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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 115 124
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 +39
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 11 3 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.13% 0.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 0.59% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 12
10th Percentile £331 £431 £375
25th Percentile £349 £458 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £505 £470
Median % change year-on-year +38.61% +7.39% -1.00%
75th Percentile £775 £529 £603
90th Percentile - £542 £635
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.94%

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 575 509 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.33% 21.29% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 334 536
10th Percentile £313 £330 £336
25th Percentile £363 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £593
90th Percentile £600 £621 £675
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 37
10th Percentile £29.28 £37.55 £39.10
25th Percentile £47.89 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £68.25 £49.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% +6.11% -8.01%
75th Percentile £87.69 £69.88 £50.25
90th Percentile £95.23 £85.42 £73.95
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Merseyside - 5 £750 - 3
Manchester +2 3 £338 -33.17% 4
Cheshire - 3 £700 - 2
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 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (18.18%) Mule
2 2 (18.18%) Mule ESB
2 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
3 1 (9.09%) Anypoint
3 1 (9.09%) JBoss
3 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
3 1 (9.09%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) dbt
1 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
1 3 (27.27%) Prefect
1 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Siebel Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Siebel Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) JMS
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) J2EE
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 2 (18.18%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) Node.js
4 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) SDLC
5 4 (36.36%) Change Management
5 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (36.36%) EAI
5 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (36.36%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Analytics
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 3 (27.27%) Data Science
6 3 (27.27%) Data Transformation
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Oracle
2 4 (36.36%) Siebel
3 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
3 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
3 3 (27.27%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft