The first table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Southampton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Rank 34 26 15
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -11
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 1 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.332% 2.966% 6.349%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.163% 11.48% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
Average daily rate £320 £400 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +34.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £340
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.25 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+57.27% -15.38%
All Programming Languages
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
86 61 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 28.57% 25.85% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 29 21
Average daily rate £300 £300 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £263 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 10
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £42.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -11.90%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
PL/SQL
Hampshire

PL/SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
3 6 (66.67%) Java
4 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (55.56%) Windows
4 5 (55.56%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (55.56%) ISO 9001
4 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
4 5 (55.56%) BizTalk Server
4 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (55.56%) Degree
4 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (55.56%) Kindle
5 2 (22.22%) Hudson
5 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
5 2 (22.22%) Subversion
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (22.22%) XML
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) J2EE
6 1 (11.11%) MySQL
6 1 (11.11%) EJB
6 1 (11.11%) XSD
6 1 (11.11%) UNIX
6 1 (11.11%) ERP
6 1 (11.11%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) Migration

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 (22.22%) XML
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) J2EE
2 1 (11.11%) EJB
2 1 (11.11%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle 8/8i
1 5 (55.56%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Hudson
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Systems Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Developer
3 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Kindle
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum
2 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
2 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle