The first table below looks at the demand for WebLogic Portal skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WebLogic Portal over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle WebLogic Portal
Rank 505 498 515
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +17
Contract jobs citing WebLogic Portal 36 67 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.078% 0.115% 0.114%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.430% 0.704% 0.684%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 37 30
Average daily rate £463 £445 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.93% -11.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £368 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £551
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £439 £500
% change year-on-year
-17.37% -12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.50 - -
All Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
8376 9520 10378
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.08% 16.31% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4746 5226 5538
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 429 569
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.73 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.65 £38.15 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%

WebLogic Portal
Jobs Demand Trend

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

WebLogic Portal Jobs Demand Trend

WebLogic Portal
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WebLogic Portal within the UK.

WebLogic Portal Daily Rate Trend

WebLogic Portal
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebLogic Portal within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

WebLogic Portal Daily Rate Histogram

WebLogic Portal
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic Portal within the UK.

WebLogic Portal Hourly Rate Trend

WebLogic Portal
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebLogic Portal within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +10 29 £488 +9.55%
London +26 25 £500 +11.11%
City of London +15 16 £513 +13.88%
South East +12 4 £458 +2.23%
Wales - 3 £325 -
South Wales - 3 £325 -
Berkshire +15 2 - -
Reading +13 2 - -
Newport - 2 £325 -
Surrey +14 1 - -
Docklands, London - 1 £463 -
Hampshire - 1 £458 -
Guildford - 1 - -
Aldershot - 1 £458 -

WebLogic Portal
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebLogic Portal 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 Portal.

1 57 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 42 (73.68%) Oracle
3 40 (70.18%) Java
4 25 (43.86%) SQL
4 25 (43.86%) Liferay
5 23 (40.35%) J2EE
5 23 (40.35%) Linux
6 22 (38.60%) ClearCase
7 21 (36.84%) CSS
8 20 (35.09%) Apache
9 19 (33.33%) XML
10 17 (29.82%) PL/SQL
10 17 (29.82%) Telecoms
10 17 (29.82%) Spring
11 16 (28.07%) HTML
12 15 (26.32%) Banking
13 14 (24.56%) Finance
13 14 (24.56%) ClearQuest
13 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
13 14 (24.56%) XSD
13 14 (24.56%) DOM
13 14 (24.56%) XSLT
13 14 (24.56%) UML
13 14 (24.56%) Eclipse
13 14 (24.56%) JAXP
13 14 (24.56%) SAX
13 14 (24.56%) XPath
14 13 (22.81%) JSF
14 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
14 13 (22.81%) Web Services

WebLogic Portal
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebLogic Portal 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 Portal. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (40.35%) J2EE
2 21 (36.84%) CSS
3 19 (33.33%) XML
4 17 (29.82%) Spring
5 16 (28.07%) HTML
6 14 (24.56%) XSD
6 14 (24.56%) DOM
6 14 (24.56%) XSLT
6 14 (24.56%) JAXP
6 14 (24.56%) SAX
7 13 (22.81%) JSF
7 13 (22.81%) Web Services
8 10 (17.54%) Hibernate
8 10 (17.54%) Middleware
8 10 (17.54%) jQuery
9 9 (15.79%) Java EE
10 8 (14.04%) JSP
11 7 (12.28%) HTML5
11 7 (12.28%) CSS3
12 6 (10.53%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 57 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 25 (43.86%) Liferay
3 20 (35.09%) Apache
4 11 (19.30%) CMS
5 2 (3.509%) IIS
5 2 (3.509%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.754%) AquaLogic Service Bus
6 1 (1.754%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (1.754%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.754%) Resin
6 1 (1.754%) Alfresco
6 1 (1.754%) AquaLogic
6 1 (1.754%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.754%) SAS
6 1 (1.754%) ArcGIS
6 1 (1.754%) WebLogic Integration
Business Applications
1 2 (3.509%) Remedy AR System
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.754%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) HTTP
2 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
3 7 (12.28%) Internet
4 5 (8.772%) 3G
5 3 (5.263%) LDAP
6 2 (3.509%) SSL
6 2 (3.509%) FTP
7 1 (1.754%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.772%) MySQL
2 3 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (5.263%) RDBMS
3 2 (3.509%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.509%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.754%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.754%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle OWB
4 1 (1.754%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 22 (38.60%) ClearCase
2 14 (24.56%) ClearQuest
2 14 (24.56%) Eclipse
3 3 (5.263%) Talend Open Studio
3 3 (5.263%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (5.263%) Maven
4 2 (3.509%) WebLogic Workshop
4 2 (3.509%) JUnit
4 2 (3.509%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.754%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.754%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.754%) JBehave
5 1 (1.754%) Selenium
5 1 (1.754%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.754%) Subversion
General
1 17 (29.82%) Telecoms
2 15 (26.32%) Banking
3 14 (24.56%) Finance
4 5 (8.772%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.509%) Retail
5 2 (3.509%) Billing
6 1 (1.754%) Music
6 1 (1.754%) Marketing
6 1 (1.754%) Front Office
6 1 (1.754%) Back Office
6 1 (1.754%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Developer
2 21 (36.84%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 4 (7.018%) Lead Developer
4 4 (7.018%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (5.263%) Administrator
5 3 (5.263%) Applications Support
5 3 (5.263%) Team Leader
5 3 (5.263%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (5.263%) Support Team Leader
6 2 (3.509%) Senior Systems Developer
6 2 (3.509%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.509%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (3.509%) WebLogic Administrator
6 2 (3.509%) DBA
6 2 (3.509%) Systems Developer
6 2 (3.509%) Senior Mobile Applications Developer
6 2 (3.509%) iPhone Developer
6 2 (3.509%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.772%) Derivative
1 5 (8.772%) Mobile App
1 5 (8.772%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.509%) Handset
2 2 (3.509%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (3.509%) iPhone
3 1 (1.754%) Statistics
3 1 (1.754%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.754%) Clustering
3 1 (1.754%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 23 (40.35%) Linux
2 10 (17.54%) UNIX
3 7 (12.28%) Windows
4 3 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.509%) Solaris
5 2 (3.509%) Android
5 2 (3.509%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.754%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) UML
2 9 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (8.772%) ITIL
4 4 (7.018%) Migration
4 4 (7.018%) Release Management
5 3 (5.263%) Incident Management
5 3 (5.263%) B2B
5 3 (5.263%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.509%) Service Management
6 2 (3.509%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.509%) OO
6 2 (3.509%) SOA
6 2 (3.509%) E-Commerce
6 2 (3.509%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.754%) BDD
7 1 (1.754%) Data Architecture
7 1 (1.754%) Load Balancing
7 1 (1.754%) Resource Management
7 1 (1.754%) Investment Management
7 1 (1.754%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) Java
2 25 (43.86%) SQL
3 17 (29.82%) PL/SQL
4 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.56%) XPath
5 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
6 8 (14.04%) Perl
7 6 (10.53%) Bash shell
8 5 (8.772%) PHP
9 2 (3.509%) VB
10 1 (1.754%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.018%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.754%) Degree
3 1 (1.754%) OCP
3 1 (1.754%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.754%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.754%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) OpenSSO
2 2 (3.509%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.754%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) BladeLogic
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.754%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 42 (73.68%) Oracle
2 8 (14.04%) FatWire
3 6 (10.53%) JBoss
4 4 (7.018%) Ericsson
5 3 (5.263%) Talend
5 3 (5.263%) Remedy
5 3 (5.263%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.509%) Blue Coat
6 2 (3.509%) Open Text
6 2 (3.509%) Sun
6 2 (3.509%) Vignette
6 2 (3.509%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.509%) F5
7 1 (1.754%) DataFlux
7 1 (1.754%) Progress
7 1 (1.754%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.754%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (1.754%) Informatica