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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank 772 747 801
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +54
Permanent jobs citing OCP 64 113 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.064% 0.100% 0.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.231% 0.363% 0.223%
Number of salaries quoted 53 106 59
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27697 31093 30987
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.52% 27.42% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 22566 26632 26091
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £25,894
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
OCP
UK

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England OCP Salary Trend

OCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing OCP across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England OCP Salary Histogram

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 England region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +37 27 £55,000 +10.00%
East Midlands +4 9 £37,500 -31.81%
South East +1 9 £58,750 +46.87%
North West -24 8 £41,250 +3.12%
East of England -13 5 £32,500 -38.09%
South West -1 4 £45,000 +12.50%
Yorkshire -11 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £42,500 -
OCP
UK

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 153 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 152 (99.35%) Oracle
3 119 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
4 95 (62.09%) Data Guard
5 92 (60.13%) Oracle 10g
6 87 (56.86%) SQL
7 82 (53.59%) Oracle RAC
8 78 (50.98%) UNIX
9 76 (49.67%) Oracle RMAN
10 74 (48.37%) Linux
11 71 (46.41%) PL/SQL
12 56 (36.60%) SQL Server
13 47 (30.72%) Solaris
14 38 (24.84%) Shell Script
15 37 (24.18%) Oracle 8/8i
16 34 (22.22%) Windows
17 32 (20.92%) ITIL
17 32 (20.92%) SAN
18 31 (20.26%) Red Hat
19 29 (18.95%) WebLogic
20 27 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
21 26 (16.99%) SLA
22 25 (16.34%) Finance
23 24 (15.69%) Microsoft
23 24 (15.69%) Java
24 23 (15.03%) Oracle 9i
25 21 (13.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
25 21 (13.73%) OCA
25 21 (13.73%) SQL Server 2008
26 20 (13.07%) High Availability

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 14 (9.150%) Middleware
1 14 (9.150%) Flash
2 12 (7.843%) SAP Basis
3 9 (5.882%) HTML
4 7 (4.575%) XML
4 7 (4.575%) J2EE
5 3 (1.961%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.307%) JSP
6 2 (1.307%) SOAP
6 2 (1.307%) Struts
6 2 (1.307%) Web Services
6 2 (1.307%) COM
6 2 (1.307%) EDI
6 2 (1.307%) Apache Flex
6 2 (1.307%) WebCenter
6 2 (1.307%) Ajax
6 2 (1.307%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.654%) HTML5
7 1 (0.654%) Java SE
7 1 (0.654%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 29 (18.95%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.922%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.961%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.307%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.307%) Apache
4 2 (1.307%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.654%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.654%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.654%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (4.575%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.614%) MS Project
2 4 (2.614%) MS Office
2 4 (2.614%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.150%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (8.497%) Oracle Applications
3 12 (7.843%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (3.922%) assyst
5 2 (1.307%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (1.307%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.654%) Oracle Payroll
Communications & Networking
1 32 (20.92%) SAN
2 11 (7.190%) Broadband
3 4 (2.614%) HTTP
4 2 (1.307%) LAN
4 2 (1.307%) WAN
4 2 (1.307%) Internet
5 1 (0.654%) DNS
5 1 (0.654%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (77.78%) Oracle 11g
2 92 (60.13%) Oracle 10g
3 56 (36.60%) SQL Server
4 37 (24.18%) Oracle 8/8i
5 27 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (15.03%) Oracle 9i
7 21 (13.73%) SQL Server 2008
8 20 (13.07%) MySQL
9 15 (9.804%) RDBMS
10 12 (7.843%) DB2
10 12 (7.843%) OLTP
11 10 (6.536%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (4.575%) Oracle OWB
13 6 (3.922%) SQL Server 2012
14 5 (3.268%) PowerCenter
15 3 (1.961%) NoSQL
15 3 (1.961%) Oracle Exadata
15 3 (1.961%) Hadoop
15 3 (1.961%) SQL Server 2000
15 3 (1.961%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (3.922%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (2.614%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.961%) ProC
4 2 (1.307%) Subversion
4 2 (1.307%) Omnis Studio
5 1 (0.654%) Ant
General
1 25 (16.34%) Finance
2 19 (12.42%) Telecoms
3 12 (7.843%) Banking
4 4 (2.614%) Retail
4 4 (2.614%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.307%) Law
6 1 (0.654%) Games
6 1 (0.654%) French Language
6 1 (0.654%) Music
Job Titles
1 137 (89.54%) DBA
2 122 (79.74%) Oracle DBA
3 39 (25.49%) Administrator
4 20 (13.07%) Oracle Applications DBA
5 9 (5.882%) UNIX Administrator
6 8 (5.229%) Developer
6 8 (5.229%) Consultant
6 8 (5.229%) SAP Support
6 8 (5.229%) UNIX Support
6 8 (5.229%) SAP Basis Support
6 8 (5.229%) Applications Support
7 6 (3.922%) Senior DBA
7 6 (3.922%) SQL DBA
7 6 (3.922%) Oracle Consultant
8 3 (1.961%) Java Developer
8 3 (1.961%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (1.961%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 2 (1.307%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (1.307%) Database Team Leader
9 2 (1.307%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Replication
2 13 (8.497%) Clustering
3 3 (1.961%) Oracle Exalogic
3 3 (1.961%) Statistics
4 2 (1.307%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.654%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.654%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.654%) Open Source
5 1 (0.654%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.654%) PKI
5 1 (0.654%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 78 (50.98%) UNIX
2 74 (48.37%) Linux
3 47 (30.72%) Solaris
4 34 (22.22%) Windows
5 13 (8.497%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (5.229%) AIX
7 7 (4.575%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (4.575%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (2.614%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.654%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.92%) ITIL
2 20 (13.07%) High Availability
3 15 (9.804%) Data Modelling
3 15 (9.804%) Release Management
4 14 (9.150%) PRINCE2
5 13 (8.497%) ETL
6 12 (7.843%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (7.843%) Database Tuning
6 12 (7.843%) ITIL V3
7 10 (6.536%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (5.229%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (5.229%) Data Management
8 8 (5.229%) Capacity Management
8 8 (5.229%) SAP Implementation
9 7 (4.575%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (4.575%) Project Management
10 6 (3.922%) Migration
10 6 (3.922%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (3.922%) Database Security
11 5 (3.268%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.86%) SQL
2 71 (46.41%) PL/SQL
3 38 (24.84%) Shell Script
4 24 (15.69%) Java
5 15 (9.804%) Perl
6 13 (8.497%) C
7 8 (5.229%) PowerHouse
8 5 (3.268%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.961%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.654%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.654%) Korn
10 1 (0.654%) C++
10 1 (0.654%) PHP
Qualifications
1 153 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 21 (13.73%) OCA
3 8 (5.229%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (5.229%) Degree
4 7 (4.575%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.575%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.614%) MCSE
5 4 (2.614%) MCSA
5 4 (2.614%) RHCE
5 4 (2.614%) Sun Certification
5 4 (2.614%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.961%) MCITP
7 2 (1.307%) CCNP
7 2 (1.307%) CCNA
7 2 (1.307%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.307%) Citrix Certification
7 2 (1.307%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.307%) CCEE
7 2 (1.307%) CCAA
7 2 (1.307%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (16.99%) SLA
2 5 (3.268%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.307%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.307%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 82 (53.59%) Oracle RAC
2 76 (49.67%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (5.229%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.614%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.307%) VMware Server
5 2 (1.307%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.654%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.654%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (62.09%) Data Guard
2 21 (13.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (7.843%) Oracle Statspack
4 6 (3.922%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 3 (1.961%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.654%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.654%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 152 (99.35%) Oracle
2 31 (20.26%) Red Hat
3 24 (15.69%) Microsoft
4 17 (11.11%) SAP
5 12 (7.843%) VMware
6 7 (4.575%) Sun
7 6 (3.922%) EMC
8 5 (3.268%) Veritas
8 5 (3.268%) Informatica
8 5 (3.268%) JBoss
9 4 (2.614%) NetApp
9 4 (2.614%) Remedy
9 4 (2.614%) Citrix
9 4 (2.614%) Cisco
9 4 (2.614%) SimCorp
9 4 (2.614%) Northgate
10 3 (1.961%) BEA
11 2 (1.307%) Hyperion
11 2 (1.307%) Adobe
11 2 (1.307%) Avaya
Swindon, South West
You don't need Oracle University accreditation such as OCP/OCM if you can demonstrate that you can easily cover the skillsets without such things.- Good UNIX skills,...
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + private medical cover, pension
Posted: 10 May 2013
Manchester, North West
As an Oracle Database Administrator the essential skills that will be required are: - Oracle 11G (Not Enterprise) - RMAN - Data Pump - Net App - SQL Experience - Oracle Certified Professional (Preferred)...
JAM
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 8 May 2013
Manchester, North West
As an Oracle Database Administrator the essential skills that will be required are:- Oracle 11G (Not Enterprise)- RMAN- Data Pump- Net App- SQL Experience- Oracle Certified Professional (Preferred)...
JAM
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Northampton, East Midlands
Oracle Database Administrator/ Oracle DBA - Northampton £45k - Great Company & Role!!Oracle DBA, Oracle 10g/11g, OCP, PL/SQL, Database Design, Security, Performance Monitoring, Upgrades, MigrationsThis exciting and established...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013
Northampton, Northamptonshire
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Northampton, East Midlands
Ideally you will have 2-5 years experience in a similar role and your skills will include extensive experience of design and development of Oracle Databases and PL/...
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 28 April 2013
City, London
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Salary: £45000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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