The first table below looks at the demand for Oracle RAC skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Rank 185 175 163
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Oracle RAC 18 6 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.359% 0.133% 0.220%
As % of the System Software category 3.163% 1.460% 2.169%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 8
Average salary £41,997 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.67% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £43,750 £46,750
10% offered a salary of more than £51,250 £47,500 £48,250
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year
- -4.25%
All System Software
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
569 411 415
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 11.36% 9.105% 10.16%
Number of salaries quoted 494 357 347
Average salary £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £61,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Oracle RAC Salary Trend

Oracle RAC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle RAC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Birmingham - 6 £50,000 -
Coventry - 6 £41,997 -
Warwickshire - 2 £40,000 -
Oracle RAC
England

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 48 (100.00%) Oracle
2 47 (97.92%) Data Guard
3 40 (83.33%) UNIX
4 39 (81.25%) Oracle 10g
5 31 (64.58%) Oracle RMAN
5 31 (64.58%) Oracle 11g
6 23 (47.92%) Degree
7 21 (43.75%) SQL
7 21 (43.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 19 (39.58%) ITIL
8 19 (39.58%) Banking
9 18 (37.50%) Shell Script
10 17 (35.42%) PL/SQL
11 15 (31.25%) Risk Analysis
11 15 (31.25%) BladeLogic
12 14 (29.17%) Solaris
13 11 (22.92%) Linux
13 11 (22.92%) Capacity Planning
14 9 (18.75%) Windows
15 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
15 5 (10.42%) Oracle 9i
15 5 (10.42%) Finance
16 4 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
16 4 (8.333%) OLTP
16 4 (8.333%) Sun
16 4 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
16 4 (8.333%) Speech Recognition
16 4 (8.333%) Investment Banking
17 3 (6.250%) Sybase
17 3 (6.250%) Java

Oracle RAC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

Business Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.167%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.083%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (81.25%) Oracle 10g
2 31 (64.58%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle 9i
4 4 (8.333%) OLTP
4 4 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.167%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 19 (39.58%) Banking
2 5 (10.42%) Finance
3 4 (8.333%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.083%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (97.92%) DBA
2 42 (87.50%) Oracle DBA
3 16 (33.33%) Administrator
4 3 (6.250%) Database Specialist
5 1 (2.083%) Senior Oracle DBA
5 1 (2.083%) Senior DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Speech Recognition
2 3 (6.250%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (83.33%) UNIX
2 14 (29.17%) Solaris
3 11 (22.92%) Linux
4 9 (18.75%) Windows
5 1 (2.083%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (39.58%) ITIL
2 15 (31.25%) Risk Analysis
3 11 (22.92%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.250%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) SQL
2 18 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 17 (35.42%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) Degree
2 1 (2.083%) OCP
2 1 (2.083%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.083%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.083%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (64.58%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 47 (97.92%) Data Guard
2 21 (43.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 15 (31.25%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.333%) Sun
3 3 (6.250%) Sybase
4 1 (2.083%) Red Hat