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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 128 125
Rank change year-on-year +10 -3 +93
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 34 69 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.33% 1.60% 1.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.09% 3.78% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 17
10th Percentile - - £35,050
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,306 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £56,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - £60,000 £67,519
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -

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 668 1,826 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.16% 42.33% 38.83%
Number of salaries quoted 237 700 827
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,875 £35,733
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,747 £71,966
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +4.00%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL 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 18 September 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 +19 26 £47,500 -0.12% 5
Glasgow +24 8 - - 2
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (20.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (14.71%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (32.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) Power Platform
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) Azure DevOps
2 15 (44.12%) GitHub
2 15 (44.12%) OCI
3 13 (38.24%) AWS
4 11 (32.35%) PowerApps
5 8 (23.53%) Entra ID
6 7 (20.59%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) Power BI
2 7 (20.59%) Tableau
3 5 (14.71%) Apache Hive
3 5 (14.71%) Big Data
3 5 (14.71%) Hadoop
3 5 (14.71%) HBase
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) Jenkins
1 15 (44.12%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (23.53%) Git
3 7 (20.59%) JIRA
4 5 (14.71%) Gradle
4 5 (14.71%) Maven
General
1 23 (67.65%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Manufacturing
3 8 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (23.53%) Law
3 8 (23.53%) Marketing
4 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Applications Engineer
1 15 (44.12%) Cloud Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Applications Support
2 11 (32.35%) Applications Support Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Support Analyst
3 8 (23.53%) Senior
3 8 (23.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 8 (23.53%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Java Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Java Software Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Java Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) RESTful
2 8 (23.53%) JSON
2 8 (23.53%) SOAP
2 8 (23.53%) XML
3 7 (20.59%) OAuth
3 7 (20.59%) OAuth2
3 7 (20.59%) SAML
4 5 (14.71%) JPA
4 5 (14.71%) REST
4 5 (14.71%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (44.12%) Cloud Native
1 15 (44.12%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (14.71%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) ERP
2 23 (67.65%) Agile
2 23 (67.65%) CI/CD
3 20 (58.82%) Test Automation
4 18 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (44.12%) API Integration
5 15 (44.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 15 (44.12%) Asset Management
5 15 (44.12%) Coaching
5 15 (44.12%) DevOps
6 11 (32.35%) ETL
6 11 (32.35%) ITIL
7 8 (23.53%) Data Governance
7 8 (23.53%) Decision-Making
7 8 (23.53%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
7 8 (23.53%) Migration
7 8 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 8 (23.53%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) SQL
2 20 (58.82%) Java
3 15 (44.12%) Python
3 15 (44.12%) Shell Script
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (44.12%) Single Sign-On
1 15 (44.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Oracle
2 11 (32.35%) Concur
2 11 (32.35%) SAP
3 8 (23.53%) Okta
4 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.71%) Cloudera
5 5 (14.71%) Databricks