The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Database 8/8i
Rank 94 93 88
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i 4 13 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.235% 0.573% 0.621%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.163% 2.692% 2.673%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
Average daily rate £475 £294 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.70% -26.56%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £369 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.14% -7.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £33.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -10.81%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
344 483 449
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 20.20% 21.31% 23.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 259 215
Average daily rate £325 £320 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 12
Average hourly rate £42.20 £22.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.55% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £26.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+6.60% -15.87%
Oracle 8/8i
England

Oracle 8/8i
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

West Midlands Oracle 8/8i Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Midlands Oracle 8/8i Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle 8/8i
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Oracle 8/8i across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Oracle 8/8i Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle 8/8i
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle 8/8i within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Birmingham +3 2 £250 -6.54% 5
Coventry - - - - 1
West Bromwich - - - -
Staffordshire - - - - 1
Warwickshire - - - - 1
Oracle 8/8i
England

Oracle 8/8i
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i.

1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (50.00%) IBM
3 8 (44.44%) .NET
4 7 (38.89%) Linux
4 7 (38.89%) SOA
5 6 (33.33%) HTTP
5 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 6 (33.33%) DNS
5 6 (33.33%) JMS
5 6 (33.33%) LDAP
5 6 (33.33%) DB2
5 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 6 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (33.33%) Middleware
5 6 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
5 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Process Server
5 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
5 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (27.78%) Windows
7 4 (22.22%) WebLogic
7 4 (22.22%) Firewall
8 3 (16.67%) Finance
8 3 (16.67%) AIX
8 3 (16.67%) XML
8 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL

Oracle 8/8i
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle 8/8i 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 8/8i. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (44.44%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) Web Services
2 6 (33.33%) JMS
2 6 (33.33%) Middleware
2 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 3 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.556%) WCF
4 1 (5.556%) Silverlight
4 1 (5.556%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 6 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
1 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Process Server
2 4 (22.22%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.556%) NetWeaver
3 1 (5.556%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.556%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.556%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) HTTP
1 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 6 (33.33%) DNS
1 6 (33.33%) LDAP
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
3 1 (5.556%) NAS
3 1 (5.556%) LAN
3 1 (5.556%) WAN
3 1 (5.556%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) DB2
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) MySQL
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Specialist
2 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Management Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) SAP Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Head of Business Intelligence
4 1 (5.556%) DBA
4 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (5.556%) SAP Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
1 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 6 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
4 3 (16.67%) AIX
5 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) SOA
2 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
3 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.556%) CRM
3 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.556%) Logistics
3 1 (5.556%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
2 1 (5.556%) C#
2 1 (5.556%) COBOL
2 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 9 (50.00%) IBM
3 6 (33.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (11.11%) Progress
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.556%) SAP
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