West Midlands Oracle RAC Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) skills within the West Midlands 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Location Aberdeenshire Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Knaresborough Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Paddington Reading Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	203	198
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	25	34
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	3.634 %	5.944 %
Salaries quoted	18	13
Average minimum salary	£39,444	£40,388
Average salary	£44,722	£44,634
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Average maximum salary	£50,000	£48,879
UK excluding London average salary	£46,497	£44,762
% change on same period last year	+3.87 %
System Software West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	688	572
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.370 %	0.238 %
Salaries quoted	599	490
Average minimum salary	£28,593	£27,742
Average salary	£30,862	£29,944
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Average maximum salary	£33,131	£32,146
UK excluding London average salary	£34,422	£35,339
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Oracle RAC England

Oracle RAC
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

Oracle RAC
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Oracle RAC
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	-2	15	£45,455	-12.37 %
Coventry	-13	3	£35,000	+7.69 %
Herefordshire	-8	2	£55,000	+39.24 %

Oracle RAC England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 40 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 25 (62.50 %) UNIX 3 22 (55.00 %) SQL 3 22 (55.00 %) Oracle 10g 4 18 (45.00 %) PL/SQL 5 15 (37.50 %) ITIL 5 15 (37.50 %) Service Management 5 15 (37.50 %) Government 6 12 (30.00 %) Oracle RMAN 7 11 (27.50 %) Oracle 9i 8 10 (25.00 %) Business Objects 8 10 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 9 9 (22.50 %) Disaster Recovery 9 9 (22.50 %) Information Security 9 9 (22.50 %) ISO27001

10 8 (20.00 %) WebLogic 11 7 (17.50 %) BEA 11 7 (17.50 %) BMC 11 7 (17.50 %) Replication 11 7 (17.50 %) Security Cleared 12 6 (15.00 %) NetBackup 12 6 (15.00 %) VERITAS 12 6 (15.00 %) Shell Script 12 6 (15.00 %) Perl 12 6 (15.00 %) Windows 12 6 (15.00 %) AIX 13 5 (12.50 %) Solaris 13 5 (12.50 %) Linux 13 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 11i 13 5 (12.50 %) Remedy

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 3 (7.500 %) OC4J 2 2 (5.000 %) .NET 3 1 (2.500 %) J2EE 3 1 (2.500 %) EJB 3 1 (2.500 %) JDBC 3 1 (2.500 %) JSP 3 1 (2.500 %) ODBC 3 1 (2.500 %) JMS 3 1 (2.500 %) Middleware 3 1 (2.500 %) JSR 168	Application Platforms 1 8 (20.00 %) WebLogic 2 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 9iAS 2 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Workflow 2 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 10gAS 3 1 (2.500 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (2.500 %) ESB 3 1 (2.500 %) WebLogic Portal 3 1 (2.500 %) IIS 3 1 (2.500 %) JBoss 3 1 (2.500 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (2.500 %) Tomcat
Business Applications 1 5 (12.50 %) Oracle 11i 1 5 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications 1 5 (12.50 %) Remedy ITSM 2 4 (10.00 %) Oracle EBS 3 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Financials	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (55.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 11 (27.50 %) Oracle 9i 3 10 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 3 (7.500 %) RDBMS 4 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 4 3 (7.500 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 2 (5.000 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (5.000 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (5.000 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (5.000 %) Oracle 11g
General 1 15 (37.50 %) Government 2 3 (7.500 %) Finance 3 2 (5.000 %) Health 3 2 (5.000 %) Insurance 3 2 (5.000 %) Pensions 4 1 (2.500 %) Education	Job Titles 1 15 (37.50 %) Analyst 1 15 (37.50 %) Support Analyst 1 15 (37.50 %) Database Analyst 2 11 (27.50 %) Oracle DBA 2 11 (27.50 %) DBA 3 8 (20.00 %) Oracle Developer 3 8 (20.00 %) Developer 4 5 (12.50 %) Consultant 5 4 (10.00 %) Oracle Applications DBA 5 4 (10.00 %) Technical Consultant 6 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Database Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) Senior Technical Consultant 6 3 (7.500 %) Database Developer 6 3 (7.500 %) Senior Consultant 6 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Analyst 6 3 (7.500 %) Oracle Support Analyst 7 1 (2.500 %) Senior Oracle DBA 7 1 (2.500 %) Oracle Consultant 7 1 (2.500 %) Senior DBA 7 1 (2.500 %) Oracle Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 7 (17.50 %) Replication 2 2 (5.000 %) Thin Client 2 2 (5.000 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.500 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 25 (62.50 %) UNIX 2 6 (15.00 %) Windows 2 6 (15.00 %) AIX 3 5 (12.50 %) Solaris 3 5 (12.50 %) Linux 4 2 (5.000 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (5.000 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (2.500 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (2.500 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (37.50 %) ITIL 1 15 (37.50 %) Service Management 2 9 (22.50 %) Disaster Recovery 2 9 (22.50 %) Information Security 3 7 (17.50 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (12.50 %) ITSM 5 4 (10.00 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (10.00 %) BPEL 6 3 (7.500 %) SOA 6 3 (7.500 %) Workflow 7 2 (5.000 %) Test Scripting 7 2 (5.000 %) Time Management 8 1 (2.500 %) E-business 8 1 (2.500 %) DV Cleared	Programming Languages 1 22 (55.00 %) SQL 2 18 (45.00 %) PL/SQL 3 6 (15.00 %) Perl 3 6 (15.00 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 4 (10.00 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (5.000 %) OCP 2 2 (5.000 %) Oracle Certification 3 1 (2.500 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (22.50 %) ISO27001 2 5 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (30.00 %) Oracle RMAN 2 6 (15.00 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.500 %) AquaLogic	Systems Management 1 1 (2.500 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 40 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 10 (25.00 %) Business Objects 3 7 (17.50 %) BEA 3 7 (17.50 %) BMC 4 6 (15.00 %) VERITAS 5 5 (12.50 %) Remedy 6 2 (5.000 %) Citrix 6 2 (5.000 %) Microsoft 7 1 (2.500 %) Sun 7 1 (2.500 %) IBM 7 1 (2.500 %) Red Hat 7 1 (2.500 %) Mercator