The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 23 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 Swindon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 32 37 33
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 7 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 2.397% 0.276% 1.242%
As % of the System Software category 18.42% 7.692% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
Average daily rate £438 £475 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £378
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.96%
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
38 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 13.01% 3.591% 4.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 9
Average daily rate £450 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £161 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £470 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
Wiltshire

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

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 Swindon region.

Swindon Oracle RAC Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 13 (86.67%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (86.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (80.00%) Oracle 10gAS
3 12 (80.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 12 (80.00%) Middleware
3 12 (80.00%) Oracle 10g
3 12 (80.00%) SAN
4 11 (73.33%) NAS
5 10 (66.67%) Oracle 11i
5 10 (66.67%) ETL
5 10 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (60.00%) VPN
6 9 (60.00%) LAN
6 9 (60.00%) WAN
6 9 (60.00%) VMware
6 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (60.00%) BPEL
7 8 (53.33%) Oracle Application Server
7 8 (53.33%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (53.33%) Hyperion
7 8 (53.33%) Informatica
7 8 (53.33%) Siebel
8 7 (46.67%) Information Assurance
8 7 (46.67%) Oracle 11g
9 6 (40.00%) WebCenter
9 6 (40.00%) ITIL
9 6 (40.00%) PRINCE2
10 4 (26.67%) Oracle Applications

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 12 (80.00%) Middleware
2 6 (40.00%) WebCenter
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 12 (80.00%) Oracle 10gAS
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle EBS
1 13 (86.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (66.67%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (26.67%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 12 (80.00%) SAN
2 11 (73.33%) NAS
3 9 (60.00%) VPN
3 9 (60.00%) LAN
3 9 (60.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 12 (80.00%) Oracle 10g
2 10 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (46.67%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 8 (53.33%) Team Leader
2 6 (40.00%) DBA
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (20.00%) Information Assurance Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Team Leader
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Linux
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (6.667%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) ETL
2 9 (60.00%) BPEL
3 7 (46.67%) Information Assurance
4 6 (40.00%) ITIL
4 6 (40.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 1 (6.667%) Project Management
6 1 (6.667%) Change Management
6 1 (6.667%) E-business
6 1 (6.667%) Data Security
6 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.667%) ERP
6 1 (6.667%) SOA
6 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (6.667%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (60.00%) VMware
3 8 (53.33%) Hyperion
3 8 (53.33%) Informatica
3 8 (53.33%) Siebel
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