PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 64 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 4 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.67% 0.91% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.86% 2.99% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 16
10th Percentile £431 £429 £394
25th Percentile £459 £451 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £497 £541
90th Percentile £594 £514 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

PL/SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 215 201 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.95% 30.50% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 111 179
10th Percentile £395 £380 £398
25th Percentile £431 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -1.04% +2.13%
75th Percentile £571 £538 £543
90th Percentile £625 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £496 £459 £500
% change year-on-year +8.06% -8.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile £58.25 - £44.99
25th Percentile £65.00 - £50.59
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £56.85
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +31.93% +16.62%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £61.75
90th Percentile - - £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £59.52
% change year-on-year +212.53% -67.08% +13.99%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PL/SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PL/SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Edinburgh

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PL/SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Security
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Web Flow
1 2 (50.00%) Thymeleaf
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Delphix
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (25.00%) Siemens