The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 22 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 Oxford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 24 1 18
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +17
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11 101 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 4.721% 29.79% 5.590%
As % of the Vendors category 9.565% 50.00% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 71 5
Average daily rate £450 £450 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +80.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £338 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £660 £550 £309
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Average hourly rate - £10.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -58.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -15.67%
All Vendors
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
115 202 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 49.36% 59.59% 47.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 100 33
Average daily rate £340 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 30 15
Average hourly rate £14.81 £14.25 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.94% -33.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.40 £10.00 £12.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £20.06 £28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Oxfordshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Oxford Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 16 (45.71%) Oracle EBS R12
2 15 (42.86%) Finance
3 13 (37.14%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (20.00%) Hyperion
4 7 (20.00%) Informatica
5 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 6 (17.14%) Oracle 11i
5 6 (17.14%) Documentum
6 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
6 5 (14.29%) PL/SQL
6 5 (14.29%) XML
7 4 (11.43%) MS Office
7 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio
7 4 (11.43%) VB.NET
7 4 (11.43%) VBA
7 4 (11.43%) .NET
7 4 (11.43%) Web Services
7 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
7 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.43%) HFM
7 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 4 (11.43%) Integration Testing
7 4 (11.43%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (11.43%) XPath
8 3 (8.571%) jQuery
8 3 (8.571%) Pharmacovigilance
8 3 (8.571%) Ajax
8 3 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (8.571%) Content Management
8 3 (8.571%) Business Intelligence

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (14.29%) XML
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 4 (11.43%) Web Services
3 3 (8.571%) jQuery
3 3 (8.571%) Ajax
3 3 (8.571%) HTML
3 3 (8.571%) CSS
4 2 (5.714%) J2EE
4 2 (5.714%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.714%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) Documentum
2 2 (5.714%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.714%) CMS
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.857%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 4 (11.43%) MS Office
3 1 (2.857%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 16 (45.71%) Oracle EBS R12
2 13 (37.14%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (11.43%) HFM
5 1 (2.857%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.714%) NAS
2 1 (2.857%) SMTP
2 1 (2.857%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.857%) DNS
2 1 (2.857%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (8.571%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.857%) MarkLogic
3 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (2.857%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.857%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio
1 4 (11.43%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 15 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (8.571%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.714%) Publishing
4 1 (2.857%) German Language
4 1 (2.857%) Japanese Language
4 1 (2.857%) Billing
4 1 (2.857%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 6 (17.14%) Programmer
2 6 (17.14%) Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (11.43%) .NET Programmer
3 4 (11.43%) VB.NET Programmer
3 4 (11.43%) Designer
4 3 (8.571%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (8.571%) SQL Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Solutions Designer
4 3 (8.571%) Analyst
4 3 (8.571%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Oracle Financials Consultant
5 2 (5.714%) Transition Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.857%) OBIEE Developer
6 1 (2.857%) OBIEE Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) SQL Programmer
6 1 (2.857%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.571%) Pharmacovigilance
2 2 (5.714%) Data Conversion
3 1 (2.857%) SaaS
3 1 (2.857%) Clustering
3 1 (2.857%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.857%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.714%) Linux
2 1 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (2.857%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.857%) UNIX
2 1 (2.857%) Windows
2 1 (2.857%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (11.43%) Integration Testing
2 3 (8.571%) Content Management
2 3 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (8.571%) ITIL
2 3 (8.571%) E-business
2 3 (8.571%) Project Management
3 2 (5.714%) Six Sigma
3 2 (5.714%) Service Management
3 2 (5.714%) PRINCE2
3 2 (5.714%) CRM
3 2 (5.714%) E-Commerce
3 2 (5.714%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (5.714%) TDD
3 2 (5.714%) Kanban
3 2 (5.714%) Enterprise Content Management
3 2 (5.714%) Financial Modelling
3 2 (5.714%) BDD
4 1 (2.857%) Change Control
4 1 (2.857%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 4 (11.43%) VB.NET
3 4 (11.43%) VBA
3 4 (11.43%) XPath
4 3 (8.571%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.714%) Java
6 1 (2.857%) C-shell
6 1 (2.857%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.857%) Korn
6 1 (2.857%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (5.714%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.857%) Degree
2 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (2.857%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (2.857%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.857%) Puppet
1 1 (2.857%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Hyperion
1 7 (20.00%) Informatica
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.571%) Business Objects
4 2 (5.714%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.714%) HP
4 2 (5.714%) Siebel
5 1 (2.857%) ATG
5 1 (2.857%) Niku
5 1 (2.857%) Veritas