The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle EBS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle EBS over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Business Applications category for the Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS)
Rank 59 78 67
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 14 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.497% 0.541% 0.189%
As % of the Business Applications category 15.05% 5.224% 1.600%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
Average daily rate £359 - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £15.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+217.46% -58.00%
All Business Applications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
93 134 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 9.947% 10.36% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 70 54
Average daily rate £415 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.35% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £700 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 15
Average hourly rate £13.25 £37.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-64.18% +105.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.10 £37.00 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £37.00 £18.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Oracle EBS
North West

Oracle EBS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle EBS across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Manchester Oracle EBS Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Oracle EBS Daily Rate Trend

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle EBS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester Oracle EBS Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle EBS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Oracle EBS 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 EBS.

1 25 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (52.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (40.00%) Finance
4 9 (36.00%) Oracle 11g
4 9 (36.00%) Oracle BI EE
5 7 (28.00%) Migration
6 6 (24.00%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (24.00%) Middleware
7 5 (20.00%) RFID
7 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
7 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Finite Element Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) Revenue Management
8 4 (16.00%) Billing
8 4 (16.00%) Systems Analysis
8 4 (16.00%) Zachman Framework
8 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
8 4 (16.00%) HFM
8 4 (16.00%) Project Management
8 4 (16.00%) Mainframe
8 4 (16.00%) Intranet
8 4 (16.00%) Internet
8 4 (16.00%) Extranet
8 4 (16.00%) Hyperion
9 3 (12.00%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (12.00%) Oracle OWB
9 3 (12.00%) Data Migration

Oracle EBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Oracle EBS 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 EBS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (24.00%) Middleware
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.000%) Web Services
3 1 (4.000%) XML
3 1 (4.000%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (24.00%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (16.00%) HFM
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (4.000%) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) RFID
2 4 (16.00%) Intranet
2 4 (16.00%) Internet
2 4 (16.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle 11g
1 9 (36.00%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle OWB
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.000%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.000%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) ProC
General
1 10 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Billing
3 1 (4.000%) Back Office
3 1 (4.000%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Consultant
1 5 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 4 (16.00%) Technical Leader
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Systems Support
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (16.00%) DBA
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (8.000%) OBIEE Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle Applications Functional Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle Applications Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.000%) UNIX
1 2 (8.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Finite Element Analysis
3 4 (16.00%) Revenue Management
3 4 (16.00%) Systems Analysis
3 4 (16.00%) Zachman Framework
3 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
3 4 (16.00%) Project Management
4 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (8.000%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.000%) Analytics
5 2 (8.000%) Data Management
5 2 (8.000%) Data Modelling
5 2 (8.000%) SOA
5 2 (8.000%) ETL
5 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.000%) UML
6 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.000%) SQL
2 1 (4.000%) COBOL
2 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) ISEB
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Hyperion
3 2 (8.000%) Informatica
3 2 (8.000%) Red Hat