The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Statspack 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 Statspack over the 3 months to 22 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 Systems Management 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Statspack
Rank 529 580 585
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle Statspack 5 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.010% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.156% 0.166% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
Average daily rate £450 £288 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+56.52% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £288 -
% change year-on-year
+56.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Systems Management
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
3207 3620 3577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 6.805% 6.106% 5.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 1813 1847 1704
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 173 231
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.53 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%

Oracle Statspack
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Statspack within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Oracle Statspack Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Statspack
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle Statspack Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Statspack
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle Statspack Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Statspack
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Statspack within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +53 3 £440 +53.04%
London - 2 £440 -
Edinburgh - 2 £450 -
Scotland - 2 £450 -
East of England +13 1 - -
Suffolk +8 1 - -

Oracle Statspack
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle Statspack 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 Statspack.

1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (66.67%) Data Guard
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (50.00%) Essbase
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (50.00%) Workflow
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (33.33%) SSL
5 2 (33.33%) UNIX
5 2 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
6 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
6 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (16.67%) High Availability
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10gAS
6 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 1 (16.67%) Replication

Oracle Statspack
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle Statspack 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 Statspack. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10gAS
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle 9iAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
1 1 (16.67%) MS Project
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 3 (50.00%) Essbase
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (16.67%) SQLPlus
3 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) DTS
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ProC
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) DBA
1 2 (33.33%) Business Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) E-Business Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Forms Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Tru64
2 1 (16.67%) AIX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (16.67%) Database Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Delphi
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) OCP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (50.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Brio
2 1 (16.67%) Cognos
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
2 1 (16.67%) Hyperion
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat