The first table below looks at the demand for Data Guard skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Guard over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Systems Management category for the London 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Data Guard
Rank 368 383 399
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 22 33 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.096% 0.124% 0.136%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.607% 2.030% 2.794%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 18
Average daily rate £400 £413 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -13.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £449 £518 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £388 £313
% change year-on-year
-1.93% +24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £27.37
% change year-on-year
-36.36% +100.94%
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1369 1626 1503
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.944% 6.099% 4.850%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 888 860
Average daily rate £425 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
+3.84% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 40 73
Average hourly rate £23.75 £25.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +19.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £17.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £33.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Guard across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

London Data Guard Jobs Demand Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Data Guard Daily Rate Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Guard across the London region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

London Data Guard Daily Rate Histogram

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Data Guard Hourly Rate Trend

Data Guard
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Guard within the London region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +19 10 £425 +6.25% 8
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Surbiton - - - -
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard.

1 66 (100.00%) Oracle
2 57 (86.36%) Oracle 11g
3 48 (72.73%) Oracle RAC
4 34 (51.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 34 (51.52%) Oracle 10g
5 33 (50.00%) Linux
6 30 (45.45%) SQL
7 27 (40.91%) UNIX
8 25 (37.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 22 (33.33%) Finance
10 20 (30.30%) SQL Server
10 20 (30.30%) Red Hat
11 19 (28.79%) Shell Script
12 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
13 15 (22.73%) AIX
14 13 (19.70%) Oracle EBS
14 13 (19.70%) Replication
14 13 (19.70%) DV Cleared
15 12 (18.18%) High Availability
16 11 (16.67%) PL/SQL
16 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (15.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
17 10 (15.15%) Nagios
17 10 (15.15%) Oracle EBS R12
18 9 (13.64%) Oracle 9i
18 9 (13.64%) Banking
19 8 (12.12%) Clustering
19 8 (12.12%) Migration
19 8 (12.12%) Oracle Applications
19 8 (12.12%) Solaris

Data Guard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (9.091%) Middleware
2 4 (6.061%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.030%) WebCenter
3 2 (3.030%) Flash
3 2 (3.030%) Oracle Streams
4 1 (1.515%) SAP Basis
4 1 (1.515%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.091%) WebLogic
2 5 (7.576%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (6.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (4.545%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (3.030%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (1.515%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (1.515%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (1.515%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.545%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.515%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.515%) MS Project
2 1 (1.515%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (19.70%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (12.12%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (4.545%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (1.515%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.061%) LDAP
1 4 (6.061%) SAN
2 3 (4.545%) NAS
3 1 (1.515%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.515%) Internet
3 1 (1.515%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.515%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (86.36%) Oracle 11g
2 34 (51.52%) Oracle 10g
3 20 (30.30%) SQL Server
4 11 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (13.64%) Oracle 9i
6 8 (12.12%) Oracle BI EE
6 8 (12.12%) Oracle Exadata
6 8 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (12.12%) RDBMS
7 5 (7.576%) Ingres
7 5 (7.576%) Oracle Discoverer
7 5 (7.576%) OLAP
7 5 (7.576%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (7.576%) Oracle OLAP
8 4 (6.061%) MySQL
8 4 (6.061%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (4.545%) Essbase
10 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
10 2 (3.030%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (3.030%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (3.030%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (33.33%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Banking
3 7 (10.61%) Financial Institution
4 5 (7.576%) French Language
5 4 (6.061%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.515%) Retail
6 1 (1.515%) Back Office
6 1 (1.515%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 51 (77.27%) DBA
2 42 (63.64%) Oracle DBA
3 6 (9.091%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 4 (6.061%) Administrator
5 3 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.030%) SQL DBA
6 2 (3.030%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 2 (3.030%) Senior DBA
7 1 (1.515%) Technical Leader
7 1 (1.515%) Linux Specialist
7 1 (1.515%) Database Architect
7 1 (1.515%) MySQL DBA
7 1 (1.515%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (1.515%) Oracle Consultant
7 1 (1.515%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (1.515%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (1.515%) Database Specialist
7 1 (1.515%) Architect
7 1 (1.515%) Developer
7 1 (1.515%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Replication
2 8 (12.12%) Clustering
3 2 (3.030%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.515%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.515%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.515%) Streaming Media
4 1 (1.515%) Wiki
4 1 (1.515%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 33 (50.00%) Linux
2 27 (40.91%) UNIX
3 25 (37.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (22.73%) AIX
5 8 (12.12%) Solaris
6 5 (7.576%) Windows
7 1 (1.515%) HPUX
7 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.515%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.515%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.515%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (18.18%) High Availability
2 8 (12.12%) Migration
3 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
4 6 (9.091%) Change Management
4 6 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (7.576%) SOA
5 5 (7.576%) Incident Management
6 4 (6.061%) Product Management
6 4 (6.061%) ITIL
6 4 (6.061%) Data Modelling
7 3 (4.545%) BCP
7 3 (4.545%) Business Continuity
7 3 (4.545%) Service Delivery
8 2 (3.030%) Database Tuning
8 2 (3.030%) Build Automation
8 2 (3.030%) Project Management
9 1 (1.515%) Service Management
9 1 (1.515%) ERP
9 1 (1.515%) ETL
9 1 (1.515%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 30 (45.45%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) Shell Script
3 11 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 8 (12.12%) Java
5 5 (7.576%) Perl
6 4 (6.061%) Korn
7 1 (1.515%) VB
7 1 (1.515%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.70%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.545%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.030%) OCP
4 2 (3.030%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (3.030%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.545%) QA
2 1 (1.515%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.515%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (72.73%) Oracle RAC
2 34 (51.52%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (4.545%) NFS
4 1 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.515%) SRDF
4 1 (1.515%) vSphere
4 1 (1.515%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 10 (15.15%) Nagios
2 2 (3.030%) Foglight
2 2 (3.030%) Zenoss
2 2 (3.030%) OpenView
2 2 (3.030%) Legato
2 2 (3.030%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (1.515%) Puppet
3 1 (1.515%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (30.30%) Red Hat
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.61%) EMC
3 7 (10.61%) NetApp
4 5 (7.576%) Sybase
5 4 (6.061%) HP
6 2 (3.030%) Veritas
6 2 (3.030%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.515%) Informatica
7 1 (1.515%) SAP
7 1 (1.515%) Sun
7 1 (1.515%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.515%) VMware
City, London
DBA - Oracle - Exadata - RAC - City - London - Banking - £Excellent daily rate - Contract. My client is a global organisation seeks a technically astute Oracle dba to join their team. They...
McGregor Boyall
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Skills and Experience Required Proven prior experience of technical service delivery Advanced experience of Oracle Database infrastructures in large corporate organisations Knowledge of Oracle 9i/10g/11g server...
Nicoll Curtin
Rate: £475 - £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
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