PL/SQL Contracts in South Wales

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 8 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.19% 0.62% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.31% 2.44% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £190 £575
25th Percentile £363 £222 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £279 £700
Median % change year-on-year +34.46% -60.16% +16.67%
75th Percentile £388 £338 £744
90th Percentile - £372 £755
Wales median daily rate £375 £279 £625
% change year-on-year +34.46% -55.38% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 65 82 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 25.90% 25.39% 27.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 56 79
10th Percentile £256 £205 £275
25th Percentile £305 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.69% +4.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £483 £545 £594
90th Percentile £526 £575 £653
Wales median daily rate £425 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -13.27% +3.16% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 3
10th Percentile £22.86 £15.81 £17.83
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.12 £19.11
Median hourly rate £22.92 £20.24 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% -10.07% +13.01%
75th Percentile £22.96 £21.24 £24.88
90th Percentile £22.98 £23.75 £25.55
Wales median hourly rate £23.00 £20.24 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.66% -10.07% +13.01%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in South Wales

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in South Wales

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in South Wales

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Cardiff +13 8 £375 +34.46% 3
PL/SQL
Wales

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 8 (100.00%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (100.00%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Consultant
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 5 (62.50%) SOA Consultant
3 3 (37.50%) BPM Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) IT Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (25.00%) Lead Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Middleware Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) JSON
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth
1 8 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 8 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 8 (100.00%) REST
1 8 (100.00%) SOAP
1 8 (100.00%) Swagger
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) XSD
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) API Design
1 8 (100.00%) API Management
1 8 (100.00%) BPEL
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (100.00%) SDLC
1 8 (100.00%) SOA
1 8 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 8 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle