PL/SQL Contracts in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 176 215 206
Rank change year-on-year +39 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 174 194 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 0.93% 1.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.78% 3.99% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 168 225
10th Percentile £310 £396 £400
25th Percentile £411 £418 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% +13.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £495 £530 £513
% change year-on-year -6.60% +3.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £73.13
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.54%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,641 4,865 6,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.52% 23.42% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,400 3,277 4,996
10th Percentile £325 £319 £338
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £594
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 397 346
10th Percentile £22.38 £37.58 £23.61
25th Percentile £42.00 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% - +26.21%
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +49 53 £500 +3.63% 78
North of England +53 48 £550 -4.60% 51
Scotland +19 48 £400 -23.81% 11
Yorkshire +31 26 £538 - 18
North West +28 22 £610 +5.81% 28
Midlands -27 12 £460 -14.02% 47
South West +37 10 £463 -27.45% 30
West Midlands -35 8 £460 -14.02% 27
East of England +34 7 £538 +23.56% 27
East Midlands +10 4 £425 +9.68% 16
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 6
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 34 (19.54%) Confluence
2 21 (12.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.72%) Oracle Service Bus
3 3 (1.72%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.15%) Tuxedo
4 2 (1.15%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (11.49%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.72%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.72%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.15%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.77%) AWS
2 16 (9.20%) Azure
3 11 (6.32%) OCI
4 7 (4.02%) SaaS
5 5 (2.87%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.72%) Serverless
7 2 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.15%) PaaS
7 2 (1.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.57%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.34%) DNS
2 2 (1.15%) SSL
3 1 (0.57%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (37.36%) Oracle Database
2 13 (7.47%) Relational Database
3 12 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (6.32%) RDBMS
4 11 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 8 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 6 (3.45%) GIS
8 5 (2.87%) Siebel EIM
8 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.72%) DB2
10 3 (1.72%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (1.72%) Power BI
10 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 41 (23.56%) JIRA
2 22 (12.64%) Git
3 16 (9.20%) Oracle Forms
3 16 (9.20%) Visual Studio
4 12 (6.90%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (5.17%) PVCS
5 9 (5.17%) Subversion
6 6 (3.45%) Toad
7 4 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.30%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.30%) GitLab
8 2 (1.15%) Maven
9 1 (0.57%) Hudson
9 1 (0.57%) Mockito
9 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 55 (31.61%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.41%) Finance
3 23 (13.22%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.32%) Banking
5 11 (6.32%) Manufacturing
6 9 (5.17%) Back Office
6 9 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.15%) Automotive
8 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (40.80%) Developer
2 38 (21.84%) Oracle Developer
3 17 (9.77%) Consultant
3 17 (9.77%) Data Engineer
4 16 (9.20%) Delphi Developer
5 13 (7.47%) Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Lead
7 10 (5.75%) Migration Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
9 8 (4.60%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 7 (4.02%) Architect
10 7 (4.02%) Data Migration Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Engineering Specialist
10 7 (4.02%) PL/SQL Developer
10 7 (4.02%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.45%) Solutions Consultant
12 5 (2.87%) Cloud Developer
12 5 (2.87%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.87%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.77%) SOAP
2 12 (6.90%) REST
2 12 (6.90%) Web Services
3 9 (5.17%) Java EE
3 9 (5.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (5.17%) XML
4 7 (4.02%) JMS
4 7 (4.02%) Middleware
5 6 (3.45%) CSS
5 6 (3.45%) HTML
6 4 (2.30%) .NET
6 4 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.30%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.72%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.72%) J2EE
7 3 (1.72%) Kafka
7 3 (1.72%) OAuth
8 2 (1.15%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.15%) Node.js
8 2 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.20%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (7.47%) SCADA
3 12 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.17%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.72%) Replication
7 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.57%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (25.86%) Windows
2 44 (25.29%) Linux
3 18 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.90%) Unix
5 2 (1.15%) AIX
5 2 (1.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.33%) Agile
2 56 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (27.59%) Migration
4 36 (20.69%) Data Modelling
5 30 (17.24%) Data Migration
6 25 (14.37%) ETL
7 23 (13.22%) DevOps
7 23 (13.22%) ERP
8 21 (12.07%) Microservices
8 21 (12.07%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (12.07%) SOA
9 18 (10.34%) Validation
10 17 (9.77%) Functional Testing
10 17 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (9.77%) Root Cause Analysis
10 17 (9.77%) SDLC
11 16 (9.20%) Security Management
11 16 (9.20%) Unit Testing
12 15 (8.62%) User Acceptance Testing
13 14 (8.05%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (98.28%) SQL
2 29 (16.67%) Perl
3 19 (10.92%) Java
4 18 (10.34%) Bash
5 17 (9.77%) C#
6 16 (9.20%) Delphi
7 14 (8.05%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.17%) C
9 9 (5.17%) ProC
10 7 (4.02%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.30%) COBOL
12 2 (1.15%) Python
12 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.57%) VB
13 1 (0.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 51 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 46 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (4.60%) Degree
5 6 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.30%) Disclosure Scotland
1 4 (2.30%) GDPR
2 2 (1.15%) NCSC
2 2 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.57%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 137 (78.74%) Oracle
2 24 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.34%) Cisco
4 9 (5.17%) IFS
5 6 (3.45%) Informatica
6 5 (2.87%) Atlassian
6 5 (2.87%) Siebel
7 4 (2.30%) IBM
7 4 (2.30%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.72%) DocuSign
8 3 (1.72%) Perforce
8 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.15%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.15%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.15%) SAP
9 2 (1.15%) VMware
10 1 (0.57%) Okta
10 1 (0.57%) Pega
10 1 (0.57%) Talend
10 1 (0.57%) Workday