PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in London

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 239 202
Rank change year-on-year -55 -37 -6
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 171 139 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.03% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.67% 2.66% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 107 145
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £416 £404 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £600
90th Percentile £703 £638 £738
England median daily rate £523 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +4.50% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £83.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £83.75 -
% change year-on-year -55.22% - -

All Programming Languages
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 6,395 5,232 6,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.42% 38.82% 40.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,335 3,555 4,573
10th Percentile £375 £375 £371
25th Percentile £447 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £666 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £545
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.50% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 66 46
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.00 £25.99
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £37.58
Median hourly rate £53.75 £44.20 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -8.87% -19.17%
75th Percentile £73.50 £63.06 £71.66
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.88 £97.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.04% -12.31% -

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in London

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in London over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in London

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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
Central London -21 17 £610 +28.42% 5
South London - 6 £800 - 2
East London -1 1 - -
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 21 (12.28%) IIS
2 11 (6.43%) Oracle Workflow
3 10 (5.85%) nginx
4 8 (4.68%) Confluence
5 6 (3.51%) SharePoint
5 6 (3.51%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.92%) Appian
6 5 (2.92%) Camunda
6 5 (2.92%) Tomcat
7 4 (2.34%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.75%) Apache
8 3 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.75%) SAS
9 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.17%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.58%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (8.19%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (5.26%) Oracle FAH
2 9 (5.26%) Oracle Payables
2 9 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (4.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (4.09%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (4.09%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (4.09%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (3.51%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (2.92%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.92%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.34%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Actimize
9 1 (0.58%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.28%) AWS
2 20 (11.70%) Azure
3 16 (9.36%) OpenShift
4 9 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.92%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (2.92%) GitHub
5 5 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.92%) Power Automate
5 5 (2.92%) PowerApps
5 5 (2.92%) Serverless
6 4 (2.34%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.34%) AWS CodePipeline
6 4 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.34%) dbt
6 4 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (2.34%) OCI
6 4 (2.34%) SaaS
6 4 (2.34%) Sentry
7 3 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (1.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.60%) Internet
2 4 (2.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.17%) Intranet
4 1 (0.58%) IPsec
4 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (34.50%) Oracle Database
2 53 (30.99%) SQL Server
3 17 (9.94%) Oracle Reports
4 10 (5.85%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 8 (4.68%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.09%) DataStage
6 7 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.92%) Metadata
7 5 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.92%) PowerCenter
7 5 (2.92%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.34%) Power BI
9 3 (1.75%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.75%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (14.04%) Git
1 24 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 13 (7.60%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (6.43%) JIRA
4 8 (4.68%) Gradle
5 7 (4.09%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.92%) JDeveloper
7 4 (2.34%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.75%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.75%) Moq
9 2 (1.17%) Appium
9 2 (1.17%) HP UFT
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.17%) Selenium
9 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.58%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.58%) Subversion
10 1 (0.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 64 (37.43%) Finance
2 58 (33.92%) Banking
3 52 (30.41%) Social Skills
4 30 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.34%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.17%) Back Office
9 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.17%) International Banking
9 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.58%) Police
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (54.97%) Developer
2 24 (14.04%) C# Developer
3 22 (12.87%) Java Developer
4 20 (11.70%) Oracle Developer
5 19 (11.11%) Senior
6 16 (9.36%) Analyst
7 15 (8.77%) Consultant
8 14 (8.19%) Applications Support
9 12 (7.02%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.02%) Data Engineer
10 11 (6.43%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.43%) SQL Developer
11 9 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
12 7 (4.09%) PL/SQL Developer
12 7 (4.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (3.51%) Database Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (2.92%) Functional Consultant
14 5 (2.92%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (32.16%) .NET
2 28 (16.37%) .NET Framework
2 28 (16.37%) Spring
3 20 (11.70%) WinForms
4 19 (11.11%) WPF
5 18 (10.53%) React
6 16 (9.36%) Spring Boot
6 16 (9.36%) XML
7 15 (8.77%) Kafka
8 13 (7.60%) Middleware
9 12 (7.02%) HTML
9 12 (7.02%) JSON
9 12 (7.02%) REST
10 11 (6.43%) Hibernate
11 10 (5.85%) CSS
11 10 (5.85%) Web Services
12 8 (4.68%) ASP.NET
12 8 (4.68%) Jakarta EE
12 8 (4.68%) JDBC
12 8 (4.68%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.09%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.09%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.51%) Spread Betting
5 5 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.34%) Derivative
6 4 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.75%) CMDB
7 3 (1.75%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.17%) Replication
9 1 (0.58%) Clustering
9 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.58%) SCADA
9 1 (0.58%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.39%) Windows
2 24 (14.04%) Linux
3 17 (9.94%) Unix
4 16 (9.36%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.17%) Solaris
6 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.58%) AIX
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (28.65%) Agile
2 41 (23.98%) Data Analysis
3 39 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (20.47%) ETL
5 28 (16.37%) Disaster Recovery
6 27 (15.79%) AI
6 27 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 26 (15.20%) Change Management
8 25 (14.62%) Performance Tuning
9 24 (14.04%) DevOps
9 24 (14.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 23 (13.45%) Data Modelling
11 21 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (11.70%) Migration
13 17 (9.94%) Microservices
14 16 (9.36%) Generative AI
14 16 (9.36%) SDLC
15 15 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (8.19%) Data Integration
16 14 (8.19%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 168 (98.25%) SQL
2 59 (34.50%) C#
3 52 (30.41%) T-SQL
4 41 (23.98%) Java
5 30 (17.54%) JavaScript
6 25 (14.62%) Python
7 14 (8.19%) Shell Script
8 12 (7.02%) VBA
9 11 (6.43%) VB
10 9 (5.26%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.92%) C
12 4 (2.34%) C++
12 4 (2.34%) Ruby
13 2 (1.17%) Groovy
13 2 (1.17%) ProC
14 1 (0.58%) Bash
14 1 (0.58%) Korn
14 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.58%) VBScript
14 1 (0.58%) XPath
Qualifications
1 34 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.94%) Degree
4 5 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.17%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.17%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.17%) OCA
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.37%) QA
2 20 (11.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.34%) ISO 15022
3 4 (2.34%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.17%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.58%) EMIR
5 1 (0.58%) MiFID
System Software
1 23 (13.45%) Docker
2 3 (1.75%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (6.43%) Control-M
1 11 (6.43%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.85%) Ansible
3 7 (4.09%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (2.92%) Data Guard
4 5 (2.92%) Grafana
4 5 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.34%) Kibana
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 140 (81.87%) Oracle
2 26 (15.20%) Citrix
3 13 (7.60%) IBM
4 6 (3.51%) Databricks
5 5 (2.92%) Informatica
5 5 (2.92%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.92%) OpenText
6 4 (2.34%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.34%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.75%) Avaloq
7 3 (1.75%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.58%) VMware