Midlands Oracle 9i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle9i Database 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 job ads that have cited Oracle 9i over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle9i Database
Location Aberdeen Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	60
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	12	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	3.846 %	4.986 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£300
Average daily rate	£392	£300
% change on same period last year	+30.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£356
% change on same period last year	-1.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£29.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-17.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.31	£32.74
% change on same period last year	+32.30 %
Database & Business Intelligence Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	312	361
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.411 %	0.377 %
Daily rates quoted	41	48
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£388
Average daily rate	£358	£398
% change on same period last year	-10.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.20	£29.41
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£29.98
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.80	£30.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
Oracle 9i 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 9i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Midlands region.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

Oracle 9i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Midlands region.

Oracle 9i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i.

1 26 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 19 (73.08 %) Oracle 10g 3 11 (42.31 %) SQL 4 8 (30.77 %) PL/SQL 5 7 (26.92 %) Oracle Reports 6 6 (23.08 %) Unix 6 6 (23.08 %) Solaris 7 5 (19.23 %) Oracle RAC 8 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 8 4 (15.38 %) XML 8 4 (15.38 %) Oracle Forms 9 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (11.54 %) Datawarehouse 9 3 (11.54 %) J2EE 9 3 (11.54 %) WebLogic

9 3 (11.54 %) Ant 9 3 (11.54 %) Finance 9 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 11g 10 2 (7.692 %) Spring 10 2 (7.692 %) Disaster Recovery 10 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms 10 2 (7.692 %) Sun 10 2 (7.692 %) Migration 10 2 (7.692 %) Hibernate 10 2 (7.692 %) C# 10 2 (7.692 %) EJB 10 2 (7.692 %) JSP 10 2 (7.692 %) Servlets 10 2 (7.692 %) RDBMS 10 2 (7.692 %) OO

Oracle 9i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (15.38 %) XML 2 3 (11.54 %) J2EE 3 2 (7.692 %) Spring 3 2 (7.692 %) Hibernate 3 2 (7.692 %) EJB 3 2 (7.692 %) JSP 3 2 (7.692 %) Servlets 3 2 (7.692 %) WebServices 4 1 (3.846 %) XSL 4 1 (3.846 %) JMS 4 1 (3.846 %) Struts 4 1 (3.846 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (11.54 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Applications	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (73.08 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (26.92 %) Oracle Reports 3 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 3 (11.54 %) Datawarehouse 3 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 11g 4 2 (7.692 %) RDBMS 5 1 (3.846 %) MS Access 5 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 1 (3.846 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (3.846 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (11.54 %) Ant 3 1 (3.846 %) PVCS 3 1 (3.846 %) JUnit 3 1 (3.846 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 3 (11.54 %) Finance 2 2 (7.692 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.846 %) Government 3 1 (3.846 %) Health
Job Titles 1 15 (57.69 %) Developer 2 11 (42.31 %) Oracle Developer 3 10 (38.46 %) DBA 3 10 (38.46 %) Oracle DBA 4 5 (19.23 %) Administrator 4 5 (19.23 %) SQL Developer 4 5 (19.23 %) Oracle Reports Developer 4 5 (19.23 %) Report Developer 5 4 (15.38 %) Oracle Forms Developer 5 4 (15.38 %) PL/SQL Developer 6 3 (11.54 %) Applications Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) Senior Applications Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) J2EE Applications Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) Senior J2EE Applications Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) Senior Developer 7 2 (7.692 %) J2EE Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) Business Objects Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) Analyst Developer 8 1 (3.846 %) UNIX Administrator	Operating Systems 1 6 (23.08 %) Unix 1 6 (23.08 %) Solaris 2 2 (7.692 %) AIX 3 1 (3.846 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (7.692 %) Disaster Recovery 1 2 (7.692 %) Migration 1 2 (7.692 %) OO 2 1 (3.846 %) Data Modelling 2 1 (3.846 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (3.846 %) Validation 2 1 (3.846 %) Workflow 2 1 (3.846 %) Problem Management 2 1 (3.846 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (3.846 %) Incident Management 2 1 (3.846 %) Release Management 2 1 (3.846 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 11 (42.31 %) SQL 2 8 (30.77 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (7.692 %) C# 4 1 (3.846 %) VB 4 1 (3.846 %) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) QA	System Software 1 5 (19.23 %) Oracle RAC
Vendors 1 26 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (15.38 %) Microsoft 3 2 (7.692 %) Sun 4 1 (3.846 %) Business Objects 4 1 (3.846 %) Anite 4 1 (3.846 %) Juniper 4 1 (3.846 %) BEA 4 1 (3.846 %) Northgate 4 1 (3.846 %) Capita