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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 209 203
Rank change year-on-year -58 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 179 172 197
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.26% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.86% 3.27% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 138 145
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £416 £385 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £471 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.46% -5.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £700
90th Percentile £688 £675 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.15% -1.09%
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 6,248 5,255 6,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.13% 38.63% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,184 3,710 4,880
10th Percentile £385 £370 £375
25th Percentile £450 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £713
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 50 42
10th Percentile £34.50 £26.31 £23.80
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £31.71
Median hourly rate £53.50 £44.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.55% -5.79% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.06 £57.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £86.25 £74.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +5.94%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 19 £575 +21.05% 1
South London - 4 £825 - 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 22 (12.29%) IIS
2 14 (7.82%) nginx
3 12 (6.70%) Oracle Workflow
4 9 (5.03%) SharePoint
4 9 (5.03%) Tomcat
5 6 (3.35%) Confluence
5 6 (3.35%) WebLogic
6 5 (2.79%) Appian
6 5 (2.79%) Camunda
7 3 (1.68%) Apache
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (1.12%) SAS
8 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.56%) Mule
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (6.15%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (4.47%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (4.47%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (3.91%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (3.91%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (3.91%) Oracle FAH
4 7 (3.91%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (3.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (2.79%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.79%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.23%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.23%) Unit4 Business World
8 2 (1.12%) Front Arena
8 2 (1.12%) Global One
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Actimize
9 1 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.94%) AWS
2 15 (8.38%) Azure
3 14 (7.82%) OpenShift
4 12 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.47%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.47%) OCI
5 8 (4.47%) Power Automate
5 8 (4.47%) PowerApps
6 5 (2.79%) PaaS
7 4 (2.23%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.23%) Collibra
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub
7 4 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.23%) Sentry
8 3 (1.68%) IaaS
8 3 (1.68%) MinIO
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.12%) dbt
9 2 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.26%) Internet
2 6 (3.35%) HTTP
3 2 (1.12%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) IPsec
4 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (34.64%) Oracle Database
2 57 (31.84%) SQL Server
3 27 (15.08%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.59%) Metadata
5 10 (5.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (5.03%) Relational Database
6 9 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.79%) DataStage
9 5 (2.79%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.23%) Power BI
10 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.23%) Tableau
11 3 (1.68%) GIS
11 3 (1.68%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.68%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.12%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.61%) Git
3 16 (8.94%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (5.03%) JIRA
5 7 (3.91%) Gradle
6 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.79%) JDeveloper
7 4 (2.23%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.23%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.68%) Moq
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.56%) ERwin
10 1 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.56%) Subversion
10 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (31.28%) Finance
2 54 (30.17%) Banking
3 46 (25.70%) Social Skills
4 25 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (12.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.23%) Back Office
7 4 (2.23%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) 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 91 (50.84%) Developer
2 30 (16.76%) C# Developer
3 24 (13.41%) Consultant
4 21 (11.73%) Oracle Developer
5 19 (10.61%) Java Developer
5 19 (10.61%) Senior
6 15 (8.38%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (7.26%) Data Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Analyst
8 11 (6.15%) Applications Support
8 11 (6.15%) Lead
9 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.59%) Technical Consultant
10 9 (5.03%) .NET Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 9 (5.03%) SQL Developer
11 7 (3.91%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 6 (3.35%) C# .NET Developer
12 6 (3.35%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (29.05%) .NET
2 34 (18.99%) .NET Framework
3 26 (14.53%) Spring
4 21 (11.73%) React
5 16 (8.94%) Middleware
5 16 (8.94%) REST
6 15 (8.38%) HTML
6 15 (8.38%) WinForms
7 14 (7.82%) Spring Boot
7 14 (7.82%) WPF
7 14 (7.82%) XML
8 13 (7.26%) CSS
8 13 (7.26%) Web Services
9 12 (6.70%) Kafka
10 10 (5.59%) JSON
10 10 (5.59%) SOAP
11 9 (5.03%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.03%) Hibernate
11 9 (5.03%) Oracle Fusion
12 8 (4.47%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (8.94%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (5.03%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.91%) Cloud Native
4 7 (3.91%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.79%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.23%) Derivative
6 4 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.23%) Spread Betting
7 3 (1.68%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.68%) CMDB
7 3 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) Eurex
8 2 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.12%) Replication
8 2 (1.12%) Swaptions
8 2 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.56%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (24.58%) Windows
2 24 (13.41%) Linux
3 22 (12.29%) Windows Server
4 14 (7.82%) Unix
5 9 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (3.91%) Solaris
6 7 (3.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) AIX
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.49%) Agile
2 41 (22.91%) Data Analysis
3 38 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (20.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 32 (17.88%) DevOps
6 31 (17.32%) Change Management
6 31 (17.32%) CI/CD
6 31 (17.32%) ETL
7 28 (15.64%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (14.53%) AI
9 25 (13.97%) Data Modelling
10 24 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
11 22 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (12.29%) Migration
12 19 (10.61%) ERP
12 19 (10.61%) Unit Testing
13 18 (10.06%) SDLC
14 17 (9.50%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (8.94%) Microservices
16 15 (8.38%) OO
Programming Languages
1 176 (98.32%) SQL
2 59 (32.96%) T-SQL
3 53 (29.61%) C#
4 37 (20.67%) Java
5 31 (17.32%) JavaScript
5 31 (17.32%) Python
6 13 (7.26%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.70%) VBA
8 11 (6.15%) VB
9 9 (5.03%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.79%) C
11 4 (2.23%) Ruby
12 3 (1.68%) Groovy
12 3 (1.68%) Perl
13 2 (1.12%) C++
13 2 (1.12%) ProC
14 1 (0.56%) CQL
14 1 (0.56%) DataWeave
14 1 (0.56%) Korn
14 1 (0.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 41 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.38%) Degree
4 4 (2.23%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.44%) QA
2 18 (10.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 2 (1.12%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS
5 1 (0.56%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 23 (12.85%) Docker
2 6 (3.35%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (6.15%) Control-M
2 10 (5.59%) Oracle RMAN
3 9 (5.03%) Ansible
4 8 (4.47%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.35%) Data Guard
6 5 (2.79%) Grafana
6 5 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.23%) Kibana
8 3 (1.68%) Terraform
9 2 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 153 (85.47%) Oracle
2 31 (17.32%) Citrix
3 14 (7.82%) IBM
4 11 (6.15%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.91%) Red Hat
6 5 (2.79%) Databricks
6 5 (2.79%) OpenText
7 4 (2.23%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.23%) Sitecore
7 4 (2.23%) VMware
8 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) Informatica
9 2 (1.12%) Murex
9 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.56%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.56%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.56%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.56%) JDA
10 1 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.56%) Perforce