Staffordshire Oracle Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts within the Staffordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Barking Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Flintshire Gateshead Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Queensferry Reading Redhill Renfrew Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	3
Rank change on same period last year	-20
Matching contract IT job ads	11	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	17.19 %	36.78 %
Daily rates quoted	6	15
Average minimum daily rate	£277	£325
Average daily rate	£298	£351
% change on same period last year	-15.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£358
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
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	£30.98	£32.23
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Vendors Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	64	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.091 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	11	33
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£327
Average daily rate	£369	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.51	£25.13
Average hourly rate	£14.74	£25.44
% change on same period last year	-42.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.97	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
Oracle 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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 13 October 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	+1	4	£183	-43.58 %
Stoke-on-Trent	-9	3	£408	-
Burton-upon-Trent	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 21 (75.00 %) SQL 2 16 (57.14 %) PL/SQL 3 11 (39.29 %) UNIX 4 9 (32.14 %) Oracle 10g 5 8 (28.57 %) Project Management 6 7 (25.00 %) Northgate 7 6 (21.43 %) Data Migration 7 6 (21.43 %) Migration 7 6 (21.43 %) SQL Server 7 6 (21.43 %) Solaris 8 5 (17.86 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 8 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 5 (17.86 %) MS Access 9 4 (14.29 %) Sun

9 4 (14.29 %) Oracle Forms 9 4 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports 9 4 (14.29 %) Workflow 9 4 (14.29 %) Finance 9 4 (14.29 %) E-business 9 4 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 4 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 9 4 (14.29 %) Oracle Workflow 10 3 (10.71 %) Crystal Reports 10 3 (10.71 %) IBM 11 2 (7.143 %) RDBMS 11 2 (7.143 %) Intel 11 2 (7.143 %) Citrix 11 2 (7.143 %) Siebel 11 2 (7.143 %) WebSphere Application Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 2 (7.143 %) XML 1 2 (7.143 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.571 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (14.29 %) Oracle Workflow 2 2 (7.143 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (3.571 %) MS Exchange
Business Applications 1 2 (7.143 %) Oracle Payroll 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (3.571 %) Oracle EBS	Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.143 %) Internet 2 1 (3.571 %) iSCSI 2 1 (3.571 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (32.14 %) Oracle 10g 2 6 (21.43 %) SQL Server 3 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 5 (17.86 %) MS Access 4 4 (14.29 %) Oracle Reports 5 3 (10.71 %) Crystal Reports 6 2 (7.143 %) RDBMS 7 1 (3.571 %) DB2 7 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Discoverer 7 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 9i	Development Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (7.143 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 4 (14.29 %) Finance 1 4 (14.29 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (3.571 %) Local Government 2 1 (3.571 %) Pensions 2 1 (3.571 %) Government	Job Titles 1 8 (28.57 %) Developer 2 7 (25.00 %) Project Manager 3 4 (14.29 %) DBA 4 3 (10.71 %) Oracle DBA 4 3 (10.71 %) Oracle Developer 4 3 (10.71 %) Lead Developer 5 2 (7.143 %) Administrator 5 2 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 5 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 2 (7.143 %) Programmer 5 2 (7.143 %) Consultant 5 2 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 1 (3.571 %) Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) Applications Support 6 1 (3.571 %) Technical Consultant 6 1 (3.571 %) Applications Support Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) VB Developer 6 1 (3.571 %) IT Project Manager 6 1 (3.571 %) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.571 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 11 (39.29 %) UNIX 2 6 (21.43 %) Solaris 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 6 (21.43 %) Migration 2 6 (21.43 %) Data Migration 3 5 (17.86 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (14.29 %) E-business 4 4 (14.29 %) Workflow 5 2 (7.143 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (7.143 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (3.571 %) Logistics 6 1 (3.571 %) Systems Analysis 6 1 (3.571 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (3.571 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE 6 1 (3.571 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 21 (75.00 %) SQL 2 16 (57.14 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (7.143 %) VB 4 1 (3.571 %) VBA 4 1 (3.571 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 4 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	System Software 1 1 (3.571 %) NetBackup 1 1 (3.571 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 1 (3.571 %) Unicenter 1 1 (3.571 %) AutoSys	Vendors 1 7 (25.00 %) Northgate 2 5 (17.86 %) Microsoft 3 4 (14.29 %) Sun 4 3 (10.71 %) IBM 5 2 (7.143 %) Siebel 5 2 (7.143 %) Intel 5 2 (7.143 %) Citrix 6 1 (3.571 %) CA 6 1 (3.571 %) JD Edwards 6 1 (3.571 %) Anite 6 1 (3.571 %) VMware 6 1 (3.571 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (3.571 %) Civica 6 1 (3.571 %) Capita