The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WebLogic 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 over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

Oracle WebLogic Server
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank184162159
Rank change year-on-year
Down-22Down-3
Matching contract IT job ads561709618
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.960 %1.179 %1.120 %
As % of the Application Platforms category5.903 %7.048 %7.486 %
Number of daily rates quoted279400310
Average daily rate£413£425£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£300£300£295
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£542£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£400£350
% change year-on-year
-+14.28 %
Number of hourly rates quoted6145
Average hourly rate£55.00£41.25£24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33 %+68.36 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£55.00£40.00£24.50
% change year-on-year
+37.50 %+63.26 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryAll Application Platforms
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
9503100598255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK16.26 %16.72 %14.96 %
Number of daily rates quoted524053583755
Average daily rate£350£375£363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66 %+3.44 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£215
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£345£325
% change year-on-year
-5.79 %+6.15 %
Number of hourly rates quoted428558518
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£20.00
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.80£12.00£12.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£19.00
% change year-on-year
-+5.26 %

WebLogic
Demand Trend

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

WebLogic Demand Trend

WebLogic
Daily Rate Trend

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

WebLogic Daily Rate Trend

WebLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WebLogic within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

WebLogic Daily Rate Histogram

WebLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WebLogic Hourly Rate Trend

WebLogic
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandDown-26506£413-2.94 %
LondonDown-60203£450-1.09 %
South EastDown-14114£400-
City of LondonDown-1458£450-10.00 %
YorkshireUp+247£350+1.44 %
BerkshireUp+938£375-16.66 %
South WestUp+137£415+10.66 %
West YorkshireDown-537£525+61.53 %
SurreyDown-234£425+6.25 %
North WestUp+1930£375+50.00 %
BradfordUp+1225£550-
HampshireUp+525£369-13.23 %
East MidlandsUp+2224£435-
DerbyshireUp+1820£438-
West MidlandsDown-2120£500+16.27 %
WalesDown-219£425+23.18 %
BristolUp+218£435+16.00 %
DerbyNew entry-18£438-
ReadingUp+715£435-13.00 %
ShropshireDown-414£500+5.82 %
CheshireUp+2013£300+23.07 %
North EastDown-1013£250-35.48 %
East of EnglandDown-1613£450+28.57 %
ScotlandDown-612£375-16.66 %
Newcastle upon TyneDown-712£250-28.57 %
Tyne and WearDown-912£250-33.33 %
HertfordshireUp+311£465+9.41 %
TelfordDown-311£500+5.82 %
SwanseaUp+510£552+59.92 %
West WalesUp+510£552+59.92 %

WebLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1806 (71.77 %)Oracle
2626 (55.74 %)Java
3405 (36.06 %)J2EE
4363 (32.32 %)UNIX
5335 (29.83 %)SQL
6303 (26.98 %)Linux
7285 (25.38 %)XML
8233 (20.75 %)Middleware
9227 (20.21 %)Web Services
10224 (19.95 %)Oracle 11g
11203 (18.08 %)WebSphere
12195 (17.36 %)Finance
13189 (16.83 %)JBoss
14186 (16.56 %)Security Cleared
15179 (15.94 %)Apache
15179 (15.94 %)Tomcat
16178 (15.85 %)SOA
17168 (14.96 %)Spring
18158 (14.07 %)Ant
19153 (13.62 %)JSP
20152 (13.54 %)Shell Script
21147 (13.09 %)Windows
22144 (12.82 %)Solaris
23141 (12.56 %)Banking
24134 (11.93 %)JMS
25127 (11.31 %)SC Cleared
26124 (11.04 %)JavaScript
26124 (11.04 %)Hibernate
27123 (10.95 %)RDBMS
28122 (10.86 %)BEA

WebLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1405 (36.06 %)J2EE
2285 (25.38 %)XML
3233 (20.75 %)Middleware
4227 (20.21 %)Web Services
5203 (18.08 %)WebSphere
6168 (14.96 %)Spring
7153 (13.62 %)JSP
8134 (11.93 %)JMS
9124 (11.04 %)Hibernate
10116 (10.33 %)EJB
11106 (9.439 %)Java EE
12100 (8.905 %)Servlets
1399 (8.816 %)Struts
1494 (8.370 %)HTML
1579 (7.035 %)JDBC
1670 (6.233 %)CSS
1760 (5.343 %)XSLT
1859 (5.254 %)Oracle Fusion
1955 (4.898 %).NET
2045 (4.007 %)Ajax
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1179 (15.94 %)Apache
1179 (15.94 %)Tomcat
2117 (10.42 %)WebLogic Portal
3102 (9.083 %)Oracle Service Bus
480 (7.124 %)Oracle SOA Suite
578 (6.946 %)Oracle Application Server
657 (5.076 %)WebSphere Application Server
745 (4.007 %)IIS
838 (3.384 %)ESB
935 (3.117 %)AquaLogic
1026 (2.315 %)WebLogic Integration
1121 (1.870 %)Liferay
1220 (1.781 %)Documentum
1319 (1.692 %)CMS
1418 (1.603 %)WebSphere MQ
1516 (1.425 %)GlassFish
1615 (1.336 %)Oracle 10gAS
1713 (1.158 %)Tuxedo
1713 (1.158 %)Apache Solr
1811 (0.980 %)WebSphere Portal
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
132 (2.850 %)MS Visio
225 (2.226 %)MS Office
322 (1.959 %)MS Excel
45 (0.445 %)MS PowerPoint
54 (0.356 %)MS Project
63 (0.267 %)Photoshop
71 (0.089 %)Open Workbench
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
154 (4.809 %)Oracle BPM
223 (2.048 %)Oracle EBS
322 (1.959 %)Oracle Retail
421 (1.870 %)Teamcenter
421 (1.870 %)Oracle Applications
511 (0.980 %)BusinessWorks
68 (0.712 %)Oracle EBS R12
74 (0.356 %)RMDS
74 (0.356 %)Oracle 11i
74 (0.356 %)WebTrends
83 (0.267 %)Maximo
83 (0.267 %)FLEXCUBE
83 (0.267 %)TIBCO iProcess
92 (0.178 %)Staffware
92 (0.178 %)Oracle Financials
101 (0.089 %)SAP R/3
101 (0.089 %)SAP HR
101 (0.089 %)Tridion
101 (0.089 %)BASE24
101 (0.089 %)SAP CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
173 (6.500 %)TCP/IP
257 (5.076 %)SAN
355 (4.898 %)LDAP
454 (4.809 %)Firewall
541 (3.651 %)Internet
639 (3.473 %)DNS
737 (3.295 %)HTTP
829 (2.582 %)DHCP
925 (2.226 %)SSL
1016 (1.425 %)NAS
1016 (1.425 %)WAN
1115 (1.336 %)LAN
1210 (0.890 %)BIG-IP
139 (0.801 %)ATM
139 (0.801 %)VPN
148 (0.712 %)iSCSI
148 (0.712 %)SSH
148 (0.712 %)MPLS
157 (0.623 %)FTP
166 (0.534 %)IPsec
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1224 (19.95 %)Oracle 11g
2123 (10.95 %)RDBMS
3120 (10.69 %)Oracle 10g
4112 (9.973 %)Oracle 8/8i
5105 (9.350 %)SQL Server
660 (5.343 %)MySQL
736 (3.206 %)DB2
833 (2.939 %)Oracle Reports
929 (2.582 %)Data Warehouse
1026 (2.315 %)Oracle BI EE
1115 (1.336 %)Crystal Reports
1115 (1.336 %)SQL Server 2008
1214 (1.247 %)Oracle 9i
1313 (1.158 %)ETL
1313 (1.158 %)SQLPlus
1411 (0.980 %)Oracle Discoverer
1411 (0.980 %)SQL Server 2005
158 (0.712 %)TOAD
166 (0.534 %)Oracle OWB
166 (0.534 %)DataStage
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1158 (14.07 %)Ant
2112 (9.973 %)JUnit
3100 (8.905 %)Eclipse
498 (8.727 %)Maven
584 (7.480 %)Subversion
647 (4.185 %)ClearCase
736 (3.206 %)JIRA
834 (3.028 %)Hudson
923 (2.048 %)JDeveloper
1022 (1.959 %)Selenium
1119 (1.692 %)WebLogic Workshop
1216 (1.425 %)Oracle Forms
1313 (1.158 %)ClearQuest
1411 (0.980 %)Rational Rose
1411 (0.980 %)TeamCity
159 (0.801 %)Visual Studio
159 (0.801 %)MSBuild
159 (0.801 %)SCons
166 (0.534 %)Git (software)
166 (0.534 %)Apache Continuum
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1195 (17.36 %)Finance
2141 (12.56 %)Banking
374 (6.589 %)Telecoms
457 (5.076 %)Investment Banking
537 (3.295 %)Retail
617 (1.514 %)Back Office
79 (0.801 %)Billing
88 (0.712 %)Marketing
88 (0.712 %)Games
95 (0.445 %)Pharmaceutical
95 (0.445 %)Aerospace
95 (0.445 %)Publishing
95 (0.445 %)Front Office
104 (0.356 %)Retail Banking
104 (0.356 %)Legal
113 (0.267 %)Financial Institution
121 (0.089 %)International Banking
121 (0.089 %)Private Banking
121 (0.089 %)Local Government
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1344 (30.63 %)Developer
2206 (18.34 %)Java Developer
3165 (14.69 %)Architect
4100 (8.905 %)Consultant
579 (7.035 %)Senior Developer
677 (6.857 %)Administrator
769 (6.144 %)DBA
865 (5.788 %)Oracle DBA
964 (5.699 %)J2EE Developer
1061 (5.432 %)Solutions Architect
1159 (5.254 %)Analyst
1252 (4.630 %)Java/J2EE Developer
1341 (3.651 %)Oracle Consultant
1439 (3.473 %)Applications Support
1537 (3.295 %)WebLogic Specialist
1635 (3.117 %)Designer
1635 (3.117 %)Oracle Developer
1732 (2.850 %)Senior Java Developer
1830 (2.671 %)Senior J2EE Developer
1929 (2.582 %)Infrastructure Architect
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
140 (3.562 %)Clustering
231 (2.760 %)Open Source
327 (2.404 %)Client/Server
327 (2.404 %)Derivative
423 (2.048 %)Fixed Income
517 (1.514 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
615 (1.336 %)N-Tier
615 (1.336 %)Market Risk
714 (1.247 %)Computer Science
811 (0.980 %)PMI
910 (0.890 %)SWIFT
910 (0.890 %)Equities
109 (0.801 %)PKI
118 (0.712 %)Mainframe
127 (0.623 %)Management Information System
127 (0.623 %)RMADS
136 (0.534 %)Web 2.0
136 (0.534 %)Credit Risk
136 (0.534 %)Symmetrix
145 (0.445 %)Replication
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1363 (32.32 %)UNIX
2303 (26.98 %)Linux
3147 (13.09 %)Windows
4144 (12.82 %)Solaris
575 (6.679 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
648 (4.274 %)HPUX
728 (2.493 %)AIX
825 (2.226 %)Windows Server 2003
921 (1.870 %)Oracle Linux
1012 (1.069 %)Windows Server 2008
117 (0.623 %)Windows XP
125 (0.445 %)zOS
125 (0.445 %)Windows 2000
134 (0.356 %)CentOS
134 (0.356 %)Windows 7
134 (0.356 %)SUSE
134 (0.356 %)Tru64
143 (0.267 %)Windows NT
143 (0.267 %)Apple iOS
143 (0.267 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1178 (15.85 %)SOA
2122 (10.86 %)OO
3105 (9.350 %)ITIL
485 (7.569 %)UML
572 (6.411 %)E-Commerce
572 (6.411 %)Migration
665 (5.788 %)Agile Software Development
757 (5.076 %)TDD
855 (4.898 %)OOD
953 (4.720 %)Unit Testing
953 (4.720 %)Configuration Management
953 (4.720 %)Project Management
1052 (4.630 %)Load Balancing
1146 (4.096 %)Scrum
1242 (3.740 %)Continuous Integration
1242 (3.740 %)BPEL
1340 (3.562 %)MVC
1439 (3.473 %)RUP
1535 (3.117 %)Business Intelligence
1634 (3.028 %)Change Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1626 (55.74 %)Java
2335 (29.83 %)SQL
3152 (13.54 %)Shell Script
4124 (11.04 %)JavaScript
5101 (8.994 %)PL/SQL
696 (8.549 %)Perl
730 (2.671 %)Python
827 (2.404 %)C++
920 (1.781 %)C
1019 (1.692 %)C#
1019 (1.692 %)WebLogic Scripting Tool
1116 (1.425 %)Korn
1212 (1.069 %)Ruby
1212 (1.069 %)T-SQL
1311 (0.980 %)VB
1311 (0.980 %)PowerShell
1410 (0.890 %)Bash shell
1410 (0.890 %)Scala
159 (0.801 %)VBA
168 (0.712 %)Groovy
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1186 (16.56 %)Security Cleared
2127 (11.31 %)SC Cleared
346 (4.096 %)Degree
428 (2.493 %)DV Cleared
515 (1.336 %)Sun Certification
611 (0.980 %)PMI Certification
79 (0.801 %)BC Cleared
85 (0.445 %)Oracle Certification
94 (0.356 %)Microsoft Certification
103 (0.267 %)ITIL Certification
103 (0.267 %)ISEB
103 (0.267 %)SCWCD
103 (0.267 %)CITP
103 (0.267 %)MBCS
112 (0.178 %)ISTQB
112 (0.178 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
121 (0.089 %)RHCE
121 (0.089 %)CISSP
121 (0.089 %)CISM
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
119 (1.692 %)QA
212 (1.069 %)SLA
310 (0.890 %)ISO 9001
48 (0.712 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
57 (0.623 %)JSP 440
64 (0.356 %)TickIT
72 (0.178 %)COBIT
72 (0.178 %)Basel II
81 (0.089 %)ISO/IEC 17799
81 (0.089 %)Data Quality
81 (0.089 %)PCI DSS
81 (0.089 %)HIPAA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
157 (5.076 %)Active Directory
243 (3.829 %)Oracle RAC
326 (2.315 %)VMware Infrastructure
423 (2.048 %)vSphere
521 (1.870 %)VMware ESX
617 (1.514 %)Oracle RMAN
712 (1.069 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
712 (1.069 %)OpenSSO
712 (1.069 %)NFS
811 (0.980 %)Xen
95 (0.445 %)IAG
95 (0.445 %)UAG
95 (0.445 %)XenApp
95 (0.445 %)XenDesktop
103 (0.267 %)SRDF
103 (0.267 %)Sendmail
112 (0.178 %)Postfix
112 (0.178 %)Citrix Presentation Server
121 (0.089 %)RACF
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
128 (2.493 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
221 (1.870 %)Data Guard
317 (1.514 %)SCCM
414 (1.247 %)BladeLogic
414 (1.247 %)NetBackup
513 (1.158 %)Oracle Identity Management
612 (1.069 %)HP Quality Center
710 (0.890 %)Oracle Identity Manager
88 (0.712 %)Tivoli
97 (0.623 %)CA SiteMinder
106 (0.534 %)BMC PATROL
106 (0.534 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
115 (0.445 %)OpenView
124 (0.356 %)vCenter
124 (0.356 %)Netcool
133 (0.267 %)OpenView Configuration Management
133 (0.267 %)TIBCO InConcert
133 (0.267 %)EMC TimeFinder
133 (0.267 %)Oracle Statspack
142 (0.178 %)Netcool/Proviso
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1806 (71.77 %)Oracle
2189 (16.83 %)JBoss
3122 (10.86 %)BEA
475 (6.679 %)Red Hat
573 (6.500 %)IBM
667 (5.966 %)Microsoft
762 (5.521 %)HP
854 (4.809 %)VMware
948 (4.274 %)Sun
1031 (2.760 %)Cisco
1130 (2.671 %)EMC
1226 (2.315 %)TIBCO
1325 (2.226 %)Informatica
1325 (2.226 %)Pega
1424 (2.137 %)Citrix
1523 (2.048 %)webMethods
1622 (1.959 %)Mercator
1622 (1.959 %)NetApp
1719 (1.692 %)Remedy
1818 (1.603 %)hybris