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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 228 210
Rank change year-on-year -39 -18 -15
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 188 148 196
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 1.10% 1.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.93% 2.84% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 119 141
10th Percentile £404 £385 £363
25th Percentile £416 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £609 £545 £650
90th Percentile £700 £638 £738
England median daily rate £508 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +1.50% -1.96% +2.00%
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 6,407 5,214 6,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 31.50% 38.61% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,293 3,587 4,719
10th Percentile £381 £368 £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 £660 £688 £704
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 65 40
10th Percentile £26.52 £26.71 £25.11
25th Percentile £36.25 £33.25 £32.62
Median hourly rate £52.50 £44.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% -5.48% -20.83%
75th Percentile £73.00 £63.75 £63.26
90th Percentile £88.75 £87.00 £78.88
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 11 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 11 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 -17 17 £610 +31.89% 5
South London - 6 £800 - 2
East London 0 3 - -
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 21 (11.17%) IIS
2 12 (6.38%) nginx
2 12 (6.38%) Oracle Workflow
3 9 (4.79%) SharePoint
4 7 (3.72%) Confluence
4 7 (3.72%) Tomcat
4 7 (3.72%) WebLogic
5 5 (2.66%) Appian
5 5 (2.66%) Camunda
6 4 (2.13%) WebSphere
7 3 (1.60%) Apache
7 3 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (1.60%) SAS
8 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
8 2 (1.06%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.53%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 14 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.06%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (10.64%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (5.32%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (5.32%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (5.32%) Oracle Receivables
3 9 (4.79%) Oracle FAH
3 9 (4.79%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (3.72%) OpenText MBPM
4 7 (3.72%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (3.72%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (3.19%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (2.66%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 4 (2.13%) Oracle iProcurement
7 4 (2.13%) Unit4 Business World
8 3 (1.60%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (1.06%) Front Arena
9 2 (1.06%) Global One
10 1 (0.53%) Actimize
10 1 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 20 (10.64%) AWS
2 17 (9.04%) Azure
2 17 (9.04%) OpenShift
3 12 (6.38%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.26%) Power Automate
4 8 (4.26%) PowerApps
5 7 (3.72%) OCI
6 5 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.66%) GitHub
6 5 (2.66%) PaaS
6 5 (2.66%) Serverless
7 4 (2.13%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.13%) AWS CodePipeline
7 4 (2.13%) Collibra
7 4 (2.13%) dbt
7 4 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (2.13%) SaaS
7 4 (2.13%) Sentry
8 3 (1.60%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.91%) Internet
2 6 (3.19%) HTTP
3 2 (1.06%) Intranet
4 1 (0.53%) IPsec
4 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (32.45%) Oracle Database
2 56 (29.79%) SQL Server
3 26 (13.83%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (5.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 9 (4.79%) Metadata
7 8 (4.26%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (3.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.19%) DataStage
9 6 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.66%) PowerCenter
10 5 (2.66%) RDBMS
11 4 (2.13%) Power BI
11 4 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.13%) Tableau
12 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.60%) Oracle Exadata
12 3 (1.60%) Star Schema
13 2 (1.06%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 24 (12.77%) Git
1 24 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.04%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (5.32%) JIRA
4 8 (4.26%) Gradle
5 7 (3.72%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.66%) JDeveloper
7 4 (2.13%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.13%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.60%) Moq
9 2 (1.06%) Appium
9 2 (1.06%) HP UFT
9 2 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.06%) Selenium
9 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.53%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.53%) Subversion
10 1 (0.53%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 68 (36.17%) Finance
2 59 (31.38%) Banking
3 55 (29.26%) Social Skills
4 33 (17.55%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.66%) General Ledger
6 5 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.13%) Back Office
7 4 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.06%) Front Office
9 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.06%) International Banking
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.53%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 95 (50.53%) Developer
2 24 (12.77%) C# Developer
2 24 (12.77%) Consultant
3 22 (11.70%) Java Developer
4 21 (11.17%) Oracle Developer
5 20 (10.64%) Senior
6 16 (8.51%) Applications Support
7 15 (7.98%) Analyst
7 15 (7.98%) Oracle Consultant
8 14 (7.45%) Data Engineer
9 12 (6.38%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.38%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.79%) Lead
10 9 (4.79%) SQL Developer
11 8 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
12 7 (3.72%) Database Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Oracle Technical Consultant
12 7 (3.72%) SC Cleared Java Developer
13 6 (3.19%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (30.32%) .NET
2 29 (15.43%) .NET Framework
3 28 (14.89%) Spring
4 21 (11.17%) React
5 19 (10.11%) WinForms
6 18 (9.57%) WPF
7 17 (9.04%) Middleware
7 17 (9.04%) XML
8 16 (8.51%) REST
8 16 (8.51%) Spring Boot
9 15 (7.98%) Kafka
10 14 (7.45%) HTML
11 13 (6.91%) JSON
12 12 (6.38%) CSS
12 12 (6.38%) Web Services
13 11 (5.85%) Hibernate
14 9 (4.79%) ASP.NET
15 8 (4.26%) Jakarta EE
15 8 (4.26%) JDBC
15 8 (4.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.70%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (6.38%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.72%) Data Centre
3 7 (3.72%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.19%) Spread Betting
5 5 (2.66%) Derivative
5 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.13%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (1.60%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.60%) CMDB
7 3 (1.60%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.06%) Eurex
8 2 (1.06%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.06%) Replication
8 2 (1.06%) Swaptions
9 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.87%) Windows
2 25 (13.30%) Linux
3 17 (9.04%) Unix
3 17 (9.04%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.13%) Solaris
5 4 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.53%) AIX
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.32%) Agile
2 46 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (22.87%) Data Analysis
4 34 (18.09%) ETL
5 32 (17.02%) Change Management
5 32 (17.02%) CI/CD
6 31 (16.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (15.43%) AI
7 29 (15.43%) DevOps
7 29 (15.43%) Performance Tuning
8 26 (13.83%) Data Modelling
9 25 (13.30%) Root Cause Analysis
10 21 (11.17%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.11%) Migration
12 18 (9.57%) SDLC
13 17 (9.04%) ERP
13 17 (9.04%) Microservices
14 15 (7.98%) Generative AI
14 15 (7.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (98.40%) SQL
2 61 (32.45%) C#
3 56 (29.79%) T-SQL
4 43 (22.87%) Java
5 31 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 31 (16.49%) Python
6 15 (7.98%) Shell Script
7 12 (6.38%) VBA
8 11 (5.85%) VB
9 9 (4.79%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.66%) C
11 4 (2.13%) C++
11 4 (2.13%) Ruby
12 3 (1.60%) Perl
13 2 (1.06%) Groovy
13 2 (1.06%) ProC
14 1 (0.53%) Bash
14 1 (0.53%) COBOL
14 1 (0.53%) CQL
14 1 (0.53%) RPG
Qualifications
1 40 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.04%) Degree
4 6 (3.19%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.06%) OCA
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.43%) QA
2 20 (10.64%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.13%) ISO 15022
3 4 (2.13%) ISO 20022
4 3 (1.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.53%) EMIR
5 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 25 (13.30%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.91%) Control-M
2 11 (5.85%) Ansible
2 11 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.32%) Oracle RMAN
4 6 (3.19%) Data Guard
5 5 (2.66%) Grafana
5 5 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.13%) Kibana
7 2 (1.06%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 158 (84.04%) Oracle
2 27 (14.36%) Citrix
3 14 (7.45%) IBM
4 7 (3.72%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.19%) Databricks
6 5 (2.66%) Informatica
6 5 (2.66%) OpenText
7 4 (2.13%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.13%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.13%) Sitecore
8 3 (1.60%) Avaloq
8 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.60%) VMware
9 2 (1.06%) Murex