The first table below looks at the demand for WebLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebLogic over the 3 months to 24 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 East Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle WebLogic Server
Rank 74 57 83
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +26
Contract jobs citing WebLogic 9 23 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.718% 1.678% 0.072%
As % of the Application Platforms category 3.879% 9.871% 0.459%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 0
Average daily rate £375 £435 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.79% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £55.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-20.90% +37.50%
All Application Platforms
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
232 233 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 18.50% 16.99% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 129 77
Average daily rate £300 £275 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -17.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £205 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £410 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £343
% change year-on-year
- -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 22 15
Average hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £12.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £57.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -2.43%
WebLogic
England

WebLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands WebLogic Daily Rate Trend

WebLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Nottinghamshire -2 5 £400 -5.32%
WebLogic
England

WebLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) Linux
3 5 (45.45%) SOA
3 5 (45.45%) Middleware
3 5 (45.45%) UNIX
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (36.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (36.36%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (36.36%) Process Management
4 4 (36.36%) Apache
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) SSL
5 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (27.27%) BPEL
5 3 (27.27%) Maven
5 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
5 3 (27.27%) Hudson
5 3 (27.27%) DataPower
6 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (18.18%) Bash shell
6 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
6 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
6 2 (18.18%) Banking
6 2 (18.18%) XPath
6 2 (18.18%) Ruby
6 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 2 (18.18%) HP

WebLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) Middleware
2 4 (36.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 2 (18.18%) XML
4 2 (18.18%) XSD
4 2 (18.18%) XSLT
4 2 (18.18%) WSDL
4 2 (18.18%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (9.091%) PeopleSoft HRMS
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) SSL
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (9.091%) RDBMS
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Maven
1 3 (27.27%) Hudson
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) DBA
3 1 (9.091%) Database Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 5 (45.45%) UNIX
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) SOA
2 4 (36.36%) Process Management
3 3 (27.27%) BPEL
4 2 (18.18%) Software Deployment
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Bash shell
2 2 (18.18%) XPath
2 2 (18.18%) Ruby
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) RHCE
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
2 2 (18.18%) Primavera
3 1 (9.091%) PeopleSoft