PL/SQL Contracts in the North West

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 98 126 136
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 22 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.12% 0.40% 0.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.10% 1.60% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 16
10th Percentile £375 £470 £413
25th Percentile £431 £473 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £577 £570
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +1.14% +23.24%
75th Percentile £670 £614 £626
90th Percentile £703 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%

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 537 689 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.29% 25.01% 29.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 516 700
10th Percentile £359 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £540 £544 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £651
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 32 14
10th Percentile £55.75 £41.25 £20.46
25th Percentile £65.25 £44.72 £37.80
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.43 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.54% +19.32% -2.19%
75th Percentile £86.00 £69.53 £51.93
90th Percentile £87.10 £80.15 £62.95
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the North West

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the North West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the North West

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the North West

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 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
Manchester +30 14 £645 +61.25% 7
Merseyside - 7 £600 - 7
Cheshire -6 1 £356 -38.25% 4
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Siebel EIM
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (4.55%) SQLite
5 1 (4.55%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.55%) Toad
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Documentation Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
3 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) Migration Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Data Migration Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Siebel Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Applications Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Informatica Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Oracle Applications Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Business Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Data Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Data Migration Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) E-Business Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Technical Consultant
7 1 (4.55%) Siebel Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) JMS
1 5 (22.73%) SOAP
1 5 (22.73%) Web Services
2 2 (9.09%) Middleware
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 10 (45.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Unix
3 2 (9.09%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Migration
2 14 (63.64%) Data Modelling
3 12 (54.55%) Knowledge Transfer
4 11 (50.00%) ETL
5 10 (45.45%) Data Mapping
5 10 (45.45%) Data Migration
5 10 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (45.45%) Validation
6 8 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) EAI
7 5 (22.73%) SDLC
8 3 (13.64%) Agile
8 3 (13.64%) Change Management
8 3 (13.64%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (13.64%) Scrum
8 3 (13.64%) System Integration Testing
9 2 (9.09%) Data Integration
9 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 10 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 18 (81.82%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Siebel
3 4 (18.18%) Informatica