The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 20 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 Nottinghamshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 42 - 32
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 0.300% - 0.680%
As % of the System Software category 1.852% - 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
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
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
54 18 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 16.22% 6.316% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 4
Average daily rate £375 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 10
Average hourly rate £15.25 £20.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.60% -18.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £10.30 £14.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £27.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Oracle RAC
East Midlands

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Intranet
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat