M4 Corridor Oracle 10g Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Database 10g skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 10g over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 10g
Location Andover Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Corby County Antrim Crewe Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	28
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	5.263 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£349
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.87	£36.55
% change on same period last year	+14.56 %
Database & Business Intelligence M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	24	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.019 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£388
Average daily rate	£346	£388
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£425	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.13	£32.15
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
Oracle 10g South East

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.

Oracle 10g
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 10g across the M4 Corridor region.

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the M4 Corridor region.

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g.

1 9 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 7 (77.78 %) UNIX 3 6 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 3 6 (66.67 %) SQL 4 4 (44.44 %) Shell Script 4 4 (44.44 %) Data Modelling 5 3 (33.33 %) OOD 5 3 (33.33 %) Construction 5 3 (33.33 %) J2EE 5 3 (33.33 %) OO 5 3 (33.33 %) C 5 3 (33.33 %) Ab Initio 5 3 (33.33 %) Korn 5 3 (33.33 %) Oracle RAC 6 2 (22.22 %) Oracle RMAN

6 2 (22.22 %) WebSphere 6 2 (22.22 %) Perl 6 2 (22.22 %) Ant 6 2 (22.22 %) WebLogic 6 2 (22.22 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (22.22 %) Solaris 6 2 (22.22 %) Configuration Management 6 2 (22.22 %) HP 6 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (22.22 %) JMS 6 2 (22.22 %) N-Tier 7 1 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (11.11 %) Oracle Certification 7 1 (11.11 %) NetApp 7 1 (11.11 %) Netcool

Oracle 10g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 2 (22.22 %) JMS 2 2 (22.22 %) WebSphere 3 1 (11.11 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (22.22 %) WebLogic
Communications & Networking 1 1 (11.11 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (22.22 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (11.11 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (11.11 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) Ant 1 2 (22.22 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 3 (33.33 %) Construction 2 1 (11.11 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 6 (66.67 %) Developer 2 3 (33.33 %) DBA 2 3 (33.33 %) Oracle DBA 2 3 (33.33 %) Oracle Developer 2 3 (33.33 %) Ab Initio Developer 3 2 (22.22 %) Senior Oracle DBA 3 2 (22.22 %) Senior DBA 4 1 (11.11 %) Oracle Forms Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) PL/SQL Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 2 (22.22 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 7 (77.78 %) UNIX 2 2 (22.22 %) Solaris 3 1 (11.11 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (44.44 %) Data Modelling 2 3 (33.33 %) OOD 2 3 (33.33 %) OO 3 2 (22.22 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (11.11 %) Security Management 4 1 (11.11 %) Resource Management 4 1 (11.11 %) ERD
Programming Languages 1 6 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 1 6 (66.67 %) SQL 2 4 (44.44 %) Shell Script 3 3 (33.33 %) C 3 3 (33.33 %) Korn 4 2 (22.22 %) Perl 5 1 (11.11 %) PHP 5 1 (11.11 %) Java 5 1 (11.11 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) Oracle Certification
System Software 1 3 (33.33 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (22.22 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (11.11 %) Netcool
Vendors 1 9 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (33.33 %) Ab Initio 3 2 (22.22 %) HP 4 1 (11.11 %) NetApp 4 1 (11.11 %) Cramer