%) .NET
1 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) WPF
2 3 (37.50%) Silverlight
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
1 5 (62.50%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (37.50%) Expression Blend
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) MVVM
1 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Chartered Engineer
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Siemens
4 3 (37.50%) Telerik
4 3 (37.50%) Infragistics