Sheffield Oracle Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the Sheffield region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Driffield Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Johnstone Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	22
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	26	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	17.22 %	7.643 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£303
Average daily rate	£275	£332
% change on same period last year	-17.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£375	£368
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.46	-
Average hourly rate	£30.46	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.46	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.43	£31.74
% change on same period last year	+5.34 %
Vendors Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	151	157
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.199 %	0.156 %
Daily rates quoted	26	39
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£327
Average daily rate	£310	£347
% change on same period last year	-10.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	63	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.62	£20.43
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£21.82
% change on same period last year	+29.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.71	£23.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Oracle 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield region citing Oracle 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.

1 24 (34.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 24 (34.29 %) SAN 2 23 (32.86 %) UNIX 2 23 (32.86 %) HPUX 3 22 (31.43 %) HP 4 19 (27.14 %) Oracle RAC 5 18 (25.71 %) OpenView 5 18 (25.71 %) ITSM 6 16 (22.86 %) Linux 7 14 (20.00 %) SQL 8 13 (18.57 %) Windows 8 13 (18.57 %) ITIL 9 12 (17.14 %) AIX 9 12 (17.14 %) Telecoms 10 11 (15.71 %) NetBackup

10 11 (15.71 %) Solaris 11 10 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 11 10 (14.29 %) Sun 12 9 (12.86 %) EMC 12 9 (12.86 %) PL/SQL 12 9 (12.86 %) Java 13 8 (11.43 %) VERITAS 13 8 (11.43 %) Oracle RMAN 13 8 (11.43 %) Government 13 8 (11.43 %) SQL Server 13 8 (11.43 %) Cisco 13 8 (11.43 %) Brocade 14 7 (10.00 %) XML 15 6 (8.571 %) Oracle EBS 15 6 (8.571 %) NetApp

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 7 (10.00 %) XML 2 4 (5.714 %) Struts 2 4 (5.714 %) .NET 2 4 (5.714 %) J2EE 2 4 (5.714 %) Middleware 2 4 (5.714 %) OC4J 3 3 (4.286 %) Spring 3 3 (4.286 %) Hibernate 3 3 (4.286 %) HTML 3 3 (4.286 %) WebServices 4 2 (2.857 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (2.857 %) CSS 4 2 (2.857 %) MVC 4 2 (2.857 %) JSF 4 2 (2.857 %) WSRP 4 2 (2.857 %) JSR 168 5 1 (1.429 %) JSTL 5 1 (1.429 %) AJAX 5 1 (1.429 %) WCF 5 1 (1.429 %) WPF	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.571 %) Oracle Application Server 2 4 (5.714 %) JBoss 2 4 (5.714 %) Tuxedo 2 4 (5.714 %) OpenROAD 3 3 (4.286 %) Lotus Notes 3 3 (4.286 %) Lotus Domino 3 3 (4.286 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (2.857 %) Oracle Workflow 4 2 (2.857 %) PowerExchange 5 1 (1.429 %) iPlanet 5 1 (1.429 %) Oracle Collaboration Suite
Applications 1 1 (1.429 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 6 (8.571 %) Oracle EBS 2 5 (7.143 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (1.429 %) Dynamics AX 3 1 (1.429 %) Movex 3 1 (1.429 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (1.429 %) Axapta
Communications & Networking 1 24 (34.29 %) SAN 2 3 (4.286 %) SSH 2 3 (4.286 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (2.857 %) Internet 4 1 (1.429 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.429 %) LDAP 4 1 (1.429 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (34.29 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 10 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 3 8 (11.43 %) SQL Server 4 5 (7.143 %) PowerCenter 4 5 (7.143 %) ETL 4 5 (7.143 %) RDBMS 5 4 (5.714 %) Oracle 9i 6 3 (4.286 %) Informix 6 3 (4.286 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 2 (2.857 %) Ingres 8 1 (1.429 %) Data Mart 8 1 (1.429 %) InterSystems Cache 8 1 (1.429 %) Oracle OLAP 8 1 (1.429 %) OLAP 8 1 (1.429 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 4 (5.714 %) JUnit 2 3 (4.286 %) Ant 2 3 (4.286 %) Eclipse 3 2 (2.857 %) TestDirector 3 2 (2.857 %) Subversion 4 1 (1.429 %) CheckStyle 4 1 (1.429 %) HttpUnit 4 1 (1.429 %) JIRA 4 1 (1.429 %) CruiseControl 4 1 (1.429 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (1.429 %) JDeveloper	General 1 12 (17.14 %) Telecoms 2 8 (11.43 %) Government 3 4 (5.714 %) Health 4 3 (4.286 %) Finance 5 1 (1.429 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 22 (31.43 %) Developer 2 12 (17.14 %) Oracle DBA 2 12 (17.14 %) DBA 3 9 (12.86 %) Support Engineer 4 7 (10.00 %) Oracle Developer 5 5 (7.143 %) Solutions Architect 5 5 (7.143 %) Architect 5 5 (7.143 %) Java Developer 5 5 (7.143 %) Informatica Developer 6 4 (5.714 %) Oracle Applications DBA 6 4 (5.714 %) Team Leader 6 4 (5.714 %) Siebel Architect 6 4 (5.714 %) Oracle Team Leader 7 3 (4.286 %) Junior Oracle DBA 7 3 (4.286 %) Junior DBA 7 3 (4.286 %) OpenROAD Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Junior 7 3 (4.286 %) Consultant 8 2 (2.857 %) Technical Support Engineer 8 2 (2.857 %) J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.714 %) Data Integration 2 2 (2.857 %) CLARiiON 2 2 (2.857 %) Symmetrix 3 1 (1.429 %) Statistics 3 1 (1.429 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.429 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 23 (32.86 %) UNIX 1 23 (32.86 %) HPUX 2 16 (22.86 %) Linux 3 13 (18.57 %) Windows 4 12 (17.14 %) AIX 5 11 (15.71 %) Solaris 6 1 (1.429 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (25.71 %) ITSM 2 13 (18.57 %) ITIL 3 4 (5.714 %) Business Intelligence 4 3 (4.286 %) Project Management 4 3 (4.286 %) Service Management 4 3 (4.286 %) Workflow 4 3 (4.286 %) UML 5 2 (2.857 %) SOA 5 2 (2.857 %) ERP 5 2 (2.857 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (2.857 %) Use Case 6 1 (1.429 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (1.429 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (1.429 %) System Testing 6 1 (1.429 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (1.429 %) Content Management 6 1 (1.429 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (1.429 %) Project Planning 6 1 (1.429 %) Technical Architecture 6 1 (1.429 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 14 (20.00 %) SQL 2 9 (12.86 %) PL/SQL 2 9 (12.86 %) Java 3 6 (8.571 %) Korn 4 3 (4.286 %) JavaScript 5 2 (2.857 %) VB 6 1 (1.429 %) XAML 6 1 (1.429 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.429 %) C 6 1 (1.429 %) C#	Qualifications 1 3 (4.286 %) SNIA Certification 2 2 (2.857 %) Degree 3 1 (1.429 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (1.429 %) PMP 3 1 (1.429 %) PMI Certification
System Software 1 19 (27.14 %) Oracle RAC 2 11 (15.71 %) NetBackup 3 8 (11.43 %) Oracle RMAN 4 3 (4.286 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 18 (25.71 %) OpenView 2 3 (4.286 %) HP Data Protector 2 3 (4.286 %) OVPA 2 3 (4.286 %) Legato
Vendors 1 22 (31.43 %) HP 2 10 (14.29 %) Sun 3 9 (12.86 %) EMC 4 8 (11.43 %) VERITAS 4 8 (11.43 %) Cisco 4 8 (11.43 %) Brocade 5 6 (8.571 %) NetApp 6 5 (7.143 %) Informatica 7 4 (5.714 %) Siebel 8 3 (4.286 %) Lotus 8 3 (4.286 %) IBM 8 3 (4.286 %) Intel 9 2 (2.857 %) Microsoft 10 1 (1.429 %) Borland 10 1 (1.429 %) Red Hat 10 1 (1.429 %) Baan 10 1 (1.429 %) JD Edwards 10 1 (1.429 %) Lawson 10 1 (1.429 %) Stellent 10 1 (1.429 %) PeopleSoft