South West Oracle Financials Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Financials skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Business Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle Financials over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Financials
Location Aberdeen Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Devon East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Lancashire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Wembley West Midlands Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	149
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	22	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	7.719 %	5.455 %
Daily rates quoted	10	3
Average minimum daily rate	£613	£387
Average daily rate	£645	£387
% change on same period last year	+66.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£678	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£511	£401
% change on same period last year	+27.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.07	-
% change on same period last year	-
Business Applications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	285	275
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.380 %	0.278 %
Daily rates quoted	89	65
Average minimum daily rate	£444	£424
Average daily rate	£469	£450
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£493	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£450	£435
% change on same period last year	+3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.77	£21.65
Average hourly rate	£19.29	£23.96
% change on same period last year	-19.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.81	£26.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.61	£25.77
% change on same period last year	+14.91 %
Oracle Financials 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 Financials
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Financials across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

Oracle Financials
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle Financials
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle Financials across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Oracle Financials
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle Financials
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Financials within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Somerset	+11	12	£644	+61.11 %
Devon	+13	5	-	-
Bristol	+12	1	£650	+71.05 %
Avon	-	1	-	-
Wiltshire	+8	1	-	-

Oracle Financials England

Oracle Financials
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle Financials 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 Financials.

1 28 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 28 (100.00 %) Finance 2 13 (46.43 %) Security Cleared 3 12 (42.86 %) Migration 4 11 (39.29 %) Data Migration 4 11 (39.29 %) Data Mapping 5 10 (35.71 %) Government 5 10 (35.71 %) Oracle Reports 6 9 (32.14 %) SAP 7 7 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 8 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 4 (14.29 %) CRM 9 4 (14.29 %) SAP HR 9 4 (14.29 %) SAP CRM 10 3 (10.71 %) Stakeholder Management

10 3 (10.71 %) Oracle Applications 10 3 (10.71 %) Project Planning 10 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 11 2 (7.143 %) HP 11 2 (7.143 %) ISEB 11 2 (7.143 %) TestDirector 11 2 (7.143 %) Agresso 11 2 (7.143 %) Workflow 11 2 (7.143 %) Logistics 12 1 (3.571 %) General Ledger 12 1 (3.571 %) Business Analysis 12 1 (3.571 %) Software Testing 12 1 (3.571 %) DV Cleared 12 1 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing

Oracle Financials
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle Financials 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 Financials. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) SAP HR 1 4 (14.29 %) SAP CRM 2 3 (10.71 %) Oracle Applications 3 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 11i	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.571 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (35.71 %) Oracle Reports 2 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) TestDirector
General 1 28 (100.00 %) Finance 2 10 (35.71 %) Government 3 1 (3.571 %) Military 3 1 (3.571 %) General Ledger	Job Titles 1 13 (46.43 %) Consultant 1 13 (46.43 %) Oracle Consultant 2 9 (32.14 %) Oracle Financials Consultant 3 5 (17.86 %) Functional Consultant 3 5 (17.86 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 4 4 (14.29 %) Solutions Architect 4 4 (14.29 %) Architect 5 3 (10.71 %) Project Manager 6 2 (7.143 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.571 %) Systems Engineer 7 1 (3.571 %) DBA 7 1 (3.571 %) Trainer 7 1 (3.571 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) Tester 7 1 (3.571 %) Analyst 7 1 (3.571 %) Oracle DBA 7 1 (3.571 %) Test Engineer 7 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Applications DBA 7 1 (3.571 %) Systems Test Engineer 7 1 (3.571 %) Delivery Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (3.571 %) UNIX 1 1 (3.571 %) Solaris 1 1 (3.571 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (46.43 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (42.86 %) Migration 3 11 (39.29 %) Data Migration 3 11 (39.29 %) Data Mapping 4 7 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (14.29 %) CRM 6 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (10.71 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (10.71 %) Project Planning 7 2 (7.143 %) Logistics 7 2 (7.143 %) Workflow 8 1 (3.571 %) Risk Management 8 1 (3.571 %) E-Procurement 8 1 (3.571 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (3.571 %) Software Testing 8 1 (3.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (3.571 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (3.571 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.571 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (3.571 %) SQL 1 1 (3.571 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (7.143 %) ISEB 3 1 (3.571 %) OCP 3 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (3.571 %) CIMA
Vendors 1 28 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 9 (32.14 %) SAP 3 2 (7.143 %) HP 3 2 (7.143 %) Agresso 4 1 (3.571 %) Sage