The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 17 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 Tyne and Wear 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank - 33 31
Contract jobs citing Oracle RAC 0 6 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear - 1.881% 1.894%
As % of the System Software category - 11.32% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 3
Average daily rate - £440 £530
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.98%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £393 £380
% change year-on-year
+8.28% +3.28%
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
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
18 53 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 10.17% 16.61% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 24 10
Average daily rate £300 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.21% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 3
Average hourly rate £18.25 £12.66 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.15% -2.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Oracle RAC
North East

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Oracle RAC Daily Rate Trend

Oracle RAC
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Performance Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Performance Tester
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (100.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat