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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 214 221
Rank change year-on-year -49 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 132 147 187
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.85% 1.09% 1.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.36% 2.81% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 111 127
10th Percentile £385 - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £655 £700 £750
England median daily rate £475 £475 £535
% change year-on-year - -11.21% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 £91.25 -
Median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - -
75th Percentile £110.00 £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year +13.51% - -

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 5,588 5,232 6,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.97% 38.80% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,758 3,458 4,831
10th Percentile £363 £373 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 69
10th Percentile £23.38 £35.00 £26.75
25th Percentile £36.25 £38.44 £39.85
Median hourly rate £54.75 £50.00 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% -3.38% -10.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £81.38 £95.63 £72.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £61.05
% change year-on-year +3.17% +3.19% -6.08%

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 February 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 February 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 -17 14 £493 -7.94% 4
East London -4 3 £416 +4.00%
South London -10 3 £300 -50.00% 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 17 (12.88%) IIS
2 9 (6.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (4.55%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.52%) nginx
5 2 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (1.52%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (1.52%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.76%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.76%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) Mule
6 1 (0.76%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (15.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.30%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (3.79%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle 11i
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.76%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.76%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.21%) Azure
2 15 (11.36%) OCI
3 13 (9.85%) AWS
4 10 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.06%) Collibra
6 7 (5.30%) Azure API Management
6 7 (5.30%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.55%) GitHub
7 6 (4.55%) SaaS
8 5 (3.79%) PaaS
9 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.03%) IaaS
10 2 (1.52%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.76%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.76%) GCP
11 1 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.76%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.76%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.09%) Internet
2 6 (4.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (46.97%) Oracle Database
2 51 (38.64%) SQL Server
3 15 (11.36%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 10 (7.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (6.82%) Metadata
6 9 (6.82%) RDBMS
7 7 (5.30%) DataStage
7 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.55%) Oracle ODI
8 6 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.79%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (3.79%) Power BI
10 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database 10g
10 4 (3.03%) SQLPlus
11 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.52%) GIS
12 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 7 (5.30%) Git
3 6 (4.55%) JIRA
4 5 (3.79%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (3.79%) Toad
5 4 (3.03%) Ant
5 4 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.03%) JUnit
5 4 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (3.03%) SoapUI
5 4 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.27%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.27%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.52%) GitLab
7 2 (1.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 51 (38.64%) Finance
2 33 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (24.24%) Banking
4 15 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.55%) General Ledger
7 5 (3.79%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.03%) Billing
9 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.52%) Retail
10 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.76%) Local Government
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (60.61%) Developer
2 42 (31.82%) C# Developer
3 20 (15.15%) Oracle Developer
4 12 (9.09%) Consultant
5 10 (7.58%) C# WPF Developer
5 10 (7.58%) Senior
5 10 (7.58%) WPF Developer
6 9 (6.82%) .NET Developer
6 9 (6.82%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Architect
7 8 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (5.30%) DBA
8 7 (5.30%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (5.30%) Oracle DBA
8 7 (5.30%) SQL Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Applications Developer
9 6 (4.55%) C# Application Developer
9 6 (4.55%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (40.15%) .NET
2 34 (25.76%) .NET Framework
3 20 (15.15%) SOAP
4 17 (12.88%) Middleware
4 17 (12.88%) WPF
5 15 (11.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 15 (11.36%) WinForms
6 13 (9.85%) REST
7 12 (9.09%) Kafka
8 9 (6.82%) XML
9 6 (4.55%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (4.55%) WCF
10 5 (3.79%) HTML
11 4 (3.03%) CSS
11 4 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (3.03%) YAML
12 3 (2.27%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.27%) Node.js
12 3 (2.27%) Web Services
13 2 (1.52%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.27%) AI Agents
2 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (2.27%) NHS
2 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.27%) Replication
2 3 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.52%) SCADA
3 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.76%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.09%) Windows
2 17 (12.88%) Windows Server
3 16 (12.12%) Linux
4 14 (10.61%) Unix
5 5 (3.79%) AIX
6 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.52%) Solaris
6 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (25.00%) ETL
3 32 (24.24%) Data Analysis
4 29 (21.97%) Agile
4 29 (21.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 24 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (15.91%) DevOps
7 21 (15.91%) Migration
8 19 (14.39%) Change Management
9 16 (12.12%) Data Modelling
9 16 (12.12%) ERP
10 15 (11.36%) Decision-Making
10 15 (11.36%) Unit Testing
11 13 (9.85%) Collaborative Working
12 12 (9.09%) Analytics
12 12 (9.09%) SDLC
13 11 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (7.58%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 128 (96.97%) SQL
2 47 (35.61%) C#
3 43 (32.58%) T-SQL
4 26 (19.70%) Java
5 22 (16.67%) Python
6 20 (15.15%) VB
7 17 (12.88%) VBA
8 11 (8.33%) Shell Script
9 10 (7.58%) Perl
10 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
11 7 (5.30%) Groovy
11 7 (5.30%) Korn
12 5 (3.79%) Bash
13 4 (3.03%) Delphi
13 4 (3.03%) PHP
13 4 (3.03%) ProC
13 4 (3.03%) VB.NET
14 3 (2.27%) C
14 3 (2.27%) COBOL
15 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Degree
2 9 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.52%) PMP
7 1 (0.76%) HP APS
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) OCA
7 1 (0.76%) OCP
7 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.48%) QA
2 13 (9.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) SEPA
4 2 (1.52%) Basel III
4 2 (1.52%) GAAP
4 2 (1.52%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS
4 2 (1.52%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (4.55%) Docker
1 6 (4.55%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.79%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.03%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.27%) Control-M
5 2 (1.52%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (1.52%) Terraform
6 1 (0.76%) Foglight
6 1 (0.76%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 122 (92.42%) Oracle
2 27 (20.45%) Citrix
3 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.33%) IBM
5 7 (5.30%) Databricks
6 5 (3.79%) SAP
7 4 (3.03%) Alteryx
7 4 (3.03%) DevExpress
8 3 (2.27%) Informatica
9 2 (1.52%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.52%) HP
9 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.52%) Workday
10 1 (0.76%) BMC
10 1 (0.76%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.76%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.76%) Splunk