The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 Glasgow 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 41 23 36
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +13
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 40 39 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.246% 5.052% 3.857%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.932% 14.18% 8.544%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 18
Average daily rate £310 £273 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.36% -16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £268 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £303 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £334
% change year-on-year
- +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £30.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+22.13% -2.40%
All Programming Languages
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
577 275 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 61.25% 35.62% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 138 206
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £266 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.18 £20.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.11% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.86 £11.00 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.23 £20.00 £94.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 77 (100.00%) SQL
2 75 (97.40%) Oracle
3 30 (38.96%) Unit Testing
4 27 (35.06%) RDBMS
5 25 (32.47%) Java
6 23 (29.87%) UNIX
7 22 (28.57%) Finance
8 21 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
8 21 (27.27%) Spring
9 20 (25.97%) JavaScript
9 20 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (24.68%) XML
11 18 (23.38%) CruiseControl
12 17 (22.08%) MVC
13 16 (20.78%) CSS
13 16 (20.78%) J2EE
13 16 (20.78%) JMS
13 16 (20.78%) OO
14 15 (19.48%) Oracle 10g
14 15 (19.48%) JDBC
14 15 (19.48%) JSP
15 14 (18.18%) Banking
15 14 (18.18%) WebSphere
16 13 (16.88%) Ajax
16 13 (16.88%) QA
16 13 (16.88%) Shell Script
16 13 (16.88%) Change Management
16 13 (16.88%) XSLT
17 12 (15.58%) Struts
17 12 (15.58%) Web Services

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 21 (27.27%) Spring
2 19 (24.68%) XML
3 16 (20.78%) JMS
3 16 (20.78%) J2EE
3 16 (20.78%) CSS
4 15 (19.48%) JDBC
4 15 (19.48%) JSP
5 14 (18.18%) WebSphere
6 13 (16.88%) Ajax
6 13 (16.88%) XSLT
7 12 (15.58%) GWT
7 12 (15.58%) Spring MVC
7 12 (15.58%) Struts
7 12 (15.58%) Web Services
8 11 (14.29%) Spring Web Flow
8 11 (14.29%) iBATIS
9 8 (10.39%) HTML
10 7 (9.091%) Hibernate
10 7 (9.091%) jQuery
11 6 (7.792%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.195%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.597%) Documentum
2 2 (2.597%) Apache
2 2 (2.597%) Captiva
3 1 (1.299%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.299%) GemFire
3 1 (1.299%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.299%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.299%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (5.195%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.299%) DOC1
Business Applications
1 3 (3.896%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (2.597%) Oracle CRM
3 1 (1.299%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.299%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.597%) Internet
2 1 (1.299%) HTTP
2 1 (1.299%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.06%) RDBMS
2 20 (25.97%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (19.48%) Oracle 10g
4 10 (12.99%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (11.69%) Oracle 9i
6 8 (10.39%) TOAD
7 5 (6.494%) Oracle 8/8i
7 5 (6.494%) Oracle 11g
8 3 (3.896%) Oracle Discoverer
9 1 (1.299%) MS Access
9 1 (1.299%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.299%) DB2
9 1 (1.299%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
9 1 (1.299%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (1.299%) SQL Server 2008
9 1 (1.299%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (1.299%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.299%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 18 (23.38%) CruiseControl
2 11 (14.29%) Selenium
3 8 (10.39%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (9.091%) ProC
5 6 (7.792%) Visual Studio
5 6 (7.792%) MbUnit
5 6 (7.792%) Subversion
5 6 (7.792%) Maven
6 5 (6.494%) StyleCop
7 3 (3.896%) PVCS
8 2 (2.597%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (1.299%) MSTest
9 1 (1.299%) JUnit
9 1 (1.299%) NUnit
9 1 (1.299%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.299%) TestDirector
9 1 (1.299%) PowerDesigner
General
1 22 (28.57%) Finance
2 14 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (2.597%) Retail
3 2 (2.597%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.299%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 51 (66.23%) Developer
2 21 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 21 (27.27%) Oracle Developer
3 17 (22.08%) Programmer
4 16 (20.78%) Analyst
5 15 (19.48%) Analyst Programmer
6 11 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
6 11 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst Programmer
7 6 (7.792%) DBA
8 5 (6.494%) Oracle DBA
8 5 (6.494%) .NET Developer
9 4 (5.195%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 3 (3.896%) Data Warehouse Analyst
10 3 (3.896%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
11 2 (2.597%) Oracle Architect
11 2 (2.597%) .NET Software Engineer
11 2 (2.597%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 2 (2.597%) Java Programmer
11 2 (2.597%) Analyst Developer
11 2 (2.597%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.494%) N-Tier
2 2 (2.597%) W3C
3 1 (1.299%) IVR
3 1 (1.299%) RIA
3 1 (1.299%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (29.87%) UNIX
2 4 (5.195%) Solaris
3 1 (1.299%) Linux
3 1 (1.299%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.299%) Windows
3 1 (1.299%) AIX
3 1 (1.299%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (38.96%) Unit Testing
2 21 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 17 (22.08%) MVC
4 16 (20.78%) OO
5 13 (16.88%) Change Management
6 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 11 (14.29%) Web Application Development
7 6 (7.792%) UML
7 6 (7.792%) TDD
8 5 (6.494%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (6.494%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (6.494%) Scrum
9 4 (5.195%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (5.195%) BDD
10 3 (3.896%) Matrix Management
10 3 (3.896%) Data Analysis
10 3 (3.896%) Asset Management
10 3 (3.896%) CRM
11 2 (2.597%) ETL
11 2 (2.597%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) SQL
2 25 (32.47%) Java
3 20 (25.97%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.88%) Shell Script
5 11 (14.29%) Perl
6 8 (10.39%) C#
7 4 (5.195%) C
8 3 (3.896%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.299%) VBA
9 1 (1.299%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (3.896%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.88%) QA
2 2 (2.597%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.195%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (1.299%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.597%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.299%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 75 (97.40%) Oracle
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.597%) HP
4 1 (1.299%) BEA
4 1 (1.299%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.299%) Sybase
4 1 (1.299%) Business Objects
4 1 (1.299%) SAP
4 1 (1.299%) JBoss
4 1 (1.299%) IBM
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