Scotland Oracle 9i Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle9i Database 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 9i over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle9i Database
Location Aberdeen Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	48
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	71	94
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.100 %
As % of the category below	11.75 %	10.49 %
Daily rates quoted	16	16
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£256
Average daily rate	£338	£276
% change on same period last year	+22.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£346	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.00
Average hourly rate	-	£33.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£43.16	£32.77
% change on same period last year	+31.69 %
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 9i 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 9i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Scotland region.

Oracle 9i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Oracle 9i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 9i across the Scotland region.

Oracle 9i
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Oracle 9i 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	+25	50	£339	+24.28 %
Edinburgh	+3	14	-	-
West Lothian	-3	1	-	-
Dundee	-	1	-	-
Aberdeen	-	1	-	-

Oracle 9i UK

Oracle 9i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i.

1 140 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 111 (79.29 %) Oracle 10g 3 63 (45.00 %) SQL 4 61 (43.57 %) Unix 5 59 (42.14 %) PL/SQL 6 34 (24.29 %) Oracle Forms 7 32 (22.86 %) Oracle Reports 7 32 (22.86 %) Oracle RAC 8 22 (15.71 %) Shell Script 8 22 (15.71 %) RDBMS 9 20 (14.29 %) Oracle RMAN 10 18 (12.86 %) Solaris 10 18 (12.86 %) Linux 10 18 (12.86 %) SQL Server 11 17 (12.14 %) Oracle Application Server

12 15 (10.71 %) AIX 12 15 (10.71 %) Finance 13 14 (10.00 %) Windows 14 12 (8.571 %) Sun 14 12 (8.571 %) VERITAS 15 11 (7.857 %) NetBackup 16 10 (7.143 %) Government 16 10 (7.143 %) Microsoft 16 10 (7.143 %) Java 17 9 (6.429 %) SQL Server 2005 17 9 (6.429 %) Datawarehouse 17 9 (6.429 %) Red Hat 17 9 (6.429 %) SQL Server 2000 18 8 (5.714 %) IBM 19 7 (5.000 %) Oracle 8/8i

Oracle 9i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Oracle 9i 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 9i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (5.000 %) XML 2 6 (4.286 %) WebServices 3 4 (2.857 %) HTML 3 4 (2.857 %) .NET 3 4 (2.857 %) J2EE 4 3 (2.143 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (2.143 %) AJAX 5 2 (1.429 %) Hibernate 5 2 (1.429 %) Spring 5 2 (1.429 %) CSS 5 2 (1.429 %) Servlets 6 1 (0.714 %) Struts 6 1 (0.714 %) JSP 6 1 (0.714 %) EJB 6 1 (0.714 %) JSF 6 1 (0.714 %) Tapestry 6 1 (0.714 %) WebSphere 6 1 (0.714 %) ArcObjects 6 1 (0.714 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 17 (12.14 %) Oracle Application Server 2 4 (2.857 %) Oracle 9iAS 3 2 (1.429 %) Oracle 10gAS 4 1 (0.714 %) Apache 4 1 (0.714 %) ColdFusion 4 1 (0.714 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (0.714 %) ArcGIS 4 1 (0.714 %) ArcIMS 4 1 (0.714 %) ArcSDE
Applications 1 3 (2.143 %) MS Excel 1 3 (2.143 %) DOC1	Business Applications 1 2 (1.429 %) Oracle 11i 1 2 (1.429 %) Temenos Globus 1 2 (1.429 %) Temenos T24 2 1 (0.714 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (0.714 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 3 (2.143 %) SAN 1 3 (2.143 %) Internet 2 1 (0.714 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 111 (79.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 32 (22.86 %) Oracle Reports 3 22 (15.71 %) RDBMS 4 18 (12.86 %) SQL Server 5 9 (6.429 %) Datawarehouse 5 9 (6.429 %) SQL Server 2005 5 9 (6.429 %) SQL Server 2000 6 7 (5.000 %) MySQL 6 7 (5.000 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 4 (2.857 %) SQLPlus 8 3 (2.143 %) TOAD 8 3 (2.143 %) MS Access 9 2 (1.429 %) ETL 9 2 (1.429 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.714 %) DataStage 10 1 (0.714 %) GIS 10 1 (0.714 %) Oracle OWB 10 1 (0.714 %) Data Mart 10 1 (0.714 %) BODI
Development Applications 1 34 (24.29 %) Oracle Forms 2 7 (5.000 %) JDeveloper 2 7 (5.000 %) PVCS 3 2 (1.429 %) Visual Studio 3 2 (1.429 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 15 (10.71 %) Finance 2 10 (7.143 %) Government 3 7 (5.000 %) Telecoms 3 7 (5.000 %) Billing 4 4 (2.857 %) Banking 5 1 (0.714 %) Retail 5 1 (0.714 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (0.714 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 62 (44.29 %) DBA 2 61 (43.57 %) Oracle DBA 3 47 (33.57 %) Developer 4 42 (30.00 %) Oracle Developer 5 23 (16.43 %) Analyst 6 15 (10.71 %) Programmer 7 12 (8.571 %) Analyst Programmer 8 10 (7.143 %) Oracle Analyst Programmer 8 10 (7.143 %) Oracle Analyst 9 7 (5.000 %) Systems Analyst 10 6 (4.286 %) Business Systems Analyst 10 6 (4.286 %) Business Analyst 11 4 (2.857 %) SQL DBA 11 4 (2.857 %) Oracle Forms Developer 11 4 (2.857 %) Administrator 11 4 (2.857 %) Storage Analyst 12 3 (2.143 %) Consultant 13 2 (1.429 %) Datawarehouse Developer 13 2 (1.429 %) Database Developer 13 2 (1.429 %) Technical Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 4 (2.857 %) Client/Server 2 3 (2.143 %) Mainframe 2 3 (2.143 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (1.429 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 61 (43.57 %) Unix 2 18 (12.86 %) Solaris 2 18 (12.86 %) Linux 3 15 (10.71 %) AIX 4 14 (10.00 %) Windows 5 7 (5.000 %) Tru64 6 1 (0.714 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (3.571 %) E-business 1 5 (3.571 %) Business Development 1 5 (3.571 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (2.857 %) Requirements Analysis 3 3 (2.143 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (2.143 %) Change Management 4 2 (1.429 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (1.429 %) Migration 4 2 (1.429 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 2 (1.429 %) Data Migration 4 2 (1.429 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (0.714 %) Performance Management 5 1 (0.714 %) Release Management 5 1 (0.714 %) BPEL 5 1 (0.714 %) Document Management 5 1 (0.714 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (0.714 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (0.714 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 63 (45.00 %) SQL 2 59 (42.14 %) PL/SQL 3 22 (15.71 %) Shell Script 4 10 (7.143 %) Java 5 4 (2.857 %) JavaScript 6 3 (2.143 %) C# 6 3 (2.143 %) VB 6 3 (2.143 %) VBA 6 3 (2.143 %) VB6 7 2 (1.429 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.714 %) PHP 8 1 (0.714 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 1 (0.714 %) OCP 1 1 (0.714 %) Oracle Certification
System Software 1 32 (22.86 %) Oracle RAC 2 20 (14.29 %) Oracle RMAN 3 11 (7.857 %) NetBackup 4 4 (2.857 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 140 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (8.571 %) Sun 2 12 (8.571 %) VERITAS 3 10 (7.143 %) Microsoft 4 9 (6.429 %) Red Hat 5 8 (5.714 %) IBM 6 7 (5.000 %) Intec 7 4 (2.857 %) Novell 7 4 (2.857 %) StorageTek 7 4 (2.857 %) Symantec 7 4 (2.857 %) EMC 8 2 (1.429 %) Temenos 8 2 (1.429 %) Business Objects 8 2 (1.429 %) jBASE 9 1 (0.714 %) Autodesk 9 1 (0.714 %) Macromedia 9 1 (0.714 %) Informatica