Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

LinkOracle
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank66
Rank change on the same period last yearNo change0
Matching contract IT job ads38197933
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK11.12 %10.30 %
As % of the Vendors category24.43 %23.76 %
Daily rates quoted14162510
Average daily rate£400£425
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-5.880 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£249£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£358
% change on same period last year-9.090 %
Hourly rates quoted113309
Average hourly rate£31.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year-11.42 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£16.30£18.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£52.50£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.50£35.60
% change on same period last year-11.51 %
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1563233392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK45.51 %43.37 %
Daily rates quoted55539648
Average daily rate£375£400
Average daily rate % change on the same period last year-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£215£235
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350
% change on same period last year-7.140 %
Hourly rates quoted11362908
Average hourly rate£22.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change on the same period last year+10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.29£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£38.00£39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£22.50£20.00
% change on same period last year+12.50 %

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

Oracle
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Oracle Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009.

Oracle Hourly Rate Histogram

Oracle
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. 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+13425£400-5.88 %
LondonUp+31839£450-5.26 %
City of LondonUp+1616£450-10.00 %
South EastDown-1604£340-2.85 %
North WestUp+2238£300-14.28 %
East of EnglandUp+3177£313-19.35 %
South WestUp+1175£363-9.37 %
BerkshireDown-2170£375+7.14 %
ScotlandDown-1157£260-25.71 %
YorkshireUp+8152£288-11.53 %
West YorkshireUp+8116£295-11.27 %
HampshireDown-1105£345-1.42 %
HertfordshireDown-293£338-15.67 %
SurreyDown-380£330-5.71 %
ManchesterUp+671£324-5.61 %
West MidlandsDown-569£251-25.55 %
WalesUp+565£315-19.74 %
LeedsUp+557£328+0.76 %
WiltshireUp+257£400+1.58 %
GlasgowUp+155£219-37.42 %
LancashireUp+155£316-29.86 %
East MidlandsDown-453£300-7.69 %
Docklands, LondonUp+251£450+24.13 %
OxfordshireUp+1648£328-15.48 %
CheshireUp+348£305-6.15 %
ReadingDown-446£413+28.90 %
BradfordUp+1142£230-55.76 %
MiddlesexDown-242£350+2.18 %
South WalesUp+941£350+18.64 %
EdinburghUp+238£279-16.79 %

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle 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.

13017 (37.18 %)SQL
21835 (22.62 %)Finance
31799 (22.17 %)UNIX
41527 (18.82 %)Java
51406 (17.33 %)PL/SQL
61323 (16.31 %)Oracle 10g
71198 (14.76 %)Banking
8994 (12.25 %)SQL Server
9979 (12.07 %)XML
10917 (11.30 %)Windows
11849 (10.46 %).NET
12824 (10.16 %)Security Cleared
13797 (9.823 %)Investment Banking
14696 (8.578 %)C#
15692 (8.528 %)Linux
16664 (8.183 %)Datawarehouse
17659 (8.122 %)J2EE
18647 (7.974 %)Oracle Reports
19595 (7.333 %)Solaris
20560 (6.902 %)Oracle 9i
21535 (6.594 %)Oracle 8/8i
22516 (6.359 %)SC Cleared
23492 (6.064 %)Business Intelligence
24485 (5.977 %)Microsoft
25461 (5.682 %)Oracle EBS
26454 (5.595 %)Government
26454 (5.595 %)Migration
27443 (5.460 %)C++
28439 (5.410 %)Business Objects
28439 (5.410 %)BusinessObjects

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Oracle 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1979 (12.07 %)XML
2849 (10.46 %).NET
3659 (8.122 %)J2EE
4390 (4.807 %)WebServices
5362 (4.461 %)HTML
6302 (3.722 %)ASP.NET
6302 (3.722 %)Spring
7277 (3.414 %)Hibernate
8256 (3.155 %)JSP
9241 (2.970 %)WebSphere
10217 (2.674 %)Middleware
11182 (2.243 %)AJAX
12176 (2.169 %)CSS
13150 (1.849 %)Struts
14149 (1.836 %)STL
15136 (1.676 %)XSLT
16118 (1.454 %)JMS
17107 (1.319 %)EJB
17107 (1.319 %)SOAP
1895 (1.171 %)JSF
IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1327 (4.030 %)WebLogic
2178 (2.194 %)Apache
3152 (1.873 %)IIS
4147 (1.812 %)Tomcat
5137 (1.688 %)SharePoint
6128 (1.578 %)Oracle Application Server
7124 (1.528 %)Oracle Workflow
8123 (1.516 %)ESB
966 (0.813 %)WebSphere MQ
1061 (0.752 %)Documentum
1160 (0.739 %)SAS
1259 (0.727 %)CMS
1349 (0.604 %)Oracle 10gAS
1446 (0.567 %)MQSeries
1544 (0.542 %)BizTalk Server
1642 (0.518 %)WebSphere Application Server
1741 (0.505 %)Oracle BPEL
1840 (0.493 %)TIBCO EMS
1936 (0.444 %)WebLogic Portal
2034 (0.419 %)ColdFusion
IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1258 (3.180 %)MS Excel
2164 (2.021 %)MS Office
385 (1.048 %)MS Visio
467 (0.826 %)MS Project
535 (0.431 %)MS PowerPoint
630 (0.370 %)Spreadsheet
712 (0.148 %)CA Clarity
810 (0.123 %)InfoPath
96 (0.074 %)Acrobat
104 (0.049 %)FreeHand
113 (0.037 %)Open Workbench
113 (0.037 %)AutoCAD
113 (0.037 %)MicroStation
122 (0.025 %)SPSS
131 (0.012 %)Fireworks
131 (0.012 %)Photoshop
131 (0.012 %)Shockwave
131 (0.012 %)FrameMaker
IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
1461 (5.682 %)Oracle EBS
2395 (4.868 %)Oracle Applications
3329 (4.055 %)Oracle Financials
4259 (3.192 %)Oracle EBS R12
5200 (2.465 %)Oracle 11i
6101 (1.245 %)Oracle HRMS
792 (1.134 %)Oracle ERP
886 (1.060 %)Oracle iProcurement
947 (0.579 %)Oracle Payroll
1034 (0.419 %)BusinessWorks
1132 (0.394 %)Oracle General Ledger
1227 (0.333 %)Hyperion Planning
1227 (0.333 %)Summit
1325 (0.308 %)Endur
1424 (0.296 %)Oracle CRM
1424 (0.296 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
1522 (0.271 %)SAP R/3
1522 (0.271 %)Siebel Analytics
1619 (0.234 %)TIBCO iProcess
1718 (0.222 %)HFM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1213 (2.625 %)Internet
2159 (1.960 %)SAN
3127 (1.565 %)Nokia NetAct
4110 (1.356 %)UMTS
5107 (1.319 %)RNC
697 (1.195 %)LAN
795 (1.171 %)3G
893 (1.146 %)TCP/IP
986 (1.060 %)LDAP
1077 (0.949 %)Intranet
1172 (0.887 %)HTTP
1255 (0.678 %)WAN
1347 (0.579 %)Firewall
1439 (0.481 %)DNS
1533 (0.407 %)FTP
1629 (0.357 %)BSS
1727 (0.333 %)SSL
1819 (0.234 %)Broadband
1819 (0.234 %)NAS
1918 (0.222 %)SMTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11323 (16.31 %)Oracle 10g
2994 (12.25 %)SQL Server
3664 (8.183 %)Datawarehouse
4647 (7.974 %)Oracle Reports
5560 (6.902 %)Oracle 9i
6535 (6.594 %)Oracle 8/8i
7439 (5.410 %)BusinessObjects
8428 (5.275 %)ETL
9330 (4.067 %)RDBMS
10223 (2.748 %)Oracle Discoverer
11197 (2.428 %)Oracle 11g
12173 (2.132 %)MySQL
13171 (2.107 %)Oracle OWB
14162 (1.997 %)SQL Server 2005
15157 (1.935 %)TOAD
16147 (1.812 %)MS Access
17136 (1.676 %)Oracle BI EE
18129 (1.590 %)DB2
19126 (1.553 %)Crystal Reports
20117 (1.442 %)BusinessObjects XI
IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
1335 (4.129 %)Oracle Forms
2198 (2.440 %)ClearCase
3130 (1.602 %)Eclipse
4105 (1.294 %)Ant
593 (1.146 %)Visual Studio
690 (1.109 %)JUnit
785 (1.048 %)JDeveloper
874 (0.912 %)Subversion
966 (0.813 %)Oracle APEX
1064 (0.789 %)LoadRunner
1153 (0.653 %)TestDirector
1247 (0.579 %)ClearQuest
1337 (0.456 %)ProC
1436 (0.444 %)PeopleTools
1535 (0.431 %)ERwin
1633 (0.407 %)NUnit
1729 (0.357 %)QuickTest Pro
1823 (0.283 %)PVCS
1823 (0.283 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1823 (0.283 %)JCAPS
IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11835 (22.62 %)Finance
21198 (14.76 %)Banking
3797 (9.823 %)Investment Banking
4454 (5.595 %)Government
5376 (4.634 %)Telecoms
6268 (3.303 %)Front Office
7164 (2.021 %)Retail
8138 (1.701 %)Insurance
9114 (1.405 %)Back Office
1094 (1.158 %)Billing
1185 (1.048 %)Pharmaceutical
1282 (1.011 %)Health
1373 (0.900 %)Education
1469 (0.850 %)General Ledger
1562 (0.764 %)Financial Institution
1660 (0.739 %)Local Government
1745 (0.555 %)Manufacturing
1843 (0.530 %)Pensions
1938 (0.468 %)Publishing
2033 (0.407 %)Construction
IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12733 (33.68 %)Developer
21221 (15.05 %)Analyst
3896 (11.04 %)Consultant
4740 (9.120 %)Oracle Developer
5626 (7.715 %)DBA
6581 (7.160 %)Architect
7528 (6.507 %)Oracle DBA
8495 (6.101 %)Oracle Consultant
9487 (6.002 %)Java Developer
10296 (3.648 %)Project Manager
11285 (3.512 %)Business Analyst
12269 (3.315 %)C# Developer
13245 (3.019 %)Support Analyst
14237 (2.921 %).NET Developer
15228 (2.810 %)Administrator
16202 (2.490 %)Functional Consultant
17201 (2.477 %)Programmer
18179 (2.206 %)Senior Developer
19175 (2.157 %)Oracle Functional Consultant
20166 (2.046 %)Oracle Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1303 (3.734 %)Derivative
2163 (2.009 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3148 (1.824 %)Fixed Income
4126 (1.553 %)Equities
5100 (1.232 %)Management Information System
692 (1.134 %)Client/Server
787 (1.072 %)Replication
881 (0.998 %)Statistics
974 (0.912 %)Equity Derivative
1072 (0.887 %)Mainframe
1169 (0.850 %)N-Tier
1268 (0.838 %)Multithreading
1361 (0.752 %)Clustering
1460 (0.739 %)Interest Rate Derivative
1559 (0.727 %)NHS
1655 (0.678 %)Credit Risk
1754 (0.666 %)Grid Computing
1850 (0.616 %)Credit Derivative
1947 (0.579 %)Computer Science
2046 (0.567 %)Market Risk
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11799 (22.17 %)UNIX
2917 (11.30 %)Windows
3692 (8.528 %)Linux
4595 (7.333 %)Solaris
5209 (2.576 %)Windows Server 2003
6205 (2.526 %)AIX
7115 (1.417 %)Windows XP
889 (1.097 %)Red Hat Linux
982 (1.011 %)HPUX
1078 (0.961 %)Windows 2000
1141 (0.505 %)Windows NT
1240 (0.493 %)VMS
1326 (0.320 %)Windows Vista
1420 (0.246 %)SUSE
1515 (0.185 %)MVS
1515 (0.185 %)Windows 2000 Server
1614 (0.173 %)Windows Server 2008
1614 (0.173 %)OpenVMS
1711 (0.136 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1810 (0.123 %)NetWare
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1492 (6.064 %)Business Intelligence
2454 (5.595 %)Migration
3392 (4.831 %)SOA
4340 (4.190 %)UML
5319 (3.931 %)Project Management
6305 (3.759 %)OO
6305 (3.759 %)Data Modelling
7252 (3.106 %)ERP
8225 (2.773 %)PRINCE2
9218 (2.687 %)CRM
10211 (2.600 %)ITIL
11193 (2.379 %)Agile Software Development
12188 (2.317 %)User Acceptance Testing
13162 (1.997 %)Business Analysis
14156 (1.923 %)Data Migration
15154 (1.898 %)Workflow
16142 (1.750 %)Configuration Management
17140 (1.725 %)Test Scripting
18136 (1.676 %)Unit Testing
19134 (1.651 %)RUP
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13017 (37.18 %)SQL
21527 (18.82 %)Java
31406 (17.33 %)PL/SQL
4696 (8.578 %)C#
5443 (5.460 %)C++
6410 (5.053 %)Shell Script
7382 (4.708 %)Perl
8373 (4.597 %)JavaScript
9248 (3.056 %)C
10210 (2.588 %)VB
11181 (2.231 %)VBA
12125 (1.541 %)Python
13119 (1.467 %)VB.NET
14113 (1.393 %)T-SQL
1586 (1.060 %)PHP
1676 (0.937 %)VBScript
1771 (0.875 %)VC++
1863 (0.776 %)Korn
1959 (0.727 %)VB6
2043 (0.530 %)COBOL
IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1824 (10.16 %)Security Cleared
2516 (6.359 %)SC Cleared
3209 (2.576 %)Degree
4109 (1.343 %)ISEB
575 (0.924 %)CTC Cleared
575 (0.924 %)DV Cleared
673 (0.900 %)Oracle Certification
758 (0.715 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
853 (0.653 %)Microsoft Certification
941 (0.505 %)BC Cleared
1034 (0.419 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1129 (0.357 %)ACCA
1226 (0.320 %)CIMA
1325 (0.308 %)ISEB Practitioner
1423 (0.283 %)OCP
1521 (0.259 %)MCSE
1618 (0.222 %)ITIL Certification
1717 (0.210 %)Sun Certification
1815 (0.185 %)ISTQB
1914 (0.173 %)MBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1146 (1.799 %)QA
264 (0.789 %)SLA
318 (0.222 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
416 (0.197 %)ISO9001
59 (0.111 %)HL7
67 (0.086 %)GCP
76 (0.074 %)DICOM
76 (0.074 %)COBIT
84 (0.049 %)Basel II
93 (0.037 %)21 CFR Part 11
102 (0.025 %)GAMP
102 (0.025 %)ISO27001
102 (0.025 %)WAI
102 (0.025 %)PCI DSS
111 (0.012 %)CDISC
111 (0.012 %)TickIT
111 (0.012 %)ISO12207
111 (0.012 %)RosettaNet
111 (0.012 %)ISO9000
111 (0.012 %)ISO17799
IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1251 (3.093 %)Oracle RAC
2143 (1.762 %)Oracle RMAN
3102 (1.257 %)Active Directory
485 (1.048 %)AquaLogic
551 (0.629 %)VMware Infrastructure
630 (0.370 %)NetBackup
716 (0.197 %)VMware ESX
813 (0.160 %)Backup Exec
99 (0.111 %)MetaFrame
99 (0.111 %)Terminal Services
108 (0.099 %)Citrix Presentation Server
117 (0.086 %)MSMQ
117 (0.086 %)NFS
125 (0.062 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
125 (0.062 %)ISA Server
125 (0.062 %)VMware Workstation
125 (0.062 %)Veritas Cluster Server
125 (0.062 %)SRDF
134 (0.049 %)Veritas Volume Manager
134 (0.049 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1118 (1.454 %)Data Guard
272 (0.887 %)AutoSys
368 (0.838 %)Tivoli
446 (0.567 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
541 (0.505 %)Netcool
632 (0.394 %)CONTROL-M
728 (0.345 %)OpenView
826 (0.320 %)CA SiteMinder
922 (0.271 %)TIBCO Hawk
1021 (0.259 %)Netcool/Proviso
1120 (0.246 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1219 (0.234 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
1316 (0.197 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1415 (0.185 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1514 (0.173 %)Nagios
1613 (0.160 %)Legato
1712 (0.148 %)HP Data Protector
1712 (0.148 %)EMC NetWorker
1811 (0.136 %)Sun Identity Manager
1811 (0.136 %)Netcool/Webtop
IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1485 (5.977 %)Microsoft
2439 (5.410 %)Business Objects
3396 (4.880 %)Sybase
4341 (4.203 %)SAP
5259 (3.192 %)Sun
6211 (2.600 %)Informatica
7210 (2.588 %)HP
8204 (2.514 %)BEA
9198 (2.440 %)IBM
10180 (2.218 %)Siebel
11172 (2.120 %)Cognos
12159 (1.960 %)PeopleSoft
13141 (1.738 %)Nokia
14133 (1.639 %)Hyperion
15125 (1.541 %)TIBCO
16119 (1.467 %)JBoss
17114 (1.405 %)VMware
1897 (1.195 %)Red Hat
1995 (1.171 %)Citrix
2058 (0.715 %)Cisco