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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 203 211
Rank change year-on-year -47 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 140 154 201
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.11% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.64% 2.91% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 116 146
10th Percentile £385 - £382
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £665
90th Percentile £675 £713 £750
England median daily rate £475 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% -0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 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 5,294 5,289 6,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.36% 38.18% 35.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,558 3,514 4,841
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -2.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £699 £700
90th Percentile £775 £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 34 65
10th Percentile £26.03 £35.00 £26.24
25th Percentile £35.75 £39.02 £36.28
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £66.50 £69.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.50 £97.50 £72.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 13 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
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 13 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 -12 16 £475 -32.14% 6
South London -1 3 £300 -50.00%
East London -3 3 £416 +4.00% 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 15 (10.71%) IIS
2 11 (7.86%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (6.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.43%) Apache
5 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 23 (16.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (7.86%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (7.14%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (6.43%) Oracle Assets
4 9 (6.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (4.29%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (4.29%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (2.86%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (2.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (2.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (2.14%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (1.43%) Loan IQ
10 2 (1.43%) 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 27 (19.29%) Azure
2 17 (12.14%) OCI
3 15 (10.71%) AWS
4 10 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (6.43%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.00%) GitHub
6 7 (5.00%) SaaS
7 6 (4.29%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.29%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.57%) PaaS
9 4 (2.86%) Collibra
9 4 (2.86%) IaaS
10 3 (2.14%) Tricentis Tosca
11 2 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
12 1 (0.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.71%) ChatGPT
12 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Internet
2 5 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (47.86%) Oracle Database
2 46 (32.86%) SQL Server
3 23 (16.43%) Oracle Reports
4 17 (12.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 13 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (8.57%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.43%) Oracle ODI
7 9 (6.43%) RDBMS
8 7 (5.00%) DataStage
8 7 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (5.00%) Power BI
9 6 (4.29%) Metadata
9 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
10 5 (3.57%) Oracle Exadata
11 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database 10g
11 4 (2.86%) SQLPlus
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
2 9 (6.43%) Visual Studio
3 7 (5.00%) Git
3 7 (5.00%) JIRA
4 6 (4.29%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.57%) Toad
6 4 (2.86%) Ant
6 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.86%) JUnit
6 4 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (2.86%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.14%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.14%) GitLab
8 2 (1.43%) Selenium
9 1 (0.71%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.71%) NUnit
9 1 (0.71%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.71%) TestDirector
General
1 59 (42.14%) Finance
2 36 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.29%) Banking
4 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.14%) General Ledger
7 5 (3.57%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.86%) Billing
8 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.43%) Front Office
10 2 (1.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.71%) Back Office
11 1 (0.71%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.71%) Law
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (60.71%) Developer
2 39 (27.86%) C# Developer
3 27 (19.29%) Oracle Developer
4 15 (10.71%) C# WPF Developer
4 15 (10.71%) Consultant
4 15 (10.71%) WPF Developer
5 14 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 13 (9.29%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Senior
8 9 (6.43%) Oracle Consultant
9 8 (5.71%) Architect
10 7 (5.00%) C# WCF Developer
10 7 (5.00%) DBA
10 7 (5.00%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (5.00%) WCF Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Data Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.29%) Technical Consultant
12 5 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (33.57%) .NET
2 33 (23.57%) .NET Framework
3 19 (13.57%) WPF
4 18 (12.86%) SOAP
5 17 (12.14%) Middleware
5 17 (12.14%) Oracle Fusion
6 13 (9.29%) Kafka
6 13 (9.29%) WinForms
7 12 (8.57%) REST
8 8 (5.71%) XML
9 7 (5.00%) WCF
10 6 (4.29%) HTML
10 6 (4.29%) IBM Integration Bus
11 4 (2.86%) CSS
11 4 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (2.86%) Web Services
11 4 (2.86%) YAML
12 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.14%) Node.js
13 2 (1.43%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.86%) NHS
4 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.14%) Replication
4 3 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.43%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.43%) SCADA
5 2 (1.43%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.71%) Derivative
6 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (30.00%) Windows
2 16 (11.43%) Unix
3 13 (9.29%) Linux
4 12 (8.57%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.57%) AIX
6 2 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
2 32 (22.86%) Agile
2 32 (22.86%) ETL
3 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 24 (17.14%) Data Analysis
5 23 (16.43%) Migration
6 22 (15.71%) DevOps
6 22 (15.71%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (14.29%) ERP
9 18 (12.86%) Data Modelling
10 16 (11.43%) Change Management
11 13 (9.29%) SDLC
12 12 (8.57%) Analytics
12 12 (8.57%) Data Integration
12 12 (8.57%) Decision-Making
12 12 (8.57%) Workflow
13 11 (7.86%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (7.86%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 136 (97.14%) SQL
2 43 (30.71%) C#
3 35 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 26 (18.57%) Java
5 23 (16.43%) VB
6 20 (14.29%) VBA
7 19 (13.57%) Python
8 11 (7.86%) Perl
9 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
10 9 (6.43%) Shell Script
11 8 (5.71%) VB.NET
12 7 (5.00%) Korn
13 6 (4.29%) Groovy
14 5 (3.57%) PHP
15 4 (2.86%) Bash
15 4 (2.86%) Delphi
15 4 (2.86%) ProC
16 3 (2.14%) C
16 3 (2.14%) C++
16 3 (2.14%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.00%) Degree
3 12 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.43%) OCA
6 2 (1.43%) 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 27 (19.29%) QA
2 12 (8.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.14%) GDPR
3 3 (2.14%) SEPA
4 2 (1.43%) Basel III
4 2 (1.43%) GAAP
4 2 (1.43%) IFRS
4 2 (1.43%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.43%) 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 (4.29%) Docker
2 5 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.86%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.86%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.43%) Control-M
3 2 (1.43%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.43%) Terraform
4 1 (0.71%) Foglight
4 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 132 (94.29%) Oracle
2 22 (15.71%) Citrix
3 16 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.14%) IBM
5 7 (5.00%) Databricks
6 5 (3.57%) SAP
7 4 (2.86%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.86%) DevExpress
8 3 (2.14%) Informatica
9 2 (1.43%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.43%) Cognos
9 2 (1.43%) HP
9 2 (1.43%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.43%) Workday
10 1 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.71%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.71%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.71%) Perforce
10 1 (0.71%) Siebel
10 1 (0.71%) Vertica