The first table below looks at the demand for Data Guard skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Guard over the 3 months to 21 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 Systems Management category for the South East 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Data Guard
Rank 201 229 240
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 19 16 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.240% 0.157% 0.127%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.750% 2.363% 1.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
Average daily rate £388 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £349 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £439 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +23.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £55.00 £29.25
% change year-on-year
- +88.03%
All Systems Management
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
691 677 713
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 8.723% 6.664% 6.948%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 315 268
Average daily rate £330 £326 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% +8.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £460 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 52 56
Average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -28.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £13.50 £16.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Guard across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

South East Data Guard Jobs Demand Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Guard across the South East region.

South East Data Guard Daily Rate Trend

Data Guard
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Guard across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East Data Guard Daily Rate Histogram

Data Guard
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Guard across the South East region.

South East Data Guard Hourly Rate Trend

Data Guard
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Guard within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Hampshire -8 8 £405 +15.71%
Surrey +17 5 £390 -2.50%
Berkshire +9 2 £370 -
Kent - 1 £500 -
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard.

1 46 (100.00%) Oracle
2 29 (63.04%) Oracle 10g
3 26 (56.52%) SQL Server
3 26 (56.52%) SQL
4 25 (54.35%) Oracle RAC
5 22 (47.83%) Oracle 11g
6 20 (43.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 20 (43.48%) UNIX
7 19 (41.30%) PL/SQL
8 16 (34.78%) Shell Script
9 14 (30.43%) Replication
10 13 (28.26%) SQLPlus
10 13 (28.26%) WebLogic
10 13 (28.26%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (26.09%) Oracle Forms
11 12 (26.09%) TOAD
11 12 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (26.09%) T-SQL
11 12 (26.09%) Perl
11 12 (26.09%) Middleware
11 12 (26.09%) Korn
12 11 (23.91%) Oracle Discoverer
13 10 (21.74%) Apache
13 10 (21.74%) Windows
13 10 (21.74%) E-business
13 10 (21.74%) Oracle Applications
13 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (19.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (19.57%) Finance

Data Guard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Data Guard 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 Data Guard. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (26.09%) Middleware
2 9 (19.57%) XML
3 2 (4.348%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.174%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 13 (28.26%) WebLogic
2 10 (21.74%) Apache
3 2 (4.348%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (2.174%) Oracle 9iAS
4 1 (2.174%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (17.39%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (4.348%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.174%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) Unified Communications
1 1 (2.174%) HTTP
1 1 (2.174%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.174%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.174%) Internet
1 1 (2.174%) RTP
1 1 (2.174%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (63.04%) Oracle 10g
2 26 (56.52%) SQL Server
3 22 (47.83%) Oracle 11g
4 13 (28.26%) SQLPlus
4 13 (28.26%) Oracle Reports
5 12 (26.09%) TOAD
6 11 (23.91%) Oracle Discoverer
7 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (21.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (19.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (19.57%) DB2
9 6 (13.04%) Oracle 9i
10 4 (8.696%) MySQL
10 4 (8.696%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (6.522%) RDBMS
12 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
12 1 (2.174%) DB2 UDB
12 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (2.174%) Oracle BI EE
12 1 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (19.57%) Finance
2 3 (6.522%) Banking
2 3 (6.522%) French Language
3 1 (2.174%) Retail
3 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (73.91%) DBA
2 32 (69.57%) Oracle DBA
3 7 (15.22%) SQL DBA
3 7 (15.22%) Architect
4 6 (13.04%) Database Architect
5 5 (10.87%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 5 (10.87%) Administrator
6 4 (8.696%) Senior Oracle DBA
6 4 (8.696%) Senior DBA
7 3 (6.522%) Oracle Architect
8 2 (4.348%) SQL Server DBA
9 1 (2.174%) Teradata DBA
9 1 (2.174%) Senior Architect
9 1 (2.174%) Automation Engineer
9 1 (2.174%) Data Warehouse Architect
9 1 (2.174%) Senior Database Architect
9 1 (2.174%) Database Engineer
9 1 (2.174%) Senior Database Engineer
9 1 (2.174%) Oracle Database Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Replication
2 1 (2.174%) SaaS
2 1 (2.174%) CMDB
2 1 (2.174%) HACMP
2 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (43.48%) UNIX
2 10 (21.74%) Windows
3 9 (19.57%) Linux
4 8 (17.39%) AIX
5 4 (8.696%) Solaris
6 2 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000
7 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.174%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (21.74%) E-business
3 9 (19.57%) BCP
3 9 (19.57%) SOA
4 8 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (8.696%) Configuration Management
7 3 (6.522%) Data Modelling
7 3 (6.522%) Change Management
8 2 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.348%) ETL
9 1 (2.174%) Capacity Planning
9 1 (2.174%) Performance Improvement
9 1 (2.174%) Capacity Management
9 1 (2.174%) Investment Management
9 1 (2.174%) Time Management
9 1 (2.174%) Performance Management
9 1 (2.174%) ERP
9 1 (2.174%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 19 (41.30%) PL/SQL
3 16 (34.78%) Shell Script
4 12 (26.09%) T-SQL
4 12 (26.09%) Perl
4 12 (26.09%) Korn
5 6 (13.04%) Java
6 1 (2.174%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 25 (54.35%) Oracle RAC
2 20 (43.48%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.174%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (4.348%) Foglight
1 2 (4.348%) Legato
1 2 (4.348%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.696%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.174%) VMware
4 1 (2.174%) Cognos
4 1 (2.174%) SAP
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