Sheffield Oracle Application Server Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Application Server (OAS) skills within the Sheffield region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Oracle Application Server over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Location Aberdeen Belfast Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Lytham St Annes Manchester Merseyside Middlesex North East North West Northern Ireland Preston Reading Scotland Sheffield South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon UK Wales Warrington West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	5	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.937 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£357
% change on same period last year	+6.48 %
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	£38.18	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+52.71 %
Application Platforms Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	63	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	22	2
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£273
Average daily rate	£302	£286
% change on same period last year	+5.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.22	£9.59
Average hourly rate	£21.94	£9.70
% change on same period last year	+126.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.66	£9.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
Oracle Application Server South Yorkshire

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 Application Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the Sheffield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the Sheffield region.

Oracle Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the Sheffield region.

Oracle Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region citing Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 6 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 5 (83.33 %) Linux 2 5 (83.33 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (83.33 %) Oracle RMAN 3 4 (66.67 %) Solaris 3 4 (66.67 %) Korn 3 4 (66.67 %) SAN 3 4 (66.67 %) Unix 3 4 (66.67 %) Oracle RAC 4 3 (50.00 %) SSH 4 3 (50.00 %) NFS 4 3 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (33.33 %) WebServices 5 2 (33.33 %) XML 5 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i

5 2 (33.33 %) WSRP 5 2 (33.33 %) JSR 168 6 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (16.67 %) LDAP 6 1 (16.67 %) ERP 6 1 (16.67 %) Red Hat 6 1 (16.67 %) Intranet 6 1 (16.67 %) Internet 6 1 (16.67 %) AIX 6 1 (16.67 %) Java 6 1 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 6 1 (16.67 %) SQL 6 1 (16.67 %) .NET

Oracle Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 2 (33.33 %) XML 1 2 (33.33 %) WSRP 1 2 (33.33 %) JSR 168 2 1 (16.67 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Communications & Networking 1 4 (66.67 %) SAN 2 3 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (50.00 %) SSH 3 1 (16.67 %) LDAP 3 1 (16.67 %) Intranet 3 1 (16.67 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (83.33 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (16.67 %) InterSystems Cache
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Developer 1 4 (66.67 %) Oracle Developer 2 2 (33.33 %) DBA 2 2 (33.33 %) Oracle DBA 3 1 (16.67 %) Oracle Portal Developer
Operating Systems 1 5 (83.33 %) Linux 2 4 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 4 (66.67 %) Unix 3 1 (16.67 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) ERP 1 1 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (16.67 %) Content Management 1 1 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (16.67 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (66.67 %) Korn 2 1 (16.67 %) Java 2 1 (16.67 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (16.67 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) Degree
System Software 1 5 (83.33 %) Oracle RMAN 2 4 (66.67 %) Oracle RAC 3 3 (50.00 %) NFS	Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (16.67 %) Red Hat