PL/SQL Contracts in Scotland

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 70 89 124
Rank change year-on-year +19 +35 -39
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 48 40 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.95% 1.80% 1.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.29% 5.99% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 33
10th Percentile £274 £414 £363
25th Percentile £300 £416 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £481 £575 £488
90th Percentile £538 £577 £576
UK median daily rate £495 £530 £513
% change year-on-year -6.60% +3.41% +2.50%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 668 1,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.49% 30.13% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 438 730
10th Percentile £313 £369 £406
25th Percentile £408 £415 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £484 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -1.98% +3.84%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £557
90th Percentile £575 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 14
10th Percentile - £29.60 £48.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £41.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate £23.77 £57.50 £59.79
Median % change year-on-year -58.67% -3.83% +27.21%
75th Percentile £40.72 £60.75 £67.27
90th Percentile £63.00 £62.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 19 £346 -20.52% 5
Edinburgh +1 16 £475 -13.64% 3
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 11 (22.92%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) IIS
2 1 (2.08%) nginx
2 1 (2.08%) SAS
2 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
2 2 (4.17%) AWS
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (4.17%) PaaS
2 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.17%) SaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.08%) IaaS
3 1 (2.08%) Serverless
3 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) FTP
1 1 (2.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (60.42%) Oracle Database
2 12 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 11 (22.92%) RDBMS
4 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.25%) DB2
5 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.08%) GIS
7 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (39.58%) Git
2 14 (29.17%) JIRA
3 10 (20.83%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (18.75%) PVCS
4 9 (18.75%) Subversion
5 6 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (10.42%) Toad
7 1 (2.08%) Mockito
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
2 9 (18.75%) Back Office
3 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.25%) Finance
7 2 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (56.25%) Developer
2 21 (43.75%) Oracle Developer
3 10 (20.83%) Analyst
4 9 (18.75%) Lead
4 9 (18.75%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (10.42%) Lead Developer
6 3 (6.25%) DBA
6 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Oracle Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) SQL DBA
8 1 (2.08%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.08%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.08%) Consultant
8 1 (2.08%) Integration Architect
8 1 (2.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) Java EE
1 9 (18.75%) REST
2 5 (10.42%) Middleware
3 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.33%) CSS
3 4 (8.33%) HTML
3 4 (8.33%) SOAP
3 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.25%) J2EE
4 3 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) .NET
5 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (4.17%) Ajax
5 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.17%) JMS
5 2 (4.17%) Node.js
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth
5 2 (4.17%) OpenID
5 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.08%) SCADA
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Unix
3 2 (4.17%) AIX
4 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) Agile
2 14 (29.17%) Data Modelling
3 12 (25.00%) SDLC
4 11 (22.92%) CI/CD
5 10 (20.83%) DevOps
5 10 (20.83%) ETL
6 9 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 9 (18.75%) Project Planning
6 9 (18.75%) Technical Analysis
6 9 (18.75%) Unit Testing
7 8 (16.67%) ETL Development
7 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.58%) Data Design
9 6 (12.50%) API Development
10 5 (10.42%) Microservices
10 5 (10.42%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (8.33%) Web Development
12 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis
12 3 (6.25%) Data Protection
12 3 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 47 (97.92%) SQL
2 14 (29.17%) Java
3 9 (18.75%) C
3 9 (18.75%) ProC
4 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.08%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) VB
6 1 (2.08%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.08%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 40 (83.33%) Oracle
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) DocuSign
4 2 (4.17%) Avaloq
4 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (2.08%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.08%) Informatica
5 1 (2.08%) Okta
5 1 (2.08%) Pega
5 1 (2.08%) Talend
5 1 (2.08%) Teradata