PL/SQL Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for PL/SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PL/SQL over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

PL/SQL (PLSQL) England / London
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	212	181	160
Rank change year-on-year	-31	-21
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL	227	288	350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.11%	1.35%	1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category	2.32%	3.09%	3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	157	174	226
Median daily rate	£438	£450	£418
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.77%	+7.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£300	£299
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£388	£383	£368
% change year-on-year	+1.30%	+4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	4
Median hourly rate	-	£40.00	£27.78
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+43.98%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.39	£35.50	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+22.22%	+1.42%

PL/SQL is in the programming language skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for programming language skills.

Contract Programming Language Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for programming language skills	9783	9312	9840
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	47.81%	43.56%	42.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	7233	7103	7192
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£325	£303
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£625	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	74	39	85
Median hourly rate	£33.75	£40.00	£30.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.62%	+33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£19.82	£14.95	£18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.83	£113.00	£52.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£37.50	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+13.33%	+1.35%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Programming Languages category.

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing PL/SQL in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for PL/SQL in London

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing PL/SQL in London over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in London

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in London

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the London region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-15	35	£500	+5.26%	4
Canary Wharf	+4	2	£550	-
Croydon	-	2	-	-
Docklands, London	+1	1	£490	+28.94%
Greenwich	-	1	£410	-
PL/SQL England

PL/SQL
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing PL/SQL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for PL/SQL.

1	438 (99.55%)	SQL
2	377 (85.68%)	Oracle
3	185 (42.05%)	Java
4	167 (37.95%)	Finance
5	141 (32.05%)	Oracle Database
6	116 (26.36%)	Agile Software Development
7	94 (21.36%)	Unix
8	90 (20.45%)	Banking
9	84 (19.09%)	Linux
10	77 (17.50%)	Data Warehouse
10	77 (17.50%)	Data Modelling
11	75 (17.05%)	XML
12	73 (16.59%)	SQL Server
13	70 (15.91%)	Business Intelligence
13	70 (15.91%)	Spring

13	70 (15.91%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	67 (15.23%)	ETL
14	67 (15.23%)	Oracle Database 12c
15	63 (14.32%)	JavaScript
16	58 (13.18%)	C#
16	58 (13.18%)	Shell Script
17	57 (12.95%)	HTML
18	55 (12.50%)	Analytical Skills
19	49 (11.14%)	T-SQL
20	47 (10.68%)	Hibernate
20	47 (10.68%)	SDLC
21	45 (10.23%)	Relational Database
22	44 (10.00%)	Performance Tuning
22	44 (10.00%)	Windows
23	43 (9.77%)	Python

PL/SQL
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	27 (6.14%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	18 (4.09%)	Confluence
2	18 (4.09%)	WebLogic
3	12 (2.73%)	JBoss
3	12 (2.73%)	Mule
4	11 (2.50%)	Apache Spark
5	10 (2.27%)	Oracle Workflow
5	10 (2.27%)	Tuxedo
6	9 (2.05%)	WebSphere
7	8 (1.82%)	Tomcat
8	7 (1.59%)	WildFly
9	6 (1.36%)	Apache Pig
10	5 (1.14%)	Umbraco
11	4 (0.91%)	Apache
11	4 (0.91%)	Oracle Application Server
11	4 (0.91%)	SAS
11	4 (0.91%)	WebLogic Portal
12	3 (0.68%)	Apache Qpid
12	3 (0.68%)	Elasticsearch
13	2 (0.45%)	BizTalk Server

Applications
1	10 (2.27%)	Microsoft Excel
2	5 (1.14%)	Microsoft Office
3	4 (0.91%)	SPSS
3	4 (0.91%)	Stata
4	3 (0.68%)	S-PLUS
5	2 (0.45%)	Mathematica
6	1 (0.23%)	Microsoft PowerPoint

Business Applications
1	25 (5.68%)	Oracle EBS
2	12 (2.73%)	Oracle Applications
2	12 (2.73%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	7 (1.59%)	Oracle iStore
4	5 (1.14%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4	5 (1.14%)	Oracle Utilities
4	5 (1.14%)	Siebel CRM
5	4 (0.91%)	Global One
5	4 (0.91%)	Oracle 11i
5	4 (0.91%)	Oracle Financials
5	4 (0.91%)	Oracle Internet Expenses
5	4 (0.91%)	Oracle Receivables
5	4 (0.91%)	Temenos T24
6	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Payables
6	3 (0.68%)	Oracle Retail
6	3 (0.68%)	Sonata
7	2 (0.45%)	Kypera Housing
7	2 (0.45%)	MIS ActiveH
7	2 (0.45%)	Northgate Housing
7	2 (0.45%)	OPENHousing

Cloud Services
1	7 (1.59%)	PaaS
2	5 (1.14%)	Amazon AWS
3	3 (0.68%)	Microsoft Azure
4	2 (0.45%)	IaaS
4	2 (0.45%)	SaaS
5	1 (0.23%)	Dropbox
5	1 (0.23%)	Force.com
5	1 (0.23%)	OpenShift
5	1 (0.23%)	Salesforce Sales Cloud
5	1 (0.23%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
5	1 (0.23%)	Slack

Communications & Networking
1	10 (2.27%)	LDAP
2	4 (0.91%)	FTP
2	4 (0.91%)	Skype
2	4 (0.91%)	SNMP
3	3 (0.68%)	AMQP
3	3 (0.68%)	VoIP
3	3 (0.68%)	Wireshark
4	2 (0.45%)	Firewall
4	2 (0.45%)	Internet
4	2 (0.45%)	Intranet
5	1 (0.23%)	HTTP
5	1 (0.23%)	TCP/IP
5	1 (0.23%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	141 (32.05%)	Oracle Database
2	77 (17.50%)	Data Warehouse
3	73 (16.59%)	SQL Server
4	70 (15.91%)	Oracle Database 11g
5	67 (15.23%)	Oracle Database 12c
6	45 (10.23%)	Relational Database
7	30 (6.82%)	RDBMS
8	23 (5.23%)	Oracle Reports
9	22 (5.00%)	Oracle BI Publisher
10	20 (4.55%)	Oracle Database 10g
11	18 (4.09%)	Big Data
12	17 (3.86%)	Hadoop
12	17 (3.86%)	QlikView
13	16 (3.64%)	KDB
13	16 (3.64%)	Oracle BI EE
13	16 (3.64%)	SQLPlus
14	15 (3.41%)	Kdb+
14	15 (3.41%)	SQL Server Integration Services
15	14 (3.18%)	MySQL
16	13 (2.95%)	BusinessObjects

Development Applications
1	43 (9.77%)	JIRA
2	30 (6.82%)	Jenkins
3	29 (6.59%)	Git (software)
4	25 (5.68%)	JUnit
5	23 (5.23%)	Maven
6	21 (4.77%)	Oracle Forms
7	19 (4.32%)	Oracle APEX
8	17 (3.86%)	JDeveloper
9	16 (3.64%)	Mockito
9	16 (3.64%)	Selenium
10	15 (3.41%)	Cucumber
11	14 (3.18%)	Toad
12	11 (2.50%)	ProC
13	10 (2.27%)	Subversion
14	8 (1.82%)	Ant
14	8 (1.82%)	EasyMock
15	7 (1.59%)	HP UFT
16	6 (1.36%)	Talend Open Studio
16	6 (1.36%)	TeamCity
17	5 (1.14%)	Bitbucket

General
1	167 (37.95%)	Finance
2	90 (20.45%)	Banking
3	35 (7.95%)	Investment Banking
4	20 (4.55%)	Front Office
5	14 (3.18%)	Retail
6	9 (2.05%)	Marketing
7	8 (1.82%)	Pharmaceutical
8	7 (1.59%)	Back Office
9	6 (1.36%)	Billing
9	6 (1.36%)	Financial Institution
10	5 (1.14%)	Music Industry
11	4 (0.91%)	Corporate Banking
12	3 (0.68%)	Legal
12	3 (0.68%)	Telecoms
13	2 (0.45%)	General Ledger
13	2 (0.45%)	German Language
13	2 (0.45%)	Multimedia
13	2 (0.45%)	Retail Banking
14	1 (0.23%)	Advertising
14	1 (0.23%)	Polish Language

Job Titles
1	285 (64.77%)	Developer
2	115 (26.14%)	Oracle Developer
3	90 (20.45%)	Java Developer
4	89 (20.23%)	SQL Developer
5	63 (14.32%)	PL/SQL Developer
6	44 (10.00%)	Analyst
7	31 (7.05%)	Senior Developer
8	26 (5.91%)	Consultant
9	22 (5.00%)	Architect
10	19 (4.32%)	C# Developer
10	19 (4.32%)	DBA
11	18 (4.09%)	Senior Java Developer
12	16 (3.64%)	Applications Developer
13	15 (3.41%)	Analyst Developer
14	13 (2.95%)	Business Analyst
15	12 (2.73%)	Oracle Consultant
15	12 (2.73%)	Oracle Financials Developer
16	11 (2.50%)	Agile Developer
16	11 (2.50%)	JavaScript Developer
17	10 (2.27%)	Investment Banking Java Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	75 (17.05%)	XML
2	70 (15.91%)	Spring
3	57 (12.95%)	HTML
4	47 (10.68%)	Hibernate
5	40 (9.09%)	.NET
6	35 (7.95%)	J2EE
7	32 (7.27%)	AngularJS
8	30 (6.82%)	CSS
8	30 (6.82%)	Web Services
9	29 (6.59%)	JSON
10	23 (5.23%)	JMS
11	22 (5.00%)	Java EE
11	22 (5.00%)	jQuery
11	22 (5.00%)	REST
12	20 (4.55%)	JSF
13	19 (4.32%)	HTML5
13	19 (4.32%)	JSP
13	19 (4.32%)	RESTful
14	18 (4.09%)	ActiveMQ
15	17 (3.86%)	Apache Camel

Miscellaneous
1	55 (12.50%)	Analytical Skills
2	24 (5.45%)	Equities
2	24 (5.45%)	Fintech
3	20 (4.55%)	Computer Science
3	20 (4.55%)	Derivative
4	19 (4.32%)	Enterprise Software
5	16 (3.64%)	Data Structures
6	15 (3.41%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	15 (3.41%)	TWAP
6	15 (3.41%)	VWAP
7	12 (2.73%)	Hedge funds
8	11 (2.50%)	Algorithms
9	9 (2.05%)	Fixed Income
10	7 (1.59%)	Management Information System
11	6 (1.36%)	Market Risk
11	6 (1.36%)	Virtual Team
12	5 (1.14%)	Life Science
13	4 (0.91%)	Greenfield Project
14	3 (0.68%)	Linux Command Line
14	3 (0.68%)	OTC Derivatives

Operating Systems
1	94 (21.36%)	Unix
2	84 (19.09%)	Linux
3	44 (10.00%)	Windows
4	2 (0.45%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	2 (0.45%)	Windows Server
5	1 (0.23%)	AIX
5	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Linux
5	1 (0.23%)	Solaris

Processes & Methodologies
1	116 (26.36%)	Agile Software Development
2	77 (17.50%)	Data Modelling
3	70 (15.91%)	Business Intelligence
4	67 (15.23%)	ETL
5	47 (10.68%)	SDLC
6	44 (10.00%)	Performance Tuning
7	43 (9.77%)	Analytics
8	35 (7.95%)	TDD
9	33 (7.50%)	MVC
10	32 (7.27%)	OO
10	32 (7.27%)	UML
11	30 (6.82%)	Data Analysis
12	29 (6.59%)	Scrum
13	27 (6.14%)	Data Management
13	27 (6.14%)	Multithreading
13	27 (6.14%)	SOA
14	25 (5.68%)	BDD
14	25 (5.68%)	Continuous Integration
15	23 (5.23%)	Workflow
16	22 (5.00%)	Migration

Programming Languages
1	438 (99.55%)	SQL
2	185 (42.05%)	Java
3	63 (14.32%)	JavaScript
4	58 (13.18%)	C#
4	58 (13.18%)	Shell Script
5	49 (11.14%)	T-SQL
6	43 (9.77%)	Python
7	29 (6.59%)	C++
8	16 (3.64%)	Perl
9	14 (3.18%)	Bash Shell
9	14 (3.18%)	C
10	13 (2.95%)	PowerShell
11	10 (2.27%)	Scala
12	8 (1.82%)	R
12	8 (1.82%)	Ruby
12	8 (1.82%)	VB
12	8 (1.82%)	VBA
13	7 (1.59%)	MATLAB
14	5 (1.14%)	Korn
15	4 (0.91%)	XPath

Qualifications
1	23 (5.23%)	Degree
2	16 (3.64%)	Security Cleared
3	13 (2.95%)	SC Cleared
4	12 (2.73%)	Computer Science Degree
5	7 (1.59%)	ISEB
5	7 (1.59%)	ISTQB
6	5 (1.14%)	Master's Degree
7	4 (0.91%)	DV Cleared
7	4 (0.91%)	Numerate Degree
8	3 (0.68%)	Sun Certification
9	2 (0.45%)	BC Cleared
10	1 (0.23%)	CCIE
10	1 (0.23%)	Cisco Certification
10	1 (0.23%)	CTC Cleared
10	1 (0.23%)	IBM Certification
10	1 (0.23%)	Oracle Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	28 (6.36%)	QA
2	21 (4.77%)	Data Quality
3	12 (2.73%)	SLA
4	11 (2.50%)	EMIR
5	6 (1.36%)	MiFID
6	4 (0.91%)	PCI DSS
7	3 (0.68%)	FATCA
8	2 (0.45%)	HL7
8	2 (0.45%)	ISO 20022
8	2 (0.45%)	Solvency II
9	1 (0.23%)	DICOM
9	1 (0.23%)	Dodd-Frank
9	1 (0.23%)	ISO 15022

System Software
1	13 (2.95%)	Docker
2	11 (2.50%)	Oracle RAC
3	5 (1.14%)	Apache Flume
4	3 (0.68%)	HDFS
5	2 (0.45%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	1 (0.23%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	21 (4.77%)	Control-M
2	11 (2.50%)	Oracle RMAN
3	9 (2.05%)	Data Guard
4	6 (1.36%)	Kubernetes
5	3 (0.68%)	Ansible
5	3 (0.68%)	Puppet
6	2 (0.45%)	BladeLogic
6	2 (0.45%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6	2 (0.45%)	Graphite
6	2 (0.45%)	Kibana
6	2 (0.45%)	logstash
6	2 (0.45%)	Nagios
6	2 (0.45%)	Opscode Chef
6	2 (0.45%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
6	2 (0.45%)	SCOM

Vendors
1	377 (85.68%)	Oracle
2	28 (6.36%)	Informatica
3	23 (5.23%)	Sybase
4	19 (4.32%)	IBM
5	17 (3.86%)	Microsoft
6	12 (2.73%)	Teradata
7	11 (2.50%)	Atlassian
8	7 (1.59%)	Tableau
9	6 (1.36%)	HP
9	6 (1.36%)	Siebel
9	6 (1.36%)	Solace
9	6 (1.36%)	Talend
10	5 (1.14%)	Microgen
10	5 (1.14%)	MicroStrategy
10	5 (1.14%)	Murex
10	5 (1.14%)	Salesforce.com
10	5 (1.14%)	SAP
10	5 (1.14%)	WorldPay
11	4 (0.91%)	CyberArk
11	4 (0.91%)	ServiceNow