East of England WebLogic Contracts

This section looks at the demand for BEA WebLogic Server skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Platforms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WebLogic over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

BEA WebLogic Server
Location Alderley Edge Atherstone Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Leeds Leicestershire Lewisham Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	82
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	98	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.129 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	12.91 %	8.908 %
Daily rates quoted	30	18
Average minimum daily rate	£399	£358
Average daily rate	£424	£381
% change on same period last year	+11.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£448	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£391	£381
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£44.04	£35.42
% change on same period last year	+24.33 %
Application Platforms East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	759	696
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.001 %	0.738 %
Daily rates quoted	192	223
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£337
Average daily rate	£374	£352
% change on same period last year	+6.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£347
% change on same period last year	+3.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	91
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.74	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£21.45	£29.23
% change on same period last year	-26.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.16	£30.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.43	£24.21
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
WebLogic England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WebLogic
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

WebLogic
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebLogic across the East of England region.

WebLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebLogic across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

WebLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebLogic
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WebLogic within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	+17	87	£439	+21.17 %
Suffolk	+9	9	£361	-42.26 %
Essex	-5	2	-	-

WebLogic England

WebLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 152 (67.56 %) Java 2 137 (60.89 %) J2EE 3 127 (56.44 %) Oracle 4 106 (47.11 %) Finance 5 101 (44.89 %) Unix 6 89 (39.56 %) Hibernate 7 84 (37.33 %) Spring 8 79 (35.11 %) BEA 9 70 (31.11 %) SQL 10 62 (27.56 %) Solaris 11 58 (25.78 %) UML 11 58 (25.78 %) PL/SQL 12 56 (24.89 %) OO 13 45 (20.00 %) Financial Institution 14 44 (19.56 %) JUnit

15 43 (19.11 %) XML 15 43 (19.11 %) WebSphere 16 42 (18.67 %) Middleware 17 40 (17.78 %) Apache 17 40 (17.78 %) Eclipse 18 38 (16.89 %) ClearCase 19 37 (16.44 %) ClearQuest 20 36 (16.00 %) Tomcat 20 36 (16.00 %) JBoss 20 36 (16.00 %) Telecoms 21 35 (15.56 %) WebServices 22 32 (14.22 %) RAD 23 30 (13.33 %) Ant 24 29 (12.89 %) Shell Script 25 28 (12.44 %) Linux

WebLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 1 137 (60.89 %) J2EE 2 89 (39.56 %) Hibernate 3 84 (37.33 %) Spring 4 43 (19.11 %) XML 4 43 (19.11 %) WebSphere 5 42 (18.67 %) Middleware 6 35 (15.56 %) WebServices 7 20 (8.889 %) Struts 8 18 (8.000 %) Servlets 8 18 (8.000 %) Java EE 9 15 (6.667 %) EJB 10 11 (4.889 %) JSP 11 10 (4.444 %) SOAP 12 9 (4.000 %) JSF 13 8 (3.556 %) HTML 14 7 (3.111 %) Apache Beehive 14 7 (3.111 %) AJAX 15 6 (2.667 %) Apache Wicket 15 6 (2.667 %) JSR 168 15 6 (2.667 %) Tapestry	Application Platforms 1 40 (17.78 %) Apache 2 36 (16.00 %) Tomcat 2 36 (16.00 %) JBoss 3 19 (8.444 %) MQSeries 4 11 (4.889 %) WebLogic Portal 5 8 (3.556 %) Tuxedo 6 7 (3.111 %) IIS 7 4 (1.778 %) Resin 8 3 (1.333 %) TIBCO EMS 8 3 (1.333 %) Rendezvous 9 2 (0.889 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 1 (0.444 %) Oracle Application Server 10 1 (0.444 %) JRun 10 1 (0.444 %) WebSphere MQ 10 1 (0.444 %) ESB 10 1 (0.444 %) Jetty
Applications 1 17 (7.556 %) MS Project 2 4 (1.778 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.444 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 9 (4.000 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (3.111 %) DNS 3 3 (1.333 %) Internet 3 3 (1.333 %) SMPP 3 3 (1.333 %) HTTP 4 2 (0.889 %) SAN 5 1 (0.444 %) Intranet 5 1 (0.444 %) TELNET 5 1 (0.444 %) SMS 5 1 (0.444 %) FTP 5 1 (0.444 %) BSS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (5.778 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 11 (4.889 %) MySQL 3 8 (3.556 %) DB2 4 6 (2.667 %) Oracle 10g 5 4 (1.778 %) TOAD 5 4 (1.778 %) SQL Server 6 3 (1.333 %) Oracle 9i 7 1 (0.444 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.444 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 44 (19.56 %) JUnit 2 40 (17.78 %) Eclipse 3 38 (16.89 %) ClearCase 4 37 (16.44 %) ClearQuest 5 30 (13.33 %) Ant 6 5 (2.222 %) JIRA 6 5 (2.222 %) JBuilder 7 4 (1.778 %) FitNesse 7 4 (1.778 %) Subversion 8 3 (1.333 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 8 3 (1.333 %) JDeveloper 9 2 (0.889 %) IntelliJ 9 2 (0.889 %) CheckStyle 9 2 (0.889 %) CruiseControl 10 1 (0.444 %) Selenium 10 1 (0.444 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.444 %) PVCS 10 1 (0.444 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 106 (47.11 %) Finance 2 45 (20.00 %) Financial Institution 3 36 (16.00 %) Telecoms 4 24 (10.67 %) Banking 5 21 (9.333 %) Back Office 6 5 (2.222 %) Insurance 7 4 (1.778 %) Government 8 3 (1.333 %) Education 8 3 (1.333 %) Billing 9 1 (0.444 %) Pensions 9 1 (0.444 %) Marketing 9 1 (0.444 %) Health 9 1 (0.444 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 74 (32.89 %) Developer 2 63 (28.00 %) Java Developer 3 35 (15.56 %) Architect 4 25 (11.11 %) Senior Developer 5 24 (10.67 %) Senior Java Developer 6 23 (10.22 %) J2EE Developer 6 23 (10.22 %) Project Manager 6 23 (10.22 %) Analyst 6 23 (10.22 %) Solutions Architect 7 22 (9.778 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 15 (6.667 %) Technical Analyst 8 15 (6.667 %) Administrator 9 13 (5.778 %) Java Architect 10 11 (4.889 %) Infrastructure Manager 10 11 (4.889 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 11 10 (4.444 %) Consultant 12 7 (3.111 %) Technical Designer 13 6 (2.667 %) Technical Manager 13 6 (2.667 %) Release Manager 13 6 (2.667 %) WebLogic Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 14 (6.222 %) PMI 2 7 (3.111 %) PKI 3 2 (0.889 %) N-Tier 4 1 (0.444 %) EPoS 4 1 (0.444 %) Mainframe 4 1 (0.444 %) Derivative 4 1 (0.444 %) Blog 4 1 (0.444 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 101 (44.89 %) Unix 2 62 (27.56 %) Solaris 3 28 (12.44 %) Linux 4 9 (4.000 %) Windows 5 3 (1.333 %) HPUX 6 2 (0.889 %) Tru64 7 1 (0.444 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 58 (25.78 %) UML 2 56 (24.89 %) OO 3 32 (14.22 %) RAD 4 23 (10.22 %) SOA 4 23 (10.22 %) Agile Software Development 5 21 (9.333 %) Project Management 5 21 (9.333 %) PRINCE2 6 16 (7.111 %) E-Commerce 7 14 (6.222 %) Configuration Management 8 12 (5.333 %) Web Development 8 12 (5.333 %) Continuous Integration 9 10 (4.444 %) Release Management 10 8 (3.556 %) Supplier Management 10 8 (3.556 %) RUP 11 7 (3.111 %) Security Management 11 7 (3.111 %) MVC 12 6 (2.667 %) Enterprise Architecture 12 6 (2.667 %) Security Cleared 13 5 (2.222 %) Change Management 13 5 (2.222 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 152 (67.56 %) Java 2 70 (31.11 %) SQL 3 58 (25.78 %) PL/SQL 4 29 (12.89 %) Shell Script 5 16 (7.111 %) Perl 6 10 (4.444 %) JavaScript 7 5 (2.222 %) PHP 8 4 (1.778 %) C 9 2 (0.889 %) C++ 10 1 (0.444 %) C# 10 1 (0.444 %) XPath 10 1 (0.444 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 7 (3.111 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 7 (3.111 %) Degree 2 6 (2.667 %) MCP 2 6 (2.667 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (0.889 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (3.556 %) SLA	System Software 1 10 (4.444 %) AquaLogic 2 7 (3.111 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 7 (3.111 %) ISA Server 3 1 (0.444 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 8 (3.556 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 127 (56.44 %) Oracle 2 79 (35.11 %) BEA 3 27 (12.00 %) IBM 4 9 (4.000 %) Microsoft 4 9 (4.000 %) Sun 4 9 (4.000 %) Red Hat 5 4 (1.778 %) TIBCO 6 3 (1.333 %) Brocade 6 3 (1.333 %) HP 6 3 (1.333 %) Dell 6 3 (1.333 %) StorageTek 7 2 (0.889 %) Borland 7 2 (0.889 %) BT 8 1 (0.444 %) NEC 8 1 (0.444 %) Mercator 8 1 (0.444 %) Tridion 8 1 (0.444 %) VERITAS 8 1 (0.444 %) Interwoven