Oracle RAC Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle RAC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	773	622	519
Rank change year-on-year	-151	-103
Permanent jobs citing Oracle RAC	99	310	527
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.11%	0.32%	0.48%
As % of the System Software category	0.87%	2.51%	4.04%
Number of salaries quoted	76	209	422
Median salary	£47,500	£55,000	£57,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-13.63%	-4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than	£40,000	£47,000	£41,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,500	£65,000	£80,500
UK excluding London median salary	£47,000	£52,500	£47,500
% change year-on-year	-10.47%	+10.52%

Oracle RAC is in the system software skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

System Software Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills	11339	12341	13042
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	12.87%	12.71%	11.78%
Number of salaries quoted	9621	10508	10784
Median salary	£44,000	£42,500	£41,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+3.52%	+3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than	£26,000	£25,000	£25,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£65,000	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£38,500	£39,000	£37,500
% change year-on-year	-1.28%	+4.00%

Oracle RAC
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Oracle RAC as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the System Software category.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Salary Trend

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

Oracle RAC
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Oracle RAC over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Oracle RAC in the UK

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle RAC within the UK over the 3 months to 25 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-145	95	£47,500	-13.63%	9
South East	+45	40	£47,000	-6.00%	2
East of England	-14	24	£47,000	-14.54%	2
Hampshire	+17	14	£42,500	-10.52%
Yorkshire	-7	14	£65,000	+36.84%	1
Leeds	-1	12	£70,000	+86.66%	1
Hertfordshire	-2	12	£47,000	-16.07%
West Yorkshire	-4	12	£70,000	+75.00%	1
London	-91	12	£67,750	+20.33%	1
Buckinghamshire	-	11	£47,000	-
Borehamwood	-	9	£47,000	-
Amersham	-	9	£47,000	-
Berkshire	+13	8	£60,000	+4.34%	1
South West	+1	8	£47,500	-5.00%
Surrey	+30	7	£61,000	+22.00%	1
Bedfordshire	+5	7	£45,000	-23.07%	2
Luton	+5	6	-	-	2
Essex	-3	5	£50,000	+17.64%
Edinburgh	-	4	£37,500	-
Scotland	-	4	£37,500	-
Egham	-	4	-	-
East Midlands	+20	3	£37,500	-31.81%
Wiltshire	+5	3	£39,500	-21.00%
Nottingham	+4	3	£37,500	-28.57%
Nottinghamshire	-4	3	£37,500	-28.57%
North West	-45	3	£40,000	-
Staines	+6	2	£80,000	-
Milton Keynes	-	2	£51,250	-
Basingstoke	-	2	-	-
Watford	-	2	-	-

Oracle RAC
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing Oracle RAC also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Oracle RAC.

1	229 (100.00%)	Oracle
2	174 (75.98%)	Oracle Database
3	143 (62.45%)	SQL
4	126 (55.02%)	Oracle Database 11g
5	123 (53.71%)	Linux
6	119 (51.97%)	Oracle RMAN
7	109 (47.60%)	Performance Tuning
8	105 (45.85%)	Data Guard
9	96 (41.92%)	PL/SQL
10	88 (38.43%)	Oracle Database 12c
11	78 (34.06%)	Relational Database
12	66 (28.82%)	Unix
13	64 (27.95%)	RDBMS
14	60 (26.20%)	Windows
15	56 (24.45%)	Shell Script

16	54 (23.58%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
17	53 (23.14%)	SQL Server
17	53 (23.14%)	VMware
18	49 (21.40%)	Oracle Certification
19	42 (18.34%)	Java
19	42 (18.34%)	WebLogic
20	41 (17.90%)	OCP
20	41 (17.90%)	Oracle Database 10g
21	40 (17.47%)	MySQL
21	40 (17.47%)	ITIL
22	36 (15.72%)	Oracle Exadata
23	35 (15.28%)	Finance
24	33 (14.41%)	Oracle EBS
25	32 (13.97%)	Solaris
26	31 (13.54%)	Middleware

Oracle RAC
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	42 (18.34%)	WebLogic
2	15 (6.55%)	JBoss
2	15 (6.55%)	WebSphere
3	14 (6.11%)	Apache
3	14 (6.11%)	Oracle Coherence
3	14 (6.11%)	Tomcat
4	11 (4.80%)	Oracle Service Bus
5	10 (4.37%)	Oracle HTTP Server
6	8 (3.49%)	IIS
7	7 (3.06%)	DataSynapse
7	7 (3.06%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	3 (1.31%)	BizTalk Server
8	3 (1.31%)	Oracle Application Server
9	2 (0.87%)	Apache Pig
10	1 (0.44%)	Liferay
10	1 (0.44%)	NetWeaver
10	1 (0.44%)	Oracle Workflow
10	1 (0.44%)	WebLogic Portal

Applications
1	3 (1.31%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	33 (14.41%)	Oracle EBS
2	31 (13.54%)	Oracle Applications
3	19 (8.30%)	SAP ERP
4	14 (6.11%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	13 (5.68%)	SAP Hybris
6	11 (4.80%)	Oracle 11i
7	7 (3.06%)	RMDS
8	2 (0.87%)	Siebel CRM
9	1 (0.44%)	Oracle ASCP
9	1 (0.44%)	Oracle ERP
9	1 (0.44%)	Oracle Financials
9	1 (0.44%)	Oracle Payables

Cloud Services
1	6 (2.62%)	Boomi
2	3 (1.31%)	Amazon AWS
2	3 (1.31%)	SaaS
3	2 (0.87%)	Cloud Computing
3	2 (0.87%)	Microsoft Azure

Communications & Networking
1	30 (13.10%)	NAS
1	30 (13.10%)	SAN
2	29 (12.66%)	LDAP
3	18 (7.86%)	Internet
3	18 (7.86%)	WAN
4	15 (6.55%)	LAN
5	14 (6.11%)	FCoE
5	14 (6.11%)	Fibre Channel
5	14 (6.11%)	iSCSI
5	14 (6.11%)	Multicast
6	13 (5.68%)	DNS
7	12 (5.24%)	HTTP
8	10 (4.37%)	SSL
9	5 (2.18%)	TCP/IP
10	4 (1.75%)	Firewall
11	3 (1.31%)	IP Telephony
11	3 (1.31%)	MPLS
11	3 (1.31%)	Unified Communications
11	3 (1.31%)	VPN
12	2 (0.87%)	Kerberos

Database & Business Intelligence
1	174 (75.98%)	Oracle Database
2	126 (55.02%)	Oracle Database 11g
3	88 (38.43%)	Oracle Database 12c
4	78 (34.06%)	Relational Database
5	64 (27.95%)	RDBMS
6	53 (23.14%)	SQL Server
7	41 (17.90%)	Oracle Database 10g
8	40 (17.47%)	MySQL
9	36 (15.72%)	Oracle Exadata
10	21 (9.17%)	MongoDB
11	20 (8.73%)	NoSQL
11	20 (8.73%)	Oracle9i Database
12	19 (8.30%)	Apache Cassandra
13	18 (7.86%)	Hadoop
14	16 (6.99%)	HBase
15	14 (6.11%)	BusinessObjects
16	10 (4.37%)	OLAP
16	10 (4.37%)	OLTP
16	10 (4.37%)	Oracle OLAP
17	9 (3.93%)	Oracle OWB

Development Applications
1	10 (4.37%)	Oracle APEX
1	10 (4.37%)	Oracle Forms
1	10 (4.37%)	Subversion
2	9 (3.93%)	Git (software)
2	9 (3.93%)	PeopleTools
3	2 (0.87%)	Jenkins
4	1 (0.44%)	Eclipse
4	1 (0.44%)	JIRA
4	1 (0.44%)	Maven

General
1	35 (15.28%)	Finance
2	16 (6.99%)	Retail
3	9 (3.93%)	Automotive
3	9 (3.93%)	Publishing
4	8 (3.49%)	Banking
4	8 (3.49%)	Games
5	7 (3.06%)	Investment Banking
5	7 (3.06%)	Telecoms
6	6 (2.62%)	Manufacturing
7	5 (2.18%)	Advertising
8	1 (0.44%)	Aerospace
8	1 (0.44%)	French Language
8	1 (0.44%)	Marketing

Job Titles
1	142 (62.01%)	DBA
2	135 (58.95%)	Oracle DBA
3	62 (27.07%)	Administrator
4	31 (13.54%)	Architect
5	25 (10.92%)	Infrastructure Architect
6	21 (9.17%)	Oracle Applications DBA
7	18 (7.86%)	Technical Architect
8	17 (7.42%)	Developer
9	14 (6.11%)	Infrastructure Technical Architect
9	14 (6.11%)	Senior DBA
9	14 (6.11%)	Senior Oracle DBA
9	14 (6.11%)	Technical Infrastructure Architect
10	9 (3.93%)	DBA Manager
10	9 (3.93%)	Development DBA
10	9 (3.93%)	Oracle Developer
10	9 (3.93%)	Oracle Development DBA
10	9 (3.93%)	Solutions Architect
11	7 (3.06%)	Database Architect
11	7 (3.06%)	Technical Solutions Architect
11	7 (3.06%)	Virtualisation Architect

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	31 (13.54%)	Middleware
2	28 (12.23%)	Oracle GoldenGate
3	22 (9.61%)	Web Services
4	21 (9.17%)	XML
5	19 (8.30%)	J2EE
6	15 (6.55%)	Spring
7	14 (6.11%)	JMS
8	13 (5.68%)	RESTful
8	13 (5.68%)	Spring Integration
9	8 (3.49%)	XSLT
10	7 (3.06%)	HTML
10	7 (3.06%)	Rendezvous
10	7 (3.06%)	Ultra Messaging
11	6 (2.62%)	IDoc
11	6 (2.62%)	SAP ALE
11	6 (2.62%)	SAP Fiori
11	6 (2.62%)	SAP PI
11	6 (2.62%)	XML Schema
12	4 (1.75%)	Oracle Fusion
13	3 (1.31%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	19 (8.30%)	Computer Science
2	13 (5.68%)	Replication
3	12 (5.24%)	Data Centre
4	9 (3.93%)	Clustering
5	8 (3.49%)	Analytical Skills
5	8 (3.49%)	Enterprise Software
6	7 (3.06%)	Enterprise Storage
6	7 (3.06%)	Public Cloud
7	6 (2.62%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
8	5 (2.18%)	Fintech
8	5 (2.18%)	Management Information System
9	4 (1.75%)	Greenfield Project
10	3 (1.31%)	Video Conferencing
11	2 (0.87%)	Grid Computing
12	1 (0.44%)	Online Games

Operating Systems
1	123 (53.71%)	Linux
2	66 (28.82%)	Unix
3	60 (26.20%)	Windows
4	32 (13.97%)	Solaris
5	15 (6.55%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	14 (6.11%)	Windows Server
7	2 (0.87%)	AIX

Processes & Methodologies
1	109 (47.60%)	Performance Tuning
2	40 (17.47%)	ITIL
3	26 (11.35%)	E-Commerce
4	21 (9.17%)	ERP
5	20 (8.73%)	Performance Monitoring
6	18 (7.86%)	Analytics
6	18 (7.86%)	Disaster Recovery
6	18 (7.86%)	High Availability
7	17 (7.42%)	Agile Software Development
7	17 (7.42%)	Business Intelligence
7	17 (7.42%)	Data Integration
7	17 (7.42%)	Infrastructure Management
8	16 (6.99%)	Database Tuning
9	15 (6.55%)	Coaching
9	15 (6.55%)	Data Analytics
10	14 (6.11%)	Benchmarking
11	13 (5.68%)	B2B
11	13 (5.68%)	B2C
11	13 (5.68%)	Data Modelling
11	13 (5.68%)	Test Scripting

Programming Languages
1	143 (62.45%)	SQL
2	96 (41.92%)	PL/SQL
3	56 (24.45%)	Shell Script
4	42 (18.34%)	Java
5	10 (4.37%)	C
5	10 (4.37%)	Korn
6	9 (3.93%)	Perl
6	9 (3.93%)	SQR
7	8 (3.49%)	C++
7	8 (3.49%)	JavaScript
8	6 (2.62%)	ABAP
9	5 (2.18%)	PowerShell
9	5 (2.18%)	T-SQL
10	4 (1.75%)	Bash Shell
11	2 (0.87%)	PHP
12	1 (0.44%)	AWK
12	1 (0.44%)	C-shell
12	1 (0.44%)	Haskell
12	1 (0.44%)	Python
12	1 (0.44%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	49 (21.40%)	Oracle Certification
2	41 (17.90%)	OCP
3	27 (11.79%)	OCA
4	24 (10.48%)	Degree
5	15 (6.55%)	SC Cleared
5	15 (6.55%)	Security Cleared
6	13 (5.68%)	ITIL Certification
7	11 (4.80%)	ISEB
8	9 (3.93%)	DV Cleared
9	4 (1.75%)	Computer Science Degree
10	2 (0.87%)	BPSS Clearance
11	1 (0.44%)	BC Cleared
11	1 (0.44%)	Microsoft Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	26 (11.35%)	SLA
2	7 (3.06%)	PCI DSS
3	5 (2.18%)	QA
4	4 (1.75%)	PMO

System Software
1	29 (12.66%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	14 (6.11%)	Hyper-V
2	14 (6.11%)	KVM
2	14 (6.11%)	NFS
2	14 (6.11%)	SRDF
2	14 (6.11%)	Xen
3	13 (5.68%)	Active Directory
4	11 (4.80%)	VMware ESXi
5	6 (2.62%)	Oracle Clusterware
6	4 (1.75%)	Virtual Machines
7	2 (0.87%)	Apache ZooKeeper
7	2 (0.87%)	HDFS
8	1 (0.44%)	Virtual Desktop

Systems Management
1	119 (51.97%)	Oracle RMAN
2	105 (45.85%)	Data Guard
3	54 (23.58%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
4	22 (9.61%)	NetBackup
5	21 (9.17%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6	18 (7.86%)	Puppet
7	7 (3.06%)	Ansible
7	7 (3.06%)	Opscode Chef
8	6 (2.62%)	MOM
9	5 (2.18%)	Nagios
10	4 (1.75%)	Tivoli
11	3 (1.31%)	OpenAM
11	3 (1.31%)	Oracle Flashback
12	2 (0.87%)	Ambari
12	2 (0.87%)	Hadoop YARN
12	2 (0.87%)	Oozie
12	2 (0.87%)	Oracle Identity Management
12	2 (0.87%)	Oracle ZFS
12	2 (0.87%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
12	2 (0.87%)	Tivoli Storage Manager

Vendors
1	229 (100.00%)	Oracle
2	53 (23.14%)	VMware
3	25 (10.92%)	Cisco
4	21 (9.17%)	NetApp
5	19 (8.30%)	IBM
5	19 (8.30%)	SAP
6	18 (7.86%)	EMC
7	17 (7.42%)	Microsoft
8	16 (6.99%)	Red Hat
9	15 (6.55%)	Sybase
10	14 (6.11%)	Intel
11	13 (5.68%)	Dynatrace
11	13 (5.68%)	HP
11	13 (5.68%)	hybris
12	11 (4.80%)	F5
13	10 (4.37%)	Infoblox
14	9 (3.93%)	Brocade
14	9 (3.93%)	PeopleSoft
15	7 (3.06%)	SaltStack
15	7 (3.06%)	TIBCO