PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 228 264
Rank change year-on-year -37 +36 -64
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 394 703 943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.18% 1.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.07% 3.36% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 492 656
10th Percentile £385 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £406 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +2.75% +5.82%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -2.42% +13.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 5
10th Percentile - £53.75 £40.50
25th Percentile - £58.44 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.25 £72.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -9.62% +64.56%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12,854 20,901 32,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.49% 35.02% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,130 15,092 23,463
10th Percentile £350 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £760 £780 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.20% +3.09% +14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 471 514
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £19.91
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £60.70 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +21.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £49.52
% change year-on-year - +26.21% +16.52%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in the UK

PL/SQL
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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
England -41 314 £525 - 42
UK excluding London -6 194 £525 -2.42% 43
Work from Home +3 172 £535 +12.63% 28
London -22 156 £501 +6.60% 20
Midlands +3 61 £535 -0.93% 10
West Midlands +11 57 £535 -0.56% 6
South East -5 50 £483 -12.27% 3
Scotland +36 40 £525 +23.53% 14
South West +12 19 £638 +18.60% 1
North of England +7 14 £577 +4.82% 4
North West +14 11 £577 +1.14% 2
Wales -3 5 £390 -15.68% 7
East Midlands +9 4 £388 -34.23% 4
Yorkshire +18 3 - - 2
East of England -6 3 £435 -20.00% 4

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 10 (2.54%) Oracle Workflow
2 9 (2.28%) BizTalk Server
2 9 (2.28%) IIS
3 6 (1.52%) Confluence
4 4 (1.02%) SAS
5 3 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.76%) ColdFusion
5 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.51%) Apache
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) JBoss
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.30%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (2.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 11 (2.79%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.03%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (1.52%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (1.27%) Endur
6 5 (1.27%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.27%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (1.02%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (1.02%) Oracle FAH
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.51%) HFM
9 2 (0.51%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Utilities
10 1 (0.25%) Actimize
10 1 (0.25%) Maximo
10 1 (0.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (11.42%) AWS
2 43 (10.91%) Azure
3 21 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (2.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (2.28%) Azure Functions
4 9 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (2.28%) Azure Storage
4 9 (2.28%) OCI
4 9 (2.28%) Serverless
5 8 (2.03%) Collibra
5 8 (2.03%) GitHub
6 6 (1.52%) GCP
7 5 (1.27%) SaaS
8 4 (1.02%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.76%) Veeva
10 2 (0.51%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.28%) Internet
2 3 (0.76%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.51%) 5G
3 2 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
4 1 (0.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (30.71%) Oracle Database
2 89 (22.59%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (7.11%) Oracle Database 11g
5 23 (5.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (5.33%) Power BI
7 17 (4.31%) Metadata
7 17 (4.31%) Oracle ODI
7 17 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.54%) Oracle BI EE
8 10 (2.54%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.28%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.78%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 7 (1.78%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.52%) Crystal Reports
11 6 (1.52%) Oracle Database 12c
12 5 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (13.96%) PVCS
1 55 (13.96%) Visual Studio
2 34 (8.63%) JIRA
3 33 (8.38%) Oracle APEX
4 13 (3.30%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (2.28%) Git
6 8 (2.03%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.78%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.78%) GitLab
7 7 (1.78%) JUnit
8 6 (1.52%) NUnit
8 6 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.52%) Postman
8 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.27%) Subversion
9 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 4 (1.02%) Ant
10 4 (1.02%) Selenium
10 4 (1.02%) Toad
General
1 100 (25.38%) Finance
2 68 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 61 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 28 (7.11%) Banking
6 10 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.03%) Retail
8 6 (1.52%) Billing
9 5 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.02%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.51%) Automotive
11 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.51%) Police
12 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.25%) Front Office
12 1 (0.25%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.25%) Law
12 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 221 (56.09%) Developer
2 57 (14.47%) Oracle Developer
3 56 (14.21%) Programmer
4 54 (13.71%) C Programmer
5 47 (11.93%) SQL Developer
6 40 (10.15%) .NET Developer
7 36 (9.14%) C# Developer
8 32 (8.12%) PL/SQL Developer
9 21 (5.33%) Architect
10 20 (5.08%) Analyst
10 20 (5.08%) C# .NET Developer
11 18 (4.57%) Senior
12 15 (3.81%) Java Developer
12 15 (3.81%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 13 (3.30%) Consultant
14 12 (3.05%) Oracle Architect
14 12 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.54%) C# WPF Developer
15 10 (2.54%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.54%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (19.29%) .NET
2 33 (8.38%) .NET Framework
3 23 (5.84%) AngularJS
4 21 (5.33%) .NET Core
5 20 (5.08%) XML
6 14 (3.55%) WCF
7 13 (3.30%) Blazor
8 12 (3.05%) JSON
8 12 (3.05%) REST
8 12 (3.05%) WPF
9 11 (2.79%) HTML
10 9 (2.28%) jQuery
10 9 (2.28%) Spring
10 9 (2.28%) WinForms
11 8 (2.03%) CSS
11 8 (2.03%) Kafka
11 8 (2.03%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.52%) Entity Framework
13 6 (1.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (3.05%) Replication
2 11 (2.79%) Blog
2 11 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.28%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.76%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.76%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.51%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.25%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.25%) FMCG
9 1 (0.25%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.25%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.64%) Unix
2 34 (8.63%) Windows
3 13 (3.30%) Linux
4 6 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (22.59%) Agile
2 76 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (12.18%) Performance Tuning
4 46 (11.68%) Unit Testing
5 44 (11.17%) Software Engineering
6 41 (10.41%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (10.41%) Migration
7 40 (10.15%) ETL
8 35 (8.88%) Data Analysis
8 35 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 34 (8.63%) Data Modelling
10 29 (7.36%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (7.36%) DevOps
10 29 (7.36%) Scrum
11 28 (7.11%) Data Migration
12 26 (6.60%) Requirements Gathering
12 26 (6.60%) Software Testing
13 25 (6.35%) Computer Science
14 24 (6.09%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (5.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 340 (86.29%) SQL
2 74 (18.78%) C#
3 66 (16.75%) C
4 60 (15.23%) T-SQL
5 40 (10.15%) Java
6 34 (8.63%) VB
7 30 (7.61%) JavaScript
8 26 (6.60%) VBA
9 25 (6.35%) VB.NET
10 24 (6.09%) C++
11 22 (5.58%) Python
12 15 (3.81%) Shell Script
13 12 (3.05%) Bash
14 9 (2.28%) Bourne shell
14 9 (2.28%) Go
14 9 (2.28%) Korn
15 8 (2.03%) XPath
16 7 (1.78%) XQuery
17 6 (1.52%) ProC
18 4 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 113 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 103 (26.14%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.88%) Degree
4 23 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.27%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.60%) QA
2 6 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.27%) GDPR
4 4 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.76%) CDISC
5 3 (0.76%) Dodd-Frank
5 3 (0.76%) EMIR
5 3 (0.76%) Good Clinical Practice
5 3 (0.76%) GxP
5 3 (0.76%) MiFID
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS
6 2 (0.51%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) COREP
7 1 (0.25%) GRC
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.52%) Docker
3 3 (0.76%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.76%) Ansible
2 3 (0.76%) Data Guard
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Flashback
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.25%) Control-M
4 1 (0.25%) Kibana
4 1 (0.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 275 (69.80%) Oracle
2 29 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.09%) Avaloq
4 23 (5.84%) Citrix
5 18 (4.57%) SAP
6 11 (2.79%) Informatica
7 9 (2.28%) MuleSoft
8 8 (2.03%) Sparx
9 5 (1.27%) OpenLink
10 4 (1.02%) IBM
10 4 (1.02%) JDA
10 4 (1.02%) Talend
11 3 (0.76%) Hyperion
11 3 (0.76%) Microgen
11 3 (0.76%) PeopleSoft
12 2 (0.51%) Databricks
12 2 (0.51%) NEC
12 2 (0.51%) Northgate
12 2 (0.51%) QAD
12 2 (0.51%) UiPath