South West Oracle 8/8i Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Database 8/8i skills within the South West 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 8/8i over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 8/8i
Location Alderley Edge Basildon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset Driffield Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Ipswich Johnstone Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	114
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	29	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	3.680 %	4.861 %
Daily rates quoted	8	10
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£332
Average daily rate	£380	£350
% change on same period last year	+8.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£428	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£395
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	11
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£33.00
Average hourly rate	-	£34.95
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£36.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.25	£34.43
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Database & Business Intelligence South West
Matching contract IT job ads	788	1255
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.068 %	1.243 %
Daily rates quoted	243	241
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£338
Average daily rate	£359	£382
% change on same period last year	-5.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	157
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.87	£30.96
Average hourly rate	£34.04	£33.06
% change on same period last year	+2.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.21	£35.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.06	£32.02
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Oracle 8/8i England

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 8/8i
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the South West region.

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the South West region.

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i within the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Wiltshire	+2	10	£392	-15.31 %
Bristol	+4	6	£450	+55.17 %
Somerset	-3	3	£475	-
Gloucestershire	-3	3	£250	-16.66 %
Dorset	+2	2	-	-

Oracle 8/8i England

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 56 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 21 (37.50 %) SQL 2 21 (37.50 %) UNIX 3 18 (32.14 %) PL/SQL 4 17 (30.36 %) Solaris 5 16 (28.57 %) Oracle 9i 6 13 (23.21 %) Oracle 10g 7 12 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 8 10 (17.86 %) SC Cleared 8 10 (17.86 %) Oracle Forms 8 10 (17.86 %) .NET 9 9 (16.07 %) C# 9 9 (16.07 %) Oracle Reports 10 7 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 10 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server

10 7 (12.50 %) Finance 10 7 (12.50 %) Oracle Application Server 11 6 (10.71 %) Oracle RMAN 11 6 (10.71 %) Shell Script 11 6 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 12 5 (8.929 %) Broadband 12 5 (8.929 %) Sun 12 5 (8.929 %) Oracle Financials 12 5 (8.929 %) VERITAS 12 5 (8.929 %) Project Management 12 5 (8.929 %) Telecoms 12 5 (8.929 %) LLU 13 4 (7.143 %) Oracle RAC 13 4 (7.143 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 4 (7.143 %) WAN

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (17.86 %) .NET 2 4 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (5.357 %) WebSphere 4 2 (3.571 %) J2EE 4 2 (3.571 %) XML 5 1 (1.786 %) XSL 5 1 (1.786 %) XSLT 5 1 (1.786 %) ODBC 5 1 (1.786 %) Middleware 5 1 (1.786 %) DAO 5 1 (1.786 %) EJB 5 1 (1.786 %) CSS 5 1 (1.786 %) JDBC 5 1 (1.786 %) Servlets 5 1 (1.786 %) SOAP 5 1 (1.786 %) ADO 5 1 (1.786 %) Oracle Streams 5 1 (1.786 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (12.50 %) Oracle Application Server 2 4 (7.143 %) WebLogic 3 3 (5.357 %) SAS 4 2 (3.571 %) Apache 5 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 9iAS 5 1 (1.786 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (1.786 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (8.929 %) Oracle Financials 2 3 (5.357 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (1.786 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 3 1 (1.786 %) Oracle BRM 3 1 (1.786 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (1.786 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (8.929 %) Broadband 1 5 (8.929 %) LLU 2 4 (7.143 %) LAN 2 4 (7.143 %) WAN 3 3 (5.357 %) DSL 4 2 (3.571 %) Internet 5 1 (1.786 %) VoIP 5 1 (1.786 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (28.57 %) Oracle 9i 2 13 (23.21 %) Oracle 10g 3 9 (16.07 %) Oracle Reports 4 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 7 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 5 4 (7.143 %) TOAD 5 4 (7.143 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 3 (5.357 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server 2000 6 3 (5.357 %) ETL 6 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server 2005 7 1 (1.786 %) Oracle OLAP 7 1 (1.786 %) Base SAS 7 1 (1.786 %) OLTP 7 1 (1.786 %) OLAP 7 1 (1.786 %) MS Access 7 1 (1.786 %) Cognos Powerplay 7 1 (1.786 %) ReportNet 7 1 (1.786 %) Oracle OWB
Development Applications 1 10 (17.86 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (5.357 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.786 %) ProC 3 1 (1.786 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.786 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 7 (12.50 %) Finance 2 5 (8.929 %) Telecoms 3 3 (5.357 %) Government 4 2 (3.571 %) Military 4 2 (3.571 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.571 %) Marketing 5 1 (1.786 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.786 %) Billing 5 1 (1.786 %) Criminal Justice 5 1 (1.786 %) Police 5 1 (1.786 %) Construction 5 1 (1.786 %) Education
Job Titles 1 14 (25.00 %) Developer 2 11 (19.64 %) Oracle Developer 3 9 (16.07 %) Oracle DBA 3 9 (16.07 %) DBA 4 8 (14.29 %) Administrator 4 8 (14.29 %) UNIX Administrator 5 6 (10.71 %) Consultant 6 5 (8.929 %) PL/SQL Developer 6 5 (8.929 %) SQL Developer 6 5 (8.929 %) Oracle Forms Developer 7 4 (7.143 %) UNIX Support 7 4 (7.143 %) Software Engineer 8 3 (5.357 %) Programmer 8 3 (5.357 %) Analyst 8 3 (5.357 %) Project Manager 9 2 (3.571 %) Support Engineer 9 2 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence Consultant 9 2 (3.571 %) SAS Programmer 9 2 (3.571 %) Business Consultant 9 2 (3.571 %) Oracle Applications DBA	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.571 %) Management Information System 1 2 (3.571 %) IPTV 2 1 (1.786 %) Fat Client 2 1 (1.786 %) Data Integration 2 1 (1.786 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.786 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (1.786 %) NHS 2 1 (1.786 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 21 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 17 (30.36 %) Solaris 3 4 (7.143 %) Linux 4 2 (3.571 %) HPUX 5 1 (1.786 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 2 10 (17.86 %) SC Cleared 3 6 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (8.929 %) Project Management 5 3 (5.357 %) Business Intelligence 5 3 (5.357 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (5.357 %) Information Management 5 3 (5.357 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (3.571 %) Dimensional Modelling 6 2 (3.571 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (3.571 %) Data Mapping 6 2 (3.571 %) Project Planning 6 2 (3.571 %) Change Management 6 2 (3.571 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.571 %) Migration 6 2 (3.571 %) CAD 6 2 (3.571 %) Quality Management 6 2 (3.571 %) UML 6 2 (3.571 %) OO 7 1 (1.786 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 21 (37.50 %) SQL 2 18 (32.14 %) PL/SQL 3 9 (16.07 %) C# 4 6 (10.71 %) Shell Script 5 2 (3.571 %) Java 6 1 (1.786 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.786 %) C++ 6 1 (1.786 %) C 6 1 (1.786 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 3 (5.357 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 3 (5.357 %) Degree 2 2 (3.571 %) HNC 2 2 (3.571 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (1.786 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.786 %) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.786 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 6 (10.71 %) Oracle RMAN 2 4 (7.143 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 56 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 5 (8.929 %) Sun 2 5 (8.929 %) VERITAS 3 3 (5.357 %) Microsoft 3 3 (5.357 %) Business Objects 3 3 (5.357 %) SAP 4 2 (3.571 %) HP 5 1 (1.786 %) Actuate 5 1 (1.786 %) i2 5 1 (1.786 %) Informatica 5 1 (1.786 %) Cognos 5 1 (1.786 %) Progress 5 1 (1.786 %) Sage 5 1 (1.786 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.786 %) Primavera 5 1 (1.786 %) ESRI 5 1 (1.786 %) VMware 5 1 (1.786 %) Teradata