The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Application Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle Application Server over the 3 months to 21 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 Application Platforms category for the West Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Rank - 67 -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Application Server 0 28 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 1.746% -
As % of the Application Platforms category - 10.07% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £550 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £340 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.29% +4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.70 £41.74 -
% change year-on-year
-24.05% -
All Application Platforms
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
287 278 253
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 22.35% 17.33% 23.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 156 104
Average daily rate £275 £325 £332
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £150 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £361 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 17
Average hourly rate £23.50 £11.50 £21.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.34% -45.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £11.00 £11.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £30.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -
Oracle Application Server
Yorkshire

Oracle Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Application Server across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

West Yorkshire Oracle Application Server Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle Application Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Oracle Application Server Daily Rate Trend

Oracle Application Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Oracle Application Server Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (81.25%) WebLogic
3 11 (68.75%) Oracle 11g
4 10 (62.50%) SOA
5 8 (50.00%) Middleware
5 8 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 7 (43.75%) ESB
6 7 (43.75%) BPEL
6 7 (43.75%) Oracle 10g
7 6 (37.50%) Linux
7 6 (37.50%) SQL
7 6 (37.50%) ITIL
7 6 (37.50%) Oracle Service Bus
8 5 (31.25%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (25.00%) Oracle 10gAS
9 4 (25.00%) Change Management
9 4 (25.00%) Finance
9 4 (25.00%) UNIX
9 4 (25.00%) HPUX
9 4 (25.00%) Solaris
9 4 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
10 3 (18.75%) Sun
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle 9i
10 3 (18.75%) WAN
10 3 (18.75%) VPN
10 3 (18.75%) JMS

Oracle Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 8 (50.00%) Middleware
2 3 (18.75%) JMS
2 3 (18.75%) Struts
2 3 (18.75%) Web Services
2 3 (18.75%) J2EE
2 3 (18.75%) Hibernate
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) Ajax
2 3 (18.75%) Java EE
2 3 (18.75%) jQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Struts2
3 1 (6.250%) HTML
3 1 (6.250%) XML
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) JSP
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 13 (81.25%) WebLogic
2 8 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (43.75%) ESB
4 6 (37.50%) Oracle Service Bus
5 4 (25.00%) Oracle 10gAS
6 3 (18.75%) AquaLogic
6 3 (18.75%) AquaLogic Service Bus
7 1 (6.250%) Magento
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) WAN
1 3 (18.75%) VPN
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (43.75%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle 9i
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (18.75%) JUnit
1 3 (18.75%) Subversion
1 3 (18.75%) Maven
1 3 (18.75%) Hudson
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) DBA
2 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) SOA Consultant
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle SOA Consultant
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Linux
3 4 (25.00%) UNIX
3 4 (25.00%) HPUX
3 4 (25.00%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (6.250%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) SOA
2 7 (43.75%) BPEL
3 6 (37.50%) ITIL
4 4 (25.00%) Change Management
5 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
5 1 (6.250%) Change Control
5 1 (6.250%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
2 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Sun
3 2 (12.50%) HP