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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 110 124
Rank change year-on-year -24 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 16 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.60% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.05% 2.81% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 17
10th Percentile £313 £375 £408
25th Percentile £335 £386 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £400 £476
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -15.88% -15.47%
75th Percentile £379 £538 £614
90th Percentile £489 - £619
England median daily rate £475 £475 £536
% change year-on-year - -11.30% -0.46%

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 780 498 772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.28% 23.70% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 326 582
10th Percentile £315 £356 £325
25th Percentile £363 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £548 £553
90th Percentile £600 £620 £625
England median daily rate £510 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 13 44
10th Percentile £41.94 - £40.38
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.57 £65.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +40.75% +12.51%
75th Percentile £75.57 £77.50 £50.38
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £74.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.59% +4.58% -7.69%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -9 15 £344 -14.00% 4
Cheshire -23 1 £675 +28.57% 3
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 9 (56.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) dbt
2 9 (56.25%) Prefect
3 8 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 4 (25.00%) AWS
5 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) Azure
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) OCI
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (56.25%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (18.75%) OLTP
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
5 1 (6.25%) Redis
5 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Local Government
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Databuild Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Developer
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Programmer
6 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Middleware
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Clustering
2 3 (18.75%) Legacy Code
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 10 (62.50%) Data Science
3 10 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (62.50%) Resource Management
4 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
5 7 (43.75%) Analytics
5 7 (43.75%) Data Transformation
6 5 (31.25%) Business Analytics
6 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 3 (18.75%) Batch Processing
8 3 (18.75%) Key Management
8 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Agile
9 2 (12.50%) Prototyping
10 1 (6.25%) DevOps
10 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
10 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) ProC
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk