PL/SQL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 411 427
Rank change year-on-year -123 +16 -171
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 90 150 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.79% 1.75% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 61 103 155
10th Percentile £40,750 £40,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £49,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,500
90th Percentile - £79,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -2.73%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11,426 8,593 21,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.97% 25.43% 29.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,258 5,519 15,678
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PL/SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Salary histogram for PL/SQL in the UK excluding London

PL/SQL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
South East -43 52 £70,000 +7.69% 11
Midlands -35 16 £57,500 +4.55% 9
North of England -38 12 £62,500 +32.28% 10
West Midlands -33 11 £57,500 +4.55% 5
Yorkshire -29 7 £41,500 -66.20% 6
North West -16 5 £72,500 +62.92% 3
East Midlands -21 5 £60,000 +20.00% 4
East of England -33 4 £45,050 -18.09%
South West -67 4 £60,000 +40.35% 6
Scotland +11 3 £62,500 +38.89% 6
Wales - 1 £52,500 - 1
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.22%) CICS
2 2 (2.22%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.11%) ColdFusion
3 1 (1.11%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (4.44%) Infor M3
3 4 (4.44%) JDE OneWorld
3 4 (4.44%) JDE World
3 4 (4.44%) NetSuite
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (1.11%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) Azure
2 20 (22.22%) AWS
3 9 (10.00%) OCI
4 6 (6.67%) GCP
4 6 (6.67%) Oracle CX
5 5 (5.56%) SaaS
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.44%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.44%) Serverless
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.11%) Apigee
8 1 (1.11%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
1 1 (1.11%) LAN
1 1 (1.11%) Network Security
1 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.11%) WAN
1 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.11%) OLTP
2 17 (18.89%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (8.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 7 (7.78%) Oracle Database
4 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.44%) Power BI
5 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.22%) Db2
7 2 (2.22%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.11%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (1.11%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (11.11%) JUnit
3 9 (10.00%) Git
3 9 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.00%) Maven
3 9 (10.00%) Mockito
4 3 (3.33%) Eclipse
4 3 (3.33%) IntelliJ
4 3 (3.33%) JIRA
4 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.11%) GitLab
5 1 (1.11%) Selenium
5 1 (1.11%) Toad
5 1 (1.11%) utPLSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (22.22%) Finance
2 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Aviation
5 3 (3.33%) Law
5 3 (3.33%) Legal
6 2 (2.22%) Retail
7 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.11%) Police
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (67.78%) Developer
2 42 (46.67%) Senior
2 42 (46.67%) Senior Developer
3 38 (42.22%) Oracle Developer
4 32 (35.56%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 21 (23.33%) PL/SQL Developer
5 21 (23.33%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
5 21 (23.33%) Senior SQL Developer
5 21 (23.33%) SQL Developer
6 14 (15.56%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.00%) Lead
8 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Applications Support
10 4 (4.44%) Applications Support Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (4.44%) Oracle Consultant
10 4 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.33%) React
2 18 (20.00%) HTML
2 18 (20.00%) SOAP
3 16 (17.78%) REST
4 14 (15.56%) Spring
5 13 (14.44%) XML
6 10 (11.11%) RESTful
7 7 (7.78%) AngularJS
7 7 (7.78%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (6.67%) JMS
9 5 (5.56%) CSS
9 5 (5.56%) Web Services
10 4 (4.44%) .NET
10 4 (4.44%) CSS3
10 4 (4.44%) HTML5
10 4 (4.44%) Java EE
10 4 (4.44%) JPA
10 4 (4.44%) JSON
10 4 (4.44%) Middleware
10 4 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.11%) PMI
6 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (33.33%) Agile
3 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.89%) Scrum
4 17 (18.89%) Software Testing
5 16 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (15.56%) TDD
8 13 (14.44%) Microservices
8 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.33%) ERP
10 11 (12.22%) DevOps
10 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (11.11%) ETL
11 10 (11.11%) SOA
12 9 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 9 (10.00%) Unit Testing
13 8 (8.89%) Technical Architecture
14 7 (7.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 90 (100.00%) SQL
2 20 (22.22%) Java
3 19 (21.11%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.89%) T-SQL
5 5 (5.56%) Bash
6 4 (4.44%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) C++
7 1 (1.11%) Python
7 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Degree
2 16 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.67%) DBS Check
5 4 (4.44%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) QA
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (14.44%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.44%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Kibana
2 4 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.11%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.11%) SCCM
3 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (91.11%) Oracle
2 6 (6.67%) Infor
3 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.44%) Epicor
3 4 (4.44%) IBM
3 4 (4.44%) IFS
3 4 (4.44%) JD Edwards
3 4 (4.44%) SAP
4 3 (3.33%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) Informatica
4 3 (3.33%) Pega
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.11%) Siebel