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 across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 8 February 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.

LinkPL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location
3 months to
8 Feb 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank676361
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4Down-2
Matching contract IT job ads10269921930
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK2.354 %2.150 %2.397 %
As % of the Programming Languages category6.236 %6.899 %6.883 %
Daily rates quoted467296540
Average daily rate£400£365£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.580 %-2.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£255£256£260
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£318£340
% change year-on-year
+2.200 %-6.470 %
Hourly rates quoted302880
Average hourly rate£38.75£30.00£40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.16 %-25.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£28.60£18.70£25.48
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.95£40.00£47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£37.00£25.00£40.00
% change year-on-year
+48.00 %-37.50 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
164521437928040
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK37.74 %31.17 %34.82 %
Daily rates quoted801247928691
Average daily rate£410£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.14 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£225£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£525£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted82112321976
Average hourly rate£30.00£32.50£33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %-1.510 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£16.00£19.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£42.50£44.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£32.50£34.00
% change year-on-year
-12.30 %-4.410 %

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 the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 2010.

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 within the UK.

PL/SQL Hourly Rate Trend

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the UK over the 3 months to 8 February 2010.

PL/SQL Hourly Rate Histogram

PL/SQL
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 8 February 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
EnglandDown-5952£400+9.58 %
LondonUp+4583£450+12.50 %
City of LondonUp+4218£475+5.55 %
South EastUp+1136£350+16.66 %
West MidlandsDown-349£350+3.70 %
ScotlandDown-543£300-17.80 %
East of EnglandUp+3238£261-25.35 %
YorkshireUp+138£338+8.00 %
BerkshireUp+1637£400+42.85 %
SurreyUp+935£350+16.66 %
South WestUp+2131£366-18.61 %
East MidlandsUp+1128£250-14.52 %
BirminghamUp+526£354+4.81 %
North WestDown-3126£325-13.33 %
EdinburghDown-1225£300-17.80 %
NottinghamshireUp+1720£290-9.37 %
HampshireUp+1220£350-6.66 %
EssexUp+1716£233-
West YorkshireUp+716£358+19.16 %
NottinghamUp+1515£290-9.37 %
South YorkshireUp+115£300-5.88 %
CambridgeshireUp+1914£260-
Docklands, LondonDown-813£450-
CambridgeUp+1512£295-
SheffieldDown-112£413+27.61 %
MiddlesexDown-511£413+37.50 %
North EastDown-1011£130-45.26 %
ReadingUp+610£388+39.63 %
BuckinghamshireUp+139£313-3.84 %
Tyne and WearDown-39£130-43.72 %

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

11851 (97.42 %)SQL
21731 (91.11 %)Oracle
3593 (31.21 %)Oracle 10g
4488 (25.68 %)Java
5446 (23.47 %)UNIX
6402 (21.16 %)Banking
7400 (21.05 %)Finance
8331 (17.42 %)Oracle Reports
9330 (17.37 %)Datawarehouse
10301 (15.84 %).NET
11299 (15.74 %)C#
12294 (15.47 %)XML
13288 (15.16 %)Investment Banking
14251 (13.21 %)Oracle Forms
15241 (12.68 %)SQL Server
16211 (11.11 %)Windows
17206 (10.84 %)Oracle 9i
17206 (10.84 %)Business Intelligence
18200 (10.53 %)Web Services
19183 (9.632 %)Shell Script
20168 (8.842 %)ETL
21155 (8.158 %)C
22154 (8.105 %)J2EE
22154 (8.105 %)Security Cleared
23146 (7.684 %)Business Objects
23146 (7.684 %)BusinessObjects
24145 (7.632 %)Linux
25143 (7.526 %)Oracle 11g
26139 (7.316 %)OO
27127 (6.684 %)Oracle 8/8i

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 February 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1301 (15.84 %).NET
2294 (15.47 %)XML
3200 (10.53 %)Web Services
4154 (8.105 %)J2EE
5103 (5.421 %)ASP.NET
691 (4.789 %)HTML
785 (4.474 %)Spring
872 (3.789 %)Hibernate
969 (3.632 %)XSLT
1065 (3.421 %)Middleware
1161 (3.211 %)CSS
1256 (2.947 %)WinForms
1355 (2.895 %)JSP
1452 (2.737 %)EJB
1546 (2.421 %)XSD
1645 (2.368 %).NET Framework
1739 (2.053 %)WCF
1837 (1.947 %)JDBC
1935 (1.842 %)AJAX
2033 (1.737 %)MVC
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1104 (5.474 %)Oracle Workflow
264 (3.368 %)WebLogic
345 (2.368 %)ESB
442 (2.211 %)Oracle Application Server
526 (1.368 %)Tomcat
625 (1.316 %)Apache
721 (1.105 %)CMS
818 (0.947 %)MQSeries
916 (0.842 %)SharePoint
1013 (0.684 %)ColdFusion
1013 (0.684 %)Oracle 10gAS
1111 (0.579 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1111 (0.579 %)TIBCO EMS
1210 (0.526 %)Drupal
1210 (0.526 %)SAS
1210 (0.526 %)Oracle 9iAS
139 (0.474 %)IIS
139 (0.474 %)WordPress
148 (0.421 %)Tuxedo
156 (0.316 %)GlassFish
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
152 (2.737 %)MS Excel
231 (1.632 %)MS Office
321 (1.105 %)Spreadsheet
46 (0.316 %)MS PowerPoint
46 (0.316 %)MS Project
53 (0.158 %)MS Visio
62 (0.105 %)MATLAB
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1114 (6.000 %)Oracle Applications
264 (3.368 %)Oracle EBS
357 (3.000 %)Oracle 11i
448 (2.526 %)Oracle EBS R12
528 (1.474 %)Endur
624 (1.263 %)Oracle Financials
720 (1.053 %)Oracle iStore
818 (0.947 %)Oracle iProcurement
913 (0.684 %)LongView
1012 (0.632 %)Singl.eView
1111 (0.579 %)Oracle Payroll
1111 (0.579 %)Oracle HRMS
1111 (0.579 %)Khalix
129 (0.474 %)Oracle ERP
137 (0.368 %)Oracle CRM
146 (0.316 %)Siebel Analytics
155 (0.263 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
155 (0.263 %)Oracle General Ledger
164 (0.211 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
164 (0.211 %)Cognos Planning
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
120 (1.053 %)Internet
212 (0.632 %)HTTP
310 (0.526 %)SAN
310 (0.526 %)Intranet
310 (0.526 %)TCP/IP
46 (0.316 %)DNS
46 (0.316 %)SMTP
54 (0.211 %)LDAP
54 (0.211 %)Firewall
63 (0.158 %)3G
63 (0.158 %)SMS
63 (0.158 %)FTP
63 (0.158 %)GPRS
63 (0.158 %)xDSL
72 (0.105 %)SDH
72 (0.105 %)VPN
72 (0.105 %)WAN
72 (0.105 %)MPLS
72 (0.105 %)Wireless
81 (0.053 %)TELNET
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1593 (31.21 %)Oracle 10g
2331 (17.42 %)Oracle Reports
3330 (17.37 %)Datawarehouse
4241 (12.68 %)SQL Server
5206 (10.84 %)Oracle 9i
6168 (8.842 %)ETL
7146 (7.684 %)BusinessObjects
8143 (7.526 %)Oracle 11g
9127 (6.684 %)Oracle 8/8i
10121 (6.368 %)Oracle Discoverer
1177 (4.053 %)RDBMS
1274 (3.895 %)OLAP
1366 (3.474 %)Oracle OLAP
1465 (3.421 %)TOAD
1561 (3.211 %)BusinessObjects XI
1659 (3.105 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1755 (2.895 %)Oracle BI EE
1853 (2.789 %)SQL Server 2005
1949 (2.579 %)Oracle OWB
2044 (2.316 %)SQLPlus
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1251 (13.21 %)Oracle Forms
268 (3.579 %)JDeveloper
358 (3.053 %)Subversion
457 (3.000 %)Oracle APEX
547 (2.474 %)ClearCase
642 (2.211 %)JUnit
741 (2.158 %)Visual Studio
839 (2.053 %)Ant
936 (1.895 %)ProC
1033 (1.737 %)ClearQuest
1128 (1.474 %)PowerBuilder
1227 (1.421 %)Maven
1323 (1.211 %)RequisitePro
1422 (1.158 %)TeamCity
1521 (1.105 %)NUnit
1620 (1.053 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1719 (1.000 %)Eclipse
1814 (0.737 %)Selenium
1814 (0.737 %)Rational Rose
1913 (0.684 %)PVCS
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1402 (21.16 %)Banking
2400 (21.05 %)Finance
3288 (15.16 %)Investment Banking
466 (3.474 %)Government
551 (2.684 %)Front Office
646 (2.421 %)Back Office
738 (2.000 %)Retail
836 (1.895 %)Telecoms
933 (1.737 %)Insurance
1025 (1.316 %)General Ledger
1124 (1.263 %)Billing
1220 (1.053 %)Health
1315 (0.789 %)Pensions
1414 (0.737 %)Construction
1513 (0.684 %)Education
169 (0.474 %)Law
178 (0.421 %)Financial Institution
187 (0.368 %)Games
196 (0.316 %)Corporate Banking
196 (0.316 %)Marketing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11181 (62.16 %)Developer
2500 (26.32 %)Oracle Developer
3201 (10.58 %)Analyst
4173 (9.105 %)Consultant
5154 (8.105 %)SQL Developer
6153 (8.053 %)DBA
7147 (7.737 %)C# Developer
8140 (7.368 %)PL/SQL Developer
9130 (6.842 %)Java Developer
10120 (6.316 %)Oracle DBA
11107 (5.632 %)Oracle Consultant
1276 (4.000 %).NET Developer
1369 (3.632 %)Business Developer
1464 (3.368 %)Senior Developer
1551 (2.684 %)Programmer
1646 (2.421 %)Business Objects Developer
1745 (2.368 %)Applications Developer
1745 (2.368 %)Analyst Developer
1745 (2.368 %)Designer
1842 (2.211 %)SQL DBA
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
187 (4.579 %)Derivative
259 (3.105 %)Replication
346 (2.421 %)Equities
445 (2.368 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
534 (1.789 %)Computer Science
631 (1.632 %)Multithreading
728 (1.474 %)Fixed Income
827 (1.421 %)N-Tier
924 (1.263 %)Management Information System
924 (1.263 %)Clustering
1022 (1.158 %)Credit Risk
1119 (1.000 %)Client/Server
1216 (0.842 %)Contract for Difference
1313 (0.684 %)Equity Derivative
1411 (0.579 %)Credit Derivative
1510 (0.526 %)Data Extraction
1510 (0.526 %)Open Source
169 (0.474 %)NHS
178 (0.421 %)SaaS
185 (0.263 %)Mainframe
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1446 (23.47 %)UNIX
2211 (11.11 %)Windows
3145 (7.632 %)Linux
471 (3.737 %)Solaris
527 (1.421 %)Red Hat Linux
626 (1.368 %)AIX
725 (1.316 %)Windows Server 2003
824 (1.263 %)Windows XP
923 (1.211 %)VMS
1020 (1.053 %)HPUX
1112 (0.632 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1211 (0.579 %)Windows NT
138 (0.421 %)Windows 2000
145 (0.263 %)Windows Mobile
153 (0.158 %)Windows Vista
153 (0.158 %)Windows 2000 Server
162 (0.105 %)SUSE
171 (0.053 %)MVS
171 (0.053 %)zOS
171 (0.053 %)Windows 7
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1206 (10.84 %)Business Intelligence
2139 (7.316 %)OO
3126 (6.632 %)Agile Software Development
4117 (6.158 %)Workflow
592 (4.842 %)Migration
691 (4.789 %)Unit Testing
786 (4.526 %)TDD
879 (4.158 %)SOA
974 (3.895 %)UML
1071 (3.737 %)Data Modelling
1170 (3.684 %)CRM
1266 (3.474 %)Scrum
1359 (3.105 %)User Acceptance Testing
1452 (2.737 %)RUP
1548 (2.526 %)OOD
1644 (2.316 %)ERP
1743 (2.263 %)Data Migration
1841 (2.158 %)Asset Management
1940 (2.105 %)BPEL
1940 (2.105 %)RAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11851 (97.42 %)SQL
2488 (25.68 %)Java
3299 (15.74 %)C#
4183 (9.632 %)Shell Script
5155 (8.158 %)C
6121 (6.368 %)Perl
7112 (5.895 %)T-SQL
884 (4.421 %)JavaScript
978 (4.105 %)VB
1056 (2.947 %)VBA
1147 (2.474 %)C++
1245 (2.368 %)VB.NET
1344 (2.316 %)PHP
1438 (2.000 %)VB6
1529 (1.526 %)Korn
1623 (1.211 %)PHP5
1719 (1.000 %)Bash shell
1817 (0.895 %)DCL
1916 (0.842 %)XPath
2014 (0.737 %)VBScript
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1154 (8.105 %)Security Cleared
289 (4.684 %)SC Cleared
336 (1.895 %)Oracle Certification
433 (1.737 %)Degree
525 (1.316 %)ISEB
621 (1.105 %)OCA
720 (1.053 %)OCP
817 (0.895 %)CTC Cleared
914 (0.737 %)BC Cleared
1011 (0.579 %)DV Cleared
116 (0.316 %)Sun Certification
124 (0.211 %)ISTQB
124 (0.211 %)PMI Certification
131 (0.053 %)Microsoft Certification
131 (0.053 %)PMP
131 (0.053 %)MCAD
131 (0.053 %)MCSD
131 (0.053 %)MCPD
131 (0.053 %)MCTS
131 (0.053 %)ISEB Practitioner
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
172 (3.789 %)QA
215 (0.789 %)GAMP
311 (0.579 %)SLA
410 (0.526 %)GxP
56 (0.316 %)Basel II
63 (0.158 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
63 (0.158 %)PCI DSS
71 (0.053 %)ISO9001
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
197 (5.105 %)Oracle RAC
247 (2.474 %)Oracle RMAN
39 (0.474 %)Active Directory
48 (0.421 %)AquaLogic
48 (0.421 %)Squid
56 (0.316 %)VMware Infrastructure
64 (0.211 %)NetBackup
72 (0.105 %)MSMQ
72 (0.105 %)VMware Workstation
81 (0.053 %)Veritas Volume Manager
81 (0.053 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
147 (2.474 %)Data Guard
223 (1.211 %)AutoSys
39 (0.474 %)Oracle Statspack
47 (0.368 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
56 (0.316 %)HP Quality Center
56 (0.316 %)BMC PATROL
63 (0.158 %)Tivoli
63 (0.158 %)Netcool
63 (0.158 %)OpenView
72 (0.105 %)Cacti
72 (0.105 %)BMC Performance Manager
72 (0.105 %)OVPI
72 (0.105 %)OVPM
72 (0.105 %)SCOM
72 (0.105 %)HP NNM
72 (0.105 %)OVOU
72 (0.105 %)Netcool/Proviso
72 (0.105 %)CONTROL-M
81 (0.053 %)MSI
81 (0.053 %)Sun Identity Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11731 (91.11 %)Oracle
2146 (7.684 %)Business Objects
389 (4.684 %)Microsoft
475 (3.947 %)Informatica
574 (3.895 %)Sybase
651 (2.684 %)Cognos
742 (2.211 %)SAP
831 (1.632 %)HP
923 (1.211 %)Red Hat
1022 (1.158 %)Sun
1121 (1.105 %)TIBCO
1121 (1.105 %)Siebel
1218 (0.947 %)IBM
1218 (0.947 %)OpenLink
1314 (0.737 %)JBoss
1413 (0.684 %)Agresso
1512 (0.632 %)ProClarity
1512 (0.632 %)BMC
1512 (0.632 %)Perforce
1611 (0.579 %)Cramer