The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 18 June 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 North West 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 75 78 92
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +14
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 47 57 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.950% 1.872% 1.314%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.018% 5.225% 4.246%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 15
Average daily rate £380 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.92% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.28% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £51.39 - £61.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+35.38% -
All Programming Languages
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
781 1091 942
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 32.41% 35.83% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 610 526
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 57 49
Average hourly rate £37.50 £21.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.41% -28.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £15.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.00 £40.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West PL/SQL Daily Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West PL/SQL Daily Rate Histogram

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 North West region.

North West PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +11 25 £380 +26.66% 5
Manchester +13 15 £288 -28.12% 5
Lancashire +5 2 - - 2
Merseyside -3 2 £400 +23.07%
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 83 (100.00%) SQL
2 80 (96.39%) Oracle
3 34 (40.96%) Finance
4 26 (31.33%) Oracle 11g
5 23 (27.71%) UNIX
6 21 (25.30%) Oracle 10g
7 20 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (22.89%) Oracle Applications
9 16 (19.28%) RDBMS
9 16 (19.28%) Oracle Reports
9 16 (19.28%) Oracle EBS R12
10 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
10 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
11 14 (16.87%) Oracle EBS
12 13 (15.66%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (15.66%) Java
13 12 (14.46%) Web Services
13 12 (14.46%) Oracle Forms
13 12 (14.46%) ETL
13 12 (14.46%) Workflow
14 11 (13.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 11 (13.25%) Shell Script
14 11 (13.25%) Data Guard
14 11 (13.25%) Oracle RAC
15 9 (10.84%) Oracle Payroll
15 9 (10.84%) SQL Server
16 8 (9.639%) JavaScript
16 8 (9.639%) Oracle Financials
16 8 (9.639%) Waterfall
17 7 (8.434%) jQuery

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 12 (14.46%) Web Services
2 7 (8.434%) J2EE
2 7 (8.434%) SOAP
2 7 (8.434%) WSDL
2 7 (8.434%) Spring
2 7 (8.434%) jQuery
3 6 (7.229%) Ajax
3 6 (7.229%) Hibernate
3 6 (7.229%) CSS
4 5 (6.024%) JSP
4 5 (6.024%) Servlets
4 5 (6.024%) .NET
4 5 (6.024%) JSF
4 5 (6.024%) JAX-RPC
4 5 (6.024%) XHTML
4 5 (6.024%) DOM
4 5 (6.024%) XSLT
4 5 (6.024%) WebSphere
4 5 (6.024%) Apache Axis
5 4 (4.819%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 11 (13.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (6.024%) Apache
3 3 (3.614%) ESB
4 2 (2.410%) Mule
5 1 (1.205%) Confluence
5 1 (1.205%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.614%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.410%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 19 (22.89%) Oracle Applications
2 16 (19.28%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (16.87%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (10.84%) Oracle Payroll
5 8 (9.639%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (2.410%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (1.205%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (1.205%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.819%) Unified Communications
2 2 (2.410%) Internet
3 1 (1.205%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.33%) Oracle 11g
2 21 (25.30%) Oracle 10g
3 16 (19.28%) RDBMS
3 16 (19.28%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (15.66%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.84%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.229%) TOAD
6 6 (7.229%) Oracle 8/8i
6 6 (7.229%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (4.819%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (4.819%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (4.819%) Oracle Discoverer
8 3 (3.614%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.614%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (2.410%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (2.410%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.410%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.410%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (2.410%) DB2
10 1 (1.205%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 12 (14.46%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (7.229%) Oracle APEX
3 5 (6.024%) Subversion
3 5 (6.024%) JIRA
3 5 (6.024%) JUnit
4 4 (4.819%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.205%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.205%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.205%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (40.96%) Finance
2 5 (6.024%) Local Government
3 3 (3.614%) Banking
4 2 (2.410%) Retail
4 2 (2.410%) Billing
4 2 (2.410%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.410%) Back Office
5 1 (1.205%) Legal
5 1 (1.205%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 44 (53.01%) Developer
2 21 (25.30%) Consultant
3 20 (24.10%) Oracle Developer
4 17 (20.48%) Oracle Consultant
5 12 (14.46%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (14.46%) DBA
6 6 (7.229%) Administrator
6 6 (7.229%) Functional Consultant
6 6 (7.229%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
6 6 (7.229%) Payroll Consultant
7 5 (6.024%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.024%) Business Consultant
8 4 (4.819%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 3 (3.614%) SQL Developer
9 3 (3.614%) E-Business Consultant
9 3 (3.614%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 3 (3.614%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.614%) Business Developer
9 3 (3.614%) Architect
9 3 (3.614%) PL/SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.024%) Web 2.0
2 3 (3.614%) Data Integration
3 2 (2.410%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.205%) NHS
4 1 (1.205%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 23 (27.71%) UNIX
2 3 (3.614%) Linux
3 2 (2.410%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (14.46%) Workflow
2 12 (14.46%) ETL
3 8 (9.639%) Waterfall
4 7 (8.434%) Service Delivery
5 6 (7.229%) TDD
6 5 (6.024%) Migration
6 5 (6.024%) Data Modelling
6 5 (6.024%) PRINCE2
6 5 (6.024%) Data Migration
6 5 (6.024%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (4.819%) Kimball Methodology
7 4 (4.819%) CRM
7 4 (4.819%) E-Commerce
7 4 (4.819%) Change Management
7 4 (4.819%) Data Management
7 4 (4.819%) Software Engineering
7 4 (4.819%) Integration Testing
7 4 (4.819%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (3.614%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 83 (100.00%) SQL
2 13 (15.66%) Java
3 11 (13.25%) Shell Script
4 8 (9.639%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.024%) T-SQL
5 5 (6.024%) XPath
6 4 (4.819%) C#
6 4 (4.819%) COBOL
7 2 (2.410%) C
7 2 (2.410%) VB
8 1 (1.205%) VBScript
8 1 (1.205%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.614%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.410%) ISEB
4 1 (1.205%) Siebel Certification
4 1 (1.205%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (13.25%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.205%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.205%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 80 (96.39%) Oracle
2 5 (6.024%) Cognos
2 5 (6.024%) IBM
3 4 (4.819%) Perforce
4 3 (3.614%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.410%) Informatica
6 1 (1.205%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.205%) Sage
6 1 (1.205%) Remedy
6 1 (1.205%) Siebel
6 1 (1.205%) SAP
6 1 (1.205%) VMware
6 1 (1.205%) Northgate
6 1 (1.205%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.205%) HP
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