SQLPlus Contract Job Trends

Oracle SQL*Plus
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring SQLPlus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 558 611
Rank change year-on-year -18 +53 +169
Contract jobs citing SQLPlus 3 6 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.016% 0.015%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.047% 0.094% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £526 £491 £409
25th Percentile £539 £496 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% +13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £576 £520 -
90th Percentile £583 £523 £585
UK excluding London median daily rate - £513 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,346 6,391 7,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.69% 17.52% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,337 4,232 5,417
10th Percentile £330 £338 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 85 150
10th Percentile £20.99 £17.70 £16.96
25th Percentile £29.00 £21.25 £22.69
Median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +47.50% -37.10% +5.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £48.18 £69.69
90th Percentile £83.43 £64.89 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £49.10 £27.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +78.55% -40.45% +13.38%

SQLPlus
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SQLPlus job vacancy trend in the UK

SQLPlus
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

SQLPlus
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

SQLPlus
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 November 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
England -17 3 £565 +10.78% 5
London - 3 £565 - 5
Work from Home +5 1 £575 +12.20% 5

SQLPlus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 3 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) IAM Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Database Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (33.33%) DBA
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) PHP
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle