Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

LinkOracle
Location
3 months to
9 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank131011
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads73261081823809
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK9.304 %10.70 %11.78 %
As % of the Vendors category22.62 %25.24 %26.20 %
Salaries quoted6018887418696
Average salary£45,000£43,000£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.650 %+1.170 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,500£28,500£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£39,000
% change year-on-year
-+2.560 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
323814285590887
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.12 %42.40 %44.97 %
Salaries quoted262143535272392
Average salary£42,500£40,000£42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.250 %-4.760 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,500£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£65,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£39,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Oracle Corporation.

Oracle
Demand Trend

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

Oracle Demand Trend

Oracle
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Oracle within the UK.

Oracle Salary Trend

Oracle
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle over the 3 months to 9 February 2010 within the UK.

Oracle Salary Histogram

Oracle
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 9 February 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-26864£45,000+3.44 %
LondonDown-33246£55,000+10.00 %
South EastDown-11500£42,500-
City of LondonDown-4991£55,000-3.50 %
South WestNo change0507£35,000+1.44 %
SurreyUp+2433£44,500-1.11 %
East of EnglandDown-1427£37,500-6.25 %
BerkshireDown-2409£39,000-8.23 %
North WestDown-6391£40,000-
YorkshireDown-2362£35,000-
West MidlandsDown-11239£35,000-
ScotlandDown-4230£35,625-10.93 %
West YorkshireDown-2213£35,000-4.10 %
ManchesterDown-9193£39,000-2.50 %
HampshireDown-4179£38,000-1.29 %
WiltshireUp+4166£32,500-4.41 %
HertfordshireDown-5157£45,000+12.50 %
BristolUp+4145£37,500+2.73 %
CheshireDown-6116£44,000+10.00 %
LeedsUp+699£35,000-
SloughUp+694£40,000-5.88 %
SuffolkUp+686£33,500-18.78 %
Home CountiesUp+485£47,500+5.55 %
BuckinghamshireDown-1985£40,000+11.11 %
West SussexUp+481£45,000+18.42 %
East MidlandsDown-3180£38,750+10.71 %
BirminghamDown-1374£37,500+7.14 %
CambridgeshireDown-1674£35,000-
EdinburghUp+172£40,000-4.76 %
ReadingDown-1272£41,500+3.75 %

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

16259 (43.17 %)SQL
24614 (31.82 %)Java
34267 (29.43 %)SQL Server
43802 (26.22 %)Finance
53345 (23.07 %)UNIX
62626 (18.11 %).NET
72389 (16.48 %)Windows
82319 (15.99 %)C#
92268 (15.64 %)PL/SQL
101922 (13.26 %)J2EE
111855 (12.79 %)Linux
121835 (12.66 %)XML
131750 (12.07 %)Oracle 10g
141728 (11.92 %)Degree
151554 (10.72 %)Microsoft
161487 (10.26 %)Banking
171324 (9.132 %)Business Intelligence
181274 (8.787 %)Datawarehouse
191147 (7.911 %)C++
201135 (7.828 %)JavaScript
211105 (7.621 %)RDBMS
221083 (7.469 %)HTML
231055 (7.276 %)Spring
241014 (6.994 %)Sybase
251009 (6.959 %)Oracle 8/8i
261000 (6.897 %)OO
27986 (6.800 %)Oracle Reports
28970 (6.690 %)Solaris
29888 (6.125 %)Web Services
30856 (5.904 %)MS Excel

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 February 2010, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12626 (18.11 %).NET
21922 (13.26 %)J2EE
31835 (12.66 %)XML
41083 (7.469 %)HTML
51055 (7.276 %)Spring
6888 (6.125 %)Web Services
7833 (5.745 %)ASP.NET
8787 (5.428 %)Hibernate
9657 (4.531 %)JSP
10624 (4.304 %)WebSphere
11576 (3.973 %)CSS
12552 (3.807 %)AJAX
13468 (3.228 %)Middleware
14385 (2.655 %)JMS
15351 (2.421 %)Struts
16342 (2.359 %)EJB
17327 (2.255 %)Servlets
18326 (2.248 %)XSLT
19322 (2.221 %)ASP
20307 (2.117 %)JDBC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1772 (5.325 %)WebLogic
2637 (4.393 %)Apache
3585 (4.035 %)Tomcat
4373 (2.573 %)SharePoint
5355 (2.448 %)IIS
6331 (2.283 %)Oracle Workflow
7196 (1.352 %)SAS
8178 (1.228 %)Oracle Application Server
9164 (1.131 %)CMS
10139 (0.959 %)BizTalk Server
11138 (0.952 %)MQSeries
12130 (0.897 %)WebSphere MQ
13127 (0.876 %)MS Exchange
14105 (0.724 %)WebSphere Application Server
1593 (0.641 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1690 (0.621 %)Rendezvous
1784 (0.579 %)ESB
1872 (0.497 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1961 (0.421 %)LiveLink
1961 (0.421 %)Oracle 10gAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1856 (5.904 %)MS Excel
2255 (1.759 %)MS Office
3217 (1.497 %)MS Visio
462 (0.428 %)Spreadsheet
555 (0.379 %)MS Project
641 (0.283 %)MS PowerPoint
734 (0.234 %)SPSS
828 (0.193 %)MATLAB
914 (0.097 %)Photoshop
1013 (0.090 %)CA Clarity
117 (0.048 %)FrameMaker
125 (0.034 %)AutoCAD
134 (0.028 %)MicroStation
134 (0.028 %)ProjectWise
143 (0.021 %)Acrobat
143 (0.021 %)InfoPath
152 (0.014 %)Fireworks
152 (0.014 %)RoboHelp
152 (0.014 %)Adobe Illustrator
161 (0.007 %)GIMP
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1713 (4.918 %)Oracle EBS
2546 (3.766 %)Oracle Applications
3423 (2.917 %)Oracle EBS R12
4323 (2.228 %)Oracle Financials
5259 (1.786 %)Oracle 11i
6169 (1.166 %)Oracle ERP
7136 (0.938 %)Oracle HRMS
877 (0.531 %)Oracle Payroll
970 (0.483 %)Oracle iProcurement
1059 (0.407 %)Dynamics AX
1157 (0.393 %)HFM
1254 (0.372 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1350 (0.345 %)Siebel Analytics
1449 (0.338 %)Dynamics CRM
1537 (0.255 %)Hyperion Planning
1636 (0.248 %)Endur
1734 (0.234 %)Navision
1830 (0.207 %)Cognos Planning
1929 (0.200 %)Oracle iStore
2027 (0.186 %)Hyperion Enterprise
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1580 (4.000 %)Internet
2364 (2.511 %)SAN
3305 (2.104 %)TCP/IP
4191 (1.317 %)HTTP
5181 (1.248 %)Intranet
6173 (1.193 %)DNS
7167 (1.152 %)Firewall
8124 (0.855 %)VoIP
9119 (0.821 %)LAN
10111 (0.766 %)WAN
11107 (0.738 %)NAS
12101 (0.697 %)LDAP
1375 (0.517 %)FTP
1472 (0.497 %)DHCP
1472 (0.497 %)SMTP
1556 (0.386 %)SSL
1643 (0.297 %)SSH
1742 (0.290 %)VPN
1841 (0.283 %)SNMP
1940 (0.276 %)BSS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14267 (29.43 %)SQL Server
21750 (12.07 %)Oracle 10g
31274 (8.787 %)Datawarehouse
41105 (7.621 %)RDBMS
51009 (6.959 %)Oracle 8/8i
6986 (6.800 %)Oracle Reports
7843 (5.814 %)BusinessObjects
8822 (5.669 %)MySQL
9781 (5.387 %)ETL
10689 (4.752 %)SQL Server 2005
11670 (4.621 %)Oracle 11g
12608 (4.193 %)Oracle 9i
13463 (3.193 %)DB2
14345 (2.379 %)Crystal Reports
15335 (2.311 %)SQL Server 2000
16330 (2.276 %)SQL Server Integration Services
17322 (2.221 %)Oracle Discoverer
18281 (1.938 %)OLAP
18281 (1.938 %)Oracle OLAP
19274 (1.890 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1510 (3.517 %)Oracle Forms
2316 (2.179 %)JUnit
3294 (2.028 %)Subversion
4280 (1.931 %)Eclipse
5272 (1.876 %)Visual Studio
6197 (1.359 %)Ant
7186 (1.283 %)Maven
8143 (0.986 %)ClearCase
9110 (0.759 %)QuickTest Pro
10104 (0.717 %)Oracle APEX
1193 (0.641 %)JDeveloper
1269 (0.476 %)ERwin
1362 (0.428 %)LoadRunner
1461 (0.421 %)ProC
1558 (0.400 %)NUnit
1651 (0.352 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1743 (0.297 %)CheckStyle
1840 (0.276 %)JIRA
1939 (0.269 %)TestDirector
2037 (0.255 %)WinRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13802 (26.22 %)Finance
21487 (10.26 %)Banking
3737 (5.083 %)Investment Banking
4654 (4.511 %)Pensions
5644 (4.442 %)Front Office
6505 (3.483 %)Retail
7462 (3.186 %)Telecoms
8450 (3.104 %)Health
9415 (2.862 %)Insurance
10327 (2.255 %)Back Office
11304 (2.097 %)Education
12296 (2.042 %)Government
13257 (1.773 %)Games
14222 (1.531 %)Marketing
15207 (1.428 %)Financial Institution
16190 (1.310 %)Manufacturing
17121 (0.835 %)Publishing
18107 (0.738 %)Billing
1990 (0.621 %)Online Games
2086 (0.593 %)Construction
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15104 (35.20 %)Developer
22048 (14.13 %)Analyst
31534 (10.58 %)Consultant
41500 (10.35 %)Java Developer
51197 (8.256 %)DBA
61155 (7.966 %)Architect
7812 (5.600 %)Oracle Developer
8794 (5.476 %)Oracle DBA
9767 (5.290 %)Senior Developer
10676 (4.662 %)Applications Support
11664 (4.580 %)Support Analyst
12604 (4.166 %)C# Developer
13566 (3.904 %)Administrator
14507 (3.497 %)Team Leader
15492 (3.393 %).NET Developer
16404 (2.786 %)Oracle Consultant
17402 (2.773 %)Project Manager
18384 (2.648 %)Java/J2EE Developer
19383 (2.642 %)Programmer
20361 (2.490 %)Software Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1587 (4.049 %)Derivative
2494 (3.407 %)Computer Science
3323 (2.228 %)Client/Server
4258 (1.779 %)Fixed Income
5236 (1.628 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
6216 (1.490 %)Replication
7212 (1.462 %)Equities
8204 (1.407 %)Multithreading
9194 (1.338 %)N-Tier
10184 (1.269 %)Clustering
11183 (1.262 %)Management Information System
12170 (1.172 %)Open Source
13157 (1.083 %)Mathematics
14156 (1.076 %)Equity Derivative
15109 (0.752 %)French Language
15109 (0.752 %)Data Integration
16104 (0.717 %)Mainframe
1785 (0.586 %)German Language
1881 (0.559 %)Credit Derivative
1976 (0.524 %)Credit Risk
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13345 (23.07 %)UNIX
22389 (16.48 %)Windows
31855 (12.79 %)Linux
4970 (6.690 %)Solaris
5402 (2.773 %)Windows Server 2003
6292 (2.014 %)AIX
7256 (1.766 %)Red Hat Linux
8225 (1.552 %)HPUX
9206 (1.421 %)Windows XP
10122 (0.841 %)Windows Server 2008
11111 (0.766 %)Windows 2000
1267 (0.462 %)VMS
1267 (0.462 %)Windows NT
1365 (0.448 %)Windows 2000 Server
1456 (0.386 %)SUSE
1551 (0.352 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1646 (0.317 %)Debian
1740 (0.276 %)Ubuntu
1839 (0.269 %)Windows Vista
1916 (0.110 %)Windows Mobile
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11324 (9.132 %)Business Intelligence
21000 (6.897 %)OO
3816 (5.628 %)UML
4794 (5.476 %)ERP
5782 (5.393 %)Project Management
6723 (4.987 %)SOA
7628 (4.331 %)ITIL
8595 (4.104 %)Data Modelling
9589 (4.062 %)Agile Software Development
10507 (3.497 %)CRM
11450 (3.104 %)E-Commerce
12396 (2.731 %)Migration
13392 (2.704 %)Workflow
14354 (2.442 %)Web Development
15310 (2.138 %)Scrum
16305 (2.104 %)PRINCE2
17293 (2.021 %)Business Analysis
18281 (1.938 %)Unit Testing
19280 (1.931 %)Data Management
20275 (1.897 %)Risk Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16259 (43.17 %)SQL
24614 (31.82 %)Java
32319 (15.99 %)C#
42268 (15.64 %)PL/SQL
51147 (7.911 %)C++
61135 (7.828 %)JavaScript
7723 (4.987 %)C
8712 (4.911 %)Perl
9662 (4.566 %)VB
10491 (3.386 %)VB.NET
11484 (3.338 %)PHP
12451 (3.111 %)Shell Script
13421 (2.904 %)T-SQL
14290 (2.000 %)VBA
15206 (1.421 %)VBScript
16205 (1.414 %)Python
17173 (1.193 %)VB6
18126 (0.869 %)Bash shell
1985 (0.586 %)PHP5
2078 (0.538 %)Korn
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11728 (11.92 %)Degree
2568 (3.918 %)Security Cleared
3246 (1.697 %)SC Cleared
4240 (1.655 %)Microsoft Certification
5161 (1.110 %)ISEB
6123 (0.848 %)MCSE
7102 (0.703 %)Oracle Certification
8100 (0.690 %)DV Cleared
982 (0.566 %)ITIL Certification
1081 (0.559 %)Cisco Certification
1180 (0.552 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1268 (0.469 %)CCNA
1367 (0.462 %)MCP
1462 (0.428 %)Sun Certification
1462 (0.428 %)PMI Certification
1547 (0.324 %)OCP
1645 (0.310 %)PhD
1743 (0.297 %)MCDBA
1839 (0.269 %)PMP
1933 (0.228 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1401 (2.766 %)QA
2243 (1.676 %)SLA
325 (0.172 %)ISO27001
415 (0.103 %)PCI DSS
513 (0.090 %)HL7
612 (0.083 %)COBIT
710 (0.069 %)GMP
88 (0.055 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
97 (0.048 %)Basel II
106 (0.041 %)ISO9000
106 (0.041 %)GxP
115 (0.034 %)ISO9001
124 (0.028 %)DICOM
124 (0.028 %)WAI
124 (0.028 %)RosettaNet
133 (0.021 %)GAAP
141 (0.007 %)BS15000
141 (0.007 %)GAMP
141 (0.007 %)MiFID
141 (0.007 %)ISO/IEC 20000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1444 (3.062 %)Oracle RAC
2294 (2.028 %)Oracle RMAN
3254 (1.752 %)Active Directory
4101 (0.697 %)VMware Infrastructure
579 (0.545 %)MSMQ
579 (0.545 %)AquaLogic
677 (0.531 %)NetBackup
747 (0.324 %)NFS
833 (0.228 %)Sendmail
929 (0.200 %)Veritas Cluster Server
929 (0.200 %)SRDF
1026 (0.179 %)Samba
1124 (0.166 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1223 (0.159 %)Xen
1318 (0.124 %)ISA Server
1417 (0.117 %)MetaFrame
1516 (0.110 %)Hyper-V
1615 (0.103 %)Backup Exec
1713 (0.090 %)Postfix
1713 (0.090 %)Terminal Services
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1275 (1.897 %)Data Guard
284 (0.579 %)Tivoli
368 (0.469 %)Nagios
458 (0.400 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
557 (0.393 %)CONTROL-M
650 (0.345 %)OpenView
737 (0.255 %)MSI
832 (0.221 %)SCCM
922 (0.152 %)HP Data Protector
922 (0.152 %)HP Quality Center
1021 (0.145 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1021 (0.145 %)SCOM
1120 (0.138 %)Netcool
1214 (0.097 %)AutoSys
1313 (0.090 %)Oracle Statspack
1412 (0.083 %)OVSD
1510 (0.069 %)Netcool/Proviso
1510 (0.069 %)ZENworks
1510 (0.069 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1510 (0.069 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11554 (10.72 %)Microsoft
21014 (6.994 %)Sybase
3843 (5.814 %)Business Objects
4668 (4.607 %)SAP
5548 (3.780 %)JBoss
6451 (3.111 %)Cognos
7420 (2.897 %)Sun
8419 (2.890 %)IBM
9379 (2.614 %)Informatica
10363 (2.504 %)HP
11315 (2.173 %)TIBCO
12292 (2.014 %)Cisco
13281 (1.938 %)Hyperion
14272 (1.876 %)VMware
14272 (1.876 %)Red Hat
15239 (1.648 %)Siebel
16220 (1.517 %)Citrix
17171 (1.179 %)BEA
18137 (0.945 %)PeopleSoft
19128 (0.883 %)EMC