Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading region.

 PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank474447
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads81020
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading1.236 %1.517 %2.342 %
As % of the Programming Languages category3.524 %6.329 %6.993 %
Daily rates quoted422
Average daily rate£313£309£288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.210 %+7.390 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£176£286£278
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£396£332£298
UK excluding London average daily rate£324£313£350
% change year-on-year
+3.680 %-10.71 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£41.00£24.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
+65.65 %-29.28 %
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
227158286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading35.09 %23.98 %33.49 %
Daily rates quoted755185
Average daily rate£350£334£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.860 %-4.640 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£200£275£240
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£400£465£498
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted11516
Average hourly rate£27.50£40.00£36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.25 %+9.580 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.00£22.00£22.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£48.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
PL/SQL BerkshirePL/SQL
Berkshire

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 Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Reading PL/SQL Demand Trend

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 Reading region.

Reading PL/SQL Daily Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

Reading PL/SQL Daily Rate Histogram

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 Reading region.

Reading PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

118 (100.00 %)Oracle
118 (100.00 %)SQL
210 (55.56 %)Shell Script
39 (50.00 %)UNIX
39 (50.00 %)Oracle 9i
48 (44.44 %)Oracle 10g
56 (33.33 %)Java
65 (27.78 %)Datawarehouse
65 (27.78 %)XML
73 (16.67 %)Oracle 11g
73 (16.67 %)Security Cleared
73 (16.67 %)C
73 (16.67 %)Ant
73 (16.67 %)Solaris
73 (16.67 %)Business Intelligence
73 (16.67 %)Oracle Forms
73 (16.67 %)ETL
73 (16.67 %)Informatica
73 (16.67 %)Sun
73 (16.67 %)SQLPlus
82 (11.11 %)ProC
82 (11.11 %)Configuration Management
82 (11.11 %)Telecoms
82 (11.11 %)Oracle Reports
82 (11.11 %)UML
82 (11.11 %)XSLT
82 (11.11 %)Oracle RAC
82 (11.11 %)Data Analysis
82 (11.11 %)Cramer
91 (5.556 %)Retail

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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.

Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (27.78 %)XML
22 (11.11 %)XSLT
31 (5.556 %)Java EE
31 (5.556 %)JAX-WS
31 (5.556 %)EJB 3.0
31 (5.556 %)JMS
31 (5.556 %)ASP
31 (5.556 %)EJB
31 (5.556 %)JDBC
31 (5.556 %)Web Services
31 (5.556 %)DHTML
31 (5.556 %)XSD
31 (5.556 %)XSL
31 (5.556 %)J2EE
31 (5.556 %)JAXB
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (5.556 %)Oracle Workflow
11 (5.556 %)AquaLogic
11 (5.556 %)TIBCO EMS
11 (5.556 %)ESB
11 (5.556 %)Oracle Service Bus
11 (5.556 %)WebLogic
11 (5.556 %)IIS
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (5.556 %)MS Visio
11 (5.556 %)MS Excel
11 (5.556 %)MS Office
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
11 (5.556 %)Oracle Applications
11 (5.556 %)Oracle 11i
11 (5.556 %)BusinessWorks
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (5.556 %)SDH
11 (5.556 %)Wireless
11 (5.556 %)SONET
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
19 (50.00 %)Oracle 9i
28 (44.44 %)Oracle 10g
35 (27.78 %)Datawarehouse
43 (16.67 %)Oracle 11g
43 (16.67 %)ETL
43 (16.67 %)SQLPlus
52 (11.11 %)Oracle Reports
61 (5.556 %)InterSystems Cache
61 (5.556 %)Oracle Discoverer
61 (5.556 %)BusinessObjects
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (16.67 %)Ant
13 (16.67 %)Oracle Forms
22 (11.11 %)ProC
31 (5.556 %)Oracle APEX
31 (5.556 %)ClearCase
31 (5.556 %)Eclipse
31 (5.556 %)JDeveloper
31 (5.556 %)TestDirector
31 (5.556 %)ClearQuest
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (11.11 %)Telecoms
21 (5.556 %)Retail
21 (5.556 %)Insurance
21 (5.556 %)Pensions
21 (5.556 %)Finance
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110 (55.56 %)Developer
25 (27.78 %)Oracle Developer
32 (11.11 %)Architect
32 (11.11 %)Technical Architect
32 (11.11 %)Oracle Architect
32 (11.11 %)Oracle Technical Architect
41 (5.556 %)Informatica Developer
41 (5.556 %)ETL Developer
41 (5.556 %)Performance Engineer
41 (5.556 %)Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst
41 (5.556 %)Oracle DBA
41 (5.556 %)SQL Developer
41 (5.556 %)PL/SQL Developer
41 (5.556 %)Analyst
41 (5.556 %)Technical Leader
41 (5.556 %)Technical Developer
41 (5.556 %)Consultant
41 (5.556 %)DBA
41 (5.556 %)Applications Developer
41 (5.556 %)Business Analyst
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (5.556 %)Clustering
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (50.00 %)UNIX
23 (16.67 %)Solaris
31 (5.556 %)Windows
31 (5.556 %)AIX
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (16.67 %)Business Intelligence
22 (11.11 %)Configuration Management
22 (11.11 %)UML
22 (11.11 %)Data Analysis
31 (5.556 %)Information Management
31 (5.556 %)Statistical Analysis
31 (5.556 %)Numerical Analysis
31 (5.556 %)Unit Testing
31 (5.556 %)Integration Testing
31 (5.556 %)Test Scripting
31 (5.556 %)OOA/OOD
31 (5.556 %)RAD
31 (5.556 %)E-Commerce
31 (5.556 %)Data Modelling
31 (5.556 %)Workflow
31 (5.556 %)Migration
31 (5.556 %)Regression Testing
31 (5.556 %)Disaster Recovery
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
118 (100.00 %)SQL
210 (55.56 %)Shell Script
36 (33.33 %)Java
43 (16.67 %)C
51 (5.556 %)VB6
51 (5.556 %)Korn
51 (5.556 %)XPath
51 (5.556 %)C-shell
51 (5.556 %)C++
51 (5.556 %)VBScript
51 (5.556 %)VB
51 (5.556 %)XQuery
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13 (16.67 %)Security Cleared
21 (5.556 %)SC Cleared
21 (5.556 %)ISEB
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12 (11.11 %)Oracle RAC
21 (5.556 %)Oracle RMAN
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (5.556 %)Data Guard
Reading IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
118 (100.00 %)Oracle
23 (16.67 %)Informatica
23 (16.67 %)Sun
32 (11.11 %)Cramer
41 (5.556 %)Amdocs
41 (5.556 %)Business Objects
41 (5.556 %)BEA
41 (5.556 %)TIBCO