PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in the South West

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 105 140
Rank change year-on-year -23 +35 +7
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 21 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.58% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.62% 2.30% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 14
10th Percentile £454 £375 £412
25th Percentile £481 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £605 £613 £650
90th Percentile £609 £650 £725
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -

All Programming Languages
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 802 434 726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 22.26% 23.02% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 285 465
10th Percentile £358 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £695 £652 £700
England median daily rate £520 £520 £541
% change year-on-year - -3.93% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 41 119
10th Percentile £53.53 £61.25 £52.00
25th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +3.17%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in the South West

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PL/SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the South West over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the South West

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PL/SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Bristol -11 13 £600 +41.18% 4
Devon - 3 - - 1
Wiltshire -10 2 £452 -30.54%
Gloucestershire - 2 £606 -
Somerset - 1 £525 -
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (19.05%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) IIS
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.76%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) OCI
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) Figma
6 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) HTTP
1 1 (4.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
1 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
1 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (14.29%) Power BI
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (9.52%) Metadata
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.76%) GIS
4 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.76%) MySQL
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
1 4 (19.05%) Liquibase
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (4.76%) MSI
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (85.71%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (38.10%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Database Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) ETL Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.76%) C++ Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Forms Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Payroll Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET
2 4 (19.05%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (19.05%) Blazor
3 3 (14.29%) jQuery
3 3 (14.29%) React
4 2 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.76%) ATL
5 1 (4.76%) COM
5 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.76%) GeoJSON
5 1 (4.76%) MFC
5 1 (4.76%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (4.76%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) ETL
4 5 (23.81%) Information Security
5 3 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 3 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 3 (14.29%) Software Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Change Data Capture
6 2 (9.52%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (9.52%) OO
6 2 (9.52%) OOD
6 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (95.24%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) T-SQL
4 3 (14.29%) Java
5 2 (9.52%) Groovy
6 1 (4.76%) Bicep
6 1 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (76.19%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft