Oracle 11g Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g 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 11g over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 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.

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.

Oracle Database 11g
Location Andover Barrow-in-Furness Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwynedd Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rotherham Sale Scotland Sheffield Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2012	Same period 2011	Same period 2010
Rank	144	211	276
Rank change year-on-year	+67 +65
Matching contract IT job ads	776	513	287
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	1.311 %	0.836 %	0.521 %
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	6.769 %	4.035 %	2.493 %
Number of daily rates quoted	384	257	135
Average daily rate	£425	£425	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +6.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£313	£257
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£525	£525
UK excluding London average daily rate	£388	£389	£335
% change year-on-year	-0.32 % +16.04 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	6	3
Average hourly rate	£47.50	£30.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+58.33 % +9.09 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£45.00	£30.00	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+50.00 % +9.09 %
All Database & Business Intelligence UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Database & Business Intelligence category	11464	12714	11511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	19.37 %	20.72 %	20.91 %
Number of daily rates quoted	6547	7098	5692
Average daily rate	£375	£400	£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-6.25 % -
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£260	£260	£238
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£550	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£340	£320
% change year-on-year	-1.47 % +6.25 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	256	409	411
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£32.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-14.06 % +14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£16.50	£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£45.00	£45.00	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.50	£32.50	£27.50
% change year-on-year	-15.38 % +18.18 %

Oracle 11g
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 11g within the UK.

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 11g within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Oracle 11g
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g within the UK.

Oracle 11g
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 11g within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. 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	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	+81	720	£425	-
London	+64	303	£450	-4.25 %
South East	+44	160	£375	-
North West	+61	84	£412	+34.40 %
City of London	+59	81	£450	-
Yorkshire	+36	75	£397	+17.48 %
Surrey	+44	62	£365	-8.87 %
West Yorkshire	+19	53	£375	+11.11 %
Hampshire	+19	37	£350	-5.40 %
Bradford	+19	33	£397	+97.75 %
Manchester	+9	33	£412	+56.80 %
South West	-20	31	£350	-12.77 %
East of England	+7	23	£368	-22.63 %
Cheshire	+21	18	£328	+6.93 %
Lancashire	0	17	£400	+19.22 %
Oxfordshire	-18	16	£475	+50.79 %
West Midlands	-7	15	£475	+46.15 %
Berkshire	-16	14	£425	-5.55 %
Scotland	-27	14	£356	-5.08 %
East Midlands	+4	13	£308	-12.14 %
South Yorkshire	+14	12	£400	+15.10 %
North East	-7	12	£550	+15.78 %
Cambridgeshire	-	12	£550	-
Edinburgh	+13	11	£337	-23.00 %
Newcastle upon Tyne	-4	11	£550	-
Tyne and Wear	-5	11	£550	+3.77 %
Kent	-	11	£300	-
Leeds	-18	9	£360	+6.66 %
Leatherhead	-	9	£410	-
Reading	-6	8	£450	-

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle 11g 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 11g.

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle 11g 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 11g. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 128 (8.767 %) Web Services 2 127 (8.699 %) J2EE 3 126 (8.630 %) .NET 3 126 (8.630 %) Middleware 4 116 (7.945 %) XML 5 104 (7.123 %) Oracle Fusion 6 62 (4.247 %) HTML 7 52 (3.562 %) WCF 8 50 (3.425 %) CSS 9 43 (2.945 %) jQuery 10 42 (2.877 %) Oracle ADF 11 34 (2.329 %) JSF 12 33 (2.260 %) XSLT 13 32 (2.192 %) ASP.NET 13 32 (2.192 %) WebSphere 14 31 (2.123 %) EJB 15 29 (1.986 %) WebCenter 16 28 (1.918 %) Ajax 17 27 (1.849 %) .NET Framework 18 25 (1.712 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 231 (15.82 %) WebLogic 2 127 (8.699 %) Oracle Application Server 3 116 (7.945 %) Oracle SOA Suite 4 73 (5.000 %) Oracle Service Bus 5 62 (4.247 %) Oracle 10gAS 6 56 (3.836 %) IIS 7 38 (2.603 %) ESB 8 34 (2.329 %) Apache 9 31 (2.123 %) WebLogic Portal 10 30 (2.055 %) SharePoint 11 27 (1.849 %) Tomcat 12 24 (1.644 %) Oracle Workflow 13 20 (1.370 %) ArcGIS 14 19 (1.301 %) Oracle Spatial 15 18 (1.233 %) WebSphere Application Server 15 18 (1.233 %) LiveLink 15 18 (1.233 %) Oracle BPEL 16 17 (1.164 %) ArcIMS 17 14 (0.959 %) AquaLogic 18 12 (0.822 %) CMS
Applications 1 29 (1.986 %) MS Excel 2 8 (0.548 %) MS Office 2 8 (0.548 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 130 (8.904 %) Oracle EBS 2 105 (7.192 %) Oracle EBS R12 3 82 (5.616 %) Oracle 11i 4 63 (4.315 %) Oracle Applications 5 57 (3.904 %) Oracle BPM 6 24 (1.644 %) Oracle Retail 7 7 (0.479 %) Dynamics CRM 7 7 (0.479 %) AquaLogic BPM 8 6 (0.411 %) Teamcenter 9 5 (0.342 %) Oracle Financials 9 5 (0.342 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 10 4 (0.274 %) TIBCO iProcess 11 3 (0.205 %) SAP ERP 11 3 (0.205 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 11 3 (0.205 %) Oracle iProcurement 11 3 (0.205 %) Siebel Analytics 11 3 (0.205 %) Oracle Payroll 11 3 (0.205 %) Oracle ERP 12 2 (0.137 %) SAP HR 12 2 (0.137 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 46 (3.151 %) Internet 2 44 (3.014 %) SAN 3 23 (1.575 %) LDAP 4 18 (1.233 %) Firewall 5 16 (1.096 %) NAS 6 15 (1.027 %) TCP/IP 7 10 (0.685 %) SSL 8 9 (0.616 %) HTTP 9 5 (0.342 %) WAN 9 5 (0.342 %) VPN 9 5 (0.342 %) DNS 9 5 (0.342 %) LAN 9 5 (0.342 %) MPLS 10 4 (0.274 %) OSPF 10 4 (0.274 %) EIGRP 10 4 (0.274 %) BGP 10 4 (0.274 %) Intranet 10 4 (0.274 %) IPsec 11 3 (0.205 %) DHCP 12 2 (0.137 %) BIG-IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 632 (43.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 177 (12.12 %) Oracle BI EE 3 171 (11.71 %) SQL Server 4 160 (10.96 %) Data Warehouse 5 153 (10.48 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 147 (10.07 %) Oracle Reports 7 128 (8.767 %) ETL 8 110 (7.534 %) Oracle 9i 9 104 (7.123 %) RDBMS 10 80 (5.479 %) SQL Server 2005 11 51 (3.493 %) Oracle OWB 12 50 (3.425 %) OLAP 12 50 (3.425 %) Oracle OLAP 13 42 (2.877 %) TOAD 14 39 (2.671 %) SQL Server 2008 15 38 (2.603 %) SQL Server Integration Services 15 38 (2.603 %) Oracle Discoverer 16 35 (2.397 %) SQL Server 2000 17 33 (2.260 %) OLTP 18 28 (1.918 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 94 (6.438 %) Oracle Forms 2 56 (3.836 %) Oracle APEX 3 49 (3.356 %) Visual Studio 4 44 (3.014 %) JDeveloper 5 35 (2.397 %) JUnit 6 31 (2.123 %) Subversion 7 29 (1.986 %) Ant 8 26 (1.781 %) TeamCity 9 24 (1.644 %) Maven 10 17 (1.164 %) CruiseControl 10 17 (1.164 %) Eclipse 11 15 (1.027 %) Selenium 12 11 (0.753 %) Mercurial 12 11 (0.753 %) Hudson 12 11 (0.753 %) NUnit 12 11 (0.753 %) PeopleTools 13 10 (0.685 %) LoadRunner 13 10 (0.685 %) Git (software) 14 9 (0.616 %) QuickTest Pro 15 8 (0.548 %) ERwin	General 1 276 (18.90 %) Finance 2 160 (10.96 %) Banking 3 82 (5.616 %) Investment Banking 4 55 (3.767 %) Retail 5 18 (1.233 %) Front Office 6 16 (1.096 %) Telecoms 6 16 (1.096 %) Financial Institution 7 15 (1.027 %) Back Office 8 10 (0.685 %) Games 9 9 (0.616 %) General Ledger 10 8 (0.548 %) Billing 11 7 (0.479 %) Retail Banking 12 6 (0.411 %) Local Government 13 4 (0.274 %) Pharmaceutical 14 3 (0.205 %) Marketing 14 3 (0.205 %) Music 14 3 (0.205 %) Aerospace 15 2 (0.137 %) Advertising 15 2 (0.137 %) Publishing 15 2 (0.137 %) Spanish Language
Job Titles 1 570 (39.04 %) Developer 2 396 (27.12 %) DBA 3 353 (24.18 %) Oracle DBA 4 323 (22.12 %) Oracle Developer 5 145 (9.932 %) Consultant 6 133 (9.110 %) Architect 7 99 (6.781 %) Administrator 8 97 (6.644 %) Oracle Consultant 9 68 (4.658 %) Oracle Architect 10 65 (4.452 %) Analyst 11 52 (3.562 %) Java Developer 12 44 (3.014 %) Senior Developer 13 40 (2.740 %) SQL Developer 14 32 (2.192 %) Technical Consultant 14 32 (2.192 %) Designer 15 30 (2.055 %) OBIEE Developer 16 28 (1.918 %) PL/SQL Developer 16 28 (1.918 %) Senior Oracle Developer 17 26 (1.781 %) Business Intelligence (BI) Developer 18 25 (1.712 %) Technical Architect	Miscellaneous 1 40 (2.740 %) Clustering 2 34 (2.329 %) Replication 3 24 (1.644 %) Derivative 4 22 (1.507 %) Credit Risk 5 19 (1.301 %) Fixed Income 5 19 (1.301 %) NHS 6 17 (1.164 %) Credit Derivative 6 17 (1.164 %) N-Tier 7 16 (1.096 %) Client/Server 7 16 (1.096 %) Market Risk 8 11 (0.753 %) Management Information System 8 11 (0.753 %) Mainframe 9 8 (0.548 %) Hedge funds 9 8 (0.548 %) Computer Science 9 8 (0.548 %) PKI 10 7 (0.479 %) Grid Computing 11 5 (0.342 %) RMADS 11 5 (0.342 %) Digital Media 12 4 (0.274 %) HACMP 12 4 (0.274 %) Visualisation
Operating Systems 1 378 (25.89 %) UNIX 2 310 (21.23 %) Linux 3 143 (9.795 %) Windows 4 127 (8.699 %) Solaris 5 101 (6.918 %) AIX 6 88 (6.027 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 33 (2.260 %) Windows Server 2003 7 33 (2.260 %) HPUX 8 28 (1.918 %) Windows Server 2008 9 21 (1.438 %) Oracle Linux 10 11 (0.753 %) Windows 2000 11 7 (0.479 %) zOS 12 6 (0.411 %) VMS 13 4 (0.274 %) Ubuntu 14 3 (0.205 %) CentOS 15 2 (0.137 %) Windows XP 15 2 (0.137 %) SUSE 15 2 (0.137 %) Windows 7 16 1 (0.068 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 239 (16.37 %) SOA 2 173 (11.85 %) Business Intelligence 3 145 (9.932 %) Data Modelling 4 122 (8.356 %) Migration 5 110 (7.534 %) BPEL 6 64 (4.384 %) ITIL 7 53 (3.630 %) Agile Software Development 8 45 (3.082 %) CRM 9 44 (3.014 %) Unit Testing 10 38 (2.603 %) OO 10 38 (2.603 %) Configuration Management 11 37 (2.534 %) TDD 12 34 (2.329 %) Project Management 13 32 (2.192 %) Continuous Integration 14 29 (1.986 %) User Acceptance Testing 14 29 (1.986 %) Change Management 15 28 (1.918 %) Workflow 16 27 (1.849 %) UML 16 27 (1.849 %) Service Management 17 25 (1.712 %) High Availability
Programming Languages 1 667 (45.68 %) SQL 2 513 (35.14 %) PL/SQL 3 244 (16.71 %) Java 4 140 (9.589 %) Shell Script 5 87 (5.959 %) C# 6 75 (5.137 %) JavaScript 7 60 (4.110 %) C 8 58 (3.973 %) Perl 9 35 (2.397 %) T-SQL 10 22 (1.507 %) Korn 11 20 (1.370 %) VB 12 17 (1.164 %) Bourne shell 12 17 (1.164 %) C++ 13 15 (1.027 %) VBScript 14 13 (0.890 %) WebLogic Scripting Tool 14 13 (0.890 %) Python 15 12 (0.822 %) VBA 16 9 (0.616 %) Ruby 16 9 (0.616 %) PHP 17 8 (0.548 %) Bash shell	Qualifications 1 259 (17.74 %) Security Cleared 2 164 (11.23 %) SC Cleared 3 57 (3.904 %) DV Cleared 4 52 (3.562 %) Oracle Certification 5 34 (2.329 %) OCP 6 27 (1.849 %) Degree 7 10 (0.685 %) ISEB 8 6 (0.411 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 5 (0.342 %) HND 10 4 (0.274 %) OCA 10 4 (0.274 %) CTC Cleared 11 3 (0.205 %) CFA 11 3 (0.205 %) ISTQB 11 3 (0.205 %) BC Cleared 11 3 (0.205 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 11 3 (0.205 %) MBA 12 2 (0.137 %) Microsoft Certification 12 2 (0.137 %) ITIL Certification 12 2 (0.137 %) HNC 13 1 (0.068 %) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 49 (3.356 %) QA 2 8 (0.548 %) SLA 3 6 (0.411 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 5 (0.342 %) JSP 440 5 4 (0.274 %) Data Quality 6 2 (0.137 %) GxP 7 1 (0.068 %) WAI 7 1 (0.068 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 237 (16.23 %) Oracle RAC 2 161 (11.03 %) Oracle RMAN 3 32 (2.192 %) Active Directory 4 22 (1.507 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 15 (1.027 %) vSphere 6 11 (0.753 %) Veritas Cluster Server 7 9 (0.616 %) NFS 8 8 (0.548 %) Terminal Services 9 7 (0.479 %) VMware ESX 10 6 (0.411 %) vCloud 10 6 (0.411 %) Hyper-V 11 5 (0.342 %) IAG 11 5 (0.342 %) UAG 12 4 (0.274 %) VMware ESXi 12 4 (0.274 %) Xen 13 3 (0.205 %) Veritas Volume Manager 13 3 (0.205 %) Sendmail 14 2 (0.137 %) XenApp 15 1 (0.068 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 15 1 (0.068 %) XenServer
Systems Management 1 139 (9.521 %) Data Guard 2 61 (4.178 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 3 21 (1.438 %) HP Quality Center 4 13 (0.890 %) Oracle Identity Management 5 12 (0.822 %) vCenter 6 10 (0.685 %) Foglight 7 9 (0.616 %) Oracle Identity Manager 7 9 (0.616 %) Legato 7 9 (0.616 %) BMC PATROL 8 8 (0.548 %) NetBackup 9 5 (0.342 %) Puppet 10 4 (0.274 %) Tivoli 10 4 (0.274 %) Control-M 11 3 (0.205 %) SCOM 11 3 (0.205 %) Oracle Statspack 11 3 (0.205 %) CFEngine 12 2 (0.137 %) SCCM 13 1 (0.068 %) EMC NetWorker 13 1 (0.068 %) Nagios 13 1 (0.068 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 1460 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 104 (7.123 %) Microsoft 3 94 (6.438 %) Red Hat 4 54 (3.699 %) HP 5 53 (3.630 %) Informatica 6 43 (2.945 %) VMware 7 41 (2.808 %) Siebel 8 32 (2.192 %) IBM 8 32 (2.192 %) Veritas 9 29 (1.986 %) SAP 10 28 (1.918 %) Business Objects 11 23 (1.575 %) Netezza 12 21 (1.438 %) PeopleSoft 12 21 (1.438 %) Sun 13 18 (1.233 %) Mercator 14 15 (1.027 %) Sybase 14 15 (1.027 %) BEA 15 14 (0.959 %) TIBCO 15 14 (0.959 %) Stellent 16 13 (0.890 %) Perforce