Watford PL/SQL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for PL/SQL (PLSQL) skills within the Watford region 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
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Rank	26	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	3.947 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£351	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£361
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.32	£33.46
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Programming Languages Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	76	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.066 %
Daily rates quoted	29	34
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£260
Average daily rate	£367	£267
% change on same period last year	+37.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£274
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
PL/SQL Hertfordshire

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

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 Watford region.

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing PL/SQL across the Watford region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Watford region.

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 6 (100.00 %) SQL 2 5 (83.33 %) Oracle 3 4 (66.67 %) Windows 4 2 (33.33 %) AIX 4 2 (33.33 %) Linux 4 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat 4 2 (33.33 %) .NET 4 2 (33.33 %) J2EE 4 2 (33.33 %) Perl 4 2 (33.33 %) DB2 4 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (33.33 %) IIS 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Project 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Office

4 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 4 2 (33.33 %) MQSeries 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Excel 4 2 (33.33 %) Windows NT 4 2 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (33.33 %) MS Visio 4 2 (33.33 %) HTTP 4 2 (33.33 %) IBM 4 2 (33.33 %) Red Hat 4 2 (33.33 %) IBM HTTP Server 4 2 (33.33 %) SUSE 4 2 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere 4 2 (33.33 %) Degree 4 2 (33.33 %) UNIX

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford 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 (33.33 %) .NET 1 2 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere 2 1 (16.67 %) WebServices 2 1 (16.67 %) XML 2 1 (16.67 %) XML Schema 2 1 (16.67 %) Hibernate 2 1 (16.67 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 2 (33.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (33.33 %) IIS 1 2 (33.33 %) Tomcat 1 2 (33.33 %) MQSeries 1 2 (33.33 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Project 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Excel 1 2 (33.33 %) MS Visio 1 2 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) Oracle 9i 1 2 (33.33 %) DB2 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2 1 (16.67 %) TOAD 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (16.67 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) Eclipse 1 1 (16.67 %) Subversion
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Finance 1 1 (16.67 %) Education 1 1 (16.67 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) DBA 2 1 (16.67 %) Senior Developer 2 1 (16.67 %) Java Developer 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle DBA 2 1 (16.67 %) SQL Server DBA 2 1 (16.67 %) Team Leader 2 1 (16.67 %) SQL DBA 2 1 (16.67 %) Technical Team Leader 2 1 (16.67 %) Senior Java Developer 2 1 (16.67 %) Developer 2 1 (16.67 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (33.33 %) AIX 2 2 (33.33 %) Linux 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows NT 2 2 (33.33 %) SUSE 2 2 (33.33 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (16.67 %) SOA 2 1 (16.67 %) UML 2 1 (16.67 %) OO 2 1 (16.67 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 6 (100.00 %) SQL 2 2 (33.33 %) Perl 3 1 (16.67 %) Java
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) Degree 2 1 (16.67 %) OCP 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle Certification 2 1 (16.67 %) MCITP	System Software 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 5 (83.33 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) IBM 2 2 (33.33 %) Red Hat 3 1 (16.67 %) Sun 3 1 (16.67 %) HP 3 1 (16.67 %) Dell