PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for PL/SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited PL/SQL over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 281 491 458
Rank change year-on-year +210 -33 -90
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 609 762 882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 0.62% 0.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.83% 1.35% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 253 394 522
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,171 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All Programming Languages
UK

PL/SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 21,547 56,460 66,736
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 40.67% 45.96% 52.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16,785 35,996 45,555
10th Percentile £39,730 £38,442 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,788 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL.

Salary trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +217 524 £59,556 +7.16% 95
UK excluding London +203 486 £52,500 - 71
Work from Home +151 279 £54,296 +3.42% 87
North of England +198 165 £60,000 +48.27% 13
South East +135 118 £49,329 -16.39% 20
North West +204 114 £62,500 +4.17% 6
London +177 108 £80,000 +21.21% 37
South West +65 50 £59,556 +25.38% 7
Midlands +92 47 £46,000 -6.12% 17
Scotland +60 45 £50,000 - 10
Yorkshire +90 42 £57,500 +42.10% 6
East of England +106 34 £52,500 -22.22% 4
East Midlands +53 27 £52,495 -4.55% 5
West Midlands +87 20 £46,000 -3.16% 12
Wales +15 19 £45,000 -5.26% 1
North East +41 9 - - 1
Northern Ireland +33 9 £70,000 +75.00%

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (3.28%) WebSphere
2 15 (2.46%) WebLogic
3 14 (2.30%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (1.48%) IIS
4 9 (1.48%) Tomcat
5 8 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.31%) Oracle Service Bus
6 6 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.49%) Confluence
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 23 (3.78%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (1.64%) Oracle EBS R12
4 8 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (0.99%) BusinessWorks
6 6 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
7 5 (0.82%) Demantra
7 5 (0.82%) Oracle ASCP
8 2 (0.33%) HFM
8 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.33%) Primavera
9 1 (0.16%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle 11i
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 112 (18.39%) AWS
2 55 (9.03%) Azure
3 33 (5.42%) SaaS
4 22 (3.61%) Power Platform
5 10 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
5 10 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (1.64%) Entra ID
5 10 (1.64%) Sentry
6 8 (1.31%) Boomi
6 8 (1.31%) GCP
6 8 (1.31%) PowerApps
7 7 (1.15%) GitHub
7 7 (1.15%) Serverless
8 6 (0.99%) Amazon S3
8 6 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (0.82%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (0.82%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (0.66%) CloudFront
10 4 (0.66%) Oracle CX
10 4 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.82%) Internet
2 4 (0.66%) DNS
2 4 (0.66%) DSL
2 4 (0.66%) FTP
3 1 (0.16%) HTTP
3 1 (0.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (26.11%) Oracle Database
2 95 (15.60%) SQL Server
3 85 (13.96%) PostgreSQL
4 83 (13.63%) Oracle Database 11g
5 42 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (5.25%) MySQL
7 29 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 24 (3.94%) Oracle Database 12c
9 23 (3.78%) Oracle Reports
10 22 (3.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 19 (3.12%) BusinessObjects
12 18 (2.96%) Relational Database
13 14 (2.30%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
13 14 (2.30%) Data Mart
13 14 (2.30%) Power BI
14 13 (2.13%) OLTP
15 12 (1.97%) Oracle Database 10g
16 11 (1.81%) MongoDB
16 11 (1.81%) NoSQL
17 10 (1.64%) DB2
Development Applications
1 47 (7.72%) Oracle APEX
2 30 (4.93%) Git
3 22 (3.61%) JIRA
4 15 (2.46%) Oracle Forms
5 14 (2.30%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.64%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.31%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.15%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (0.82%) Maven
11 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.66%) JUnit
11 4 (0.66%) Postman
11 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.49%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.49%) Selenium
12 3 (0.49%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.49%) TestNG
13 2 (0.33%) Gradle
13 2 (0.33%) SonarQube
General
1 108 (17.73%) Finance
2 47 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (5.58%) Social Skills
4 28 (4.60%) Banking
5 27 (4.43%) Law
6 24 (3.94%) Local Government
6 24 (3.94%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.79%) Retail
8 13 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.13%) Marketing
9 12 (1.97%) Automotive
9 12 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.97%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (1.64%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.48%) Retail Finance
12 7 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 293 (48.11%) Senior
2 160 (26.27%) Developer
3 159 (26.11%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 159 (26.11%) Systems Engineer
4 88 (14.45%) Senior Developer
5 62 (10.18%) Database Developer
6 60 (9.85%) Data Engineer
7 54 (8.87%) Applications Support
8 53 (8.70%) PostgreSQL Developer
8 53 (8.70%) Senior Database Developer
9 48 (7.88%) DBA
9 48 (7.88%) Oracle Developer
10 47 (7.72%) Architect
11 45 (7.39%) Analyst
12 31 (5.09%) SQL Developer
13 30 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (4.76%) Oracle DBA
14 29 (4.76%) Support Analyst
15 28 (4.60%) Senior Oracle Developer
16 26 (4.27%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (11.99%) SOAP
2 66 (10.84%) REST
3 47 (7.72%) XML
4 39 (6.40%) Web Services
5 38 (6.24%) .NET
5 38 (6.24%) HTML
6 37 (6.08%) Spring
7 30 (4.93%) Hibernate
7 30 (4.93%) JDBC
7 30 (4.93%) JSON
8 29 (4.76%) Struts
9 27 (4.43%) CSS
10 20 (3.28%) Ruby on Rails
11 14 (2.30%) ASP.NET
12 12 (1.97%) Node.js
13 11 (1.81%) RESTful
14 9 (1.48%) Kafka
15 7 (1.15%) .NET Framework
15 7 (1.15%) ASP.NET MVC
15 7 (1.15%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 173 (28.41%) Management Information System
2 50 (8.21%) Replication
3 31 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.48%) Reinsurance
6 8 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 6 (0.99%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 5 (0.82%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.66%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.49%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.49%) Clustering
12 2 (0.33%) Life Science
12 2 (0.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.36%) Unix
2 48 (7.88%) Windows
3 42 (6.90%) Linux
4 15 (2.46%) AIX
4 15 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.48%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (45.65%) Agile
2 163 (26.77%) Asset Management
3 159 (26.11%) Compliance Management
4 106 (17.41%) Performance Tuning
5 93 (15.27%) Actionable Insight
6 92 (15.11%) ETL
7 90 (14.78%) Migration
8 88 (14.45%) Analytics
9 87 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
10 80 (13.14%) Data Migration
11 73 (11.99%) Unit Testing
12 70 (11.49%) Secure Coding
13 62 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
14 61 (10.02%) Business Intelligence
14 61 (10.02%) DevOps
15 58 (9.52%) Data Pipeline
16 50 (8.21%) API Design
16 50 (8.21%) Change Data Capture
17 48 (7.88%) ITIL
18 46 (7.55%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 603 (99.01%) SQL
2 81 (13.30%) Java
3 54 (8.87%) T-SQL
4 51 (8.37%) JavaScript
5 30 (4.93%) C#
6 27 (4.43%) Python
7 25 (4.11%) PowerShell
8 20 (3.28%) Ruby
9 13 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.81%) VB
11 9 (1.48%) VB.NET
12 7 (1.15%) PHP
13 6 (0.99%) VBScript
14 4 (0.66%) Bash
14 4 (0.66%) Scala
15 3 (0.49%) C++
16 2 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.33%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.33%) VB6
17 1 (0.16%) R
Qualifications
1 72 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 70 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.21%) Degree
4 18 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
5 12 (1.97%) Master's Degree
6 10 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.64%) MBA
7 6 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 6 (0.99%) OCP
7 6 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.33%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.16%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.16%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.11%) SLA
2 20 (3.28%) QA
3 6 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.16%) COREP
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.16%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (3.12%) Docker
2 18 (2.96%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.82%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.66%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 26 (4.27%) Oracle RMAN
2 23 (3.78%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.96%) Data Guard
4 11 (1.81%) Grafana
4 11 (1.81%) Kibana
4 11 (1.81%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.48%) Terraform
6 8 (1.31%) Ansible
7 4 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.49%) Consul
8 3 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.49%) Oracle Statspack
9 1 (0.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 304 (49.92%) Oracle
2 163 (26.77%) NEC
3 60 (9.85%) Microsoft
4 15 (2.46%) Informatica
5 14 (2.30%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.97%) Alteryx
6 12 (1.97%) Databricks
7 8 (1.31%) IFS
7 8 (1.31%) Remedy
7 8 (1.31%) Sun
8 7 (1.15%) Sybase
9 6 (0.99%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.82%) Cognos
10 5 (0.82%) Unisys
11 4 (0.66%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.49%) Computacenter
12 3 (0.49%) IBM
13 2 (0.33%) Ab Initio
13 2 (0.33%) Dell
13 2 (0.33%) Google