South West Oracle Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT jobs within the South West 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 last 3 months to 13 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Ascot Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Coulsdon County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Daresbury Darlington Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Faversham Felixstowe Feltham Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Goole Gosport Grantham Greenock Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Humberside Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Otley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Wantage Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Widnes Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	6
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	1488	1339
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.728 %	0.575 %
As % of the category below	33.80 %	35.63 %
Salaries quoted	1142	1086
Average minimum salary	£33,815	£34,218
Average salary	£37,232	£37,092
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Average maximum salary	£40,649	£39,967
UK excluding London average salary	£41,094	£41,562
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Vendors South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	4402	3758
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.153 %	1.614 %
Salaries quoted	3486	3004
Average minimum salary	£32,863	£32,748
Average salary	£35,972	£35,839
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Average maximum salary	£39,081	£38,931
UK excluding London average salary	£40,163	£41,409
% change on same period last year	-3.00 %
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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 starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Oracle across the South West 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 ads citing Oracle across the South West region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle across the South West region over the past 3 months.

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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 West region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Bristol	-5	385	£35,059	-0.86 %
2	Wiltshire	+8	335	£35,899	-6.62 %
3	Dorset	+3	323	£44,084	+10.42 %
4	Devon	-2	138	£32,265	-1.23 %
5	Gloucestershire	-14	134	£37,776	+4.86 %
6	Somerset	-10	97	£36,473	-6.93 %
7	Avon	+4	22	£39,545	+11.56 %
8	Cornwall	-2	1	£21,500	-16.66 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Oracle also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Oracle.

1 1448 (48.54 %) SQL 2 993 (33.29 %) SQL Server 3 952 (31.91 %) Java 4 720 (24.14 %) Unix 5 633 (21.22 %) Finance 6 485 (16.26 %) .NET 7 474 (15.89 %) PL/SQL 8 417 (13.98 %) J2EE 9 404 (13.54 %) Windows 10 401 (13.44 %) XML 11 364 (12.20 %) Oracle 10g 12 352 (11.80 %) C 13 339 (11.36 %) C# 14 321 (10.76 %) C++ 15 301 (10.09 %) HTML

16 269 (9.018 %) Banking 17 252 (8.448 %) Sybase 18 249 (8.347 %) OO 19 240 (8.046 %) Oracle Reports 20 230 (7.710 %) VB.NET 21 223 (7.476 %) Degree 22 222 (7.442 %) Solaris 23 216 (7.241 %) Oracle 8/8i 24 215 (7.208 %) Linux 25 211 (7.073 %) Pensions 26 210 (7.040 %) RDBMS 27 205 (6.872 %) UML 28 204 (6.839 %) Microsoft 29 202 (6.772 %) WebLogic 30 201 (6.738 %) JavaScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the South West region citing Oracle also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Oracle. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 485 (16.26 %) .NET 2 417 (13.98 %) J2EE 3 401 (13.44 %) XML 4 301 (10.09 %) HTML 5 180 (6.034 %) ASP.NET 6 167 (5.598 %) WebSphere 7 148 (4.961 %) WebServices 8 108 (3.621 %) ASP 9 96 (3.218 %) XSLT 10 88 (2.950 %) .NET Framework 11 86 (2.883 %) JSP 12 81 (2.715 %) CSS 13 62 (2.078 %) SOAP 13 62 (2.078 %) Spring 14 61 (2.045 %) Hibernate 15 52 (1.743 %) JDBC 16 50 (1.676 %) Swing 17 47 (1.576 %) JMS 18 44 (1.475 %) Servlets 19 43 (1.442 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 202 (6.772 %) WebLogic 2 113 (3.788 %) Apache 3 102 (3.419 %) Lotus Domino 4 90 (3.017 %) Oracle Application Server 5 41 (1.374 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 40 (1.341 %) ColdFusion 7 34 (1.140 %) Lotus Notes 8 33 (1.106 %) SAS 9 32 (1.073 %) JBoss 10 28 (0.939 %) IIS 10 28 (0.939 %) ESB 11 26 (0.872 %) Tomcat 11 26 (0.872 %) Oracle Spatial 12 24 (0.805 %) WebSphere MQ 13 22 (0.738 %) CICS 14 21 (0.704 %) CMS 15 18 (0.603 %) Oracle Workflow 16 17 (0.570 %) SharePoint 17 16 (0.536 %) OpenROAD 18 15 (0.503 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 83 (2.782 %) MS Office 2 81 (2.715 %) MS Excel 3 17 (0.570 %) MS Project 4 16 (0.536 %) MS Visio 5 12 (0.402 %) MS PowerPoint 6 8 (0.268 %) SPSS 6 8 (0.268 %) MATLAB 7 7 (0.235 %) InfoPath 8 4 (0.134 %) Windchill 8 4 (0.134 %) Photoshop 9 1 (0.034 %) S-PLUS 9 1 (0.034 %) Adobe Director 9 1 (0.034 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 120 (4.023 %) Oracle Applications 2 78 (2.615 %) Oracle EBS 3 60 (2.011 %) Summit 4 31 (1.039 %) Navision 5 26 (0.872 %) Oracle Financials 6 13 (0.436 %) Oracle 11i 7 7 (0.235 %) Line 50 8 5 (0.168 %) Oracle CRM 9 4 (0.134 %) Oracle ERP 9 4 (0.134 %) Microsoft CRM 9 4 (0.134 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 10 3 (0.101 %) SMARTEAM 10 3 (0.101 %) ENOVIA 10 3 (0.101 %) Teamcenter 11 2 (0.067 %) Oracle HRMS 11 2 (0.067 %) MAXIMO 11 2 (0.067 %) Sage MMS 12 1 (0.034 %) Dynamics AX 12 1 (0.034 %) SAP ERP 12 1 (0.034 %) HFM
Communications & Networking 1 173 (5.800 %) SAN 2 128 (4.291 %) LAN 3 126 (4.224 %) WAN 3 126 (4.224 %) Firewall 4 90 (3.017 %) MPLS 5 83 (2.782 %) Internet 6 80 (2.682 %) HTTP 7 57 (1.911 %) WINS 8 39 (1.307 %) TCP/IP 9 33 (1.106 %) HTTPS 10 24 (0.805 %) FTP 11 23 (0.771 %) SMTP 12 21 (0.704 %) DNS 13 14 (0.469 %) Intranet 14 9 (0.302 %) VPN 14 9 (0.302 %) SSH 14 9 (0.302 %) Reverse Proxy 15 8 (0.268 %) SNMP 16 7 (0.235 %) LDAP 16 7 (0.235 %) X.500	Database & Business Intelligence 1 993 (33.29 %) SQL Server 2 364 (12.20 %) Oracle 10g 3 240 (8.046 %) Oracle Reports 4 216 (7.241 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 210 (7.040 %) RDBMS 6 198 (6.638 %) Oracle 9i 7 165 (5.531 %) BusinessObjects 8 156 (5.230 %) SQL Server 2000 9 137 (4.593 %) SQL Server 2005 10 136 (4.559 %) Datawarehouse 11 109 (3.654 %) GIS 12 89 (2.984 %) DB2 13 85 (2.849 %) MySQL 14 74 (2.481 %) Crystal Reports 15 72 (2.414 %) MS Access 16 70 (2.347 %) SQL Server 7 17 67 (2.246 %) OLAP 17 67 (2.246 %) Oracle OLAP 18 49 (1.643 %) ETL 19 48 (1.609 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 192 (6.436 %) Oracle Forms 2 92 (3.084 %) Visual Studio 3 75 (2.514 %) Ant 4 62 (2.078 %) Eclipse 5 44 (1.475 %) JUnit 6 39 (1.307 %) ClearCase 7 36 (1.207 %) Subversion 8 25 (0.838 %) Oracle APEX 9 21 (0.704 %) TestDirector 10 19 (0.637 %) Oracle Developer 2000 11 17 (0.570 %) Flash 12 16 (0.536 %) PowerBuilder 13 14 (0.469 %) LoadRunner 14 11 (0.369 %) Oracle Designer/2000 14 11 (0.369 %) Log4j 15 10 (0.335 %) StarTeam 15 10 (0.335 %) Dreamweaver 15 10 (0.335 %) JDeveloper 16 9 (0.302 %) WinRunner 16 9 (0.302 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 633 (21.22 %) Finance 2 269 (9.018 %) Banking 3 211 (7.073 %) Pensions 4 149 (4.995 %) Health 5 84 (2.816 %) Government 6 72 (2.414 %) Insurance 7 71 (2.380 %) Investment Banking 7 71 (2.380 %) Telecoms 8 62 (2.078 %) Marketing 9 57 (1.911 %) Billing 10 55 (1.844 %) Education 11 46 (1.542 %) General Ledger 12 25 (0.838 %) Financial Institution 12 25 (0.838 %) Back Office 13 23 (0.771 %) Retail 14 18 (0.603 %) Front Office 15 13 (0.436 %) Publishing 16 10 (0.335 %) Manufacturing 17 7 (0.235 %) Graphic Design 17 7 (0.235 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 995 (33.36 %) Developer 2 632 (21.19 %) Analyst 3 235 (7.878 %) Architect 4 223 (7.476 %) DBA 5 184 (6.168 %) Consultant 6 180 (6.034 %) Programmer 7 176 (5.900 %) Software Engineer 8 174 (5.833 %) Java Developer 9 165 (5.531 %) Oracle Developer 10 160 (5.364 %) Support Analyst 11 152 (5.096 %) Oracle DBA 12 149 (4.995 %) .NET Developer 13 145 (4.861 %) Applications Developer 14 136 (4.559 %) Software Developer 15 132 (4.425 %) Technical Architect 16 125 (4.190 %) Analyst Programmer 17 117 (3.922 %) Project Manager 18 96 (3.218 %) Test Analyst 18 96 (3.218 %) Administrator 19 89 (2.984 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 85 (2.849 %) N-Tier 2 72 (2.414 %) Computer Science 3 54 (1.810 %) Derivative 4 48 (1.609 %) Client/Server 5 37 (1.240 %) Mainframe 5 37 (1.240 %) AS400 5 37 (1.240 %) Replication 6 29 (0.972 %) Clustering 7 20 (0.670 %) PKI 8 15 (0.503 %) Management Information System 9 14 (0.469 %) IPTV 10 11 (0.369 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 11 10 (0.335 %) Smartcard 11 10 (0.335 %) IVR 11 10 (0.335 %) Grid Computing 12 9 (0.302 %) Pocket PC 12 9 (0.302 %) German Language 13 7 (0.235 %) Multithreading 13 7 (0.235 %) Physics 13 7 (0.235 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 720 (24.14 %) Unix 2 404 (13.54 %) Windows 3 222 (7.442 %) Solaris 4 215 (7.208 %) Linux 5 177 (5.934 %) AIX 6 45 (1.509 %) Windows 2000 7 36 (1.207 %) HPUX 8 31 (1.039 %) Windows Server 2003 9 26 (0.872 %) Windows NT 10 18 (0.603 %) SUSE 11 16 (0.536 %) Windows XP 12 9 (0.302 %) Windows Mobile 13 5 (0.168 %) FreeBSD 14 2 (0.067 %) Embedded Linux 14 2 (0.067 %) Debian 15 1 (0.034 %) Gentoo	Processes & Methodologies 1 249 (8.347 %) OO 2 205 (6.872 %) UML 3 151 (5.062 %) Project Management 4 108 (3.621 %) Web Development 5 102 (3.419 %) Migration 6 98 (3.285 %) Business Intelligence 7 93 (3.118 %) ITIL 8 77 (2.581 %) OOD 9 75 (2.514 %) ERP 10 71 (2.380 %) Systems Analysis 11 70 (2.347 %) SOA 12 69 (2.313 %) OOA/OOD 13 65 (2.179 %) PRINCE2 14 62 (2.078 %) CRM 15 56 (1.877 %) Business Analysis 15 56 (1.877 %) Requirements Analysis 16 49 (1.643 %) RUP 17 48 (1.609 %) Data Modelling 17 48 (1.609 %) System Testing 18 47 (1.576 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 1448 (48.54 %) SQL 2 952 (31.91 %) Java 3 474 (15.89 %) PL/SQL 4 352 (11.80 %) C 5 339 (11.36 %) C# 6 321 (10.76 %) C++ 7 230 (7.710 %) VB.NET 8 201 (6.738 %) JavaScript 9 200 (6.705 %) VB 10 106 (3.553 %) Shell Script 11 90 (3.017 %) Perl 12 78 (2.615 %) Transact-SQL 13 67 (2.246 %) VB6 14 52 (1.743 %) PHP 15 46 (1.542 %) Delphi 16 37 (1.240 %) DHTML 17 34 (1.140 %) RPG 18 30 (1.006 %) VBA 19 23 (0.771 %) VBScript 20 22 (0.738 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 223 (7.476 %) Degree 2 51 (1.710 %) ISEB 3 37 (1.240 %) Microsoft Certification 4 15 (0.503 %) Oracle Certification 5 11 (0.369 %) OCP 5 11 (0.369 %) MCP 6 10 (0.335 %) HND 7 9 (0.302 %) MCSE 7 9 (0.302 %) CIPD 8 8 (0.268 %) MCT 9 5 (0.168 %) ACCA 10 4 (0.134 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 4 (0.134 %) Sun Certification 10 4 (0.134 %) ITIL Certification 11 3 (0.101 %) PMP 11 3 (0.101 %) PMI Certification 11 3 (0.101 %) CISSP 11 3 (0.101 %) CIMA 12 2 (0.067 %) HNC 12 2 (0.067 %) PIIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 79 (2.648 %) QA 2 39 (1.307 %) SLA 3 11 (0.369 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 10 (0.335 %) ISO17799 5 4 (0.134 %) Basel II 6 2 (0.067 %) ISO9000 7 1 (0.034 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 120 (4.023 %) Oracle RAC 2 44 (1.475 %) Active Directory 3 34 (1.140 %) NetBackup 4 30 (1.006 %) Oracle RMAN 5 13 (0.436 %) NFS 6 9 (0.302 %) AquaLogic 7 4 (0.134 %) Backup Exec 7 4 (0.134 %) Orbix 8 3 (0.101 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 2 (0.067 %) Samba 10 1 (0.034 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 109 (3.654 %) AutoSys 2 71 (2.380 %) Tivoli 3 22 (0.738 %) CA SiteMinder 3 22 (0.738 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 4 19 (0.637 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 9 (0.302 %) Netcool 5 9 (0.302 %) Oracle Statspack 5 9 (0.302 %) Netcool/Proviso 6 8 (0.268 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 7 7 (0.235 %) Foglight 8 6 (0.201 %) Tivoli Monitoring 9 5 (0.168 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 252 (8.448 %) Sybase 2 204 (6.839 %) Microsoft 3 165 (5.531 %) Business Objects 4 161 (5.397 %) Citrix 5 96 (3.218 %) SAP 6 79 (2.648 %) IBM 7 60 (2.011 %) Sun 8 41 (1.374 %) BEA 9 36 (1.207 %) Lotus 10 35 (1.173 %) VERITAS 11 30 (1.006 %) HP 12 29 (0.972 %) Informatica 13 28 (0.939 %) webMethods 14 26 (0.872 %) EMC 14 26 (0.872 %) Cognos 15 22 (0.738 %) Siebel 16 20 (0.670 %) Red Hat 17 19 (0.637 %) Remedy 18 18 (0.603 %) Cisco 19 17 (0.570 %) Intel