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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 221 205
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 -5
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 134 146 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.91% 1.05% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.47% 2.72% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 107 139
10th Percentile £385 - £382
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £660
90th Percentile £675 £730 £750
England median daily rate £475 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% -0.56%
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 5,424 5,365 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.03% 38.51% 35.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,645 3,555 4,909
10th Percentile £363 £375 £390
25th Percentile £425 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £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 63 36 68
10th Percentile £25.39 £35.00 £26.68
25th Percentile £35.75 £38.44 £37.02
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +4.48% -12.61%
75th Percentile £67.10 £73.25 £61.94
90th Percentile £85.75 £97.50 £72.15
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -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 24 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 24 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 15 £475 -33.33% 2
South London 0 3 £300 -50.00%
East London -4 3 £416 +4.00%
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 (11.19%) IIS
2 10 (7.46%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.49%) Apache
5 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.49%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) nginx
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 11 (8.21%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (7.46%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (6.72%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (5.97%) Oracle Assets
5 7 (5.22%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (4.48%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (4.48%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (2.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (2.24%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.75%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.75%) Loan IQ
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle iProcurement
10 1 (0.75%) Oracle Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (20.15%) Azure
2 16 (11.94%) OCI
3 14 (10.45%) AWS
4 10 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.22%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.22%) SaaS
6 6 (4.48%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.48%) Azure API Management
6 6 (4.48%) GitHub
7 5 (3.73%) Collibra
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%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.75%) MinIO
10 1 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.46%) Internet
2 5 (3.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (47.01%) Oracle Database
2 47 (35.07%) SQL Server
3 22 (16.42%) Oracle Reports
4 16 (11.94%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 13 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (8.96%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.72%) Oracle ODI
7 9 (6.72%) RDBMS
8 7 (5.22%) DataStage
8 7 (5.22%) Metadata
9 6 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
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%) Power BI
11 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database 10g
11 4 (2.99%) SQLPlus
12 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (2.24%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (8.21%) Visual Studio
2 8 (5.97%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (5.22%) Git
3 7 (5.22%) JIRA
4 6 (4.48%) Oracle APEX
5 5 (3.73%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.73%) Toad
6 4 (2.99%) Ant
6 4 (2.99%) Jenkins
6 4 (2.99%) JUnit
6 4 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (2.99%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.99%) TeamCity
7 3 (2.24%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.24%) GitLab
8 2 (1.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.75%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.75%) NUnit
9 1 (0.75%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.75%) TestDirector
General
1 57 (42.54%) Finance
2 35 (26.12%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.90%) Banking
4 14 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.72%) 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
9 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.49%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Back Office
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 39 (29.10%) C# Developer
3 26 (19.40%) Oracle Developer
4 14 (10.45%) Consultant
5 12 (8.96%) C# WPF Developer
5 12 (8.96%) WPF Developer
6 11 (8.21%) .NET Developer
7 10 (7.46%) C# .NET Developer
7 10 (7.46%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Oracle Consultant
8 9 (6.72%) Senior
9 8 (5.97%) Architect
10 7 (5.22%) DBA
10 7 (5.22%) Oracle DBA
11 6 (4.48%) C# WCF Developer
11 6 (4.48%) Data Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.48%) WCF Developer
12 5 (3.73%) ERP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (35.07%) .NET
2 33 (24.63%) .NET Framework
3 18 (13.43%) SOAP
4 17 (12.69%) Middleware
4 17 (12.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 17 (12.69%) WPF
5 13 (9.70%) Kafka
5 13 (9.70%) WinForms
6 12 (8.96%) REST
7 8 (5.97%) XML
8 6 (4.48%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (4.48%) WCF
9 5 (3.73%) HTML
10 4 (2.99%) CSS
10 4 (2.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 4 (2.99%) YAML
11 3 (2.24%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.24%) Node.js
11 3 (2.24%) Web Services
12 2 (1.49%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.24%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
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%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.49%) SCADA
4 2 (1.49%) Synthetic Data
5 1 (0.75%) Derivative
5 1 (0.75%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.75%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (31.34%) Windows
2 15 (11.19%) Unix
3 14 (10.45%) Windows Server
4 13 (9.70%) Linux
5 5 (3.73%) AIX
6 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
2 33 (24.63%) ETL
3 29 (21.64%) Agile
4 27 (20.15%) Data Analysis
5 26 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.16%) CI/CD
6 23 (17.16%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (15.67%) DevOps
7 21 (15.67%) Migration
7 21 (15.67%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (14.93%) ERP
9 18 (13.43%) Change Management
10 17 (12.69%) Data Modelling
11 13 (9.70%) SDLC
11 13 (9.70%) Unit Testing
12 12 (8.96%) Analytics
12 12 (8.96%) Decision-Making
13 11 (8.21%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (8.21%) Data Integration
13 11 (8.21%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 130 (97.01%) SQL
2 43 (32.09%) C#
3 37 (27.61%) T-SQL
4 24 (17.91%) Java
5 20 (14.93%) VB
6 18 (13.43%) Python
7 17 (12.69%) VBA
8 11 (8.21%) Perl
9 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
9 9 (6.72%) Shell Script
10 7 (5.22%) Korn
11 6 (4.48%) Groovy
11 6 (4.48%) VB.NET
12 4 (2.99%) Bash
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 1 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Degree
2 15 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) 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 29 (21.64%) 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 5 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.99%) Data Guard
2 4 (2.99%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (1.49%) Control-M
3 2 (1.49%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.49%) Terraform
4 1 (0.75%) Foglight
4 1 (0.75%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 126 (94.03%) Oracle
2 24 (17.91%) Citrix
3 16 (11.94%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.46%) 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%) HP
9 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.49%) Workday
10 1 (0.75%) BMC
10 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.75%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.75%) OutSystems
10 1 (0.75%) Perforce
10 1 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.75%) Vertica