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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 219 210
Rank change year-on-year -54 -9 -8
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 180 156 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.17% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.85% 3.03% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 125 142
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £416 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.28% -6.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £650
90th Percentile £696 £675 £749
England median daily rate £515 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.20% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £83.75 -
England median hourly rate £36.71 £83.75 -
% change year-on-year -56.17% - -

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 6,325 5,156 6,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 38.52% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,242 3,591 4,763
10th Percentile £381 £375 £370
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £706
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 62 42
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.43 £25.32
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £40.06
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.70 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.46% -7.84% -19.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £60.45
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £78.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +3.17%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 17 £610 +31.89% 3
South London - 6 £800 - 3
East London 0 3 - - 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 20 (11.11%) IIS
2 12 (6.67%) nginx
2 12 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (5.00%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.89%) Confluence
4 7 (3.89%) Tomcat
5 6 (3.33%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.78%) Appian
6 5 (2.78%) Camunda
7 4 (2.22%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.67%) Apache
8 3 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (1.67%) SAS
9 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (1.11%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 13 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (10.56%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (4.44%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (4.44%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (3.89%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (3.89%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (3.89%) Oracle FAH
4 7 (3.89%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.78%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.78%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (2.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.22%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.22%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.22%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (1.11%) Front Arena
8 2 (1.11%) Global One
8 2 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Actimize
9 1 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 19 (10.56%) AWS
2 17 (9.44%) Azure
2 17 (9.44%) OpenShift
3 12 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.44%) Power Automate
4 8 (4.44%) PowerApps
5 7 (3.89%) OCI
6 5 (2.78%) GitHub
6 5 (2.78%) PaaS
7 4 (2.22%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.22%) Collibra
7 4 (2.22%) dbt
7 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.22%) SaaS
7 4 (2.22%) Sentry
7 4 (2.22%) Serverless
8 3 (1.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.67%) Internet
2 6 (3.33%) HTTP
3 2 (1.11%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) IPsec
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (32.22%) Oracle Database
2 55 (30.56%) SQL Server
3 24 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (5.00%) Metadata
7 8 (4.44%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.33%) DataStage
9 6 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.78%) PowerCenter
10 5 (2.78%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.22%) Power BI
11 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.22%) Tableau
12 3 (1.67%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.67%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 24 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.78%) Git
3 16 (8.89%) Oracle Forms
4 10 (5.56%) JIRA
5 8 (4.44%) Gradle
6 7 (3.89%) Bitbucket
7 5 (2.78%) JDeveloper
8 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.22%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.67%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.67%) Moq
10 2 (1.11%) Appium
10 2 (1.11%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.11%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (1.11%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.11%) Selenium
10 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.56%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.56%) Subversion
11 1 (0.56%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 62 (34.44%) Finance
2 57 (31.67%) Banking
3 51 (28.33%) Social Skills
4 30 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.22%) Back Office
7 4 (2.22%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.22%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.11%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) International Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.56%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (52.78%) Developer
2 23 (12.78%) C# Developer
3 22 (12.22%) Consultant
3 22 (12.22%) Java Developer
3 22 (12.22%) Oracle Developer
4 20 (11.11%) Senior
5 14 (7.78%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.22%) Analyst
6 13 (7.22%) Applications Support
6 13 (7.22%) Oracle Consultant
7 12 (6.67%) .NET Developer
7 12 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.00%) Lead
8 9 (5.00%) SQL Developer
9 8 (4.44%) Technical Consultant
10 7 (3.89%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.89%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 7 (3.89%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 6 (3.33%) PL/SQL Developer
11 6 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.44%) .NET
2 28 (15.56%) .NET Framework
2 28 (15.56%) Spring
3 21 (11.67%) React
4 18 (10.00%) WinForms
5 17 (9.44%) REST
5 17 (9.44%) WPF
6 16 (8.89%) Middleware
6 16 (8.89%) Spring Boot
6 16 (8.89%) XML
7 15 (8.33%) Kafka
8 14 (7.78%) HTML
9 13 (7.22%) JSON
9 13 (7.22%) Web Services
10 12 (6.67%) CSS
11 11 (6.11%) Hibernate
12 9 (5.00%) ASP.NET
12 9 (5.00%) SOAP
13 8 (4.44%) Jakarta EE
13 8 (4.44%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.22%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.89%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.33%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.33%) Spread Betting
5 5 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.22%) Derivative
6 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.67%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.67%) CMDB
7 3 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.11%) Eurex
8 2 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.11%) Replication
8 2 (1.11%) Swaptions
9 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (21.11%) Windows
2 24 (13.33%) Linux
3 17 (9.44%) Windows Server
4 15 (8.33%) Unix
5 8 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.22%) Solaris
6 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) AIX
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (31.11%) Agile
2 41 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (20.56%) Data Analysis
4 34 (18.89%) ETL
5 32 (17.78%) CI/CD
6 31 (17.22%) Change Management
7 30 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 29 (16.11%) Performance Tuning
9 28 (15.56%) DevOps
10 26 (14.44%) AI
11 24 (13.33%) Data Modelling
12 21 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 20 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (10.56%) Migration
15 18 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (10.00%) SDLC
16 17 (9.44%) ERP
16 17 (9.44%) Microservices
17 15 (8.33%) Generative AI
18 14 (7.78%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 177 (98.33%) SQL
2 57 (31.67%) C#
3 52 (28.89%) T-SQL
4 43 (23.89%) Java
5 31 (17.22%) Python
6 30 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 15 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 11 (6.11%) VBA
9 10 (5.56%) VB
10 9 (5.00%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.78%) C
12 4 (2.22%) C++
12 4 (2.22%) Ruby
13 3 (1.67%) Perl
14 2 (1.11%) Groovy
14 2 (1.11%) ProC
15 1 (0.56%) COBOL
15 1 (0.56%) Korn
15 1 (0.56%) RPG
15 1 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 38 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 33 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.44%) Degree
4 5 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.11%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) OCA
7 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.56%) QA
2 19 (10.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.22%) ISO 15022
3 4 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) EMIR
5 1 (0.56%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (13.89%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (7.22%) Control-M
2 11 (6.11%) Ansible
2 11 (6.11%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (3.33%) Data Guard
5 5 (2.78%) Grafana
5 5 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.22%) Kibana
7 2 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 150 (83.33%) Oracle
2 26 (14.44%) Citrix
3 14 (7.78%) IBM
4 7 (3.89%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.33%) Databricks
6 5 (2.78%) Informatica
6 5 (2.78%) OpenText
7 4 (2.22%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.22%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.67%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.67%) VMware
9 2 (1.11%) Murex