The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 53 51 52
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 2 10 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.377% 1.414% 0.654%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.408% 5.435% 2.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 2
Average daily rate - £300 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.25 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+57.27% -15.38%
All Programming Languages
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
142 184 182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 26.79% 26.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 89 85
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £196 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £374 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 8
Average hourly rate £21.25 £35.00 £34.01
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.28% +2.91%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.98 £35.00 £14.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.50 £40.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PL/SQL
Buckinghamshire

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) CMS
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) Zend
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) Social Media
4 2 (20.00%) Facebook
4 2 (20.00%) Twitter
4 2 (20.00%) Apache
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Solaris
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
4 2 (20.00%) IIS
4 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (20.00%) CA SiteMinder
4 2 (20.00%) Content Management
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
4 2 (20.00%) Drupal
5 1 (10.00%) PHP5
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) jQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Dojo
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Ajax
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (10.00%) EJB
3 1 (10.00%) CSS
3 1 (10.00%) JDBC
3 1 (10.00%) JSP
3 1 (10.00%) Servlets
3 1 (10.00%) Struts
3 1 (10.00%) DHTML
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) J2EE
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) JMS
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) CMS
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) Joomla!
2 2 (20.00%) Drupal
3 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
1 1 (10.00%) Ant
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (40.00%) PL/SQL Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Architect
5 2 (20.00%) Integration Architect
5 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
6 1 (10.00%) ETL Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (10.00%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Database Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (10.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
1 2 (20.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Content Management
1 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (10.00%) UML
2 1 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (10.00%) OO
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
2 1 (10.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
3 1 (10.00%) Korn
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) COBOL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Zend
3 2 (20.00%) Facebook
3 2 (20.00%) Twitter
4 1 (10.00%) JBoss
4 1 (10.00%) Talend