The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC 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 RAC 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 of the System Software 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 113 99 89
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -10
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 7 6 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.287% 0.227% 0.891%
As % of the System Software category 4.000% 3.158% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 15
Average daily rate £450 £311 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.69% +3.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
175 190 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.175% 7.173% 8.164%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 93 63
Average daily rate £350 £309 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.36% +12.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £181 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £419 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.25 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £35.00 £25.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
UK

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Edinburgh +10 2 £450 -
Glasgow -23 2 £400 +28.61%
Oracle RAC
UK

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 15 (75.00%) Data Guard
3 13 (65.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 11 (55.00%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (50.00%) Windows
6 9 (45.00%) UNIX
6 9 (45.00%) Oracle Application Server
7 8 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
7 8 (40.00%) SQL
7 8 (40.00%) LDAP
7 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
7 8 (40.00%) DNS
7 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
7 8 (40.00%) SQLPlus
8 7 (35.00%) Finance
8 7 (35.00%) PL/SQL
8 7 (35.00%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (30.00%) Oracle Exadata
9 6 (30.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
10 5 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
10 5 (25.00%) WebLogic
10 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
10 5 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (20.00%) AIX
11 4 (20.00%) Solaris
11 4 (20.00%) Essbase
12 3 (15.00%) Banking
12 3 (15.00%) Linux
12 3 (15.00%) Oracle Financials

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 5 (25.00%) WebLogic
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (5.000%) SAS
Business Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) LDAP
1 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 8 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 8 (40.00%) SQLPlus
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 6 (30.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (20.00%) Essbase
6 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (15.00%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 7
6 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
8 1 (5.000%) Oracle 9i
8 1 (5.000%) MS Access
8 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (5.000%) DB2
8 1 (5.000%) OLAP
8 1 (5.000%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) DBA
2 7 (35.00%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (20.00%) Business Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
3 4 (20.00%) E-Business Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) SQL DBA
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server DBA
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Administrator
5 1 (5.000%) Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Oracle Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) UNIX
3 4 (20.00%) AIX
3 4 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (15.00%) Linux
4 3 (15.00%) Windows NT
5 1 (5.000%) zOS
5 1 (5.000%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.00%) BCP
1 2 (10.00%) Change Management
1 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (10.00%) Workflow
1 2 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (5.000%) Service Delivery
2 1 (5.000%) ETL
2 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (35.00%) PL/SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (15.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.000%) Teradata
3 1 (5.000%) HP
3 1 (5.000%) Informatica
3 1 (5.000%) MicroStrategy
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Skills /Essential: o R11/R12 Oracle e-Business Application Database Administration o e-Business Patching, Cloning, Installation o Oracle RMAN / DataGuard / RAC o Oracle RDBMS 9i,10g, 11g -...
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Posted: 17 May 2013