The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC 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 RAC over the 3 months to 20 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 System Software 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 101 132 112
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -20
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 16 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.779% 0.243% 0.254%
As % of the System Software category 7.048% 3.448% 3.483%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 4
Average daily rate £425 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £386
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £28.69
% change year-on-year
-27.27% +91.73%
All System Software
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
227 232 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 11.05% 7.056% 7.301%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 106 78
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £195 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 30 33
Average hourly rate £14.00 £18.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +5.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £31.50 £22.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South West Oracle RAC Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle RAC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Wiltshire +13 9 £425 -10.52%
Bristol +13 2 £425 -
Dorset +3 2 - -
Somerset +3 2 £301 -
Gloucestershire +31 1 - -
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Oracle RAC 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 RAC.

1 39 (100.00%) Oracle
2 30 (76.92%) Oracle 10g
3 25 (64.10%) Linux
4 23 (58.97%) Oracle 11g
5 21 (53.85%) SAN
5 21 (53.85%) Middleware
6 19 (48.72%) Oracle Application Server
7 18 (46.15%) VMware
7 18 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
8 17 (43.59%) VMware Infrastructure
9 16 (41.03%) Oracle EBS R12
10 15 (38.46%) Oracle 10gAS
11 14 (35.90%) Oracle BI EE
11 14 (35.90%) Oracle 11i
12 13 (33.33%) NAS
13 12 (30.77%) ETL
13 12 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
14 11 (28.21%) LAN
14 11 (28.21%) WAN
14 11 (28.21%) VPN
15 10 (25.64%) ITIL
15 10 (25.64%) UNIX
15 10 (25.64%) BPEL
16 9 (23.08%) Solaris
16 9 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 9 (23.08%) Windows
16 9 (23.08%) PRINCE2
16 9 (23.08%) WebLogic
16 9 (23.08%) Siebel
16 9 (23.08%) Oracle Linux

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 21 (53.85%) Middleware
2 7 (17.95%) WebCenter
3 5 (12.82%) Hibernate
4 3 (7.692%) Spring
4 3 (7.692%) Java EE
4 3 (7.692%) JSP
4 3 (7.692%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (5.128%) jQuery
5 2 (5.128%) HTML
5 2 (5.128%) .NET
5 2 (5.128%) J2EE
5 2 (5.128%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 19 (48.72%) Oracle Application Server
2 15 (38.46%) Oracle 10gAS
3 9 (23.08%) WebLogic
4 7 (17.95%) Windows Azure
4 7 (17.95%) GlassFish
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (7.692%) Apache
6 3 (7.692%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 18 (46.15%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (41.03%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (35.90%) Oracle 11i
4 7 (17.95%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) SAN
2 13 (33.33%) NAS
3 11 (28.21%) VPN
3 11 (28.21%) LAN
3 11 (28.21%) WAN
4 7 (17.95%) DHCP
4 7 (17.95%) TCP/IP
4 7 (17.95%) MPLS
4 7 (17.95%) Firewall
4 7 (17.95%) DNS
5 1 (2.564%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (76.92%) Oracle 10g
2 23 (58.97%) Oracle 11g
3 14 (35.90%) Oracle BI EE
4 12 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.128%) Star Schema
6 2 (5.128%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (2.564%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (2.564%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.692%) Ant
1 3 (7.692%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.128%) ERwin
General
1 3 (7.692%) Finance
2 1 (2.564%) Banking
2 1 (2.564%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) DBA
2 15 (38.46%) Oracle DBA
3 10 (25.64%) Team Leader
3 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (17.95%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Developer
6 3 (7.692%) Information Assurance Leader
7 2 (5.128%) Oracle Team Leader
7 2 (5.128%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 2 (5.128%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.128%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 2 (5.128%) Senior DBA
7 2 (5.128%) Administrator
7 2 (5.128%) Technical Team Leader
7 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (5.128%) J2EE Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 1 (2.564%) Database Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Implementation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) PaaS
1 7 (17.95%) IaaS
2 4 (10.26%) Replication
3 3 (7.692%) Cryptography
4 1 (2.564%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 25 (64.10%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) UNIX
3 9 (23.08%) Windows
3 9 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (23.08%) Oracle Linux
3 9 (23.08%) Solaris
4 1 (2.564%) AIX
4 1 (2.564%) SUSE
4 1 (2.564%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.564%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) ETL
2 10 (25.64%) ITIL
2 10 (25.64%) BPEL
3 9 (23.08%) PRINCE2
4 8 (20.51%) Information Assurance
5 7 (17.95%) Load Balancing
6 6 (15.38%) Scrum
7 3 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (7.692%) System Testing
7 3 (7.692%) Web Application Development
8 2 (5.128%) Performance Management
8 2 (5.128%) Migration
8 2 (5.128%) Web Development
8 2 (5.128%) Service Management
8 2 (5.128%) ERP
8 2 (5.128%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (5.128%) ITSM
9 1 (2.564%) Data Security
9 1 (2.564%) E-business
9 1 (2.564%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.51%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Java
3 2 (5.128%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.128%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.692%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (7.692%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.128%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.128%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.564%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
3 6 (15.38%) vSphere
4 2 (5.128%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.564%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Data Guard
2 2 (5.128%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Oracle
2 18 (46.15%) VMware
3 9 (23.08%) Siebel
4 8 (20.51%) Hyperion
4 8 (20.51%) Informatica
5 7 (17.95%) Cisco
5 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
5 7 (17.95%) Sun
5 7 (17.95%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.564%) NetApp
6 1 (2.564%) Veritas
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