The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 11g 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 of the Database & Business Intelligence category 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 Database 11g
Rank 60 78 74
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11g 10 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.198% 0.538% 1.056%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.849% 5.128% 4.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
Average daily rate £335 £438 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.42% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £408 £463
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £476 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £378 £378
% change year-on-year
-0.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £46.25 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.77% +50.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
146 117 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 17.49% 10.49% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 33 115
Average daily rate £375 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £223 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £513 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 £11.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+182.60% -66.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Oracle 11g
Berkshire

Oracle 11g
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Reading Oracle 11g Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Reading region.

Reading Oracle 11g Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Oracle 11g Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle 11g
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Reading region.

Reading Oracle 11g Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Oracle 11g 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 11g.

1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 15 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
3 11 (61.11%) PL/SQL
3 11 (61.11%) SQL
4 9 (50.00%) UNIX
5 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (38.89%) Windows
7 6 (33.33%) .NET
7 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 5 (27.78%) ETL
8 5 (27.78%) ITIL
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle Exadata
9 4 (22.22%) LAN
9 4 (22.22%) Python
9 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (22.22%) Java
9 4 (22.22%) Firewall
9 4 (22.22%) GIS
9 4 (22.22%) ESRI
9 4 (22.22%) ArcGIS
9 4 (22.22%) Finance
9 4 (22.22%) Migration
9 4 (22.22%) Statistics
9 4 (22.22%) Oracle Spatial
9 4 (22.22%) ArcObjects
10 3 (16.67%) Retail
10 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
10 3 (16.67%) SSL
10 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Oracle 11g 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 11g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) ArcObjects
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) ArcGIS
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (11.11%) IBM HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) LAN
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) SSL
2 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (11.11%) HTTP
3 2 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Exadata
3 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (22.22%) GIS
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (5.556%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) ERwin
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) DBA
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) GIS Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Administrator
5 1 (5.556%) Informatica Developer
5 1 (5.556%) ETL Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Informatica ETL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Statistics
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Data Conversion
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exalogic
3 2 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) UNIX
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 5 (27.78%) ETL
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Management
5 2 (11.11%) SOA
5 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.556%) Data Management
6 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
6 1 (5.556%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) PL/SQL
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) OCP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) HNC
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
1 2 (11.11%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Data Guard
2 2 (11.11%) HP SIM
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (11.11%) MOM
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) ESRI
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 2 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.556%) Informatica
4 1 (5.556%) Business Objects