The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 22 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 Vendors for the Staffordshire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 15 31 36
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 5 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 5.747% 2.727% 1.905%
As % of the Vendors category 11.36% 5.172% 6.452%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £380 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.25 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -15.67%
All Vendors
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
44 116 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 50.57% 52.73% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 38 12
Average daily rate £238 £300 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -29.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £220 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £366 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 8
Average hourly rate £15.16 £16.86 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.08% -43.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.78 £12.16 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.29 £30.50 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
West Midlands

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Stoke-on-Trent +8 2 £373 +29.56%
Oracle
West Midlands

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Oracle 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.

1 19 (90.48%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) EMC
2 11 (52.38%) Migration
3 8 (38.10%) Java
4 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (28.57%) Back Office
5 6 (28.57%) Windows
5 6 (28.57%) Solaris
5 6 (28.57%) Linux
5 6 (28.57%) LAN
5 6 (28.57%) WAN
6 5 (23.81%) HTTP
7 4 (19.05%) GIS
7 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
7 4 (19.05%) SAP
7 4 (19.05%) .NET
8 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
8 3 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
8 3 (14.29%) Workflow
8 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
9 2 (9.524%) Change Control
9 2 (9.524%) Local Government
9 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (9.524%) Project Management
9 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
10 1 (4.762%) EAI
10 1 (4.762%) SOA
10 1 (4.762%) Eclipse

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing Oracle 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 1 (4.762%) XHTML
2 1 (4.762%) HTML
2 1 (4.762%) J2EE
2 1 (4.762%) CSS
2 1 (4.762%) XML
2 1 (4.762%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.762%) JSF
2 1 (4.762%) RichFaces
2 1 (4.762%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (4.762%) ESB
1 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) LAN
1 6 (28.57%) WAN
2 5 (23.81%) HTTP
3 1 (4.762%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) GIS
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
3 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.762%) DB2
4 1 (4.762%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (4.762%) Subversion
General
1 6 (28.57%) Back Office
2 2 (9.524%) Local Government
3 1 (4.762%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Architect
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (19.05%) SQL Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Report Developer
6 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Senior Applications Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Project Manager
7 1 (4.762%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (4.762%) WebSphere Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Senior Oracle Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
1 6 (28.57%) Solaris
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Workflow
3 2 (9.524%) Change Control
3 2 (9.524%) Project Management
4 1 (4.762%) EAI
4 1 (4.762%) SOA
4 1 (4.762%) Change Management
4 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (90.48%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 3 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) EMC
2 4 (19.05%) SAP
3 1 (4.762%) IBM
3 1 (4.762%) JBoss