PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in England

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 252 243
Rank change year-on-year -51 -9 -56
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 263 287 369
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.84% 1.00% 1.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 3.06% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 212 274
10th Percentile £385 £385 £382
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -1.19% -2.78%
75th Percentile £550 £656 £647
90th Percentile £600 £688 £743
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.13 - -
25th Percentile £70.94 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £83.75 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% - -
75th Percentile £98.44 £93.75 -
90th Percentile £105.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £83.75 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.46% - -

All Programming Languages
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 9,744 9,383 11,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.06% 32.58% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,457 6,099 8,292
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.71% -4.55% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 226 381
10th Percentile £34.00 £25.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.23 £44.62 £46.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.10%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in England

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in England

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PL/SQL in England over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for PL/SQL in England

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 21 December 2025. 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
London -34 134 £475 -5.94% 19
South West +26 41 £475 +26.67% 5
South East -47 31 £500 -21.88% 14
Midlands -41 21 £513 +8.81% 8
North of England -40 17 £347 -32.72% 9
North West -25 15 £347 -31.39% 9
West Midlands -31 14 £425 -10.53% 6
East of England -18 7 £488 -9.30% 3
East Midlands -23 7 £515 +21.18% 2
Yorkshire -48 2 - -
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (5.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 14 (5.32%) IIS
3 11 (4.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 9 (3.42%) WebLogic
5 8 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (2.66%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.90%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.14%) Anypoint
8 3 (1.14%) Confluence
9 2 (0.76%) Apache
9 2 (0.76%) Liferay
9 2 (0.76%) Mule
9 2 (0.76%) Mule ESB
10 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.38%) JBoss
10 1 (0.38%) nginx
10 1 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 25 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.66%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.76%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (9.51%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (6.46%) Oracle Payables
3 16 (6.08%) Oracle EBS R12
3 16 (6.08%) Oracle General Ledger
4 14 (5.32%) Oracle Assets
4 14 (5.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 10 (3.80%) Oracle ERP
6 9 (3.42%) Oracle Cash Management
7 7 (2.66%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (2.28%) NEC Housing
8 6 (2.28%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (1.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (1.52%) Oracle 11i
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle BRM
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 2 (0.76%) Loan IQ
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle iProcurement
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
13 1 (0.38%) Finacle
13 1 (0.38%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 73 (27.76%) Azure
2 54 (20.53%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (9.51%) OCI
4 19 (7.22%) AWS
5 10 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.80%) Tricentis Tosca
6 9 (3.42%) GitHub
6 9 (3.42%) SaaS
7 8 (3.04%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.28%) Azure API Management
8 6 (2.28%) dbt
8 6 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (2.28%) Prefect
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (1.52%) PaaS
10 3 (1.14%) IaaS
10 3 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.80%) Internet
2 5 (1.90%) HTTP
3 3 (1.14%) Broadband
3 3 (1.14%) GPRS
3 3 (1.14%) GSM
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (35.36%) Oracle Database
2 48 (18.25%) SQL Server
3 31 (11.79%) Oracle Reports
4 20 (7.60%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (7.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 16 (6.08%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (4.56%) Oracle ODI
8 10 (3.80%) Oracle Database 12c
8 10 (3.80%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.42%) Oracle BI EE
9 9 (3.42%) Oracle Exadata
10 7 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.66%) Power BI
10 7 (2.66%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (2.66%) SQLPlus
11 6 (2.28%) Metadata
11 6 (2.28%) Oracle Database 11g
12 5 (1.90%) DataStage
12 5 (1.90%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 45 (17.11%) Oracle APEX
2 19 (7.22%) Oracle Forms
3 16 (6.08%) Git
3 16 (6.08%) JIRA
4 13 (4.94%) GitLab
5 9 (3.42%) Jenkins
6 6 (2.28%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.90%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.90%) JUnit
7 5 (1.90%) SoapUI
7 5 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (1.90%) Toad
8 4 (1.52%) Ant
8 4 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (1.52%) Selenium
8 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.14%) Gradle
9 3 (1.14%) JMeter
10 2 (0.76%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.76%) Hudson
General
1 89 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 81 (30.80%) Finance
3 35 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.03%) Banking
5 26 (9.89%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.94%) General Ledger
7 10 (3.80%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.66%) Billing
10 5 (1.90%) Back Office
10 5 (1.90%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.90%) Local Government
11 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Retail
12 2 (0.76%) Front Office
12 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.76%) Law
13 1 (0.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 146 (55.51%) Developer
2 52 (19.77%) Senior
3 42 (15.97%) Oracle Developer
3 42 (15.97%) Senior Developer
4 40 (15.21%) C# Developer
5 24 (9.13%) Consultant
6 19 (7.22%) .NET Developer
7 18 (6.84%) C# .NET Developer
7 18 (6.84%) DBA
7 18 (6.84%) Oracle DBA
8 17 (6.46%) C# WPF Developer
8 17 (6.46%) WPF Developer
9 14 (5.32%) Architect
9 14 (5.32%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.94%) Oracle Consultant
11 10 (3.80%) Technical Consultant
12 9 (3.42%) Lead
12 9 (3.42%) QA Engineer
13 8 (3.04%) SQL Developer
14 7 (2.66%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (19.39%) .NET
2 32 (12.17%) .NET Framework
3 27 (10.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 24 (9.13%) SOAP
5 21 (7.98%) WPF
6 19 (7.22%) REST
7 17 (6.46%) Middleware
7 17 (6.46%) XML
8 12 (4.56%) Kafka
8 12 (4.56%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 12 (4.56%) WinForms
9 11 (4.18%) HTML
9 11 (4.18%) Web Services
10 9 (3.42%) CSS
10 9 (3.42%) JSON
11 7 (2.66%) WCF
12 6 (2.28%) IBM Integration Bus
13 5 (1.90%) RESTful
13 5 (1.90%) Spring
14 4 (1.52%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.42%) NHS
2 9 (3.42%) Synthetic Data
3 7 (2.66%) Cloud Native
3 7 (2.66%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.66%) Replication
4 6 (2.28%) Clustering
4 6 (2.28%) Legacy Code
5 5 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.52%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.52%) SCADA
7 3 (1.14%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.14%) IPTV
7 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (15.59%) Windows
2 26 (9.89%) Unix
3 20 (7.60%) Linux
4 8 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.90%) AIX
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.38%) VME
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (36.12%) Agile
2 78 (29.66%) DevOps
3 65 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (20.53%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (19.77%) CI/CD
6 51 (19.39%) Validation
7 43 (16.35%) Performance Tuning
8 40 (15.21%) Collaborative Working
8 40 (15.21%) Migration
9 39 (14.83%) Scrum
10 38 (14.45%) ERP
11 31 (11.79%) ETL
11 31 (11.79%) Requirements Analysis
12 30 (11.41%) Software Delivery
13 29 (11.03%) Web Application Development
14 28 (10.65%) Data Modelling
15 24 (9.13%) Data Analysis
16 23 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (7.60%) Analytics
17 20 (7.60%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 259 (98.48%) SQL
2 49 (18.63%) JavaScript
3 48 (18.25%) C#
4 47 (17.87%) Java
5 31 (11.79%) T-SQL
6 26 (9.89%) Python
7 24 (9.13%) VB
8 21 (7.98%) VBA
9 16 (6.08%) Shell Script
10 14 (5.32%) Perl
11 11 (4.18%) PHP
12 10 (3.80%) VB.NET
13 8 (3.04%) C++
13 8 (3.04%) Korn
13 8 (3.04%) ProC
14 6 (2.28%) Bash
14 6 (2.28%) Groovy
15 5 (1.90%) C
15 5 (1.90%) COBOL
16 4 (1.52%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 67 (25.48%) Security Cleared
2 58 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.84%) Degree
4 16 (6.08%) Oracle Certification
5 11 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (4.18%) OCA
6 4 (1.52%) OCP
7 3 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.38%) HP APS
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (13.69%) QA
2 14 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.56%) GDPR
4 3 (1.14%) SEPA
4 3 (1.14%) SLA
5 2 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) DICOM
6 1 (0.38%) HL7
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (6.08%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (2.66%) Docker
3 3 (1.14%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 17 (6.46%) Oracle RMAN
2 13 (4.94%) Data Guard
3 11 (4.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 10 (3.80%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.14%) Control-M
7 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (0.76%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.76%) Terraform
8 1 (0.38%) Ansible
8 1 (0.38%) CEMLI
8 1 (0.38%) Foglight
8 1 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 233 (88.59%) Oracle
2 22 (8.37%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.84%) Citrix
4 8 (3.04%) IBM
5 7 (2.66%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.28%) NEC
7 5 (1.90%) IFS
7 5 (1.90%) SAP
8 4 (1.52%) Databricks
8 4 (1.52%) DevExpress
8 4 (1.52%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.14%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.14%) BMC
9 3 (1.14%) Informatica
9 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.14%) Splunk
9 3 (1.14%) Sybase
9 3 (1.14%) Talend
10 2 (0.76%) Dell
10 2 (0.76%) HP