The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 24 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 Peterborough 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 11 17 19
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 5 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 5.155% 3.488% 4.630%
As % of the Vendors category 8.929% 7.317% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £288 £475 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.47% +86.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £29.16 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+23.45% -10.27%
All Vendors
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
56 41 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 57.73% 47.67% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 12
Average daily rate £363 £294 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.40% +1.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £241 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 12
Average hourly rate £13.00 £12.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -35.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Cambridgeshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 8 (61.54%) Finance
1 8 (61.54%) C#
1 8 (61.54%) DHTML
1 8 (61.54%) VB
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
1 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET
1 8 (61.54%) VB6
1 8 (61.54%) NHibernate
1 8 (61.54%) WCF
2 6 (46.15%) LINQ
2 6 (46.15%) COM+
2 6 (46.15%) ASP
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 5 (38.46%) Investment Management
4 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (23.08%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (15.38%) Clustering
6 2 (15.38%) Banking
6 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
6 2 (15.38%) SQL
6 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
7 1 (7.692%) Equities
7 1 (7.692%) Migration
7 1 (7.692%) DB2
7 1 (7.692%) Java
7 1 (7.692%) Perl
7 1 (7.692%) SOAP
7 1 (7.692%) Linux

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 8 (61.54%) DHTML
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
1 8 (61.54%) ASP.NET
1 8 (61.54%) NHibernate
1 8 (61.54%) WCF
2 6 (46.15%) LINQ
2 6 (46.15%) COM+
2 6 (46.15%) ASP
3 1 (7.692%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) DB2
2 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Developer
2 8 (61.54%) .NET Developer
3 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (30.77%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (30.77%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SQL DBA
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (15.38%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) DBA
6 1 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Database Specialist
6 1 (7.692%) Architect
6 1 (7.692%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (7.692%) SQL Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Principal Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
2 1 (7.692%) Equities
2 1 (7.692%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Investment Management
2 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Risk Management
3 1 (7.692%) Migration
3 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.692%) SOA
3 1 (7.692%) ETL
3 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.692%) Business Development
3 1 (7.692%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) C#
1 8 (61.54%) VB
1 8 (61.54%) VB6
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.692%) Java
3 1 (7.692%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle RAC