PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 229 268
Rank change year-on-year -40 +39 -75
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 393 708 940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.18% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.08% 3.38% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 497 653
10th Percentile £385 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% +3.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £693
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -2.42% +13.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 5
10th Percentile - £53.75 £40.50
25th Percentile - £58.44 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.25 £72.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -9.62% +64.56%

All Programming Languages
UK

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 with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,747 20,965 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.44% 35.05% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,054 15,147 23,495
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £783 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 477 511
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.39 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.07 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £77.00 £67.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.25
% change year-on-year - +26.90% +15.88%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -32 313 £525 - 37
UK excluding London -6 194 £525 -2.42% 37
Work from Home +9 172 £535 +12.63% 25
London -31 155 £501 +6.49% 19
Midlands -5 61 £535 -0.93% 8
West Midlands +11 57 £535 -0.93% 5
South East +3 50 £483 -12.27% 2
Scotland +34 40 £525 +23.53% 13
South West +22 19 £638 +18.60% 1
North of England +10 14 £577 +4.82% 4
North West +5 11 £577 -2.29% 2
Wales -1 5 £390 -15.68% 6
East Midlands +5 4 £388 -34.23% 3
Yorkshire +15 3 - - 2
East of England -2 3 £435 -20.00% 3

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (2.54%) Oracle Workflow
2 9 (2.29%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (2.29%) IIS
3 6 (1.53%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) SAS
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.04%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.31%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (2.80%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (2.80%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.04%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (1.53%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (1.27%) Endur
6 5 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (1.02%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (1.02%) Oracle FAH
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.51%) HFM
9 2 (0.51%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Utilities
10 1 (0.25%) Actimize
10 1 (0.25%) Maximo
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.45%) AWS
2 43 (10.94%) Azure
3 21 (5.34%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (2.29%) Azure Functions
4 9 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (2.29%) Azure Storage
4 9 (2.29%) OCI
4 9 (2.29%) Serverless
5 8 (2.04%) Collibra
5 8 (2.04%) GitHub
6 6 (1.53%) GCP
7 5 (1.27%) SaaS
8 4 (1.02%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.76%) Veeva
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.29%) Internet
2 3 (0.76%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.51%) 5G
3 2 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (30.53%) Oracle Database
2 89 (22.65%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 30 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (7.12%) Oracle Database 11g
6 23 (5.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (5.34%) Power BI
8 17 (4.33%) Metadata
8 17 (4.33%) Oracle ODI
8 17 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.54%) Oracle BI EE
9 10 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.78%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
11 7 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.53%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (1.53%) Oracle Database 12c
13 5 (1.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (13.99%) PVCS
1 55 (13.99%) Visual Studio
2 34 (8.65%) JIRA
3 32 (8.14%) Oracle APEX
4 13 (3.31%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (2.29%) Git
6 8 (2.04%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.78%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.78%) GitLab
7 7 (1.78%) JUnit
8 6 (1.53%) NUnit
8 6 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.53%) Postman
8 6 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.27%) Subversion
9 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 4 (1.02%) Ant
10 4 (1.02%) Selenium
10 4 (1.02%) Toad
General
1 99 (25.19%) Finance
2 68 (17.30%) Social Skills
3 61 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.67%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.12%) Banking
6 10 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.04%) Retail
8 6 (1.53%) Billing
9 5 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Automotive
11 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.25%) Front Office
12 1 (0.25%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.25%) Law
12 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 220 (55.98%) Developer
2 56 (14.25%) Oracle Developer
2 56 (14.25%) Programmer
3 54 (13.74%) C Programmer
4 47 (11.96%) SQL Developer
5 40 (10.18%) .NET Developer
6 36 (9.16%) C# Developer
7 32 (8.14%) PL/SQL Developer
8 21 (5.34%) Architect
9 20 (5.09%) Analyst
9 20 (5.09%) C# .NET Developer
10 18 (4.58%) Senior
11 15 (3.82%) Java Developer
11 15 (3.82%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 13 (3.31%) Consultant
13 12 (3.05%) Oracle Architect
13 12 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.54%) C# WPF Developer
14 10 (2.54%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.54%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (19.34%) .NET
2 33 (8.40%) .NET Framework
3 23 (5.85%) AngularJS
4 21 (5.34%) .NET Core
5 20 (5.09%) XML
6 14 (3.56%) WCF
7 13 (3.31%) Blazor
8 12 (3.05%) JSON
8 12 (3.05%) REST
8 12 (3.05%) WPF
9 11 (2.80%) HTML
10 9 (2.29%) jQuery
10 9 (2.29%) Spring
10 9 (2.29%) WinForms
11 8 (2.04%) CSS
11 8 (2.04%) Kafka
11 8 (2.04%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.53%) Entity Framework
13 6 (1.53%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.05%) Replication
2 11 (2.80%) Blog
2 11 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.76%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.76%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.51%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.25%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.25%) FMCG
9 1 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.25%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.67%) Unix
2 34 (8.65%) Windows
3 13 (3.31%) Linux
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.65%) Agile
2 76 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (12.21%) Performance Tuning
4 46 (11.70%) Unit Testing
5 44 (11.20%) Software Engineering
6 41 (10.43%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (10.43%) Migration
7 40 (10.18%) ETL
8 35 (8.91%) Data Analysis
8 35 (8.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 33 (8.40%) Data Modelling
10 29 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (7.38%) DevOps
10 29 (7.38%) Scrum
11 28 (7.12%) Data Migration
12 26 (6.62%) Requirements Gathering
12 26 (6.62%) Software Testing
13 25 (6.36%) Computer Science
14 24 (6.11%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (5.60%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 339 (86.26%) SQL
2 74 (18.83%) C#
3 66 (16.79%) C
4 60 (15.27%) T-SQL
5 40 (10.18%) Java
6 34 (8.65%) VB
7 30 (7.63%) JavaScript
8 26 (6.62%) VBA
9 25 (6.36%) VB.NET
10 24 (6.11%) C++
11 22 (5.60%) Python
12 15 (3.82%) Shell Script
13 12 (3.05%) Bash
14 9 (2.29%) Bourne shell
14 9 (2.29%) Go
14 9 (2.29%) Korn
15 8 (2.04%) XPath
16 7 (1.78%) XQuery
17 6 (1.53%) ProC
18 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 113 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 103 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.91%) Degree
4 23 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.27%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.62%) QA
2 6 (1.53%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.27%) GDPR
4 4 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.76%) CDISC
5 3 (0.76%) Dodd-Frank
5 3 (0.76%) EMIR
5 3 (0.76%) Good Clinical Practice
5 3 (0.76%) GxP
5 3 (0.76%) MiFID
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) COREP
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.80%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.53%) Docker
3 3 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.76%) Ansible
2 3 (0.76%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Flashback
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.25%) Control-M
4 1 (0.25%) Kibana
4 1 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 274 (69.72%) Oracle
2 29 (7.38%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.11%) Avaloq
4 23 (5.85%) Citrix
5 18 (4.58%) SAP
6 11 (2.80%) Informatica
7 9 (2.29%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.04%) Sparx
9 5 (1.27%) OpenLink
10 4 (1.02%) IBM
10 4 (1.02%) JDA
10 4 (1.02%) Talend
11 3 (0.76%) Hyperion
11 3 (0.76%) Microgen
11 3 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
12 2 (0.51%) JD Edwards
12 2 (0.51%) Murex
12 2 (0.51%) NEC
12 2 (0.51%) Northgate
12 2 (0.51%) QAD