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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 108 125
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +29
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 17 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.68% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.50% 2.21% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 11
10th Percentile £316 £398 £400
25th Percentile - £400 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £505 £470
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +7.45% -14.55%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £473
90th Percentile £648 £540 £476
England median daily rate £475 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% -2.42%

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 681 498 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.24% 23.16% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 320 527
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £360 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% -6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £514 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £600 £650
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 14 42
10th Percentile £41.94 - £41.71
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +40.75% +16.91%
75th Percentile £74.26 £74.56 £50.00
90th Percentile - £86.00 £73.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.59% +0.40% -3.47%

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 1 January 2026.

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 1 January 2026. 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 -1 13 £344 -14.00% 4
Cheshire -22 3 £700 +33.33% 2
Merseyside - 1 £375 -
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 8 (47.06%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (11.76%) Mule
2 2 (11.76%) Mule ESB
2 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
3 1 (5.88%) JBoss
3 1 (5.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (5.88%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (5.88%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) dbt
1 8 (47.06%) Prefect
1 8 (47.06%) Snowflake
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
1 8 (47.06%) Snowflake Schema
2 3 (17.65%) OLTP
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Local Government
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Integration Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Programmer
6 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) J2EE
1 2 (11.76%) JSON
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
1 2 (11.76%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Clustering
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Code
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (52.94%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (47.06%) Data Engineering
4 8 (47.06%) Data Modelling
4 8 (47.06%) Data Science
4 8 (47.06%) Resource Management
5 6 (35.29%) Analytics
5 6 (35.29%) Data Transformation
6 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 4 (23.53%) Agile
7 4 (23.53%) Business Analytics
7 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (17.65%) Batch Processing
8 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (17.65%) Key Management
8 3 (17.65%) Microservices
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
9 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
9 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) ProC
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
1 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Oracle
2 6 (35.29%) Dynatrace
3 3 (17.65%) AppDynamics
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft