PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring PL/SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited PL/SQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 410 511
Rank change year-on-year -57 +101 +75
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 223 606 579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.62% 0.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.42% 1.82% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 167 260 381
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% +10.00%

All Programming Languages
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,664 33,221 45,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.78% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,561 25,021 28,803
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £106,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -2.73% +2.33%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Top 16 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 30 April 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
England +69 194 £65,000 +7.44% 125
UK excluding London -31 146 £60,000 +13.21% 75
Work from Home +57 119 £65,000 +11.11% 77
South East +101 70 £65,000 +23.81% 21
London +38 58 £65,000 - 55
Midlands +51 28 £59,000 +2.61% 16
North of England +53 23 £52,500 - 18
West Midlands +48 18 £60,000 +8.11% 11
North West +15 17 £44,500 -6.32% 12
East of England +59 10 £40,250 -25.12% 2
East Midlands +45 9 £56,250 +2.27% 4
Yorkshire +65 6 £122,773 +81.89% 5
Northern Ireland +31 6 £57,500 - 4
South West +97 4 £70,126 -3.27% 9
Scotland -26 3 £62,500 +17.92% 5
Wales -9 2 - - 1

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 13 (5.83%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.79%) Apache
3 4 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (0.90%) SAS
5 1 (0.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 32 (14.35%) Oracle EBS
2 17 (7.62%) NEC Housing
3 11 (4.93%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (2.24%) Oracle EBS R12
4 5 (2.24%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
5 3 (1.35%) Q-Pulse
6 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.90%) Odoo
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle iRecruitment
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 52 (23.32%) Azure
2 20 (8.97%) AWS
3 18 (8.07%) Power Platform
4 15 (6.73%) GCP
5 10 (4.48%) OCI
5 10 (4.48%) SaaS
6 9 (4.04%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (3.59%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.14%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.14%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (0.90%) Azure App Service
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
10 2 (0.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (22.87%) SQL Server
2 39 (17.49%) Oracle Database
3 35 (15.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (14.80%) DB2
5 30 (13.45%) MySQL
6 29 (13.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (10.31%) OLTP
8 20 (8.97%) Oracle ODI
9 19 (8.52%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (7.62%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (6.73%) Relational Database
12 12 (5.38%) Big Data
13 11 (4.93%) Data Lake
13 11 (4.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 11 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (4.93%) Power BI
14 7 (3.14%) Oracle Exadata
14 7 (3.14%) Tableau
15 6 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 20 (8.97%) Oracle Forms
2 14 (6.28%) Git
3 9 (4.04%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.69%) JIRA
5 6 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (2.24%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (2.24%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.79%) NUnit
7 4 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.35%) JUnit
9 2 (0.90%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (0.90%) Mockito
10 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.45%) Maven
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.45%) Toad
General
1 79 (35.43%) Finance
2 64 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.07%) Police
4 18 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.62%) Banking
5 17 (7.62%) Local Government
6 11 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.04%) Retail
8 8 (3.59%) Health Technology
9 7 (3.14%) Law
10 5 (2.24%) Back Office
10 5 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.24%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.79%) Advertising
11 4 (1.79%) Aviation
11 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.79%) Legal
12 3 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (27.80%) Developer
2 57 (25.56%) Senior
3 48 (21.52%) Analyst
3 48 (21.52%) Applications Support
4 40 (17.94%) Oracle Developer
5 37 (16.59%) Applications Support Analyst
5 37 (16.59%) Support Analyst
6 36 (16.14%) Consultant
7 33 (14.80%) Technical Consultant
8 29 (13.00%) Senior Developer
9 28 (12.56%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (11.66%) Senior Oracle Developer
11 24 (10.76%) Senior Applications Support
11 24 (10.76%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 24 (10.76%) Senior Support Analyst
12 20 (8.97%) SQL Developer
13 18 (8.07%) Oracle Consultant
14 17 (7.62%) Oracle Technical Consultant
15 16 (7.17%) Implementation Consultant
15 16 (7.17%) Technical Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.18%) .NET
2 29 (13.00%) HTML
3 28 (12.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 27 (12.11%) XML
5 23 (10.31%) SOAP
6 21 (9.42%) REST
7 16 (7.17%) JSON
8 13 (5.83%) .NET Framework
9 10 (4.48%) React
10 9 (4.04%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.04%) ASP.NET
10 9 (4.04%) Kafka
10 9 (4.04%) Middleware
10 9 (4.04%) Web Services
11 7 (3.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 6 (2.69%) Express.js
12 6 (2.69%) Node.js
12 6 (2.69%) Spring
13 4 (1.79%) IBM Integration Bus
13 4 (1.79%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Legacy Applications
2 20 (8.97%) Data Structures
2 20 (8.97%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 6 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.35%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.35%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.45%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 42 (18.83%) Windows
2 34 (15.25%) Linux
3 11 (4.93%) Unix
4 3 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.49%) Migration
2 55 (24.66%) Data Migration
2 55 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (17.49%) ETL
5 32 (14.35%) Data Cleansing
5 32 (14.35%) ERP
6 31 (13.90%) Mentoring
7 29 (13.00%) Computer Science
8 28 (12.56%) Agile
9 27 (12.11%) Validation
10 26 (11.66%) Software Testing
11 24 (10.76%) Data Security
12 23 (10.31%) Customer-Centric Approach
12 23 (10.31%) Customer-Centricity
13 20 (8.97%) DevOps
14 19 (8.52%) CI/CD
14 19 (8.52%) Data Governance
15 18 (8.07%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (7.62%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 220 (98.65%) SQL
2 46 (20.63%) C#
3 31 (13.90%) VB.NET
4 30 (13.45%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.76%) T-SQL
6 23 (10.31%) Java
7 22 (9.87%) Python
8 19 (8.52%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.14%) C-shell
9 7 (3.14%) Korn
10 6 (2.69%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.35%) Bash
12 3 (1.35%) Groovy
13 2 (0.90%) Delphi
13 2 (0.90%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (18.39%) Degree
2 19 (8.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (7.17%) DBS Check
4 9 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.59%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (3.14%) PhD
7 6 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.24%) OCA
8 5 (2.24%) OCP
8 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.45%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.42%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.28%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.79%) QA
4 3 (1.35%) GDPR
4 3 (1.35%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (5.38%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) HDFS
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.14%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (1.35%) Control-M
3 3 (1.35%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.90%) Grafana
4 2 (0.90%) Kibana
5 1 (0.45%) Ansible
5 1 (0.45%) CEMLI
5 1 (0.45%) MOM
Vendors
1 156 (69.96%) Oracle
2 30 (13.45%) Microsoft
3 17 (7.62%) NEC
4 16 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.14%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.69%) Databricks
6 6 (2.69%) IBM
7 5 (2.24%) Google
7 5 (2.24%) Informatica
8 4 (1.79%) SAP
8 4 (1.79%) Teradata
9 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.90%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.90%) Splunk
9 2 (0.90%) Zoho
10 1 (0.45%) ATG
10 1 (0.45%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.45%) OpenLink
10 1 (0.45%) Trayport