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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 74 95
Rank change year-on-year -27 +21 -3
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 16 61 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.80% 2.27% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.08% 9.71% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 49 55
10th Percentile £362 £396 £363
25th Percentile £413 £500 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% -0.56% +19.56%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £592
90th Percentile £523 £538 £625
England median daily rate £500 £535 £515
% change year-on-year -6.54% +3.88% +0.73%

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 520 628 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 25.99% 23.34% 26.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 455 629
10th Percentile £268 £260 £313
25th Percentile £365 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.48% +2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 14
10th Percentile £16.31 £22.42 £19.74
25th Percentile £18.28 £27.38 £24.16
Median hourly rate £25.25 £51.78 £29.93
Median % change year-on-year -51.24% +72.99% -14.48%
75th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £60.13 £84.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - - +23.10%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 19 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 -40 9 £480 -10.28% 13
East Midlands +14 7 £425 +9.68% 6
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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (12.50%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) OCI
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) HTTP
1 3 (18.75%) HTTPS
1 3 (18.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (18.75%) PL/SQL Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Product Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) IFS Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) JPA
1 3 (18.75%) Lambda Expressions
1 3 (18.75%) RAML
1 3 (18.75%) React
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
1 3 (18.75%) Spring
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Batch
1 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) State Machine
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
1 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 4 (25.00%) ERP
2 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (18.75%) API Development
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Clean Code
3 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
3 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
3 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) IFS
3 1 (6.25%) Remedy