The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 17 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 System Software category for the Merseyside 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 29 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.478% 1.154% -
As % of the System Software category 5.000% 7.895% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £475 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
20 38 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 9.569% 14.62% 8.560%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 11
Average daily rate £275 £268 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.80% -7.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £208 £132
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £463 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 4
Average hourly rate £10.75 £17.00 £21.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.76% -20.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £14.00 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £29.75 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
North West

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle RAC across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Merseyside Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Liverpool +4 1 £475 -5.00%
Oracle RAC
North West

Oracle RAC
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle