The first table below looks at the demand for WebLogic skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebLogic over the 3 months to 22 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 Southampton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle WebLogic Server
Rank 34 28 24
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -4
Contract jobs citing WebLogic 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.997% 1.271% 2.174%
As % of the Application Platforms category 5.000% 8.824% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -
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 £36.75 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-33.18% +37.50%
All Application Platforms
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
60 34 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 19.93% 14.41% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 15
Average daily rate £375 £285 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.57% -12.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £265 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £495 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
Average hourly rate £17.63 £37.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.00% +60.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.72 £21.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £96.25 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
WebLogic
Hampshire

WebLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton WebLogic Hourly Rate Trend

WebLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (78.57%) ITIL
2 11 (78.57%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 11 (78.57%) Digital Media
3 8 (57.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (57.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 8 (57.14%) Apache CXF
3 8 (57.14%) Middleware
3 8 (57.14%) JMS
3 8 (57.14%) SOA
4 3 (21.43%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) UNIX
4 3 (21.43%) Linux
4 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
4 3 (21.43%) JUnit
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) JDBC
4 3 (21.43%) JSP
4 3 (21.43%) Servlets
4 3 (21.43%) SOAP
4 3 (21.43%) Web Services
4 3 (21.43%) XML
4 3 (21.43%) Hyperion
4 3 (21.43%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (21.43%) Log4j
4 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
4 3 (21.43%) Spring

WebLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 8 (57.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 8 (57.14%) Apache CXF
1 8 (57.14%) Middleware
1 8 (57.14%) JMS
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) JDBC
2 3 (21.43%) JSP
2 3 (21.43%) Servlets
2 3 (21.43%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 3 (21.43%) XML
2 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
2 3 (21.43%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) Java EE
2 3 (21.43%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Azure
Business Applications
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Applications
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JUnit
1 3 (21.43%) Log4j
1 3 (21.43%) FitNesse
General
1 11 (78.57%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Middleware Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Support Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Agile Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (78.57%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) UNIX
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) SOA
3 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) Refactoring
4 1 (7.143%) Scrum
4 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.143%) TDD
4 1 (7.143%) Pair Programming
4 1 (7.143%) BDD
4 1 (7.143%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.143%) Python
2 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Hyperion
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft