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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 115 117
Rank change year-on-year +24 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 44 3 27
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.83% 0.16% 0.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.63% 0.56% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 2 26
10th Percentile - £355 £413
25th Percentile £450 £363 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £575
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -34.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £388 £594
90th Percentile £550 £395 £706
England median daily rate £475 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% -0.56%

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 577 537 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.99% 27.85% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 303 512
10th Percentile £343 £377 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £675
90th Percentile £714 £688 £713
England median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 52 71
10th Percentile £61.13 £61.25 £46.39
25th Percentile £61.88 £62.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% -
75th Percentile - £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.02 £69.88 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +3.17% +0.80% -3.85%

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 12 January 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 12 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
Gloucestershire - 30 £475 - 5
Bristol -5 6 £500 +25.00% 2
Dorset - 6 £500 - 1
Devon +7 1 £550 - 1
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 6 (13.64%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (88.64%) Azure
2 37 (84.09%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.64%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (11.36%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.82%) MySQL
2 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 35 (79.55%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (2.27%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 32 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Back Office
4 2 (4.55%) Local Government
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (77.27%) Developer
2 30 (68.18%) Senior
2 30 (68.18%) Senior Developer
3 6 (13.64%) DBA
3 6 (13.64%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (6.82%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Lead
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Consultant
6 1 (2.27%) Developer Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Integration Analyst
6 1 (2.27%) Integration Developer
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (2.27%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) .NET
1 1 (2.27%) FHIR
1 1 (2.27%) ODBC
1 1 (2.27%) Web Services
1 1 (2.27%) XML
1 1 (2.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (88.64%) DevOps
2 32 (72.73%) Agile
2 32 (72.73%) Validation
3 31 (70.45%) Scrum
4 27 (61.36%) Collaborative Working
4 27 (61.36%) Requirements Analysis
4 27 (61.36%) Software Delivery
4 27 (61.36%) Web Application Development
5 6 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.36%) Translating Business Requirements
7 4 (9.09%) Backlog Management
7 4 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 4 (9.09%) Functional Testing
7 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (6.82%) Software Engineering
9 2 (4.55%) BCP
9 2 (4.55%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (4.55%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) SQL
2 32 (72.73%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.27%) Java
3 1 (2.27%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 35 (79.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 2 (4.55%) OCA
4 2 (4.55%) OCP
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) DICOM
1 1 (2.27%) HL7
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 43 (97.73%) Oracle
2 6 (13.64%) NEC
3 1 (2.27%) SAP