The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 11g skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 89 88 95
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 11g 6 15 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.367% 0.669% 0.370%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.796% 3.119% 1.716%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £325 £475 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.57% +46.15%
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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
334 481 408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 20.45% 21.45% 21.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 250 202
Average daily rate £320 £320 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £440 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 14
Average hourly rate £42.20 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+141.14% -2.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
Oracle 11g
England

Oracle 11g
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +9 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 £325 -
Oracle 11g
England

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 22 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (45.45%) UNIX
3 10 (45.45%) Oracle BI EE
4 8 (36.36%) Oracle BPEL
4 8 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (36.36%) AIX
4 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (36.36%) RDBMS
4 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
4 8 (36.36%) BPEL
5 7 (31.82%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (31.82%) Workflow
5 7 (31.82%) SQL
6 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
7 4 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (18.18%) .NET
7 4 (18.18%) Java
8 3 (13.64%) C#
8 3 (13.64%) COBOL
8 3 (13.64%) ETL
8 3 (13.64%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
9 2 (9.091%) Analytics
9 2 (9.091%) SOA
9 2 (9.091%) XML
9 2 (9.091%) UML
9 2 (9.091%) OO
9 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
9 2 (9.091%) J2EE

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (9.091%) XML
2 2 (9.091%) J2EE
2 2 (9.091%) Middleware
3 1 (4.545%) Ajax
3 1 (4.545%) HTML
3 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.545%) CSS
3 1 (4.545%) Web Services
3 1 (4.545%) WCF
3 1 (4.545%) Silverlight
3 1 (4.545%) LINQ
3 1 (4.545%) jQuery
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.545%) REST
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle BPEL
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (4.545%) Apache
3 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (4.545%) Summit
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Oracle BI EE
2 8 (36.36%) RDBMS
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) JDeveloper
1 1 (4.545%) MSBuild
1 1 (4.545%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (9.091%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (4.545%) German Language
2 1 (4.545%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) DBA
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Consultant
4 3 (13.64%) SQL Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 2 (9.091%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (9.091%) Applications Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Project Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Software Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.545%) Pharmacovigilance
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) UNIX
2 8 (36.36%) AIX
3 1 (4.545%) Solaris
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) BPEL
2 7 (31.82%) Workflow
3 3 (13.64%) ETL
4 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.091%) Analytics
4 2 (9.091%) SOA
4 2 (9.091%) UML
4 2 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) Validation
5 1 (4.545%) Migration
5 1 (4.545%) MVC
5 1 (4.545%) TOGAF
5 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.545%) Database Security
5 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.545%) BDD
5 1 (4.545%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) PL/SQL
4 4 (18.18%) Java
5 3 (13.64%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) COBOL
6 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.091%) VB
7 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
7 1 (4.545%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) OCP
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Nagios
1 1 (4.545%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.545%) Microsoft