Dorset PL/SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crewe Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	41
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	11	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	8.088 %	2.222 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£375
Average daily rate	£409	£396
% change on same period last year	+3.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£360
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.15	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-12.25 %
Programming Languages Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	136	135
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.179 %	0.134 %
Daily rates quoted	28	57
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£353
Average daily rate	£341	£368
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.49	£27.25
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£29.53
% change on same period last year	-6.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.51	£31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
PL/SQL South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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 Dorset region.

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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 Dorset region.

PL/SQL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bournemouth	+12	6	£425	+1.79 %

PL/SQL South West

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 26 (100.00 %) SQL 1 26 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 17 (65.38 %) Datawarehouse 3 15 (57.69 %) ETL 4 12 (46.15 %) Business Intelligence 4 12 (46.15 %) OLAP 4 12 (46.15 %) Oracle OLAP 5 10 (38.46 %) Oracle Discoverer 6 9 (34.62 %) OLTP 6 9 (34.62 %) Oracle 10g 6 9 (34.62 %) Oracle OWB 7 8 (30.77 %) Insurance 8 7 (26.92 %) Finance 9 6 (23.08 %) UNIX 10 5 (19.23 %) Oracle 9i

11 4 (15.38 %) Data Mapping 11 4 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 11 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (15.38 %) Solaris 11 4 (15.38 %) MS Office 11 4 (15.38 %) Shell Script 11 4 (15.38 %) Data Modelling 12 3 (11.54 %) SAS 12 3 (11.54 %) TOAD 12 3 (11.54 %) DSDM 12 3 (11.54 %) Base SAS 12 3 (11.54 %) Oracle BI EE 13 2 (7.692 %) Dimensional Modelling 13 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel 13 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 2 (7.692 %) XML 2 1 (3.846 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (11.54 %) SAS
Applications 1 4 (15.38 %) MS Office 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (65.38 %) Datawarehouse 2 15 (57.69 %) ETL 3 12 (46.15 %) OLAP 3 12 (46.15 %) Oracle OLAP 4 10 (38.46 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 9 (34.62 %) OLTP 5 9 (34.62 %) Oracle 10g 5 9 (34.62 %) Oracle OWB 6 5 (19.23 %) Oracle 9i 7 3 (11.54 %) TOAD 7 3 (11.54 %) Base SAS 7 3 (11.54 %) Oracle BI EE 8 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Reports 8 2 (7.692 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 2 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (7.692 %) SQLPlus 9 1 (3.846 %) Star Schema	Development Applications 1 1 (3.846 %) ProC 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (3.846 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 8 (30.77 %) Insurance 2 7 (26.92 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 22 (84.62 %) Developer 2 8 (30.77 %) Oracle Developer 3 5 (19.23 %) Oracle DBA 3 5 (19.23 %) DBA 4 4 (15.38 %) Datawarehouse Developer 5 3 (11.54 %) Business Developer 5 3 (11.54 %) Business Intelligence Developer 6 2 (7.692 %) Systems Support 6 2 (7.692 %) Lead Developer 6 2 (7.692 %) Oracle Discoverer Developer 7 1 (3.846 %) Systems Developer 7 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Datawarehouse Developer 7 1 (3.846 %) SQL Developer 7 1 (3.846 %) PL/SQL Developer 7 1 (3.846 %) HTML Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.846 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 6 (23.08 %) UNIX 2 4 (15.38 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (46.15 %) Business Intelligence 2 4 (15.38 %) Data Mapping 2 4 (15.38 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (15.38 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (15.38 %) Data Modelling 3 3 (11.54 %) DSDM 4 2 (7.692 %) Dimensional Modelling 4 2 (7.692 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 26 (100.00 %) SQL 2 4 (15.38 %) Shell Script 3 1 (3.846 %) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) Basel II	Vendors 1 26 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (7.692 %) Business Objects