The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 19 19 26
Rank change year-on-year
0 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 63 73 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 7.590% 6.861% 6.149%
As % of the Vendors category 14.69% 12.13% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 24
Average daily rate £400 £360 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £252 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £465 £543
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Vendors
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
429 602 613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 51.69% 56.58% 57.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 184 255
Average daily rate £350 £345 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 37 22
Average hourly rate £20.75 £14.54 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.73% -9.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.45 £10.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £20.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
Berkshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 64 (45.71%) SQL
2 32 (22.86%) UNIX
3 30 (21.43%) Windows
3 30 (21.43%) Perl
3 30 (21.43%) Retail
4 29 (20.71%) .NET
5 27 (19.29%) PL/SQL
6 25 (17.86%) Telecoms
6 25 (17.86%) Oracle Retail
7 20 (14.29%) Linux
8 18 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (12.86%) MySQL
8 18 (12.86%) Java
8 18 (12.86%) Oracle 10g
8 18 (12.86%) Greenplum
9 17 (12.14%) Ericsson
9 17 (12.14%) Migration
9 17 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (11.43%) ITIL
10 16 (11.43%) ETL
11 15 (10.71%) Apache
11 15 (10.71%) Oracle 11g
12 14 (10.00%) 3G
12 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
12 14 (10.00%) Finance
13 13 (9.286%) Tivoli
13 13 (9.286%) XML
13 13 (9.286%) C#
13 13 (9.286%) Nokia Siemens Networks
14 12 (8.571%) WebLogic

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 29 (20.71%) .NET
2 13 (9.286%) XML
3 11 (7.857%) J2EE
4 10 (7.143%) Web Services
5 8 (5.714%) HTML
6 7 (5.000%) ASP.NET
6 7 (5.000%) WebSphere
7 4 (2.857%) Flash
7 4 (2.857%) XHTML
7 4 (2.857%) ArcObjects
7 4 (2.857%) CSS
8 3 (2.143%) ADO.NET
8 3 (2.143%) Middleware
8 3 (2.143%) jQuery
8 3 (2.143%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (2.143%) HTML5
8 3 (2.143%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (2.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 2 (1.429%) REST
Application Platforms
1 15 (10.71%) Apache
2 12 (8.571%) WebLogic
3 8 (5.714%) Tomcat
4 6 (4.286%) IIS
4 6 (4.286%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (3.571%) IBM HTTP Server
5 5 (3.571%) Oracle Spatial
5 5 (3.571%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 5 (3.571%) WebLogic Portal
5 5 (3.571%) ArcGIS
6 4 (2.857%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (2.143%) Oracle UPK
8 2 (1.429%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (1.429%) CMS
9 1 (0.714%) FileNet
9 1 (0.714%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 1 (0.714%) Resin
Applications
1 3 (2.143%) Open Workbench
2 2 (1.429%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.714%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Oracle Retail
2 6 (4.286%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (4.286%) Oracle Applications
3 5 (3.571%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.143%) CA Clarity
5 2 (1.429%) Oracle Payroll
5 2 (1.429%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.714%) Agresso
6 1 (0.714%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 14 (10.00%) 3G
2 12 (8.571%) Firewall
3 10 (7.143%) 2G
3 10 (7.143%) Radio Access Network
4 9 (6.429%) Network Security
4 9 (6.429%) SAN
4 9 (6.429%) Internet
4 9 (6.429%) HTTP
4 9 (6.429%) LAN
5 6 (4.286%) TELNET
5 6 (4.286%) Nokia NetAct
6 4 (2.857%) LTE
6 4 (2.857%) IPv4
6 4 (2.857%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (2.857%) ATM
6 4 (2.857%) GSM
7 3 (2.143%) WAN
8 2 (1.429%) UMTS
8 2 (1.429%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) MySQL
1 18 (12.86%) Oracle 10g
1 18 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.71%) Oracle 11g
3 11 (7.857%) Oracle 8/8i
3 11 (7.857%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (7.143%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.286%) GIS
6 5 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (3.571%) Oracle Exadata
7 4 (2.857%) Big Data
7 4 (2.857%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.857%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (2.143%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.143%) Oracle 9i
8 3 (2.143%) BusinessObjects XI
9 2 (1.429%) Oracle OWB
10 1 (0.714%) SQL Server 2005
10 1 (0.714%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.714%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (3.571%) Subversion
2 3 (2.143%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (2.143%) MSTest
2 3 (2.143%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.714%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.714%) ERwin
General
1 30 (21.43%) Retail
2 25 (17.86%) Telecoms
3 14 (10.00%) Finance
4 9 (6.429%) Back Office
5 2 (1.429%) Publishing
6 1 (0.714%) Banking
6 1 (0.714%) Marketing
6 1 (0.714%) Electronics
6 1 (0.714%) Legal
6 1 (0.714%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 35 (25.00%) Consultant
2 24 (17.14%) Developer
3 19 (13.57%) Oracle Consultant
4 14 (10.00%) DBA
5 12 (8.571%) Oracle DBA
6 11 (7.857%) Senior Developer
7 10 (7.143%) Analyst
8 8 (5.714%) Architect
9 7 (5.000%) Technical Leader
9 7 (5.000%) Back Office Engineer
10 6 (4.286%) OSS Engineer
10 6 (4.286%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.571%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.571%) Security Architect
11 5 (3.571%) Administrator
11 5 (3.571%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (2.857%) Software Developer
12 4 (2.857%) Security Analyst
12 4 (2.857%) Senior Software Developer
13 3 (2.143%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.429%) CESG
2 7 (5.000%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.286%) Clustering
4 5 (3.571%) CESG CLAS
5 4 (2.857%) Statistics
5 4 (2.857%) Open Source
6 3 (2.143%) CLARiiON
6 3 (2.143%) Symmetrix
6 3 (2.143%) EMC Centera
6 3 (2.143%) Wiki
6 3 (2.143%) IBM Mainframe
6 3 (2.143%) RMADS
6 3 (2.143%) Data Conversion
6 3 (2.143%) Data Integration
6 3 (2.143%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.143%) Oracle Exalogic
7 2 (1.429%) Copywriting
7 2 (1.429%) FMCG
8 1 (0.714%) SaaS
8 1 (0.714%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 32 (22.86%) UNIX
2 30 (21.43%) Windows
3 20 (14.29%) Linux
4 7 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (2.857%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.143%) Solaris
7 3 (2.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.143%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.429%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.714%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.714%) Windows CE
9 1 (0.714%) AIX
9 1 (0.714%) HPUX
9 1 (0.714%) SUSE
9 1 (0.714%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
1 17 (12.14%) Migration
2 16 (11.43%) ITIL
2 16 (11.43%) ETL
3 12 (8.571%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (8.571%) Service Delivery
3 12 (8.571%) Information Security
4 10 (7.143%) TOGAF
5 9 (6.429%) Ethical Hacking
5 9 (6.429%) Workflow
5 9 (6.429%) ERP
6 8 (5.714%) Project Management
6 8 (5.714%) Web Development
7 7 (5.000%) Technical Architecture
7 7 (5.000%) Validation
8 6 (4.286%) Data Modelling
8 6 (4.286%) Incident Management
8 6 (4.286%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (3.571%) eTOM
9 5 (3.571%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 64 (45.71%) SQL
2 30 (21.43%) Perl
3 27 (19.29%) PL/SQL
4 18 (12.86%) Java
5 13 (9.286%) C#
6 8 (5.714%) C++
6 8 (5.714%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.286%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.286%) Korn
8 5 (3.571%) Python
8 5 (3.571%) PHP
9 4 (2.857%) C
10 2 (1.429%) VB
11 1 (0.714%) ABAP
11 1 (0.714%) Ruby
11 1 (0.714%) Scala
11 1 (0.714%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.857%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.143%) Degree
3 7 (5.000%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.571%) CISA
4 5 (3.571%) CISM
4 5 (3.571%) CISSP
5 2 (1.429%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.714%) PMP
6 1 (0.714%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.714%) HPUX Certification
6 1 (0.714%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.714%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.714%) OCP
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.714%) RHCE
6 1 (0.714%) SCSA
6 1 (0.714%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.714%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.714%) HNC
6 1 (0.714%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.429%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (6.429%) PCI DSS
2 7 (5.000%) SLA
3 2 (1.429%) QA
4 1 (0.714%) JTAG
System Software
1 6 (4.286%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.143%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (2.143%) SRDF
4 2 (1.429%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.714%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.714%) Postfix
5 1 (0.714%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.714%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.714%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.714%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (9.286%) Tivoli
2 5 (3.571%) HP SIM
3 4 (2.857%) Foglight
4 3 (2.143%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (1.429%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.429%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.714%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.714%) OpenView
6 1 (0.714%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.714%) MOM
6 1 (0.714%) Netcool
Vendors
1 18 (12.86%) Greenplum
2 17 (12.14%) Ericsson
3 13 (9.286%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 12 (8.571%) CA
5 11 (7.857%) IBM
6 9 (6.429%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.714%) VMware
7 8 (5.714%) Huawei
8 7 (5.000%) HP
8 7 (5.000%) Business Objects
9 6 (4.286%) JBoss
9 6 (4.286%) Nortel
9 6 (4.286%) ESRI
9 6 (4.286%) Nokia
10 5 (3.571%) Citrix
10 5 (3.571%) SAP
10 5 (3.571%) Microsoft
11 4 (2.857%) Ariba
11 4 (2.857%) Informatica
11 4 (2.857%) NEC
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