PL/SQL Contracts in Scotland

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for PL/SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited PL/SQL over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 121 88
Rank change year-on-year +36 -33 +9
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 40 39 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.86% 1.44% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.42% 4.20% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 74
10th Percentile £379 £359 £366
25th Percentile £414 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £500
90th Percentile - £488 £538
UK median daily rate £533 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.60% - +5.26%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 623 929 946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.96% 34.37% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 665 660
10th Percentile £360 £406 £363
25th Percentile £413 £433 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £656 £638
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £29.60 £48.08 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £55.00 £27.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.79 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% +34.36% -2.20%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £55.03
90th Percentile £62.50 £69.88 £56.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing PL/SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +25 17 £435 +8.75% 12
Edinburgh +17 16 £575 +37.31% 2
West Lothian - 4 £450 -
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
1 1 (2.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 11 (27.50%) Metadata
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 19 (47.50%) Oracle APEX
2 16 (40.00%) JIRA
3 4 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (10.00%) JUnit
4 3 (7.50%) Git
4 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (7.50%) Postman
5 1 (2.50%) IntelliJ
General
1 21 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Senior
3 8 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Database Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Design Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle Forms Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Database Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Senior Design Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Database Designer
6 2 (5.00%) Database Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Designer
6 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL Developer
6 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) J2EE
1 4 (10.00%) Kafka
1 4 (10.00%) REST
1 4 (10.00%) Spring
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Camel
2 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Agile
2 16 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (30.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 10 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 10 (25.00%) CRM
4 10 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 7 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (15.00%) SDLC
7 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 5 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Coaching
8 4 (10.00%) Component Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
2 10 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (75.00%) Oracle
2 10 (25.00%) Avaloq
3 3 (7.50%) CA Agile Central