PL/SQL Contracts in the North of England

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 164 185
Rank change year-on-year +29 +21 +5
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 43 19 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.12% 0.41% 0.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.16% 1.67% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 15 14
10th Percentile £430 £463 £401
25th Percentile £513 £473 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year - +4.27% +0.48%
75th Percentile £665 £607 £578
90th Percentile £761 £614 £607
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -1.44%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,033 1,141 1,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.91% 24.82% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 746 806 1,043
10th Percentile £320 £317 £361
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £611
90th Percentile £608 £626 £688
England median daily rate £519 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 42 30
10th Percentile £30.00 £37.50 £22.30
25th Percentile £31.62 £41.25 £37.76
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.33% +5.02% +26.87%
75th Percentile £86.63 £70.81 £51.66
90th Percentile £95.00 £78.70 £58.13
England median hourly rate £59.50 £65.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year -8.46% +3.59% +16.20%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the North of England

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the North of England

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the North of England

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the North of England

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North West +17 22 £655 +13.62% 7
Yorkshire +16 21 £525 +3.70% 2
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (30.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.65%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.33%) Azure
1 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (32.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (39.53%) Oracle Database
2 8 (18.60%) Siebel EIM
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (6.98%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.33%) SQLite
5 1 (2.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 28 (65.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Finance
3 9 (20.93%) Public Sector
4 8 (18.60%) Banking
4 8 (18.60%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Automotive
6 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Developer
2 10 (23.26%) Migration Engineer
3 8 (18.60%) Data Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Data Migration Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (16.28%) Siebel Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 5 (11.63%) Engineering Specialist
7 4 (9.30%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Development Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Oracle Developer
8 3 (6.98%) Software Development Engineer
8 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.65%) Data Manager
9 2 (4.65%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) JMS
1 8 (18.60%) SOAP
1 8 (18.60%) Web Services
2 2 (4.65%) Middleware
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.23%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (23.26%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 24 (55.81%) Linux
2 14 (32.56%) Windows
2 14 (32.56%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.98%) Unix
4 2 (4.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Migration
2 18 (41.86%) Data Modelling
2 18 (41.86%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (37.21%) Agile
4 13 (30.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (30.23%) Microservices
4 13 (30.23%) Security Management
4 13 (30.23%) SOA
5 12 (27.91%) Data Migration
5 12 (27.91%) Knowledge Transfer
6 11 (25.58%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (23.26%) Data Mapping
7 10 (23.26%) ETL
7 10 (23.26%) Server Management
7 10 (23.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Validation
8 8 (18.60%) EAI
8 8 (18.60%) SDLC
9 6 (13.95%) Change Management
9 6 (13.95%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) SQL
2 14 (32.56%) Bash
3 12 (27.91%) Perl
4 11 (25.58%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.30%) COBOL
6 2 (4.65%) Java
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
2 23 (53.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 39 (90.70%) Oracle
2 14 (32.56%) Cisco
3 8 (18.60%) Siebel
4 3 (6.98%) Perforce
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) Liquidlogic
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) SAP