PL/SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for PL/SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PL/SQL over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 189 281
Rank change year-on-year -2 +92 -64
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 172 338 416
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.12% 1.30% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.35% 3.48% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 230 311
10th Percentile £385 - £370
25th Percentile £463 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -5.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £715 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -3.26%
UK median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +11.54% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

PL/SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,128 9,722 16,916
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.34% 37.37% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,691 7,126 12,548
10th Percentile £350 £394 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £631
90th Percentile £775 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 218 192
10th Percentile £27.75 £35.00 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +26.90% +9.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.20 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

PL/SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PL/SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL.

PL/SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

PL/SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL.

PL/SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.91%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.33%) SAS
3 2 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.16%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Appian
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
4 1 (0.58%) IIS
4 1 (0.58%) JBoss
4 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.58%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.07%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Oracle EBS R12
1 7 (4.07%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.49%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (3.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.91%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (2.91%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (2.91%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.74%) Endur
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (1.16%) NEC Housing
6 2 (1.16%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 20 (11.63%) AWS
2 15 (8.72%) Azure
3 8 (4.65%) Collibra
4 7 (4.07%) GitHub
5 5 (2.91%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.74%) Veeva
7 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.16%) OCI
7 2 (1.16%) Serverless
7 2 (1.16%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.58%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.58%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.16%) HTTP
3 1 (0.58%) FTP
3 1 (0.58%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.23%) Oracle Database
2 37 (21.51%) SQL Server
3 20 (11.63%) Oracle Database 11g
4 19 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.98%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (5.23%) Metadata
7 8 (4.65%) Oracle ODI
8 7 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (3.49%) Oracle Database 12c
10 5 (2.91%) Power BI
11 3 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.74%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (1.74%) Oracle BI EE
11 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.16%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (18.02%) PVCS
1 31 (18.02%) Visual Studio
2 19 (11.05%) Oracle APEX
3 8 (4.65%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (4.07%) JIRA
5 3 (1.74%) GitLab
5 3 (1.74%) Subversion
5 3 (1.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.74%) Toad
5 3 (1.74%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 2 (1.16%) Ant
7 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.58%) Git
7 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (23.84%) Finance
2 26 (15.12%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.53%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.30%) Banking
6 9 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Retail
8 5 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (47.67%) Developer
2 33 (19.19%) SQL Developer
3 30 (17.44%) C Programmer
3 30 (17.44%) Oracle Developer
3 30 (17.44%) Programmer
4 22 (12.79%) PL/SQL Developer
5 13 (7.56%) PostgreSQL Developer
6 10 (5.81%) Architect
7 8 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) Consultant
8 7 (4.07%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.07%) Oracle Architect
8 7 (4.07%) Senior
9 6 (3.49%) Administrator
9 6 (3.49%) Analyst
9 6 (3.49%) DBA
9 6 (3.49%) Senior Developer
9 6 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.91%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.33%) Oracle Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.23%) .NET
2 6 (3.49%) HTML
2 6 (3.49%) XML
3 4 (2.33%) Blazor
4 3 (1.74%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.74%) JPA
4 3 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (1.74%) SOAP
5 2 (1.16%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.16%) CSS
5 2 (1.16%) Kafka
5 2 (1.16%) Web Services
6 1 (0.58%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.58%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.58%) REST
6 1 (0.58%) RESTful
6 1 (0.58%) Sass
6 1 (0.58%) Sphinx
6 1 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.65%) Replication
2 7 (4.07%) Blog
3 5 (2.91%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.74%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.74%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.16%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) Clustering
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.88%) Unix
2 8 (4.65%) Windows
3 6 (3.49%) Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (23.26%) Agile
2 38 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (18.02%) Performance Tuning
4 25 (14.53%) Migration
5 23 (13.37%) Software Engineering
5 23 (13.37%) Unit Testing
6 21 (12.21%) ETL
7 19 (11.05%) Data Migration
7 19 (11.05%) DevOps
8 17 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (9.88%) Software Testing
9 14 (8.14%) Clean Code
10 13 (7.56%) Architectural Design
10 13 (7.56%) Secure Coding
11 12 (6.98%) Data Analysis
11 12 (6.98%) Data Modelling
12 11 (6.40%) Data Integration
12 11 (6.40%) Data Management
12 11 (6.40%) Scrum
13 10 (5.81%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 141 (81.98%) SQL
2 33 (19.19%) C
3 22 (12.79%) Java
4 20 (11.63%) T-SQL
5 14 (8.14%) C#
6 10 (5.81%) C++
7 9 (5.23%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.49%) Python
9 5 (2.91%) VB
9 5 (2.91%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.33%) Bash
10 4 (2.33%) Bourne shell
10 4 (2.33%) Korn
10 4 (2.33%) R
11 3 (1.74%) Groovy
11 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.16%) Go
13 1 (0.58%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (35.47%) Security Cleared
2 59 (34.30%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.72%) Degree
4 8 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.74%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) OCP
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.58%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.91%) GDPR
2 4 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (1.74%) CDISC
3 3 (1.74%) Good Clinical Practice
3 3 (1.74%) GxP
3 3 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS
4 1 (0.58%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (4.07%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.74%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.74%) Ansible
1 3 (1.74%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle Flashback
2 2 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.58%) Control-M
Vendors
1 110 (63.95%) Oracle
2 14 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.23%) Avaloq
4 7 (4.07%) SAP
5 5 (2.91%) Sparx
6 3 (1.74%) Microgen
6 3 (1.74%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.16%) Databricks
7 2 (1.16%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.16%) NEC
7 2 (1.16%) Northgate
7 2 (1.16%) QAD
8 1 (0.58%) Citrix
8 1 (0.58%) Denodo
8 1 (0.58%) IBM
8 1 (0.58%) Mercator
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.58%) Talend
8 1 (0.58%) UiPath