The first table below looks at the demand for OCA in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OCA 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
Rank 799 807 845
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +38
Permanent jobs citing OCA 31 56 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.049% 0.012%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.112% 0.179% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 30 55 10
Average salary £57,500 £38,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.31% +12.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £32,500 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £46,850
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £36,250 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+37.93% +7.40%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27737 31258 30275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.50% 27.52% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 22621 26761 25414
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
OCA
UK

OCA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OCA Jobs Demand Trend

OCA
Salary Trend

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

England OCA Salary Trend

OCA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OCA across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England OCA Salary Histogram

OCA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OCA within the 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
London +53 29 £60,000 -
East Midlands - 1 £50,000 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
OCA
UK

OCA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OCA 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 OCA.

1 44 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 34 (77.27%) Windows
3 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 23 (52.27%) Oracle
5 22 (50.00%) UNIX
5 22 (50.00%) OCP
6 21 (47.73%) SQL
7 20 (45.45%) Java
7 20 (45.45%) Linux
8 18 (40.91%) Solaris
8 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
9 17 (38.64%) ITIL
9 17 (38.64%) MySQL
9 17 (38.64%) OO
10 15 (34.09%) Python
10 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
10 15 (34.09%) C#
10 15 (34.09%) .NET
10 15 (34.09%) Objective-C
10 15 (34.09%) Ruby
10 15 (34.09%) Haskell
10 15 (34.09%) Erlang
10 15 (34.09%) Android
10 15 (34.09%) F#
10 15 (34.09%) Scala
10 15 (34.09%) Clojure
10 15 (34.09%) Apple iOS
11 14 (31.82%) Oracle 10g
12 13 (29.55%) Oracle RAC
13 12 (27.27%) SAN

OCA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OCA 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 OCA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (34.09%) .NET
2 5 (11.36%) Java EE
3 3 (6.818%) HTML5
3 3 (6.818%) CSS
3 3 (6.818%) HTML
3 3 (6.818%) Java SE
4 1 (2.273%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.818%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) SAN
2 1 (2.273%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (38.64%) MySQL
2 15 (34.09%) SQL Server
3 14 (31.82%) Oracle 10g
4 11 (25.00%) DB2
4 11 (25.00%) OLTP
4 11 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
5 10 (22.73%) SQL Server 2008
6 9 (20.45%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.545%) RDBMS
8 2 (4.545%) SQLPlus
9 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.273%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.273%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (2.273%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.273%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.273%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (2.273%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (2.273%) DTS
9 1 (2.273%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (4.545%) Finance
1 2 (4.545%) Advertising
1 2 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) DBA
2 15 (34.09%) Programmer
3 13 (29.55%) Oracle DBA
4 6 (13.64%) SQL DBA
5 5 (11.36%) Developer
6 4 (9.091%) Administrator
7 3 (6.818%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.818%) UNIX Engineer
7 3 (6.818%) Senior DBA
8 2 (4.545%) Graduate
8 2 (4.545%) Consultant
8 2 (4.545%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.545%) Graduate Developer
8 2 (4.545%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (4.545%) Graduate Java Developer
8 2 (4.545%) Oracle Consultant
9 1 (2.273%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.273%) Database Specialist
9 1 (2.273%) Senior Server Engineer
9 1 (2.273%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Replication
2 3 (6.818%) Statistics
3 2 (4.545%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.273%) Oracle Exalogic
4 1 (2.273%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 34 (77.27%) Windows
2 22 (50.00%) UNIX
3 20 (45.45%) Linux
4 18 (40.91%) Solaris
5 15 (34.09%) Android
5 15 (34.09%) Apple iOS
6 4 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) ITIL
1 17 (38.64%) OO
2 11 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 11 (25.00%) ITIL V3
3 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (9.091%) Capacity Management
4 4 (9.091%) ETL
5 3 (6.818%) Project Management
5 3 (6.818%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.545%) UML
6 2 (4.545%) OOD
7 1 (2.273%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.273%) Business Development
7 1 (2.273%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.273%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) SQL
2 20 (45.45%) Java
3 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
4 15 (34.09%) C#
4 15 (34.09%) Python
4 15 (34.09%) Objective-C
4 15 (34.09%) Ruby
4 15 (34.09%) Haskell
4 15 (34.09%) Erlang
4 15 (34.09%) F#
4 15 (34.09%) Scala
4 15 (34.09%) Clojure
5 10 (22.73%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.818%) C++
6 3 (6.818%) PHP
7 1 (2.273%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 22 (50.00%) OCP
3 5 (11.36%) Degree
4 3 (6.818%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.545%) MCSE
5 2 (4.545%) MCSA
5 2 (4.545%) CCNP
5 2 (4.545%) CCNA
5 2 (4.545%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.545%) CCEE
5 2 (4.545%) CCAA
6 1 (2.273%) MCITP
6 1 (2.273%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.273%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.273%) RHCE
6 1 (2.273%) Sun Certification
6 1 (2.273%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.273%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) SLA
2 2 (4.545%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (6.818%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.545%) VMware Server
5 1 (2.273%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Oracle Statspack
1 11 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.273%) Legato
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 23 (52.27%) Oracle
3 5 (11.36%) VMware
4 4 (9.091%) SimCorp
4 4 (9.091%) Northgate
4 4 (9.091%) Remedy
4 4 (9.091%) Veritas
4 4 (9.091%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.818%) Capita
6 2 (4.545%) Pega
6 2 (4.545%) webMethods
6 2 (4.545%) Cisco
6 2 (4.545%) Citrix
7 1 (2.273%) Symantec
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Home Based and going to clients around Nottingham - Up to £65k plus exceptional benefits About the Role This nationwide managed services organisation is looking for an Oracle Database...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
South East
Home Based and travel around South England - Up to £65k plus exceptional benefits This nationwide managed services organisation is looking for an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) and Consultant...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013