Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Oracle 10g skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 10g over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

LinkOracle Database 10g
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank1117881
Rank change year-on-year
Down-33Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads7097291517
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.468 %1.848 %1.846 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category6.939 %9.711 %9.147 %
Daily rates quoted340232482
Average daily rate£400£365£390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-6.410 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£525£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£320£375
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-14.66 %
Hourly rates quoted201753
Average hourly rate£33.00£30.00£40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-25.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£25.00£15.00£32.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.60£49.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate£32.00£30.00£40.00
% change year-on-year
+6.660 %-25.00 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryAll Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
10218750716584
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK21.15 %19.03 %20.18 %
Daily rates quoted483223894898
Average daily rate£380£350£381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.570 %-8.010 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£238£225£258
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£320£350
% change year-on-year
-6.250 %-8.570 %
Hourly rates quoted4325581133
Average hourly rate£27.50£27.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--8.330 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.40£15.00£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£40.00£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.50£26.50£32.00
% change year-on-year
+3.770 %-17.18 %

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.

Oracle 10g
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 10g Demand Trend

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 10g within the UK.

Oracle 10g Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 10g
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 10g within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Oracle 10g Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 10g within the UK.

Oracle 10g Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 10g
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 10g within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Oracle 10g Hourly Rate Histogram

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 10g within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-33657£400+5.26 %
LondonDown-14398£450+5.88 %
City of LondonDown-17144£450-
South EastDown-3971£313-16.66 %
South WestDown-1640£315+5.00 %
East of EnglandUp+739£275-15.38 %
North WestDown-1738£286-23.66 %
West MidlandsUp+433£356+5.55 %
ScotlandDown-2131£350+15.70 %
BerkshireDown-218£350-7.89 %
SurreyDown-818£350-23.07 %
Docklands, LondonUp+717£475-
GlasgowDown-714£344+32.21 %
East MidlandsDown-613£195-35.00 %
CoventryNew entry-13£350-
DevonDown-1212£384+38.28 %
GloucestershireUp+1711£310-
HertfordshireUp+1311£300-17.24 %
ReadingUp+911£350-33.96 %
ExeterDown-511£384-
North EastDown-410£275+14.58 %
EdinburghDown-2210£350-
EssexUp+79--
CambridgeshireDown-49£245-24.61 %
CheshireDown-69£290-
YorkshireDown-99£280-4.68 %
ManchesterDown-249£200-52.94 %
HampshireDown-249£295-3.27 %
Tyne and WearUp+48£288+30.68 %
NottinghamshireUp+18£133-58.26 %

Oracle 10g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle 10g 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 10g.

11448 (100.00 %)Oracle
2742 (51.24 %)SQL
3582 (40.19 %)PL/SQL
4427 (29.49 %)Oracle 9i
5401 (27.69 %)UNIX
6366 (25.28 %)Java
7301 (20.79 %)Banking
8276 (19.06 %)Oracle 11g
9268 (18.51 %)Finance
10254 (17.54 %)XML
11248 (17.13 %)Windows
12229 (15.81 %)Oracle Reports
13227 (15.68 %)SQL Server
14209 (14.43 %)Oracle RAC
15202 (13.95 %)Datawarehouse
16199 (13.74 %)Linux
17197 (13.60 %).NET
18189 (13.05 %)Web Services
19185 (12.78 %)Security Cleared
20179 (12.36 %)C#
21172 (11.88 %)Investment Banking
22165 (11.40 %)Oracle Forms
23153 (10.57 %)Oracle 8/8i
24148 (10.22 %)Data Guard
25145 (10.01 %)SOA
26142 (9.807 %)J2EE
27128 (8.840 %)SC Cleared
28117 (8.080 %)ETL
28117 (8.080 %)Oracle RMAN
29114 (7.873 %)Business Intelligence

Oracle 10g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle 10g 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 10g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1254 (17.54 %)XML
2197 (13.60 %).NET
3189 (13.05 %)Web Services
4142 (9.807 %)J2EE
580 (5.525 %)Hibernate
580 (5.525 %)Spring
677 (5.318 %)Middleware
773 (5.041 %)ASP.NET
860 (4.144 %)XSD
953 (3.660 %).NET Framework
1048 (3.315 %)Oracle Fusion
1141 (2.831 %)XSLT
1141 (2.831 %)WebSphere
1239 (2.693 %)HTML
1336 (2.486 %)JDBC
1433 (2.279 %)WCF
1532 (2.210 %)JSP
1629 (2.003 %)XSL
1629 (2.003 %)WinForms
1629 (2.003 %)AJAX
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
182 (5.663 %)ESB
277 (5.318 %)WebLogic
367 (4.627 %)Oracle Application Server
447 (3.246 %)Oracle Workflow
539 (2.693 %)Oracle 10gAS
625 (1.727 %)MQSeries
723 (1.588 %)Apache
818 (1.243 %)WebSphere MQ
917 (1.174 %)AquaLogic
1015 (1.036 %)Oracle Spatial
1015 (1.036 %)Oracle Service Bus
1113 (0.898 %)SharePoint
1212 (0.829 %)Oracle 9iAS
1310 (0.691 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1310 (0.691 %)ArcIMS
1310 (0.691 %)ArcSDE
149 (0.622 %)Tomcat
158 (0.552 %)Rendezvous
167 (0.483 %)IIS
167 (0.483 %)SharePoint Server 2007
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
130 (2.072 %)MS Excel
220 (1.381 %)MS Office
36 (0.414 %)InfoPath
44 (0.276 %)MS PowerPoint
44 (0.276 %)MS Project
53 (0.207 %)MS Visio
62 (0.138 %)MATLAB
71 (0.069 %)AutoCAD
71 (0.069 %)CA Clarity
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
175 (5.180 %)Oracle Applications
252 (3.591 %)Oracle BPM
351 (3.522 %)Oracle 11i
435 (2.417 %)Oracle EBS R12
531 (2.141 %)Oracle EBS
611 (0.760 %)LongView
79 (0.622 %)Oracle Financials
79 (0.622 %)SunGard Martini
79 (0.622 %)Khalix
88 (0.552 %)Summit
97 (0.483 %)BusinessWorks
97 (0.483 %)Oracle General Ledger
106 (0.414 %)AquaLogic BPM
115 (0.345 %)SAP CRM
124 (0.276 %)SAP IS-U
124 (0.276 %)Cognos Planning
133 (0.207 %)SAP Oil and Gas
133 (0.207 %)Dynamics CRM
133 (0.207 %)Siebel Analytics
142 (0.138 %)Oracle ERP
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
131 (2.141 %)Internet
220 (1.381 %)SAN
317 (1.174 %)LDAP
416 (1.105 %)SSL
512 (0.829 %)Intranet
611 (0.760 %)Firewall
710 (0.691 %)HTTP
89 (0.622 %)TCP/IP
97 (0.483 %)WAN
97 (0.483 %)FTP
106 (0.414 %)DNS
115 (0.345 %)NAS
124 (0.276 %)LAN
124 (0.276 %)Kerberos
133 (0.207 %)3G
133 (0.207 %)Nokia NetAct
142 (0.138 %)Network Security
142 (0.138 %)RTSP
142 (0.138 %)RNC
142 (0.138 %)SSH
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1427 (29.49 %)Oracle 9i
2276 (19.06 %)Oracle 11g
3229 (15.81 %)Oracle Reports
4227 (15.68 %)SQL Server
5202 (13.95 %)Datawarehouse
6153 (10.57 %)Oracle 8/8i
7117 (8.080 %)ETL
898 (6.768 %)Oracle Discoverer
993 (6.423 %)SQL Server 2005
1084 (5.801 %)Oracle OWB
1181 (5.594 %)RDBMS
1274 (5.110 %)BusinessObjects
1362 (4.282 %)TOAD
1445 (3.108 %)BusinessObjects XI
1539 (2.693 %)Oracle OLAP
1539 (2.693 %)OLAP
1539 (2.693 %)SQL Server 2000
1635 (2.417 %)OLTP
1731 (2.141 %)SQL Server 2008
1828 (1.934 %)Oracle BI EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1165 (11.40 %)Oracle Forms
253 (3.660 %)Subversion
253 (3.660 %)JDeveloper
342 (2.901 %)Visual Studio
432 (2.210 %)ClearCase
527 (1.865 %)Maven
624 (1.657 %)JUnit
722 (1.519 %)Ant
821 (1.450 %)VSS/SourceSafe
917 (1.174 %)Eclipse
917 (1.174 %)Oracle APEX
1012 (0.829 %)ClearQuest
1111 (0.760 %)Rational Rose
1111 (0.760 %)PVCS
129 (0.622 %)NUnit
129 (0.622 %)ProC
137 (0.483 %)Selenium
137 (0.483 %)TeamCity
146 (0.414 %)FrontPage
146 (0.414 %)ERwin
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1301 (20.79 %)Banking
2268 (18.51 %)Finance
3172 (11.88 %)Investment Banking
474 (5.110 %)Government
538 (2.624 %)Back Office
630 (2.072 %)Front Office
725 (1.727 %)Retail
821 (1.450 %)Telecoms
821 (1.450 %)Financial Institution
914 (0.967 %)Insurance
1011 (0.760 %)Games
119 (0.622 %)Health
119 (0.622 %)Corporate Banking
128 (0.552 %)General Ledger
136 (0.414 %)Online Banking
136 (0.414 %)Pensions
136 (0.414 %)Education
136 (0.414 %)Billing
145 (0.345 %)Automotive
154 (0.276 %)Retail Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1745 (51.45 %)Developer
2349 (24.10 %)Oracle Developer
3307 (21.20 %)DBA
4271 (18.72 %)Oracle DBA
5105 (7.251 %)Analyst
691 (6.285 %)Java Developer
785 (5.870 %)C# Developer
874 (5.110 %)Senior Developer
964 (4.420 %)Consultant
1063 (4.351 %)Designer
1159 (4.075 %)Administrator
1255 (3.798 %).NET Developer
1349 (3.384 %)Architect
1445 (3.108 %)PL/SQL Developer
1542 (2.901 %)Oracle Consultant
1639 (2.693 %)SQL Developer
1734 (2.348 %)Business Developer
1831 (2.141 %)SQL DBA
1928 (1.934 %)Senior Oracle Developer
2026 (1.796 %)Oracle Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
154 (3.729 %)Replication
154 (3.729 %)Clustering
251 (3.522 %)Derivative
342 (2.901 %)Fixed Income
437 (2.555 %)Client/Server
529 (2.003 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
619 (1.312 %)Credit Derivative
619 (1.312 %)Equities
717 (1.174 %)Management Information System
815 (1.036 %)NHS
815 (1.036 %)Credit Risk
914 (0.967 %)Computer Science
1013 (0.898 %)Multithreading
1112 (0.829 %)N-Tier
1211 (0.760 %)Interest Rate Derivative
139 (0.622 %)Equity Derivative
147 (0.483 %)Data Conversion
147 (0.483 %)Open Source
156 (0.414 %)Mainframe
165 (0.345 %)Market Risk
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1401 (27.69 %)UNIX
2248 (17.13 %)Windows
3199 (13.74 %)Linux
4102 (7.044 %)Solaris
548 (3.315 %)Red Hat Linux
631 (2.141 %)HPUX
631 (2.141 %)Windows Server 2003
727 (1.865 %)AIX
818 (1.243 %)Windows XP
917 (1.174 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1013 (0.898 %)Windows Server 2008
1110 (0.691 %)MVS
129 (0.622 %)Windows 2000
129 (0.622 %)VMS
134 (0.276 %)Windows 2000 Server
134 (0.276 %)Windows Vista
134 (0.276 %)Windows Mobile
143 (0.207 %)Windows NT
152 (0.138 %)Oracle Enterprise Linux
161 (0.069 %)zOS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1145 (10.01 %)SOA
2114 (7.873 %)Business Intelligence
392 (6.354 %)Migration
485 (5.870 %)BPEL
575 (5.180 %)Agile Software Development
664 (4.420 %)OO
763 (4.351 %)Data Modelling
856 (3.867 %)TDD
951 (3.522 %)Workflow
1050 (3.453 %)ITIL
1147 (3.246 %)CRM
1245 (3.108 %)UML
1342 (2.901 %)Unit Testing
1441 (2.831 %)Scrum
1532 (2.210 %)User Acceptance Testing
1629 (2.003 %)Capacity Planning
1727 (1.865 %)Release Management
1826 (1.796 %)Incident Management
1925 (1.727 %)Configuration Management
2022 (1.519 %)Data Migration
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1742 (51.24 %)SQL
2582 (40.19 %)PL/SQL
3366 (25.28 %)Java
4179 (12.36 %)C#
5113 (7.804 %)Shell Script
669 (4.765 %)C
752 (3.591 %)JavaScript
851 (3.522 %)C++
939 (2.693 %)Perl
1028 (1.934 %)T-SQL
1126 (1.796 %)VB
1221 (1.450 %)VC++
1320 (1.381 %)Python
1416 (1.105 %)VBA
1514 (0.967 %)VB.NET
1613 (0.898 %)PHP
1712 (0.829 %)XPath
1811 (0.760 %)XQuery
1910 (0.691 %)Groovy
1910 (0.691 %)Ruby
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1185 (12.78 %)Security Cleared
2128 (8.840 %)SC Cleared
387 (6.008 %)Oracle Certification
446 (3.177 %)OCP
536 (2.486 %)Degree
627 (1.865 %)DV Cleared
724 (1.657 %)OCA
823 (1.588 %)BC Cleared
914 (0.967 %)CTC Cleared
106 (0.414 %)ISEB
106 (0.414 %)PRINCE2 Certification
113 (0.207 %)Microsoft Certification
113 (0.207 %)Sun Certification
122 (0.138 %)MCDBA
131 (0.069 %)MCSE
131 (0.069 %)SAP Certification
131 (0.069 %)Cisco Certification
131 (0.069 %)PMI Certification
131 (0.069 %)CCNA
131 (0.069 %)MCITP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
138 (2.624 %)QA
213 (0.898 %)SLA
33 (0.207 %)TickIT
33 (0.207 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
41 (0.069 %)GAMP
41 (0.069 %)MiFID
41 (0.069 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1209 (14.43 %)Oracle RAC
2117 (8.080 %)Oracle RMAN
315 (1.036 %)VMware Infrastructure
412 (0.829 %)Active Directory
55 (0.345 %)VMware ESX
55 (0.345 %)Veritas Cluster Server
63 (0.207 %)Hyper-V
72 (0.138 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
72 (0.138 %)MSMQ
72 (0.138 %)NFS
72 (0.138 %)VMware Workstation
81 (0.069 %)Samba
81 (0.069 %)MetaFrame
81 (0.069 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1148 (10.22 %)Data Guard
219 (1.312 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
313 (0.898 %)CONTROL-M
410 (0.691 %)BMC PATROL
410 (0.691 %)Tivoli
58 (0.552 %)AutoSys
65 (0.345 %)NetBackup
74 (0.276 %)Foglight
83 (0.207 %)Backup Exec
83 (0.207 %)TIBCO Hawk
83 (0.207 %)OpenView
92 (0.138 %)WSUS
92 (0.138 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
101 (0.069 %)MSI
101 (0.069 %)SCOM
101 (0.069 %)Dollar Universe
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11448 (100.00 %)Oracle
274 (5.110 %)Business Objects
368 (4.696 %)Microsoft
453 (3.660 %)Red Hat
551 (3.522 %)Sun
647 (3.246 %)Sybase
742 (2.901 %)IBM
833 (2.279 %)Cognos
927 (1.865 %)BEA
1024 (1.657 %)TIBCO
1024 (1.657 %)Informatica
1024 (1.657 %)HP
1121 (1.450 %)VMware
1219 (1.312 %)SAP
1314 (0.967 %)BMC
1413 (0.898 %)ESRI
1511 (0.760 %)Perforce
1511 (0.760 %)Veritas
1610 (0.691 %)Fujitsu
1610 (0.691 %)ILOG