The first table below looks at the demand for WebLogic Scripting Tool 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 Scripting Tool 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 Programming Languages 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
Rank 529 576 578
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +2
Contract jobs citing WebLogic Scripting Tool 5 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.017% 0.013%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.029% 0.049% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
Average daily rate £393 £330 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.93% -17.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £415 -
% change year-on-year
-5.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
17528 20495 22548
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 37.19% 34.57% 37.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10822 12098 13078
Average daily rate £385 £375 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.66% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £563 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 734 915
Average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £17.00 £19.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%

WebLogic Scripting Tool
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic Scripting Tool within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

WebLogic Scripting Tool Jobs Demand Trend

WebLogic Scripting Tool
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebLogic Scripting Tool Daily Rate Trend

WebLogic Scripting Tool
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebLogic Scripting Tool within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +52 5 £393 +67.02%
Yorkshire +1 4 £400 -
West Yorkshire -1 4 £400 -
South East - 1 £385 -
Leeds - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £385 -

WebLogic Scripting Tool
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebLogic Scripting Tool 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 Scripting Tool.

1 13 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (69.23%) Java
4 7 (53.85%) Ant
4 7 (53.85%) ClearCase
4 7 (53.85%) IBM
4 7 (53.85%) Release Management
4 7 (53.85%) ClearQuest
4 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
4 7 (53.85%) Maven
4 7 (53.85%) Liferay
5 5 (38.46%) Oracle Service Bus
5 5 (38.46%) SAS
6 4 (30.77%) JMS
6 4 (30.77%) UNIX
6 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) Middleware
7 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
7 3 (23.08%) SOA
7 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (23.08%) SQL
8 2 (15.38%) Perl
8 2 (15.38%) EJB
8 2 (15.38%) JDBC
8 2 (15.38%) XML
8 2 (15.38%) ITIL
8 2 (15.38%) Internet
8 2 (15.38%) Python
8 2 (15.38%) Shell Script

WebLogic Scripting Tool
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing WebLogic Scripting Tool 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 Scripting Tool. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) JMS
2 3 (23.08%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) EJB
3 2 (15.38%) JDBC
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (7.692%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 13 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 7 (53.85%) Liferay
3 5 (38.46%) Oracle Service Bus
3 5 (38.46%) SAS
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (7.692%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (7.692%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
2 1 (7.692%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle OWB
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Ant
1 7 (53.85%) ClearCase
1 7 (53.85%) ClearQuest
1 7 (53.85%) Maven
2 1 (7.692%) Subversion
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.692%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Release Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Administrator
3 3 (23.08%) Middleware Administrator
4 1 (7.692%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (7.692%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) UNIX
2 1 (7.692%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Release Management
1 7 (53.85%) Configuration Management
2 3 (23.08%) SOA
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 1 (7.692%) Stress Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Time Management
4 1 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Scrum
4 1 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) PL/SQL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
3 2 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 2 (15.38%) Jython
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (7.692%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Data Guard
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Identity Manager
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Identity Management
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 7 (53.85%) IBM
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) Red Hat