The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 30 32 32
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 1 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 0.481% 0.976% 0.422%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.439% 3.125% 1.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
41 64 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 19.71% 31.22% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 45 46
Average daily rate £310 £340 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £201 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
Average hourly rate £36.25 £23.75 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.63% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PL/SQL
South Wales

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) TOAD
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (50.00%) TOAD
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
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