The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 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 Vendors for the North East 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 11 4 4
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle 29 75 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 10.43% 15.15% 16.06%
As % of the Vendors category 24.37% 30.49% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 47 38
Average daily rate £313 £413 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.24% -2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £250 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £614 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 £28.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+30.97% -13.07%
All Vendors
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
119 246 261
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 42.81% 49.70% 59.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 122 107
Average daily rate £300 £334 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% +2.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £231 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £550 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 13
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.92 £10.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £50.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Oracle
England

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

North East Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

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

North East Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the North East region.

North East Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the North East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tyne and Wear -9 16 £513 +24.24%
Durham 0 7 £300 -17.24%
Oracle
England

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (37.10%) SQL
2 14 (22.58%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (22.58%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
4 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (19.35%) Oracle 8/8i
4 12 (19.35%) PL/SQL
5 11 (17.74%) .NET
5 11 (17.74%) Oracle 10g
5 11 (17.74%) Oracle BI EE
6 10 (16.13%) Oracle 11g
6 10 (16.13%) Linux
6 10 (16.13%) C#
7 9 (14.52%) UNIX
8 8 (12.90%) WebLogic
8 8 (12.90%) Degree
9 7 (11.29%) Oracle EBS R12
9 7 (11.29%) ASP.NET
9 7 (11.29%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (9.677%) Red Hat
10 6 (9.677%) MS Office
10 6 (9.677%) Data Modelling
10 6 (9.677%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (8.065%) Analytics
11 5 (8.065%) Business Analysis
11 5 (8.065%) Solaris
11 5 (8.065%) ETL
11 5 (8.065%) Oracle 11i
11 5 (8.065%) MS Excel
11 5 (8.065%) Data Warehouse

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (17.74%) .NET
2 7 (11.29%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.839%) CSS
3 3 (4.839%) Web Services
3 3 (4.839%) XML
3 3 (4.839%) Middleware
4 2 (3.226%) ASP
4 2 (3.226%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.613%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.613%) LINQ
5 1 (1.613%) jQuery
5 1 (1.613%) Ajax
5 1 (1.613%) Spring
5 1 (1.613%) HTML
5 1 (1.613%) J2EE
5 1 (1.613%) JSP
5 1 (1.613%) Struts
5 1 (1.613%) EDI
5 1 (1.613%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 8 (12.90%) WebLogic
2 3 (4.839%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (4.839%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (4.839%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (4.839%) Apache
2 3 (4.839%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.226%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.613%) ESB
4 1 (1.613%) IIS
4 1 (1.613%) SAS
4 1 (1.613%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.613%) FileNet
4 1 (1.613%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (9.677%) MS Office
2 5 (8.065%) MS Excel
3 4 (6.452%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (3.226%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (22.58%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle EBS R12
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (8.065%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (4.839%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (3.226%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (1.613%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (1.613%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.452%) SAN
2 1 (1.613%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.613%) LDAP
2 1 (1.613%) HTTP
2 1 (1.613%) SSL
2 1 (1.613%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.35%) Oracle 8/8i
2 11 (17.74%) Oracle 10g
2 11 (17.74%) Oracle BI EE
3 10 (16.13%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (8.065%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (6.452%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.839%) Essbase
7 2 (3.226%) PowerCenter
7 2 (3.226%) TOAD
7 2 (3.226%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.226%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.613%) Base SAS
8 1 (1.613%) MySQL
8 1 (1.613%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (1.613%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.613%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.613%) GIS
8 1 (1.613%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (4.839%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (3.226%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.613%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (1.613%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.613%) Maven
3 1 (1.613%) JUnit
3 1 (1.613%) LoadRunner
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
2 2 (3.226%) Publishing
2 2 (3.226%) Banking
3 1 (1.613%) Billing
3 1 (1.613%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.613%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (20.97%) Consultant
1 13 (20.97%) Developer
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle Consultant
3 9 (14.52%) Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) DBA
5 5 (8.065%) Oracle DBA
6 4 (6.452%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (6.452%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.452%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 4 (6.452%) SQL Server DBA
6 4 (6.452%) SQL DBA
6 4 (6.452%) OBIEE Consultant
7 3 (4.839%) Capacity Analyst
7 3 (4.839%) PL/SQL Developer
7 3 (4.839%) Team Leader
7 3 (4.839%) SQL Developer
7 3 (4.839%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (4.839%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.226%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.226%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.839%) Statistics
2 2 (3.226%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.226%) Clustering
2 2 (3.226%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.613%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.613%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.613%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.613%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.613%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
2 9 (14.52%) UNIX
3 6 (9.677%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (8.065%) Solaris
5 2 (3.226%) Windows
6 1 (1.613%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.613%) AIX
6 1 (1.613%) HPUX
6 1 (1.613%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.613%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.613%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (9.677%) Data Modelling
3 5 (8.065%) Analytics
3 5 (8.065%) Business Analysis
3 5 (8.065%) ETL
4 4 (6.452%) Validation
4 4 (6.452%) Project Management
4 4 (6.452%) Asset Management
5 3 (4.839%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (4.839%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (4.839%) DRM
5 3 (4.839%) EAM
5 3 (4.839%) Scrum
6 2 (3.226%) Migration
6 2 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.226%) SOA
6 2 (3.226%) E-Commerce
6 2 (3.226%) CRM
6 2 (3.226%) ITIL
6 2 (3.226%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.10%) SQL
2 12 (19.35%) PL/SQL
3 10 (16.13%) C#
4 4 (6.452%) Java
4 4 (6.452%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.613%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.613%) Perl
5 1 (1.613%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.613%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) Degree
2 3 (4.839%) CBAP
2 3 (4.839%) HND
2 3 (4.839%) MCDBA
2 3 (4.839%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (4.839%) OCP
2 3 (4.839%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (4.839%) ISEB
3 1 (1.613%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.613%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.226%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.613%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.613%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (1.613%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.613%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.613%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.677%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.065%) Informatica
4 3 (4.839%) Hyperion
5 2 (3.226%) HP
5 2 (3.226%) JBoss
5 2 (3.226%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.613%) Brocade
6 1 (1.613%) Axway
6 1 (1.613%) Kronos
6 1 (1.613%) SAP
6 1 (1.613%) Siebel
6 1 (1.613%) Sun
6 1 (1.613%) IBM
6 1 (1.613%) Citrix
6 1 (1.613%) VMware
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