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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 104 135
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 +19
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 39 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.23% 0.58% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.15% 2.11% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 9 17
10th Percentile - £370 £385
25th Percentile £450 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £650
90th Percentile £593 £650 £745
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

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 758 475 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 23.99% 27.73% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 324 427
10th Percentile £350 £355 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £581 £623 £656
90th Percentile £688 £676 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 46 82
10th Percentile £57.34 £61.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £64.74 £65.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.46% -1.44%

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 April 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 April 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 - 31 £475 -
Dorset - 6 £500 -
Bristol -25 1 £475 +18.75%
Somerset - 1 £525 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.56%) IIS
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 35 (89.74%) Azure
1 35 (89.74%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) Figma
4 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
1 1 (2.56%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (10.26%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
1 4 (10.26%) MongoDB
1 4 (10.26%) MySQL
1 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) GIS
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (82.05%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (2.56%) MSI
2 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 29 (74.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Back Office
4 2 (5.13%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (76.92%) Developer
2 28 (71.79%) Senior
2 28 (71.79%) Senior Developer
3 5 (12.82%) DBA
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle DBA
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 1 (2.56%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Consultant
6 1 (2.56%) SQL DBA
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) .NET
1 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
1 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (2.56%) ATL
1 1 (2.56%) Blazor
1 1 (2.56%) COM
1 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
1 1 (2.56%) GeoJSON
1 1 (2.56%) MFC
1 1 (2.56%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (2.56%) REST
1 1 (2.56%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) DevOps
2 29 (74.36%) Agile
3 28 (71.79%) Scrum
3 28 (71.79%) Validation
4 27 (69.23%) Collaborative Working
4 27 (69.23%) Requirements Analysis
4 27 (69.23%) Software Delivery
4 27 (69.23%) Web Application Development
5 6 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (10.26%) Backlog Management
6 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
6 4 (10.26%) Functional Testing
6 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (5.13%) BCP
7 2 (5.13%) Customer Service
8 1 (2.56%) Data Security
8 1 (2.56%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (74.36%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) Bicep
3 1 (2.56%) C#
3 1 (2.56%) C++
3 1 (2.56%) Java
3 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 28 (71.79%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) NEC
3 1 (2.56%) Adobe
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft