Essex PL/SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills within the Essex 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 29 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 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 Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex 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 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	39
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	7.821 %	7.492 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£367
Average daily rate	£388	£367
% change on same period last year	+5.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£360
% change on same period last year	-1.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.67	£36.63
Average hourly rate	£32.83	£37.88
% change on same period last year	-13.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£39.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.60	£35.87
% change on same period last year	-9.11 %
Programming Languages Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	179	307
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.239 %	0.306 %
Daily rates quoted	58	73
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£373
Average daily rate	£360	£393
% change on same period last year	-8.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£336
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	75
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.36	£32.89
Average hourly rate	£34.05	£33.65
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.74	£34.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.25	£32.93
% change on same period last year	+0.99 %
PL/SQL East of England

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 Essex 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 Essex region.

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 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 Essex region.

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Essex region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 29 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
Southend-on-Sea	-	2	£650	-
Basildon	-	1	-	-

PL/SQL East of England

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 29 (100.00 %) SQL 2 24 (82.76 %) Oracle 3 14 (48.28 %) UNIX 3 14 (48.28 %) Oracle Reports 4 12 (41.38 %) J2EE 5 10 (34.48 %) XML 5 10 (34.48 %) Ant 6 9 (31.03 %) Oracle 9i 7 8 (27.59 %) Configuration Management 7 8 (27.59 %) Client/Server 7 8 (27.59 %) N-Tier 7 8 (27.59 %) Java 7 8 (27.59 %) Struts 8 6 (20.69 %) Business Objects 8 6 (20.69 %) PVCS

8 6 (20.69 %) OO 8 6 (20.69 %) BusinessObjects 9 5 (17.24 %) E-business 9 5 (17.24 %) JBoss 9 5 (17.24 %) Oracle Forms 9 5 (17.24 %) WebServices 9 5 (17.24 %) Agile Software Development 9 5 (17.24 %) JSF 10 4 (13.79 %) FitNesse 10 4 (13.79 %) Log4j 10 4 (13.79 %) Extreme Programming 10 4 (13.79 %) JUnit 10 4 (13.79 %) Solaris 10 4 (13.79 %) Linux 10 4 (13.79 %) Pharmaceutical

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 12 (41.38 %) J2EE 2 10 (34.48 %) XML 3 8 (27.59 %) Struts 4 5 (17.24 %) WebServices 4 5 (17.24 %) JSF 5 3 (10.34 %) Ruby on Rails 6 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere 6 2 (6.897 %) SAX 7 1 (3.448 %) CSS 7 1 (3.448 %) JSP 7 1 (3.448 %) Servlets 7 1 (3.448 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (17.24 %) JBoss 2 3 (10.34 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (3.448 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Oracle CRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.448 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (48.28 %) Oracle Reports 2 9 (31.03 %) Oracle 9i 3 6 (20.69 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (13.79 %) ETL 5 3 (10.34 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 3 (10.34 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (10.34 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (3.448 %) DataStage 6 1 (3.448 %) TOAD 6 1 (3.448 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 10 (34.48 %) Ant 2 6 (20.69 %) PVCS 3 5 (17.24 %) Oracle Forms 4 4 (13.79 %) JUnit 4 4 (13.79 %) Eclipse 4 4 (13.79 %) Log4j 4 4 (13.79 %) FitNesse 5 2 (6.897 %) Subversion 5 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
General 1 4 (13.79 %) Pharmaceutical 1 4 (13.79 %) Government 2 2 (6.897 %) Finance 3 1 (3.448 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 9 (31.03 %) Developer 2 6 (20.69 %) DBA 3 5 (17.24 %) Analyst 3 5 (17.24 %) Java Developer 3 5 (17.24 %) Oracle DBA 4 4 (13.79 %) Environment Manager 5 3 (10.34 %) Oracle Developer 5 3 (10.34 %) Consultant 6 2 (6.897 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Oracle Consultant 7 1 (3.448 %) Java Analyst Programmer 7 1 (3.448 %) Java Programmer 7 1 (3.448 %) Senior DBA 7 1 (3.448 %) Developer Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Applications Support Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Technical Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Senior Oracle DBA 7 1 (3.448 %) Applications Support 7 1 (3.448 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.448 %) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 8 (27.59 %) Client/Server 1 8 (27.59 %) N-Tier 2 2 (6.897 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.448 %) Chemistry	Operating Systems 1 14 (48.28 %) UNIX 2 4 (13.79 %) Solaris 2 4 (13.79 %) Linux 3 1 (3.448 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (27.59 %) Configuration Management 2 6 (20.69 %) OO 3 5 (17.24 %) E-business 3 5 (17.24 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (13.79 %) Extreme Programming 4 4 (13.79 %) Change Management 5 3 (10.34 %) EAI 5 3 (10.34 %) Document Management 5 3 (10.34 %) Incident Management 6 2 (6.897 %) OOD 6 2 (6.897 %) TDD 6 2 (6.897 %) Security Management 7 1 (3.448 %) Workflow 7 1 (3.448 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (3.448 %) CRM 7 1 (3.448 %) Computer Security 7 1 (3.448 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 29 (100.00 %) SQL 2 8 (27.59 %) Java 3 3 (10.34 %) Ruby 3 3 (10.34 %) VB 4 2 (6.897 %) Delphi 5 1 (3.448 %) JavaScript 5 1 (3.448 %) Shell Script 5 1 (3.448 %) VB6
Vendors 1 24 (82.76 %) Oracle 2 6 (20.69 %) Business Objects 3 1 (3.448 %) Intel