PL/SQL Job Trends in Scotland

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 126 128
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 +88
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 40 22 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.48% 0.68% 1.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.15% 2.09% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 14
10th Percentile - £47,044 £34,150
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,153 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £58,000 £57,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

All Programming Languages
Scotland

PL/SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 650 1,051 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.99% 32.37% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 233 557 750
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,625 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +1.77%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PL/SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in Scotland

PL/SQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PL/SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +28 32 £47,500 -0.12% 7
Glasgow -9 8 - - 4
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (22.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (27.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
1 21 (52.50%) Azure DevOps
1 21 (52.50%) GitHub
1 21 (52.50%) OCI
2 20 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 17 (42.50%) AWS
4 12 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 11 (27.50%) PowerApps
6 9 (22.50%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (50.00%) Power BI
2 9 (22.50%) Tableau
3 5 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 5 (12.50%) Big Data
3 5 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 5 (12.50%) HBase
Development Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Jenkins
1 21 (52.50%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (25.00%) Git
3 9 (22.50%) JIRA
4 5 (12.50%) Gradle
4 5 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 29 (72.50%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Manufacturing
3 8 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (20.00%) Law
3 8 (20.00%) Marketing
4 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Applications Engineer
1 21 (52.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Senior
2 12 (30.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 11 (27.50%) Analyst
3 11 (27.50%) Applications Support
3 11 (27.50%) Applications Support Analyst
3 11 (27.50%) Support Analyst
4 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
5 5 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (52.50%) RESTful
2 12 (30.00%) JSON
2 12 (30.00%) SOAP
2 12 (30.00%) XML
3 9 (22.50%) OAuth
3 9 (22.50%) OAuth2
3 9 (22.50%) SAML
4 5 (12.50%) JPA
4 5 (12.50%) REST
4 5 (12.50%) Spring
5 1 (2.50%) PySpark
5 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) Cloud Native
1 21 (52.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (80.00%) ERP
2 29 (72.50%) Agile
2 29 (72.50%) CI/CD
3 26 (65.00%) Test Automation
4 21 (52.50%) API Integration
4 21 (52.50%) Asset Management
4 21 (52.50%) Coaching
4 21 (52.50%) DevOps
5 20 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (42.50%) AI
7 12 (30.00%) Business Strategy
7 12 (30.00%) Data Governance
7 12 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
7 12 (30.00%) Mentoring
7 12 (30.00%) Migration
7 12 (30.00%) Observability
7 12 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 12 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 11 (27.50%) ETL
8 11 (27.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 37 (92.50%) SQL
2 26 (65.00%) Java
3 21 (52.50%) Python
3 21 (52.50%) Shell Script
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (52.50%) Single Sign-On
1 21 (52.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (80.00%) Oracle
2 12 (30.00%) Okta
3 11 (27.50%) Concur
3 11 (27.50%) SAP
4 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
5 5 (12.50%) Cloudera
5 5 (12.50%) Databricks