Staffordshire Oracle 8/8i Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Database 8/8i skills within the Staffordshire 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 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 8/8i
Location Alderley Edge Ballymena Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Esher Essex Exeter Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harlow Hertford Hertfordshire Huddersfield Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Ramsgate Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	21
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	6	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	7.500 %	10.53 %
Daily rates quoted	5	4
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£363
Average daily rate	£283	£381
% change on same period last year	-25.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£401
% change on same period last year	-6.72 %
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	£32.88	£35.80
% change on same period last year	-8.13 %
Database & Business Intelligence Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	80	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	40	11
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£325
Average daily rate	£299	£352
% change on same period last year	-15.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£346
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.24	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£22.88	£32.09
% change on same period last year	-28.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.52	£33.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.31	£31.85
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
Oracle 8/8i West Midlands

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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 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
Stafford	-	3	£183	-
Stoke-on-Trent	-	2	£440	-

Oracle 8/8i West Midlands

Oracle 8/8i
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 6 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 2 4 (66.67 %) SQL 2 4 (66.67 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (50.00 %) Project Management 4 2 (33.33 %) Siebel 5 1 (16.67 %) Oracle EBS 5 1 (16.67 %) Finance 5 1 (16.67 %) Northgate

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle EBS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (66.67 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 1 (16.67 %) Project Manager 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL
Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) Siebel 3 1 (16.67 %) Northgate