The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle RAC 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 of the System Software category for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 259 236 244
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +8
Permanent jobs citing Oracle RAC 10 36 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.121% 0.414% 0.179%
As % of the System Software category 1.166% 5.078% 2.482%
Number of salaries quoted 8 35 14
Average salary £48,750 £50,000 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +18.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £41,400 £39,300
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £49,550
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- -5.26%
All System Software
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
858 709 685
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 10.38% 8.153% 7.219%
Number of salaries quoted 764 621 569
Average salary £37,500 £42,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.71% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,700 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

East of England Oracle RAC Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle RAC
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the East of England region.

East of England Oracle RAC Salary Trend

Oracle RAC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England Oracle RAC Salary Histogram

Oracle RAC
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the East of England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire -15 7 £47,500 +13.09%
Cambridgeshire -10 2 £60,000 +20.00%
Hertfordshire -1 1 £42,500 -15.00%
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 29 (100.00%) Oracle
1 29 (100.00%) UNIX
2 26 (89.66%) Linux
3 17 (58.62%) Oracle 11g
4 14 (48.28%) Shell Script
5 12 (41.38%) Solaris
5 12 (41.38%) Data Guard
6 10 (34.48%) C-shell
6 10 (34.48%) Perl
6 10 (34.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 9 (31.03%) SQL
8 8 (27.59%) Java
8 8 (27.59%) PL/SQL
8 8 (27.59%) WebLogic
8 8 (27.59%) Banking
9 7 (24.14%) Finance
9 7 (24.14%) Oracle 10g
10 6 (20.69%) Sun
10 6 (20.69%) HP
10 6 (20.69%) EMC
10 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
10 6 (20.69%) DNS
10 6 (20.69%) Apache
10 6 (20.69%) Python
10 6 (20.69%) LDAP
10 6 (20.69%) Sybase
10 6 (20.69%) AIX
10 6 (20.69%) Web Services
10 6 (20.69%) Cisco
10 6 (20.69%) BMC PATROL

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 6 (20.69%) Web Services
2 2 (6.897%) XML
2 2 (6.897%) XSL
2 2 (6.897%) XSLT
2 2 (6.897%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.897%) Spring
2 2 (6.897%) JSF
2 2 (6.897%) Java EE
2 2 (6.897%) JSP
2 2 (6.897%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 8 (27.59%) WebLogic
2 6 (20.69%) Apache
2 6 (20.69%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (20.69%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) LDAP
1 6 (20.69%) TCP/IP
1 6 (20.69%) DNS
1 6 (20.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (58.62%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle 10g
3 4 (13.79%) RDBMS
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (6.897%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.897%) Oracle OWB
6 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (3.448%) SQLPlus
6 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 8 (27.59%) Banking
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) DBA
1 21 (72.41%) Oracle DBA
2 6 (20.69%) UNIX Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Senior UNIX Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Administrator
5 2 (6.897%) Trainee Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Trainee
5 2 (6.897%) Trainee Support Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Support Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.448%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) UNIX Support
6 1 (3.448%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 29 (100.00%) UNIX
2 26 (89.66%) Linux
3 12 (41.38%) Solaris
4 6 (20.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (20.69%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
2 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
2 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (6.897%) ITIL
3 2 (6.897%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (3.448%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Shell Script
2 10 (34.48%) Perl
2 10 (34.48%) C-shell
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 8 (27.59%) PL/SQL
4 8 (27.59%) Java
5 6 (20.69%) Bash shell
5 6 (20.69%) Python
5 6 (20.69%) Korn
5 6 (20.69%) Bourne shell
6 4 (13.79%) AWK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (20.69%) Hyper-V
2 6 (20.69%) vSphere
2 6 (20.69%) VMware ESX
3 2 (6.897%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Data Guard
2 6 (20.69%) BMC PATROL
3 4 (13.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (6.897%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (20.69%) Sybase
2 6 (20.69%) Cisco
2 6 (20.69%) Sun
2 6 (20.69%) HP
2 6 (20.69%) EMC
2 6 (20.69%) BMC
2 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 2 (6.897%) BEA