The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle 11g over the 3 months to 24 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Wales region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 11g
Rank 43 47 51
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11g 1 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 0.235% 1.228% 1.515%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.042% 7.609% 6.993%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
Average daily rate £322 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.12% -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £378 £378
% change year-on-year
-0.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £46.25 £45.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+2.77% +50.00%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
96 92 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 22.54% 16.14% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 50 63
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £208 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
Average hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.94% -37.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Oracle 11g
UK

Oracle 11g
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Oracle 11g Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Wales region.

Wales Oracle 11g Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 11g across the Wales region.

Wales Oracle 11g Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 11g
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Wales - 1 £322 -
Oracle 11g
UK

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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.

1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
1 15 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 9 (60.00%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) Ant
3 8 (53.33%) ClearCase
3 8 (53.33%) ClearQuest
3 8 (53.33%) Maven
3 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
4 7 (46.67%) Release Management
4 7 (46.67%) Liferay
4 7 (46.67%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 7 (46.67%) Configuration Management
4 7 (46.67%) IBM
5 6 (40.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 6 (40.00%) AIX
5 6 (40.00%) Linux
5 6 (40.00%) Internet
5 6 (40.00%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (33.33%) SAS
7 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
8 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
9 2 (13.33%) JSF
9 2 (13.33%) XPath
9 2 (13.33%) JDBC
9 2 (13.33%) SAX
9 2 (13.33%) XML
9 2 (13.33%) XSD
9 2 (13.33%) DOM
9 2 (13.33%) XSLT
9 2 (13.33%) SQL

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region 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 2 (13.33%) JSF
1 2 (13.33%) JDBC
1 2 (13.33%) SAX
1 2 (13.33%) XML
1 2 (13.33%) XSD
1 2 (13.33%) DOM
1 2 (13.33%) XSLT
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
2 1 (6.667%) EJB
2 1 (6.667%) CSS
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
2 1 (6.667%) JAXP
2 1 (6.667%) JAXB
2 1 (6.667%) Servlets
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) WSDL
2 1 (6.667%) Java EE
2 1 (6.667%) Spring
2 1 (6.667%) JAX-WS
2 1 (6.667%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 15 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 7 (46.67%) Liferay
3 5 (33.33%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (6.667%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (6.667%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Ant
1 8 (53.33%) ClearCase
1 8 (53.33%) ClearQuest
1 8 (53.33%) Maven
2 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Release Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) DBA
2 6 (40.00%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.667%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.667%) J2EE Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) AIX
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Release Management
1 7 (46.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (6.667%) UML
2 1 (6.667%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (6.667%) OOD
2 1 (6.667%) Use Case
2 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
2 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
3 2 (13.33%) XPath
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (46.67%) IBM