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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 114 129
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 40 7 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.74% 0.32% 0.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.49% 1.15% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 6 22
10th Percentile - £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 - £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 - £594
90th Percentile £540 - £645
England median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -2.78%

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 534 611 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.29% 27.60% 27.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 345 578
10th Percentile £334 £400 £362
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +1.90% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £675
90th Percentile £715 £685 £714
England median daily rate £513 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.32% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 62 80
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £44.25
25th Percentile - £62.50 £48.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.31% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £70.07
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.18
% change year-on-year - +4.54% -1.04%

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 10 December 2025.

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 10 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
Gloucestershire - 27 £475 - 1
Bristol +2 6 £494 +9.72% 3
Dorset - 5 £352 - 2
Devon +7 1 £550 -
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (12.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 37 (92.50%) Azure
2 35 (87.50%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 32 (80.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.50%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 31 (77.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Back Office
4 2 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (2.50%) Electronics
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (85.00%) Developer
2 29 (72.50%) Senior
2 29 (72.50%) Senior Developer
3 3 (7.50%) DBA
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (5.00%) Lead
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Consultant
5 1 (2.50%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (2.50%) Integration Developer
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (2.50%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) .NET
1 1 (2.50%) CSS
1 1 (2.50%) FHIR
1 1 (2.50%) HTML
1 1 (2.50%) ODBC
1 1 (2.50%) Web Services
1 1 (2.50%) XML
1 1 (2.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (92.50%) DevOps
2 31 (77.50%) Validation
3 30 (75.00%) Agile
3 30 (75.00%) Scrum
4 27 (67.50%) Collaborative Working
4 27 (67.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 27 (67.50%) Software Delivery
4 27 (67.50%) Web Application Development
5 5 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (7.50%) Backlog Management
7 3 (7.50%) Decision-Making
7 3 (7.50%) Functional Testing
7 3 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.00%) Data Modelling
8 2 (5.00%) Migration
8 2 (5.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) SQL
2 32 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 32 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 32 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) OCA
2 2 (5.00%) OCP
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) DICOM
1 1 (2.50%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 39 (97.50%) Oracle
2 5 (12.50%) NEC
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.50%) SAP