PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in Reading

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 55 55
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 +18
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 3 34 33
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.41% 3.29% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.95% 11.93% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 27 31
10th Percentile £428 £619 £575
25th Percentile £443 £620 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -27.85% +4.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £510 £663 £675
90th Percentile £534 £680 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +19.05%

All Programming Languages
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 154 285 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 21.10% 27.56% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 182 199
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £425 £501 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £603 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +4.78% +8.49%
75th Percentile £600 £653 £638
90th Percentile £631 £675 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £490 £582 £550
% change year-on-year -15.85% +5.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £71.50 £69.57 -
25th Percentile £73.75 £70.34 £59.89
Median hourly rate £78.50 £73.25 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% +21.79% +9.35%
75th Percentile £83.00 £81.18 £60.39
90th Percentile £84.80 £84.97 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £75.00 £63.75 £54.56
% change year-on-year +17.66% +16.83% -0.80%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in Reading

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PL/SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in Reading over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Reading

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PL/SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (66.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (66.67%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DBA
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (33.33%) SCADA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Database Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Proactive Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Cartography
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft