PL/SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 200 275
Rank change year-on-year +22 +75 -51
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 171 307 412
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.22% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.39% 3.28% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 199 307
10th Percentile £385 - £400
25th Percentile £463 £400 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £587 £550 £588
90th Percentile £720 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +5.75% +0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -3.84%
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +23.08% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,048 9,374 16,677
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.49% 37.36% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,662 6,862 12,375
10th Percentile £350 £390 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 203 185
10th Percentile £34.38 £31.60 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +25.63% +10.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £85.38 £82.00 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £62.18 £60.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.03% +21.88% +14.94%

PL/SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PL/SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL.

PL/SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

PL/SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL.

PL/SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (2.92%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.34%) SAS
3 2 (1.17%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.17%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.17%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Appian
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.09%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.51%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (3.51%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (3.51%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.92%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (2.92%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (2.92%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.75%) Endur
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (1.17%) NEC Housing
6 2 (1.17%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.28%) AWS
2 13 (7.60%) Azure
3 8 (4.68%) Collibra
4 7 (4.09%) GitHub
5 6 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.75%) Veeva
7 2 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.17%) Serverless
7 2 (1.17%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.58%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.58%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.75%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.17%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) FTP
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.24%) Oracle Database
2 35 (20.47%) SQL Server
3 20 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (10.53%) Oracle Database 11g
5 12 (7.02%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (5.26%) Metadata
7 6 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.51%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (3.51%) Oracle ODI
7 6 (3.51%) Power BI
8 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.75%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.17%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.58%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 31 (18.13%) PVCS
1 31 (18.13%) Visual Studio
2 18 (10.53%) Oracle APEX
3 8 (4.68%) JIRA
3 8 (4.68%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.75%) GitLab
4 3 (1.75%) Subversion
4 3 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.75%) Toad
4 3 (1.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (1.17%) Ant
6 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.58%) Git
6 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (23.39%) Finance
2 26 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.36%) Banking
6 9 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (4.09%) Retail
8 5 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (46.78%) Developer
2 31 (18.13%) SQL Developer
3 30 (17.54%) C Programmer
3 30 (17.54%) Programmer
4 27 (15.79%) Oracle Developer
5 22 (12.87%) PL/SQL Developer
6 13 (7.60%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 12 (7.02%) Architect
8 8 (4.68%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (4.09%) Analyst
9 7 (4.09%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Oracle Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Administrator
10 6 (3.51%) Consultant
10 6 (3.51%) DBA
10 6 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Senior
12 4 (2.34%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.34%) Storage Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.68%) .NET
2 6 (3.51%) HTML
3 5 (2.92%) XML
4 4 (2.34%) Blazor
5 3 (1.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.75%) JPA
5 3 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.17%) CSS
6 2 (1.17%) Kafka
6 2 (1.17%) SOAP
6 2 (1.17%) Web Services
7 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.58%) JMS
7 1 (0.58%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.58%) Sass
7 1 (0.58%) Swagger
7 1 (0.58%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.58%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.26%) Replication
2 7 (4.09%) Blog
3 5 (2.92%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.75%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.17%) Clustering
5 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.17%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.11%) Unix
2 8 (4.68%) Windows
3 6 (3.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.81%) Agile
2 37 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (16.96%) Performance Tuning
4 24 (14.04%) Migration
4 24 (14.04%) Unit Testing
5 23 (13.45%) Software Engineering
6 20 (11.70%) Data Migration
6 20 (11.70%) ETL
7 19 (11.11%) DevOps
8 18 (10.53%) Software Testing
9 15 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (8.19%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.60%) Architectural Design
11 13 (7.60%) Data Modelling
11 13 (7.60%) Secure Coding
12 12 (7.02%) Data Analysis
12 12 (7.02%) Data Management
13 11 (6.43%) Data Integration
14 10 (5.85%) Data Governance
14 10 (5.85%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 140 (81.87%) SQL
2 33 (19.30%) C
3 23 (13.45%) Java
4 18 (10.53%) T-SQL
5 13 (7.60%) C#
6 10 (5.85%) C++
7 9 (5.26%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.09%) Python
9 6 (3.51%) VB
10 5 (2.92%) R
11 4 (2.34%) Bash
11 4 (2.34%) Bourne shell
11 4 (2.34%) Korn
11 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.34%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.75%) Groovy
13 2 (1.17%) Go
14 1 (0.58%) HiveQL
14 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (37.43%) Security Cleared
2 61 (35.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.77%) Degree
4 8 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.75%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) OCP
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.92%) GDPR
2 4 (2.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.75%) CDISC
3 3 (1.75%) Good Clinical Practice
3 3 (1.75%) GxP
3 3 (1.75%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (4.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) HDFS
2 1 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (1.75%) Ansible
1 3 (1.75%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.17%) Oracle Flashback
2 2 (1.17%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.58%) Control-M
Vendors
1 108 (63.16%) Oracle
2 14 (8.19%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.26%) Avaloq
4 7 (4.09%) SAP
5 5 (2.92%) Sparx
6 3 (1.75%) Microgen
6 3 (1.75%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.17%) Databricks
7 2 (1.17%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.17%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.17%) NEC
7 2 (1.17%) Northgate
7 2 (1.17%) QAD
7 2 (1.17%) Talend
8 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.58%) Citrix
8 1 (0.58%) Denodo
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) Mercator
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce