The first table below looks at the demand for OCP in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
Rank 218 234 209
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -25
Permanent jobs citing OCP 2 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.038% 0.033% 0.110%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.107% 0.091% 0.362%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 6
Average salary £58,750 £48,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.51% +39.28%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
All Qualifications
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1863 2190 1658
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 35.48% 36.67% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1514 1890 1454
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £31,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
OCP
South East

OCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey OCP Salary Trend

OCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (66.67%) Data Guard
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) OCA
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL

OCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ProC
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Database Specialist
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) OCA
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp