The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Applications 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 Oracle Applications over the 3 months to 23 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 Business Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Applications (Oracle Apps)
Rank 100 130 118
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -12
Contract jobs citing Oracle Applications 11 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.547% 0.339% 0.313%
As % of the Business Applications category 7.432% 5.340% 3.830%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 8
Average daily rate £425 £450 £401
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £365 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £436 £469 £417
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £394 £344
% change year-on-year
+7.93% +14.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £56.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-10.71% +220.00%
All Business Applications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
148 206 235
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 7.363% 6.348% 8.182%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 123 117
Average daily rate £425 £440 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.40% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £325 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £500 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 15
Average hourly rate £24.50 £23.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.25% -32.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Oracle Applications
England

Oracle Applications
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Applications across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

South West Oracle Applications Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Applications
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle Applications across the South West region.

South West Oracle Applications Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Applications
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle Applications across the South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West Oracle Applications Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle Applications
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Applications across the South West region.

South West Oracle Applications Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Applications
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Applications within the South West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Devon +4 5 £350 -
Wiltshire +5 4 £425 -10.52%
Bristol - 2 £425 -
Oracle Applications
England

Oracle Applications
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle Applications 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 Applications.

1 27 (100.00%) Oracle
2 16 (59.26%) XML
3 15 (55.56%) SOA
4 12 (44.44%) .NET
4 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 11 (40.74%) Finance
5 11 (40.74%) XQuery
5 11 (40.74%) CSS
5 11 (40.74%) HTML
5 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
5 11 (40.74%) VB.NET
6 10 (37.04%) C#
6 10 (37.04%) ASP.NET
6 10 (37.04%) Git (software)
6 10 (37.04%) XPath
7 8 (29.63%) Oracle BI EE
7 8 (29.63%) Web Services
7 8 (29.63%) XSLT
7 8 (29.63%) SQL
7 8 (29.63%) MCAD
7 8 (29.63%) MCSD
7 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (29.63%) Middleware
8 7 (25.93%) Oracle 10g
8 7 (25.93%) Oracle 11i
8 7 (25.93%) PL/SQL
8 7 (25.93%) Oracle RAC
8 7 (25.93%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (22.22%) NAS

Oracle Applications
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle Applications 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 Applications. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (59.26%) XML
2 12 (44.44%) .NET
3 11 (40.74%) CSS
3 11 (40.74%) HTML
4 10 (37.04%) ASP.NET
5 8 (29.63%) Web Services
5 8 (29.63%) XSLT
5 8 (29.63%) Middleware
6 7 (25.93%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (14.81%) .NET Framework
7 4 (14.81%) J2EE
8 2 (7.407%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle 10gAS
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (44.44%) Oracle EBS R12
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (7.407%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (3.704%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) NAS
1 6 (22.22%) SAN
2 5 (18.52%) LAN
2 5 (18.52%) WAN
2 5 (18.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle BI EE
2 7 (25.93%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (22.22%) Oracle 11g
3 6 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.407%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Git (software)
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle APEX
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (3.704%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Developer
2 11 (40.74%) .NET Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle Developer
3 5 (18.52%) Team Leader
3 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Information Assurance Leader
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 2 (7.407%) Oracle Applications Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Team Leader
6 2 (7.407%) Oracle Team Leader
7 1 (3.704%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.704%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) SOA
2 6 (22.22%) ITIL
2 6 (22.22%) Workflow
3 5 (18.52%) Change Management
3 5 (18.52%) PRINCE2
3 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (18.52%) Release Management
4 4 (14.81%) OO
4 4 (14.81%) CRM
4 4 (14.81%) Scrum
4 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
5 3 (11.11%) B2B
5 3 (11.11%) B2C
5 3 (11.11%) BPEL
5 3 (11.11%) Performance Management
5 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (11.11%) Information Assurance
6 2 (7.407%) Waterfall
6 2 (7.407%) ERP
6 2 (7.407%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) XQuery
1 11 (40.74%) JavaScript
1 11 (40.74%) VB.NET
2 10 (37.04%) C#
2 10 (37.04%) XPath
3 8 (29.63%) SQL
4 7 (25.93%) PL/SQL
5 5 (18.52%) Java
6 2 (7.407%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) MCAD
1 8 (29.63%) MCSD
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.11%) OCP
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.407%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.704%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) Hyperion
2 5 (18.52%) VMware
3 3 (11.11%) Stellent
4 1 (3.704%) Siebel
4 1 (3.704%) Informatica
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