The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 20 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 Guildford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 28 18 19
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +1
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 5 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.294% 0.877% 0.813%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.376% 2.500% 2.564%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £320 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £334
% change year-on-year
- +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £29.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+28.44% -7.20%
All Programming Languages
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
93 40 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 42.66% 35.09% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 17 16
Average daily rate £320 £400 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £300 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 5
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -11.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PL/SQL
Surrey

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford PL/SQL Daily Rate Trend

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 Guildford region.

Guildford PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) VB
3 3 (37.50%) XML
3 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) ASP
3 3 (37.50%) TOAD
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
3 3 (37.50%) VB6
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (25.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
4 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) InterDev
4 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (25.00%) Intranet
4 2 (25.00%) Internet
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) B2C
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) Cognos
4 2 (25.00%) OO
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 3 (37.50%) ASP
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) EJB
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) WinForms
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Intranet
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) TOAD
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (12.50%) Adabas
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) InterDev
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (12.50%) Ant
2 1 (12.50%) ClearCase
2 1 (12.50%) RequisitePro
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (25.00%) Programmer
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) ASP Developer
4 2 (25.00%) VB Developer
4 2 (25.00%) MI Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) VB6 Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (12.50%) DBA
5 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) VB
3 3 (37.50%) VB6
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
5 1 (12.50%) NATURAL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) Sun Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SCJP
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Cognos
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Sun
3 1 (12.50%) EnterpriseDB