Hertfordshire PL/SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Henley-on-Thames Hertfordshire Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochester Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire 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 Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	37
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	61	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.081 %	0.068 %
As % of the category below	10.45 %	11.17 %
Daily rates quoted	20	29
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£354
Average daily rate	£355	£400
% change on same period last year	-11.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£447
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£361
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£30.25
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£37.13
% change on same period last year	-46.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.32	£33.46
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Programming Languages Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	584	600
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.778 %	0.607 %
Daily rates quoted	236	247
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£307
Average daily rate	£366	£331
% change on same period last year	+10.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.05	£28.13
Average hourly rate	£32.54	£30.42
% change on same period last year	+6.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.03	£32.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Rickmansworth	-	5	£352	-
Watford	-	3	£350	-
St Albans	0	2	£205	-
Letchworth	-	1	-	-
Welwyn Garden City	+1	1	-	-
Stevenage	-	1	-	-

PL/SQL East of England

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 100 (95.24 %) SQL 2 99 (94.29 %) Oracle 3 85 (80.95 %) Java 4 66 (62.86 %) Hibernate 5 64 (60.95 %) Spring 6 60 (57.14 %) Finance 7 56 (53.33 %) Eclipse 8 54 (51.43 %) J2EE 8 54 (51.43 %) JUnit 9 51 (48.57 %) OO 10 49 (46.67 %) UML 11 42 (40.00 %) Banking 12 40 (38.10 %) SOA 12 40 (38.10 %) Java EE 13 39 (37.14 %) WebServices

13 39 (37.14 %) Back Office 14 36 (34.29 %) RAD 14 36 (34.29 %) WebLogic 15 25 (23.81 %) BEA 16 18 (17.14 %) XML 16 18 (17.14 %) UNIX 17 15 (14.29 %) JSF 18 14 (13.33 %) JIRA 19 13 (12.38 %) Financial Institution 20 12 (11.43 %) ClearQuest 20 12 (11.43 %) ClearCase 20 12 (11.43 %) Subversion 21 11 (10.48 %) Agile Software Development 22 10 (9.524 %) Windows 23 9 (8.571 %) E-Commerce

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 66 (62.86 %) Hibernate 2 64 (60.95 %) Spring 3 54 (51.43 %) J2EE 4 40 (38.10 %) Java EE 5 39 (37.14 %) WebServices 6 18 (17.14 %) XML 7 15 (14.29 %) JSF 8 4 (3.810 %) JDBC 9 3 (2.857 %) SOAP 9 3 (2.857 %) .NET 10 2 (1.905 %) Oracle ADF 10 2 (1.905 %) WebSphere 10 2 (1.905 %) WSDL 11 1 (0.952 %) XML Schema 11 1 (0.952 %) Struts 11 1 (0.952 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 36 (34.29 %) WebLogic 2 6 (5.714 %) Tomcat 3 2 (1.905 %) MQSeries 3 2 (1.905 %) IBM HTTP Server 3 2 (1.905 %) IIS 3 2 (1.905 %) JBoss 3 2 (1.905 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 3 (2.857 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.905 %) MS Visio 2 2 (1.905 %) MS PowerPoint 2 2 (1.905 %) MS Project 2 2 (1.905 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 2 (1.905 %) Oracle Applications 1 2 (1.905 %) AWD 2 1 (0.952 %) MAXIMO 2 1 (0.952 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.905 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (8.571 %) Oracle 10g 2 7 (6.667 %) Oracle Reports 3 5 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (3.810 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 3 (2.857 %) ETL 6 2 (1.905 %) TOAD 6 2 (1.905 %) DB2 7 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 7 1 (0.952 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 2000 7 1 (0.952 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 56 (53.33 %) Eclipse 2 54 (51.43 %) JUnit 3 14 (13.33 %) JIRA 4 12 (11.43 %) ClearQuest 4 12 (11.43 %) Subversion 4 12 (11.43 %) ClearCase 5 6 (5.714 %) TestDirector 5 6 (5.714 %) Bugzilla 6 5 (4.762 %) Oracle Forms 7 4 (3.810 %) Ant 8 2 (1.905 %) JDeveloper 8 2 (1.905 %) Rational Rose 8 2 (1.905 %) CheckStyle 8 2 (1.905 %) FitNesse	General 1 60 (57.14 %) Finance 2 42 (40.00 %) Banking 3 39 (37.14 %) Back Office 4 13 (12.38 %) Financial Institution 5 5 (4.762 %) Automotive 6 4 (3.810 %) Pharmaceutical 7 3 (2.857 %) Retail 8 2 (1.905 %) Telecoms 9 1 (0.952 %) Education
Job Titles 1 53 (50.48 %) Developer 2 42 (40.00 %) Java Developer 3 22 (20.95 %) Senior Developer 4 21 (20.00 %) Senior Java Developer 5 18 (17.14 %) Architect 6 15 (14.29 %) Analyst 7 14 (13.33 %) Solutions Architect 8 12 (11.43 %) J2EE Developer 8 12 (11.43 %) Java/J2EE Developer 9 11 (10.48 %) Technical Analyst 10 9 (8.571 %) Tester 11 7 (6.667 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 11 7 (6.667 %) Senior J2EE Developer 12 6 (5.714 %) Java Architect 13 4 (3.810 %) PL/SQL Developer 13 4 (3.810 %) Oracle Developer 13 4 (3.810 %) Senior Tester 14 3 (2.857 %) Configuration Manager 15 2 (1.905 %) Administrator 15 2 (1.905 %) Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.857 %) LIMS 2 1 (0.952 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 18 (17.14 %) UNIX 2 10 (9.524 %) Windows 3 6 (5.714 %) Linux 4 2 (1.905 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (1.905 %) Windows NT 4 2 (1.905 %) SUSE 4 2 (1.905 %) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 51 (48.57 %) OO 2 49 (46.67 %) UML 3 40 (38.10 %) SOA 4 36 (34.29 %) RAD 5 11 (10.48 %) Agile Software Development 6 9 (8.571 %) E-Commerce 7 5 (4.762 %) Supplier Management 8 4 (3.810 %) OOA/OOD 9 3 (2.857 %) Enterprise Architecture 9 3 (2.857 %) Release Management 9 3 (2.857 %) Continuous Integration 10 2 (1.905 %) Technical Architecture 10 2 (1.905 %) Software Engineering 10 2 (1.905 %) RUP 10 2 (1.905 %) Test Scripting 11 1 (0.952 %) EAI 11 1 (0.952 %) Scrum 11 1 (0.952 %) Data Architecture 11 1 (0.952 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 100 (95.24 %) SQL 2 85 (80.95 %) Java 3 7 (6.667 %) Perl 4 2 (1.905 %) Shell Script 5 1 (0.952 %) C 5 1 (0.952 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (1.905 %) Degree 2 1 (0.952 %) OCP 2 1 (0.952 %) Oracle Certification 2 1 (0.952 %) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.952 %) GxP	System Software 1 1 (0.952 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 1 (0.952 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 99 (94.29 %) Oracle 2 25 (23.81 %) BEA 3 2 (1.905 %) Informatica 3 2 (1.905 %) Red Hat 3 2 (1.905 %) IBM 4 1 (0.952 %) Sun 4 1 (0.952 %) HP 4 1 (0.952 %) Dell 4 1 (0.952 %) Business Objects