The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 21 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 Edinburgh 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 45 52 59
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +7
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 12 13 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.465% 1.185% 1.002%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.286% 6.500% 4.797%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
Average daily rate £388 £337 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.02% -3.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £333
% change year-on-year
- +5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+35.45% -15.38%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
227 200 271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.72% 18.23% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 83 107
Average daily rate £313 £323 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.10% -0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 2
Average hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.81% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PL/SQL
Scotland

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh PL/SQL Daily Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Edinburgh PL/SQL Daily Rate Histogram

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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 44 (97.78%) SQL
2 40 (88.89%) Oracle
3 21 (46.67%) Finance
4 16 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (33.33%) UNIX
6 13 (28.89%) Oracle EBS
7 12 (26.67%) Shell Script
8 11 (24.44%) XML
8 11 (24.44%) Java
9 10 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
10 9 (20.00%) Web Services
11 8 (17.78%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (17.78%) ETL
12 7 (15.56%) RDBMS
12 7 (15.56%) CSS
12 7 (15.56%) Degree
12 7 (15.56%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
13 6 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
13 6 (13.33%) jQuery
13 6 (13.33%) Data Guard
13 6 (13.33%) SAP Data Services
13 6 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
13 6 (13.33%) SQLPlus
13 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
13 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
13 6 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (13.33%) Windows
13 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (24.44%) XML
2 9 (20.00%) Web Services
3 7 (15.56%) CSS
4 6 (13.33%) jQuery
5 5 (11.11%) JSON
5 5 (11.11%) Ajax
5 5 (11.11%) HTML5
5 5 (11.11%) Highcharts JS
6 4 (8.889%) .NET
7 3 (6.667%) JavaBeans
7 3 (6.667%) JDBC
7 3 (6.667%) Hibernate
7 3 (6.667%) JSF
8 2 (4.444%) Facelets
8 2 (4.444%) JPA
8 2 (4.444%) Spring
8 2 (4.444%) J2EE
8 2 (4.444%) HTML
9 1 (2.222%) Middleware
9 1 (2.222%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.11%) WebLogic
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (6.667%) PowerExchange
3 1 (2.222%) SAS
3 1 (2.222%) MTS
3 1 (2.222%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.222%) Apache
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.222%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Gephi
Business Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (8.889%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (6.667%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (2.222%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 6 (13.33%) LDAP
1 6 (13.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.222%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 8 (17.78%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (15.56%) RDBMS
4 7 (15.56%) Oracle BI EE
5 6 (13.33%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (13.33%) SAP Data Services
5 6 (13.33%) SQLPlus
6 4 (8.889%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
6 4 (8.889%) SQL Server
6 4 (8.889%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (8.889%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
7 3 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (6.667%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (4.444%) BusinessObjects XI
8 2 (4.444%) BODI
9 1 (2.222%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.222%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.222%) JUnit
2 1 (2.222%) Subversion
2 1 (2.222%) Maven
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.222%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.222%) Selenium
2 1 (2.222%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (4.444%) Investment Banking
3 2 (4.444%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Consultant
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) DBA
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (8.889%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.889%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (8.889%) Business Consultant
6 3 (6.667%) Programmer
6 3 (6.667%) Oracle Applications DBA
7 2 (4.444%) E-Business Consultant
7 2 (4.444%) Ab Initio Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (4.444%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
3 3 (6.667%) Data Integration
4 2 (4.444%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (4.444%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.222%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) UNIX
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 3 (6.667%) Linux
4 2 (4.444%) Android
5 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (17.78%) ETL
3 5 (11.11%) OO
3 5 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
3 5 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 5 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
3 5 (11.11%) Kimball Methodology
4 4 (8.889%) Web Application Development
4 4 (8.889%) Dimensional Modelling
4 4 (8.889%) Service Delivery
4 4 (8.889%) Configuration Management
4 4 (8.889%) Project Management
5 3 (6.667%) UML
5 3 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (6.667%) Capacity Management
6 2 (4.444%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (4.444%) Investment Management
6 2 (4.444%) Analytics
6 2 (4.444%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (97.78%) SQL
2 12 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 11 (24.44%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.889%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.667%) VBA
7 2 (4.444%) C#
8 1 (2.222%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.444%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (6.667%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.222%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 40 (88.89%) Oracle
2 5 (11.11%) Business Objects
3 4 (8.889%) SAP
3 4 (8.889%) Informatica
4 3 (6.667%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.444%) Ab Initio
5 2 (4.444%) IBM
6 1 (2.222%) Pegasus
6 1 (2.222%) Sybase
6 1 (2.222%) JBoss
Edinburgh, Midlothian
PL/SQL/ SQL/ Oracle/E-Business Having won more than 12 UK Best City Awards in 8 years - Edinburgh is an exciting place to work and live in.
Spring Technology
Rate: £300.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Direct experience managing and implementing Oracle e-Business Suite technical enhancements, expansions and upgrade projects... - Strong PL/SQL development skills... - Configuration management, key user management, stakeholder and service...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £350.00 - £370 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013