The first table below looks at the demand for OCP in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OCP over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank 265 245 251
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +6
Permanent jobs citing OCP 4 27 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.048% 0.310% 0.105%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.165% 1.010% 0.328%
Number of salaries quoted 2 25 9
Average salary £32,500 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.09% +31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
All Qualifications
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2419 2673 3048
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.25% 30.74% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2001 2189 2681
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
OCP
England

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OCP across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

East of England OCP Jobs Demand Trend

OCP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OCP across the East of England region.

East of England OCP Salary Trend

OCP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire -23 2 - -
Suffolk - 2 £32,500 -
OCP
England

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing OCP 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 IT job ads sampled that cited OCP.

1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 13 (92.86%) UNIX
3 9 (64.29%) Oracle 11g
3 9 (64.29%) SQL
4 8 (57.14%) PL/SQL
5 6 (42.86%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (35.71%) Data Guard
6 5 (35.71%) Banking
6 5 (35.71%) T-SQL
6 5 (35.71%) C
6 5 (35.71%) Solaris
6 5 (35.71%) Linux
6 5 (35.71%) SAN
6 5 (35.71%) Oracle 8/8i
6 5 (35.71%) SLA
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
7 4 (28.57%) WebLogic
7 4 (28.57%) J2EE
8 3 (21.43%) BEA
8 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
8 3 (21.43%) Finance
8 3 (21.43%) Java
8 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
8 3 (21.43%) Windows
9 2 (14.29%) Apache
9 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
10 1 (7.143%) DHCP
10 1 (7.143%) DNS
10 1 (7.143%) Oracle Enterprise Manager

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing OCP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited OCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) J2EE
2 1 (7.143%) Middleware
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) WebLogic
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SAN
2 1 (7.143%) DHCP
2 1 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.143%) MySQL
5 1 (7.143%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
General
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (92.86%) DBA
2 9 (64.29%) Oracle DBA
3 7 (50.00%) Administrator
4 4 (28.57%) UNIX Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Junior DBA
5 1 (7.143%) Junior
5 1 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 1 (7.143%) PKI
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) UNIX
2 5 (35.71%) Solaris
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
4 1 (7.143%) HPUX
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.143%) ITIL
1 1 (7.143%) ERP
1 1 (7.143%) Service Management
1 1 (7.143%) Migration
1 1 (7.143%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) PL/SQL
3 5 (35.71%) T-SQL
3 5 (35.71%) C
4 3 (21.43%) Java
5 1 (7.143%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.143%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.143%) vSphere
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Data Guard
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (7.143%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) BEA
3 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.143%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) SAP
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) EMC