The first table below looks at the demand for OCP in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OCP 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 Qualifications for the Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OCP 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.490% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £362 £325
% change year-on-year
-10.22% +11.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
204 341 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.43% 30.58% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 122 136
Average daily rate £425 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.18% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £222 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
OCP
Berkshire

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OCP across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Reading OCP Jobs Demand Trend

OCP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OCP across the Reading region.

Reading OCP Daily Rate Trend

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing OCP 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 OCP.

1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) MOM
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing OCP 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 OCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) MOM
1 2 (100.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds