Scotland Oracle 8/8i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Database 8/8i skills within the Scotland region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Oracle 8/8i over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 8/8i
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Driffield Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ilford Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Portsmouth Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Wycombe York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	85
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	22	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	3.642 %	5.357 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£365
Average daily rate	£353	£376
% change on same period last year	-6.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£398	£367
% change on same period last year	+8.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.76	£34.62
% change on same period last year	+0.40 %
Database & Business Intelligence Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	604	896
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.796 %	0.950 %
Daily rates quoted	100	183
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£313
Average daily rate	£337	£329
% change on same period last year	+2.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£357	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.02	£29.73
Average hourly rate	£28.87	£31.48
% change on same period last year	-8.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.71	£33.22
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Oracle 8/8i UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Oracle 8/8i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Scotland region.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the Scotland region.

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Oracle 8/8i within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+7	8	£359	-12.14 %
Renfrewshire	-	2	£330	-

Oracle 8/8i UK

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 37 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 15 (40.54 %) SQL Server 3 11 (29.73 %) Oracle 10g 4 10 (27.03 %) GIS 5 9 (24.32 %) ESRI 6 7 (18.92 %) SQL 6 7 (18.92 %) Datawarehouse 6 7 (18.92 %) Oracle 9i 7 6 (16.22 %) Business Intelligence 7 6 (16.22 %) Business Objects 7 6 (16.22 %) BusinessObjects 7 6 (16.22 %) Finance 8 5 (13.51 %) RDBMS 8 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft 8 5 (13.51 %) ArcGIS

9 4 (10.81 %) MS Office 9 4 (10.81 %) Java 9 4 (10.81 %) MS Access 9 4 (10.81 %) AIX 9 4 (10.81 %) Linux 9 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Forms 9 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Reports 9 4 (10.81 %) ArcView 10 3 (8.108 %) Oracle RAC 10 3 (8.108 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 3 (8.108 %) Business Analysis 10 3 (8.108 %) Unix 10 3 (8.108 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (8.108 %) WebServices 10 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server 7

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (8.108 %) WebServices 2 2 (5.405 %) .NET 3 1 (2.703 %) JDBC 3 1 (2.703 %) XML 3 1 (2.703 %) ArcObjects 3 1 (2.703 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.51 %) ArcGIS 2 1 (2.703 %) ArcIMS 2 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Workflow 2 1 (2.703 %) ArcSDE 2 1 (2.703 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) MS Office 1 4 (10.81 %) ArcView 2 1 (2.703 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.703 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (2.703 %) PeopleSoft Financials 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle HRMS 1 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.703 %) Intranet 1 1 (2.703 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (40.54 %) SQL Server 2 11 (29.73 %) Oracle 10g 3 10 (27.03 %) GIS 4 7 (18.92 %) Oracle 9i 4 7 (18.92 %) Datawarehouse 5 6 (16.22 %) BusinessObjects 6 5 (13.51 %) RDBMS 7 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Reports 7 4 (10.81 %) MS Access 8 3 (8.108 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 3 (8.108 %) SQL Server 7 9 2 (5.405 %) TOAD 9 2 (5.405 %) Oracle Discoverer 10 1 (2.703 %) ETL 10 1 (2.703 %) DB2 10 1 (2.703 %) SQLPlus
Development Applications 1 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (2.703 %) PVCS	General 1 6 (16.22 %) Finance 2 2 (5.405 %) Banking 3 1 (2.703 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.703 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 9 (24.32 %) Analyst 2 8 (21.62 %) DBA 2 8 (21.62 %) Oracle DBA 3 5 (13.51 %) Coordinator 4 4 (10.81 %) Project Manager 4 4 (10.81 %) GIS Analyst 5 3 (8.108 %) Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) Consultant 6 2 (5.405 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (5.405 %) Programmer 7 1 (2.703 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Datawarehouse Consultant 7 1 (2.703 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Architect 7 1 (2.703 %) Test Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Business Systems Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Systems Analyst 7 1 (2.703 %) Technical Architect 7 1 (2.703 %) Senior Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.405 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.703 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.703 %) Data Integration
Operating Systems 1 4 (10.81 %) AIX 1 4 (10.81 %) Linux 2 3 (8.108 %) Unix 3 1 (2.703 %) VMS 3 1 (2.703 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (16.22 %) Business Intelligence 2 3 (8.108 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (5.405 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.703 %) Change Management 4 1 (2.703 %) E-business 4 1 (2.703 %) Workflow 4 1 (2.703 %) Migration 4 1 (2.703 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (2.703 %) Project Planning 4 1 (2.703 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (2.703 %) Data Migration 4 1 (2.703 %) UML 4 1 (2.703 %) CRM 4 1 (2.703 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 7 (18.92 %) SQL 2 4 (10.81 %) Java 3 3 (8.108 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.703 %) PHP 4 1 (2.703 %) VB 4 1 (2.703 %) PeopleCode 4 1 (2.703 %) VB6	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.703 %) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software 1 3 (8.108 %) Oracle RAC 2 1 (2.703 %) Oracle RMAN	Vendors 1 37 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 9 (24.32 %) ESRI 3 6 (16.22 %) Business Objects 4 5 (13.51 %) Microsoft 5 2 (5.405 %) Red Hat 6 1 (2.703 %) JD Edwards 6 1 (2.703 %) webMethods 6 1 (2.703 %) Autodesk 6 1 (2.703 %) Macromedia 6 1 (2.703 %) Sun 6 1 (2.703 %) Informatica 6 1 (2.703 %) PeopleSoft