Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the City of London region.

 PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank685858
Rank change year-on-year
Down-10No change0
Matching contract IT job ads205107207
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London2.390 %2.646 %2.569 %
As % of the Programming Languages category5.390 %6.785 %6.023 %
Daily rates quoted13254105
Average daily rate£475£455£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.390 %-4.210 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£314£343£350
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£501£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£315£350
% change year-on-year
+3.170 %-10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted406
Average hourly rate£37.25-£46.25
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.00-£29.82
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.45-£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£41.00£24.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
+65.65 %-29.28 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
380315773437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London44.34 %39.00 %42.66 %
Daily rates quoted25338431732
Average daily rate£500£450£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11 %-10.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£315£290£318
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£625
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted431570
Average hourly rate£36.00£28.00£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57 %-13.84 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£24.50£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£52.00£42.50£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.25£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.780 %-13.57 %
PL/SQL LondonPL/SQL
London

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.

PL/SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

City of London PL/SQL Demand Trend

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing PL/SQL across the City of London region.

City of London PL/SQL Daily Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London PL/SQL Daily Rate Histogram

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL across the City of London region.

City of London PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1382 (95.50 %)SQL
2351 (87.75 %)Oracle
3178 (44.50 %)Banking
4151 (37.75 %)C#
5143 (35.75 %)Investment Banking
6124 (31.00 %).NET
7121 (30.25 %)Oracle 10g
8118 (29.50 %)Finance
9107 (26.75 %)Java
1096 (24.00 %)UNIX
1171 (17.75 %)OO
1267 (16.75 %)Windows
1364 (16.00 %)XML
1364 (16.00 %)Datawarehouse
1364 (16.00 %)Agile Software Development
1454 (13.50 %)SQL Server
1551 (12.75 %)Shell Script
1649 (12.25 %)ASP.NET
1748 (12.00 %)Oracle 9i
1748 (12.00 %)Derivative
1845 (11.25 %)Business Intelligence
1940 (10.00 %)Web Services
2039 (9.750 %)Sybase
2137 (9.250 %)Oracle Reports
2236 (9.000 %)T-SQL
2236 (9.000 %)ETL
2335 (8.750 %)TDD
2434 (8.500 %)Perl
2533 (8.250 %)OOD
2632 (8.000 %)Subversion

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1124 (31.00 %).NET
264 (16.00 %)XML
349 (12.25 %)ASP.NET
440 (10.00 %)Web Services
530 (7.500 %)WinForms
621 (5.250 %).NET Framework
720 (5.000 %)Spring
818 (4.500 %)J2EE
917 (4.250 %)AJAX
1016 (4.000 %)Hibernate
1115 (3.750 %)WCF
1214 (3.500 %)ASP
1313 (3.250 %)JSON
1313 (3.250 %)NHibernate
1313 (3.250 %)jQuery
1410 (2.500 %)Middleware
1410 (2.500 %)HTML
158 (2.000 %)ASP.NET 2.0
158 (2.000 %)MDX
158 (2.000 %)Java EE
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (2.750 %)Apache
111 (2.750 %)MQSeries
111 (2.750 %)Oracle Workflow
29 (2.250 %)Tomcat
36 (1.500 %)Drupal
36 (1.500 %)WordPress
36 (1.500 %)CMS
44 (1.000 %)SharePoint
53 (0.750 %)Documentum
53 (0.750 %)WebSphere Application Server
53 (0.750 %)Rendezvous
53 (0.750 %)SharePoint Server 2007
62 (0.500 %)WebLogic
71 (0.250 %)LiveLink
71 (0.250 %)ESB
71 (0.250 %)Oracle Application Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (2.500 %)Spreadsheet
28 (2.000 %)MS Excel
31 (0.250 %)MS Project
31 (0.250 %)MS Office
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
117 (4.250 %)Endur
211 (2.750 %)Oracle 11i
38 (2.000 %)LongView
47 (1.750 %)BusinessWorks
56 (1.500 %)Oracle EBS R12
56 (1.500 %)Oracle iProcurement
56 (1.500 %)Khalix
56 (1.500 %)Oracle Applications
64 (1.000 %)Oracle EBS
73 (0.750 %)Oracle CRM
73 (0.750 %)Siebel Analytics
73 (0.750 %)Sophis RISQUE
82 (0.500 %)Oracle BPM
91 (0.250 %)Oracle Payroll
91 (0.250 %)Maximo
91 (0.250 %)Loan IQ
91 (0.250 %)Summit
91 (0.250 %)Minerva
91 (0.250 %)Oracle General Ledger
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
19 (2.250 %)Intranet
27 (1.750 %)Internet
32 (0.500 %)HTTP
41 (0.250 %)SMTP
41 (0.250 %)SAN
41 (0.250 %)3G
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1121 (30.25 %)Oracle 10g
264 (16.00 %)Datawarehouse
354 (13.50 %)SQL Server
448 (12.00 %)Oracle 9i
537 (9.250 %)Oracle Reports
636 (9.000 %)ETL
729 (7.250 %)Oracle 11g
828 (7.000 %)BusinessObjects
922 (5.500 %)Oracle OWB
1020 (5.000 %)Oracle Discoverer
1119 (4.750 %)Oracle 8/8i
1218 (4.500 %)OLAP
1317 (4.250 %)Oracle OLAP
1414 (3.500 %)TOAD
1414 (3.500 %)RDBMS
1513 (3.250 %)SQLPlus
1612 (3.000 %)SQL Server Integration Services
179 (2.250 %)SQL Server 2005
179 (2.250 %)Oracle BI EE
188 (2.000 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
132 (8.000 %)Subversion
220 (5.000 %)Oracle Forms
318 (4.500 %)ClearCase
416 (4.000 %)NUnit
515 (3.750 %)ProC
614 (3.500 %)TeamCity
712 (3.000 %)Visual Studio
811 (2.750 %)Ant
811 (2.750 %)PowerBuilder
99 (2.250 %)Oracle APEX
107 (1.750 %)FitNesse
116 (1.500 %)Maven
116 (1.500 %)VSS/SourceSafe
116 (1.500 %)Eclipse
125 (1.250 %)Selenium
134 (1.000 %)Firebug
134 (1.000 %)JDeveloper
143 (0.750 %)JUnit
143 (0.750 %)JMeter
152 (0.500 %)Visual Studio Team System
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1178 (44.50 %)Banking
2143 (35.75 %)Investment Banking
3118 (29.50 %)Finance
431 (7.750 %)Back Office
513 (3.250 %)Front Office
612 (3.000 %)Insurance
79 (2.250 %)Government
88 (2.000 %)Corporate Banking
96 (1.500 %)Health
96 (1.500 %)Education
105 (1.250 %)Retail
114 (1.000 %)General Ledger
122 (0.500 %)Publishing
122 (0.500 %)Financial Institution
131 (0.250 %)Legal
131 (0.250 %)Private Banking
131 (0.250 %)Auditing
131 (0.250 %)Music
131 (0.250 %)Music Industry
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1275 (68.75 %)Developer
2101 (25.25 %)Oracle Developer
380 (20.00 %)C# Developer
452 (13.00 %)Analyst
541 (10.25 %).NET Developer
637 (9.250 %)SQL Developer
733 (8.250 %)DBA
830 (7.500 %)Java Developer
927 (6.750 %)Oracle DBA
927 (6.750 %)Senior Developer
1025 (6.250 %)PL/SQL Developer
1120 (5.000 %)Business Developer
1219 (4.750 %)Business Analyst
1219 (4.750 %)Analyst Developer
1219 (4.750 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
1318 (4.500 %)ASP.NET Developer
1413 (3.250 %)Consultant
1413 (3.250 %)Programmer
1511 (2.750 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Developer
1511 (2.750 %)Senior Java Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
148 (12.00 %)Derivative
220 (5.000 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
319 (4.750 %)Multithreading
415 (3.750 %)Fixed Income
415 (3.750 %)N-Tier
514 (3.500 %)Contract for Difference
69 (2.250 %)Equities
78 (2.000 %)Replication
87 (1.750 %)Credit Derivative
87 (1.750 %)Credit Risk
96 (1.500 %)Equity Derivative
96 (1.500 %)Clustering
96 (1.500 %)Client/Server
104 (1.000 %)Open Source
104 (1.000 %)Wiki
112 (0.500 %)Market Risk
112 (0.500 %)Data Extraction
121 (0.250 %)NHS
121 (0.250 %)Management Information System
121 (0.250 %)Interest Rate Derivative
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
196 (24.00 %)UNIX
267 (16.75 %)Windows
327 (6.750 %)Linux
418 (4.500 %)Solaris
511 (2.750 %)VMS
610 (2.500 %)AIX
74 (1.000 %)Red Hat Linux
74 (1.000 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
82 (0.500 %)Windows Server 2003
82 (0.500 %)Windows 2000
91 (0.250 %)Windows XP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
171 (17.75 %)OO
264 (16.00 %)Agile Software Development
345 (11.25 %)Business Intelligence
435 (8.750 %)TDD
533 (8.250 %)OOD
629 (7.250 %)Scrum
724 (6.000 %)Data Modelling
820 (5.000 %)User Acceptance Testing
820 (5.000 %)RAD
918 (4.500 %)Asset Management
1015 (3.750 %)MVC
1114 (3.500 %)CRM
1213 (3.250 %)Workflow
1213 (3.250 %)ITIL
1213 (3.250 %)SOA
1311 (2.750 %)CMMI
1311 (2.750 %)Extreme Programming
1311 (2.750 %)Feature Driven Development
1410 (2.500 %)Release Management
159 (2.250 %)Migration
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1382 (95.50 %)SQL
2151 (37.75 %)C#
3107 (26.75 %)Java
451 (12.75 %)Shell Script
536 (9.000 %)T-SQL
634 (8.500 %)Perl
726 (6.500 %)C
726 (6.500 %)VBA
825 (6.250 %)VB
922 (5.500 %)JavaScript
1012 (3.000 %)VB6
1012 (3.000 %)C++
1111 (2.750 %)XAML
129 (2.250 %)DCL
137 (1.750 %)XPath
146 (1.500 %)Bash shell
146 (1.500 %)Python
154 (1.000 %)Ruby
163 (0.750 %)VB.NET
163 (0.750 %)PHP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18 (2.000 %)Degree
25 (1.250 %)Security Cleared
34 (1.000 %)SC Cleared
41 (0.250 %)ISEB
41 (0.250 %)OCP
41 (0.250 %)Oracle Certification
41 (0.250 %)DV Cleared
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
121 (5.250 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
114 (3.500 %)Oracle RMAN
213 (3.250 %)Oracle RAC
36 (1.500 %)Squid
41 (0.250 %)Active Directory
41 (0.250 %)VMware Infrastructure
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
115 (3.750 %)Data Guard
28 (2.000 %)AutoSys
34 (1.000 %)Oracle Statspack
34 (1.000 %)BMC PATROL
41 (0.250 %)MSI
41 (0.250 %)HP Quality Center
41 (0.250 %)SCOM
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1351 (87.75 %)Oracle
239 (9.750 %)Sybase
328 (7.000 %)Business Objects
423 (5.750 %)Informatica
517 (4.250 %)TIBCO
613 (3.250 %)Microsoft
710 (2.500 %)OpenLink
88 (2.000 %)BMC
96 (1.500 %)Alterian
96 (1.500 %)Bloomberg
96 (1.500 %)Cognos
105 (1.250 %)Agresso
114 (1.000 %)IBM
114 (1.000 %)Charles River
114 (1.000 %)Red Hat
114 (1.000 %)Siebel
123 (0.750 %)Hyperion
123 (0.750 %)Reuters
123 (0.750 %)Google
123 (0.750 %)BladeLogic