PL/SQL Job Trends in the West Midlands

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring PL/SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 175 169
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +60
Permanent jobs citing PL/SQL 7 27 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% 0.62% 0.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 1.00% 2.44% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -27.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £43,750 £62,500 £46,750
90th Percentile - £64,000 £53,100
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,750 £59,556
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.03% +7.16%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 702 1,105 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.40% 25.42% 31.13%
Number of salaries quoted 572 566 938
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,925
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

PL/SQL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

PL/SQL
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PL/SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing PL/SQL

PL/SQL
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Birmingham +11 7 £42,500 +30.77% 2
PL/SQL
England

PL/SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (57.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JUnit
1 6 (85.71%) Maven
1 6 (85.71%) Mockito
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Development Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IFS Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Development Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 4 (57.14%) React
2 4 (57.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (85.71%) Microservices
1 6 (85.71%) Scrum
1 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) SOA
2 4 (57.14%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Deadline-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Emotional Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
4 2 (28.57%) C
4 2 (28.57%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) IFS