Leicestershire Oracle Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leicestershire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Driffield Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewisham Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester 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 Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	17
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	25	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	15.00 %
Daily rates quoted	12	8
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£283
Average daily rate	£323	£285
% change on same period last year	+13.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£287
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£36.50	£25.85
% change on same period last year	+41.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£29.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.07	£31.53
% change on same period last year	+8.06 %
Vendors Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	150	140
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.200 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	38	22
Average minimum daily rate	£237	£287
Average daily rate	£246	£303
% change on same period last year	-18.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£255	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.50	£15.59
Average hourly rate	£19.55	£16.64
% change on same period last year	+17.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.61	£17.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
Oracle East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Leicester	+1	5	£308	-0.69 %
Loughborough	-2	2	£330	+20.73 %
Hinckley	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 17 (34.69 %) Windows 2 15 (30.61 %) UNIX 3 14 (28.57 %) SQL 4 13 (26.53 %) Oracle 10g 5 11 (22.45 %) AIX 6 10 (20.41 %) PL/SQL 6 10 (20.41 %) HTML 6 10 (20.41 %) Java 7 9 (18.37 %) Solaris 7 9 (18.37 %) UML 7 9 (18.37 %) Oracle 9i 8 8 (16.33 %) SAN 8 8 (16.33 %) JavaScript 8 8 (16.33 %) Perl 9 7 (14.29 %) Migration

10 6 (12.24 %) Finance 10 6 (12.24 %) Clustering 10 6 (12.24 %) Beowulf 10 6 (12.24 %) WebSphere 10 6 (12.24 %) VB 10 6 (12.24 %) .NET 10 6 (12.24 %) WebLogic 10 6 (12.24 %) Linux 10 6 (12.24 %) Red Hat 10 6 (12.24 %) IRIX 10 6 (12.24 %) Apache 11 5 (10.20 %) Oracle Reports 11 5 (10.20 %) Banking 11 5 (10.20 %) Validation 12 4 (8.163 %) Web Development

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 10 (20.41 %) HTML 2 6 (12.24 %) .NET 2 6 (12.24 %) WebSphere 3 4 (8.163 %) Spring 3 4 (8.163 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (8.163 %) WebServices 4 2 (4.082 %) XML 4 2 (4.082 %) XSLT 4 2 (4.082 %) MVC 4 2 (4.082 %) Hibernate 4 2 (4.082 %) JDBC 4 2 (4.082 %) JSP 4 2 (4.082 %) Struts 4 2 (4.082 %) AJAX 4 2 (4.082 %) JSTL 4 2 (4.082 %) Apache Axis 4 2 (4.082 %) Spring MVC	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.24 %) Apache 1 6 (12.24 %) WebLogic 2 2 (4.082 %) IIS 2 2 (4.082 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (4.082 %) Tomcat 2 2 (4.082 %) MQSeries 2 2 (4.082 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 10gAS
Business Applications 1 3 (6.122 %) Oracle HRMS 2 2 (4.082 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle CRM 3 1 (2.041 %) Oracle 11i	Communications & Networking 1 8 (16.33 %) SAN 2 3 (6.122 %) LAN 2 3 (6.122 %) WAN 3 2 (4.082 %) MPLS 3 2 (4.082 %) Firewall 4 1 (2.041 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (26.53 %) Oracle 10g 2 9 (18.37 %) Oracle 9i 3 5 (10.20 %) Oracle Reports 4 3 (6.122 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (4.082 %) SQL Server 5 2 (4.082 %) DB2 5 2 (4.082 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (4.082 %) Informix 5 2 (4.082 %) Data Cleansing 6 1 (2.041 %) BusinessObjects 6 1 (2.041 %) JasperReports 6 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 2 (4.082 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (4.082 %) Log4j 2 1 (2.041 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 6 (12.24 %) Finance 2 5 (10.20 %) Banking 3 2 (4.082 %) Government 3 2 (4.082 %) Legal 3 2 (4.082 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (2.041 %) Electric 4 1 (2.041 %) Billing 4 1 (2.041 %) Local Government 4 1 (2.041 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 12 (24.49 %) Developer 1 12 (24.49 %) DBA 2 11 (22.45 %) Oracle DBA 3 7 (14.29 %) Analyst 4 6 (12.24 %) UNIX Specialist 5 5 (10.20 %) Systems Analyst 6 4 (8.163 %) Administrator 6 4 (8.163 %) Oracle Developer 7 3 (6.122 %) Solutions Architect 7 3 (6.122 %) Architect 8 2 (4.082 %) Business Analyst 8 2 (4.082 %) Software Engineer 8 2 (4.082 %) Business Systems Analyst 8 2 (4.082 %) Consultant 8 2 (4.082 %) Systems Administrator 8 2 (4.082 %) Systems Manager 8 2 (4.082 %) .NET Team Leader 8 2 (4.082 %) Performance Manager 8 2 (4.082 %) Java Developer 8 2 (4.082 %) Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 6 (12.24 %) Clustering 1 6 (12.24 %) Beowulf 2 2 (4.082 %) Mainframe 2 2 (4.082 %) Informatics 3 1 (2.041 %) Data Conversion 3 1 (2.041 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.041 %) Taxonomies 3 1 (2.041 %) Ontologies	Operating Systems 1 17 (34.69 %) Windows 2 15 (30.61 %) UNIX 3 11 (22.45 %) AIX 4 9 (18.37 %) Solaris 5 6 (12.24 %) Linux 5 6 (12.24 %) IRIX 6 2 (4.082 %) Windows NT 6 2 (4.082 %) HPUX 7 1 (2.041 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (18.37 %) UML 2 7 (14.29 %) Migration 3 5 (10.20 %) Validation 4 4 (8.163 %) Web Development 4 4 (8.163 %) Data Migration 5 3 (6.122 %) Test Management 5 3 (6.122 %) RAD 6 2 (4.082 %) SSADM 6 2 (4.082 %) CRM 6 2 (4.082 %) OOD 6 2 (4.082 %) OO 6 2 (4.082 %) Disaster Recovery 6 2 (4.082 %) Yourdon 6 2 (4.082 %) Software Engineering 7 1 (2.041 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (2.041 %) Software Testing 7 1 (2.041 %) Data Management 7 1 (2.041 %) Data Security 7 1 (2.041 %) ITIL 7 1 (2.041 %) E-business	Programming Languages 1 14 (28.57 %) SQL 2 10 (20.41 %) PL/SQL 2 10 (20.41 %) Java 3 8 (16.33 %) JavaScript 3 8 (16.33 %) Perl 4 6 (12.24 %) VB 5 3 (6.122 %) VB6 6 2 (4.082 %) VB.NET 6 2 (4.082 %) C 6 2 (4.082 %) C# 6 2 (4.082 %) C++
Qualifications 1 3 (6.122 %) Oracle Certification 2 2 (4.082 %) Degree 2 2 (4.082 %) HNC 2 2 (4.082 %) OCP 2 2 (4.082 %) OCA 3 1 (2.041 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) ISO9001 1 2 (4.082 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (4.082 %) Oracle RMAN 1 2 (4.082 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 2 (4.082 %) BMC PATROL 1 2 (4.082 %) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors 1 6 (12.24 %) Red Hat 2 4 (8.163 %) IBM 3 2 (4.082 %) Sun 3 2 (4.082 %) BMC 4 1 (2.041 %) Sybase 4 1 (2.041 %) Business Objects