The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 24 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 North West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 101 111 122
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +11
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 17 21 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.729% 0.675% 0.131%
As % of the System Software category 7.359% 8.235% 1.587%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 2
Average daily rate £392 £413 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.90% +17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £327 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £523 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £378
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.96%
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
231 255 252
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 9.910% 8.197% 8.262%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 102 115
Average daily rate £275 £313 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.00% +22.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £155 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £450 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 39 42
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% +18.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.63 £11.52 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.90 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

This 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 24 May 2013.

North West Oracle RAC Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Oracle RAC Hourly 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester +13 15 £345 -13.81%
Merseyside +4 1 £475 -5.00%
Cheshire -3 1 £475 +46.15%
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 35 (100.00%) Oracle
2 28 (80.00%) Oracle 11g
3 17 (48.57%) Data Guard
3 17 (48.57%) SQL
4 14 (40.00%) Shell Script
5 12 (34.29%) Internet
5 12 (34.29%) UNIX
6 11 (31.43%) Oracle 10g
7 10 (28.57%) PL/SQL
8 9 (25.71%) Linux
9 8 (22.86%) RDBMS
9 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (22.86%) Finance
10 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
10 7 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
11 6 (17.14%) XML
12 5 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
13 4 (11.43%) Data Migration
13 4 (11.43%) Windows
13 4 (11.43%) .NET
13 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
13 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
13 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
13 4 (11.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 4 (11.43%) NetApp
13 4 (11.43%) Migration
13 4 (11.43%) VMware
13 4 (11.43%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (8.571%) NetBeans

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 (17.14%) XML
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
3 3 (8.571%) Hibernate
3 3 (8.571%) JMS
3 3 (8.571%) J2EE
3 3 (8.571%) HTML
3 3 (8.571%) ASP
3 3 (8.571%) JDBC
3 3 (8.571%) JSP
3 3 (8.571%) Servlets
3 3 (8.571%) Struts
3 3 (8.571%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 3 (8.571%) .NET Framework
4 2 (5.714%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (5.714%) Middleware
5 1 (2.857%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.571%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (8.571%) JCAPS
3 2 (5.714%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (5.714%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.857%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2010
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 12 (34.29%) Internet
2 3 (8.571%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (80.00%) Oracle 11g
2 11 (31.43%) Oracle 10g
3 8 (22.86%) RDBMS
4 4 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 3 (8.571%) Oracle OWB
5 3 (8.571%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.571%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (5.714%) Oracle Exadata
6 2 (5.714%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (8.571%) NetBeans
1 3 (8.571%) Visual Studio
1 3 (8.571%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 8 (22.86%) Finance
2 1 (2.857%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) DBA
1 16 (45.71%) Oracle DBA
2 13 (37.14%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Oracle Developer
3 11 (31.43%) Consultant
4 10 (28.57%) Oracle Consultant
5 8 (22.86%) Administrator
6 3 (8.571%) Access Developer
6 3 (8.571%) Architect
6 3 (8.571%) Management Consultant
7 2 (5.714%) Software Architect
7 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.857%) Development Team Leader
8 1 (2.857%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.857%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Consultant
8 1 (2.857%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 1 (2.857%) Solutions Consultant
8 1 (2.857%) Identity Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.571%) Replication
1 3 (8.571%) NHS
2 2 (5.714%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) UNIX
2 9 (25.71%) Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
4 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.857%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (11.43%) Data Migration
3 4 (11.43%) Migration
4 3 (8.571%) Change Management
4 3 (8.571%) OOP
4 3 (8.571%) OO
4 3 (8.571%) Content Management
5 2 (5.714%) Data Management
5 2 (5.714%) Incident Management
5 2 (5.714%) Performance Improvement
5 2 (5.714%) SOA
5 2 (5.714%) Identity Management
5 2 (5.714%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.857%) Security Management
6 1 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (2.857%) Database Security
6 1 (2.857%) TOGAF
6 1 (2.857%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 14 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 10 (28.57%) PL/SQL
4 3 (8.571%) C#
4 3 (8.571%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (8.571%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.714%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.857%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.571%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.857%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.857%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Data Guard
2 7 (20.00%) Oracle Identity Management
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) NetApp
2 4 (11.43%) VMware
3 2 (5.714%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.857%) EMC
4 1 (2.857%) Citrix
4 1 (2.857%) Hitachi
4 1 (2.857%) SAP
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