Somerset Oracle 10g Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Database 10g skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 10g over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 10g
Location Aberdeen Avon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Crewe Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford Wells West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	34
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	10	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	15.71 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£375
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£346
% change on same period last year	+5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£31.25
% change on same period last year	+24.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.65	£36.65
% change on same period last year	+5.45 %
Database & Business Intelligence Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	80	70
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.113 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	29	12
Average minimum daily rate	£328	£255
Average daily rate	£360	£300
% change on same period last year	+20.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.18	£28.12
Average hourly rate	£26.05	£30.06
% change on same period last year	-13.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.93	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.04	£31.90
% change on same period last year	-5.83 %
Oracle 10g South West

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 10g
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Somerset region.

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Somerset region.

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 10g across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Oracle 10g
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 10g within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wells	+4	2	-	-
Bath	-	2	-	-
Bridgwater	-	1	-	-

Oracle 10g South West

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g.

1 16 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 12 (75.00 %) Oracle 9i 3 9 (56.25 %) XSLT 4 6 (37.50 %) XML 4 6 (37.50 %) WebLogic 5 5 (31.25 %) HTML 5 5 (31.25 %) JavaScript 5 5 (31.25 %) J2EE 6 4 (25.00 %) ClearQuest 6 4 (25.00 %) ClearCase 6 4 (25.00 %) Data Modelling 6 4 (25.00 %) Eclipse 6 4 (25.00 %) UML 6 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 4 (25.00 %) Java

6 4 (25.00 %) C++ 6 4 (25.00 %) Military 6 4 (25.00 %) Oracle RMAN 6 4 (25.00 %) Requirements Analysis 6 4 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Applications 7 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 7 3 (18.75 %) Oracle RAC 7 3 (18.75 %) SQL 7 3 (18.75 %) CSS 7 3 (18.75 %) BEA 8 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 8 2 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS 8 2 (12.50 %) EJB 8 2 (12.50 %) UNIX

Oracle 10g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Oracle 10g 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 10g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (56.25 %) XSLT 2 6 (37.50 %) XML 3 5 (31.25 %) HTML 3 5 (31.25 %) J2EE 4 3 (18.75 %) CSS 5 2 (12.50 %) EJB 5 2 (12.50 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 6 (37.50 %) WebLogic 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Spatial
Business Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) Oracle Applications 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (75.00 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (25.00 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Access 3 1 (6.250 %) Data Mining 3 1 (6.250 %) SQLPlus 3 1 (6.250 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) ClearCase 1 4 (25.00 %) Eclipse 1 4 (25.00 %) ClearQuest	General 1 4 (25.00 %) Military 2 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.250 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) Developer 2 5 (31.25 %) DBA 3 4 (25.00 %) Oracle DBA 3 4 (25.00 %) C++ Software Engineer 3 4 (25.00 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications DBA 5 1 (6.250 %) Java Software Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Administrator	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) UML 1 4 (25.00 %) Data Modelling 1 4 (25.00 %) Requirements Analysis 1 4 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (18.75 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (12.50 %) Migration 3 2 (12.50 %) Data Migration 4 1 (6.250 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (31.25 %) JavaScript 2 4 (25.00 %) C++ 2 4 (25.00 %) Java 3 3 (18.75 %) SQL 4 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 4 2 (12.50 %) PL/SQL
System Software 1 4 (25.00 %) Oracle RMAN 2 3 (18.75 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 16 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (18.75 %) BEA 3 1 (6.250 %) Remedy 3 1 (6.250 %) PeopleSoft