South Wales Oracle Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT jobs within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Chorley Cirencester City of London Clevedon Colchester Corby Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Droitwich Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Ormskirk Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	13
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	181	185
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.077 %
As % of the category below	29.10 %	30.68 %
Salaries quoted	179	163
Average minimum salary	£32,415	£29,164
Average salary	£35,851	£32,820
% change on same period last year	+9.23 %
Average maximum salary	£39,287	£36,476
UK excluding London average salary	£41,572	£42,009
% change on same period last year	-1.03 %
Vendors South Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	622	603
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.335 %	0.251 %
Salaries quoted	599	534
Average minimum salary	£32,466	£28,601
Average salary	£35,682	£32,089
% change on same period last year	+11.19 %
Average maximum salary	£38,898	£35,577
UK excluding London average salary	£39,913	£41,942
% change on same period last year	-4.83 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Oracle across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cardiff	+13	103	£35,507	+6.47 %
Newport	-2	44	£37,640	+26.53 %
Bridgend	-7	11	£41,136	+37.12 %
Torfaen	-2	3	£42,500	+102.38 %
Gwent	-	2	£33,250	-
Neath Port Talbot	-	1	£30,000	-
Merthyr Tydfil	0	1	£25,000	+11.11 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the South Wales 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.

1 222 (49.33 %) SQL 1 222 (49.33 %) UNIX 2 146 (32.44 %) Linux 3 111 (24.67 %) PL/SQL 4 108 (24.00 %) Oracle 10g 5 102 (22.67 %) Security Cleared 6 89 (19.78 %) SQL Server 7 88 (19.56 %) Shell Script 8 81 (18.00 %) Oracle Reports 9 73 (16.22 %) Oracle 9i 9 73 (16.22 %) Windows 9 73 (16.22 %) Perl 10 68 (15.11 %) XML 11 63 (14.00 %) Solaris 12 62 (13.78 %) Java

13 61 (13.56 %) Oracle Applications 14 58 (12.89 %) Apache 15 56 (12.44 %) SUSE 16 55 (12.22 %) Oracle Forms 17 54 (12.00 %) Migration 18 53 (11.78 %) SC Cleared 19 52 (11.56 %) Red Hat Linux 19 52 (11.56 %) Red Hat 20 51 (11.33 %) Oracle EBS 21 50 (11.11 %) Samba 22 48 (10.67 %) Finance 23 46 (10.22 %) C++ 24 45 (10.00 %) Oracle 11i 25 42 (9.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 26 40 (8.889 %) Data Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 68 (15.11 %) XML 2 36 (8.000 %) J2EE 3 29 (6.444 %) HTML 4 27 (6.000 %) JSP 5 23 (5.111 %) JavaBeans 6 12 (2.667 %) .NET 7 11 (2.444 %) XSLT 7 11 (2.444 %) WebServices 8 9 (2.000 %) Middleware 8 9 (2.000 %) SOAP 8 9 (2.000 %) EJB 9 7 (1.556 %) DirectX 10 6 (1.333 %) CSS 10 6 (1.333 %) .NET Framework 11 4 (0.889 %) JDBC 12 3 (0.667 %) ODBC 13 2 (0.444 %) Swing 13 2 (0.444 %) ASP.NET 13 2 (0.444 %) Hibernate 14 1 (0.222 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 58 (12.89 %) Apache 2 23 (5.111 %) Oracle Application Server 3 12 (2.667 %) Oracle Workflow 4 10 (2.222 %) Tomcat 5 8 (1.778 %) JBoss 6 6 (1.333 %) SharePoint 6 6 (1.333 %) BizTalk Server 6 6 (1.333 %) Oracle 10gAS 7 4 (0.889 %) WebLogic 8 3 (0.667 %) Oracle 9iAS 9 2 (0.444 %) ColdFusion 10 1 (0.222 %) SAS
Applications 1 7 (1.556 %) MS Office 1 7 (1.556 %) MS Excel 2 2 (0.444 %) FrameMaker 2 2 (0.444 %) CorelDRAW 2 2 (0.444 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 61 (13.56 %) Oracle Applications 2 51 (11.33 %) Oracle EBS 3 45 (10.00 %) Oracle 11i 4 6 (1.333 %) Oracle Financials 5 4 (0.889 %) Microsoft CRM 5 4 (0.889 %) Oracle CRM 5 4 (0.889 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 35 (7.778 %) Firewall 2 11 (2.444 %) LAN 3 10 (2.222 %) VoIP 4 8 (1.778 %) WAN 5 7 (1.556 %) Internet 6 6 (1.333 %) Broadband 7 5 (1.111 %) ISDN 7 5 (1.111 %) TCP/IP 7 5 (1.111 %) Nortel Meridian 7 5 (1.111 %) QSIG 8 3 (0.667 %) DHCP 9 2 (0.444 %) DNS 9 2 (0.444 %) BSS 9 2 (0.444 %) NetScreen 10 1 (0.222 %) ISUP 10 1 (0.222 %) INAP 10 1 (0.222 %) VLAN 10 1 (0.222 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 108 (24.00 %) Oracle 10g 2 89 (19.78 %) SQL Server 3 81 (18.00 %) Oracle Reports 4 73 (16.22 %) Oracle 9i 5 42 (9.333 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 30 (6.667 %) BusinessObjects 7 28 (6.222 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 23 (5.111 %) SQL Server 2005 9 22 (4.889 %) SQL Server 2000 10 21 (4.667 %) RDBMS 11 15 (3.333 %) Crystal Reports 12 13 (2.889 %) Datawarehouse 13 12 (2.667 %) Oracle 11g 14 10 (2.222 %) Data Cleansing 15 5 (1.111 %) TOAD 16 4 (0.889 %) MS Access 16 4 (0.889 %) OLAP 16 4 (0.889 %) Oracle OLAP 17 3 (0.667 %) BusinessObjects XI 17 3 (0.667 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 55 (12.22 %) Oracle Forms 2 26 (5.778 %) Visual Studio 3 19 (4.222 %) Eclipse 4 15 (3.333 %) TestDirector 5 14 (3.111 %) Ant 6 12 (2.667 %) JUnit 6 12 (2.667 %) ClearCase 7 11 (2.444 %) XDoclet 8 7 (1.556 %) Subversion 8 7 (1.556 %) PowerBuilder 9 5 (1.111 %) WebSpeed 10 2 (0.444 %) LoadRunner 10 2 (0.444 %) WinRunner 11 1 (0.222 %) Flash 11 1 (0.222 %) SilkPerformer 11 1 (0.222 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 48 (10.67 %) Finance 2 36 (8.000 %) Government 3 15 (3.333 %) Insurance 4 14 (3.111 %) Pensions 5 9 (2.000 %) Telecoms 6 6 (1.333 %) Marketing 7 5 (1.111 %) Manufacturing 7 5 (1.111 %) Advertising 7 5 (1.111 %) Education 8 4 (0.889 %) Health 8 4 (0.889 %) Financial Institution 9 3 (0.667 %) Mobile Games 9 3 (0.667 %) Games 10 2 (0.444 %) Retail 10 2 (0.444 %) Electric 11 1 (0.222 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 151 (33.56 %) Developer 2 74 (16.44 %) Analyst 3 62 (13.78 %) DBA 4 57 (12.67 %) Oracle DBA 5 50 (11.11 %) Administrator 6 38 (8.444 %) Java Developer 7 37 (8.222 %) C++ Developer 8 36 (8.000 %) Oracle Developer 9 33 (7.333 %) Support Analyst 10 32 (7.111 %) Perl Developer 11 31 (6.889 %) Software Engineer 12 30 (6.667 %) Software Developer 12 30 (6.667 %) Systems Administrator 12 30 (6.667 %) Linux Support 13 25 (5.556 %) C++ Software Developer 13 25 (5.556 %) Linux Systems Administrator 13 25 (5.556 %) Linux Administrator 13 25 (5.556 %) C++ Software Engineer 14 19 (4.222 %) Consultant 14 19 (4.222 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 11 (2.444 %) Management Information System 2 10 (2.222 %) Data Conversion 3 7 (1.556 %) DTV 3 7 (1.556 %) Streaming Video 3 7 (1.556 %) Client/Server 4 5 (1.111 %) Clustering 4 5 (1.111 %) Statistics 5 2 (0.444 %) Video Conferencing 5 2 (0.444 %) N-Tier 5 2 (0.444 %) NHS 6 1 (0.222 %) W3C 6 1 (0.222 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 222 (49.33 %) UNIX 2 146 (32.44 %) Linux 3 73 (16.22 %) Windows 4 63 (14.00 %) Solaris 5 56 (12.44 %) SUSE 6 52 (11.56 %) Red Hat Linux 7 13 (2.889 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 5 (1.111 %) Windows Server 2003 8 5 (1.111 %) AIX 9 4 (0.889 %) CentOS 9 4 (0.889 %) Fedora 10 3 (0.667 %) Ubuntu 10 3 (0.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 3 (0.667 %) Debian 11 2 (0.444 %) Windows XP 11 2 (0.444 %) Windows Mobile 11 2 (0.444 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 102 (22.67 %) Security Cleared 2 54 (12.00 %) Migration 3 53 (11.78 %) SC Cleared 4 40 (8.889 %) Data Migration 5 37 (8.222 %) OO 6 22 (4.889 %) Service Delivery 7 17 (3.778 %) Load Balancing 8 14 (3.111 %) ERP 9 12 (2.667 %) Disaster Recovery 9 12 (2.667 %) Workflow 10 11 (2.444 %) CRM 10 11 (2.444 %) Test Scripting 11 9 (2.000 %) Data Analysis 12 8 (1.778 %) Validation 12 8 (1.778 %) OOD 12 8 (1.778 %) Business Intelligence 13 7 (1.556 %) UML 13 7 (1.556 %) E-business 14 6 (1.333 %) DSDM 14 6 (1.333 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 222 (49.33 %) SQL 2 111 (24.67 %) PL/SQL 3 88 (19.56 %) Shell Script 4 73 (16.22 %) Perl 5 62 (13.78 %) Java 6 46 (10.22 %) C++ 7 29 (6.444 %) JavaScript 8 27 (6.000 %) C 9 25 (5.556 %) Korn 10 22 (4.889 %) VBScript 11 18 (4.000 %) XPath 12 11 (2.444 %) VB 13 6 (1.333 %) Delphi 14 5 (1.111 %) C# 15 3 (0.667 %) PHP 15 3 (0.667 %) VBA 15 3 (0.667 %) VB6 16 1 (0.222 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 14 (3.111 %) Degree 2 13 (2.889 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (1.333 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (0.889 %) MCSE 4 4 (0.889 %) ISEB 5 3 (0.667 %) Oracle Certification 6 1 (0.222 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (2.667 %) SLA 2 3 (0.667 %) QA	System Software 1 50 (11.11 %) Samba 2 16 (3.556 %) Oracle RAC 3 14 (3.111 %) Oracle RMAN 4 3 (0.667 %) Active Directory 4 3 (0.667 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 13 (2.889 %) AutoSys 2 11 (2.444 %) Nagios 3 5 (1.111 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 4 3 (0.667 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 2 (0.444 %) Oracle Statspack	Vendors 1 52 (11.56 %) Red Hat 2 30 (6.667 %) Business Objects 3 26 (5.778 %) Microsoft 4 21 (4.667 %) Cisco 5 11 (2.444 %) IBM 6 6 (1.333 %) Sybase 6 6 (1.333 %) Onyx 7 5 (1.111 %) PolarLake 7 5 (1.111 %) Progress 7 5 (1.111 %) Nortel 7 5 (1.111 %) Sun 8 4 (0.889 %) Novell 8 4 (0.889 %) Siebel 9 3 (0.667 %) VERITAS 9 3 (0.667 %) HP 9 3 (0.667 %) Symantec 9 3 (0.667 %) McAfee Security 9 3 (0.667 %) Sony 9 3 (0.667 %) Toshiba 10 2 (0.444 %) Sage