West Midlands Oracle Reports Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Reports 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 Reports over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Folkestone Glasgow Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Highlands Huddersfield Inverness Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	101
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	15	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	2.134 %	3.951 %
Daily rates quoted	1	9
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£324
Average daily rate	£325	£324
% change on same period last year	+0.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£355
% change on same period last year	+7.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.49	£28.22
% change on same period last year	+22.22 %
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 Reports 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Reports across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Reports 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	+7	4	-	-
Warwickshire	-	2	-	-
Shropshire	-18	2	£325	+30.00 %
Worcestershire	+3	2	-	-
Solihull	-	1	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle Reports 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 Reports.

1 38 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 29 (76.32 %) SQL 3 23 (60.53 %) PL/SQL 4 17 (44.74 %) Oracle 10g 4 17 (44.74 %) Oracle Forms 5 13 (34.21 %) UNIX 6 10 (26.32 %) Finance 7 9 (23.68 %) Oracle 9i 8 7 (18.42 %) Microsoft 8 7 (18.42 %) Crystal Reports 9 5 (13.16 %) SQL Server 9 5 (13.16 %) VB 9 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 9 5 (13.16 %) MS Access 9 5 (13.16 %) XML

9 5 (13.16 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 4 (10.53 %) RDBMS 10 4 (10.53 %) Retek 10 4 (10.53 %) Shell Script 10 4 (10.53 %) SQLPlus 10 4 (10.53 %) Solaris 10 4 (10.53 %) Incident Management 10 4 (10.53 %) Change Management 11 3 (7.895 %) CA 11 3 (7.895 %) Service Delivery 11 3 (7.895 %) Health 11 3 (7.895 %) Oracle Workflow 11 3 (7.895 %) Workflow 11 3 (7.895 %) Retail 11 3 (7.895 %) Supply Chain Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Oracle Reports 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 Reports. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (13.16 %) XML 2 2 (5.263 %) WebServices 3 1 (2.632 %) .NET 3 1 (2.632 %) J2EE 3 1 (2.632 %) EDI 3 1 (2.632 %) EDIFACT 3 1 (2.632 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (2.632 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.895 %) Oracle Workflow 2 1 (2.632 %) eRoom 2 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (2.632 %) ESB 2 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 1 (2.632 %) Apache 2 1 (2.632 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 5 (13.16 %) MS Excel 2 3 (7.895 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.632 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (7.895 %) Oracle Financials 2 2 (5.263 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (2.632 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (2.632 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.632 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (44.74 %) Oracle 10g 2 9 (23.68 %) Oracle 9i 3 7 (18.42 %) Crystal Reports 4 5 (13.16 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 5 (13.16 %) SQL Server 4 5 (13.16 %) MS Access 5 4 (10.53 %) RDBMS 5 4 (10.53 %) SQLPlus 6 3 (7.895 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (7.895 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (5.263 %) TOAD 7 2 (5.263 %) Oracle OWB 8 1 (2.632 %) InterSystems Cache 8 1 (2.632 %) Oracle 11g 8 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server 7 8 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (2.632 %) SQL Navigator 8 1 (2.632 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 17 (44.74 %) Oracle Forms 2 2 (5.263 %) Oracle APEX 2 2 (5.263 %) ProC 3 1 (2.632 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (2.632 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (2.632 %) WebSpeed 3 1 (2.632 %) ClearCase 3 1 (2.632 %) JDeveloper	General 1 10 (26.32 %) Finance 2 3 (7.895 %) Health 2 3 (7.895 %) Retail 3 1 (2.632 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.632 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.632 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (2.632 %) Automotive 3 1 (2.632 %) Education
Job Titles 1 18 (47.37 %) Developer 2 12 (31.58 %) Oracle Developer 3 8 (21.05 %) Analyst 4 7 (18.42 %) Programmer 5 6 (15.79 %) Analyst Programmer 6 5 (13.16 %) Oracle Analyst Programmer 6 5 (13.16 %) Oracle Analyst 7 4 (10.53 %) DBA 8 3 (7.895 %) Applications Support 8 3 (7.895 %) UNIX Support 8 3 (7.895 %) Oracle DBA 9 2 (5.263 %) Oracle Applications Support 9 2 (5.263 %) Datawarehouse Developer 9 2 (5.263 %) Oracle Consultant 9 2 (5.263 %) Consultant 9 2 (5.263 %) Administrator 9 2 (5.263 %) Data Analyst 10 1 (2.632 %) Analyst Developer 10 1 (2.632 %) Report Analyst 10 1 (2.632 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.263 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 13 (34.21 %) UNIX 2 4 (10.53 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.632 %) Linux 3 1 (2.632 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.53 %) Change Management 1 4 (10.53 %) Incident Management 2 3 (7.895 %) Supply Chain Management 2 3 (7.895 %) RDF 2 3 (7.895 %) Workflow 2 3 (7.895 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (5.263 %) Logistics 3 2 (5.263 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (5.263 %) Service Management 3 2 (5.263 %) ITIL 3 2 (5.263 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (5.263 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.632 %) Load Balancing 4 1 (2.632 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (2.632 %) E-business 4 1 (2.632 %) ITSM 4 1 (2.632 %) Identity Management 4 1 (2.632 %) E-Procurement 4 1 (2.632 %) CRM 4 1 (2.632 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 29 (76.32 %) SQL 2 23 (60.53 %) PL/SQL 3 5 (13.16 %) VB 4 4 (10.53 %) Shell Script 5 2 (5.263 %) C 5 2 (5.263 %) C++ 6 1 (2.632 %) Java 6 1 (2.632 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (5.263 %) ISEB 1 2 (5.263 %) ISTQB
System Software 1 3 (7.895 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (2.632 %) Oracle RMAN 2 1 (2.632 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 3 (7.895 %) Unicenter
Vendors 1 38 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 7 (18.42 %) Microsoft 3 4 (10.53 %) Retek 4 3 (7.895 %) Sun 4 3 (7.895 %) Intel 4 3 (7.895 %) Business Objects 4 3 (7.895 %) CA 5 2 (5.263 %) Citrix 5 2 (5.263 %) Anite 5 2 (5.263 %) GUPTA 5 2 (5.263 %) Northgate 5 2 (5.263 %) Civica 5 2 (5.263 %) Capita 6 1 (2.632 %) Remedy 6 1 (2.632 %) Sybase 6 1 (2.632 %) SAP 6 1 (2.632 %) Cognos 6 1 (2.632 %) Progress