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 22 May 2012 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.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the Oracle Corporation.

Oracle
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank151213
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads143291505110448
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK11.88 %12.27 %10.94 %
As % of the Vendors category24.94 %26.17 %24.66 %
Number of salaries quoted11975126358318
Average salary£50,000£50,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£30,500£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£75,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,250£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.03 %+3.12 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
574595751742374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.65 %46.91 %44.38 %
Number of salaries quoted484194776133886
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

Oracle
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 22 May 2012 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 22 May 2012. 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-313333£50,000-
LondonDown-36488£57,500-
South EastDown-12636£45,000+3.44 %
City of LondonNo change01671£60,000-
East of EnglandUp+51139£40,000+1.26 %
SurreyDown-1786£45,000-5.26 %
BerkshireDown-2731£45,000-
North WestDown-2711£40,000-
South WestDown-4668£40,500+15.71 %
YorkshireDown-4574£40,000+6.66 %
HampshireUp+6534£40,500+1.25 %
East MidlandsUp+3401£42,500+6.25 %
ScotlandDown-5395£40,000-
West YorkshireDown-6379£40,000+14.28 %
HertfordshireNo change0353£45,000-
ManchesterDown-4350£40,000+2.56 %
West MidlandsDown-8337£37,500-6.25 %
CambridgeshireUp+10335£39,500+9.72 %
ReadingUp+1222£45,000-
LeedsDown-10221£40,000+14.28 %
CambridgeUp+11215£40,000+14.28 %
EssexUp+7207£40,000-
BedfordshireUp+20203£45,000+23.28 %
CheshireNo change0203£39,510+1.30 %
WiltshireUp+3199£43,301+30.22 %
NottinghamshireUp+3194£45,000+12.50 %
NottinghamUp+1162£45,000-
OxfordshireUp+4146£50,000+29.87 %
EdinburghDown-4145£42,500+6.25 %
GloucestershireDown-3140£40,000+19.40 %

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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.

112806 (45.71 %)SQL
29842 (35.13 %)Java
39169 (32.73 %)Finance
47047 (25.16 %)SQL Server
56128 (21.88 %)UNIX
65037 (17.98 %)Linux
74634 (16.54 %)PL/SQL
84519 (16.13 %)Windows
94382 (15.64 %).NET
104152 (14.82 %)J2EE
114048 (14.45 %)Degree
124025 (14.37 %)XML
133849 (13.74 %)C#
143484 (12.44 %)Microsoft
153016 (10.77 %)Business Intelligence
162963 (10.58 %)JavaScript
172909 (10.38 %)Banking
182884 (10.30 %)Spring
192550 (9.103 %)Web Services
202538 (9.060 %)Agile Software Development
212509 (8.957 %)HTML
222320 (8.282 %)Data Warehouse
232255 (8.050 %)Hibernate
242252 (8.039 %)Oracle EBS
252228 (7.953 %)Oracle 11g
262188 (7.811 %)Oracle 10g
272172 (7.754 %)Oracle 8/8i
282158 (7.704 %)OO
292067 (7.379 %)SOA
302035 (7.264 %)C++

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, 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
14382 (15.64 %).NET
24152 (14.82 %)J2EE
34025 (14.37 %)XML
42884 (10.30 %)Spring
52550 (9.103 %)Web Services
62509 (8.957 %)HTML
72255 (8.050 %)Hibernate
81789 (6.386 %)CSS
91724 (6.154 %)WebSphere
101715 (6.122 %)Middleware
111397 (4.987 %)ASP.NET
121268 (4.526 %)JSP
131201 (4.287 %)Ajax
141019 (3.638 %)Struts
15995 (3.552 %)SOAP
16884 (3.156 %)jQuery
17743 (2.652 %)XSLT
18723 (2.581 %)WCF
19722 (2.577 %)Java EE
20719 (2.567 %)Servlets
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12009 (7.172 %)WebLogic
21719 (6.136 %)Tomcat
31657 (5.915 %)Apache
4802 (2.863 %)SharePoint
5784 (2.799 %)IIS
6618 (2.206 %)ESB
7581 (2.074 %)Oracle Workflow
8510 (1.821 %)SAS
9409 (1.460 %)WebSphere Application Server
10386 (1.378 %)Oracle Coherence
11378 (1.349 %)CMS
12275 (0.982 %)WebSphere MQ
13270 (0.964 %)Oracle SOA Suite
14254 (0.907 %)GlassFish
15237 (0.846 %)MQSeries
16230 (0.821 %)Oracle Application Server
17219 (0.782 %)MS Exchange
18196 (0.700 %)BizTalk Server
19182 (0.650 %)NetWeaver
20165 (0.589 %)Oracle Service Bus
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11938 (6.918 %)MS Excel
2469 (1.674 %)MS Visio
2469 (1.674 %)MS Office
3141 (0.503 %)MS Project
4135 (0.482 %)MS PowerPoint
556 (0.200 %)MATLAB
649 (0.175 %)Spreadsheet
731 (0.111 %)Photoshop
824 (0.086 %)SPSS
914 (0.050 %)Fireworks
1013 (0.046 %)Mingle
1111 (0.039 %)Office 365
1210 (0.036 %)Windchill
139 (0.032 %)Adobe Illustrator
148 (0.029 %)DOC1
148 (0.029 %)Acrobat
157 (0.025 %)Maple
157 (0.025 %)Google Apps
166 (0.021 %)CATIA
175 (0.018 %)S-PLUS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12252 (8.039 %)Oracle EBS
21892 (6.754 %)Oracle EBS R12
31111 (3.966 %)Oracle Applications
4981 (3.502 %)Oracle Financials
5555 (1.981 %)Oracle 11i
6504 (1.799 %)Oracle BPM
7469 (1.674 %)Oracle ERP
8255 (0.910 %)Oracle Payroll
9213 (0.760 %)Oracle HRMS
9213 (0.760 %)HFM
10197 (0.703 %)Oracle iProcurement
11194 (0.693 %)Oracle CRM
12177 (0.632 %)Dynamics AX
13172 (0.614 %)Hyperion Planning
14167 (0.596 %)Siebel Analytics
15143 (0.510 %)Dynamics CRM
16114 (0.407 %)Oracle Retail
17112 (0.400 %)Dynamics NAV
1889 (0.318 %)Oracle General Ledger
1985 (0.303 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1949 (3.388 %)SAN
2924 (3.298 %)Internet
3871 (3.109 %)TCP/IP
4642 (2.292 %)HTTP
5538 (1.921 %)Firewall
6449 (1.603 %)LDAP
7337 (1.203 %)LAN
8336 (1.199 %)DNS
9318 (1.135 %)WAN
10303 (1.082 %)SSL
11215 (0.768 %)NAS
12168 (0.600 %)VPN
13137 (0.489 %)FTP
14128 (0.457 %)DHCP
14128 (0.457 %)Intranet
15126 (0.450 %)SMTP
16116 (0.414 %)Broadband
1799 (0.353 %)DMZ
1895 (0.339 %)Wireless
1988 (0.314 %)iSCSI
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
17047 (25.16 %)SQL Server
22320 (8.282 %)Data Warehouse
32228 (7.953 %)Oracle 11g
42188 (7.811 %)Oracle 10g
52172 (7.754 %)Oracle 8/8i
61817 (6.486 %)ETL
71790 (6.390 %)MySQL
81767 (6.308 %)RDBMS
91580 (5.640 %)Oracle Reports
101306 (4.662 %)DB2
111007 (3.595 %)Oracle BI EE
12834 (2.977 %)SQL Server Integration Services
13823 (2.938 %)SQL Server 2008
14765 (2.731 %)SQL Server 2005
15743 (2.652 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
16668 (2.385 %)Oracle 9i
17468 (1.671 %)TOAD
18428 (1.528 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
19411 (1.467 %)BusinessObjects
20393 (1.403 %)DataStage
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11203 (4.294 %)Subversion
2990 (3.534 %)JUnit
3965 (3.445 %)Maven
4888 (3.170 %)Ant
5815 (2.909 %)Oracle Forms
6787 (2.809 %)Eclipse
7618 (2.206 %)Visual Studio
8391 (1.396 %)Selenium
9369 (1.317 %)Hudson
10304 (1.085 %)ClearCase
11296 (1.057 %)JIRA
12274 (0.978 %)JDeveloper
13256 (0.914 %)Team Foundation Server
14248 (0.885 %)Oracle APEX
15231 (0.825 %)LoadRunner
16205 (0.732 %)QuickTest Pro
17168 (0.600 %)Git (software)
18145 (0.518 %)NUnit
19125 (0.446 %)VSS/SourceSafe
20123 (0.439 %)ProC
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19169 (32.73 %)Finance
22909 (10.38 %)Banking
31529 (5.458 %)Retail
41356 (4.841 %)Telecoms
51025 (3.659 %)Investment Banking
6689 (2.460 %)Front Office
7639 (2.281 %)Manufacturing
8632 (2.256 %)Back Office
9534 (1.906 %)Games
10511 (1.824 %)Marketing
11403 (1.439 %)General Ledger
12315 (1.124 %)Financial Institution
13302 (1.078 %)Advertising
14275 (0.982 %)French Language
15232 (0.828 %)Publishing
16225 (0.803 %)German Language
17223 (0.796 %)Billing
18181 (0.646 %)Pharmaceutical
19179 (0.639 %)Legal
20107 (0.382 %)Italian Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
18879 (31.70 %)Developer
23605 (12.87 %)Analyst
33410 (12.17 %)Consultant
43155 (11.26 %)Java Developer
52933 (10.47 %)Architect
61728 (6.169 %)DBA
71644 (5.869 %)Oracle Consultant
81399 (4.994 %)Senior Developer
91233 (4.402 %)Applications Support
101206 (4.305 %)Support Analyst
111136 (4.055 %)Administrator
121101 (3.930 %)Oracle Developer
131100 (3.927 %)Oracle DBA
141061 (3.788 %)C# Developer
15977 (3.488 %)Software Engineer
16894 (3.191 %).NET Developer
17803 (2.867 %)Project Manager
18795 (2.838 %)Solutions Architect
19764 (2.727 %)Java/J2EE Developer
20706 (2.520 %)Software Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11438 (5.133 %)Computer Science
2704 (2.513 %)Open Source
3585 (2.088 %)Clustering
4568 (2.028 %)Derivative
5543 (1.938 %)Management Information System
6440 (1.571 %)Mathematics
7432 (1.542 %)N-Tier
8409 (1.460 %)Replication
9403 (1.439 %)Client/Server
10383 (1.367 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
11349 (1.246 %)Hedge funds
12318 (1.135 %)Credit Risk
13314 (1.121 %)Fixed Income
14312 (1.114 %)SaaS
15308 (1.099 %)Equities
16253 (0.903 %)Mainframe
17208 (0.743 %)Data Integration
18170 (0.607 %)Spread Betting
19164 (0.585 %)Online Games
20162 (0.578 %)Market Risk
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16128 (21.88 %)UNIX
25037 (17.98 %)Linux
34519 (16.13 %)Windows
41645 (5.872 %)Solaris
5996 (3.555 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6725 (2.588 %)Windows Server 2003
7641 (2.288 %)Windows Server 2008
8557 (1.988 %)AIX
9326 (1.164 %)HPUX
10225 (0.803 %)Windows XP
11132 (0.471 %)Windows 7
12124 (0.443 %)Android
13108 (0.386 %)Oracle Linux
14105 (0.375 %)Windows 2000
1582 (0.293 %)SUSE
1678 (0.278 %)CentOS
1769 (0.246 %)Windows 2000 Server
1858 (0.207 %)Ubuntu
1957 (0.203 %)Debian
2056 (0.200 %)Windows NT
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13016 (10.77 %)Business Intelligence
22538 (9.060 %)Agile Software Development
32158 (7.704 %)OO
42067 (7.379 %)SOA
52025 (7.229 %)Project Management
61849 (6.601 %)ERP
71670 (5.962 %)ITIL
81620 (5.783 %)Scrum
91576 (5.626 %)UML
101561 (5.572 %)E-Commerce
111467 (5.237 %)CRM
121341 (4.787 %)TDD
131125 (4.016 %)Data Modelling
141106 (3.948 %)MVC
151058 (3.777 %)Migration
16917 (3.273 %)Multithreading
17811 (2.895 %)PRINCE2
18806 (2.877 %)Unit Testing
19781 (2.788 %)Business Analysis
20760 (2.713 %)Workflow
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
112806 (45.71 %)SQL
29842 (35.13 %)Java
34634 (16.54 %)PL/SQL
43849 (13.74 %)C#
52963 (10.58 %)JavaScript
62035 (7.264 %)C++
71553 (5.544 %)Perl
81412 (5.041 %)Shell Script
91022 (3.648 %)C
10900 (3.213 %)VB
11849 (3.031 %)PHP
12802 (2.863 %)T-SQL
13735 (2.624 %)Python
14600 (2.142 %)VB.NET
15429 (1.531 %)VBA
16390 (1.392 %)Ruby
17280 (1.000 %)XPath
18276 (0.985 %)Bash shell
19235 (0.839 %)VB6
20210 (0.750 %)VBScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
14048 (14.45 %)Degree
21363 (4.866 %)Security Cleared
3668 (2.385 %)SC Cleared
4463 (1.653 %)Oracle Certification
5385 (1.374 %)ISEB
6372 (1.328 %)Microsoft Certification
7187 (0.668 %)OCP
7187 (0.668 %)MCP
8166 (0.593 %)CIMA
9164 (0.585 %)Sun Certification
10163 (0.582 %)ITIL Certification
11152 (0.543 %)ACCA
12146 (0.521 %)MCSE
13126 (0.450 %)HND
14117 (0.418 %)Cisco Certification
15106 (0.378 %)PhD
16104 (0.371 %)CCNA
17101 (0.361 %)ISTQB
1892 (0.328 %)PMI Certification
1990 (0.321 %)DV Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11312 (4.684 %)QA
2528 (1.885 %)SLA
3234 (0.835 %)Data Quality
4144 (0.514 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
596 (0.343 %)PCI DSS
674 (0.264 %)ISO/IEC 27001
772 (0.257 %)ISO 9001
863 (0.225 %)Basel II
946 (0.164 %)Solvency II
1030 (0.107 %)COBIT
1119 (0.068 %)DO-178B
1217 (0.061 %)Basel III
1217 (0.061 %)GAMP
1315 (0.054 %)ISO 9000
1413 (0.046 %)WAI
1413 (0.046 %)HL7
1510 (0.036 %)TickIT
165 (0.018 %)ISO 14001
165 (0.018 %)GxP
165 (0.018 %)21 CFR Part 11
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1741 (2.645 %)Oracle RAC
2673 (2.402 %)Active Directory
3601 (2.145 %)VMware Infrastructure
4591 (2.110 %)Oracle RMAN
5229 (0.817 %)vSphere
6136 (0.485 %)VMware ESX
7126 (0.450 %)Hyper-V
8117 (0.418 %)NFS
9106 (0.378 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1094 (0.336 %)Xen
1157 (0.203 %)Samba
1249 (0.175 %)XenApp
1338 (0.136 %)Squid
1436 (0.129 %)XenServer
1534 (0.121 %)VMware ESXi
1625 (0.089 %)Terminal Services
1724 (0.086 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1823 (0.082 %)SRDF
1921 (0.075 %)Citrix Presentation Server
2020 (0.071 %)XenDesktop
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1531 (1.896 %)Data Guard
2278 (0.992 %)HP Quality Center
2278 (0.992 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
3216 (0.771 %)Tivoli
4174 (0.621 %)NetBackup
5145 (0.518 %)Nagios
683 (0.296 %)Puppet
768 (0.243 %)SCOM
864 (0.228 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
963 (0.225 %)OpenView
1047 (0.168 %)Foglight
1146 (0.164 %)BMC PATROL
1243 (0.154 %)SCCM
1341 (0.146 %)Backup Exec
1440 (0.143 %)Control-M
1536 (0.129 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1635 (0.125 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1734 (0.121 %)Netcool
1833 (0.118 %)vCenter
1931 (0.111 %)Novell Identity Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
13484 (12.44 %)Microsoft
21991 (7.107 %)SAP
31680 (5.997 %)IBM
41659 (5.922 %)JBoss
51091 (3.895 %)Business Objects
61075 (3.838 %)Red Hat
71040 (3.713 %)Sybase
81029 (3.673 %)VMware
9873 (3.116 %)Sun
10866 (3.091 %)HP
11756 (2.699 %)Informatica
12724 (2.585 %)Cisco
13691 (2.467 %)Siebel
14657 (2.345 %)Cognos
15650 (2.320 %)Hyperion
16563 (2.010 %)TIBCO
17456 (1.628 %)Citrix
18399 (1.424 %)EMC
19388 (1.385 %)Teradata
20303 (1.082 %)NetApp