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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 209 206
Rank change year-on-year -51 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 185 164 186
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.22% 1.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.94% 3.17% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 130 138
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £423 £391 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £700
90th Percentile £690 £675 £750
England median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
England median hourly rate £36.71 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -41.26% - -

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 6,297 5,170 6,439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.34% 38.40% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 3,612 4,806
10th Percentile £383 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 42
10th Percentile £31.03 £26.86 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -7.37% -24.60%
75th Percentile £73.00 £62.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -12.69% +8.14%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +6 21 £575 +15.00% 3
South London - 5 £825 - 2
East London -3 3 - - 2
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 (11.35%) IIS
2 13 (7.03%) nginx
3 12 (6.49%) Oracle Workflow
4 9 (4.86%) SharePoint
5 8 (4.32%) Tomcat
6 6 (3.24%) Confluence
6 6 (3.24%) WebLogic
7 5 (2.70%) Appian
7 5 (2.70%) Camunda
8 3 (1.62%) Apache
8 3 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (1.62%) WebSphere
9 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.08%) PowerExchange
9 2 (1.08%) SAS
10 1 (0.54%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 13 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (11.35%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (5.95%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (4.32%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (4.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (3.78%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (3.78%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (3.78%) Oracle FAH
4 7 (3.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (3.24%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.70%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.16%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.16%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (1.08%) Front Arena
8 2 (1.08%) Global One
8 2 (1.08%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.54%) Actimize
9 1 (0.54%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.81%) AWS
2 19 (10.27%) Azure
3 15 (8.11%) OpenShift
4 14 (7.57%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.86%) OCI
6 8 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.32%) Power Automate
6 8 (4.32%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.70%) GitHub
7 5 (2.70%) PaaS
8 4 (2.16%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.16%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.16%) Collibra
8 4 (2.16%) dbt
8 4 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (2.16%) SaaS
8 4 (2.16%) Sentry
8 4 (2.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.49%) Internet
2 6 (3.24%) HTTP
3 2 (1.08%) Intranet
4 1 (0.54%) IPsec
4 1 (0.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (32.43%) Oracle Database
2 59 (31.89%) SQL Server
3 27 (14.59%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (4.86%) Metadata
6 9 (4.86%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (4.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.24%) DataStage
9 6 (3.24%) Power BI
10 5 (2.70%) RDBMS
10 5 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.16%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.16%) PowerCenter
11 4 (2.16%) Tableau
12 3 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
12 3 (1.62%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 22 (11.89%) Jenkins
2 21 (11.35%) Git
3 16 (8.65%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (4.86%) JIRA
5 7 (3.78%) Gradle
6 6 (3.24%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.70%) JDeveloper
8 4 (2.16%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.16%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.62%) Moq
10 2 (1.08%) Appium
10 2 (1.08%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.08%) Selenium
10 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.54%) ERwin
11 1 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.54%) Subversion
11 1 (0.54%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 63 (34.05%) Finance
2 55 (29.73%) Banking
3 51 (27.57%) Social Skills
4 29 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (11.89%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.16%) Back Office
7 4 (2.16%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.62%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.08%) Front Office
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) International Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Military
10 1 (0.54%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.54%) Police
10 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (50.81%) Developer
2 28 (15.14%) C# Developer
3 24 (12.97%) Consultant
4 21 (11.35%) Oracle Developer
4 21 (11.35%) Senior
5 20 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 15 (8.11%) Oracle Consultant
7 14 (7.57%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.49%) .NET Developer
8 12 (6.49%) Lead
8 12 (6.49%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.95%) Analyst
9 11 (5.95%) Applications Support
10 10 (5.41%) Technical Consultant
11 9 (4.86%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 8 (4.32%) Integration Engineer
12 8 (4.32%) SQL Developer
13 7 (3.78%) SC Cleared Java Developer
14 6 (3.24%) C# .NET Developer
14 6 (3.24%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (28.65%) .NET
2 33 (17.84%) .NET Framework
3 27 (14.59%) Spring
4 21 (11.35%) React
5 17 (9.19%) REST
6 16 (8.65%) Middleware
6 16 (8.65%) WinForms
7 15 (8.11%) WPF
7 15 (8.11%) XML
8 14 (7.57%) HTML
8 14 (7.57%) Kafka
8 14 (7.57%) Spring Boot
9 13 (7.03%) Web Services
10 12 (6.49%) CSS
10 12 (6.49%) JSON
11 10 (5.41%) Hibernate
12 9 (4.86%) ASP.NET
12 9 (4.86%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (4.86%) SOAP
13 8 (4.32%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.97%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (7.57%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.32%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.24%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.70%) Spread Betting
7 4 (2.16%) Derivative
7 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.16%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.62%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.62%) CMDB
8 3 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.08%) Eurex
9 2 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.08%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.08%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.08%) Replication
9 2 (1.08%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 42 (22.70%) Windows
2 24 (12.97%) Linux
3 21 (11.35%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.57%) Unix
5 9 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (3.24%) Solaris
6 6 (3.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.54%) AIX
9 1 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.27%) Agile
2 42 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (20.54%) Data Analysis
4 36 (19.46%) CI/CD
5 34 (18.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 34 (18.38%) ETL
6 33 (17.84%) DevOps
7 31 (16.76%) Change Management
8 29 (15.68%) Performance Tuning
9 27 (14.59%) Data Modelling
10 26 (14.05%) AI
11 25 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (11.89%) Migration
13 21 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.27%) SDLC
15 18 (9.73%) ERP
15 18 (9.73%) Unit Testing
16 17 (9.19%) Microservices
16 17 (9.19%) Root Cause Analysis
17 15 (8.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 182 (98.38%) SQL
2 57 (30.81%) C#
2 57 (30.81%) T-SQL
3 41 (22.16%) Java
4 35 (18.92%) Python
5 30 (16.22%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.57%) Shell Script
7 11 (5.95%) VBA
8 10 (5.41%) VB
9 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.70%) C
11 4 (2.16%) Ruby
12 3 (1.62%) C++
12 3 (1.62%) Perl
13 2 (1.08%) Groovy
13 2 (1.08%) ProC
14 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.54%) Bash
14 1 (0.54%) COBOL
14 1 (0.54%) CQL
Qualifications
1 41 (22.16%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.19%) Degree
4 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.16%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.38%) QA
2 20 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.62%) GDPR
4 3 (1.62%) ISO 15022
4 3 (1.62%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS
5 1 (0.54%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 24 (12.97%) Docker
2 6 (3.24%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (6.49%) Control-M
2 10 (5.41%) Ansible
2 10 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (3.24%) Data Guard
3 6 (3.24%) Terraform
4 5 (2.70%) Grafana
4 5 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.16%) Kibana
6 2 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 155 (83.78%) Oracle
2 30 (16.22%) Citrix
3 15 (8.11%) IBM
4 9 (4.86%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.78%) Databricks
6 6 (3.24%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.70%) OpenText
8 4 (2.16%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.16%) Informatica
8 4 (2.16%) Sitecore
8 4 (2.16%) VMware
9 3 (1.62%) Avaloq
9 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.08%) Murex
10 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.54%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
11 1 (0.54%) JDA
11 1 (0.54%) Perforce