PL/SQL Contracts in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PL/SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited PL/SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 117 116
Rank change year-on-year +42 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 27 28 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.79% 1.04% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.80% 5.25% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 32
10th Percentile £493 £431 £426
25th Percentile £500 £475 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £633 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +12.44% +6.13%
75th Percentile £657 £688 £633
90th Percentile £664 - £692
South East median daily rate £500 £483 £550
% change year-on-year +3.63% -12.27% -4.35%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 533 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 26.27% 19.84% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 364 521
10th Percentile £350 £352 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £613
90th Percentile £700 £668 £680
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 20
10th Percentile £26.49 £33.94 £25.64
25th Percentile £40.75 £46.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.30 £56.88
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +2.51% -21.82%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.00 £76.61
90th Percentile £70.25 £67.63 £79.41
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +34 25 £550 -18.52% 19
Buckinghamshire +12 1 - - 5
Oxfordshire +5 1 £195 -62.86% 6
PL/SQL
South East

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) OCI
3 1 (3.70%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle Database
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle Database 11g
3 5 (18.52%) GIS
4 2 (7.41%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 1 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle APEX
General
1 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Consultant
2 5 (18.52%) Solutions Consultant
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Tester
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 3 (11.11%) SCADA Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.70%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) ERP Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Integration Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Migration Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) SOAP
2 4 (14.81%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) jQuery
3 1 (3.70%) OAuth
3 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) SCADA
2 8 (29.63%) Operational Technology
3 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.41%) Replication
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
1 9 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 9 (33.33%) Migration
2 8 (29.63%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Validation
3 6 (22.22%) Clean Code
3 6 (22.22%) CRUD
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Prototyping
3 6 (22.22%) Secure Coding
3 6 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 6 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 5 (18.52%) Cartography
5 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Test Assurance
5 4 (14.81%) Test Management
5 4 (14.81%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.11%) Agile
6 3 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Perl
3 1 (3.70%) C#
3 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (48.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GDPR
1 2 (7.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 15 (55.56%) Oracle
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft