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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 221 175 217
Rank change year-on-year -46 +42 +38
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 92 180 258
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 1.22% 1.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.50% 3.51% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 141 160
10th Percentile £363 £381 -
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £533 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.29% +18.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £578 £578 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £614
UK median daily rate £495 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -3.17% +2.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £60.13
25th Percentile - - £69.69
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 3,681 5,123 8,611
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 37.65% 34.67% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,669 6,362
10th Percentile £350 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.43% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £672
90th Percentile £800 £800 £783
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 136 189
10th Percentile £27.44 £31.88 £25.95
25th Percentile £45.75 £44.88 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.50 £85.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £60.55
% change year-on-year -12.00% +3.22% +16.44%

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 20 June 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 15 (16.30%) Confluence
2 8 (8.70%) WebLogic
3 5 (5.43%) JBoss
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (3.26%) Tomcat
6 2 (2.17%) WebSphere
6 2 (2.17%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (1.09%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 21 (22.83%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (7.61%) Oracle EBS R12
2 7 (7.61%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle Assets
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (5.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (5.43%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (4.35%) Oracle Payroll
6 2 (2.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (1.09%) NEC Housing
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle iRecruitment
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (1.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.65%) Azure
2 16 (17.39%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) OCI
4 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.35%) SaaS
5 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.26%) GitHub
5 3 (3.26%) PaaS
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.09%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) DNS
1 2 (2.17%) SSL
2 1 (1.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.91%) Oracle Database
2 10 (10.87%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (9.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 9 (9.78%) Relational Database
3 9 (9.78%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.43%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.35%) Power BI
5 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.26%) DB2
6 3 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (3.26%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.26%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.17%) IMS/DB
7 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.17%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) JIRA
2 13 (14.13%) Git
3 10 (10.87%) Oracle APEX
4 8 (8.70%) Visual Studio
5 7 (7.61%) Subversion
6 6 (6.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.52%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (4.35%) GitLab
7 4 (4.35%) PVCS
8 3 (3.26%) JUnit
8 3 (3.26%) Selenium
8 3 (3.26%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.26%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 2 (2.17%) Hudson
9 2 (2.17%) Toad
10 1 (1.09%) Flyway
10 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.09%) Mockito
10 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.26%) Finance
3 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.70%) Banking
6 7 (7.61%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.52%) General Ledger
8 4 (4.35%) Back Office
8 4 (4.35%) Retail
9 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.17%) French Language
11 1 (1.09%) Automotive
11 1 (1.09%) Billing
11 1 (1.09%) Front Office
11 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (47.83%) Developer
2 23 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
3 11 (11.96%) Consultant
4 8 (8.70%) DBA
4 8 (8.70%) Oracle Consultant
5 7 (7.61%) Analyst
5 7 (7.61%) Delphi Developer
5 7 (7.61%) Lead
5 7 (7.61%) Oracle DBA
5 7 (7.61%) SQL Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Architect
6 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.43%) PL/SQL Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Report Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.26%) Lead Developer
9 3 (3.26%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.78%) Oracle Fusion
1 9 (9.78%) REST
1 9 (9.78%) XML
2 8 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 8 (8.70%) Web Services
3 6 (6.52%) SOAP
3 6 (6.52%) XSLT
4 5 (5.43%) Spring
5 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.35%) HTML
5 4 (4.35%) Java EE
6 3 (3.26%) .NET
6 3 (3.26%) J2EE
6 3 (3.26%) JDBC
6 3 (3.26%) JSP
6 3 (3.26%) LDAP
6 3 (3.26%) OAuth
6 3 (3.26%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.26%) Struts
6 3 (3.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.09%) Clustering
4 1 (1.09%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.09%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.09%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.09%) Replication
4 1 (1.09%) SCADA
4 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.09%) TWAP
4 1 (1.09%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.74%) Windows
2 14 (15.22%) Linux
3 12 (13.04%) Unix
4 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (22.83%) Agile
2 21 (22.83%) Migration
3 15 (16.30%) Analytics
3 15 (16.30%) Data Modelling
4 13 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (14.13%) DevOps
4 13 (14.13%) ERP
5 12 (13.04%) Microservices
5 12 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
6 11 (11.96%) ETL
7 9 (9.78%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (9.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (9.78%) Unit Testing
8 8 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.61%) Data Migration
9 7 (7.61%) Functional Testing
10 6 (6.52%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 91 (98.91%) SQL
2 22 (23.91%) Java
3 11 (11.96%) C#
4 7 (7.61%) Delphi
4 7 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.52%) Perl
5 6 (6.52%) Shell Script
6 5 (5.43%) Python
7 4 (4.35%) C
7 4 (4.35%) ProC
7 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.17%) Bash
8 2 (2.17%) REXX
8 2 (2.17%) Ruby
9 1 (1.09%) C++
9 1 (1.09%) Go
9 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.09%) RPG
9 1 (1.09%) RPG IV
9 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) SC Cleared
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.17%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.09%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) OCP
4 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) GDPR
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.09%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.35%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (3.26%) Docker
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (1.09%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 72 (78.26%) Oracle
2 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) Atlassian
3 6 (6.52%) IBM
4 5 (5.43%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.26%) IFS
5 3 (3.26%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) Cisco
6 2 (2.17%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.09%) DocuSign
7 1 (1.09%) Foundry
7 1 (1.09%) Informatica
7 1 (1.09%) NEC
7 1 (1.09%) Okta
7 1 (1.09%) Palantir
7 1 (1.09%) RedGate
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Sybase
7 1 (1.09%) Talend