West Midlands Oracle Application Server Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Application Server (OAS) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle Application Server over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Huntingdon Leeds Lewisham Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	114	131
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.750 %	0.163 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£420	£348
% change on same period last year	+20.83 %
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	£42.50	£31.67
% change on same period last year	+34.21 %
Application Platforms West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	400	612
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.563 %	0.618 %
Daily rates quoted	83	111
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£328
Average daily rate	£347	£352
% change on same period last year	-1.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	124
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.34	£21.26
Average hourly rate	£20.92	£22.94
% change on same period last year	-8.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.49	£24.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.69	£24.06
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oracle Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oracle Application Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Application Server within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 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	+20	2	£400	-

Oracle Application Server England

Oracle Application Server
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server.

1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 2 2 (66.67 %) Apache 2 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat 2 2 (66.67 %) Middleware 2 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 3 1 (33.33 %) Degree 3 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (33.33 %) MVC 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle ADF 3 1 (33.33 %) BPEL 3 1 (33.33 %) JSF

3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (33.33 %) XHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) SOA 3 1 (33.33 %) JDeveloper 3 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) EJB 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT

Oracle Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle Application Server 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 Application Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) J2EE 1 2 (66.67 %) Middleware 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere 2 1 (33.33 %) MVC 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle ADF 2 1 (33.33 %) JSF 2 1 (33.33 %) EJB 2 1 (33.33 %) CSS 2 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 2 1 (33.33 %) XML 2 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 2 1 (33.33 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (66.67 %) WebLogic 1 2 (66.67 %) Apache 1 2 (66.67 %) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) JDeveloper
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) SOA 1 1 (33.33 %) BPEL 1 1 (33.33 %) Unit Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle