The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 17 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 South Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 32 25 22
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -3
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 2 8 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.746% 3.137% 5.965%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.247% 7.080% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 12
Average daily rate £300 £400 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £168 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £480 £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £334
% change year-on-year
- +4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £30.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+22.13% -2.40%
All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
89 113 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 33.21% 44.31% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 58 65
Average daily rate £280 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 14
Average hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.95% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 £22.20 £14.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £26.60 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
PL/SQL
Yorkshire

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Sheffield -2 1 £338 +206.81%
PL/SQL
Yorkshire

PL/SQL
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 5 (100.00%) Oracle
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) PVCS
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) NHS
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Discoverer
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (20.00%) Korn
4 1 (20.00%) StarTeam
4 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
4 1 (20.00%) Perl
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle OWB
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) N-Tier

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Reports
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle Discoverer
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (40.00%) PVCS
3 1 (20.00%) StarTeam
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (40.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Forms Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Solaris
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
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