The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Oracle over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Watford region.

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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle
Rank 11 5 2
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Oracle 47 109 149
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 16.32% 30.53% 34.81%
As % of the Vendors category 28.48% 47.81% 55.60%
Number of salaries quoted 30 34 109
Average salary £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £61,750 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £41,250
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +3.03%
All Vendors
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
165 228 268
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 57.29% 63.87% 62.62%
Number of salaries quoted 135 134 199
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,500 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Oracle
Hertfordshire

Oracle
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Oracle across the Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Watford Oracle Jobs Demand Trend

Oracle
Salary Trend

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

Watford Oracle Salary Trend

Oracle
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Oracle across the Watford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Watford Oracle Salary Histogram

Oracle
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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.

1 108 (68.79%) Finance
2 94 (59.87%) SQL
3 91 (57.96%) DB2
4 87 (55.41%) Retail
5 79 (50.32%) UNIX
6 75 (47.77%) Linux
6 75 (47.77%) Java
7 73 (46.50%) WebSphere
8 72 (45.86%) WebSphere Application Server
9 71 (45.22%) Windows
10 68 (43.31%) IBM
11 65 (41.40%) E-Commerce
12 57 (36.31%) HTTP
12 57 (36.31%) J2EE
13 56 (35.67%) AIX
14 54 (34.39%) Games
15 45 (28.66%) IIS
16 44 (28.03%) Tomcat
16 44 (28.03%) IBM HTTP Server
17 40 (25.48%) MQSeries
18 38 (24.20%) Sun
19 34 (21.66%) JavaScript
20 32 (20.38%) Perl
21 30 (19.11%) Web Development
22 28 (17.83%) .NET
23 25 (15.92%) SQL Server
24 24 (15.29%) XML
24 24 (15.29%) ITIL
24 24 (15.29%) HP
25 23 (14.65%) Project Management

Oracle
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 73 (46.50%) WebSphere
2 57 (36.31%) J2EE
3 28 (17.83%) .NET
4 24 (15.29%) XML
5 23 (14.65%) HTML
6 21 (13.38%) CSS
6 21 (13.38%) JDBC
7 20 (12.74%) JSP
8 16 (10.19%) Middleware
9 15 (9.554%) Servlets
10 11 (7.006%) WinForms
11 10 (6.369%) XHTML
11 10 (6.369%) Struts
11 10 (6.369%) JSTL
11 10 (6.369%) jQuery
12 7 (4.459%) Web Services
13 6 (3.822%) Spring
13 6 (3.822%) Hibernate
14 5 (3.185%) SAP BSP
14 5 (3.185%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 72 (45.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 45 (28.66%) IIS
3 44 (28.03%) Tomcat
3 44 (28.03%) IBM HTTP Server
4 40 (25.48%) MQSeries
5 16 (10.19%) Apache
6 5 (3.185%) ESB
6 5 (3.185%) NetWeaver
6 5 (3.185%) CMS
7 2 (1.274%) SAS
7 2 (1.274%) Magento
7 2 (1.274%) Liferay
8 1 (0.637%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.637%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (8.280%) MS Office
2 2 (1.274%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.274%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 15 (9.554%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (5.732%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (5.096%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (4.459%) SAP BPC
5 6 (3.822%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.637%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 57 (36.31%) HTTP
2 17 (10.83%) Internet
3 13 (8.280%) Firewall
4 11 (7.006%) HTTPS
5 10 (6.369%) FTP
6 2 (1.274%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (57.96%) DB2
2 25 (15.92%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.643%) Oracle 8/8i
4 10 (6.369%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (5.732%) Oracle Reports
6 8 (5.096%) SAP BW
7 7 (4.459%) SQLPlus
7 7 (4.459%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.548%) Oracle 10g
8 4 (2.548%) MySQL
9 2 (1.274%) Informix
10 1 (0.637%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.637%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (0.637%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.637%) DataStage
10 1 (0.637%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (9.554%) Rational Application Developer
2 14 (8.917%) Ant
3 13 (8.280%) Subversion
3 13 (8.280%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.643%) Eclipse
4 12 (7.643%) JUnit
5 10 (6.369%) Visual Studio
5 10 (6.369%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
6 9 (5.732%) Oracle APEX
7 7 (4.459%) ProC
General
1 108 (68.79%) Finance
2 87 (55.41%) Retail
3 54 (34.39%) Games
4 22 (14.01%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.822%) Advertising
6 5 (3.185%) Marketing
7 3 (1.911%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.274%) Billing
9 1 (0.637%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.637%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.637%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (35.03%) Analyst
2 34 (21.66%) Developer
3 32 (20.38%) Support Analyst
4 21 (13.38%) Architect
5 13 (8.280%) Business Analyst
5 13 (8.280%) Infrastructure Architect
6 12 (7.643%) Project Manager
7 11 (7.006%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.006%) Operations Analyst
7 11 (7.006%) Operations Support Analyst
8 10 (6.369%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 10 (6.369%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 10 (6.369%) Technical Manager
8 10 (6.369%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (6.369%) Technical Services Manager
8 10 (6.369%) Developer Analyst
8 10 (6.369%) Service Manager
8 10 (6.369%) J2EE Developer
8 10 (6.369%) Services Delivery Manager
9 9 (5.732%) Performance Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.006%) Management Information System
2 9 (5.732%) FMCG
3 3 (1.911%) PMI
4 2 (1.274%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.637%) DataPower
5 1 (0.637%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.637%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 79 (50.32%) UNIX
2 75 (47.77%) Linux
3 71 (45.22%) Windows
4 56 (35.67%) AIX
5 17 (10.83%) SUSE
5 17 (10.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (7.006%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (41.40%) E-Commerce
2 30 (19.11%) Web Development
3 24 (15.29%) ITIL
4 23 (14.65%) Project Management
5 18 (11.46%) Service Delivery
6 16 (10.19%) MVC
6 16 (10.19%) Performance Testing
7 14 (8.917%) Agile Software Development
7 14 (8.917%) CRM
8 12 (7.643%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (6.369%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (6.369%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (6.369%) RAD
9 10 (6.369%) Content Management
10 9 (5.732%) ERP
10 9 (5.732%) Change Management
10 9 (5.732%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (5.096%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (5.096%) SOA
11 8 (5.096%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 94 (59.87%) SQL
2 75 (47.77%) Java
3 34 (21.66%) JavaScript
4 32 (20.38%) Perl
5 21 (13.38%) Bash shell
6 20 (12.74%) PL/SQL
7 13 (8.280%) C#
7 13 (8.280%) C++
8 7 (4.459%) ABAP
9 6 (3.822%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.822%) VBScript
10 2 (1.274%) VB
11 1 (0.637%) AWK
11 1 (0.637%) C
11 1 (0.637%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (6.369%) Sun Certification
1 10 (6.369%) Degree
2 3 (1.911%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.637%) MCTS
3 1 (0.637%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.637%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.637%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.548%) QA
2 2 (1.274%) SLA
3 1 (0.637%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (2.548%) Oracle RMAN
1 4 (2.548%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.637%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.459%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 68 (43.31%) IBM
2 38 (24.20%) Sun
3 24 (15.29%) HP
4 17 (10.83%) Dell
4 17 (10.83%) Red Hat
5 12 (7.643%) SAP
6 11 (7.006%) JBoss
6 11 (7.006%) Microsoft
7 8 (5.096%) Business Objects
8 4 (2.548%) Demandware
9 3 (1.911%) Siebel
9 3 (1.911%) JD Edwards
9 3 (1.911%) Sage
10 2 (1.274%) ATG
10 2 (1.274%) Perforce
10 2 (1.274%) ComArch
10 2 (1.274%) hybris
11 1 (0.637%) Endeca
11 1 (0.637%) Salesforce.com
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