Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the London region.

 Oracle
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1088
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2No change0
Matching contract IT job ads309817604275
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London11.96 %10.66 %11.67 %
As % of the Vendors category28.41 %24.93 %25.82 %
Daily rates quoted16526581625
Average daily rate£475£425£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.76 %-5.550 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£300£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£375
% change year-on-year
--6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted272792
Average hourly rate£39.00£33.00£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18 %+10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.70£23.70£17.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£53.20£56.80£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.00£29.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.560 %-16.42 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
10905706016556
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London42.10 %42.77 %45.18 %
Daily rates quoted568926476015
Average daily rate£450£400£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£235£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£350£360
% change year-on-year
-5.710 %-2.770 %
Hourly rates quoted347368983
Average hourly rate£20.00£22.50£21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11 %+4.650 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.00£13.50£14.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£40.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£21.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-9.520 %+5.000 %
Oracle EnglandOracle
England

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.

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 19 March 2010.

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 19 March 2010.

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 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-31021£475+5.55 %
Canary WharfDown-196£550+12.82 %
Docklands, LondonDown-358£475+5.55 %
UxbridgeUp+1014£400+23.07 %
CroydonUp+511£438+47.05 %
HounslowNew entry-4£350-
LutonDown-73£233-
Kingston Upon ThamesUp+12£400-
PaddingtonNew entry-2£500-
New MaldenUp+41£380-27.61 %
DagenhamNo change01£384-
GreenwichNo change01£250-
HammersmithDown-11£340-
FelthamDown-11--
HarrowNew entry-1--
RomfordNew entry-1£375-
OsterleyNew entry-1£335-
Oracle EnglandOracle
England

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

12376 (41.69 %)SQL
21963 (34.44 %)Banking
31776 (31.16 %)Java
41566 (27.48 %)Finance
51396 (24.50 %)UNIX
61358 (23.83 %)Investment Banking
71052 (18.46 %)PL/SQL
8857 (15.04 %)C#
9829 (14.55 %)SQL Server
10820 (14.39 %)Windows
11779 (13.67 %)XML
12774 (13.58 %)Linux
13765 (13.42 %)Oracle 10g
14761 (13.35 %).NET
15747 (13.11 %)Sybase
16647 (11.35 %)Derivative
17625 (10.97 %)J2EE
18567 (9.949 %)C++
19561 (9.844 %)Front Office
20534 (9.370 %)Datawarehouse
21513 (9.002 %)Spring
22423 (7.422 %)Business Intelligence
23416 (7.300 %)Solaris
24403 (7.071 %)OO
25371 (6.510 %)Hibernate
26367 (6.440 %)Perl
27357 (6.264 %)Security Cleared
28355 (6.229 %)Oracle Reports
29338 (5.931 %)Web Services
30330 (5.790 %)Migration

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 Development CategoryApplication Development
1779 (13.67 %)XML
2761 (13.35 %).NET
3625 (10.97 %)J2EE
4513 (9.002 %)Spring
5371 (6.510 %)Hibernate
6338 (5.931 %)Web Services
7247 (4.334 %)STL
8240 (4.211 %)WebSphere
9230 (4.036 %)Middleware
10222 (3.895 %)Oracle Coherence
11181 (3.176 %)JSP
12156 (2.737 %)XSLT
12156 (2.737 %)HTML
12156 (2.737 %)ASP.NET
13145 (2.544 %)JMS
14144 (2.527 %)WinForms
15130 (2.281 %)Struts
16113 (1.983 %)JDBC
17101 (1.772 %)WCF
1899 (1.737 %).NET Framework
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1232 (4.071 %)WebLogic
2150 (2.632 %)Apache
3114 (2.000 %)Oracle Workflow
4112 (1.965 %)MQSeries
5111 (1.948 %)TIBCO EMS
6101 (1.772 %)Tomcat
797 (1.702 %)Rendezvous
895 (1.667 %)IIS
983 (1.456 %)SharePoint
1073 (1.281 %)AquaLogic
1162 (1.088 %)Oracle Application Server
1256 (0.983 %)WebSphere MQ
1355 (0.965 %)WebSphere Application Server
1444 (0.772 %)ESB
1543 (0.755 %)CMS
1642 (0.737 %)Oracle Service Bus
1739 (0.684 %)WebLogic Portal
1835 (0.614 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1835 (0.614 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1932 (0.562 %)SAS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1176 (3.088 %)MS Excel
2100 (1.755 %)MS Office
351 (0.895 %)MS Visio
444 (0.772 %)Spreadsheet
536 (0.632 %)MS Project
617 (0.298 %)MS PowerPoint
713 (0.228 %)MATLAB
810 (0.175 %)CA Clarity
810 (0.175 %)InfoPath
93 (0.053 %)SPSS
93 (0.053 %)GeoMedia
101 (0.018 %)AutoCAD
101 (0.018 %)Photoshop
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1123 (2.158 %)Oracle EBS
2113 (1.983 %)Oracle Applications
3110 (1.930 %)Oracle EBS R12
4104 (1.825 %)Oracle Financials
549 (0.860 %)Oracle BPM
646 (0.807 %)Oracle 11i
741 (0.719 %)Endur
838 (0.667 %)Oracle ERP
937 (0.649 %)Summit
1036 (0.632 %)Oracle iProcurement
1134 (0.597 %)Siebel Analytics
1227 (0.474 %)Oracle CRM
1227 (0.474 %)Oracle General Ledger
1323 (0.404 %)BusinessWorks
1422 (0.386 %)AquaLogic BPM
1422 (0.386 %)Oracle HRMS
1521 (0.368 %)TIBCO iProcess
1618 (0.316 %)LongView
1716 (0.281 %)HFM
1815 (0.263 %)Khalix
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
176 (1.334 %)SAN
267 (1.176 %)TCP/IP
363 (1.105 %)LDAP
462 (1.088 %)HTTP
558 (1.018 %)Internet
649 (0.860 %)WAN
748 (0.842 %)LAN
748 (0.842 %)Firewall
832 (0.562 %)Intranet
929 (0.509 %)DNS
1022 (0.386 %)SSL
1121 (0.368 %)SMTP
1217 (0.298 %)BIG-IP
1316 (0.281 %)NAS
1414 (0.246 %)SSH
1513 (0.228 %)Kerberos
168 (0.140 %)Network Security
168 (0.140 %)VPN
177 (0.123 %)DHCP
177 (0.123 %)FTP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1829 (14.55 %)SQL Server
2765 (13.42 %)Oracle 10g
3534 (9.370 %)Datawarehouse
4355 (6.229 %)Oracle Reports
5329 (5.773 %)Oracle 8/8i
6310 (5.440 %)ETL
7291 (5.106 %)RDBMS
8265 (4.650 %)BusinessObjects
9245 (4.299 %)Oracle 9i
10223 (3.913 %)Oracle 11g
11152 (2.667 %)Oracle BI EE
12135 (2.369 %)SQL Server 2005
13127 (2.228 %)OLTP
14119 (2.088 %)Oracle OWB
1596 (1.685 %)OLAP
1596 (1.685 %)Oracle OLAP
1686 (1.509 %)DB2
1782 (1.439 %)TOAD
1878 (1.369 %)MySQL
1975 (1.316 %)SQL Server Integration Services
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1249 (4.369 %)Subversion
2202 (3.544 %)JUnit
3162 (2.843 %)Oracle Forms
4154 (2.702 %)ClearCase
5152 (2.667 %)Maven
6102 (1.790 %)Visual Studio
794 (1.649 %)Eclipse
873 (1.281 %)JIRA
965 (1.141 %)Ant
1062 (1.088 %)NUnit
1157 (1.000 %)TeamCity
1253 (0.930 %)LoadRunner
1345 (0.790 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1444 (0.772 %)PowerBuilder
1543 (0.755 %)ProC
1640 (0.702 %)Oracle APEX
1722 (0.386 %)CruiseControl
1821 (0.368 %)ClearQuest
1821 (0.368 %)Selenium
1920 (0.351 %)Rational Rose
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11963 (34.44 %)Banking
21566 (27.48 %)Finance
31358 (23.83 %)Investment Banking
4561 (9.844 %)Front Office
5309 (5.422 %)Back Office
6227 (3.983 %)Government
798 (1.720 %)Financial Institution
883 (1.456 %)Retail
972 (1.263 %)General Ledger
1058 (1.018 %)Telecoms
1149 (0.860 %)Insurance
1242 (0.737 %)Law
1339 (0.684 %)Marketing
1437 (0.649 %)Billing
1533 (0.579 %)Construction
1630 (0.526 %)Health
1630 (0.526 %)Legal
1729 (0.509 %)Education
1825 (0.439 %)Publishing
1920 (0.351 %)Games
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12667 (46.80 %)Developer
2931 (16.34 %)Analyst
3780 (13.69 %)Java Developer
4528 (9.265 %)Oracle Developer
5421 (7.387 %)Architect
6369 (6.475 %)C# Developer
7354 (6.212 %)Business Analyst
8342 (6.001 %)Consultant
9298 (5.229 %)DBA
10261 (4.580 %)Senior Developer
11237 (4.159 %)C++ Developer
12229 (4.018 %)Oracle DBA
13208 (3.650 %)Project Manager
14176 (3.088 %)Support Analyst
15170 (2.983 %)Oracle Consultant
16146 (2.562 %).NET Developer
17141 (2.474 %)Administrator
18117 (2.053 %)Senior Java Developer
19113 (1.983 %)SQL Developer
20109 (1.913 %)Applications Support
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1647 (11.35 %)Derivative
2329 (5.773 %)Fixed Income
3266 (4.667 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
4229 (4.018 %)Equities
5159 (2.790 %)Credit Derivative
6151 (2.650 %)Credit Risk
7145 (2.544 %)Multithreading
8136 (2.386 %)Equity Derivative
9135 (2.369 %)Client/Server
10108 (1.895 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1193 (1.632 %)Replication
1281 (1.421 %)Market Risk
1376 (1.334 %)N-Tier
1464 (1.123 %)Clustering
1560 (1.053 %)Grid Computing
1651 (0.895 %)Computer Science
1747 (0.825 %)Management Information System
1840 (0.702 %)Open Source
1936 (0.632 %)Mathematics
2028 (0.491 %)Data Integration
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11396 (24.50 %)UNIX
2820 (14.39 %)Windows
3774 (13.58 %)Linux
4416 (7.300 %)Solaris
5154 (2.702 %)Windows Server 2003
6120 (2.106 %)Red Hat Linux
7119 (2.088 %)AIX
849 (0.860 %)Windows Server 2008
948 (0.842 %)HPUX
1047 (0.825 %)Windows XP
1138 (0.667 %)VMS
1231 (0.544 %)Windows 2000
1329 (0.509 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1411 (0.193 %)MVS
1411 (0.193 %)Windows NT
155 (0.088 %)CentOS
164 (0.070 %)Oracle Enterprise Linux
164 (0.070 %)Windows 2000 Server
164 (0.070 %)zOS
173 (0.053 %)OpenVMS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1423 (7.422 %)Business Intelligence
2403 (7.071 %)OO
3330 (5.790 %)Migration
4308 (5.404 %)Agile Software Development
5256 (4.492 %)Data Modelling
6231 (4.053 %)UML
7220 (3.860 %)SOA
8216 (3.790 %)Project Management
9206 (3.615 %)User Acceptance Testing
10194 (3.404 %)Business Analysis
11184 (3.229 %)Unit Testing
12183 (3.211 %)TDD
13181 (3.176 %)Asset Management
14179 (3.141 %)Scrum
15174 (3.053 %)CRM
16163 (2.860 %)Workflow
17149 (2.614 %)Risk Management
18137 (2.404 %)Data Migration
19132 (2.316 %)ITIL
20130 (2.281 %)OOD
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12376 (41.69 %)SQL
21776 (31.16 %)Java
31052 (18.46 %)PL/SQL
4857 (15.04 %)C#
5567 (9.949 %)C++
6367 (6.440 %)Perl
7328 (5.755 %)Shell Script
8262 (4.597 %)C
9176 (3.088 %)VBA
10169 (2.965 %)JavaScript
11155 (2.720 %)VB
12143 (2.509 %)VC++
1385 (1.491 %)Python
1478 (1.369 %)T-SQL
1554 (0.948 %)VB6
1554 (0.948 %)VB.NET
1642 (0.737 %)Bash shell
1741 (0.719 %)Korn
1830 (0.526 %)VBScript
1925 (0.439 %)PHP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1357 (6.264 %)Security Cleared
2239 (4.194 %)SC Cleared
3162 (2.843 %)Degree
481 (1.421 %)DV Cleared
540 (0.702 %)Oracle Certification
636 (0.632 %)ISEB
728 (0.491 %)Microsoft Certification
819 (0.333 %)CTC Cleared
918 (0.316 %)BC Cleared
1014 (0.246 %)PMI Certification
1014 (0.246 %)MCSE
1014 (0.246 %)MCP
1014 (0.246 %)CIMA
1112 (0.211 %)CISSP
1112 (0.211 %)ACCA
129 (0.158 %)Sun Certification
129 (0.158 %)ITIL Certification
129 (0.158 %)PRINCE2 Certification
129 (0.158 %)ISEB Practitioner
137 (0.123 %)CISM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1177 (3.106 %)QA
222 (0.386 %)SLA
318 (0.316 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
414 (0.246 %)Basel II
57 (0.123 %)WCAG
64 (0.070 %)ISO27001
73 (0.053 %)ISO17799
73 (0.053 %)GCP
73 (0.053 %)HL7
82 (0.035 %)MiFID
91 (0.018 %)BS7799
91 (0.018 %)GAAP
91 (0.018 %)ISO9001
91 (0.018 %)HMG Infosec
91 (0.018 %)COBIT
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1151 (2.650 %)Oracle RAC
270 (1.228 %)Oracle RMAN
354 (0.948 %)VMware Infrastructure
444 (0.772 %)Active Directory
517 (0.298 %)VMware ESX
613 (0.228 %)Veritas Cluster Server
711 (0.193 %)OpenSSO
810 (0.175 %)NFS
99 (0.158 %)Squid
108 (0.140 %)MSMQ
116 (0.105 %)Xen
123 (0.053 %)Veritas Volume Manager
123 (0.053 %)Hyper-V
132 (0.035 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
132 (0.035 %)Sendmail
132 (0.035 %)Veritas File System
132 (0.035 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
141 (0.018 %)Terminal Services
141 (0.018 %)VMware Workstation
141 (0.018 %)SRDF
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1110 (1.930 %)Data Guard
275 (1.316 %)AutoSys
329 (0.509 %)Tivoli
416 (0.281 %)HP Quality Center
416 (0.281 %)NetBackup
515 (0.263 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
515 (0.263 %)Dollar Universe
614 (0.246 %)BMC PATROL
614 (0.246 %)Tivoli NetView
713 (0.228 %)CONTROL-M
811 (0.193 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
98 (0.140 %)Oracle Statspack
107 (0.123 %)MSI
116 (0.105 %)YUM
116 (0.105 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
125 (0.088 %)Tivoli Monitoring
125 (0.088 %)BMC Performance Manager
134 (0.070 %)Backup Exec
134 (0.070 %)Nagios
143 (0.053 %)SCOM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1747 (13.11 %)Sybase
2287 (5.036 %)Microsoft
3276 (4.843 %)TIBCO
4265 (4.650 %)Business Objects
5197 (3.457 %)IBM
6152 (2.667 %)SAP
7151 (2.650 %)Informatica
8146 (2.562 %)Siebel
9126 (2.211 %)Red Hat
10117 (2.053 %)Cognos
11108 (1.895 %)Sun
1299 (1.737 %)VMware
1398 (1.720 %)JBoss
1485 (1.491 %)HP
1578 (1.369 %)DataSynapse
1674 (1.298 %)Hyperion
1760 (1.053 %)BEA
1857 (1.000 %)Bloomberg
1951 (0.895 %)SmartStream
2046 (0.807 %)Reuters