The first table below looks at the demand for WebLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebLogic 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 Application Platforms category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle WebLogic Server
Rank 113 105 101
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -4
Contract jobs citing WebLogic 10 34 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.413% 1.115% 0.807%
As % of the Application Platforms category 2.625% 8.333% 5.252%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 10
Average daily rate £350 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £298 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £448 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-45.45% +37.50%
All Application Platforms
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
381 408 457
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 15.74% 13.38% 15.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 186 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 39
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.55 £14.50 £16.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
WebLogic
South East

WebLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Berkshire WebLogic Jobs Demand Trend

WebLogic
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebLogic across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire WebLogic Daily Rate Trend

WebLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebLogic across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire WebLogic Daily Rate Histogram

WebLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire WebLogic Hourly Rate Trend

WebLogic
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebLogic within the Berkshire 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +4 7 £350 -19.54%
Maidenhead -6 2 - -
WebLogic
South East

WebLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing WebLogic 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebLogic.

1 16 (88.89%) Oracle
2 15 (83.33%) Apache
3 11 (61.11%) Windows
4 9 (50.00%) Java
4 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (44.44%) Tomcat
5 8 (44.44%) HTTP
6 7 (38.89%) UNIX
6 7 (38.89%) SQL
6 7 (38.89%) J2EE
7 6 (33.33%) .NET
7 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
7 6 (33.33%) Perl
7 6 (33.33%) JBoss
7 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
8 5 (27.78%) VMware
8 5 (27.78%) Content Management
8 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (27.78%) HTML
8 5 (27.78%) ITIL
8 5 (27.78%) PHP
8 5 (27.78%) MySQL
8 5 (27.78%) IIS
8 5 (27.78%) Web Services
8 5 (27.78%) Workflow
8 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (27.78%) WebLogic Portal
9 4 (22.22%) 3G
9 4 (22.22%) Internet
9 4 (22.22%) SLA

WebLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing WebLogic also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WebLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (38.89%) J2EE
2 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 5 (27.78%) Web Services
3 5 (27.78%) HTML
4 4 (22.22%) XHTML
5 1 (5.556%) J2ME
5 1 (5.556%) WAP
5 1 (5.556%) WSDL
5 1 (5.556%) SAML
5 1 (5.556%) SyncML
5 1 (5.556%) JDBC
5 1 (5.556%) SOAP
5 1 (5.556%) XML
5 1 (5.556%) Flash
5 1 (5.556%) Java EE
5 1 (5.556%) KML
5 1 (5.556%) soapUI
5 1 (5.556%) REST
Application Platforms
1 15 (83.33%) Apache
2 8 (44.44%) Tomcat
3 5 (27.78%) IIS
3 5 (27.78%) WebLogic Portal
4 4 (22.22%) IBM HTTP Server
4 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (22.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (5.556%) Resin
5 1 (5.556%) FileNet
5 1 (5.556%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (44.44%) HTTP
3 4 (22.22%) SAN
3 4 (22.22%) Internet
3 4 (22.22%) 3G
3 4 (22.22%) LAN
4 1 (5.556%) SMS
4 1 (5.556%) LDAP
4 1 (5.556%) GSM
4 1 (5.556%) RTCP
4 1 (5.556%) RTP
4 1 (5.556%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) MySQL
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.556%) GIS
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.556%) Marketing
3 1 (5.556%) Finance
3 1 (5.556%) Front Office
3 1 (5.556%) Back Office
3 1 (5.556%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) WebSphere Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) DBA
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.556%) WebLogic Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Back Office Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Integration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle Exalogic
2 1 (5.556%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.556%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) UNIX
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.556%) Linux
5 1 (5.556%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) ITIL
1 5 (27.78%) Workflow
1 5 (27.78%) Content Management
2 3 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.556%) Product Marketing
4 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (5.556%) E-business
4 1 (5.556%) CRM
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) BPEL
4 1 (5.556%) Web Development
4 1 (5.556%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) Perl
4 5 (27.78%) PHP
5 2 (11.11%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.556%) C
6 1 (5.556%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) HNC
1 1 (5.556%) Degree
1 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (5.556%) JTAG
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Foglight
1 4 (22.22%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Oracle
2 6 (33.33%) JBoss
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 4 (22.22%) IBM
4 4 (22.22%) HP
4 4 (22.22%) Ericsson
5 1 (5.556%) Mapinfo
5 1 (5.556%) ESRI
5 1 (5.556%) ReadSoft