Oxfordshire Oracle Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Andover Ballymena Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Esher Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grampian Guildford Gwynedd Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Ramsgate Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rhyl Rickmansworth Rotherham Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	11	13
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	47	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.050 %
As % of the category below	23.27 %	18.89 %
Daily rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£372
Average daily rate	£338	£390
% change on same period last year	-13.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£408
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£358
% change on same period last year	+4.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.40	£23.78
Average hourly rate	£35.60	£25.61
% change on same period last year	+39.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.80	£27.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.11	£34.30
% change on same period last year	-15.12 %
Vendors Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	202	217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.407 %	0.266 %
Daily rates quoted	41	41
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£339
Average daily rate	£334	£356
% change on same period last year	-6.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.82	£22.69
Average hourly rate	£26.74	£24.88
% change on same period last year	+7.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£27.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£23.22
% change on same period last year	+2.43 %
Oracle South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle across the Oxfordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. 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	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
Bicester	-	15	£285	-
Oxford	-1	8	£263	-25.00 %
Abingdon	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 85 (75.22 %) SQL 2 70 (61.95 %) UNIX 3 61 (53.98 %) Java 4 52 (46.02 %) XML 5 46 (40.71 %) SOA 6 40 (35.40 %) EAI 7 39 (34.51 %) Security Cleared 8 36 (31.86 %) Oracle Fusion 9 29 (25.66 %) SC Cleared 10 22 (19.47 %) Oracle 9i 11 20 (17.70 %) PL/SQL 12 16 (14.16 %) Cognos 12 16 (14.16 %) Logistics 13 14 (12.39 %) Oracle Forms 13 14 (12.39 %) Oracle Reports

14 13 (11.50 %) Windows 15 12 (10.62 %) ITIL 16 10 (8.850 %) Oracle Discoverer 16 10 (8.850 %) Government 17 9 (7.965 %) Microsoft 17 9 (7.965 %) J2EE 18 8 (7.080 %) HPUX 18 8 (7.080 %) Oracle ADF 18 8 (7.080 %) BC Cleared 19 7 (6.195 %) Oracle 10g 19 7 (6.195 %) HP 20 6 (5.310 %) JDeveloper 20 6 (5.310 %) LAN 20 6 (5.310 %) Oracle 8/8i 21 5 (4.425 %) WAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 52 (46.02 %) XML 2 36 (31.86 %) Oracle Fusion 3 9 (7.965 %) J2EE 4 8 (7.080 %) Oracle ADF 5 3 (2.655 %) Cocoon 5 3 (2.655 %) XSLT 5 3 (2.655 %) HTML 5 3 (2.655 %) CSS 6 1 (0.885 %) EJB 6 1 (0.885 %) Middleware 6 1 (0.885 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (2.655 %) Apache 1 3 (2.655 %) Tomcat 2 2 (1.770 %) IIS 3 1 (0.885 %) JBoss 3 1 (0.885 %) SAS 3 1 (0.885 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 4 (3.540 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.770 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.885 %) Paint Shop Pro 3 1 (0.885 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 3 (2.655 %) Oracle Financials 2 2 (1.770 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.885 %) PeopleSoft Financials 3 1 (0.885 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.885 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (0.885 %) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.310 %) LAN 2 5 (4.425 %) WAN 3 4 (3.540 %) SAN 3 4 (3.540 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (19.47 %) Oracle 9i 2 14 (12.39 %) Oracle Reports 3 10 (8.850 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 7 (6.195 %) Oracle 10g 5 6 (5.310 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 5 (4.425 %) SQL Server 6 5 (4.425 %) Oracle OWB 7 4 (3.540 %) Datawarehouse 8 3 (2.655 %) Ingres 8 3 (2.655 %) Star Schema 8 3 (2.655 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (2.655 %) OLAP 8 3 (2.655 %) SQLPlus 8 3 (2.655 %) Oracle OLAP 8 3 (2.655 %) ETL 9 2 (1.770 %) MS Access 9 2 (1.770 %) SAP BW 9 2 (1.770 %) Data Mining 10 1 (0.885 %) DataStage 10 1 (0.885 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 14 (12.39 %) Oracle Forms 2 6 (5.310 %) JDeveloper 3 4 (3.540 %) Ant	General 1 10 (8.850 %) Government 2 5 (4.425 %) Finance 2 5 (4.425 %) Local Government 3 3 (2.655 %) Education 3 3 (2.655 %) General Ledger 4 2 (1.770 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 71 (62.83 %) Developer 2 40 (35.40 %) Analyst 3 29 (25.66 %) Analyst Developer 4 28 (24.78 %) Oracle Developer 5 24 (21.24 %) Integration Analyst 6 8 (7.080 %) Cognos Developer 7 7 (6.195 %) Oracle Analyst 8 5 (4.425 %) Java Developer 9 4 (3.540 %) Administrator 9 4 (3.540 %) Architect 9 4 (3.540 %) Consultant 9 4 (3.540 %) Systems Engineer 9 4 (3.540 %) Software Engineer 10 3 (2.655 %) Oracle Architect 10 3 (2.655 %) SOA Architect 10 3 (2.655 %) SQL Developer 10 3 (2.655 %) Software Development Engineer 10 3 (2.655 %) DBA 10 3 (2.655 %) Systems Administrator 10 3 (2.655 %) Programme Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (0.885 %) NHS 1 1 (0.885 %) Management Information System 1 1 (0.885 %) Tandem 1 1 (0.885 %) NLPG
Operating Systems 1 70 (61.95 %) UNIX 2 13 (11.50 %) Windows 3 8 (7.080 %) HPUX 4 3 (2.655 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (2.655 %) Windows NT 4 3 (2.655 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (1.770 %) Linux 6 1 (0.885 %) AIX 6 1 (0.885 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (40.71 %) SOA 2 40 (35.40 %) EAI 3 16 (14.16 %) Logistics 4 12 (10.62 %) ITIL 5 4 (3.540 %) Service Management 5 4 (3.540 %) Systems Analysis 6 3 (2.655 %) Business Intelligence 6 3 (2.655 %) E-business 6 3 (2.655 %) E-Procurement 6 3 (2.655 %) Workflow 6 3 (2.655 %) Migration 6 3 (2.655 %) Dimensional Modelling 7 2 (1.770 %) Data Migration 7 2 (1.770 %) Data Management 8 1 (0.885 %) Content Management 8 1 (0.885 %) Data Analysis 8 1 (0.885 %) Project Management 8 1 (0.885 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (0.885 %) Project Planning 8 1 (0.885 %) Resource Management
Programming Languages 1 85 (75.22 %) SQL 2 61 (53.98 %) Java 3 20 (17.70 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (2.655 %) JavaScript 5 1 (0.885 %) C# 5 1 (0.885 %) C++ 5 1 (0.885 %) Uniface	Qualifications 1 39 (34.51 %) Security Cleared 2 29 (25.66 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (7.080 %) BC Cleared 4 4 (3.540 %) Degree 4 4 (3.540 %) MCP 4 4 (3.540 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (3.540 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (1.770 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (0.885 %) OCP 6 1 (0.885 %) OCA 6 1 (0.885 %) Oracle Certification
System Software 1 4 (3.540 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 16 (14.16 %) Cognos 2 9 (7.965 %) Microsoft 3 7 (6.195 %) HP 4 5 (4.425 %) Cisco 5 4 (3.540 %) Red Hat 5 4 (3.540 %) Agresso 6 3 (2.655 %) Business Objects 6 3 (2.655 %) PeopleSoft 6 3 (2.655 %) Intel 7 2 (1.770 %) SAP 8 1 (0.885 %) IBM 8 1 (0.885 %) MicroStrategy 8 1 (0.885 %) Mapinfo 8 1 (0.885 %) ESRI