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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 218 218
Rank change year-on-year +46 0 -14
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 178 183 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.38% 0.90% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.79% 3.82% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 156 183
10th Percentile £311 £385 £375
25th Percentile £413 £415 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £495 £532 £500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +6.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - - £58.75
75th Percentile - - £67.81
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £65.00

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 3,718 4,791 6,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.78% 23.64% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,456 3,228 4,683
10th Percentile £322 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +1.01%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £591
90th Percentile £638 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £520 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -1.89% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 409 329
10th Percentile £25.96 £37.93 £23.08
25th Percentile £45.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £64.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.36 £60.70
% change year-on-year +0.23% +2.73% +21.16%

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 21 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 21 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 +50 53 £500 +6.38% 49
North of England +57 49 £550 -4.60% 28
Scotland +7 46 £400 -15.79% 12
Yorkshire +37 26 £538 - 10
North West +22 23 £620 +7.55% 17
Midlands -28 16 £460 -14.02% 22
South West +32 10 £463 -28.85% 8
West Midlands -37 9 £480 -10.28% 13
East of England +33 8 £501 +26.71% 10
East Midlands +13 7 £425 +9.68% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 2
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 (19.10%) Confluence
2 26 (14.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (3.93%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.81%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (2.25%) Oracle Application Server
5 4 (2.25%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (1.69%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.12%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.56%) Apache
8 1 (0.56%) IIS
8 1 (0.56%) nginx
8 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (14.61%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (3.93%) Oracle EBS R12
2 7 (3.93%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.69%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle iProcurement
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (8.99%) Azure
2 14 (7.87%) AWS
2 14 (7.87%) OCI
3 7 (3.93%) SaaS
4 5 (2.81%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
5 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (1.69%) Serverless
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.12%) PaaS
6 2 (1.12%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.56%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.11%) DNS
2 6 (3.37%) SSL
3 3 (1.69%) HTTP
3 3 (1.69%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.56%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (35.96%) Oracle Database
2 13 (7.30%) Oracle Reports
2 13 (7.30%) Relational Database
3 11 (6.18%) RDBMS
3 11 (6.18%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (3.37%) GIS
6 6 (3.37%) Oracle Database 11g
6 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.37%) Siebel EIM
7 5 (2.81%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (2.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (1.69%) Oracle Database 10g
9 3 (1.69%) Power BI
9 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (21.35%) JIRA
2 25 (14.04%) Git
3 16 (8.99%) Oracle Forms
3 16 (8.99%) Visual Studio
4 12 (6.74%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (5.06%) PVCS
5 9 (5.06%) Subversion
6 6 (3.37%) Toad
7 4 (2.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.25%) GitLab
8 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
9 2 (1.12%) Maven
10 1 (0.56%) Hudson
10 1 (0.56%) Mockito
10 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 58 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.47%) Finance
3 24 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.74%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (6.18%) Banking
6 11 (6.18%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.06%) Back Office
8 3 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.12%) Automotive
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 73 (41.01%) Developer
2 38 (21.35%) Oracle Developer
3 17 (9.55%) Data Engineer
4 16 (8.99%) Delphi Developer
5 15 (8.43%) Analyst
5 15 (8.43%) Consultant
6 14 (7.87%) Lead
7 10 (5.62%) Migration Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Systems Analyst
9 8 (4.49%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 7 (3.93%) Data Migration Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Engineering Specialist
10 7 (3.93%) PL/SQL Developer
11 6 (3.37%) DBA
11 6 (3.37%) Senior
11 6 (3.37%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Solutions Consultant
12 5 (2.81%) Architect
12 5 (2.81%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.11%) Web Services
2 16 (8.99%) SOAP
3 13 (7.30%) REST
4 10 (5.62%) CSS
4 10 (5.62%) HTML
5 9 (5.06%) Java EE
5 9 (5.06%) JMS
5 9 (5.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 9 (5.06%) XML
6 8 (4.49%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.37%) Middleware
8 5 (2.81%) .NET
9 4 (2.25%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.25%) OAuth
9 4 (2.25%) RESTful
9 4 (2.25%) Spring
9 4 (2.25%) Spring Batch
9 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
10 3 (1.69%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (1.69%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.99%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 12 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (6.74%) SCADA
4 8 (4.49%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.81%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.69%) Replication
6 3 (1.69%) State Machine
7 2 (1.12%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (24.72%) Linux
1 44 (24.72%) Windows
2 18 (10.11%) Windows Server
3 12 (6.74%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) AIX
5 2 (1.12%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.58%) Agile
1 58 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (24.16%) Migration
3 38 (21.35%) Data Modelling
4 26 (14.61%) SOA
5 25 (14.04%) ETL
6 24 (13.48%) Data Migration
6 24 (13.48%) ERP
7 22 (12.36%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (11.80%) DevOps
8 21 (11.80%) Microservices
9 19 (10.67%) Validation
10 17 (9.55%) Functional Testing
10 17 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (9.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 16 (8.99%) CI/CD
11 16 (8.99%) Knowledge Transfer
11 16 (8.99%) Security Management
12 15 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (8.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 175 (98.31%) SQL
2 31 (17.42%) Perl
3 20 (11.24%) Java
4 18 (10.11%) Bash
5 17 (9.55%) C#
6 16 (8.99%) Delphi
7 14 (7.87%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.87%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.06%) C
8 9 (5.06%) ProC
9 4 (2.25%) COBOL
9 4 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.12%) Python
10 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.56%) VB
11 1 (0.56%) VB6
Qualifications
1 48 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 43 (24.16%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.11%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.81%) Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.37%) GDPR
2 5 (2.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.69%) NCSC
3 3 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.12%) SLA
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (10.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.69%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 143 (80.34%) Oracle
2 24 (13.48%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.11%) Cisco
4 7 (3.93%) IFS
5 6 (3.37%) Informatica
5 6 (3.37%) Siebel
6 5 (2.81%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.25%) IBM
7 4 (2.25%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.25%) SAP
8 3 (1.69%) Perforce
8 3 (1.69%) VMware
9 2 (1.12%) Avaloq
9 2 (1.12%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.56%) Okta
10 1 (0.56%) Pega
10 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.56%) Talend
10 1 (0.56%) Teradata
10 1 (0.56%) Workday