Preston PL/SQL Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Preston region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Preston region.

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blandford Forum Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chorley City of London County Antrim County Armagh Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	11	13
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3	4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston	-	6.000 %	3.774 %
As % of the Programming Languages category	-	16.67 %	16.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Average daily rate	-	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£313	£350
% change year-on-year	+3.680 % -10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3	2
Average hourly rate	-	£19.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- -13.63 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.00	£24.75	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+65.65 % -29.28 %
All Programming Languages Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Programming Languages category	20	18	25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston	57.14 %	36.00 %	23.58 %
Daily rates quoted	13	2	7
Average daily rate	£275	£144	£250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+91.30 % -42.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£225	£108	£190
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£290	£180	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£300	£325
% change year-on-year	- -7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	10	8
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£19.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.260 % -17.39 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.50	£30.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-5.000 % -14.28 %
PL/SQL Lancashire

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.

PL/SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL across the Preston 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 Preston 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 Preston region.