The first table below looks at the demand for ProC skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ProC over the 3 months to 17 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 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Pro*C
Rank 494 560 556
Rank change year-on-year
+66 -4
Contract jobs citing ProC 36 18 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.078% 0.031% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.709% 0.336% 0.495%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 17
Average daily rate £375 £315 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% +1.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £288 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+19.04% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.00 - -
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5077 5364 6467
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.204% 10.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3208 3177 3632
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 211 325
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

ProC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ProC Jobs Demand Trend

ProC
Daily Rate Trend

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

ProC Daily Rate Trend

ProC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ProC within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

ProC Daily Rate Histogram

ProC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ProC Hourly Rate Trend

ProC
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ProC within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +61 30 £375 +17.64%
South East +34 12 £318 -
Hampshire - 8 £318 -
South West - 6 £425 -
Scotland -11 5 £294 +9.90%
Glasgow -16 5 £294 +9.90%
Berkshire - 4 - -
Bristol - 4 £425 -
West Midlands +10 3 £250 -
East Midlands +4 3 £388 -8.82%
Basingstoke - 3 £350 -
London +20 2 £350 -
North West +12 2 £500 +50.94%
Birmingham +11 2 - -
Bracknell - 2 - -
Manchester - 2 £500 -
Gloucester - 2 - -
Gloucestershire - 2 - -
East of England +12 1 - -
Suffolk +5 1 - -
Leicestershire - 1 £425 -
Leicester - 1 £425 -

ProC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ProC 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 ProC.

1 40 (72.73%) SQL
2 38 (69.09%) Oracle
3 27 (49.09%) UNIX
4 23 (41.82%) C
5 22 (40.00%) PL/SQL
5 22 (40.00%) Oracle Forms
5 22 (40.00%) Shell Script
6 15 (27.27%) SAS
6 15 (27.27%) Solaris
6 15 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (25.45%) SAS Macro
8 13 (23.64%) Finance
9 11 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
9 11 (20.00%) AIX
10 9 (16.36%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (16.36%) Java
10 9 (16.36%) RDBMS
10 9 (16.36%) Oracle 11g
11 7 (12.73%) Base SAS
11 7 (12.73%) Marketing
11 7 (12.73%) Oracle Applications
11 7 (12.73%) TOAD
11 7 (12.73%) C++
12 6 (10.91%) VSS/SourceSafe
12 6 (10.91%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (9.091%) Degree
13 5 (9.091%) CGI
13 5 (9.091%) J2EE
13 5 (9.091%) Linux
13 5 (9.091%) MS Excel

ProC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing ProC 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 ProC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (9.091%) J2EE
1 5 (9.091%) CGI
2 4 (7.273%) Web Services
3 2 (3.636%) HTML
3 2 (3.636%) .NET
3 2 (3.636%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.818%) Java EE
4 1 (1.818%) XML
Application Platforms
1 15 (27.27%) SAS
2 2 (3.636%) Documentum
2 2 (3.636%) Captiva
3 1 (1.818%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.818%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.818%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 5 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.636%) MS Project
3 1 (1.818%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (7.273%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (7.273%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (5.455%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.636%) Internet
2 1 (1.818%) HTTP
2 1 (1.818%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 9 (16.36%) RDBMS
3 9 (16.36%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (16.36%) Oracle 11g
4 7 (12.73%) Base SAS
4 7 (12.73%) TOAD
5 4 (7.273%) Oracle 9i
5 4 (7.273%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.818%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.818%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 22 (40.00%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (10.91%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (3.636%) PVCS
4 1 (1.818%) JDeveloper
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Marketing
3 4 (7.273%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.455%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.455%) Banking
4 3 (5.455%) Retail
5 1 (1.818%) Billing
5 1 (1.818%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 32 (58.18%) Developer
2 18 (32.73%) Oracle Developer
3 13 (23.64%) Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Consultant
4 7 (12.73%) C Developer
5 6 (10.91%) SAS Analyst
6 5 (9.091%) Oracle Consultant
6 5 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (9.091%) UNIX Developer
7 4 (7.273%) SAS Insight Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Insight Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.273%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (7.273%) DBA
7 4 (7.273%) Senior Data Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Oracle Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) MI Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Marketing Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) SAS Developer
8 2 (3.636%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.273%) Statistics
1 4 (7.273%) Mathematics
2 3 (5.455%) SaaS
3 2 (3.636%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.636%) NHS
4 1 (1.818%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.818%) IVR
4 1 (1.818%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) UNIX
2 15 (27.27%) Solaris
3 11 (20.00%) AIX
4 5 (9.091%) Linux
5 1 (1.818%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (9.091%) Data Modelling
2 4 (7.273%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (7.273%) Operations Research
2 4 (7.273%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (7.273%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (5.455%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (5.455%) Unit Testing
3 3 (5.455%) Cash Management
3 3 (5.455%) ETL
3 3 (5.455%) Business Analysis
3 3 (5.455%) Migration
3 3 (5.455%) Project Management
3 3 (5.455%) ERP
4 2 (3.636%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (3.636%) Content Management
4 2 (3.636%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (1.818%) Analytics
5 1 (1.818%) Multithreading
5 1 (1.818%) Stress Testing
5 1 (1.818%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 40 (72.73%) SQL
2 23 (41.82%) C
3 22 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 22 (40.00%) PL/SQL
4 14 (25.45%) SAS Macro
5 9 (16.36%) Java
6 7 (12.73%) C++
7 2 (3.636%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.636%) VB
7 2 (3.636%) VB.NET
7 2 (3.636%) Tcl
7 2 (3.636%) VB6
8 1 (1.818%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (9.091%) Degree
2 3 (5.455%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.818%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (3.636%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.818%) Oracle Statspack
Vendors
1 38 (69.09%) Oracle
2 5 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.455%) Retek
4 2 (3.636%) BMC
4 2 (3.636%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.818%) SmartStream
5 1 (1.818%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.818%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (1.818%) Brio