The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle EBS 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 EBS over the 3 months to 23 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 Business Applications 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle E-Business Suite (OEBS)
Rank 90 87 98
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +11
Contract jobs citing Oracle EBS 7 18 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.429% 0.800% 0.105%
As % of the Business Applications category 4.094% 8.333% 0.962%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 0
Average daily rate £500 £413 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £450 £400
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 £15.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+217.46% -58.00%
All Business Applications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Business Applications category
171 216 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 10.48% 9.604% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 93 103
Average daily rate £450 £410 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.75% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £438 £420
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 11
Average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -15.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+68.00% -10.00%
Oracle EBS
England

Oracle EBS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle EBS across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Business Applications category.

West Midlands Oracle EBS Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle EBS
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Oracle EBS Daily Rate Trend

Oracle EBS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Oracle EBS Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle EBS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle EBS within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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 +13 4 £550 +10.55%
Walsall -2 1 £450 +38.46%
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Oracle EBS
England

Oracle EBS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle EBS 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 EBS.

1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (61.11%) Oracle 11g
3 10 (55.56%) Oracle BI EE
4 9 (50.00%) UNIX
5 8 (44.44%) AIX
5 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (44.44%) RDBMS
5 8 (44.44%) BPEL
5 8 (44.44%) Oracle BPEL
5 8 (44.44%) Oracle RAC
6 7 (38.89%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (38.89%) Workflow
6 7 (38.89%) Shell Script
7 6 (33.33%) Finance
8 5 (27.78%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (22.22%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (11.11%) ETL
10 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (11.11%) Analytics
10 2 (11.11%) ERP
10 2 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (11.11%) OCP
10 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
11 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9i
11 1 (5.556%) ITIL
11 1 (5.556%) Solaris
11 1 (5.556%) Apache
11 1 (5.556%) Pegasus

Oracle EBS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle EBS 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 EBS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle BPEL
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle ERP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) Oracle 11g
2 10 (55.56%) Oracle BI EE
3 8 (44.44%) RDBMS
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9i
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle DBA
1 9 (50.00%) DBA
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) OBIEE Developer
4 1 (5.556%) OBIEE Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle SOA Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Business Solution Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) UNIX
2 8 (44.44%) AIX
3 1 (5.556%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) BPEL
2 7 (38.89%) Workflow
3 2 (11.11%) ETL
3 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (11.11%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) ERP
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL
4 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling
4 1 (5.556%) SOA
4 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.556%) Regression Testing
4 1 (5.556%) User Stories
4 1 (5.556%) Database Security
4 1 (5.556%) High Availability
4 1 (5.556%) Use Case
4 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.556%) Database Tuning
4 1 (5.556%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) OCP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.556%) Pegasus