The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the Hertfordshire region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Oracle Corporation.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 15 14 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Oracle 309 345 424
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 12.73% 13.75% 13.07%
As % of the Vendors category 25.60% 27.53% 25.43%
Number of salaries quoted 245 234 324
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,250 £28,800 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £66,750 £65,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +2.40%
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1207 1253 1667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 49.71% 49.94% 51.39%
Number of salaries quoted 944 995 1301
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Oracle
East of England

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Oracle across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Hertfordshire Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Oracle Salary Trend

Oracle
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Oracle Salary Histogram

Oracle
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Watford -6 42 £37,500 -
St Albans -5 28 £30,250 -15.38%
Stevenage +31 26 £100,000 +135.29%
Hertford +12 25 £50,000 +11.11%
Hemel Hempstead -2 23 £45,000 +18.42%
Welwyn Garden City -11 17 £48,500 -33.10%
Rickmansworth -1 16 £46,250 +15.62%
Letchworth - 12 £29,000 -
Harpenden - 3 £22,500 -
Kings Langley +4 2 £36,250 +31.81%
Borehamwood -11 2 £45,000 +104.54%
Bishop's Stortford - 2 £23,250 -
Hitchin - 2 - -
Royston - 1 £42,500 -
Oracle
East of England

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Oracle 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 Oracle.

1 383 (45.01%) SQL
2 374 (43.95%) Finance
3 331 (38.90%) Java
4 240 (28.20%) Retail
5 225 (26.44%) UNIX
6 181 (21.27%) SQL Server
7 178 (20.92%) Windows
8 170 (19.98%) J2EE
9 168 (19.74%) Linux
10 157 (18.45%) Oracle EBS
11 149 (17.51%) PL/SQL
12 130 (15.28%) Oracle EBS R12
13 122 (14.34%) XML
14 121 (14.22%) Solaris
15 119 (13.98%) WebLogic
16 117 (13.75%) WebSphere
17 113 (13.28%) Web Services
18 112 (13.16%) JavaScript
19 108 (12.69%) DB2
20 106 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
21 92 (10.81%) Oracle 11g
22 90 (10.58%) IBM
23 89 (10.46%) JSP
24 88 (10.34%) Telecoms
25 87 (10.22%) Oracle Financials
25 87 (10.22%) Tomcat
26 85 (9.988%) HP
27 83 (9.753%) .NET
27 83 (9.753%) Fujitsu
27 83 (9.753%) Security Cleared

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 170 (19.98%) J2EE
2 122 (14.34%) XML
3 117 (13.75%) WebSphere
4 113 (13.28%) Web Services
5 89 (10.46%) JSP
6 83 (9.753%) .NET
7 78 (9.166%) HTML
8 76 (8.931%) Hibernate
9 72 (8.461%) Servlets
10 70 (8.226%) Spring
11 62 (7.286%) Middleware
11 62 (7.286%) Struts
12 54 (6.345%) CSS
13 50 (5.875%) JDBC
14 38 (4.465%) ASP.NET
15 36 (4.230%) XSLT
15 36 (4.230%) jQuery
16 27 (3.173%) XML Schema
16 27 (3.173%) EJB
17 22 (2.585%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 119 (13.98%) WebLogic
2 87 (10.22%) Tomcat
3 73 (8.578%) WebSphere Application Server
4 70 (8.226%) IIS
5 47 (5.523%) MQSeries
6 43 (5.053%) IBM HTTP Server
7 37 (4.348%) Apache
8 19 (2.233%) Oracle Workflow
9 14 (1.645%) SharePoint
9 14 (1.645%) CMS
10 11 (1.293%) ESB
11 10 (1.175%) SharePoint Server
12 9 (1.058%) Oracle Application Server
13 8 (0.940%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 6 (0.705%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.588%) NetWeaver
15 5 (0.588%) Amazon AWS
16 3 (0.353%) Jetty
17 2 (0.235%) Magento
17 2 (0.235%) Liferay
Applications
1 61 (7.168%) MS Excel
2 27 (3.173%) MS Office
3 7 (0.823%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.235%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.235%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.235%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.235%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 157 (18.45%) Oracle EBS
2 130 (15.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 87 (10.22%) Oracle Financials
4 56 (6.580%) Hyperion Planning
5 23 (2.703%) BASE24
6 20 (2.350%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
6 20 (2.350%) Oracle 11i
7 16 (1.880%) Oracle Payroll
8 15 (1.763%) SAP BPC
8 15 (1.763%) Oracle iRecruitment
9 12 (1.410%) Oracle HRMS
10 11 (1.293%) Oracle iProcurement
11 10 (1.175%) Tridion
11 10 (1.175%) HFM
12 6 (0.705%) Dynamics NAV
12 6 (0.705%) Oracle Retail
13 5 (0.588%) Oracle ERP
14 3 (0.353%) Oracle Applications
14 3 (0.353%) SAP R/3
14 3 (0.353%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 69 (8.108%) HTTP
2 38 (4.465%) TCP/IP
3 31 (3.643%) SAN
4 29 (3.408%) Internet
5 21 (2.468%) Firewall
6 19 (2.233%) SSH
6 19 (2.233%) DNS
7 18 (2.115%) LDAP
8 13 (1.528%) NAS
9 12 (1.410%) HTTPS
10 10 (1.175%) FTP
11 9 (1.058%) ATM
12 6 (0.705%) VPN
13 5 (0.588%) Intranet
14 4 (0.470%) GPRS
14 4 (0.470%) ADSL
15 3 (0.353%) LAN
16 2 (0.235%) WAN
16 2 (0.235%) SMTP
16 2 (0.235%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (21.27%) SQL Server
2 108 (12.69%) DB2
3 92 (10.81%) Oracle 11g
4 69 (8.108%) Essbase
5 67 (7.873%) Oracle BI EE
6 60 (7.051%) Oracle 8/8i
7 57 (6.698%) MySQL
8 46 (5.405%) Oracle 10g
9 34 (3.995%) Oracle Discoverer
10 27 (3.173%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (2.938%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (2.468%) RDBMS
13 19 (2.233%) SAP BW
14 18 (2.115%) SQL Server 2008
15 13 (1.528%) MS Access
16 11 (1.293%) BusinessObjects
17 10 (1.175%) OLAP
18 9 (1.058%) TOAD
18 9 (1.058%) DataStage
18 9 (1.058%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 44 (5.170%) Eclipse
2 42 (4.935%) Subversion
3 41 (4.818%) Ant
4 29 (3.408%) Maven
5 25 (2.938%) Visual Studio
6 23 (2.703%) QuickTest Pro
7 22 (2.585%) JUnit
8 14 (1.645%) Rational Application Developer
8 14 (1.645%) Jenkins
9 12 (1.410%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (1.058%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
11 8 (0.940%) Oracle APEX
12 7 (0.823%) JIRA
12 7 (0.823%) ProC
12 7 (0.823%) NetBeans
13 5 (0.588%) ClearQuest
13 5 (0.588%) OpenDeploy
14 3 (0.353%) Log4j
14 3 (0.353%) LoadRunner
15 2 (0.235%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 374 (43.95%) Finance
2 240 (28.20%) Retail
3 88 (10.34%) Telecoms
4 55 (6.463%) Games
5 41 (4.818%) Automotive
6 27 (3.173%) Manufacturing
7 22 (2.585%) Banking
8 11 (1.293%) Advertising
8 11 (1.293%) Legal
9 9 (1.058%) Marketing
10 6 (0.705%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.353%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.235%) Billing
12 2 (0.235%) General Ledger
13 1 (0.118%) Back Office
13 1 (0.118%) Electronics
13 1 (0.118%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 197 (23.15%) Developer
2 180 (21.15%) Analyst
3 118 (13.87%) Consultant
4 101 (11.87%) Java Developer
5 97 (11.40%) Oracle Consultant
6 76 (8.931%) Architect
7 67 (7.873%) Support Analyst
8 53 (6.228%) Business Analyst
9 51 (5.993%) Project Manager
10 46 (5.405%) Business Intelligence Consultant
11 43 (5.053%) Administrator
12 41 (4.818%) Oracle BI Consultant
13 40 (4.700%) Senior Developer
14 39 (4.583%) DBA
15 35 (4.113%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (3.995%) Oracle Analyst
17 31 (3.643%) Oracle DBA
18 30 (3.525%) Senior Java Developer
19 29 (3.408%) Programmer
20 28 (3.290%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.408%) FMCG
2 27 (3.173%) Management Information System
3 23 (2.703%) Computer Science
4 19 (2.233%) Mobile App
5 15 (1.763%) SaaS
5 15 (1.763%) Mathematics
6 14 (1.645%) SWIFT
7 13 (1.528%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.528%) PKI
7 13 (1.528%) Visualisation
8 10 (1.175%) DataPower
9 9 (1.058%) Mainframe
9 9 (1.058%) Data Integration
10 7 (0.823%) Kindle
11 5 (0.588%) Statistics
11 5 (0.588%) N-Tier
12 4 (0.470%) PMI
13 3 (0.353%) EPoS
13 3 (0.353%) HACMP
13 3 (0.353%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 225 (26.44%) UNIX
2 178 (20.92%) Windows
3 168 (19.74%) Linux
4 121 (14.22%) Solaris
5 74 (8.696%) AIX
6 43 (5.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (2.233%) SUSE
8 17 (1.998%) Windows Server 2003
9 16 (1.880%) Android
9 16 (1.880%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.645%) Windows Server 2008
11 6 (0.705%) Windows CE
12 3 (0.353%) OS/400
12 3 (0.353%) Windows NT
12 3 (0.353%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.235%) CentOS
13 2 (0.235%) VMS
13 2 (0.235%) HPUX
14 1 (0.118%) FreeBSD
14 1 (0.118%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (9.401%) E-Commerce
2 80 (9.401%) Web Development
3 75 (8.813%) Project Management
4 67 (7.873%) ITIL
5 66 (7.756%) Time Management
6 64 (7.521%) Agile Software Development
7 62 (7.286%) CRM
8 54 (6.345%) PRINCE2
8 54 (6.345%) SOA
9 46 (5.405%) ERP
10 44 (5.170%) ETL
11 37 (4.348%) MVC
12 31 (3.643%) Disaster Recovery
12 31 (3.643%) Data Analysis
13 28 (3.290%) User Acceptance Testing
14 27 (3.173%) Content Management
15 26 (3.055%) Data Modelling
16 25 (2.938%) Service Delivery
16 25 (2.938%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 383 (45.01%) SQL
2 331 (38.90%) Java
3 149 (17.51%) PL/SQL
4 112 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 69 (8.108%) C#
6 68 (7.991%) Perl
7 55 (6.463%) Shell Script
8 36 (4.230%) Python
9 30 (3.525%) Bash shell
10 29 (3.408%) VB.NET
11 27 (3.173%) C++
12 24 (2.820%) PHP
12 24 (2.820%) VB
13 21 (2.468%) C
14 20 (2.350%) ABAP
15 17 (1.998%) Bourne shell
16 15 (1.763%) T-SQL
17 13 (1.528%) C-shell
18 11 (1.293%) Korn
19 8 (0.940%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 83 (9.753%) Security Cleared
2 77 (9.048%) Degree
3 23 (2.703%) SC Cleared
4 19 (2.233%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 16 (1.880%) Sun Certification
6 7 (0.823%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (0.823%) PMI Certification
7 6 (0.705%) ISEB
8 4 (0.470%) PMP
9 3 (0.353%) CFA
10 2 (0.235%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.235%) CCNA
11 1 (0.118%) PhD
11 1 (0.118%) CCNP
11 1 (0.118%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.118%) JNCIA
11 1 (0.118%) MCTS
11 1 (0.118%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.055%) QA
2 25 (2.938%) SLA
3 7 (0.823%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.235%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.118%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.118%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (2.703%) Hyper-V
2 20 (2.350%) Oracle RMAN
3 18 (2.115%) Xen
4 17 (1.998%) VMware ESX
5 16 (1.880%) VMware Infrastructure
6 13 (1.528%) vSphere
6 13 (1.528%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (0.940%) Active Directory
8 6 (0.705%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 3 (0.353%) PowerHA
10 2 (0.235%) XenServer
10 2 (0.235%) Squid
10 2 (0.235%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.118%) Nmap
11 1 (0.118%) Samba
11 1 (0.118%) NFS
11 1 (0.118%) Postfix
11 1 (0.118%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.118%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 40 (4.700%) Tivoli
2 16 (1.880%) HP Quality Center
3 13 (1.528%) BMC PATROL
3 13 (1.528%) Data Guard
4 9 (1.058%) ServiceCenter
5 6 (0.705%) Nagios
6 4 (0.470%) Backup Exec
7 3 (0.353%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (0.235%) Puppet
8 2 (0.235%) OpenView
9 1 (0.118%) SCCM
9 1 (0.118%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (0.118%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.118%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.118%) Cacti
9 1 (0.118%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 90 (10.58%) IBM
2 85 (9.988%) HP
3 83 (9.753%) Fujitsu
4 79 (9.283%) Sun
5 73 (8.578%) Red Hat
5 73 (8.578%) Cisco
6 72 (8.461%) Hyperion
7 62 (7.286%) Microsoft
8 58 (6.816%) JBoss
9 48 (5.640%) EMC
10 46 (5.405%) SAP
11 31 (3.643%) VMware
12 25 (2.938%) Citrix
13 21 (2.468%) Business Objects
14 19 (2.233%) Dell
15 18 (2.115%) Informatica
16 14 (1.645%) BEA
16 14 (1.645%) BMC
17 10 (1.175%) Hitachi
17 10 (1.175%) Sage
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