Oracle Database Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 3 months to 28 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS) UK / England
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	186	101	94
Rank change year-on-year	-85	-7
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database	588	1123	1150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.36%	2.27%	2.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	6.08%	10.43%	9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	392	714	730
Median daily rate	£425	£413	£420
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.03%	-1.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£307	£300	£281
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£560	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£414	£380	£385
% change year-on-year	+8.88%	-1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted	11	13	11
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.05%	-20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.50	£21.45	£27.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£46.00	£54.68	£57.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.39	£35.72	£55.75
% change year-on-year	+21.48%	-35.93%

Oracle Database is in the database and business intelligence skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills.

Contract Database & Business Intelligence Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for database and business intelligence skills	9673	10772	11887
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	22.38%	21.78%	23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	14236	16294	18356
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£269
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	214	287	320
Median hourly rate	£31.00	£31.00	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+19.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£12.25	£15.06
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£51.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£38.00	£31.95	£26.00
% change year-on-year	+18.93%	+22.88%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Oracle Database in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the England region over the 3 months to 28 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-76	227	£450	-	25
South East	-36	135	£450	+12.50%	11
North of England	-21	108	£381	+1.66%	28
North West	-14	69	£425	+12.58%	9
Midlands	-42	54	£450	+6.50%	6
South West	-25	41	£361	+3.21%	10
West Midlands	-36	29	£488	+13.37%	5
Yorkshire	-22	27	£375	+7.14%	12
East Midlands	-25	23	£425	+6.25%	1
East of England	-39	16	£400	-5.88%	9
North East	+56	12	£475	+5.55%	7
Oracle Database UK

Oracle Database
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 28 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Oracle Database also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Oracle Database.

1	1392 (100.00%)	Oracle
2	704 (50.57%)	SQL
3	465 (33.41%)	Oracle Database 11g
4	413 (29.67%)	Agile Software Development
5	412 (29.60%)	PL/SQL
6	403 (28.95%)	Linux
7	386 (27.73%)	Java
8	348 (25.00%)	Finance
9	339 (24.35%)	Unix
10	264 (18.97%)	Oracle Database 12c
11	253 (18.18%)	SQL Server
12	223 (16.02%)	Oracle Database 10g
13	213 (15.30%)	Security Cleared
14	207 (14.87%)	JavaScript
15	200 (14.37%)	Windows

16	197 (14.15%)	Web Services
17	186 (13.36%)	XML
18	179 (12.86%)	HTML
18	179 (12.86%)	Relational Database
19	175 (12.57%)	Business Intelligence
20	172 (12.36%)	WebLogic
20	172 (12.36%)	SC Cleared
21	169 (12.14%)	Migration
21	169 (12.14%)	Scrum
22	149 (10.70%)	Data Warehouse
22	149 (10.70%)	SDLC
23	146 (10.49%)	Microsoft
24	143 (10.27%)	Performance Tuning
25	141 (10.13%)	ETL
26	132 (9.48%)	DevOps

Oracle Database
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	172 (12.36%)	WebLogic
2	113 (8.12%)	Oracle SOA Suite
3	55 (3.95%)	Confluence
3	55 (3.95%)	IIS
4	54 (3.88%)	WebSphere
5	49 (3.52%)	Tomcat
6	40 (2.87%)	Apache
7	39 (2.80%)	JBoss
8	32 (2.30%)	Oracle Service Bus
9	30 (2.16%)	SharePoint
10	28 (2.01%)	Oracle Workflow
11	14 (1.01%)	Oracle HTTP Server
12	12 (0.86%)	Oracle Application Server
13	11 (0.79%)	GlassFish
13	11 (0.79%)	NetWeaver
14	10 (0.72%)	WebSphere Application Server
15	7 (0.50%)	ATG Dynamo
15	7 (0.50%)	GeoServer
15	7 (0.50%)	Oracle Coherence
16	6 (0.43%)	Documentum

Applications
1	27 (1.94%)	Microsoft Excel
2	22 (1.58%)	Microsoft Office
3	21 (1.51%)	Photoshop
4	5 (0.36%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	4 (0.29%)	Spreadsheet
6	3 (0.22%)	MS Visio
7	2 (0.14%)	HipChat
7	2 (0.14%)	Windchill
8	1 (0.072%)	Microsoft Project
8	1 (0.072%)	Siemens NX
8	1 (0.072%)	SPSS

Business Applications
1	52 (3.74%)	Oracle EBS
2	44 (3.16%)	Oracle Applications
3	29 (2.08%)	Oracle BPM
3	29 (2.08%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	24 (1.72%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	23 (1.65%)	Oracle 11i
6	14 (1.01%)	Siebel CRM
7	13 (0.93%)	Oracle Utilities
8	8 (0.57%)	Oracle Payables
9	7 (0.50%)	Maximo
10	6 (0.43%)	Oracle Payroll
11	5 (0.36%)	Oracle Cash Management
11	5 (0.36%)	Oracle iRecruitment
11	5 (0.36%)	Oracle Receivables
11	5 (0.36%)	Oracle Retail
12	4 (0.29%)	Demantra
12	4 (0.29%)	Dynamics CRM
12	4 (0.29%)	Oracle ERP
12	4 (0.29%)	Oracle iProcurement
12	4 (0.29%)	Teamcenter

Cloud Services
1	53 (3.81%)	Amazon AWS
2	51 (3.66%)	Microsoft Azure
3	10 (0.72%)	SaaS
4	9 (0.65%)	IaaS
5	8 (0.57%)	GitHub
5	8 (0.57%)	PaaS
6	7 (0.50%)	Cloud Computing
7	6 (0.43%)	Amazon EC2
7	6 (0.43%)	Amazon ELB
8	4 (0.29%)	IBM SmartCloud
9	3 (0.22%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	2 (0.14%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	2 (0.14%)	Office 365
10	2 (0.14%)	Taleo
11	1 (0.072%)	Amazon EMR
11	1 (0.072%)	G Suite
11	1 (0.072%)	Google Analytics
11	1 (0.072%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	58 (4.17%)	Firewall
2	47 (3.38%)	SAN
3	29 (2.08%)	PuTTY
4	28 (2.01%)	WinSCP
5	24 (1.72%)	LDAP
6	23 (1.65%)	HTTP
7	22 (1.58%)	TCP/IP
8	21 (1.51%)	DNS
8	21 (1.51%)	SSL
9	17 (1.22%)	Kerberos
10	14 (1.01%)	VPN
11	11 (0.79%)	Internet
12	9 (0.65%)	SSH
13	8 (0.57%)	SNMP
14	7 (0.50%)	LAN
14	7 (0.50%)	Reverse Proxy
15	6 (0.43%)	Cisco Nexus
15	6 (0.43%)	WAN
16	5 (0.36%)	Skype
17	4 (0.29%)	Fibre Channel

Database & Business Intelligence
1	465 (33.41%)	Oracle Database 11g
2	264 (18.97%)	Oracle Database 12c
3	253 (18.18%)	SQL Server
4	223 (16.02%)	Oracle Database 10g
5	179 (12.86%)	Relational Database
6	149 (10.70%)	Data Warehouse
7	126 (9.05%)	Oracle Reports
8	103 (7.40%)	RDBMS
9	93 (6.68%)	Oracle BI EE
10	79 (5.68%)	MySQL
11	71 (5.10%)	SQL Server 2008
12	70 (5.03%)	PostgreSQL
13	59 (4.24%)	Oracle9i Database
14	51 (3.66%)	SQL Server 2005
14	51 (3.66%)	SQL Server 2012
15	47 (3.38%)	SQL Server Integration Services
16	42 (3.02%)	MongoDB
17	41 (2.95%)	SQLPlus
18	37 (2.66%)	BusinessObjects
18	37 (2.66%)	Oracle ODI

Development Applications
1	131 (9.41%)	Git (software)
2	127 (9.12%)	JIRA
3	117 (8.41%)	Jenkins
4	91 (6.54%)	Subversion
5	83 (5.96%)	Oracle APEX
6	71 (5.10%)	Maven
7	59 (4.24%)	Toad
8	57 (4.09%)	Oracle Forms
9	56 (4.02%)	TeamCity
10	53 (3.81%)	Team Foundation Server
11	52 (3.74%)	Selenium
12	42 (3.02%)	Ant
13	41 (2.95%)	Talend Open Studio
14	36 (2.59%)	Eclipse
15	34 (2.44%)	HP UFT
16	29 (2.08%)	SpecFlow
16	29 (2.08%)	Visual Studio
17	28 (2.01%)	ProC
18	24 (1.72%)	JUnit
19	23 (1.65%)	Atlassian Bamboo

General
1	348 (25.00%)	Finance
2	123 (8.84%)	Banking
3	42 (3.02%)	Retail
4	41 (2.95%)	Investment Banking
4	41 (2.95%)	Manufacturing
5	33 (2.37%)	Telecoms
6	29 (2.08%)	Front Office
7	28 (2.01%)	Marketing
8	22 (1.58%)	Electronics
8	22 (1.58%)	Publishing
9	18 (1.29%)	Back Office
10	11 (0.79%)	Local Government
11	10 (0.72%)	Financial Institution
12	5 (0.36%)	Aerospace
13	4 (0.29%)	Billing
14	3 (0.22%)	General Ledger
14	3 (0.22%)	International Banking
14	3 (0.22%)	Prime Brokerage
15	2 (0.14%)	Automotive
15	2 (0.14%)	Games

Job Titles
1	549 (39.44%)	Developer
2	233 (16.74%)	DBA
3	204 (14.66%)	Oracle DBA
4	196 (14.08%)	Oracle Developer
5	142 (10.20%)	Analyst
6	134 (9.63%)	Java Developer
7	120 (8.62%)	Architect
8	106 (7.61%)	SQL Developer
9	90 (6.47%)	PL/SQL Developer
10	59 (4.24%)	Consultant
11	57 (4.09%)	Administrator
11	57 (4.09%)	Applications Support
12	53 (3.81%)	Oracle Analyst
13	46 (3.30%)	SQL DBA
14	44 (3.16%)	Support Analyst
15	41 (2.95%)	C# Developer
15	41 (2.95%)	JavaScript Developer
15	41 (2.95%)	Senior Developer
16	36 (2.59%)	Applications Support Analyst
17	35 (2.51%)	Oracle Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	197 (14.15%)	Web Services
2	186 (13.36%)	XML
3	179 (12.86%)	HTML
4	131 (9.41%)	Spring
5	128 (9.20%)	.NET
6	112 (8.05%)	CSS
7	94 (6.75%)	jQuery
8	92 (6.61%)	Middleware
9	86 (6.18%)	Hibernate
10	84 (6.03%)	SOAP
11	82 (5.89%)	RESTful
12	81 (5.82%)	J2EE
13	78 (5.60%)	REST
14	72 (5.17%)	HTML5
15	66 (4.74%)	XSLT
16	65 (4.67%)	Ajax
17	64 (4.60%)	Oracle GoldenGate
18	62 (4.45%)	AngularJS
19	57 (4.09%)	React
20	55 (3.95%)	Oracle Fusion

Miscellaneous
1	73 (5.24%)	Analytical Skills
2	36 (2.59%)	Data Centre
3	32 (2.30%)	User Experience
4	28 (2.01%)	Clustering
5	23 (1.65%)	Enterprise Software
5	23 (1.65%)	Greenfield Project
6	21 (1.51%)	Computer Science
7	20 (1.44%)	Management Information System
8	17 (1.22%)	Equities
9	16 (1.15%)	Market Risk
9	16 (1.15%)	PKI
10	15 (1.08%)	Replication
11	14 (1.01%)	Derivative
12	13 (0.93%)	Data Structures
13	12 (0.86%)	Client/Server
13	12 (0.86%)	Fixed Income
14	10 (0.72%)	Hedge funds
14	10 (0.72%)	Linux Command Line
15	9 (0.65%)	Mainframe
15	9 (0.65%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	403 (28.95%)	Linux
2	339 (24.35%)	Unix
3	200 (14.37%)	Windows
4	91 (6.54%)	AIX
5	86 (6.18%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	82 (5.89%)	Windows Server
7	75 (5.39%)	Solaris
8	44 (3.16%)	Windows Server 2012
9	36 (2.59%)	Windows Server 2008
10	22 (1.58%)	HPUX
10	22 (1.58%)	Windows Server 2003
11	21 (1.51%)	Oracle Linux
12	9 (0.65%)	CentOS
13	8 (0.57%)	Windows 7
14	6 (0.43%)	VME
15	5 (0.36%)	SUSE
15	5 (0.36%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16	2 (0.14%)	Android
16	2 (0.14%)	Windows Vista
17	1 (0.072%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	413 (29.67%)	Agile Software Development
2	175 (12.57%)	Business Intelligence
3	169 (12.14%)	Migration
3	169 (12.14%)	Scrum
4	149 (10.70%)	SDLC
5	143 (10.27%)	Performance Tuning
6	141 (10.13%)	ETL
7	132 (9.48%)	DevOps
8	120 (8.62%)	Continuous Integration
9	113 (8.12%)	SOA
10	101 (7.26%)	Data Modelling
11	97 (6.97%)	OO
12	96 (6.90%)	ITIL
13	95 (6.82%)	Test Automation
14	86 (6.18%)	Configuration Management
15	80 (5.75%)	TDD
16	79 (5.68%)	MVC
17	68 (4.89%)	Waterfall
18	57 (4.09%)	Data Migration
19	54 (3.88%)	BDD

Programming Languages
1	704 (50.57%)	SQL
2	412 (29.60%)	PL/SQL
3	386 (27.73%)	Java
4	207 (14.87%)	JavaScript
5	131 (9.41%)	Shell Script
6	113 (8.12%)	Python
7	89 (6.39%)	C#
8	62 (4.45%)	Perl
9	51 (3.66%)	PowerShell
10	46 (3.30%)	C
11	42 (3.02%)	T-SQL
12	36 (2.59%)	C++
13	33 (2.37%)	VB
14	32 (2.30%)	F#
15	28 (2.01%)	Bash Shell
16	27 (1.94%)	VBScript
17	17 (1.22%)	Korn
18	16 (1.15%)	PHP
19	15 (1.08%)	Ruby
20	14 (1.01%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	213 (15.30%)	Security Cleared
2	172 (12.36%)	SC Cleared
3	73 (5.24%)	Degree
4	23 (1.65%)	DV Cleared
5	21 (1.51%)	ISEB
6	16 (1.15%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	16 (1.15%)	Oracle Certification
7	15 (1.08%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	12 (0.86%)	Microsoft Certification
9	7 (0.50%)	ISTQB
10	6 (0.43%)	BPSS Clearance
10	6 (0.43%)	Computer Science Degree
11	5 (0.36%)	OCP
12	4 (0.29%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
13	3 (0.22%)	BC Cleared
13	3 (0.22%)	HNC
13	3 (0.22%)	MCPD
13	3 (0.22%)	Sun Certification
14	2 (0.14%)	MCSA
14	2 (0.14%)	MCSE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	53 (3.81%)	QA
2	22 (1.58%)	SLA
3	11 (0.79%)	Data Quality
4	9 (0.65%)	ISO 9001
5	8 (0.57%)	EMIR
6	7 (0.50%)	MiFID
7	6 (0.43%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	6 (0.43%)	PCI DSS
8	4 (0.29%)	JSP 440
9	3 (0.22%)	HL7
9	3 (0.22%)	ISO/IEC 27001
9	3 (0.22%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	2 (0.14%)	GCP
10	2 (0.14%)	SEPA
11	1 (0.072%)	Def Stans
11	1 (0.072%)	DICOM
11	1 (0.072%)	ISAE 3402
11	1 (0.072%)	ISO 15022
11	1 (0.072%)	ISO/IEC 20000
11	1 (0.072%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	105 (7.54%)	Oracle RAC
2	38 (2.73%)	Docker
3	37 (2.66%)	Virtual Machines
4	26 (1.87%)	vSphere
5	23 (1.65%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	17 (1.22%)	Active Directory
7	10 (0.72%)	vCloud
8	9 (0.65%)	LXC
9	8 (0.57%)	Corosync
9	8 (0.57%)	Veritas Cluster Server
9	8 (0.57%)	VMware ESXi
10	6 (0.43%)	Terminal Services
11	5 (0.36%)	Hyper-V
11	5 (0.36%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12	3 (0.22%)	Shibboleth
13	2 (0.14%)	HDFS
14	1 (0.072%)	NDS
14	1 (0.072%)	NetIQ eDirectory
14	1 (0.072%)	Veritas Volume Manager
14	1 (0.072%)	VMware Server

Systems Management
1	90 (6.47%)	Puppet
2	77 (5.53%)	Oracle RMAN
3	67 (4.81%)	Data Guard
4	37 (2.66%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
5	32 (2.30%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6	28 (2.01%)	Ansible
7	27 (1.94%)	vRealize
8	21 (1.51%)	Control-M
8	21 (1.51%)	ZABBIX
9	18 (1.29%)	Terraform
10	17 (1.22%)	Opscode Chef
11	14 (1.01%)	Packer
12	13 (0.93%)	Oracle Identity Management
13	11 (0.79%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
14	10 (0.72%)	Kubernetes
14	10 (0.72%)	Tivoli
15	9 (0.65%)	Ganglia
15	9 (0.65%)	HP Quality Center
15	9 (0.65%)	nmon
16	8 (0.57%)	yum

Vendors
1	1392 (100.00%)	Oracle
2	146 (10.49%)	Microsoft
3	102 (7.33%)	IBM
4	100 (7.18%)	Red Hat
5	83 (5.96%)	VMware
6	68 (4.89%)	HP
7	63 (4.53%)	SAP
8	53 (3.81%)	Informatica
9	41 (2.95%)	Talend
10	27 (1.94%)	Atlassian
11	20 (1.44%)	Cisco
11	20 (1.44%)	Siebel
12	18 (1.29%)	Sybase
13	17 (1.22%)	AppDynamics
14	16 (1.15%)	Cognos
14	16 (1.15%)	Remedy
15	15 (1.08%)	TIBCO
16	14 (1.01%)	NetApp
17	12 (0.86%)	ATG
17	12 (0.86%)	Veritas