Midlands Oracle 10g Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Database 10g skills within the Midlands 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 10g
Location Aberdeen Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford Wells West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	53
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	16	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	7.619 %	7.273 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£342
Average daily rate	£388	£362
% change on same period last year	+6.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£366	£347
% change on same period last year	+5.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.75	-
Average hourly rate	£41.63	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£42.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.50	£36.57
% change on same period last year	+5.30 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	210	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.297 %	0.334 %
Daily rates quoted	23	42
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£356
Average daily rate	£345	£382
% change on same period last year	-9.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.89	£23.93
Average hourly rate	£27.87	£24.72
% change on same period last year	+12.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.84	£25.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.89
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %
Oracle 10g 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.

Oracle 10g
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Midlands 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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 63 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 43 (68.25 %) SQL 3 35 (55.56 %) JavaScript 4 34 (53.97 %) HTML 5 28 (44.44 %) Oracle Designer 10g 6 27 (42.86 %) Java 7 16 (25.40 %) PL/SQL 8 12 (19.05 %) Oracle 9i 9 9 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports 10 8 (12.70 %) UNIX 10 8 (12.70 %) Windows 11 7 (11.11 %) XML 11 7 (11.11 %) Oracle Forms 12 5 (7.937 %) Finance 12 5 (7.937 %) Microsoft

12 5 (7.937 %) CSS 12 5 (7.937 %) Datawarehouse 13 4 (6.349 %) ASP.NET 13 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 13 4 (6.349 %) C# 13 4 (6.349 %) SQL Server 13 4 (6.349 %) Crystal Reports 13 4 (6.349 %) .NET 13 4 (6.349 %) Visual Studio 13 4 (6.349 %) Migration 13 4 (6.349 %) Oracle RAC 13 4 (6.349 %) AJAX 14 3 (4.762 %) Reference Data 14 3 (4.762 %) C 14 3 (4.762 %) C++

Oracle 10g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 34 (53.97 %) HTML 2 7 (11.11 %) XML 3 5 (7.937 %) CSS 4 4 (6.349 %) .NET 4 4 (6.349 %) ASP.NET 4 4 (6.349 %) AJAX 5 1 (1.587 %) WebSphere 5 1 (1.587 %) WCF 5 1 (1.587 %) Silverlight 5 1 (1.587 %) WebServices 5 1 (1.587 %) JMS 5 1 (1.587 %) XML Schema 5 1 (1.587 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.175 %) Oracle Workflow 2 1 (1.587 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (1.587 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 1 (1.587 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (1.587 %) IIS 2 1 (1.587 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (1.587 %) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications 1 1 (1.587 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (1.587 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.762 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (19.05 %) Oracle 9i 2 9 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports 3 5 (7.937 %) Datawarehouse 4 4 (6.349 %) SQL Server 4 4 (6.349 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (4.762 %) Reference Data 6 2 (3.175 %) MS Access 6 2 (3.175 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (1.587 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (1.587 %) Oracle 11g	Development Applications 1 28 (44.44 %) Oracle Designer 10g 2 7 (11.11 %) Oracle Forms 3 4 (6.349 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.587 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.587 %) ClearCase 4 1 (1.587 %) NUnit 4 1 (1.587 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 5 (7.937 %) Finance 2 2 (3.175 %) Insurance 3 1 (1.587 %) Local Government 3 1 (1.587 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.587 %) Electric 3 1 (1.587 %) Government 3 1 (1.587 %) Health	Job Titles 1 45 (71.43 %) Developer 2 37 (58.73 %) Oracle Developer 3 33 (52.38 %) SQL Developer 4 28 (44.44 %) Web Developer 5 14 (22.22 %) DBA 5 14 (22.22 %) Oracle DBA 6 8 (12.70 %) PL/SQL Developer 7 3 (4.762 %) Administrator 8 2 (3.175 %) Analyst Developer 8 2 (3.175 %) Business Developer 8 2 (3.175 %) Software Engineer 8 2 (3.175 %) Analyst 9 1 (1.587 %) Business Systems Analyst 9 1 (1.587 %) Systems Analyst 9 1 (1.587 %) Business Analyst 9 1 (1.587 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (1.587 %) Support Analyst 9 1 (1.587 %) Applications Support 9 1 (1.587 %) .NET Developer 9 1 (1.587 %) C# Developer
Operating Systems 1 8 (12.70 %) UNIX 1 8 (12.70 %) Windows 2 4 (6.349 %) Solaris 3 3 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (3.175 %) AIX 5 1 (1.587 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (6.349 %) Migration 2 3 (4.762 %) UML 2 3 (4.762 %) OO 2 3 (4.762 %) OOD 3 2 (3.175 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (3.175 %) Workflow 4 1 (1.587 %) Validation 4 1 (1.587 %) Web Development 4 1 (1.587 %) Release Management 4 1 (1.587 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (1.587 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 43 (68.25 %) SQL 2 35 (55.56 %) JavaScript 3 27 (42.86 %) Java 4 16 (25.40 %) PL/SQL 5 4 (6.349 %) C# 6 3 (4.762 %) C++ 6 3 (4.762 %) C 6 3 (4.762 %) VB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.587 %) QA
System Software 1 4 (6.349 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (1.587 %) Oracle RMAN	Systems Management 1 1 (1.587 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 63 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 5 (7.937 %) Microsoft 3 3 (4.762 %) Red Hat 4 1 (1.587 %) Anite 4 1 (1.587 %) Northgate 4 1 (1.587 %) Capita 4 1 (1.587 %) Business Objects