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 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 217 198
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 +1
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 141 156 213
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.98% 1.08% 1.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.63% 2.84% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 119 155
10th Percentile £385 £370 £382
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.29% -12.86%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £644
90th Percentile £673 £728 £750
England median daily rate £475 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -2.42%
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 - -
England median hourly rate £83.75 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -9.46% - -

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 5,368 5,486 6,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.32% 38.13% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,605 3,669 4,901
10th Percentile £365 £372 £391
25th Percentile £425 £460 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 66
10th Percentile £26.03 £35.45 £26.25
25th Percentile £35.75 £40.06 £36.42
Median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +2.69% -11.09%
75th Percentile £65.88 £68.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £80.50 £97.50 £72.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.47%

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 3 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing PL/SQL in London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for PL/SQL in London

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 3 January 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 -5 16 £475 -32.14% 5
East London +4 5 £495 +23.75% 1
South London -5 3 £300 -50.00%
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 14 (9.93%) IIS
2 13 (9.22%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (6.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (3.55%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.42%) Apache
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.71%) Confluence
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (16.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (10.64%) Oracle EBS
2 13 (9.22%) Oracle General Ledger
3 11 (7.80%) Oracle Assets
3 11 (7.80%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (6.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (5.67%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (4.96%) Oracle Cash Management
6 7 (4.96%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (4.26%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (2.13%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (1.42%) Loan IQ
10 2 (1.42%) Oracle Applications
11 1 (0.71%) FLEXCUBE
11 1 (0.71%) Oracle E-Business Tax
11 1 (0.71%) Oracle Internet Expenses
11 1 (0.71%) Oracle iProcurement
11 1 (0.71%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.57%) Azure
2 17 (12.06%) OCI
3 15 (10.64%) AWS
4 11 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 7 (4.96%) GitHub
6 7 (4.96%) SaaS
7 6 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.26%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.55%) PaaS
9 4 (2.84%) IaaS
10 3 (2.13%) Collibra
10 3 (2.13%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (1.42%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.71%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.71%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.38%) Internet
2 5 (3.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (46.81%) Oracle Database
2 46 (32.62%) SQL Server
3 26 (18.44%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (12.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 12 (8.51%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.38%) Oracle ODI
6 9 (6.38%) RDBMS
7 8 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.96%) DataStage
8 7 (4.96%) Power BI
9 5 (3.55%) Metadata
9 5 (3.55%) Oracle BI EE
9 5 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.84%) Oracle Database 10g
10 4 (2.84%) Oracle Exadata
10 4 (2.84%) SQLPlus
11 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (2.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (5.67%) Git
2 8 (5.67%) JIRA
2 8 (5.67%) Oracle APEX
2 8 (5.67%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.55%) SoapUI
3 5 (3.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (3.55%) Toad
4 4 (2.84%) Ant
4 4 (2.84%) Eclipse
4 4 (2.84%) JUnit
4 4 (2.84%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.84%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.13%) GitLab
5 3 (2.13%) Selenium
6 2 (1.42%) Gradle
6 2 (1.42%) JMeter
7 1 (0.71%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 60 (42.55%) Finance
2 36 (25.53%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.44%) Banking
4 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.51%) General Ledger
6 5 (3.55%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.84%) Billing
7 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Front Office
9 2 (1.42%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (60.99%) Developer
2 37 (26.24%) C# Developer
3 29 (20.57%) Oracle Developer
4 16 (11.35%) C# WPF Developer
4 16 (11.35%) WPF Developer
5 15 (10.64%) .NET Developer
5 15 (10.64%) Consultant
6 14 (9.93%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Senior
8 9 (6.38%) Oracle Consultant
9 7 (4.96%) Architect
9 7 (4.96%) C# WCF Developer
9 7 (4.96%) WCF Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Data Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) DBA
10 6 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
10 6 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
11 5 (3.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.21%) .NET
2 32 (22.70%) .NET Framework
3 19 (13.48%) WPF
4 18 (12.77%) SOAP
5 17 (12.06%) Middleware
5 17 (12.06%) Oracle Fusion
6 14 (9.93%) REST
7 13 (9.22%) Kafka
8 12 (8.51%) WinForms
9 10 (7.09%) XML
10 9 (6.38%) HTML
11 7 (4.96%) CSS
11 7 (4.96%) WCF
12 6 (4.26%) IBM Integration Bus
12 6 (4.26%) Web Services
13 5 (3.55%) JSON
14 4 (2.84%) RESTful
14 4 (2.84%) YAML
15 3 (2.13%) .NET Core
15 3 (2.13%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (2.84%) NHS
3 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.13%) Replication
3 3 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (1.42%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.42%) SCADA
4 2 (1.42%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.71%) Derivative
5 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 41 (29.08%) Windows
2 17 (12.06%) Unix
3 12 (8.51%) Linux
4 11 (7.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.55%) AIX
6 2 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.50%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (24.11%) Agile
3 30 (21.28%) ETL
4 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.73%) CI/CD
6 24 (17.02%) DevOps
7 23 (16.31%) Performance Tuning
8 22 (15.60%) Migration
9 21 (14.89%) Data Analysis
10 20 (14.18%) ERP
11 19 (13.48%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (12.06%) Data Modelling
13 16 (11.35%) Change Management
14 14 (9.93%) SDLC
14 14 (9.93%) Workflow
15 12 (8.51%) Data Integration
16 11 (7.80%) Analytics
16 11 (7.80%) Performance Optimisation
17 10 (7.09%) Collaborative Working
17 10 (7.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 137 (97.16%) SQL
2 41 (29.08%) C#
3 32 (22.70%) T-SQL
4 29 (20.57%) Java
5 23 (16.31%) VB
6 20 (14.18%) VBA
7 18 (12.77%) Python
8 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
9 11 (7.80%) Perl
10 9 (6.38%) Shell Script
10 9 (6.38%) VB.NET
11 7 (4.96%) Korn
12 6 (4.26%) Groovy
13 5 (3.55%) PHP
14 4 (2.84%) Bash
14 4 (2.84%) Delphi
14 4 (2.84%) ProC
15 3 (2.13%) C
15 3 (2.13%) C++
15 3 (2.13%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.22%) Degree
3 12 (8.51%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.26%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.42%) OCA
6 2 (1.42%) PMP
7 1 (0.71%) HP APS
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) OCP
7 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.44%) QA
2 11 (7.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.13%) GDPR
3 3 (2.13%) SEPA
4 2 (1.42%) Basel III
4 2 (1.42%) GAAP
4 2 (1.42%) IFRS
4 2 (1.42%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (4.26%) Docker
2 4 (2.84%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.13%) Data Guard
2 3 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.42%) Control-M
3 2 (1.42%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.42%) Terraform
4 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.71%) Kibana
4 1 (0.71%) logstash
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 134 (95.04%) Oracle
2 20 (14.18%) Citrix
3 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.09%) IBM
5 7 (4.96%) Databricks
6 5 (3.55%) SAP
7 4 (2.84%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.84%) DevExpress
8 3 (2.13%) Informatica
9 2 (1.42%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.42%) Cognos
9 2 (1.42%) HP
9 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.42%) Workday
10 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.71%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.71%) Perforce
10 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.71%) Siebel
10 1 (0.71%) Vertica