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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 210 208
Rank change year-on-year -40 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 134 140 191
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.03% 1.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.48% 2.65% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 103 127
10th Percentile £385 - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% - -7.77%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £660
90th Percentile £671 £700 £750
England median daily rate £475 £475 £536
% change year-on-year - -11.30% -0.46%
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 5,410 5,293 6,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.38% 38.86% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 3,478 4,884
10th Percentile £363 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £552 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -3.96% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £690 £695
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £511 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.53% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 36 70
10th Percentile £23.38 £35.00 £26.81
25th Percentile £35.50 £38.44 £40.09
Median hourly rate £54.50 £50.00 £51.13
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -2.20% -11.09%
75th Percentile £67.40 £66.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £97.50 £72.05
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

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 4 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 4 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 -7 15 £475 -13.64% 1
East London -3 3 £416 +4.00%
South London -9 3 £300 -50.00% 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 16 (11.94%) IIS
2 9 (6.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (5.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.49%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (5.22%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (5.22%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (5.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (4.48%) Oracle Cash Management
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle Assets
4 5 (3.73%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (2.99%) Oracle 11i
5 4 (2.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle FAH
8 1 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Retail
8 1 (0.75%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.15%) Azure
2 16 (11.94%) OCI
3 12 (8.96%) AWS
4 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.22%) Collibra
5 7 (5.22%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.48%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.48%) GitHub
6 6 (4.48%) SaaS
7 5 (3.73%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.73%) PaaS
8 4 (2.99%) IaaS
9 3 (2.24%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.75%) GCP
10 1 (0.75%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) Internet
2 5 (3.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (47.76%) Oracle Database
2 49 (36.57%) SQL Server
3 18 (13.43%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (10.45%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (9.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.72%) Metadata
7 9 (6.72%) Oracle ODI
7 9 (6.72%) RDBMS
8 7 (5.22%) DataStage
9 6 (4.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.73%) Oracle BI EE
10 5 (3.73%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.73%) Power BI
11 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database 10g
11 4 (2.99%) SQLPlus
12 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (1.49%) Big Data
13 2 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Visual Studio
2 7 (5.22%) Git
2 7 (5.22%) JIRA
3 5 (3.73%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (3.73%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (3.73%) Toad
4 4 (2.99%) Ant
4 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.99%) JUnit
4 4 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.99%) Oracle APEX
4 4 (2.99%) SoapUI
4 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.24%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.24%) GitLab
6 2 (1.49%) Selenium
7 1 (0.75%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.75%) NUnit
7 1 (0.75%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.75%) TestDirector
General
1 55 (41.04%) Finance
2 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 29 (21.64%) Banking
4 17 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.48%) General Ledger
7 5 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.73%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.99%) Billing
9 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.75%) Front Office
11 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.75%) Local Government
11 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (61.19%) Developer
2 42 (31.34%) C# Developer
3 23 (17.16%) Oracle Developer
4 14 (10.45%) Consultant
5 11 (8.21%) C# WPF Developer
5 11 (8.21%) WPF Developer
6 10 (7.46%) .NET Developer
6 10 (7.46%) Senior
7 9 (6.72%) C# .NET Developer
7 9 (6.72%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.72%) Oracle Consultant
8 8 (5.97%) Architect
9 7 (5.22%) DBA
9 7 (5.22%) Oracle DBA
9 7 (5.22%) SQL Developer
10 6 (4.48%) C# WCF Developer
10 6 (4.48%) Data Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Lead
10 6 (4.48%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (38.81%) .NET
2 34 (25.37%) .NET Framework
3 19 (14.18%) SOAP
4 17 (12.69%) Middleware
4 17 (12.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (12.69%) WPF
5 14 (10.45%) WinForms
6 12 (8.96%) Kafka
6 12 (8.96%) REST
7 9 (6.72%) XML
8 6 (4.48%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (4.48%) WCF
9 4 (2.99%) HTML
9 4 (2.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 4 (2.99%) YAML
10 3 (2.24%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.24%) CSS
10 3 (2.24%) Node.js
10 3 (2.24%) Web Services
11 2 (1.49%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (2.24%) NHS
3 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.24%) Replication
3 3 (2.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.49%) SCADA
4 2 (1.49%) Synthetic Data
4 2 (1.49%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.09%) Windows
2 15 (11.19%) Unix
2 15 (11.19%) Windows Server
3 14 (10.45%) Linux
4 5 (3.73%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.60%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (24.63%) ETL
3 30 (22.39%) Data Analysis
4 29 (21.64%) Agile
5 28 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (20.15%) Disaster Recovery
7 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
7 23 (17.16%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (15.67%) DevOps
8 21 (15.67%) Migration
9 19 (14.18%) Change Management
9 19 (14.18%) ERP
10 17 (12.69%) Data Modelling
11 14 (10.45%) Decision-Making
11 14 (10.45%) Unit Testing
12 12 (8.96%) Analytics
12 12 (8.96%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (8.21%) Performance Optimisation
13 11 (8.21%) SDLC
14 10 (7.46%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 130 (97.01%) SQL
2 46 (34.33%) C#
3 40 (29.85%) T-SQL
4 24 (17.91%) Java
5 22 (16.42%) Python
6 20 (14.93%) VB
7 17 (12.69%) VBA
8 11 (8.21%) Perl
8 11 (8.21%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.22%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.22%) Korn
10 6 (4.48%) Groovy
11 5 (3.73%) Bash
11 5 (3.73%) VB.NET
12 4 (2.99%) Delphi
12 4 (2.99%) PHP
12 4 (2.99%) ProC
13 3 (2.24%) C
13 3 (2.24%) COBOL
14 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (12.69%) Degree
2 12 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.48%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.49%) OCA
6 2 (1.49%) PMP
7 1 (0.75%) HP APS
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) OCP
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.13%) QA
2 12 (8.96%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.24%) GDPR
3 3 (2.24%) SEPA
4 2 (1.49%) Basel III
4 2 (1.49%) GAAP
4 2 (1.49%) IFRS
4 2 (1.49%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.75%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 5 (3.73%) Docker
1 5 (3.73%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (2.24%) Control-M
4 2 (1.49%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.49%) Terraform
5 1 (0.75%) Foglight
5 1 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 125 (93.28%) Oracle
2 26 (19.40%) Citrix
3 16 (11.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.72%) IBM
5 7 (5.22%) Databricks
6 5 (3.73%) SAP
7 4 (2.99%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.99%) DevExpress
8 3 (2.24%) Informatica
9 2 (1.49%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.49%) HP
9 2 (1.49%) Workday
10 1 (0.75%) BMC
10 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.75%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.75%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.75%) Splunk
10 1 (0.75%) Vertica