The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle Application Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Application Server (OAS)
Rank 101 85 93
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +8
Contract jobs citing Oracle Application Server 14 31 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.742% 1.349% 0.056%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.423% 6.889% 0.248%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 1
Average daily rate £375 £550 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% +69.23%
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
409 450 403
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.69% 19.58% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 250 182
Average daily rate £308 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 29
Average hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.33% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.00 £10.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.45 £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
England

Oracle Application Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Oracle Application Server Hourly Rate Trend

Oracle Application Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 37 (92.50%) WebLogic
3 34 (85.00%) SOA
4 32 (80.00%) Middleware
4 32 (80.00%) Oracle 11g
5 31 (77.50%) ESB
5 31 (77.50%) BPEL
6 29 (72.50%) Oracle Service Bus
6 29 (72.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 28 (70.00%) Oracle 10g
8 27 (67.50%) Linux
8 27 (67.50%) ITIL
9 26 (65.00%) Oracle Linux
10 25 (62.50%) HPUX
10 25 (62.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 25 (62.50%) Oracle 10gAS
10 25 (62.50%) Change Management
11 23 (57.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 6 (15.00%) SQL
13 4 (10.00%) Solaris
13 4 (10.00%) UNIX
13 4 (10.00%) Finance
14 3 (7.500%) Firewall
14 3 (7.500%) Spring
14 3 (7.500%) Maven
14 3 (7.500%) Oracle Applications
14 3 (7.500%) Hibernate
14 3 (7.500%) Subversion
14 3 (7.500%) Hudson
14 3 (7.500%) Struts2

Oracle Application Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 32 (80.00%) Middleware
2 23 (57.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (7.500%) Struts2
3 3 (7.500%) JMS
3 3 (7.500%) Hibernate
3 3 (7.500%) Spring
3 3 (7.500%) Ajax
3 3 (7.500%) Java EE
3 3 (7.500%) jQuery
3 3 (7.500%) J2EE
3 3 (7.500%) Struts
3 3 (7.500%) Web Services
4 1 (2.500%) XML
4 1 (2.500%) CSS
4 1 (2.500%) JSP
4 1 (2.500%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 37 (92.50%) WebLogic
2 31 (77.50%) ESB
3 29 (72.50%) Oracle Service Bus
3 29 (72.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 25 (62.50%) Oracle 10gAS
5 3 (7.500%) AquaLogic
5 3 (7.500%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 1 (2.500%) Magento
Business Applications
1 3 (7.500%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.500%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.500%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.500%) WAN
1 3 (7.500%) VPN
1 3 (7.500%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (80.00%) Oracle 11g
2 28 (70.00%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (2.500%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (7.500%) JUnit
1 3 (7.500%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (7.500%) Subversion
1 3 (7.500%) Maven
1 3 (7.500%) Hudson
General
1 4 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (72.50%) Administrator
2 21 (52.50%) Middleware Administrator
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle SOA Consultant
3 3 (7.500%) SOA Consultant
3 3 (7.500%) Java Developer
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (7.500%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (7.500%) Developer
3 3 (7.500%) Consultant
3 3 (7.500%) DBA
4 2 (5.000%) Analyst
4 2 (5.000%) Oracle Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.500%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 27 (67.50%) Linux
2 26 (65.00%) Oracle Linux
3 25 (62.50%) HPUX
4 4 (10.00%) Solaris
4 4 (10.00%) UNIX
5 2 (5.000%) Windows
6 1 (2.500%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (85.00%) SOA
2 31 (77.50%) BPEL
3 27 (67.50%) ITIL
4 25 (62.50%) Change Management
5 1 (2.500%) Validation
5 1 (2.500%) Change Control
5 1 (2.500%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.500%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.500%) Java
2 3 (7.500%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.500%) PL/SQL
Systems Management
1 25 (62.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (7.500%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.500%) Sun
3 2 (5.000%) HP