PL/SQL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 184 181 193
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +89
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 120 171 331
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.21% 1.11% 1.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.24% 3.33% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 144 224
10th Percentile £363 £385 -
25th Percentile £413 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +12.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £688 £718 £600
UK median daily rate £495 £530 £513
% change year-on-year -6.60% +3.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £58.13
25th Percentile £91.25 - £61.88
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £80.00
75th Percentile £93.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £85.75
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.54%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,699 5,133 9,659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.34% 33.45% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,627 3,702 7,073
10th Percentile £363 £350 £393
25th Percentile £421 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £656
90th Percentile £800 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 147 213
10th Percentile £24.60 £27.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -8.73% +26.95%
75th Percentile £68.25 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £86.50 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

PL/SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PL/SQL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 23 (19.17%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) JBoss
3 4 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.33%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.50%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.67%) IIS
5 2 (1.67%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.67%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.83%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (5.83%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle Cash Management
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (5.00%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (3.33%) Endur
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (2.50%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle iProcurement
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (1.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (1.67%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.83%) iTrent
9 1 (0.83%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle iRecruitment
9 1 (0.83%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (18.33%) AWS
2 20 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (5.83%) OCI
4 6 (5.00%) SaaS
5 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.33%) GitHub
7 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.67%) GCP
8 2 (1.67%) PaaS
8 2 (1.67%) Serverless
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.83%) FTP
2 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (30.83%) Oracle Database
2 14 (11.67%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 9 (7.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 6 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 6 (5.00%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.17%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.33%) Power BI
9 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.50%) DB2
10 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.50%) Neo4j
10 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.67%) IMS/DB
11 2 (1.67%) MySQL
11 2 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (23.33%) JIRA
2 15 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 14 (11.67%) Git
4 12 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (6.67%) Subversion
6 7 (5.83%) Bitbucket
7 6 (5.00%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (4.17%) GitLab
9 4 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (3.33%) PVCS
9 4 (3.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 3 (2.50%) JUnit
10 3 (2.50%) Selenium
10 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.67%) Hudson
11 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
11 2 (1.67%) Toad
12 1 (0.83%) Flyway
12 1 (0.83%) Mockito
12 1 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 35 (29.17%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Manufacturing
4 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Back Office
6 8 (6.67%) Banking
6 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.83%) General Ledger
8 4 (3.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.83%) Advertising
10 1 (0.83%) Automotive
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.83%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 63 (52.50%) Developer
2 25 (20.83%) Oracle Developer
3 14 (11.67%) Consultant
3 14 (11.67%) Delphi Developer
4 11 (9.17%) Architect
5 10 (8.33%) Analyst
5 10 (8.33%) SQL Developer
6 9 (7.50%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (6.67%) PL/SQL Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) .NET Developer
9 5 (4.17%) DBA
9 5 (4.17%) IFS Consultant
10 4 (3.33%) Data Consultant
10 4 (3.33%) ETRM Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.33%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 4 (3.33%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.83%) XML
2 11 (9.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (8.33%) REST
4 7 (5.83%) Spring Boot
5 6 (5.00%) HTML
5 6 (5.00%) Kafka
5 6 (5.00%) SOAP
5 6 (5.00%) Web Services
5 6 (5.00%) XSLT
6 5 (4.17%) .NET
6 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.33%) Java EE
7 4 (3.33%) Middleware
7 4 (3.33%) Node.js
8 3 (2.50%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.50%) CSS
8 3 (2.50%) J2EE
8 3 (2.50%) RESTful
8 3 (2.50%) Spring
8 3 (2.50%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.83%) Housing Association
4 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.83%) Replication
4 1 (0.83%) SCADA
4 1 (0.83%) TWAP
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.83%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 32 (26.67%) Windows
2 16 (13.33%) Linux
3 14 (11.67%) Unix
4 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.17%) Migration
2 31 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (19.17%) Agile
4 21 (17.50%) DevOps
5 19 (15.83%) Data Migration
6 18 (15.00%) Analytics
6 18 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 18 (15.00%) ERP
7 17 (14.17%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (11.67%) Functional Testing
10 13 (10.83%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.00%) CI/CD
11 12 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (10.00%) Unit Testing
12 11 (9.17%) ETL
12 11 (9.17%) Microservices
13 10 (8.33%) Software Engineering
14 9 (7.50%) Data Extraction
14 9 (7.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 118 (98.33%) SQL
2 26 (21.67%) Java
3 20 (16.67%) C#
4 14 (11.67%) Delphi
5 9 (7.50%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.00%) C
6 6 (5.00%) Python
6 6 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.00%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.33%) ProC
8 3 (2.50%) Perl
9 2 (1.67%) Bash
9 2 (1.67%) REXX
9 2 (1.67%) Ruby
10 1 (0.83%) C++
10 1 (0.83%) Go
10 1 (0.83%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.83%) RPG
10 1 (0.83%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 28 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 28 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.83%) Degree
3 6 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) OCP
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Siebel Certification
5 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.50%) Docker
3 1 (0.83%) HDFS
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.67%) Ansible
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.83%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.83%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 100 (83.33%) Oracle
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.67%) IFS
4 6 (5.00%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.00%) IBM
5 5 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.33%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.67%) Cisco
7 2 (1.67%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (1.67%) SAP
7 2 (1.67%) Talend
8 1 (0.83%) Denodo
8 1 (0.83%) DocuSign
8 1 (0.83%) Informatica
8 1 (0.83%) JDA
8 1 (0.83%) Okta
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.83%) RedGate
8 1 (0.83%) Siebel
8 1 (0.83%) Sybase