The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 8/8i over the 3 months to 24 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Sheffield 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 8/8i
Rank 22 22 30
Rank change year-on-year
0 +8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.333% 0.690% 0.617%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.714% 2.222% 1.923%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £175 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -33.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £400
% change year-on-year
- -9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.10 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-2.72% +1.53%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
35 45 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 23.33% 31.03% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 30
Average daily rate £300 £265 £269
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.20% -1.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £140 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -45.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.80 £22.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.20 £22.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Oracle 8/8i
South Yorkshire

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield Oracle 8/8i Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

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

Sheffield Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Sheffield Oracle 8/8i Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) GlassFish
3 2 (28.57%) Sun Identity Manager
3 2 (28.57%) SPML
3 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
3 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) SLA
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (28.57%) Sun
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) J2EE
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) JDBC
3 2 (28.57%) JSP
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle 9i

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 4 (57.14%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) SPML
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) J2EE
2 2 (28.57%) CSS
2 2 (28.57%) JDBC
2 2 (28.57%) JSP
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) GlassFish
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle 9i
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) DataStage
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle OWB
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) NetBeans
1 2 (28.57%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
1 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) OBIEE Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
1 2 (28.57%) Workflow
1 2 (28.57%) TDD
1 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) OOP
1 2 (28.57%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) ETL
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Sun Identity Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Sun
3 1 (14.29%) Informatica