Lancashire PL/SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills within the Lancashire 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 21 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 Bradford Brighton 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 East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter 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 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	33
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	15	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	11.19 %	9.375 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£350
Average daily rate	£360	£450
% change on same period last year	-20.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£360
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.29	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£24.03	£19.00
% change on same period last year	+26.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.76	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.15	£35.50
% change on same period last year	-12.25 %
Programming Languages Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	134	192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.177 %	0.191 %
Daily rates quoted	19	21
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£303
Average daily rate	£312	£337
% change on same period last year	-7.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£335
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.01	£23.09
Average hourly rate	£28.26	£27.07
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.51	£31.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.40	£33.03
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
PL/SQL North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

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 Lancashire region.

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Preston	+8	8	£360	-20.00 %
Blackpool	-	3	-	-

PL/SQL North West

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 37 (100.00 %) SQL 2 34 (91.89 %) Oracle 3 23 (62.16 %) Oracle Reports 4 15 (40.54 %) .NET 5 12 (32.43 %) Crystal Reports 5 12 (32.43 %) ASP 5 12 (32.43 %) CSS 5 12 (32.43 %) VBScript 5 12 (32.43 %) JavaScript 6 10 (27.03 %) Visual Studio 7 9 (24.32 %) InterDev 7 9 (24.32 %) Government 8 8 (21.62 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 7 (18.92 %) Microsoft 9 7 (18.92 %) e-GIF

9 7 (18.92 %) Finance 10 6 (16.22 %) Local Government 10 6 (16.22 %) Oracle Forms 10 6 (16.22 %) Oracle 9i 10 6 (16.22 %) Oracle 10g 11 5 (13.51 %) Oracle EBS 12 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Certification 13 3 (8.108 %) Oracle Application Server 13 3 (8.108 %) Spread Betting 13 3 (8.108 %) Time Management 13 3 (8.108 %) C# 13 3 (8.108 %) Summit 13 3 (8.108 %) SQLPlus 14 2 (5.405 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 2 (5.405 %) PVCS

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 15 (40.54 %) .NET 2 12 (32.43 %) ASP 2 12 (32.43 %) CSS 3 1 (2.703 %) J2EE 3 1 (2.703 %) JDBC 3 1 (2.703 %) JSP 3 1 (2.703 %) Servlets 3 1 (2.703 %) XSL 3 1 (2.703 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.108 %) Oracle Application Server 2 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 9iAS
Business Applications 1 5 (13.51 %) Oracle EBS 2 3 (8.108 %) Summit 3 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Financials 3 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Applications	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.703 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (62.16 %) Oracle Reports 2 12 (32.43 %) Crystal Reports 3 8 (21.62 %) Oracle Discoverer 4 6 (16.22 %) Oracle 9i 4 6 (16.22 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (8.108 %) SQLPlus 6 2 (5.405 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (5.405 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (2.703 %) TOAD 7 1 (2.703 %) Oracle OWB	Development Applications 1 10 (27.03 %) Visual Studio 2 9 (24.32 %) InterDev 3 6 (16.22 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (5.405 %) PVCS 5 1 (2.703 %) Oracle Developer 2000 5 1 (2.703 %) ProC
General 1 9 (24.32 %) Government 2 7 (18.92 %) Finance 3 6 (16.22 %) Local Government 4 2 (5.405 %) Pensions 5 1 (2.703 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 28 (75.68 %) Developer 2 12 (32.43 %) Web Developer 3 11 (29.73 %) Oracle Developer 4 4 (10.81 %) Architect 4 4 (10.81 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (10.81 %) Report Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) Oracle Discoverer Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) C# Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) Oracle Consultant 5 3 (8.108 %) SQL Developer 5 3 (8.108 %) Consultant 6 2 (5.405 %) Oracle Payroll Consultant 6 2 (5.405 %) Oracle Reports Developer 6 2 (5.405 %) Oracle HR Consultant 6 2 (5.405 %) ASP Developer 6 2 (5.405 %) Payroll Consultant 7 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript Developer 7 1 (2.703 %) Report Writer 7 1 (2.703 %) Web Programmer 7 1 (2.703 %) Datawarehouse Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.108 %) Spread Betting	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.405 %) Windows XP 1 2 (5.405 %) Windows 2 1 (2.703 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (18.92 %) e-GIF 2 3 (8.108 %) Time Management 3 2 (5.405 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (5.405 %) Incident Management 4 1 (2.703 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (2.703 %) Web Development 4 1 (2.703 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (2.703 %) RUP 4 1 (2.703 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 37 (100.00 %) SQL 2 12 (32.43 %) VBScript 2 12 (32.43 %) JavaScript 3 3 (8.108 %) C# 4 1 (2.703 %) Java 4 1 (2.703 %) C 4 1 (2.703 %) VB 4 1 (2.703 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 4 (10.81 %) Oracle Certification	Vendors 1 34 (91.89 %) Oracle 2 7 (18.92 %) Microsoft 3 2 (5.405 %) Genesys