PL/SQL Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -40 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 14 17 46
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.54% 1.05% 1.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.67% 3.85% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 44
10th Percentile £407 £445 £450
25th Percentile £416 £500 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £638 £640
Median % change year-on-year -28.90% -0.39% +21.90%
75th Percentile £556 £663 £688
90th Percentile £586 £675 -
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £625
% change year-on-year +11.11% -28.00% +25.00%

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 525 442 548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.16% 27.25% 19.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 279 389
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £403 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £613
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.74% -4.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 31
10th Percentile £25.02 £54.52 £35.00
25th Percentile £38.41 £55.87 £46.25
Median hourly rate £75.90 £56.75 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.76% -2.67% -6.72%
75th Percentile £82.19 £65.62 £63.30
90th Percentile £83.98 £70.25 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.12% +7.32%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PL/SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PL/SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PL/SQL

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 6 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PL/SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PL/SQL

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 6 March 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
Berkshire -29 8 £550 -13.89% 2
Buckinghamshire - 6 £425 - 1
PL/SQL
South East

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (35.71%) WebLogic
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle BRM
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) OCI
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Broadband
1 3 (21.43%) GPRS
1 3 (21.43%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
2 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 11g
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Database 12c
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle ODI
2 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (7.14%) GIS
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (7.14%) Toad
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 3 (21.43%) Billing
3 3 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (21.43%) General Ledger
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Designer
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Developer
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Specialist
1 3 (21.43%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (14.29%) DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (7.14%) Change Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Financials Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SCADA Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (21.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) IPTV
2 1 (7.14%) Operational Technology
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) OpenVMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (35.71%) ERP
2 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
3 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Database Tuning
4 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) System Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) Fortran
3 1 (7.14%) ProC
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (7.14%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Concur
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) SAP