The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Oracle APEX 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 APEX 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 Development Applications 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 Application Express (APEX)
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank506532494
Rank change year-on-year
Up+26Down-38
Matching contract IT job ads734942
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.123 %0.080 %0.076 %
As % of the Development Applications category1.341 %0.763 %0.760 %
Number of daily rates quoted343622
Average daily rate£380£381£393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.32 %-2.86 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£278£278£255
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£525£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£328£325
% change year-on-year
+6.87 %+0.76 %
Number of hourly rates quoted111
Average hourly rate£40.00£18.00£47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+122.22 %-62.10 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£40.00-£47.50
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
544464185525
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK9.198 %10.46 %10.03 %
Number of daily rates quoted321535912708
Average daily rate£375£400£367
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+9.06 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£265£263£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£580£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£330£325£315
% change year-on-year
+1.53 %+3.17 %
Number of hourly rates quoted212320226
Average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£35.00
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.88£23.38£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£42.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£35.00

Oracle APEX
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle APEX within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Oracle APEX Demand Trend

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle APEX Daily Rate Trend

Oracle APEX
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Oracle APEX Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle APEX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle APEX Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle APEX
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 APEX 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.

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
EnglandUp+4069£380-1.93 %
LondonUp+3624£413+3.12 %
South EastUp+1216£378+27.96 %
HampshireNew entry-14£378-
South WestDown-187£368-30.00 %
City of LondonUp+345£375-
GloucestershireDown-185£350-33.33 %
CheltenhamNew entry-5£350-
MidlandsNew entry-5--
West MidlandsNew entry-5£275-
YorkshireDown-134£340+6.25 %
North WestNew entry-4£500-
AndoverNew entry-4£450-
West YorkshireNew entry-4£340-
ScotlandDown-43£368+5.26 %
EdinburghUp+82£368-13.30 %
East of EnglandDown-72--
East MidlandsDown-72£310-4.61 %
BirminghamNew entry-2--
CheshireNew entry-2--
WarringtonNew entry-2--
BerkshireDown-101--
BuckinghamshireNew entry-1--
WinchesterNew entry-1£270-
BristolNew entry-1--
ReadingNew entry-1--
GlasgowNew entry-1--
LeedsNew entry-1£340-
LiverpoolNew entry-1£500-
MerseysideNew entry-1£500-

Oracle APEX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1125 (100.00 %)Oracle
298 (78.40 %)SQL
386 (68.80 %)PL/SQL
464 (51.20 %)Oracle 10g
556 (44.80 %)Oracle 11g
647 (37.60 %)HTML
746 (36.80 %)CSS
845 (36.00 %)JavaScript
931 (24.80 %)Java
931 (24.80 %)Oracle BI EE
1030 (24.00 %)Security Cleared
1128 (22.40 %)SC Cleared
1227 (21.60 %)Linux
1325 (20.00 %)Business Intelligence
1422 (17.60 %)Windows
1422 (17.60 %)Oracle OWB
1422 (17.60 %)jQuery
1521 (16.80 %)Ajax
1521 (16.80 %)XML
1618 (14.40 %)VB
1618 (14.40 %)Oracle Forms
1717 (13.60 %)Oracle Applications
1816 (12.80 %)Windows Server 2003
1816 (12.80 %).NET
1915 (12.00 %)Oracle Reports
1915 (12.00 %)Data Modelling
1915 (12.00 %)Finance
2014 (11.20 %)Red Hat
2014 (11.20 %)VBScript
2014 (11.20 %)Perl

Oracle APEX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
147 (37.60 %)HTML
246 (36.80 %)CSS
322 (17.60 %)jQuery
421 (16.80 %)Ajax
421 (16.80 %)XML
516 (12.80 %).NET
66 (4.800 %)ASP
75 (4.000 %)XHTML
75 (4.000 %)WCF
75 (4.000 %).NET Framework
84 (3.200 %)Oracle Fusion
84 (3.200 %)ASP.NET MVC
84 (3.200 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
84 (3.200 %)Middleware
84 (3.200 %)ASP.NET
84 (3.200 %)Web Services
93 (2.400 %)LAMP
102 (1.600 %)Visualforce
102 (1.600 %)DCOM
102 (1.600 %)JSP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
112 (9.600 %)Oracle Application Server
28 (6.400 %)Force.com
28 (6.400 %)SharePoint
37 (5.600 %)IIS
37 (5.600 %)Oracle Spatial
45 (4.000 %)WebLogic
54 (3.200 %)LiveLink
54 (3.200 %)Lotus Notes
61 (0.800 %)Tomcat
61 (0.800 %)Oracle 10gAS
61 (0.800 %)Oracle Coherence
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
15 (4.000 %)MS Excel
21 (0.800 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (13.60 %)Oracle Applications
22 (1.600 %)Oracle EBS
31 (0.800 %)Oracle Financials
31 (0.800 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (3.200 %)Internet
14 (3.200 %)LDAP
21 (0.800 %)Kerberos
21 (0.800 %)DNS
21 (0.800 %)SAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
164 (51.20 %)Oracle 10g
256 (44.80 %)Oracle 11g
331 (24.80 %)Oracle BI EE
422 (17.60 %)Oracle OWB
515 (12.00 %)Oracle Reports
612 (9.600 %)SQL Server
711 (8.800 %)Oracle Discoverer
810 (8.000 %)Data Warehouse
98 (6.400 %)RDBMS
107 (5.600 %)Oracle 8/8i
115 (4.000 %)Oracle 9i
124 (3.200 %)SQL Server 2005
124 (3.200 %)TOAD
133 (2.400 %)SQL Server 2008
142 (1.600 %)SQL Server 2000
142 (1.600 %)DB2
142 (1.600 %)MS Access
142 (1.600 %)ETL
151 (0.800 %)Ingres
151 (0.800 %)Data Mining
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
118 (14.40 %)Oracle Forms
25 (4.000 %)Team Foundation Server
34 (3.200 %)Subversion
34 (3.200 %)Visual Studio
43 (2.400 %)JBehave
43 (2.400 %)WebDriver
43 (2.400 %)Hudson
43 (2.400 %)Maven
52 (1.600 %)Oracle Designer/2000
52 (1.600 %)ERwin
52 (1.600 %)PVCS
61 (0.800 %)Eclipse
61 (0.800 %)QuickTest Pro
61 (0.800 %)LoadRunner
61 (0.800 %)JDeveloper
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
115 (12.00 %)Finance
210 (8.000 %)Banking
34 (3.200 %)Investment Banking
42 (1.600 %)Games
51 (0.800 %)Pharmaceutical
51 (0.800 %)Telecoms
51 (0.800 %)Aerospace
51 (0.800 %)Manufacturing
51 (0.800 %)Advertising
51 (0.800 %)Financial Institution
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
191 (72.80 %)Developer
279 (63.20 %)Oracle Developer
310 (8.000 %)Senior Oracle Developer
310 (8.000 %)Senior Developer
49 (7.200 %)Consultant
58 (6.400 %)DBA
58 (6.400 %)Applications Developer
67 (5.600 %)Oracle DBA
67 (5.600 %)SQL Developer
67 (5.600 %)PL/SQL Developer
76 (4.800 %)Oracle Consultant
85 (4.000 %)Architect
94 (3.200 %)Project Manager
94 (3.200 %)Analyst
103 (2.400 %)Technical Architect
112 (1.600 %)Web Analyst
112 (1.600 %)Test Consultant
112 (1.600 %)Developer Analyst
112 (1.600 %)Web Support Analyst
112 (1.600 %)Designer
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (2.400 %)Open Source
22 (1.600 %)Replication
31 (0.800 %)N-Tier
31 (0.800 %)Mainframe
31 (0.800 %)SaaS
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
127 (21.60 %)Linux
222 (17.60 %)Windows
316 (12.80 %)Windows Server 2003
411 (8.800 %)UNIX
411 (8.800 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
53 (2.400 %)Oracle Linux
61 (0.800 %)Solaris
61 (0.800 %)Windows Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
125 (20.00 %)Business Intelligence
215 (12.00 %)Data Modelling
312 (9.600 %)Migration
410 (8.000 %)PRINCE2
410 (8.000 %)Project Management
57 (5.600 %)Release Management
66 (4.800 %)E-Commerce
75 (4.000 %)SOA
75 (4.000 %)RAD
75 (4.000 %)ITIL
75 (4.000 %)TDD
84 (3.200 %)Automated Testing
84 (3.200 %)Continuous Integration
84 (3.200 %)Data Analysis
84 (3.200 %)Agile Software Development
84 (3.200 %)MVC
84 (3.200 %)Extreme Programming
84 (3.200 %)UML
93 (2.400 %)Validation
93 (2.400 %)Web Application Development
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
198 (78.40 %)SQL
286 (68.80 %)PL/SQL
345 (36.00 %)JavaScript
431 (24.80 %)Java
518 (14.40 %)VB
614 (11.20 %)VBScript
614 (11.20 %)Perl
713 (10.40 %)C
89 (7.200 %)C#
89 (7.200 %)C++
89 (7.200 %)Apex Code
95 (4.000 %)Shell Script
104 (3.200 %)VB6
111 (0.800 %)Python
111 (0.800 %)PHP
111 (0.800 %)T-SQL
111 (0.800 %)Objective-C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
130 (24.00 %)Security Cleared
228 (22.40 %)SC Cleared
36 (4.800 %)DV Cleared
45 (4.000 %)Degree
53 (2.400 %)Oracle Certification
62 (1.600 %)ISEB
71 (0.800 %)HND
71 (0.800 %)Microsoft Certification
71 (0.800 %)PRINCE2 Certification
71 (0.800 %)CTC Cleared
71 (0.800 %)ISEB Practitioner
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (0.800 %)QA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
113 (10.40 %)Oracle RAC
26 (4.800 %)Oracle RMAN
33 (2.400 %)VMware ESX
42 (1.600 %)Terminal Services
42 (1.600 %)Active Directory
51 (0.800 %)VMware Infrastructure
51 (0.800 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
14 (3.200 %)Data Guard
22 (1.600 %)EMC NetWorker
22 (1.600 %)HP Quality Center
31 (0.800 %)NetBackup
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1125 (100.00 %)Oracle
214 (11.20 %)Red Hat
310 (8.000 %)Microsoft
49 (7.200 %)Salesforce.com
57 (5.600 %)Primavera
65 (4.000 %)VMware
74 (3.200 %)Lotus
83 (2.400 %)PeopleSoft
83 (2.400 %)Veritas
83 (2.400 %)Symantec
92 (1.600 %)HP
92 (1.600 %)SAP
101 (0.800 %)IBM
101 (0.800 %)Cognos
101 (0.800 %)Informatica
101 (0.800 %)webMethods
101 (0.800 %)Serena
101 (0.800 %)Google