The first table below looks at the demand for OCA in IT jobs advertised for the London 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
Rank 580 633 632
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -1
Permanent jobs citing OCA 29 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.066% 0.013% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.263% 0.054% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 29 7 0
Average salary £60,000 £60,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £36,250 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+37.93% +7.40%
All Qualifications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
11039 12852 13521
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 25.31% 23.88% 23.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8986 11048 11149
Average salary £50,000 £49,000 £49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.04% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
OCA
England

OCA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London OCA Salary Trend

OCA
Salary Histogram

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

London 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 London 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
City of London +21 13 £55,000 -15.38%
OCA
England

OCA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 39 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 32 (82.05%) Windows
3 23 (58.97%) Microsoft
4 21 (53.85%) OCP
4 21 (53.85%) UNIX
5 20 (51.28%) Oracle
6 19 (48.72%) Linux
7 18 (46.15%) Solaris
7 18 (46.15%) Java
7 18 (46.15%) JavaScript
7 18 (46.15%) SQL
8 16 (41.03%) MySQL
8 16 (41.03%) ITIL
9 15 (38.46%) .NET
9 15 (38.46%) C#
9 15 (38.46%) OO
9 15 (38.46%) Python
9 15 (38.46%) Objective-C
9 15 (38.46%) Ruby
9 15 (38.46%) Haskell
9 15 (38.46%) Erlang
9 15 (38.46%) Android
9 15 (38.46%) F#
9 15 (38.46%) Scala
9 15 (38.46%) Clojure
9 15 (38.46%) Apple iOS
10 14 (35.90%) Oracle 10g
11 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
12 12 (30.77%) SAN
12 12 (30.77%) Oracle RAC

OCA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 (38.46%) .NET
2 3 (7.692%) CSS
2 3 (7.692%) Java SE
2 3 (7.692%) Java EE
2 3 (7.692%) HTML5
2 3 (7.692%) HTML
3 1 (2.564%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.564%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.77%) SAN
2 1 (2.564%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (41.03%) MySQL
2 14 (35.90%) Oracle 10g
3 13 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 11 (28.21%) OLTP
4 11 (28.21%) Oracle 11g
5 10 (25.64%) DB2
6 9 (23.08%) Oracle 8/8i
6 9 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.564%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.564%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.564%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.564%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.564%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (2.564%) SQLPlus
General
1 2 (5.128%) Finance
1 2 (5.128%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) DBA
1 15 (38.46%) Programmer
2 12 (30.77%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (12.82%) SQL DBA
4 4 (10.26%) Administrator
5 3 (7.692%) Developer
5 3 (7.692%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.692%) UNIX Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Senior DBA
6 2 (5.128%) Graduate Developer
6 2 (5.128%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Graduate Java Developer
6 2 (5.128%) Graduate
7 1 (2.564%) Consultant
7 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Senior Server Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Server Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Replication
2 3 (7.692%) Statistics
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle Exalogic
Operating Systems
1 32 (82.05%) Windows
2 21 (53.85%) UNIX
3 19 (48.72%) Linux
4 18 (46.15%) Solaris
5 15 (38.46%) Android
5 15 (38.46%) Apple iOS
6 4 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (41.03%) ITIL
2 15 (38.46%) OO
3 11 (28.21%) PRINCE2
3 11 (28.21%) ITIL V3
4 10 (25.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (10.26%) Capacity Management
5 4 (10.26%) ETL
6 3 (7.692%) Project Management
6 3 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.564%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.564%) Business Development
7 1 (2.564%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) SQL
1 18 (46.15%) Java
1 18 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 15 (38.46%) C#
2 15 (38.46%) Python
2 15 (38.46%) Objective-C
2 15 (38.46%) Ruby
2 15 (38.46%) Haskell
2 15 (38.46%) Erlang
2 15 (38.46%) F#
2 15 (38.46%) Scala
2 15 (38.46%) Clojure
3 8 (20.51%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.692%) C++
4 3 (7.692%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 21 (53.85%) OCP
3 3 (7.692%) Degree
4 2 (5.128%) CCEE
4 2 (5.128%) CCAA
4 2 (5.128%) MCSE
4 2 (5.128%) MCSA
4 2 (5.128%) CCNP
4 2 (5.128%) CCNA
4 2 (5.128%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (5.128%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.564%) RHCE
5 1 (2.564%) Sun Certification
5 1 (2.564%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.564%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) SLA
2 2 (5.128%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (30.77%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (28.21%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.128%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle Statspack
1 11 (28.21%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.564%) Legato
Vendors
1 23 (58.97%) Microsoft
2 20 (51.28%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Remedy
3 4 (10.26%) VMware
3 4 (10.26%) SimCorp
3 4 (10.26%) Northgate
3 4 (10.26%) Veritas
3 4 (10.26%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.692%) Capita
5 2 (5.128%) Cisco
5 2 (5.128%) Citrix
6 1 (2.564%) Symantec