PL/SQL Contracts in the Midlands

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring PL/SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PL/SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 72 82
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 +19
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 12 61 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 2.21% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.52% 9.87% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 50 78
10th Percentile £413 £381 £394
25th Percentile £434 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% -0.93% +15.51%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £562
90th Percentile £538 - £625
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
England median hourly rate £92.50 - £62.50
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the Midlands

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the Midlands

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the Midlands

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands -35 8 £460 -14.02% 19
East Midlands +10 4 £425 +9.68% 10
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (16.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) OCI
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL Developer
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) IFS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Product Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Agile
1 4 (33.33%) Data Transformation
1 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (25.00%) ERP
2 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Database Optimisation
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Order to Cash
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow
4 1 (8.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 4 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) IFS
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy