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 Tyne and Wear 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 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 Tyne and Wear region.

 PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank141112
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Up+1
Matching contract IT job ads72336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear4.895 %8.880 %8.372 %
As % of the Programming Languages category17.07 %29.11 %25.71 %
Daily rates quoted2128
Average daily rate£220£203£450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.390 %-55.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£136£151£231
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£303£259£495
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£315£350
% change year-on-year
+3.170 %-10.00 %
Hourly rates quoted102
Average hourly rate£41.00-£46.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£41.00£24.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
+65.65 %-29.28 %
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
4179140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear28.67 %30.50 %32.56 %
Daily rates quoted92626
Average daily rate£200£240£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66 %-40.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£115£160£239
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£324£390£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted121326
Average hourly rate£35.00£30.00£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66 %-14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£19.50£10.95£26.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.00£30.00£48.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
PL/SQL North EastPL/SQL
North East

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 Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
Newcastle Upon TyneDown-57£220+9.75 %
PL/SQL North EastPL/SQL
North East

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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.

125 (100.00 %)SQL
125 (100.00 %)Oracle
219 (76.00 %)Oracle 10g
318 (72.00 %)UNIX
415 (60.00 %)Oracle Reports
514 (56.00 %)Oracle Discoverer
514 (56.00 %)Oracle Forms
514 (56.00 %)Workflow
514 (56.00 %)Finance
514 (56.00 %)Oracle Applications
514 (56.00 %)Oracle Workflow
514 (56.00 %)Oracle EBS R12
611 (44.00 %)Oracle BPM
710 (40.00 %)Middleware
710 (40.00 %)JDeveloper
89 (36.00 %)SOA
89 (36.00 %)Oracle RAC
89 (36.00 %)SLA
98 (32.00 %)Release Management
98 (32.00 %)ITIL
107 (28.00 %)XML
116 (24.00 %)C#
125 (20.00 %)BPEL
125 (20.00 %)Oracle Fusion
125 (20.00 %).NET
134 (16.00 %)JSP
143 (12.00 %)Oracle EBS
143 (12.00 %)Government
143 (12.00 %)General Ledger
143 (12.00 %)Oracle General Ledger

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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.

Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
110 (40.00 %)Middleware
27 (28.00 %)XML
35 (20.00 %)Oracle Fusion
35 (20.00 %).NET
44 (16.00 %)JSP
53 (12.00 %)Web Services
62 (8.000 %)J2EE
71 (4.000 %)Hibernate
71 (4.000 %)WebWork
71 (4.000 %)Lucene
71 (4.000 %)Spring
71 (4.000 %)JNI
71 (4.000 %)Castor
71 (4.000 %)GWT
71 (4.000 %)Velocity
71 (4.000 %)Apache Axis
71 (4.000 %)WCF
71 (4.000 %)ADO.NET
71 (4.000 %)ASP.NET
71 (4.000 %)EJB
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
114 (56.00 %)Oracle Workflow
21 (4.000 %)PowerExchange
21 (4.000 %)Apache
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (8.000 %)MS Excel
12 (8.000 %)MS Office
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
114 (56.00 %)Oracle Applications
114 (56.00 %)Oracle EBS R12
211 (44.00 %)Oracle BPM
33 (12.00 %)Oracle EBS
33 (12.00 %)Oracle General Ledger
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (8.000 %)GPRS
12 (8.000 %)SMS
21 (4.000 %)Internet
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
119 (76.00 %)Oracle 10g
215 (60.00 %)Oracle Reports
314 (56.00 %)Oracle Discoverer
43 (12.00 %)Oracle 9i
52 (8.000 %)Oracle 8/8i
52 (8.000 %)TOAD
52 (8.000 %)BusinessObjects
52 (8.000 %)SQL Server
52 (8.000 %)BusinessObjects XI
61 (4.000 %)Oracle OLAP
61 (4.000 %)Data Mart
61 (4.000 %)OLAP
61 (4.000 %)RDBMS
61 (4.000 %)PowerCenter
61 (4.000 %)Datawarehouse
61 (4.000 %)ETL
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
114 (56.00 %)Oracle Forms
210 (40.00 %)JDeveloper
32 (8.000 %)VSS/SourceSafe
41 (4.000 %)Log4j
41 (4.000 %)NUnit
41 (4.000 %)MyEclipse
41 (4.000 %)Ant
41 (4.000 %)Visual Studio
41 (4.000 %)Eclipse
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
114 (56.00 %)Finance
23 (12.00 %)Government
23 (12.00 %)General Ledger
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (24.00 %)Consultant
16 (24.00 %)Developer
16 (24.00 %)Oracle Consultant
24 (16.00 %)C# Developer
24 (16.00 %)Analyst
24 (16.00 %)Support Consultant
33 (12.00 %)Oracle Analyst
33 (12.00 %)Oracle Support Analyst
33 (12.00 %)Support Analyst
33 (12.00 %)Technical Support
33 (12.00 %)Applications Support
42 (8.000 %)Applications Consultant
42 (8.000 %)Applications Support Consultant
42 (8.000 %)Test Engineer
42 (8.000 %)Quality Engineer
51 (4.000 %)Test Analyst
51 (4.000 %)Software Tester
51 (4.000 %)Oracle Developer
51 (4.000 %)SQL Developer
51 (4.000 %)PL/SQL Developer
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (4.000 %)Open Source
11 (4.000 %)Multithreading
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
118 (72.00 %)UNIX
23 (12.00 %)Windows
32 (8.000 %)Windows XP
32 (8.000 %)Windows Server 2003
32 (8.000 %)Solaris
32 (8.000 %)Windows 2000
32 (8.000 %)Windows Vista
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
114 (56.00 %)Workflow
29 (36.00 %)SOA
38 (32.00 %)Release Management
38 (32.00 %)ITIL
45 (20.00 %)BPEL
52 (8.000 %)Test Automation
61 (4.000 %)E-business
61 (4.000 %)MVC
61 (4.000 %)Migration
61 (4.000 %)Time Management
61 (4.000 %)Data Migration
61 (4.000 %)Configuration Management
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
125 (100.00 %)SQL
26 (24.00 %)C#
32 (8.000 %)C
32 (8.000 %)VBScript
41 (4.000 %)Korn
41 (4.000 %)C++
41 (4.000 %)Java
41 (4.000 %)JavaScript
41 (4.000 %)Shell Script
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (8.000 %)Security Cleared
21 (4.000 %)ISEB
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
19 (36.00 %)SLA
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
19 (36.00 %)Oracle RAC
22 (8.000 %)VMware Infrastructure
22 (8.000 %)VMware Workstation
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
13 (12.00 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
Tyne and Wear IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
125 (100.00 %)Oracle
23 (12.00 %)Genesys
32 (8.000 %)Business Objects
32 (8.000 %)VMware
41 (4.000 %)Informatica
41 (4.000 %)Sun
41 (4.000 %)EMC