The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Worcestershire 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 11 7 8
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 12 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 13.48% 7.273% 6.557%
As % of the Vendors category 25.53% 20.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 4
Average daily rate £325 - £225
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 - £158
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 - £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+20.68% -10.76%
All Vendors
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
47 20 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 52.81% 36.36% 52.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 19
Average daily rate £263 £318 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.32% +36.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £469 £465 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% -42.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £10.90 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £14.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Oracle
West Midlands

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Oracle across the Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Worcestershire Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend

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

Worcestershire Oracle Daily Rate Trend

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Oracle across the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Worcestershire Oracle Daily Rate Histogram

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Worcestershire Oracle Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Worcester -4 5 £320 -
Redditch - 4 £325 -
Kidderminster - 3 £168 -
Oracle
West Midlands

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region citing Oracle 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.

1 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) UNIX
3 6 (30.00%) HTML
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) MySQL
4 5 (25.00%) SAP
4 5 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (25.00%) LAN
4 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (25.00%) Cisco
4 5 (25.00%) SAN
4 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 5 (25.00%) NetWeaver
4 5 (25.00%) Service Management
4 5 (25.00%) Firewall
4 5 (25.00%) SAP Basis
4 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (25.00%) NAS
5 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (20.00%) Six Sigma
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (15.00%) COBOL
6 3 (15.00%) VB
6 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
6 3 (15.00%) CSS
6 3 (15.00%) WAN
6 3 (15.00%) Flash

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region citing Oracle 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (30.00%) HTML
2 5 (25.00%) SAP Basis
3 3 (15.00%) Flash
3 3 (15.00%) XHTML
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.000%) Web Services
4 1 (5.000%) XML
4 1 (5.000%) XSLT
4 1 (5.000%) .NET
4 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.000%) Ajax
4 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.000%) jQuery
4 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) NetWeaver
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Photoshop
1 3 (15.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) LAN
1 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (25.00%) SAN
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
1 5 (25.00%) NAS
2 3 (15.00%) WAN
3 2 (10.00%) FTP
3 2 (10.00%) WLAN
3 2 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (15.00%) NWDI
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) German Language
3 1 (5.000%) Hindi Language
3 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.000%) Legal
3 1 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Administrator
2 6 (30.00%) Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (25.00%) Systems Support
4 4 (20.00%) Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Test Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Systems Test Analyst
5 3 (15.00%) Front-End Developer
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Basis Support
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Basis Administrator
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Administrator
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Support
6 2 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) DBA
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL Developer
7 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) UNIX
3 5 (25.00%) Linux
3 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) ITIL
2 5 (25.00%) Service Management
3 4 (20.00%) Six Sigma
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Content Management
4 3 (15.00%) System Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Content Management
5 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Automated Testing
5 2 (10.00%) SEO
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) CRM
6 1 (5.000%) MVC
6 1 (5.000%) Scrum
6 1 (5.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) COBOL
3 3 (15.00%) VB
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.000%) C#
5 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) SAP
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) Stellent
3 3 (15.00%) Adobe
4 2 (10.00%) JBoss
4 2 (10.00%) Northgate
5 1 (5.000%) VMware