WebLogic Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WebLogic skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WebLogic over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Oracle WebLogic Server UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	354	237	285
Rank change year-on-year	-117	+48
Contract jobs citing WebLogic	251	573	434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.54%	1.08%	0.77%
As % of the Application Platforms category	3.27%	5.98%	4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted	156	355	251
Median daily rate	£480	£425	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+12.94%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£344	£317	£339
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£600	£546
UK excluding London median daily rate	£472	£415	£425
% change year-on-year	+13.73%	-2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	8	4
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£15.00	£31.73
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+166.66%	-52.72%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£15.00	£31.73
% change year-on-year	+166.66%	-52.72%

WebLogic is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	7676	9587	9977
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	16.58%	18.07%	17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	4899	6394	6227
Median daily rate	£425	£420	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+1.19%	+12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£260	£265	£230
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£560	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	+11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted	196	235	341
Median hourly rate	£24.50	£20.50	£20.60
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+19.51%	-0.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£12.49	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£43.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£25.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	-	+19.04%

WebLogic
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing WebLogic as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Job vacancy trend for WebLogic in the UK

WebLogic
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing WebLogic.

Contractor daily rate trend for WebLogic in the UK

WebLogic
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing WebLogic over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for WebLogic in the UK

WebLogic
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebLogic.

Contractor hourly rate trend for WebLogic in the UK

WebLogic
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WebLogic within the UK over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-127	234	£488	+14.79%	48
London	-89	78	£500	+5.26%	18
South East	-13	46	£500	+11.11%	11
East of England	-6	25	£461	+12.78%	6
West Sussex	+33	20	£500	+29.03%
Essex	-5	20	£472	+27.56%	3
South West	-5	19	£405	-0.91%	2
West Midlands	-39	19	£500	+17.64%
Worthing	+30	18	£500	+29.03%
North West	+20	18	£413	+14.58%	2
Southend-on-Sea	-23	15	£472	+32.86%
Shropshire	+9	14	£500	+20.48%
Telford	+8	14	£500	+20.48%
Scotland	+34	12	£330	-17.50%	2
Newcastle upon Tyne	+24	12	£323	+7.50%	4
Tyne and Wear	+20	12	£323	+6.26%	4
North East	+10	12	£323	+6.26%	4
Edinburgh	+12	11	£330	-34.00%	1
Manchester	+15	10	£400	-	1
Surrey	-6	9	£500	+11.11%	2
Bristol	-4	7	£423	+14.18%
Hampshire	-18	7	£481	+13.23%
Yorkshire	+22	6	£450	-8.16%	5
Berkshire	+6	6	£413	-17.50%	6
Canary Wharf	+5	6	£600	+23.71%
West Yorkshire	+22	5	£450	-8.16%	5
Middlesex	-	5	£500	-
Bath	-	5	£375	-
Somerset	-	5	£375	-
Leeds	+21	4	£450	-6.25%	3

WebLogic
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing WebLogic also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for WebLogic.

1	506 (76.09%)	Oracle
2	410 (61.65%)	Java
3	309 (46.47%)	Agile Software Development
4	278 (41.80%)	Linux
5	266 (40.00%)	Unix
6	226 (33.98%)	SQL
7	199 (29.92%)	JBoss
8	195 (29.32%)	J2EE
9	191 (28.72%)	XML
10	184 (27.67%)	Oracle Database
11	182 (27.37%)	Web Services
12	179 (26.92%)	Tomcat
13	176 (26.47%)	Git (software)
14	175 (26.32%)	Spring
15	158 (23.76%)	Apache

16	156 (23.46%)	Jenkins
16	156 (23.46%)	DevOps
17	153 (23.01%)	WebSphere
18	152 (22.86%)	Continuous Integration
19	142 (21.35%)	Hibernate
20	140 (21.05%)	JavaScript
21	135 (20.30%)	SOAP
22	129 (19.40%)	REST
23	128 (19.25%)	HTML
24	115 (17.29%)	Open Source
25	113 (16.99%)	Red Hat
26	111 (16.69%)	Configuration Management
27	110 (16.54%)	SOA
28	108 (16.24%)	PL/SQL
29	105 (15.79%)	Security Cleared

WebLogic
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	199 (29.92%)	JBoss
2	179 (26.92%)	Tomcat
3	158 (23.76%)	Apache
4	153 (23.01%)	WebSphere
5	93 (13.98%)	Oracle SOA Suite
6	65 (9.77%)	Confluence
7	42 (6.32%)	WebSphere Application Server
8	33 (4.96%)	Oracle Service Bus
9	32 (4.81%)	nginx
9	32 (4.81%)	Oracle Application Server
10	28 (4.21%)	OpenStack
11	27 (4.06%)	WebLogic Portal
12	25 (3.76%)	IIS
13	18 (2.71%)	GlassFish
13	18 (2.71%)	iPlanet
14	17 (2.56%)	Oracle Workflow
15	15 (2.26%)	CMS
16	12 (1.80%)	Mule
16	12 (1.80%)	Oracle HTTP Server
17	11 (1.65%)	ATG Dynamo

Applications
1	6 (0.90%)	Microsoft Excel
1	6 (0.90%)	Microsoft Office
1	6 (0.90%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
2	1 (0.15%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	45 (6.77%)	Oracle BPM
2	27 (4.06%)	Oracle EBS
3	15 (2.26%)	Oracle EBS R12
4	13 (1.95%)	Oracle Applications
5	9 (1.35%)	Oracle 11i
6	7 (1.05%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7	6 (0.90%)	Oracle Retail
8	5 (0.75%)	SAP Oil and Gas
9	4 (0.60%)	Murex MxG2000
9	4 (0.60%)	Oracle Cash Management
9	4 (0.60%)	Pega PRPC
10	3 (0.45%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
10	3 (0.45%)	Primavera
11	2 (0.30%)	NetSuite
11	2 (0.30%)	Oracle ERP
11	2 (0.30%)	Oracle Payables
12	1 (0.15%)	Demantra
12	1 (0.15%)	Oracle BRM
12	1 (0.15%)	Oracle Utilities

Cloud Services
1	102 (15.34%)	Amazon AWS
2	81 (12.18%)	Microsoft Azure
3	23 (3.46%)	Trello
4	17 (2.56%)	PaaS
5	13 (1.95%)	IaaS
6	10 (1.50%)	GitHub
6	10 (1.50%)	Google Analytics
6	10 (1.50%)	SaaS
7	5 (0.75%)	Cloud Computing
7	5 (0.75%)	OpenShift
8	3 (0.45%)	Amazon EC2
8	3 (0.45%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	2 (0.30%)	Force.com
9	2 (0.30%)	Google App Engine
9	2 (0.30%)	Google Checkout
9	2 (0.30%)	Taleo
9	2 (0.30%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	1 (0.15%)	Amazon CloudWatch
10	1 (0.15%)	AWS Lambda
10	1 (0.15%)	Azure Active Directory

Communications & Networking
1	57 (8.57%)	HTTP
2	50 (7.52%)	TCP/IP
3	39 (5.86%)	SSL
4	34 (5.11%)	Firewall
5	30 (4.51%)	LDAP
6	19 (2.86%)	Internet
7	15 (2.26%)	DNS
8	10 (1.50%)	Kerberos
9	6 (0.90%)	SAN
9	6 (0.90%)	SSH
9	6 (0.90%)	VPN
10	5 (0.75%)	WAN
11	4 (0.60%)	Remote Desktop
12	3 (0.45%)	FTP
12	3 (0.45%)	NAS
12	3 (0.45%)	PuTTY
12	3 (0.45%)	SMTP
12	3 (0.45%)	VLAN
12	3 (0.45%)	WinSCP
13	2 (0.30%)	IPsec

Database & Business Intelligence
1	184 (27.67%)	Oracle Database
2	84 (12.63%)	Oracle Database 11g
3	65 (9.77%)	MySQL
4	61 (9.17%)	Oracle Database 10g
5	60 (9.02%)	Oracle Database 12c
6	53 (7.97%)	NoSQL
7	51 (7.67%)	BusinessObjects
8	50 (7.52%)	Relational Database
9	46 (6.92%)	MongoDB
10	42 (6.32%)	SQL Server
11	31 (4.66%)	Oracle Reports
12	29 (4.36%)	PostgreSQL
13	22 (3.31%)	RDBMS
14	19 (2.86%)	DB2
15	18 (2.71%)	Oracle BI EE
16	17 (2.56%)	Oracle OWB
17	16 (2.41%)	Data Warehouse
17	16 (2.41%)	Oracle ODI
18	14 (2.11%)	Endeca
19	12 (1.80%)	MariaDB

Development Applications
1	176 (26.47%)	Git (software)
2	156 (23.46%)	Jenkins
3	100 (15.04%)	JIRA
4	78 (11.73%)	Maven
5	69 (10.38%)	Subversion
6	68 (10.23%)	Selenium
7	59 (8.87%)	JUnit
8	52 (7.82%)	Sonatype Nexus
9	47 (7.07%)	Eclipse
10	45 (6.77%)	Ant
11	33 (4.96%)	IntelliJ
12	29 (4.36%)	NUnit
12	29 (4.36%)	Oracle APEX
12	29 (4.36%)	SoapUI
13	26 (3.91%)	MSTest
14	24 (3.61%)	Cucumber
14	24 (3.61%)	GitLab
15	22 (3.31%)	ProC
16	19 (2.86%)	Gradle
17	18 (2.71%)	Mockito

General
1	92 (13.83%)	Finance
2	50 (7.52%)	Banking
3	41 (6.17%)	Retail
4	11 (1.65%)	Front Office
4	11 (1.65%)	Telecoms
5	10 (1.50%)	Investment Banking
6	6 (0.90%)	Marketing
7	5 (0.75%)	Advertising
7	5 (0.75%)	Electronics
7	5 (0.75%)	Financial Institution
7	5 (0.75%)	Manufacturing
8	3 (0.45%)	Games
8	3 (0.45%)	Law
9	2 (0.30%)	Back Office
9	2 (0.30%)	Billing
9	2 (0.30%)	Local Government
9	2 (0.30%)	Prime Brokerage
9	2 (0.30%)	Retail Banking
10	1 (0.15%)	Dutch Language
10	1 (0.15%)	French Language

Job Titles
1	272 (40.90%)	Developer
2	184 (27.67%)	Java Developer
3	111 (16.69%)	Architect
4	48 (7.22%)	DevOps Engineer
5	41 (6.17%)	DBA
5	41 (6.17%)	Oracle DBA
6	39 (5.86%)	Administrator
7	33 (4.96%)	Oracle Architect
7	33 (4.96%)	Senior Developer
8	30 (4.51%)	Technical Architect
9	29 (4.36%)	Scala Developer
10	28 (4.21%)	Oracle Developer
11	25 (3.76%)	Analyst
11	25 (3.76%)	Digital Developer
12	20 (3.01%)	Consultant
12	20 (3.01%)	Solutions Architect
13	19 (2.86%)	Senior Java Developer
14	17 (2.56%)	Designer
14	17 (2.56%)	Full Stack Developer
14	17 (2.56%)	Software Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	195 (29.32%)	J2EE
2	191 (28.72%)	XML
3	182 (27.37%)	Web Services
4	175 (26.32%)	Spring
5	142 (21.35%)	Hibernate
6	135 (20.30%)	SOAP
7	129 (19.40%)	REST
8	128 (19.25%)	HTML
9	103 (15.49%)	CSS
10	95 (14.29%)	EJB
11	91 (13.68%)	XSLT
12	88 (13.23%)	JMS
12	88 (13.23%)	Middleware
13	85 (12.78%)	Java EE
14	83 (12.48%)	JSP
15	66 (9.92%)	Servlets
16	64 (9.62%)	JSON
17	63 (9.47%)	JPA
18	54 (8.12%)	Struts
19	47 (7.07%)	Oracle Fusion

Miscellaneous
1	64 (9.62%)	Analytical Skills
2	37 (5.56%)	Clustering
3	26 (3.91%)	Data Centre
3	26 (3.91%)	Enterprise Software
4	24 (3.61%)	iPad
5	18 (2.71%)	Virtual Team
6	15 (2.26%)	Computer Science
7	13 (1.95%)	Management Information System
8	12 (1.80%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	10 (1.50%)	Client/Server
10	9 (1.35%)	Mainframe
11	8 (1.20%)	Replication
12	7 (1.05%)	Linux Command Line
13	6 (0.90%)	Data Structures
13	6 (0.90%)	Derivative
13	6 (0.90%)	Greenfield Project
14	5 (0.75%)	Mobile App
14	5 (0.75%)	PKI
14	5 (0.75%)	User Experience
15	4 (0.60%)	Credit Risk

Operating Systems
1	278 (41.80%)	Linux
2	266 (40.00%)	Unix
3	101 (15.19%)	Windows
4	75 (11.28%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	58 (8.72%)	Solaris
6	54 (8.12%)	AIX
7	51 (7.67%)	Windows Server
8	32 (4.81%)	HPUX
9	21 (3.16%)	SUSE
10	14 (2.11%)	Mac OS X
11	12 (1.80%)	VME
12	11 (1.65%)	Oracle Linux
12	11 (1.65%)	Windows Server 2008
13	8 (1.20%)	Android
13	8 (1.20%)	Ubuntu
14	7 (1.05%)	Windows Server 2003
15	3 (0.45%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16	2 (0.30%)	Apple iOS
17	1 (0.15%)	OpenVMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	309 (46.47%)	Agile Software Development
2	156 (23.46%)	DevOps
3	152 (22.86%)	Continuous Integration
4	115 (17.29%)	Open Source
5	111 (16.69%)	Configuration Management
6	110 (16.54%)	SOA
7	91 (13.68%)	TDD
8	84 (12.63%)	OO
9	79 (11.88%)	Scrum
10	72 (10.83%)	SDLC
11	64 (9.62%)	Test Automation
12	61 (9.17%)	Microservices
12	61 (9.17%)	Performance Tuning
13	55 (8.27%)	Business Intelligence
14	54 (8.12%)	ITIL
15	50 (7.52%)	E-Commerce
16	46 (6.92%)	High Availability
17	44 (6.62%)	Waterfall
18	41 (6.17%)	Mentoring
18	41 (6.17%)	UML

Programming Languages
1	410 (61.65%)	Java
2	226 (33.98%)	SQL
3	140 (21.05%)	JavaScript
4	108 (16.24%)	PL/SQL
5	85 (12.78%)	Perl
6	61 (9.17%)	Python
7	56 (8.42%)	Shell Script
8	47 (7.07%)	C
9	45 (6.77%)	PowerShell
10	38 (5.71%)	Scala
11	37 (5.56%)	Groovy
12	33 (4.96%)	C#
13	25 (3.76%)	PHP
14	21 (3.16%)	Bash Shell
15	18 (2.71%)	C++
16	15 (2.26%)	XPath
17	11 (1.65%)	Ruby
18	8 (1.20%)	Haskell
18	8 (1.20%)	TypeScript
19	7 (1.05%)	WebLogic Scripting Tool

Qualifications
1	105 (15.79%)	Security Cleared
2	82 (12.33%)	SC Cleared
3	42 (6.32%)	Degree
4	14 (2.11%)	ISEB
5	11 (1.65%)	DV Cleared
5	11 (1.65%)	ISTQB
6	8 (1.20%)	OCPJP
7	7 (1.05%)	BPSS Clearance
7	7 (1.05%)	Oracle Certification
8	5 (0.75%)	PMI Certification
9	4 (0.60%)	CCIE
9	4 (0.60%)	CCIE Security
9	4 (0.60%)	Cisco Certification
9	4 (0.60%)	CISSP
9	4 (0.60%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
9	4 (0.60%)	RHCE
9	4 (0.60%)	RHCSA
9	4 (0.60%)	Sun Certification
10	3 (0.45%)	Master's Degree
10	3 (0.45%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	22 (3.31%)	QA
2	9 (1.35%)	Disclosure Scotland
2	9 (1.35%)	SLA
3	6 (0.90%)	MiFID
4	5 (0.75%)	JSP 440
5	4 (0.60%)	Data Quality
6	1 (0.15%)	ISO/IEC 20000

System Software
1	73 (10.98%)	Docker
2	42 (6.32%)	Active Directory
3	40 (6.02%)	Oracle RAC
4	18 (2.71%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	16 (2.41%)	Veritas Volume Manager
6	14 (2.11%)	Virtual Machines
7	7 (1.05%)	Hyper-V
7	7 (1.05%)	KVM
8	4 (0.60%)	NFS
8	4 (0.60%)	vCloud
9	2 (0.30%)	Samba
10	1 (0.15%)	RACF
10	1 (0.15%)	Veritas Cluster Server
10	1 (0.15%)	VirtualBox
10	1 (0.15%)	vSphere
10	1 (0.15%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	91 (13.68%)	Puppet
2	82 (12.33%)	Ansible
3	49 (7.37%)	Opscode Chef
4	34 (5.11%)	Dollar Universe
5	19 (2.86%)	Data Guard
6	17 (2.56%)	Oracle RMAN
7	16 (2.41%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8	15 (2.26%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
9	9 (1.35%)	Grafana
9	9 (1.35%)	Kibana
10	8 (1.20%)	Oracle Identity Management
10	8 (1.20%)	vRealize
11	7 (1.05%)	Oracle Identity Manager
12	6 (0.90%)	CA Single Sign-On
13	4 (0.60%)	Cobbler
14	3 (0.45%)	Failover Clustering
14	3 (0.45%)	HP Quality Center
14	3 (0.45%)	Kubernetes
14	3 (0.45%)	Microsoft Clustering
14	3 (0.45%)	Tivoli Storage Manager

Vendors
1	506 (76.09%)	Oracle
2	113 (16.99%)	Red Hat
3	46 (6.92%)	webMethods
4	43 (6.47%)	TIBCO
5	39 (5.86%)	IBM
6	37 (5.56%)	ATG
7	36 (5.41%)	VMware
8	32 (4.81%)	HP
9	31 (4.66%)	Atlassian
9	31 (4.66%)	Microsoft
10	28 (4.21%)	F5
10	28 (4.21%)	Sun
11	27 (4.06%)	Cisco
12	24 (3.61%)	BEA
12	24 (3.61%)	Informatica
13	22 (3.31%)	Google
14	21 (3.16%)	Adobe
15	19 (2.86%)	Pega
16	17 (2.56%)	Veritas
17	12 (1.80%)	hybris