SQLPlus Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle SQL*Plus
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SQLPlus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 339 386
Rank change year-on-year -92 +47 +56
Contract jobs citing SQLPlus 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.008% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.16% 0.050% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £356 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.47% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
UK median daily rate £565 £356 £700
% change year-on-year +58.71% -49.14% +33.33%

All Database & BI Skills
UK excluding London

SQLPlus falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,100 2,014 2,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.77% 15.78% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,115 1,377 1,817
10th Percentile £320 £313 £314
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +1.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 58 98
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.10 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.46 £22.99 £17.68
Median hourly rate £47.54 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.25% -20.90% -27.27%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.62 £60.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -32.54%

SQLPlus
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQLPlus relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

SQLPlus job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SQLPlus
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SQLPlus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SQLPlus

SQLPlus
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SQLPlus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SQLPlus

SQLPlus
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 SQLPlus within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Midlands - 3 £525 -
West Midlands - 3 £525 -
Scotland - 1 - -
South East - 1 £625 - 1
SQLPlus
UK

SQLPlus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (40.00%) Liferay
1 2 (40.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (20.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (20.00%) SSH
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (20.00%) DB2
4 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 10g
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle8/8i Database
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle9i Database
4 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Developer 2000
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DBA
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle ADF
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Clusterware
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (20.00%) Ceph
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) Squid
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) VMware