West Midlands Oracle 11g Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Database 11g skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle 11g over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Database 11g
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire City of London East of England England Essex Hampshire Harlow Kent Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Milton Keynes North West Reading South East UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	121	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.142 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.20	-
% change on same period last year	-
Database & Business Intelligence West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	703	734
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.937 %	0.743 %
Daily rates quoted	158	152
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£322
Average daily rate	£324	£339
% change on same period last year	-4.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.07	£26.48
Average hourly rate	£31.67	£29.05
% change on same period last year	+9.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.26	£31.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Oracle 11g England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Oracle 11g
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

Oracle 11g
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle 11g
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle 11g
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	-	1	-	-

Oracle 11g England

Oracle 11g
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (66.67 %) JMS 2 2 (66.67 %) JDeveloper 2 2 (66.67 %) Oracle HTTP Server 2 2 (66.67 %) FTP 2 2 (66.67 %) HTTP 2 2 (66.67 %) WSDL 2 2 (66.67 %) HTTPS 2 2 (66.67 %) JavaBeans 2 2 (66.67 %) RDBMS 2 2 (66.67 %) SSL 2 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP 2 2 (66.67 %) HTML

2 2 (66.67 %) Java 2 2 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 2 2 (66.67 %) JSP 2 2 (66.67 %) SOAP 2 2 (66.67 %) Struts 2 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 2 2 (66.67 %) XML 2 2 (66.67 %) XSD 2 2 (66.67 %) XSL 2 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 2 2 (66.67 %) SQLPlus 2 2 (66.67 %) Service Management

Oracle 11g
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 2 (66.67 %) JSP 1 2 (66.67 %) SOAP 1 2 (66.67 %) Struts 1 2 (66.67 %) WebServices 1 2 (66.67 %) XML 1 2 (66.67 %) XSD 1 2 (66.67 %) XSL 1 2 (66.67 %) JMS 1 2 (66.67 %) WSDL 1 2 (66.67 %) JavaBeans 1 2 (66.67 %) HTML 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP XI 1 2 (66.67 %) Spring 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (33.33 %) EJB 2 1 (33.33 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) FTP 1 2 (66.67 %) HTTP 1 2 (66.67 %) HTTPS 1 2 (66.67 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (66.67 %) SQLPlus 2 2 (66.67 %) RDBMS 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle OWB 3 1 (33.33 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) Visual Studio 1 2 (66.67 %) JDeveloper 1 2 (66.67 %) XMLSpy
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Health	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Applications Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Support Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Applications Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) W3C 1 1 (33.33 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Service Management 1 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) SOA 2 1 (33.33 %) e-GIF 2 1 (33.33 %) ITSM 2 1 (33.33 %) Enterprise Architecture 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) CTC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) Java 1 2 (66.67 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Objects