The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Certification 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 Certification 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 Certification
Rank 69 - 84
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - 0.096%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.490% - 0.266%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £337 £250
% change year-on-year
-3.56% +34.80%
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%
Oracle Certification
Berkshire

Oracle Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Oracle Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Oracle Certification Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

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%) OCP
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

Oracle Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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