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The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the London 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkOracle
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank109
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching contract IT job ads34215282
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled4.624 %5.209 %
As % of the category below24.07 %24.29 %
Daily rates quoted13701972
Average minimum daily rate£427£433
Average daily rate£454£460
% change on same period last year-1.47 %
Average maximum daily rate£480£488
UK excluding London average daily rate£376£368
% change on same period last year+2.12 %
Hourly rates quoted92200
Average minimum hourly rate£30.17£32.31
Average hourly rate£32.70£34.39
% change on same period last year-4.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate£35.24£36.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.91£32.28
% change on same period last year+5.03 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
London
Matching contract IT job ads1421421747
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled19.21 %21.45 %
Daily rates quoted56387671
Average minimum daily rate£403£421
Average daily rate£430£448
% change on same period last year-4.09 %
Average maximum daily rate£457£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£361£358
% change on same period last year+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted8501308
Average minimum hourly rate£22.78£24.87
Average hourly rate£24.39£26.38
% change on same period last year-7.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.01£27.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.29£24.78
% change on same period last year-1.97 %
Oracle EnglandOracle
England

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.

Oracle
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

London Oracle Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

London Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

London Oracle Hourly Rate Histogram

Oracle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the London region over the 3 months to 5 September 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.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-3891£479-0.26 %
Docklands, LondonUp+3135£408-16.68 %
Canary WharfUp+144£424-15.22 %
UxbridgeUp+319£396+40.01 %
CroydonUp+216£478+28.89 %
FelthamNew entry-9--
HammersmithDown-29£431+58.48 %
BrentfordUp+26£475-
LutonDown-14--
WembleyUp+23--
WimbledonDown-12£275-27.86 %
HendonNew entry-2£550-
TwickenhamDown-32£300-
SouthwarkNew entry-2£420-
New MaldenNew entry-2£488-
EalingUp+52£438-
SidcupUp+31--
BexleyheathNew entry-1£275-
BarkingNew entry-1--
HarrowNew entry-1£300-
HayesNew entry-1--
WestminsterDown-31£475-
LewishamUp+41£400-
HounslowDown-51--
Oracle EnglandOracle
England

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

12790 (39.58 %)SQL
21874 (26.59 %)Finance
31827 (25.92 %)UNIX
41790 (25.39 %)Banking
51721 (24.41 %)Java
61273 (18.06 %)Oracle 10g
71255 (17.80 %)Investment Banking
81224 (17.36 %)PL/SQL
91209 (17.15 %)SQL Server
10943 (13.38 %)Windows
11900 (12.77 %)XML
12860 (12.20 %)Sybase
13841 (11.93 %)C#
14796 (11.29 %)J2EE
15786 (11.15 %)Linux
16742 (10.53 %).NET
17650 (9.221 %)Datawarehouse
18624 (8.852 %)Solaris
19615 (8.725 %)Oracle 9i
20562 (7.973 %)OO
21530 (7.519 %)Derivative
22524 (7.434 %)Security Cleared
23515 (7.306 %)Government
24513 (7.278 %)Oracle Reports
25509 (7.221 %)Oracle 8/8i
26477 (6.767 %)C++
27456 (6.469 %)Front Office
28451 (6.398 %)WebLogic
29443 (6.285 %)Shell Script
30438 (6.214 %)ETL

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1900 (12.77 %)XML
2796 (11.29 %)J2EE
3742 (10.53 %).NET
4407 (5.774 %)Spring
5383 (5.433 %)Hibernate
6381 (5.405 %)WebServices
7352 (4.994 %)HTML
8244 (3.461 %)WebSphere
9213 (3.022 %)Middleware
10210 (2.979 %)JSP
11206 (2.922 %)ASP.NET
12198 (2.809 %)Struts
13160 (2.270 %)XSLT
14154 (2.185 %)EJB
15140 (1.986 %)WinForms
16137 (1.944 %)AJAX
17129 (1.830 %)CSS
18118 (1.674 %)SOAP
19104 (1.475 %)Servlets
2097 (1.376 %)JDBC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1451 (6.398 %)WebLogic
2200 (2.837 %)Apache
3198 (2.809 %)Tomcat
4145 (2.057 %)JBoss
5121 (1.717 %)IIS
6119 (1.688 %)Oracle Workflow
7110 (1.561 %)Oracle Application Server
884 (1.192 %)TIBCO EMS
977 (1.092 %)MQSeries
1071 (1.007 %)Rendezvous
1161 (0.865 %)SharePoint
1256 (0.794 %)Oracle 10gAS
1354 (0.766 %)MS Exchange
1354 (0.766 %)SAS
1453 (0.752 %)WebSphere Application Server
1549 (0.695 %)WebLogic Portal
1646 (0.653 %)ESB
1745 (0.638 %)CMS
1834 (0.482 %)Exchange Server 2003
1932 (0.454 %)ArcGIS
London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1187 (2.653 %)MS Office
2180 (2.554 %)MS Excel
3110 (1.561 %)MS Project
476 (1.078 %)Spreadsheet
559 (0.837 %)MS Visio
620 (0.284 %)CA Clarity
712 (0.170 %)Open Workbench
89 (0.128 %)MS PowerPoint
96 (0.085 %)DOC1
105 (0.071 %)Photoshop
112 (0.028 %)Adobe Illustrator
112 (0.028 %)ArcView
121 (0.014 %)InfoPath
121 (0.014 %)SPSS
121 (0.014 %)PageMaker
121 (0.014 %)FrameMaker
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1199 (2.823 %)Oracle Financials
2158 (2.241 %)Oracle EBS
3141 (2.000 %)Oracle Applications
466 (0.936 %)Oracle 11i
555 (0.780 %)Oracle HRMS
647 (0.667 %)Oracle ERP
745 (0.638 %)Oracle General Ledger
839 (0.553 %)Endur
937 (0.525 %)Siebel Analytics
1035 (0.497 %)Loan IQ
1134 (0.482 %)Oracle CRM
1227 (0.383 %)BusinessWorks
1227 (0.383 %)Oracle Payroll
1325 (0.355 %)Summit
1422 (0.312 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1521 (0.298 %)TIBCO iProcess
1619 (0.270 %)RMDS
1718 (0.255 %)Oracle Financial Analyzer
1817 (0.241 %)SAP HR
1817 (0.241 %)Findur
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1172 (2.440 %)TCP/IP
2162 (2.298 %)SAN
3108 (1.532 %)Internet
478 (1.107 %)Firewall
577 (1.092 %)LDAP
675 (1.064 %)WAN
767 (0.950 %)LAN
848 (0.681 %)Intranet
937 (0.525 %)DHCP
1036 (0.511 %)HTTP
1133 (0.468 %)DNS
1226 (0.369 %)SNMP
1226 (0.369 %)FTP
1324 (0.340 %)SSL
1419 (0.270 %)BIG-IP
1419 (0.270 %)Network Security
1518 (0.255 %)VPN
1617 (0.241 %)VoIP
1714 (0.199 %)Ethernet
1810 (0.142 %)SSH
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11273 (18.06 %)Oracle 10g
21209 (17.15 %)SQL Server
3650 (9.221 %)Datawarehouse
4615 (8.725 %)Oracle 9i
5513 (7.278 %)Oracle Reports
6509 (7.221 %)Oracle 8/8i
7438 (6.214 %)ETL
8394 (5.589 %)BusinessObjects
9311 (4.412 %)RDBMS
10226 (3.206 %)Oracle Discoverer
11215 (3.050 %)MySQL
12200 (2.837 %)SQL Server 2005
13184 (2.610 %)TOAD
14170 (2.412 %)Oracle OWB
15159 (2.256 %)SQL Server 2000
16141 (2.000 %)DB2
1797 (1.376 %)OLAP
1797 (1.376 %)Oracle OLAP
1891 (1.291 %)Crystal Reports
1969 (0.979 %)MS Access
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1183 (2.596 %)Oracle Forms
1183 (2.596 %)Eclipse
2165 (2.341 %)Ant
3151 (2.142 %)JUnit
4125 (1.773 %)ClearCase
591 (1.291 %)Visual Studio
682 (1.163 %)LoadRunner
776 (1.078 %)Subversion
868 (0.965 %)Rational Rose
960 (0.851 %)NUnit
1049 (0.695 %)ClearQuest
1148 (0.681 %)TestDirector
1245 (0.638 %)QuickTest Pro
1245 (0.638 %)JDeveloper
1342 (0.596 %)Oracle APEX
1441 (0.582 %)RequisitePro
1540 (0.567 %)ERwin
1637 (0.525 %)JIRA
1730 (0.426 %)Selenium
1824 (0.340 %)PVCS
London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11874 (26.59 %)Finance
21790 (25.39 %)Banking
31255 (17.80 %)Investment Banking
4515 (7.306 %)Government
5456 (6.469 %)Front Office
6210 (2.979 %)Back Office
7164 (2.327 %)Retail
8133 (1.887 %)Telecoms
9129 (1.830 %)Financial Institution
10113 (1.603 %)Insurance
1180 (1.135 %)General Ledger
1262 (0.880 %)Education
1343 (0.610 %)Publishing
1432 (0.454 %)Marketing
1531 (0.440 %)Games
1629 (0.411 %)Legal
1629 (0.411 %)Billing
1728 (0.397 %)Retail Banking
1827 (0.383 %)Health
1926 (0.369 %)Police
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12726 (38.67 %)Developer
21124 (15.95 %)Analyst
3736 (10.44 %)DBA
4679 (9.633 %)Java Developer
5647 (9.179 %)Oracle Developer
6590 (8.370 %)Oracle DBA
7485 (6.880 %)Consultant
8447 (6.341 %)Architect
9308 (4.369 %)C# Developer
10299 (4.242 %)Administrator
11292 (4.142 %)Support Analyst
12258 (3.660 %)Project Manager
13243 (3.447 %)Business Analyst
14239 (3.391 %)Senior Developer
15212 (3.008 %)Oracle Consultant
16182 (2.582 %)J2EE Developer
17165 (2.341 %)Applications Support
18155 (2.199 %)Java/J2EE Developer
19153 (2.171 %).NET Developer
20144 (2.043 %)C++ Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1530 (7.519 %)Derivative
2376 (5.334 %)Fixed Income
3217 (3.078 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4212 (3.008 %)Credit Risk
5172 (2.440 %)Credit Derivative
6120 (1.702 %)Equities
7117 (1.660 %)Equity Derivative
8106 (1.504 %)Replication
9103 (1.461 %)Clustering
1094 (1.334 %)Multithreading
1184 (1.192 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1275 (1.064 %)N-Tier
1370 (0.993 %)Management Information System
1454 (0.766 %)Client/Server
1454 (0.766 %)Market Risk
1549 (0.695 %)Data Extraction
1647 (0.667 %)Computer Science
1744 (0.624 %)Grid Computing
1841 (0.582 %)NHS
1937 (0.525 %)Data Integration
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11827 (25.92 %)UNIX
2943 (13.38 %)Windows
3786 (11.15 %)Linux
4624 (8.852 %)Solaris
5201 (2.851 %)Windows Server 2003
6188 (2.667 %)Red Hat Linux
7125 (1.773 %)AIX
875 (1.064 %)Windows 2000
974 (1.050 %)HPUX
1068 (0.965 %)Windows XP
1155 (0.780 %)Windows 2000 Server
1233 (0.468 %)Windows NT
1319 (0.270 %)VMS
1415 (0.213 %)CentOS
1415 (0.213 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1510 (0.142 %)Windows Vista
1510 (0.142 %)SUSE
167 (0.099 %)Fedora
175 (0.071 %)Windows Server 2008
184 (0.057 %)Mac OS X Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1562 (7.973 %)OO
2524 (7.434 %)Security Cleared
3405 (5.745 %)Migration
4395 (5.604 %)UML
5383 (5.433 %)Business Intelligence
6352 (4.994 %)Data Modelling
7321 (4.554 %)SC Cleared
8252 (3.575 %)Project Management
9190 (2.695 %)SOA
10186 (2.639 %)ITIL
11180 (2.554 %)Data Analysis
12177 (2.511 %)PRINCE2
13174 (2.468 %)User Acceptance Testing
14165 (2.341 %)Asset Management
15164 (2.327 %)Data Migration
16156 (2.213 %)ERP
17152 (2.156 %)Workflow
18143 (2.029 %)Agile Software Development
19132 (1.873 %)Risk Management
20130 (1.844 %)RUP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
12790 (39.58 %)SQL
21721 (24.41 %)Java
31224 (17.36 %)PL/SQL
4841 (11.93 %)C#
5477 (6.767 %)C++
6443 (6.285 %)Shell Script
7428 (6.072 %)Perl
8263 (3.731 %)VBA
9254 (3.603 %)VB
10231 (3.277 %)JavaScript
11165 (2.341 %)C
1299 (1.404 %)Transact-SQL
1391 (1.291 %)PHP
1481 (1.149 %)VB6
1573 (1.036 %)VB.NET
1662 (0.880 %)VBScript
1760 (0.851 %)Korn
1851 (0.724 %)Python
1944 (0.624 %)VC++
2040 (0.567 %)XQuery
London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1225 (3.192 %)Degree
2104 (1.475 %)ISEB
355 (0.780 %)Microsoft Certification
445 (0.638 %)MCSE
536 (0.511 %)Oracle Certification
626 (0.369 %)RHCE
724 (0.340 %)PRINCE2 Certification
821 (0.298 %)Sun Certification
918 (0.255 %)CISSP
1017 (0.241 %)Cisco Certification
1017 (0.241 %)CCNA
1112 (0.170 %)OCP
1211 (0.156 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
138 (0.113 %)ISEB Practitioner
138 (0.113 %)SCSA
138 (0.113 %)ISTQB
138 (0.113 %)MCP
147 (0.099 %)ITIL Certification
147 (0.099 %)ACCA
155 (0.071 %)CIMA
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1111 (1.575 %)QA
242 (0.596 %)SLA
332 (0.454 %)Basel II
421 (0.298 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
510 (0.142 %)BS7799
68 (0.113 %)ISO17799
68 (0.113 %)ISO9000
77 (0.099 %)ISO9001
85 (0.071 %)CDISC
94 (0.057 %)ISO27001
103 (0.043 %)GxP
103 (0.043 %)GLP
103 (0.043 %)MiFID
112 (0.028 %)GCP
112 (0.028 %)EFQM
121 (0.014 %)RosettaNet
121 (0.014 %)GAAP
121 (0.014 %)TickIT
121 (0.014 %)WAI
121 (0.014 %)ISO14443
London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1235 (3.334 %)Oracle RAC
2167 (2.369 %)Oracle RMAN
3118 (1.674 %)Active Directory
4105 (1.490 %)AquaLogic
557 (0.809 %)VMware ESX
645 (0.638 %)NetBackup
727 (0.383 %)VMware Infrastructure
811 (0.156 %)Backup Exec
99 (0.128 %)Squid
99 (0.128 %)MetaFrame
99 (0.128 %)Samba
105 (0.071 %)VMware GSX
105 (0.071 %)Citrix Presentation Server
113 (0.043 %)Xen
113 (0.043 %)LiteSpeed
113 (0.043 %)NFS
122 (0.028 %)MSMQ
122 (0.028 %)Terminal Services
122 (0.028 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
131 (0.014 %)ISA Server
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
161 (0.865 %)Tivoli
255 (0.780 %)AutoSys
329 (0.411 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
423 (0.326 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
520 (0.284 %)Tivoli Monitoring
616 (0.227 %)CA SiteMinder
715 (0.213 %)Oracle Statspack
814 (0.199 %)EMC NetWorker
913 (0.184 %)EMC TimeFinder
1010 (0.142 %)CONTROL-M
1010 (0.142 %)Netcool
119 (0.128 %)MOM
128 (0.113 %)OpenView
128 (0.113 %)BMC PATROL
128 (0.113 %)Foglight
136 (0.085 %)Unicenter
136 (0.085 %)Legato
145 (0.071 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
145 (0.071 %)Norton AntiVirus
154 (0.057 %)HP Data Protector
London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1860 (12.20 %)Sybase
2435 (6.171 %)Microsoft
3394 (5.589 %)Business Objects
4269 (3.816 %)TIBCO
5223 (3.164 %)IBM
6222 (3.149 %)SAP
7190 (2.695 %)Siebel
7190 (2.695 %)BEA
8189 (2.681 %)Red Hat
9184 (2.610 %)Cognos
10182 (2.582 %)Sun
11157 (2.227 %)Informatica
12152 (2.156 %)Calypso
13139 (1.972 %)HP
14114 (1.617 %)VERITAS
15108 (1.532 %)VMware
1695 (1.348 %)EMC
1784 (1.192 %)DataSynapse
1882 (1.163 %)Remedy
1977 (1.092 %)Murex
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