PL/SQL Contracts

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 264 241
Rank change year-on-year -1 -23 -32
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 395 566 1,044
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.02% 1.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.03% 2.99% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 381 697
10th Percentile £368 £375 £375
25th Percentile £406 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £578 £594 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £533 £490
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.67% +13.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - - £48.38
25th Percentile - £53.75 £59.06
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £68.08
90th Percentile - - £73.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 13,047 18,952 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.12% 34.11% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,199 13,649 23,126
10th Percentile £350 £381 £388
25th Percentile £425 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £678 £663
90th Percentile £763 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 440 496
10th Percentile £31.95 £29.71 £19.50
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.38
Median % change year-on-year - +21.65% +14.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.31
90th Percentile £76.63 £78.12 £70.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +25.00%

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
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -25 306 £513 +2.50% 57
UK excluding London +34 187 £511 -4.00% 43
Work from Home +36 174 £535 +18.89% 38
London -38 160 £500 +11.11% 24
Midlands +35 60 £535 -0.93% 7
West Midlands +37 54 £535 -0.56% 3
Scotland +59 45 £450 +5.88% 11
South East 0 41 £470 -14.55% 6
South West +19 19 £625 +2.04% 4
North of England +14 13 £577 +9.81% 12
North West +8 10 £577 +17.65% 3
East Midlands +2 6 £406 -31.25% 4
Wales +10 5 £390 +15.56% 1
Yorkshire +11 3 - - 8
East of England -18 2 £395 -27.36% 3

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 14 (3.54%) IIS
2 12 (3.04%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (1.77%) SAS
4 5 (1.27%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (1.01%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.51%) ColdFusion
6 2 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.25%) Apache
7 1 (0.25%) Appian
7 1 (0.25%) Confluence
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (3.29%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (2.78%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (2.78%) Teamcenter
3 10 (2.53%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (2.28%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (2.03%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.52%) Endur
6 6 (1.52%) NEC Housing
6 6 (1.52%) Oracle 11i
6 6 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (1.01%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.76%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle iProcurement
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 42 (10.63%) Azure
2 41 (10.38%) AWS
3 31 (7.85%) Power Platform
4 9 (2.28%) SaaS
4 9 (2.28%) Snowflake
5 8 (2.03%) GitHub
6 7 (1.77%) OCI
6 7 (1.77%) PaaS
7 6 (1.52%) Amazon S3
7 6 (1.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (1.52%) Azure Functions
7 6 (1.52%) Azure Storage
7 6 (1.52%) Serverless
8 5 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.01%) GCP
10 3 (0.76%) Collibra
10 3 (0.76%) Veeva
11 2 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.51%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.29%) Internet
2 3 (0.76%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (30.63%) Oracle Database
2 87 (22.03%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.85%) Power BI
4 27 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 25 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (5.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (4.81%) Oracle Reports
9 17 (4.30%) Oracle Database 11g
10 15 (3.80%) Metadata
11 11 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
12 10 (2.53%) Big Data
12 10 (2.53%) Tableau
13 9 (2.28%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (2.03%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (1.77%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
15 7 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 55 (13.92%) PVCS
1 55 (13.92%) Visual Studio
2 34 (8.61%) JIRA
2 34 (8.61%) Oracle APEX
3 14 (3.54%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (1.77%) Git
5 6 (1.52%) GitLab
6 5 (1.27%) Ant
6 5 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.27%) Subversion
6 5 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.27%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 4 (1.01%) NUnit
7 4 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.01%) Selenium
7 4 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.01%) Toad
8 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.51%) Maven
9 2 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (24.56%) Finance
2 67 (16.96%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.82%) Banking
6 10 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.52%) Billing
8 5 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.27%) Retail
9 3 (0.76%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.76%) Local Government
9 3 (0.76%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.25%) Back Office
10 1 (0.25%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.25%) Front Office
10 1 (0.25%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.25%) Law
10 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 218 (55.19%) Developer
2 57 (14.43%) Programmer
3 56 (14.18%) Oracle Developer
4 54 (13.67%) C Programmer
5 45 (11.39%) SQL Developer
6 39 (9.87%) .NET Developer
7 35 (8.86%) C# Developer
8 33 (8.35%) PL/SQL Developer
9 24 (6.08%) Analyst
10 22 (5.57%) Architect
11 18 (4.56%) C# .NET Developer
12 17 (4.30%) Consultant
12 17 (4.30%) Senior
13 14 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.04%) C# WCF Developer
14 12 (3.04%) C# WPF Developer
14 12 (3.04%) Java Developer
14 12 (3.04%) WCF Developer
14 12 (3.04%) WPF Developer
15 11 (2.78%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (17.72%) .NET
2 30 (7.59%) .NET Framework
3 22 (5.57%) AngularJS
4 17 (4.30%) XML
5 16 (4.05%) WCF
6 15 (3.80%) .NET Core
7 14 (3.54%) WPF
8 13 (3.29%) HTML
8 13 (3.29%) WinForms
9 10 (2.53%) Blazor
9 10 (2.53%) CSS
10 8 (2.03%) JSON
10 8 (2.03%) REST
11 7 (1.77%) jQuery
11 7 (1.77%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.52%) ASP.NET
12 6 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (1.27%) JPA
13 5 (1.27%) RESTful
13 5 (1.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.29%) Replication
2 11 (2.78%) Blog
3 10 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.27%) Housing Association
5 5 (1.27%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.27%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.76%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.51%) Clustering
8 2 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.51%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.51%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.25%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.25%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.25%) FMCG
9 1 (0.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (14.18%) Unix
2 40 (10.13%) Windows
3 18 (4.56%) Linux
4 6 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (23.29%) Agile
2 74 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (10.89%) Data Modelling
5 40 (10.13%) Unit Testing
6 37 (9.37%) Performance Tuning
7 36 (9.11%) Migration
8 32 (8.10%) Disaster Recovery
8 32 (8.10%) ETL
9 31 (7.85%) Computer Science
9 31 (7.85%) Data Analysis
9 31 (7.85%) Software Engineering
10 29 (7.34%) DevOps
11 28 (7.09%) Scrum
12 26 (6.58%) SDLC
13 25 (6.33%) Requirements Gathering
14 23 (5.82%) Data Migration
15 21 (5.32%) Full Stack Development
15 21 (5.32%) Project Management
15 21 (5.32%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 341 (86.33%) SQL
2 69 (17.47%) C#
3 65 (16.46%) C
4 49 (12.41%) T-SQL
5 40 (10.13%) Java
6 34 (8.61%) VB
7 30 (7.59%) JavaScript
8 26 (6.58%) VBA
9 25 (6.33%) Shell Script
10 19 (4.81%) C++
11 18 (4.56%) VB.NET
12 17 (4.30%) Python
13 13 (3.29%) Bash
14 9 (2.28%) Bourne shell
14 9 (2.28%) Korn
15 7 (1.77%) XPath
15 7 (1.77%) XQuery
16 6 (1.52%) ProC
17 5 (1.27%) Go
17 5 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 98 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.63%) Degree
4 23 (5.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.27%) SAP Certification
7 3 (0.76%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.25%) OCP
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.82%) QA
2 9 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
3 5 (1.27%) EMIR
3 5 (1.27%) MiFID
4 3 (0.76%) CDISC
4 3 (0.76%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (0.76%) GxP
5 2 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.25%) SLA
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (3.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.25%) HDFS
2 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (1.52%) Ansible
1 6 (1.52%) Kubernetes
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
4 1 (0.25%) Podman
4 1 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 268 (67.85%) Oracle
2 25 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.82%) Citrix
4 22 (5.57%) Avaloq
5 20 (5.06%) SAP
6 8 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.03%) Sparx
7 7 (1.77%) Cloudera
7 7 (1.77%) Informatica
7 7 (1.77%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.52%) NEC
8 6 (1.52%) OpenLink
9 5 (1.27%) Talend
10 4 (1.01%) CA Agile Central
10 4 (1.01%) JDA
11 3 (0.76%) IBM
11 3 (0.76%) Microgen
11 3 (0.76%) Northgate
12 2 (0.51%) Databricks
12 2 (0.51%) Murex