The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 21 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 Northampton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 21 21 17
Rank change year-on-year
0 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 2 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 1.449% 4.237% 3.977%
As % of the Vendors category 4.762% 16.13% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 1
Average daily rate - £413 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -14.39%
All Vendors
Northampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
42 62 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northampton 30.43% 26.27% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 33
Average daily rate £314 £355 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.54% +77.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £210 £151
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
Average hourly rate £13.50 £10.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.00% -47.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Oracle
Northamptonshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Northampton Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) hybris
1 1 (50.00%) Google Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Functional Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) E-business
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) hybris