The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Applications skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle Applications over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Business Applications category for the Scotland 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Applications (Oracle Apps)
Rank 116 104 100
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 6 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.237% 0.150% 0.500%
As % of the Business Applications category 4.800% 2.614% 6.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
Average daily rate £425 £413 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +83.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £420 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.19% +29.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.50 £56.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-75.89% +220.00%
All Business Applications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
125 153 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 4.943% 5.726% 8.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 78 119
Average daily rate £425 £445 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.49% +14.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £347 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £526 £600 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
Average hourly rate £12.50 £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £23.75 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+59.15% -18.10%
Oracle Applications
UK

Oracle Applications
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Oracle Applications Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Applications
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Oracle Applications Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Applications
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Oracle Applications Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Applications
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Applications within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Edinburgh +3 4 £425 +3.03% 2
Glasgow -17 1 - - 3
Aberdeen - 1 £425 -
Renfrewshire - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
Oracle Applications
UK

Oracle Applications
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Oracle Applications 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 Applications.

1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 16 (88.89%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (72.22%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (50.00%) Finance
4 9 (50.00%) UNIX
5 8 (44.44%) ERP
6 7 (38.89%) Oracle HRMS
6 7 (38.89%) Oracle 11i
7 6 (33.33%) Oracle Payroll
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle RMAN
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
8 5 (27.78%) SQL
8 5 (27.78%) Data Guard
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (22.22%) SQLPlus
9 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
9 4 (22.22%) DNS
9 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
9 4 (22.22%) LDAP
9 4 (22.22%) Windows
10 3 (16.67%) Linux
10 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
10 3 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
11 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
11 2 (11.11%) SRDF
11 2 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
11 2 (11.11%) Middleware

Oracle Applications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Oracle Applications 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 Applications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (5.556%) SAS
Business Applications
1 16 (88.89%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (72.22%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (38.89%) Oracle HRMS
3 7 (38.89%) Oracle 11i
4 6 (33.33%) Oracle Payroll
5 5 (27.78%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle SCM
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (5.556%) Oracle iProcurement
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) LDAP
1 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) RDBMS
1 4 (22.22%) SQLPlus
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (11.11%) Essbase
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (5.556%) ProC
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Consultant
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (27.78%) DBA
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Payroll Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Functional Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Business Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) E-Business Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Applications Support
5 2 (11.11%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) UNIX
2 4 (22.22%) Windows
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
4 2 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ERP
2 2 (11.11%) SOA
2 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.556%) Migration
3 1 (5.556%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.556%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.556%) Operations Management
3 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.556%) Analytics
3 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (5.556%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 2 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (5.556%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle RMAN
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (11.11%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Pegasus
3 1 (5.556%) HP
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