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This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills across the UK with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited PL/SQL over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkPL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location
3 months to 12 May 2008Same period last year
Rank6457
Rank change on same period last yearDown-7
Matching contract IT job ads17302115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled2.174 %2.377 %
As % of the category below6.343 %6.669 %
Daily rates quoted553696
Average minimum daily rate£383£381
Average daily rate£408£402
% change on same period last year+1.60 %
Average maximum daily rate£433£422
UK excluding London average daily rate£363£334
% change on same period last year+8.89 %
Hourly rates quoted8159
Average minimum hourly rate£34.00£30.64
Average hourly rate£35.84£32.73
% change on same period last year+9.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate£37.68£34.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.49£31.22
% change on same period last year+13.67 %
Programming Languages UKProgramming Languages
UK
Matching contract IT job ads2727631715
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled34.27 %35.64 %
Daily rates quoted88549345
Average minimum daily rate£385£401
Average daily rate£413£427
% change on same period last year-3.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£441£454
UK excluding London average daily rate£343£331
% change on same period last year+3.39 %
Hourly rates quoted18272065
Average minimum hourly rate£30.52£30.03
Average hourly rate£33.09£32.04
% change on same period last year+3.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate£35.67£34.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate£33.47£32.14
% change on same period last year+4.12 %

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

PL/SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing PL/SQL across 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 contract IT jobs ads citing PL/SQL across 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 across the UK over the past 3 months.

PL/SQL Daily Rate Histogram

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing PL/SQL across 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 across the UK over the past 3 months.

PL/SQL Hourly Rate Histogram

PL/SQL
Top 30 Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-31630£411+1.50 %
2LondonDown-6794£433+0.48 %
3South EastUp+15280£375+5.46 %
4City of LondonUp+22248£476+3.33 %
5North WestUp+8109£366+22.75 %
6East of EnglandDown-1106£364+12.42 %
7West MidlandsUp+1997£321+2.35 %
8South WestDown-484£382+13.92 %
9SurreyUp+3871£369+2.87 %
10ScotlandDown-2756£276+0.16 %
11HertfordshireDown-555£425+7.76 %
12BerkshireDown-852£394-2.11 %
13MidlandsUp+146£349+7.30 %
13YorkshireDown-2246£293+8.12 %
14North EastUp+3040£458+4.16 %
15Docklands, LondonDown-1237£327-22.97 %
16ManchesterNo change030£388+29.16 %
17East MidlandsUp+1128£350+16.66 %
18HampshireDown-126--
18ShropshireUp+626£314+4.76 %
18GlasgowDown-1526£265-7.98 %
19BuckinghamshireDown-524£405+20.92 %
19Tyne and WearUp+1924£483+9.84 %
20CambridgeshireDown-123£275+1.85 %
21West YorkshireDown-1422£286-7.76 %
22CheshireDown-2321£364+27.64 %
22LancashireUp+321£300-7.69 %
23WiltshireDown-919£398+38.16 %
23WalesUp+1019£367-
23LeedsDown-419£293-5.48 %

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing PL/SQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PL/SQL.

13592 (97.03 %)SQL
23420 (92.38 %)Oracle
31190 (32.14 %)Oracle 10g
4896 (24.20 %)Java
5871 (23.53 %)Unix
6818 (22.10 %)Oracle 9i
7760 (20.53 %)Finance
8735 (19.85 %)Oracle Reports
9632 (17.07 %)Oracle Forms
10584 (15.78 %)Banking
11565 (15.26 %)XML
12418 (11.29 %)J2EE
13363 (9.806 %)Datawarehouse
14344 (9.292 %).NET
15331 (8.941 %)Investment Banking
16324 (8.752 %)Migration
17318 (8.590 %)C#
18312 (8.428 %)Windows
19294 (7.942 %)Shell Script
20283 (7.645 %)Oracle 8/8i
21266 (7.185 %)HTML
22259 (6.996 %)SQL Server
23258 (6.969 %)OO
24252 (6.807 %)Solaris
25248 (6.699 %)ETL
25248 (6.699 %)Business Objects
25248 (6.699 %)BusinessObjects
26237 (6.402 %)Oracle Discoverer
27224 (6.051 %)UML
28221 (5.970 %)Linux

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the UK citing PL/SQL also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing PL/SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1565 (15.26 %)XML
2418 (11.29 %)J2EE
3344 (9.292 %).NET
4266 (7.185 %)HTML
5219 (5.916 %)Spring
6214 (5.781 %)WebServices
7211 (5.700 %)Hibernate
8154 (4.160 %)JSP
9124 (3.350 %)ASP.NET
10109 (2.944 %)Struts
1198 (2.647 %)CSS
1286 (2.323 %)JDBC
1380 (2.161 %)XSLT
1478 (2.107 %)ASP
1577 (2.080 %)Servlets
1669 (1.864 %)SOAP
1669 (1.864 %)JMS
1766 (1.783 %)EJB
1860 (1.621 %)WebSphere
1952 (1.405 %)Swing
Application Platforms
1145 (3.917 %)WebLogic
2134 (3.620 %)Oracle Workflow
3118 (3.187 %)Oracle Application Server
473 (1.972 %)Oracle 10gAS
564 (1.729 %)IIS
658 (1.567 %)SAS
755 (1.486 %)Tomcat
853 (1.432 %)Oracle Spatial
947 (1.270 %)JBoss
947 (1.270 %)Apache
1037 (0.999 %)SharePoint
1118 (0.486 %)BizTalk Server
1118 (0.486 %)Exchange Server 2000
1217 (0.459 %)MQSeries
1314 (0.378 %)Oracle 9iAS
1413 (0.351 %)WebSphere MQ
1512 (0.324 %)Oracle HTTP Server
1611 (0.297 %)PowerExchange
1710 (0.270 %)Documentum
1710 (0.270 %)SharePoint Portal Server
Applications
182 (2.215 %)MS Office
254 (1.459 %)MS Excel
330 (0.810 %)MS Project
419 (0.513 %)MS Visio
56 (0.162 %)MS PowerPoint
63 (0.081 %)Photoshop
71 (0.027 %)CA Clarity
71 (0.027 %)Shockwave
71 (0.027 %)Fireworks
Business Applications
1133 (3.593 %)Oracle Applications
2118 (3.187 %)Oracle EBS
373 (1.972 %)Oracle 11i
470 (1.891 %)Oracle Financials
530 (0.810 %)Oracle HRMS
628 (0.756 %)Oracle Clinical
715 (0.405 %)Oracle CRM
813 (0.351 %)Oracle Payroll
912 (0.324 %)Oracle iRecruitment
1011 (0.297 %)Remedy ITSM
118 (0.216 %)Findur
127 (0.189 %)Siebel Analytics
136 (0.162 %)Endur
145 (0.135 %)Summit
145 (0.135 %)SAP IS-U
154 (0.108 %)Movex
163 (0.081 %)Oracle ERP
163 (0.081 %)Eagle PACE
163 (0.081 %)SunGard Martini
163 (0.081 %)Loan IQ
Communications & Networking
143 (1.162 %)Internet
230 (0.810 %)Intranet
323 (0.621 %)LDAP
323 (0.621 %)HTTP
416 (0.432 %)FTP
510 (0.270 %)SSL
69 (0.243 %)TCP/IP
78 (0.216 %)HTTPS
87 (0.189 %)SAN
96 (0.162 %)IIOP
96 (0.162 %)X.509
105 (0.135 %)TELNET
114 (0.108 %)WAN
123 (0.081 %)ATM
123 (0.081 %)SSH
132 (0.054 %)BSS
141 (0.027 %)DAB
141 (0.027 %)Firewall
141 (0.027 %)Broadband
141 (0.027 %)LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
11190 (32.14 %)Oracle 10g
2818 (22.10 %)Oracle 9i
3735 (19.85 %)Oracle Reports
4363 (9.806 %)Datawarehouse
5283 (7.645 %)Oracle 8/8i
6259 (6.996 %)SQL Server
7248 (6.699 %)ETL
7248 (6.699 %)BusinessObjects
8237 (6.402 %)Oracle Discoverer
9182 (4.916 %)TOAD
10162 (4.376 %)RDBMS
11126 (3.404 %)Crystal Reports
12108 (2.917 %)Oracle OWB
13100 (2.701 %)OLAP
1498 (2.647 %)Oracle OLAP
1571 (1.918 %)SQLPlus
1667 (1.810 %)SQL Server 2005
1763 (1.702 %)SQL Server 2000
1848 (1.297 %)MS Access
1946 (1.243 %)MySQL
Development Applications
1632 (17.07 %)Oracle Forms
2184 (4.970 %)JUnit
3146 (3.944 %)Eclipse
477 (2.080 %)Ant
572 (1.945 %)ProC
669 (1.864 %)Visual Studio
766 (1.783 %)Oracle APEX
865 (1.756 %)JDeveloper
958 (1.567 %)Subversion
1047 (1.270 %)ClearQuest
1047 (1.270 %)ClearCase
1136 (0.972 %)Rational Rose
1233 (0.891 %)RequisitePro
1330 (0.810 %)TestDirector
1426 (0.702 %)JBuilder
1523 (0.621 %)PVCS
1622 (0.594 %)ERwin
1719 (0.513 %)NUnit
1814 (0.378 %)PowerBuilder
1913 (0.351 %)LoadRunner
General
1760 (20.53 %)Finance
2584 (15.78 %)Banking
3331 (8.941 %)Investment Banking
4184 (4.970 %)Government
5149 (4.025 %)Pensions
6115 (3.106 %)Insurance
7105 (2.836 %)Back Office
879 (2.134 %)Financial Institution
957 (1.540 %)Front Office
1054 (1.459 %)Telecoms
1146 (1.243 %)Marketing
1242 (1.135 %)Retail
1328 (0.756 %)Health
1420 (0.540 %)General Ledger
1517 (0.459 %)Billing
1517 (0.459 %)Pharmaceutical
1616 (0.432 %)Corporate Banking
1714 (0.378 %)Manufacturing
1812 (0.324 %)Education
1812 (0.324 %)Publishing
Job Titles
12368 (63.97 %)Developer
21251 (33.79 %)Oracle Developer
3530 (14.32 %)Analyst
4396 (10.70 %)Java Developer
5301 (8.131 %)PL/SQL Developer
6290 (7.834 %)SQL Developer
7273 (7.374 %)DBA
8223 (6.024 %)Consultant
9216 (5.835 %)Oracle DBA
10179 (4.835 %)Oracle Analyst
11161 (4.349 %)Senior Developer
12157 (4.241 %)Programmer
13135 (3.647 %)Analyst Developer
14121 (3.269 %)Analyst Programmer
15119 (3.214 %)Architect
15119 (3.214 %)Data Analyst
16114 (3.079 %)J2EE Developer
17112 (3.025 %)Support Analyst
18111 (2.998 %)Java/J2EE Developer
19110 (2.971 %)Oracle Consultant
Miscellaneous
189 (2.404 %)Credit Risk
274 (1.999 %)Derivative
365 (1.756 %)Asset Management
455 (1.486 %)Equities
546 (1.243 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
642 (1.135 %)Replication
741 (1.108 %)Client/Server
839 (1.053 %)Fixed Income
934 (0.918 %)Equity Derivative
1033 (0.891 %)N-Tier
1132 (0.864 %)Multithreading
1227 (0.729 %)Management Information System
1319 (0.513 %)Data Integration
1418 (0.486 %)Computer Science
1517 (0.459 %)Clustering
1615 (0.405 %)Statistics
1714 (0.378 %)W3C
1813 (0.351 %)Fund Management
1911 (0.297 %)Market Risk
1911 (0.297 %)Mathematics
Operating Systems
1871 (23.53 %)Unix
2312 (8.428 %)Windows
3252 (6.807 %)Solaris
4221 (5.970 %)Linux
549 (1.324 %)AIX
648 (1.297 %)Windows 2000
743 (1.162 %)Windows NT
836 (0.972 %)Windows XP
934 (0.918 %)Windows Server 2003
1017 (0.459 %)HPUX
1112 (0.324 %)VMS
124 (0.108 %)Tru64
132 (0.054 %)SUSE
132 (0.054 %)MVS
141 (0.027 %)OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1324 (8.752 %)Migration
2258 (6.969 %)OO
3224 (6.051 %)UML
4189 (5.105 %)Data Migration
5181 (4.889 %)Data Modelling
6168 (4.538 %)Business Intelligence
7144 (3.890 %)Workflow
8102 (2.755 %)RAD
989 (2.404 %)CRM
1074 (1.999 %)Validation
1169 (1.864 %)Unit Testing
1268 (1.837 %)SOA
1358 (1.567 %)OOD
1457 (1.540 %)TDD
1554 (1.459 %)E-business
1651 (1.378 %)E-Commerce
1750 (1.351 %)RUP
1848 (1.297 %)Project Management
1848 (1.297 %)Risk Management
1945 (1.216 %)Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
13592 (97.03 %)SQL
2896 (24.20 %)Java
3318 (8.590 %)C#
4294 (7.942 %)Shell Script
5199 (5.375 %)JavaScript
6189 (5.105 %)VB
7181 (4.889 %)Perl
8157 (4.241 %)C
9121 (3.269 %)VBA
10107 (2.890 %)C++
11101 (2.728 %)Transact-SQL
1294 (2.539 %)VB6
1372 (1.945 %)VB.NET
1441 (1.108 %)Korn
1540 (1.080 %)PHP
1630 (0.810 %)VBScript
1729 (0.783 %)COBOL
1827 (0.729 %)SAS Macro
1912 (0.324 %)XPath
2011 (0.297 %)Delphi
Qualifications
146 (1.243 %)Degree
240 (1.080 %)Oracle Certification
312 (0.324 %)OCP
411 (0.297 %)ISEB
56 (0.162 %)Microsoft Certification
56 (0.162 %)OCA
65 (0.135 %)MCP
65 (0.135 %)HND
65 (0.135 %)MCDBA
65 (0.135 %)PMI Certification
72 (0.054 %)ISTQB
72 (0.054 %)PhD
81 (0.027 %)MCSE
81 (0.027 %)CFA
81 (0.027 %)Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
151 (1.378 %)QA
214 (0.378 %)ISO9001
310 (0.270 %)Basel II
44 (0.108 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
53 (0.081 %)SLA
62 (0.054 %)GAAP
62 (0.054 %)IAS 39
62 (0.054 %)WAI
71 (0.027 %)MiFID
71 (0.027 %)GxP
System Software
190 (2.431 %)Oracle RAC
264 (1.729 %)Oracle RMAN
37 (0.189 %)AquaLogic
37 (0.189 %)Active Directory
46 (0.162 %)NetBackup
Systems Management
163 (1.702 %)AutoSys
214 (0.378 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
39 (0.243 %)OpenView
48 (0.216 %)MOM
56 (0.162 %)Netcool
56 (0.162 %)Unicenter
65 (0.135 %)CONTROL-M
65 (0.135 %)Netcool/Proviso
65 (0.135 %)Oracle Statspack
72 (0.054 %)CA SiteMinder
81 (0.027 %)Tivoli
81 (0.027 %)ServiceCenter
Vendors
13420 (92.38 %)Oracle
2248 (6.699 %)Business Objects
3202 (5.457 %)Microsoft
4147 (3.971 %)Informatica
586 (2.323 %)Sun
684 (2.269 %)BEA
768 (1.837 %)IBM
768 (1.837 %)Sybase
854 (1.459 %)Cognos
950 (1.351 %)Siebel
1042 (1.135 %)Red Hat
1139 (1.053 %)HP
1232 (0.864 %)TIBCO
1326 (0.702 %)SAP
1421 (0.567 %)Remedy
1520 (0.540 %)VERITAS
1617 (0.459 %)OpenLink
1617 (0.459 %)MicroStrategy
1716 (0.432 %)ILOG
1716 (0.432 %)Altova
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