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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 128 144
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 10 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.51% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.40% 1.91% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 6
10th Percentile £404 - £516
25th Percentile £456 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £638 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £669 £669
90th Percentile £552 £725 £681
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.94%

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 417 679 945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 21.11% 25.54% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 398 643
10th Percentile £316 £367 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £650
90th Percentile £649 £685 £713
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 87 79
10th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile £65.00 £66.25 £61.70
Median hourly rate £68.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £73.13 - £70.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Bristol +9 8 £525 -19.23% 3
Devon - 1 £550 - 5
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (10.00%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) OCI
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (10.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IFS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) FHIR
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) ODBC
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (40.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Budget Management
5 1 (10.00%) Change Control
5 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 1 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) OCA
2 2 (20.00%) OCP
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) DICOM
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) IFS
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP