The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 21 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 Stockport 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 3 5 2
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 6 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stockport 50.00% 17.65% 26.67%
As % of the Vendors category 75.00% 50.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
Average daily rate £335 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.07% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £28.25 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+23.89% -14.39%
All Vendors
Stockport
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
8 6 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stockport 66.67% 35.29% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
Average daily rate £320 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Oracle
Manchester

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport 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 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Linux
3 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) jQuery
4 4 (50.00%) XML
5 3 (37.50%) JBoss
5 3 (37.50%) SOA
5 3 (37.50%) J2EE
5 3 (37.50%) Java
5 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
5 3 (37.50%) ESB
5 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
5 3 (37.50%) Spring
5 3 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (37.50%) Gradle
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (25.00%) Data Guard
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (25.00%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) .NET

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stockport 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 5 (62.50%) jQuery
2 4 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) J2EE
3 3 (37.50%) Hibernate
3 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
3 3 (37.50%) Spring
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) ESB
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Spatial
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Gradle
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (25.00%) DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) SOA
1 3 (37.50%) MVC
1 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
2 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 3 (37.50%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (25.00%) C#
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) JBoss
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (12.50%) Sage