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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 92 95
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 10 18 42
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.67% 1.12% 1.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.91% 2.95% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 37
10th Percentile - £409 £409
25th Percentile £313 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -2.19% +13.60%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £575
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -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 523 610 718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.08% 37.89% 30.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 329 451
10th Percentile £319 £350 £400
25th Percentile £406 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -8.78% +4.81%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £576 £700
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.14% -2.78% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £52.63 £19.59 £30.80
25th Percentile £54.69 £21.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £59.36 £22.88 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +159.51% -62.19% +7.86%
75th Percentile £67.00 £34.29 £61.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.00 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 24 January 2026.

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 24 January 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
Glasgow +7 5 £325 -21.97% 2
Edinburgh -6 3 £475 - 6
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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) Apache Geronimo
1 2 (20.00%) Apache ServiceMix
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Fuse
1 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Database Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Database Architect
4 1 (10.00%) DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) SCADA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) NumPy
1 5 (50.00%) Pandas
1 5 (50.00%) PySpark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Axis
2 2 (20.00%) Apache Camel
2 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Data Development
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (30.00%) Use Case
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Energy Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (10.00%) Database Migration
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Sequence Diagram
4 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Cloudera
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) TIBCO
4 1 (10.00%) Delphix
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Siemens