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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 251 196 238
Rank change year-on-year -55 +42 -22
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 155 161 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.88% 1.28% 0.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.70% 3.25% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 123 109
10th Percentile - - £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £467 £501
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -6.79% +6.60%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £700
90th Percentile £668 £748 £750
England median daily rate £473 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £36.71 £92.50 -
% change year-on-year -60.31% - -

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 5,737 4,953 6,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 32.42% 39.46% 35.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 3,475 4,902
10th Percentile £363 £380 £380
25th Percentile £430 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £711 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 31 56
10th Percentile £34.20 £29.07 £23.80
25th Percentile £45.44 £35.00 £35.19
Median hourly rate £58.94 £44.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +32.44% -11.44% -12.61%
75th Percentile £73.00 £61.13 £61.94
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £70.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.07%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -10 15 £525 -16.00%
East London -1 6 £416 +2.09% 2
South London -13 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 20 (12.90%) IIS
2 11 (7.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.87%) nginx
3 6 (3.87%) Tomcat
4 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.94%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.29%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.29%) Confluence
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle Application Server
5 2 (1.29%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.65%) Mule
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (10.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (9.03%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (4.52%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (2.58%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (2.58%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (1.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (1.29%) Front Arena
6 2 (1.29%) Global One
6 2 (1.29%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (1.29%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.65%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.65%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.84%) Azure
2 17 (10.97%) AWS
3 13 (8.39%) Power Platform
4 11 (7.10%) OCI
5 10 (6.45%) Collibra
6 9 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.52%) Power Automate
7 7 (4.52%) PowerApps
8 6 (3.87%) Azure API Management
8 6 (3.87%) GitHub
8 6 (3.87%) PaaS
9 4 (2.58%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.58%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.94%) IaaS
10 3 (1.94%) SaaS
11 2 (1.29%) AWS CodePipeline
11 2 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.29%) MinIO
11 2 (1.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.39%) Internet
2 9 (5.81%) HTTP
3 1 (0.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (41.29%) Oracle Database
2 63 (40.65%) SQL Server
3 25 (16.13%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (9.03%) Metadata
6 11 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (7.10%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.16%) RDBMS
8 7 (4.52%) DataStage
8 7 (4.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (2.58%) Power BI
10 4 (2.58%) SQLPlus
11 3 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.94%) GIS
11 3 (1.94%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (1.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (7.74%) Visual Studio
2 11 (7.10%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (3.87%) JIRA
4 5 (3.23%) Toad
5 4 (2.58%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.94%) Ant
6 3 (1.94%) Git
6 3 (1.94%) JUnit
6 3 (1.94%) SoapUI
6 3 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.29%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.29%) Selenium
7 2 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.65%) Appium
8 1 (0.65%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.65%) GitLab
8 1 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.65%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 50 (32.26%) Finance
2 40 (25.81%) Banking
3 38 (24.52%) Social Skills
4 21 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.97%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.87%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.87%) General Ledger
7 4 (2.58%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.29%) Back Office
9 2 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Front Office
9 2 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Local Government
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (51.61%) Developer
2 45 (29.03%) C# Developer
3 19 (12.26%) Consultant
4 15 (9.68%) Oracle Developer
5 13 (8.39%) Lead
6 12 (7.74%) Oracle Consultant
7 10 (6.45%) Senior
7 10 (6.45%) Technical Consultant
8 9 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 8 (5.16%) Applications Developer
9 8 (5.16%) C# Application Developer
9 8 (5.16%) DBA
9 8 (5.16%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) .NET Developer
10 7 (4.52%) Architect
10 7 (4.52%) Oracle DBA
10 7 (4.52%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.52%) SQL Developer
11 6 (3.87%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (36.77%) .NET
2 39 (25.16%) .NET Framework
3 18 (11.61%) Middleware
4 16 (10.32%) WinForms
5 13 (8.39%) SOAP
5 13 (8.39%) WPF
6 11 (7.10%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (7.10%) REST
7 9 (5.81%) CSS
7 9 (5.81%) HTML
7 9 (5.81%) Kafka
7 9 (5.81%) React
7 9 (5.81%) XML
8 7 (4.52%) SPFx
9 5 (3.23%) IBM Integration Bus
9 5 (3.23%) Spring
9 5 (3.23%) Web Services
9 5 (3.23%) YAML
10 4 (2.58%) jQuery
10 4 (2.58%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.39%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (7.10%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.52%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.52%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.87%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.58%) Derivative
6 4 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.29%) Eurex
7 2 (1.29%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.29%) NHS
7 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.29%) Swaptions
7 2 (1.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 50 (32.26%) Windows
2 24 (15.48%) Windows Server
3 19 (12.26%) Linux
4 13 (8.39%) Unix
5 6 (3.87%) Solaris
5 6 (3.87%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (3.23%) AIX
6 5 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (28.39%) Data Analysis
2 43 (27.74%) Agile
3 41 (26.45%) Disaster Recovery
4 38 (24.52%) ETL
4 38 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
6 34 (21.94%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (20.65%) DevOps
8 31 (20.00%) Change Management
8 31 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 22 (14.19%) Unit Testing
10 21 (13.55%) Migration
11 19 (12.26%) Data Modelling
12 16 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (10.32%) Decision-Making
13 15 (9.68%) AI
13 15 (9.68%) Analytics
13 15 (9.68%) Data Governance
13 15 (9.68%) SDLC
14 14 (9.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 150 (96.77%) SQL
2 60 (38.71%) T-SQL
3 56 (36.13%) C#
4 33 (21.29%) Python
5 25 (16.13%) Java
6 17 (10.97%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.68%) Shell Script
8 14 (9.03%) VB
9 13 (8.39%) VBA
10 11 (7.10%) Perl
11 6 (3.87%) Korn
12 4 (2.58%) C
12 4 (2.58%) PHP
12 4 (2.58%) ProC
13 2 (1.29%) Bash
13 2 (1.29%) Delphi
13 2 (1.29%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.29%) Ruby
13 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.65%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 22 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.03%) Degree
4 7 (4.52%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.29%) PMP
7 1 (0.65%) HP APS
7 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (25.16%) QA
2 15 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.94%) IFRS
3 3 (1.94%) IFRS 9
4 2 (1.29%) Basel III
4 2 (1.29%) GAAP
4 2 (1.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.29%) SEPA
5 1 (0.65%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 10 (6.45%) Docker
2 7 (4.52%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.87%) Data Guard
4 5 (3.23%) Ansible
4 5 (3.23%) Control-M
5 3 (1.94%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.94%) Terraform
6 2 (1.29%) Grafana
6 2 (1.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.65%) Foglight
7 1 (0.65%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 141 (90.97%) Oracle
2 35 (22.58%) Citrix
3 20 (12.90%) Microsoft
4 16 (10.32%) IBM
5 7 (4.52%) Databricks
6 6 (3.87%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.58%) VMware
8 3 (1.94%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.94%) Informatica
8 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.29%) DevExpress
9 2 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.29%) Murex
9 2 (1.29%) Perforce
9 2 (1.29%) SAP
9 2 (1.29%) Workday
10 1 (0.65%) HP
10 1 (0.65%) JDA
10 1 (0.65%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (0.65%) Progress