The first part of the table below looks at the demand for PL/SQL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 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.

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank116113112
Rank change year-on-year
Down-3Down-1
Matching permanent IT job ads265825661918
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.204 %2.093 %2.009 %
As % of the Programming Languages category4.109 %3.986 %3.944 %
Number of salaries quoted227021391512
Average salary£44,000£42,500£42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£31,500£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %-3.75 %
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
646836438048632
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK53.64 %52.50 %50.94 %
Number of salaries quoted569875583141348
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500£27,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,700£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

PL/SQL
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the UK.

PL/SQL Salary Trend

PL/SQL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing PL/SQL over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

PL/SQL Salary Histogram

PL/SQL
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+72444£45,000+5.88 %
LondonDown-71077£52,500+5.00 %
South EastUp+11486£42,500+2.40 %
City of LondonUp+23309£58,500+11.42 %
East of EnglandUp+41280£38,250+1.32 %
South WestUp+27167£40,000+14.28 %
North WestUp+2164£40,000+6.66 %
SurreyUp+9135£44,750+11.87 %
CambridgeshireUp+44132£37,500+7.14 %
HampshireUp+23114£40,000-3.61 %
HertfordshireUp+40102£40,500-4.70 %
West MidlandsDown-496£35,000-2.77 %
ScotlandDown-3585£40,000+14.28 %
BerkshireDown-1083£38,500-23.00 %
CambridgeUp+3578£40,000+14.28 %
YorkshireDown-4069£37,500+7.14 %
ManchesterDown-764£40,000+23.07 %
East MidlandsDown-2955£37,500-10.71 %
CheshireDown-3251£37,500-14.77 %
GloucestershireUp+2149£37,750+12.68 %
OxfordshireUp+3846£50,000+29.87 %
EdinburghUp+541£42,500+21.42 %
BuckinghamshireDown-839£37,500-16.66 %
OxfordUp+4637£50,000+60.58 %
WalesUp+237£35,000+1.44 %
West YorkshireDown-2437£35,000+4.47 %
LeedsDown-536£36,000+9.09 %
WatfordUp+1735£37,500-39.02 %
ReadingUp+633£38,500-30.00 %
KentUp+1431£35,000-

PL/SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PL/SQL.

15033 (98.01 %)SQL
24634 (90.24 %)Oracle
32065 (40.21 %)Java
41501 (29.23 %)Finance
51373 (26.74 %)UNIX
61035 (20.16 %)Oracle 10g
71028 (20.02 %)XML
8976 (19.01 %)SQL Server
9957 (18.64 %).NET
10908 (17.68 %)Data Warehouse
11906 (17.64 %)C#
12827 (16.11 %)Oracle 11g
13803 (15.64 %)Business Intelligence
14779 (15.17 %)JavaScript
15771 (15.01 %)Degree
16763 (14.86 %)Linux
17757 (14.74 %)ETL
18653 (12.72 %)HTML
19631 (12.29 %)Oracle Reports
20622 (12.11 %)J2EE
21606 (11.80 %)Shell Script
22576 (11.22 %)Spring
23560 (10.91 %)Oracle EBS
24549 (10.69 %)Web Services
25541 (10.54 %)Oracle Forms
26523 (10.19 %)Windows
27506 (9.854 %)Banking
28489 (9.523 %)Hibernate
29469 (9.133 %)CSS
29469 (9.133 %)T-SQL

PL/SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited PL/SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11028 (20.02 %)XML
2957 (18.64 %).NET
3653 (12.72 %)HTML
4622 (12.11 %)J2EE
5576 (11.22 %)Spring
6549 (10.69 %)Web Services
7489 (9.523 %)Hibernate
8469 (9.133 %)CSS
9379 (7.381 %)ASP.NET
10287 (5.589 %)JSP
11265 (5.161 %)Middleware
12226 (4.401 %)jQuery
13225 (4.382 %)Ajax
14218 (4.245 %)Struts
15187 (3.642 %)JDBC
16179 (3.486 %)Swing
17177 (3.447 %).NET Framework
18165 (3.213 %)WCF
19161 (3.135 %)WebSphere
19161 (3.135 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1317 (6.173 %)WebLogic
2295 (5.745 %)Tomcat
3262 (5.102 %)Oracle Workflow
4224 (4.362 %)Apache
5114 (2.220 %)Oracle Application Server
6102 (1.986 %)SharePoint
798 (1.908 %)IIS
885 (1.655 %)Oracle SOA Suite
963 (1.227 %)ESB
1058 (1.130 %)SAS
1157 (1.110 %)WebSphere Application Server
1255 (1.071 %)Oracle Service Bus
1354 (1.052 %)CMS
1441 (0.798 %)MQSeries
1538 (0.740 %)WebLogic Portal
1538 (0.740 %)SharePoint 2010
1635 (0.682 %)IBM HTTP Server
1731 (0.604 %)WebSphere MQ
1829 (0.565 %)Jetty
1928 (0.545 %)SharePoint Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1259 (5.044 %)MS Excel
275 (1.461 %)MS Office
357 (1.110 %)MS Visio
423 (0.448 %)MS PowerPoint
522 (0.428 %)MATLAB
614 (0.273 %)MS Project
713 (0.253 %)InfoPath
811 (0.214 %)Spreadsheet
910 (0.195 %)Windchill
109 (0.175 %)Mingle
117 (0.136 %)Maple
124 (0.078 %)Photoshop
133 (0.058 %)PowerPivot
133 (0.058 %)Google Apps
142 (0.039 %)Office 365
142 (0.039 %)ArcView
151 (0.019 %)AutoCAD
151 (0.019 %)CATIA
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1560 (10.91 %)Oracle EBS
2297 (5.784 %)Oracle EBS R12
3254 (4.946 %)Oracle Applications
4161 (3.135 %)Oracle 11i
5127 (2.473 %)Oracle Financials
6125 (2.434 %)Oracle ERP
7106 (2.064 %)Siebel Analytics
871 (1.383 %)Oracle BPM
938 (0.740 %)Oracle HRMS
1036 (0.701 %)Oracle General Ledger
1134 (0.662 %)Oracle iProcurement
1227 (0.526 %)Oracle Payroll
1325 (0.487 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
1419 (0.370 %)Oracle SCM
1515 (0.292 %)Staffware
1613 (0.253 %)Dynamics AX
1712 (0.234 %)PeopleSoft Financials
1810 (0.195 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
1810 (0.195 %)SunGard Stream Clearvision
199 (0.175 %)Oracle Retail
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1100 (1.947 %)Internet
292 (1.792 %)HTTP
384 (1.636 %)TCP/IP
478 (1.519 %)SAN
527 (0.526 %)Firewall
624 (0.467 %)Intranet
719 (0.370 %)DNS
719 (0.370 %)SSL
719 (0.370 %)Broadband
816 (0.312 %)LDAP
915 (0.292 %)Intrusion Detection
1012 (0.234 %)UMTS
1110 (0.195 %)SSH
129 (0.175 %)ATM
138 (0.156 %)Wireless
138 (0.156 %)AMQP
147 (0.136 %)BSS
156 (0.117 %)FTP
165 (0.097 %)Ethernet
165 (0.097 %)Kerberos
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11035 (20.16 %)Oracle 10g
2976 (19.01 %)SQL Server
3908 (17.68 %)Data Warehouse
4827 (16.11 %)Oracle 11g
5757 (14.74 %)ETL
6631 (12.29 %)Oracle Reports
7422 (8.218 %)Oracle 8/8i
8370 (7.205 %)RDBMS
9344 (6.699 %)Oracle BI EE
10329 (6.407 %)Oracle 9i
11284 (5.531 %)TOAD
12259 (5.044 %)SQL Server Integration Services
13250 (4.869 %)OLTP
14245 (4.771 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
15179 (3.486 %)Oracle Discoverer
16169 (3.291 %)SQL Server 2008
17158 (3.077 %)Oracle OWB
18155 (3.019 %)SQL Server 2005
19151 (2.941 %)MySQL
20149 (2.902 %)OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1541 (10.54 %)Oracle Forms
2226 (4.401 %)Subversion
3223 (4.343 %)JDeveloper
4215 (4.187 %)JUnit
4215 (4.187 %)Visual Studio
5212 (4.129 %)Maven
6189 (3.681 %)Oracle APEX
7174 (3.389 %)Ant
8140 (2.726 %)Eclipse
9104 (2.025 %)JIRA
1097 (1.889 %)ProC
1195 (1.850 %)Team Foundation Server
1287 (1.694 %)Selenium
1347 (0.915 %)NUnit
1435 (0.682 %)QuickTest Pro
1532 (0.623 %)ClearCase
1630 (0.584 %)FitNesse
1728 (0.545 %)CruiseControl
1827 (0.526 %)Hudson
1924 (0.467 %)Visual Studio Team System
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11501 (29.23 %)Finance
2506 (9.854 %)Banking
3214 (4.167 %)Investment Banking
4191 (3.720 %)Retail
5184 (3.583 %)Telecoms
6115 (2.240 %)Marketing
796 (1.870 %)General Ledger
885 (1.655 %)Manufacturing
984 (1.636 %)Games
1069 (1.344 %)Back Office
1168 (1.324 %)Front Office
1243 (0.837 %)Advertising
1332 (0.623 %)Publishing
1428 (0.545 %)Legal
1526 (0.506 %)Pharmaceutical
1625 (0.487 %)Financial Institution
1724 (0.467 %)Automotive
1822 (0.428 %)Billing
1822 (0.428 %)Music
1920 (0.389 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12702 (52.62 %)Developer
2853 (16.61 %)Oracle Developer
3712 (13.87 %)Java Developer
4672 (13.09 %)Analyst
5490 (9.542 %)DBA
6418 (8.140 %)Consultant
7389 (7.575 %)Oracle DBA
8364 (7.089 %)Senior Developer
9278 (5.414 %)Oracle Consultant
10237 (4.615 %)Applications Support
11229 (4.460 %)Architect
12222 (4.323 %).NET Developer
13216 (4.206 %)C# Developer
14206 (4.012 %)Support Analyst
15204 (3.973 %)Software Engineer
16195 (3.797 %)SQL Developer
17180 (3.505 %)Software Developer
18174 (3.389 %)Programmer
19149 (2.902 %)PL/SQL Developer
20138 (2.687 %)Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1216 (4.206 %)Computer Science
2125 (2.434 %)N-Tier
3117 (2.278 %)Management Information System
481 (1.577 %)Replication
481 (1.577 %)Clustering
580 (1.558 %)Open Source
676 (1.480 %)Derivative
760 (1.168 %)Hedge funds
857 (1.110 %)Mathematics
953 (1.032 %)Client/Server
1049 (0.954 %)Online Games
1143 (0.837 %)Fixed Income
1239 (0.759 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1239 (0.759 %)Market Risk
1338 (0.740 %)Spread Betting
1435 (0.682 %)Equities
1533 (0.643 %)Credit Risk
1630 (0.584 %)Data Integration
1726 (0.506 %)Video on Demand
1824 (0.467 %)Inversion of Control
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11373 (26.74 %)UNIX
2763 (14.86 %)Linux
3523 (10.19 %)Windows
4232 (4.518 %)Solaris
5117 (2.278 %)AIX
683 (1.616 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
765 (1.266 %)Windows Server 2003
848 (0.935 %)Windows Server 2008
946 (0.896 %)HPUX
1027 (0.526 %)SUSE
1125 (0.487 %)Android
1223 (0.448 %)Windows 2000
1313 (0.253 %)Apple iOS
1412 (0.234 %)Oracle Linux
1412 (0.234 %)Windows Mobile
157 (0.136 %)Windows NT
166 (0.117 %)Windows XP
166 (0.117 %)CentOS
166 (0.117 %)MVS
175 (0.097 %)Windows Vista
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1803 (15.64 %)Business Intelligence
2391 (7.614 %)OO
3348 (6.777 %)Data Modelling
4342 (6.660 %)SOA
5324 (6.310 %)Agile Software Development
6314 (6.115 %)ITIL
7310 (6.037 %)Project Management
7310 (6.037 %)Scrum
8309 (6.018 %)Workflow
9308 (5.998 %)Migration
10269 (5.239 %)E-Commerce
11252 (4.907 %)TDD
12248 (4.830 %)MVC
13229 (4.460 %)ERP
14224 (4.362 %)UML
15215 (4.187 %)Unit Testing
16189 (3.681 %)Data Migration
17182 (3.544 %)Business Analysis
18177 (3.447 %)Multithreading
19144 (2.804 %)Continuous Integration
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15033 (98.01 %)SQL
22065 (40.21 %)Java
3906 (17.64 %)C#
4779 (15.17 %)JavaScript
5606 (11.80 %)Shell Script
6469 (9.133 %)T-SQL
7329 (6.407 %)Perl
8294 (5.725 %)C++
9271 (5.278 %)VB
10250 (4.869 %)C
11219 (4.265 %)VB.NET
12207 (4.031 %)PHP
13119 (2.317 %)VBA
14118 (2.298 %)Ruby
15112 (2.181 %)Python
1695 (1.850 %)VB6
1788 (1.714 %)Bash shell
1871 (1.383 %)VBScript
1964 (1.246 %)Korn
2047 (0.915 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1771 (15.01 %)Degree
2179 (3.486 %)Security Cleared
3144 (2.804 %)Oracle Certification
4125 (2.434 %)SC Cleared
577 (1.500 %)OCP
648 (0.935 %)ISEB
739 (0.759 %)PhD
837 (0.721 %)HND
924 (0.467 %)Microsoft Certification
1023 (0.448 %)OCA
1115 (0.292 %)ITIL Certification
1213 (0.253 %)ISTQB
1311 (0.214 %)MCSD
1410 (0.195 %)CIMA
159 (0.175 %)Sun Certification
159 (0.175 %)MCTS
159 (0.175 %)MCP
168 (0.156 %)NVQ Level 3
176 (0.117 %)RHCT
176 (0.117 %)RHCE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1237 (4.615 %)QA
2101 (1.967 %)SLA
363 (1.227 %)Data Quality
433 (0.643 %)ISO 9001
524 (0.467 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
68 (0.156 %)HL7
77 (0.136 %)PCI DSS
77 (0.136 %)ISO/IEC 27001
83 (0.058 %)WAI
83 (0.058 %)GLP
83 (0.058 %)ISO 9000
92 (0.039 %)COBIT
92 (0.039 %)Basel II
101 (0.019 %)ISO 14001
101 (0.019 %)Solvency II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1268 (5.219 %)Oracle RAC
2244 (4.752 %)Oracle RMAN
354 (1.052 %)Active Directory
417 (0.331 %)VMware Infrastructure
510 (0.195 %)Veritas Cluster Server
68 (0.156 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
68 (0.156 %)Samba
76 (0.117 %)LiteSpeed
84 (0.078 %)Xen
84 (0.078 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
93 (0.058 %)NDS
102 (0.039 %)Postfix
102 (0.039 %)OpenSSO
111 (0.019 %)Hyper-V
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1169 (3.291 %)Data Guard
281 (1.577 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
333 (0.643 %)HP Quality Center
419 (0.370 %)Tivoli
518 (0.351 %)NetBackup
613 (0.253 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
712 (0.234 %)BMC PATROL
712 (0.234 %)Puppet
810 (0.195 %)WMI
810 (0.195 %)Foglight
99 (0.175 %)OpenView
106 (0.117 %)Control-M
115 (0.097 %)Oracle Statspack
124 (0.078 %)ServiceCenter
124 (0.078 %)Nagios
124 (0.078 %)Munin
133 (0.058 %)Netcool
141 (0.019 %)Legato
141 (0.019 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
141 (0.019 %)Oracle Identity Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14634 (90.24 %)Oracle
2451 (8.783 %)Microsoft
3253 (4.927 %)Business Objects
4240 (4.674 %)Informatica
5189 (3.681 %)JBoss
6161 (3.135 %)IBM
7144 (2.804 %)Cognos
8137 (2.668 %)Siebel
9114 (2.220 %)SAP
1099 (1.928 %)Red Hat
1198 (1.908 %)HP
1290 (1.753 %)Sun
1364 (1.246 %)Sybase
1457 (1.110 %)Ab Initio
1554 (1.052 %)TIBCO
1650 (0.974 %)Hyperion
1749 (0.954 %)ATG
1841 (0.798 %)Hitachi
1841 (0.798 %)Netezza
1939 (0.759 %)MicroStrategy