PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in the North West

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 103 132
Rank change year-on-year -21 +29 +23
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 12 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.52% 0.52% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.02% 2.37% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 9
10th Percentile £334 £399 £364
25th Percentile £344 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £515 £470
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +9.57% -6.00%
75th Percentile £769 £538 £471
90th Percentile £775 £548 £508
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -7.41%

All Programming Languages
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 593 506 762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 25.46% 21.83% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 313 562
10th Percentile £313 £325 £326
25th Percentile £360 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £582
90th Percentile £613 £609 £675
England median daily rate £513 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -4.96% -1.95% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 47
10th Percentile £35.97 £37.55 £40.00
25th Percentile £59.80 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £72.13 £50.13 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.90% +8.54% -20.31%
75th Percentile £76.82 £75.25 £54.50
90th Percentile £90.50 £88.75 £73.95
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.13%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PL/SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in the North West

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PL/SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the North West over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the North West

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PL/SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Manchester -3 5 £344 -26.02% 3
Merseyside - 4 £750 - 1
Cheshire -26 3 £700 +33.33%
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (41.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (16.67%) Mule
2 2 (16.67%) Mule ESB
2 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (8.33%) Anypoint
3 1 (8.33%) JBoss
3 1 (8.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) dbt
1 5 (41.67%) Prefect
1 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
2 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (41.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (25.00%) Siebel EIM
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Siebel Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) JMS
2 3 (25.00%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) J2EE
3 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 2 (16.67%) Spring
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (41.67%) Analytics
4 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) Data Science
4 5 (41.67%) Data Transformation
4 5 (41.67%) Resource Management
5 4 (33.33%) Business Analytics
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) SDLC
6 3 (25.00%) Agile
6 3 (25.00%) Change Management
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (25.00%) EAI
6 3 (25.00%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (25.00%) Siebel
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft