The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 17 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 Northamptonshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 21 9 23
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +14
Contract jobs citing Oracle 10 45 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 4.065% 11.19% 3.285%
As % of the Vendors category 12.66% 33.58% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 37 1
Average daily rate £357 £250 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.64% -9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Vendors
Northamptonshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
79 134 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 32.11% 33.33% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 86 57
Average daily rate £350 £250 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -25.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £153
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £475 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 13
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £10.20 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
East Midlands

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Kettering - 3 £420 -
Northampton 0 2 - -
Daventry - 2 £350 -
Oracle
East Midlands

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) UNIX
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (20.00%) ERP
3 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) J2EE
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) DB2
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (20.00%) Subversion
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Java EE
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (13.33%) DataFlux
4 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (13.33%) Local Government
4 2 (13.33%) Capita
4 2 (13.33%) Informatica

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) J2EE
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (20.00%) Java EE
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.667%) HTML
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.667%) CSS
3 1 (6.667%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (6.667%) ESB
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) LAN
1 1 (6.667%) WAN
1 1 (6.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
2 2 (13.33%) MS Access
3 1 (6.667%) MySQL
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Publishing
2 2 (13.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Consultant
1 3 (20.00%) Administrator
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Quality Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Operations Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Designer
3 1 (6.667%) Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.667%) Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Open Source
1 1 (6.667%) SaaS
1 1 (6.667%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) UNIX
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) ERP
1 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (13.33%) Project Management
2 2 (13.33%) Change Management
2 2 (13.33%) Validation
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Data Management
2 2 (13.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (6.667%) Change Control
3 1 (6.667%) ITIL V3
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.667%) Scrum
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) E-business
3 1 (6.667%) Service Management
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) IBM
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) Capita
2 2 (13.33%) DataFlux
2 2 (13.33%) Trillium
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) hybris
3 1 (6.667%) Google