North East PL/SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills within the North East 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	34	26
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	25	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	9.690 %	13.49 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£424
Average daily rate	£323	£429
% change on same period last year	-24.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£329	£435
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£361
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£50.00
Average hourly rate	£36.25	£55.00
% change on same period last year	-34.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.32	£33.46
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Programming Languages North East
Matching contract IT job ads	258	378
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.344 %	0.382 %
Daily rates quoted	31	54
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£342
Average daily rate	£316	£352
% change on same period last year	-10.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.38	£36.29
Average hourly rate	£33.93	£39.23
% change on same period last year	-13.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.48	£42.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
PL/SQL 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 North East 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 North East region.

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the North East 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 North East region.

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear	-5	21	£323	-24.83 %
Durham	-	1	-	-

PL/SQL England

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 73 (94.81 %) Oracle 3 32 (41.56 %) Oracle Forms 4 31 (40.26 %) Oracle Reports 5 27 (35.06 %) Oracle 10g 6 22 (28.57 %) UNIX 7 21 (27.27 %) RDBMS 8 18 (23.38 %) Informatica 9 16 (20.78 %) PowerCenter 9 16 (20.78 %) ETL 10 13 (16.88 %) PowerExchange 10 13 (16.88 %) Oracle 9i 10 13 (16.88 %) Oracle Applications 10 13 (16.88 %) Korn 11 11 (14.29 %) Oracle 11i

12 8 (10.39 %) Government 12 8 (10.39 %) Datawarehouse 13 7 (9.091 %) Oracle EBS 13 7 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 14 6 (7.792 %) Telecoms 14 6 (7.792 %) Asset Management 14 6 (7.792 %) Data Mart 14 6 (7.792 %) J2EE 14 6 (7.792 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 6 (7.792 %) Solaris 15 5 (6.494 %) XML 15 5 (6.494 %) Java 15 5 (6.494 %) OLAP 15 5 (6.494 %) Oracle OLAP 15 5 (6.494 %) Migration

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 6 (7.792 %) J2EE 2 5 (6.494 %) XML 3 4 (5.195 %) .NET 4 2 (2.597 %) XSLT 4 2 (2.597 %) JMS 4 2 (2.597 %) Hibernate 4 2 (2.597 %) Spring 4 2 (2.597 %) Java EE 4 2 (2.597 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (2.597 %) EJB 4 2 (2.597 %) JDBC 4 2 (2.597 %) JSP 4 2 (2.597 %) Struts 5 1 (1.299 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 13 (16.88 %) PowerExchange 2 3 (3.896 %) Oracle Workflow 3 2 (2.597 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 2 (2.597 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.299 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.299 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 13 (16.88 %) Oracle Applications 2 11 (14.29 %) Oracle 11i 3 7 (9.091 %) Oracle EBS 4 3 (3.896 %) Oracle CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (40.26 %) Oracle Reports 2 27 (35.06 %) Oracle 10g 3 21 (27.27 %) RDBMS 4 16 (20.78 %) PowerCenter 4 16 (20.78 %) ETL 5 13 (16.88 %) Oracle 9i 6 8 (10.39 %) Datawarehouse 7 6 (7.792 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 6 (7.792 %) Data Mart 8 5 (6.494 %) Oracle OLAP 8 5 (6.494 %) OLAP 9 4 (5.195 %) SQLPlus 9 4 (5.195 %) Oracle OWB 10 2 (2.597 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (2.597 %) Oracle Discoverer 11 1 (1.299 %) Star Schema 11 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 11 1 (1.299 %) MS Access 11 1 (1.299 %) TOAD	Development Applications 1 32 (41.56 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (3.896 %) JDeveloper 3 2 (2.597 %) ProC 3 2 (2.597 %) ClearCase 3 2 (2.597 %) Rational Rose 3 2 (2.597 %) Ant 3 2 (2.597 %) JUnit 4 1 (1.299 %) ClearQuest 4 1 (1.299 %) Oracle APEX
General 1 8 (10.39 %) Government 2 6 (7.792 %) Telecoms 3 3 (3.896 %) Finance 4 2 (2.597 %) Education 4 2 (2.597 %) Billing 5 1 (1.299 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.299 %) Health	Job Titles 1 56 (72.73 %) Developer 2 36 (46.75 %) Oracle Developer 3 9 (11.69 %) Informatica Developer 4 8 (10.39 %) SQL Developer 5 6 (7.792 %) PL/SQL Developer 6 5 (6.494 %) Applications Developer 7 4 (5.195 %) Oracle Applications Developer 8 3 (3.896 %) Architect 8 3 (3.896 %) DBA 8 3 (3.896 %) Oracle DBA 8 3 (3.896 %) Oracle Portal Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) Oracle Consultant 9 2 (2.597 %) C# Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) Business Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) Consultant 9 2 (2.597 %) Administrator 9 2 (2.597 %) Java Developer 9 2 (2.597 %) Applications Support 9 2 (2.597 %) ETL Developer 10 1 (1.299 %) Oracle Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (3.896 %) Statistics 1 3 (3.896 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (1.299 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.299 %) Contract for Difference 2 1 (1.299 %) Spread Betting	Operating Systems 1 22 (28.57 %) UNIX 2 6 (7.792 %) Solaris 3 2 (2.597 %) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (7.792 %) Asset Management 3 5 (6.494 %) Migration 4 4 (5.195 %) CRM 4 4 (5.195 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (3.896 %) Data Modelling 5 3 (3.896 %) Workflow 5 3 (3.896 %) Business Analysis 6 2 (2.597 %) Unified Process 6 2 (2.597 %) UML 6 2 (2.597 %) OOA/OOD 6 2 (2.597 %) RUP 6 2 (2.597 %) Data Migration 7 1 (1.299 %) Data Protection 7 1 (1.299 %) BC Cleared 7 1 (1.299 %) ITIL 7 1 (1.299 %) Project Management 7 1 (1.299 %) E-business 7 1 (1.299 %) Programme Management 7 1 (1.299 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 77 (100.00 %) SQL 2 13 (16.88 %) Korn 3 5 (6.494 %) Java 4 3 (3.896 %) Shell Script 5 2 (2.597 %) VB 5 2 (2.597 %) C 5 2 (2.597 %) C# 6 1 (1.299 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.299 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 3 (3.896 %) Degree 2 2 (2.597 %) Sun Certification	System Software 1 3 (3.896 %) Oracle RMAN 1 3 (3.896 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 2 (2.597 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 73 (94.81 %) Oracle 2 18 (23.38 %) Informatica 3 4 (5.195 %) Sun 4 2 (2.597 %) HP 4 2 (2.597 %) BEA 4 2 (2.597 %) Business Objects 4 2 (2.597 %) webMethods 5 1 (1.299 %) Microsoft