PL/SQL Contracts in Scotland

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 126 89
Rank change year-on-year +35 -37 +7
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 40 39 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.81% 1.36% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.97% 3.90% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 33 74
10th Percentile £414 £363 £359
25th Percentile £416 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £500
90th Percentile £577 £576 £538
UK median daily rate £528 £514 £500
% change year-on-year +2.68% +2.75% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +11.54% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

PL/SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 670 999 952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 30.36% 34.94% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 727 641
10th Percentile £369 £406 £363
25th Percentile £415 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +3.68% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £557 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 21
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.79 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £52.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +27.21% +4.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.27 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.63 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
% change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.25%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +28 20 £550 +29.41% 3
Glasgow +6 11 £435 -8.42% 9
West Lothian - 6 £470 -
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.00%) OCI
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (2.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 11 (27.50%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Oracle APEX
2 15 (37.50%) JIRA
3 6 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (15.00%) JUnit
4 5 (12.50%) Git
4 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 5 (12.50%) Postman
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 23 (57.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Finance
4 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Oracle Developer
3 11 (27.50%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Database Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Design Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle Forms Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Database Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Design Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Database Designer
7 2 (5.00%) Database Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Designer
7 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.00%) SQL Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) J2EE
1 6 (15.00%) Kafka
1 6 (15.00%) REST
1 6 (15.00%) Spring
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Camel
2 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 14 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (30.00%) CRM
4 12 (30.00%) SQL Optimisation
5 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 10 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (15.00%) Coaching
7 6 (15.00%) Component Testing
7 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
7 6 (15.00%) Scenario Testing
7 6 (15.00%) TDD
8 5 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (12.50%) Project Management
9 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (7.50%) Data Security
11 2 (5.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (15.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (75.00%) Oracle
2 10 (25.00%) Avaloq