PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in Scotland

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland 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 98 100 107
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 12 16 33
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.78% 0.95% 1.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.07% 2.79% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 27
10th Percentile - £409 £395
25th Percentile £313 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £516
90th Percentile £625 - £565
UK median daily rate £475 £527 £525
% change year-on-year -9.87% +0.38% -0.94%

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 580 573 697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.54% 34.09% 29.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 315 454
10th Percentile £333 £356 £400
25th Percentile £410 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £552 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £52.25 £17.99 £52.59
25th Percentile £55.63 - £57.70
Median hourly rate £61.23 £19.59 £60.02
Median % change year-on-year +212.53% -67.36% +14.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.00 £74.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £64.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

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 17 December 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 +2 6 £325 -21.97%
Edinburgh +7 4 £538 +13.16% 7
Aberdeen - 1 £600 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 £600 -
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (33.33%) Apache
1 4 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Geronimo
2 2 (16.67%) Apache ServiceMix
2 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Fuse
2 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (41.67%) RDBMS
3 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (8.33%) DB2
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Subversion
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Database Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (8.33%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) NumPy
1 5 (41.67%) Pandas
1 5 (41.67%) PySpark
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) SOAP
3 3 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Axis
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Camel
4 2 (16.67%) Middleware
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Security
4 2 (16.67%) Spring Web Flow
4 2 (16.67%) Thymeleaf
4 2 (16.67%) TIBCO EMS
4 2 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (8.33%) J2EE
5 1 (8.33%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) SCADA
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
2 5 (41.67%) Data Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Data Development
2 5 (41.67%) Data Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Energy Management
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) System Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Data Transformation
6 1 (8.33%) DevOps
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) TIBCO
3 1 (8.33%) Delphix
3 1 (8.33%) DocuSign
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Siemens