PL/SQL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 156 146
Rank change year-on-year -2 -10 0
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 30 44 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.44% 1.17% 1.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.84% 6.01% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 25 35 47
10th Percentile £63,750 £59,500 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £72,500 £68,500
90th Percentile - £75,750 £71,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +12.07% +8.41%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,055 732 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.50% 19.43% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 806 428 974
10th Percentile £36,875 £37,100 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.71%
75th Percentile £72,188 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.17%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PL/SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for PL/SQL in the Thames Valley

PL/SQL
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Berkshire +9 29 £75,000 +11.11% 1
Oxfordshire -28 1 - -
PL/SQL
South East

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (13.33%) AWS
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
1 4 (13.33%) Serverless
2 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.33%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (76.67%) OLTP
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Git
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Aviation
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Developer
2 25 (83.33%) Oracle Developer
2 25 (83.33%) Senior
2 25 (83.33%) Senior Developer
2 25 (83.33%) Senior Oracle Developer
3 15 (50.00%) PL/SQL Developer
3 15 (50.00%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
3 15 (50.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 15 (50.00%) SQL Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Head of Business Transformation
6 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) HTML
1 10 (33.33%) SOAP
1 10 (33.33%) XML
2 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (13.33%) Jakarta EE
2 4 (13.33%) JMS
2 4 (13.33%) JPA
2 4 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (13.33%) React
2 4 (13.33%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) Spring
2 4 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 4 (13.33%) Agile
2 4 (13.33%) BDD
2 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
2 4 (13.33%) DevOps
2 4 (13.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 4 (13.33%) Kanban
2 4 (13.33%) Microservices
2 4 (13.33%) Scrum
2 4 (13.33%) TDD
3 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (6.67%) Clean Code
4 2 (6.67%) Code Quality
4 2 (6.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.33%) Business Strategy
5 1 (3.33%) Containerisation
5 1 (3.33%) Data Architecture
5 1 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Ansible
1 4 (13.33%) Kibana
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) AppDynamics
2 4 (13.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) Google