Hybrid/Remote SQLPlus Contract Job Trends

Oracle SQL*Plus
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work 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 319 324 389
Rank change year-on-year +5 +65 +163
Contract jobs citing SQLPlus 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% 0.016% 0.011%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.050% 0.084% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £491 £388
25th Percentile £563 £497 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £419
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +22.39% -16.25%
75th Percentile £588 £522 £436
90th Percentile - £524 £444
UK median daily rate £565 £510 £450
% change year-on-year +10.78% +13.33% -10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,990 2,369 3,233
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.35% 19.44% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 1,633 2,337
10th Percentile £348 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £533
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.56% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 44
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.98 £16.74
25th Percentile £21.02 £20.17 £20.74
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.50 £44.12
Median % change year-on-year +127.27% -37.67% -19.78%
75th Percentile £71.88 £39.50 £69.06
90th Percentile £87.25 £46.90 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +47.50% -37.10% +5.99%

SQLPlus
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQLPlus and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

SQLPlus job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

SQLPlus
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQLPlus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQLPlus

SQLPlus
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQLPlus.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SQLPlus

SQLPlus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Toad
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) IAM Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle