City of London Oracle RAC Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Location Andover Barnsley Basildon Bath Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knaresborough Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stirling Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	223	217
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching permanent IT job ads	124	114
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.072 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	8.763 %	11.20 %
Salaries quoted	99	87
Average minimum salary	£57,121	£60,609
Average salary	£62,433	£64,057
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Average maximum salary	£67,745	£67,506
UK excluding London average salary	£45,725	£44,089
% change on same period last year	+3.71 %
System Software City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	1415	1018
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.819 %	0.438 %
Salaries quoted	1222	808
Average minimum salary	£41,216	£45,877
Average salary	£44,363	£48,802
% change on same period last year	-9.09 %
Average maximum salary	£47,510	£51,726
UK excluding London average salary	£35,350	£34,967
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Oracle RAC London

Oracle RAC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Oracle RAC
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the City of London region.

Oracle RAC
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle RAC 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Oracle RAC.

1 281 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 249 (88.61 %) Oracle 10g 3 201 (71.53 %) UNIX 4 191 (67.97 %) Oracle 9i 5 164 (58.36 %) Finance 6 130 (46.26 %) Oracle RMAN 7 126 (44.84 %) SQL 8 114 (40.57 %) Linux 8 114 (40.57 %) Shell Script 9 86 (30.60 %) Banking 10 81 (28.83 %) Sybase 11 72 (25.62 %) Oracle 11g 12 70 (24.91 %) Datawarehouse 13 66 (23.49 %) RDBMS 14 54 (19.22 %) ETL

15 49 (17.44 %) Solaris 16 46 (16.37 %) SQL Server 17 40 (14.23 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 39 (13.88 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 19 32 (11.39 %) PL/SQL 20 31 (11.03 %) Red Hat 21 30 (10.68 %) Red Hat Linux 22 29 (10.32 %) Windows 23 28 (9.964 %) Financial Institution 23 28 (9.964 %) Data Management 24 27 (9.609 %) JDBC 24 27 (9.609 %) ODBC 25 24 (8.541 %) Replication 26 18 (6.406 %) Oracle Certification 26 18 (6.406 %) Investment Banking

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Oracle RAC also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Oracle RAC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 27 (9.609 %) JDBC 1 27 (9.609 %) ODBC 2 6 (2.135 %) WebServices 3 4 (1.423 %) WebSphere 4 1 (0.356 %) Oracle Streams 4 1 (0.356 %) JSP 4 1 (0.356 %) HTML 4 1 (0.356 %) .NET 4 1 (0.356 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.356 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 7 (2.491 %) Oracle Application Server 2 5 (1.779 %) WebLogic 3 3 (1.068 %) JBoss 4 2 (0.712 %) Tomcat 4 2 (0.712 %) WebSphere MQ 4 2 (0.712 %) Oracle Workflow 5 1 (0.356 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 1 (0.356 %) Oracle 9iAS 5 1 (0.356 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (1.423 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.356 %) MS Project 2 1 (0.356 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 10 (3.559 %) Oracle Applications 2 9 (3.203 %) Oracle EBS 3 8 (2.847 %) Oracle 11i 4 1 (0.356 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 7 (2.491 %) LDAP 2 3 (1.068 %) DNS 3 2 (0.712 %) Internet 3 2 (0.712 %) Kerberos 3 2 (0.712 %) Network Security 4 1 (0.356 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.356 %) VPN 4 1 (0.356 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.356 %) VLAN 4 1 (0.356 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 249 (88.61 %) Oracle 10g 2 191 (67.97 %) Oracle 9i 3 72 (25.62 %) Oracle 11g 4 70 (24.91 %) Datawarehouse 5 66 (23.49 %) RDBMS 6 54 (19.22 %) ETL 7 46 (16.37 %) SQL Server 8 40 (14.23 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 11 (3.915 %) SQL Server 2005 10 10 (3.559 %) Sybase ASE 11 5 (1.779 %) SQLPlus 12 4 (1.423 %) SQL Server 2000 13 3 (1.068 %) Sybase IQ 13 3 (1.068 %) MySQL 13 3 (1.068 %) Oracle Reports 14 1 (0.356 %) DB2 14 1 (0.356 %) OLTP 14 1 (0.356 %) Oracle Discoverer 14 1 (0.356 %) DB2 UDB 14 1 (0.356 %) Reference Data
Development Applications 1 3 (1.068 %) Oracle Forms 1 3 (1.068 %) Subversion	General 1 164 (58.36 %) Finance 2 86 (30.60 %) Banking 3 28 (9.964 %) Financial Institution 4 18 (6.406 %) Investment Banking 5 17 (6.050 %) Games 5 17 (6.050 %) Online Games 6 11 (3.915 %) Back Office 7 5 (1.779 %) Telecoms 8 4 (1.423 %) Health 8 4 (1.423 %) Insurance 9 3 (1.068 %) Pensions 10 1 (0.356 %) Corporate Banking 10 1 (0.356 %) Auditing 10 1 (0.356 %) Billing 10 1 (0.356 %) Publishing 10 1 (0.356 %) Education 10 1 (0.356 %) Government 10 1 (0.356 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 236 (83.99 %) DBA 2 232 (82.56 %) Oracle DBA 3 41 (14.59 %) Administrator 4 16 (5.694 %) Developer 5 14 (4.982 %) Oracle Developer 6 13 (4.626 %) Data Administrator 7 8 (2.847 %) Oracle Applications DBA 8 6 (2.135 %) SQL DBA 9 5 (1.779 %) Systems Engineer 10 4 (1.423 %) Architect 10 4 (1.423 %) Senior Oracle DBA 10 4 (1.423 %) Senior DBA 11 3 (1.068 %) Linux Engineer 11 3 (1.068 %) Database Engineer 11 3 (1.068 %) Oracle Database Engineer 11 3 (1.068 %) Development DBA 11 3 (1.068 %) Oracle Development DBA 11 3 (1.068 %) Sybase DBA 11 3 (1.068 %) Infrastructure Engineer 12 2 (0.712 %) Solutions Architect	Miscellaneous 1 24 (8.541 %) Replication 2 17 (6.050 %) Clustering 3 7 (2.491 %) PMI 4 6 (2.135 %) Equities 5 1 (0.356 %) Credit Derivative 5 1 (0.356 %) Derivative 5 1 (0.356 %) DTCC 5 1 (0.356 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 201 (71.53 %) UNIX 2 114 (40.57 %) Linux 3 49 (17.44 %) Solaris 4 30 (10.68 %) Red Hat Linux 5 29 (10.32 %) Windows 6 9 (3.203 %) AIX 7 6 (2.135 %) HPUX 7 6 (2.135 %) Windows Server 2003 7 6 (2.135 %) SUSE 8 2 (0.712 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 1 (0.356 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.356 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (9.964 %) Data Management 2 17 (6.050 %) Configuration Management 3 11 (3.915 %) Migration 3 11 (3.915 %) Asset Management 4 7 (2.491 %) Business Intelligence 4 7 (2.491 %) PRINCE 5 6 (2.135 %) Security Cleared 6 5 (1.779 %) Disaster Recovery 7 4 (1.423 %) ITIL 7 4 (1.423 %) PRINCE2 7 4 (1.423 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 3 (1.068 %) BCP 8 3 (1.068 %) Project Management 9 2 (0.712 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (0.712 %) Service Delivery 9 2 (0.712 %) Workflow 9 2 (0.712 %) Stress Testing 9 2 (0.712 %) Investment Management 9 2 (0.712 %) Data Migration 10 1 (0.356 %) SC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 126 (44.84 %) SQL 2 114 (40.57 %) Shell Script 3 32 (11.39 %) PL/SQL 4 15 (5.338 %) Java 5 11 (3.915 %) Perl 6 7 (2.491 %) Python 7 4 (1.423 %) C 8 3 (1.068 %) C# 9 2 (0.712 %) VB 9 2 (0.712 %) Korn 10 1 (0.356 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 18 (6.406 %) Oracle Certification 2 13 (4.626 %) Degree 3 7 (2.491 %) OCP 4 4 (1.423 %) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.356 %) SLA	System Software 1 130 (46.26 %) Oracle RMAN 2 4 (1.423 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (1.068 %) NFS 3 3 (1.068 %) Samba 4 2 (0.712 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.356 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 39 (13.88 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 16 (5.694 %) Oracle Statspack 3 2 (0.712 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 281 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 81 (28.83 %) Sybase 3 31 (11.03 %) Red Hat 4 10 (3.559 %) HP 4 10 (3.559 %) VERITAS 5 7 (2.491 %) Sun 6 4 (1.423 %) IBM 6 4 (1.423 %) VMware 7 1 (0.356 %) Microsoft 7 1 (0.356 %) BEA