The first table below looks at the demand for Data Guard skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 West 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 112 137 118
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -19
Contract jobs citing Data Guard 5 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.240% 0.153% 0.073%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.237% 2.475% 1.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £425 £263 £399
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -34.16%
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 West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
118 202 184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 5.662% 6.187% 6.688%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 119 89
Average daily rate £375 £400 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +7.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £261 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 10
Average hourly rate £10.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.94% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.30 £17.70 £15.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £41.50 £30.60
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

South West 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 West region.

South West Data Guard Daily Rate Trend

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 West region.

South West 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 West 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
Bristol +11 2 £425 +61.90%
Dorset - 2 - -
Data Guard
England

Data Guard
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Replication
4 3 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
4 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Star Schema
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (25.00%) ERwin
5 2 (25.00%) Linux
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (12.50%) MySQL
6 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
6 1 (12.50%) UNIX

Data Guard
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (25.00%) Star Schema
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DBA
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) Build Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Database Security
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 1 (12.50%) NetApp
2 1 (12.50%) Veritas
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat