The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Cheshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 43 52 63
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +11
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 20 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.762% 1.377% 0.929%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.479% 4.453% 2.875%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 4
Average daily rate £375 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -3.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £273 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £329 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Average hourly rate £51.39 - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.25 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+57.27% -15.38%
All Programming Languages
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
211 247 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 29.14% 30.91% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 133 174
Average daily rate £350 £305 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% -12.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 10
Average hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% +57.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £13.50 £15.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.39 £36.00 £46.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PL/SQL
North West

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Warrington -3 7 £380 +29.91%
Chester -2 4 £375 +13.63%
Macclesfield - 1 - -
PL/SQL
North West

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 31 (100.00%) SQL
2 28 (90.32%) Oracle
3 18 (58.06%) Finance
4 12 (38.71%) Oracle EBS R12
5 11 (35.48%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (35.48%) Oracle Applications
6 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (25.81%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (22.58%) Web Services
8 7 (22.58%) UNIX
8 7 (22.58%) Oracle Payroll
9 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
9 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
9 6 (19.35%) Java
9 6 (19.35%) ETL
10 5 (16.13%) WSDL
10 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
10 5 (16.13%) J2EE
10 5 (16.13%) SOAP
10 5 (16.13%) Oracle 11g
10 5 (16.13%) Spring
11 4 (12.90%) JSF
11 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (12.90%) TDD
11 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
11 4 (12.90%) jQuery
11 4 (12.90%) Ajax
11 4 (12.90%) Local Government
11 4 (12.90%) Web 2.0
11 4 (12.90%) WebSphere

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (22.58%) Web Services
2 5 (16.13%) WSDL
2 5 (16.13%) J2EE
2 5 (16.13%) SOAP
2 5 (16.13%) Spring
3 4 (12.90%) JSF
3 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
3 4 (12.90%) jQuery
3 4 (12.90%) Ajax
3 4 (12.90%) WebSphere
3 4 (12.90%) Apache Axis
3 4 (12.90%) DOM
3 4 (12.90%) XSLT
3 4 (12.90%) XHTML
3 4 (12.90%) CSS
3 4 (12.90%) JSP
3 4 (12.90%) Servlets
3 4 (12.90%) JAX-RPC
4 3 (9.677%) CSS3
4 3 (9.677%) ICEfaces
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.452%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (6.452%) Mule
2 2 (6.452%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (38.71%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (35.48%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (25.81%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (22.58%) Oracle Payroll
5 4 (12.90%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (3.226%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (12.90%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.677%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (9.677%) SQL Server
4 3 (9.677%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (6.452%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (6.452%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (6.452%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (3.226%) TOAD
6 1 (3.226%) DB2
6 1 (3.226%) OLAP
6 1 (3.226%) MS Access
6 1 (3.226%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (3.226%) Essbase
6 1 (3.226%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) JUnit
2 3 (9.677%) Eclipse
2 3 (9.677%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (9.677%) JIRA
2 3 (9.677%) Subversion
General
1 18 (58.06%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Local Government
3 2 (6.452%) Billing
4 1 (3.226%) Legal
4 1 (3.226%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (48.39%) Developer
2 11 (35.48%) Consultant
3 10 (32.26%) Oracle Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Functional Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Payroll Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Architect
5 3 (9.677%) Oracle Architect
5 3 (9.677%) Business Consultant
5 3 (9.677%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Crystal Reports Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Oracle Financials Consultant
6 2 (6.452%) Report Developer
6 2 (6.452%) OBIEE Developer
7 1 (3.226%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.226%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Web 2.0
2 2 (6.452%) Data Integration
3 1 (3.226%) NHS
3 1 (3.226%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (19.35%) ETL
3 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (12.90%) TDD
3 4 (12.90%) PRINCE2
3 4 (12.90%) E-Commerce
3 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
3 4 (12.90%) Waterfall
4 3 (9.677%) Kimball Methodology
4 3 (9.677%) CRM
4 3 (9.677%) Integration Testing
4 3 (9.677%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (9.677%) Software Engineering
5 2 (6.452%) Project Management
5 2 (6.452%) Migration
5 2 (6.452%) Data Migration
5 2 (6.452%) Project Planning
5 2 (6.452%) Business Analysis
5 2 (6.452%) Workflow
5 2 (6.452%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.90%) XPath
5 3 (9.677%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.226%) VB
6 1 (3.226%) C
6 1 (3.226%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.677%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.226%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (90.32%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Cognos
2 4 (12.90%) IBM
3 3 (9.677%) Ab Initio
3 3 (9.677%) Perforce
4 1 (3.226%) Informatica
4 1 (3.226%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (3.226%) Sage
4 1 (3.226%) VMware
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