North West Oracle RAC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Location Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Huntingdon Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swansea Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	110	142
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	17	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	8.458 %	1.984 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£425
Average daily rate	£302	£425
% change on same period last year	-28.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£387
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.30	£31.75
% change on same period last year	+14.33 %
System Software North West
Matching contract IT job ads	201	252
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.283 %	0.255 %
Daily rates quoted	24	32
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£273
Average daily rate	£333	£289
% change on same period last year	+15.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£322
% change on same period last year	-0.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	71	64
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.49	£18.10
Average hourly rate	£23.64	£19.82
% change on same period last year	+19.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.78	£21.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.28	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
Oracle RAC 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 RAC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle RAC across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 North West region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+7	11	£302	-
Merseyside	-	4	-	-
Cheshire	-	1	-	-
Lancashire	-	1	-	-

Oracle RAC England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 26 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 24 (92.31 %) Oracle 10g 3 17 (65.38 %) Oracle 9i 4 13 (50.00 %) Oracle RMAN 5 12 (46.15 %) SQL 6 11 (42.31 %) PL/SQL 7 9 (34.62 %) UNIX 8 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 11i 8 7 (26.92 %) Solaris 8 7 (26.92 %) Linux 8 7 (26.92 %) Oracle Application Server 8 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 10gAS 9 6 (23.08 %) UML 9 6 (23.08 %) Oracle Forms 9 6 (23.08 %) Windows

9 6 (23.08 %) Middleware 9 6 (23.08 %) Sun 9 6 (23.08 %) Oracle Applications 9 6 (23.08 %) Change Management 10 5 (19.23 %) Shell Script 11 4 (15.38 %) Finance 12 3 (11.54 %) QA 13 2 (7.692 %) Banking 13 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 14 1 (3.846 %) Sybase 14 1 (3.846 %) OLAP 14 1 (3.846 %) Transact-SQL 14 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 1 (3.846 %) Siebel 14 1 (3.846 %) OO

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

Application Development 1 6 (23.08 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 7 (26.92 %) Oracle Application Server 1 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 10gAS
Business Applications 1 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 11i 2 6 (23.08 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (92.31 %) Oracle 10g 2 17 (65.38 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 4 1 (3.846 %) OLAP 4 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (3.846 %) Oracle OWB 4 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (3.846 %) Oracle OLAP 4 1 (3.846 %) Oracle 11g	Development Applications 1 6 (23.08 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 4 (15.38 %) Finance 2 2 (7.692 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 15 (57.69 %) DBA 2 14 (53.85 %) Oracle DBA 3 13 (50.00 %) Administrator 4 6 (23.08 %) Database Designer 5 5 (19.23 %) Consultant 5 5 (19.23 %) Oracle Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Technical Consultant 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 9 (34.62 %) UNIX 2 7 (26.92 %) Solaris 2 7 (26.92 %) Linux 3 6 (23.08 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (23.08 %) UML 1 6 (23.08 %) Change Management 2 1 (3.846 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 12 (46.15 %) SQL 2 11 (42.31 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (19.23 %) Shell Script 4 1 (3.846 %) Transact-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (11.54 %) QA	System Software 1 13 (50.00 %) Oracle RMAN
Vendors 1 26 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 6 (23.08 %) Sun 3 1 (3.846 %) EMC 3 1 (3.846 %) Sybase 3 1 (3.846 %) Siebel