The first table below looks at the demand for OCP in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OCP over the 3 months to 18 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 Qualifications 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank 389 395 447
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +52
Contract jobs citing OCP 3 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.013% 0.068% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.089% 0.470% 0.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 6
Average daily rate £440 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £340 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £436 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £363 £313
% change year-on-year
-17.24% +16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £175.00
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3372 3832 4119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.62% 14.39% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2016 2331 2405
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 111 139
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.25 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £41.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
OCP
England

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London OCP Jobs Demand Trend

OCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London OCP Daily Rate Trend

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OCP across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London OCP Daily Rate Histogram

OCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the London region over the 3 months to 18 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 - 1 £375 - 1
Surbiton - - - -
OCP
England

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OCP 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 OCP.

1 12 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) RHCE
3 5 (41.67%) HP
3 5 (41.67%) VMS
3 5 (41.67%) OpenVMS
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 5 (41.67%) DECnet
3 5 (41.67%) Solaris
3 5 (41.67%) DCL
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (41.67%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) UNIX
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
6 2 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (16.67%) Flash
6 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (16.67%) Basel III
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (16.67%) Data Guard

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing OCP 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 OCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) Flash
2 1 (8.333%) Middleware
2 1 (8.333%) SAP Basis
2 1 (8.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic
1 1 (8.333%) SAS
1 1 (8.333%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Project
1 1 (8.333%) MS Office
1 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DECnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (8.333%) PowerCenter
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle OWB
2 1 (8.333%) TOAD
2 1 (8.333%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.333%) Star Schema
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle 9i
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) DBA
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Senior UNIX Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Auditor
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Administrator
3 1 (8.333%) IT Auditor
3 1 (8.333%) Architect
3 1 (8.333%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Freedom of Information Act
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.333%) Data Extraction
2 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.333%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) VMS
2 5 (41.67%) OpenVMS
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Solaris
3 4 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (8.333%) Data Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Project Planning
4 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (8.333%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) Data Modelling
4 1 (8.333%) ETL
4 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (8.333%) Security Management
4 1 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) DCL
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 5 (41.67%) RHCE
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.333%) MCSE
4 1 (8.333%) MCSA
4 1 (8.333%) CISSP
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.333%) OCA
4 1 (8.333%) ACCA
4 1 (8.333%) CISA
4 1 (8.333%) CISM
4 1 (8.333%) QiCA
4 1 (8.333%) CIMA
4 1 (8.333%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Basel III
2 1 (8.333%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat Satellite
2 2 (16.67%) Data Guard
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
1 5 (41.67%) HP
1 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) Sun
3 1 (8.333%) SAP
3 1 (8.333%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (8.333%) DataFlux
3 1 (8.333%) Informatica
3 1 (8.333%) Veritas
London
Our customer is seeking an experienced Oracle DBA with SC level security clearance... Candidates must have 6-8 years of experience working as Oracle DBA with OCP... Provision...
LCS
Posted: 1 June 2013
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