The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 73 62 72
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +10
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 2 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.219% 1.046% 0.917%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.697% 3.650% 3.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 5
Average daily rate - £313 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.75 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+34.61% -
All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
287 274 310
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 31.43% 28.66% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 132 133
Average daily rate £335 £313 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.20% -9.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 15
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £27.76
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +26.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £42.00 £37.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PL/SQL
South East

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Buckinghamshire PL/SQL Jobs Demand Trend

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PL/SQL across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire PL/SQL Daily Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes -1 2 - - 2
PL/SQL
South East

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing PL/SQL 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited PL/SQL.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) CMS
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) Zend
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) Social Media
4 2 (20.00%) Facebook
4 2 (20.00%) Twitter
4 2 (20.00%) Apache
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) IIS
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (20.00%) CA SiteMinder
4 2 (20.00%) Content Management
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
4 2 (20.00%) Drupal
5 1 (10.00%) PHP5
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing PL/SQL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited PL/SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Dojo
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Ajax
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (10.00%) EJB
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) JDBC
3 1 (10.00%) JSP
3 1 (10.00%) Servlets
3 1 (10.00%) Struts
3 1 (10.00%) DHTML
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) J2EE
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) JMS
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
2 2 (20.00%) Drupal
3 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Architect
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Architect
5 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
6 1 (10.00%) ETL Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (10.00%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Database Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
1 2 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Content Management
1 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) UML
2 1 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Zend
3 2 (20.00%) Facebook
3 2 (20.00%) Twitter
4 1 (10.00%) JBoss
4 1 (10.00%) Talend