The first table below looks at the demand for OCP in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OCP 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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 Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank 517 554 569
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +15
Contract jobs citing OCP 13 24 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.028% 0.041% 0.031%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.156% 0.238% 0.196%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 12
Average daily rate £400 £349 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.61% +3.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £310 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £349 £319
% change year-on-year
-6.87% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £45.00
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8360 10099 9690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.02% 17.33% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4481 5262 4618
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 547 662
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OCP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

OCP Jobs Demand Trend

OCP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OCP within the UK.

OCP Daily Rate Trend

OCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OCP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

OCP Daily Rate Histogram

OCP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OCP within the UK.

OCP Hourly Rate Trend

OCP
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +41 13 £400 +14.61%
London +13 5 £440 -
South West - 4 £425 -
Taunton - 3 - -
Somerset - 3 - -
West Midlands - 2 £325 -
Durham - 2 £313 -
North East - 2 £313 -
City of London - 1 £375 -
Wiltshire - 1 £425 -
Swindon - 1 £425 -
Coventry - 1 £325 -
Birmingham - 1 - -

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OCP 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 OCP.

1 38 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 30 (78.95%) Oracle
3 24 (63.16%) SQL
4 16 (42.11%) Linux
5 15 (39.47%) Oracle 10g
6 14 (36.84%) Oracle 11g
7 13 (34.21%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (34.21%) ITIL
8 12 (31.58%) PL/SQL
9 11 (28.95%) Solaris
9 11 (28.95%) RHCE
9 11 (28.95%) Red Hat
9 11 (28.95%) Oracle RMAN
9 11 (28.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (26.32%) Finance
10 10 (26.32%) Migration
10 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
11 9 (23.68%) UNIX
11 9 (23.68%) Apache
11 9 (23.68%) Oracle 8/8i
11 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
12 8 (21.05%) HP
12 8 (21.05%) VMware
12 8 (21.05%) High Availability
13 7 (18.42%) Data Analysis
13 7 (18.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 7 (18.42%) SAP
13 7 (18.42%) Perl
14 6 (15.79%) Java
14 6 (15.79%) T-SQL

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OCP 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 OCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (10.53%) J2EE
1 4 (10.53%) XML
1 4 (10.53%) Middleware
2 3 (7.895%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.263%) Ajax
3 2 (5.263%) jQuery
3 2 (5.263%) Flash
3 2 (5.263%) CSS
3 2 (5.263%) Web Services
3 2 (5.263%) HTML
4 1 (2.632%) .NET
4 1 (2.632%) POSIX
4 1 (2.632%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 9 (23.68%) Apache
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (10.53%) WebLogic
4 3 (7.895%) SharePoint
4 3 (7.895%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (5.263%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.632%) IIS
6 1 (2.632%) SAS
6 1 (2.632%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (2.632%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (2.632%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (7.895%) MS Office
2 2 (5.263%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.632%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.632%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (15.79%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.79%) DHCP
1 6 (15.79%) DNS
2 5 (13.16%) DECnet
3 3 (7.895%) SAN
4 1 (2.632%) LAN
4 1 (2.632%) Firewall
4 1 (2.632%) SSL
4 1 (2.632%) HTTP
4 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (39.47%) Oracle 10g
2 14 (36.84%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
3 9 (23.68%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle 9i
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (10.53%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (7.895%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (7.895%) TOAD
5 3 (7.895%) RDBMS
6 2 (5.263%) SQLPlus
6 2 (5.263%) Oracle OWB
7 1 (2.632%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.632%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 3 (7.895%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (5.263%) Subversion
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.632%) Hudson
3 1 (2.632%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
2 1 (2.632%) Banking
2 1 (2.632%) Retail
2 1 (2.632%) Music
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) DBA
2 16 (42.11%) Oracle DBA
3 14 (36.84%) Administrator
4 7 (18.42%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (15.79%) Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (5.263%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) SQL DBA
7 2 (5.263%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) UNIX Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Risk Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (2.632%) Senior UNIX Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Auditor
8 1 (2.632%) Oracle Architect
8 1 (2.632%) Architect
8 1 (2.632%) IT Auditor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) PKI
2 2 (5.263%) Statistics
2 2 (5.263%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.263%) Freedom of Information Act
2 2 (5.263%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.263%) Replication
2 2 (5.263%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.632%) Clustering
3 1 (2.632%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 16 (42.11%) Linux
2 11 (28.95%) Solaris
2 11 (28.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (23.68%) UNIX
4 6 (15.79%) HPUX
4 6 (15.79%) OpenVMS
5 5 (13.16%) VMS
6 4 (10.53%) Windows
7 2 (5.263%) AIX
7 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (5.263%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) ITIL
2 10 (26.32%) Migration
3 8 (21.05%) High Availability
4 7 (18.42%) Data Analysis
5 6 (15.79%) ERP
6 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (13.16%) Workflow
7 3 (7.895%) Service Delivery
7 3 (7.895%) Change Management
7 3 (7.895%) Scrum
7 3 (7.895%) SOA
7 3 (7.895%) PRINCE2
7 3 (7.895%) CRM
7 3 (7.895%) Release Management
7 3 (7.895%) Performance Management
8 2 (5.263%) Data Protection
8 2 (5.263%) Database Tuning
8 2 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (5.263%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) SQL
2 12 (31.58%) PL/SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Perl
4 6 (15.79%) Java
4 6 (15.79%) T-SQL
5 5 (13.16%) DCL
6 3 (7.895%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.263%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 11 (28.95%) RHCE
3 3 (7.895%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.263%) OCA
4 2 (5.263%) Degree
4 2 (5.263%) MCDBA
5 1 (2.632%) CISSP
5 1 (2.632%) MCSE
5 1 (2.632%) MCSA
5 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.632%) Sun Certification
5 1 (2.632%) ACCA
5 1 (2.632%) CISA
5 1 (2.632%) CISM
5 1 (2.632%) QiCA
5 1 (2.632%) CIMA
5 1 (2.632%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.895%) SLA
1 3 (7.895%) Basel III
2 2 (5.263%) GAMP
2 2 (5.263%) GxP
3 1 (2.632%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (28.95%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) VMware ESX
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (10.53%) vSphere
5 1 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 6 (15.79%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (10.53%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.632%) HP SIM
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle Statspack
5 1 (2.632%) MOM
Vendors
1 30 (78.95%) Oracle
2 11 (28.95%) Red Hat
3 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
4 8 (21.05%) HP
4 8 (21.05%) VMware
5 7 (18.42%) SAP
6 6 (15.79%) EMC
7 3 (7.895%) Hyperion
7 3 (7.895%) Stellent
8 2 (5.263%) Sun
9 1 (2.632%) IBM
9 1 (2.632%) Informatica
9 1 (2.632%) Veritas
9 1 (2.632%) BEA
9 1 (2.632%) Salesforce.com
9 1 (2.632%) Serena
9 1 (2.632%) DataFlux
9 1 (2.632%) SolarWinds
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