PL/SQL Contracts with Work from Home Options

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 185 212 278
Rank change year-on-year +27 +66 -46
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 170 299 413
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 1.21% 0.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.40% 3.26% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 193 304
10th Percentile £385 - £400
25th Percentile £463 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £587 £550 £588
90th Percentile £720 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.60% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% -3.84%
UK median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +23.08% +18.18%

All Programming Languages
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 5,002 9,174 16,719
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.80% 37.22% 38.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,628 6,731 12,427
10th Percentile £356 £390 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £638
90th Percentile £788 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 195 194
10th Percentile £33.13 £32.45 £20.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.73% +26.00% +11.73%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year - +24.13% +18.47%

PL/SQL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

PL/SQL trend for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL.

PL/SQL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing PL/SQL over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

PL/SQL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing PL/SQL.

PL/SQL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (2.94%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (2.35%) SAS
3 2 (1.18%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (1.18%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.59%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Appian
4 1 (0.59%) Confluence
4 1 (0.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.59%) JBoss
4 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Teamcenter
2 6 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (3.53%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (3.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (2.94%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (2.94%) Oracle Financials
3 5 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.76%) Endur
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle 11i
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (1.18%) NEC Housing
6 2 (1.18%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.35%) AWS
2 13 (7.65%) Azure
3 8 (4.71%) Collibra
4 7 (4.12%) GitHub
5 6 (3.53%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (1.76%) Veeva
7 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.18%) Serverless
7 2 (1.18%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.59%) OCI
8 1 (0.59%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.76%) PuTTY
2 2 (1.18%) HTTP
3 1 (0.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.41%) Oracle Database
2 35 (20.59%) SQL Server
3 20 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (10.59%) Oracle Database 11g
5 12 (7.06%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (5.29%) Metadata
7 6 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.53%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (3.53%) Oracle ODI
7 6 (3.53%) Power BI
8 4 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.76%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.18%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.59%) Oracle Exadata
11 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (18.24%) PVCS
1 31 (18.24%) Visual Studio
2 18 (10.59%) Oracle APEX
3 8 (4.71%) JIRA
3 8 (4.71%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.76%) GitLab
4 3 (1.76%) Subversion
4 3 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (1.76%) Toad
4 3 (1.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 2 (1.18%) Ant
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Git
6 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (22.94%) Finance
2 25 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 22 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.41%) Banking
6 9 (5.29%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.53%) Retail
8 5 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Billing
10 1 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Front Office
10 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (46.47%) Developer
2 31 (18.24%) SQL Developer
3 30 (17.65%) C Programmer
3 30 (17.65%) Programmer
4 27 (15.88%) Oracle Developer
5 22 (12.94%) PL/SQL Developer
6 13 (7.65%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 12 (7.06%) Architect
8 8 (4.71%) Integration Engineer
9 7 (4.12%) Analyst
9 7 (4.12%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.12%) Oracle Architect
10 6 (3.53%) Administrator
10 6 (3.53%) DBA
10 6 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.94%) Consultant
11 5 (2.94%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.94%) Senior
12 4 (2.35%) Oracle Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.35%) Storage Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) .NET
2 6 (3.53%) HTML
3 5 (2.94%) XML
4 4 (2.35%) Blazor
5 3 (1.76%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.76%) JPA
5 3 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.18%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.18%) CSS
6 2 (1.18%) Kafka
6 2 (1.18%) SOAP
6 2 (1.18%) Web Services
7 1 (0.59%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.59%) Ajax
7 1 (0.59%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.59%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.59%) Sass
7 1 (0.59%) Swagger
7 1 (0.59%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.29%) Replication
2 7 (4.12%) Blog
3 4 (2.35%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.76%) Online Banking
5 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.18%) Clustering
5 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.18%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.59%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.18%) Unix
2 8 (4.71%) Windows
3 6 (3.53%) Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.94%) Agile
2 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (16.47%) Performance Tuning
4 24 (14.12%) Migration
4 24 (14.12%) Unit Testing
5 23 (13.53%) Software Engineering
6 20 (11.76%) Data Migration
6 20 (11.76%) ETL
7 19 (11.18%) DevOps
8 18 (10.59%) Software Testing
9 15 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (8.24%) Clean Code
11 13 (7.65%) Architectural Design
11 13 (7.65%) Data Modelling
11 13 (7.65%) Secure Coding
12 12 (7.06%) Data Analysis
12 12 (7.06%) Data Management
13 11 (6.47%) Data Integration
14 10 (5.88%) Data Governance
14 10 (5.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 139 (81.76%) SQL
2 33 (19.41%) C
3 23 (13.53%) Java
4 18 (10.59%) T-SQL
5 13 (7.65%) C#
6 10 (5.88%) C++
6 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.53%) Python
7 6 (3.53%) VB
8 5 (2.94%) R
9 4 (2.35%) Bash
9 4 (2.35%) Bourne shell
9 4 (2.35%) Korn
9 4 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.35%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.76%) Groovy
11 2 (1.18%) Go
12 1 (0.59%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.59%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 64 (37.65%) Security Cleared
2 61 (35.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (8.82%) Degree
4 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.76%) SAP Certification
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.59%) OCP
8 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 4 (2.35%) GDPR
2 3 (1.76%) CDISC
2 3 (1.76%) Good Clinical Practice
2 3 (1.76%) GxP
2 3 (1.76%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.59%) IFRS
3 1 (0.59%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 7 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.59%) HDFS
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (1.76%) Ansible
1 3 (1.76%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle Flashback
2 2 (1.18%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.59%) Control-M
Vendors
1 107 (62.94%) Oracle
2 14 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.29%) Avaloq
4 7 (4.12%) SAP
5 5 (2.94%) Sparx
6 3 (1.76%) Microgen
6 3 (1.76%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.18%) Databricks
7 2 (1.18%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.18%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.18%) NEC
7 2 (1.18%) Northgate
7 2 (1.18%) QAD
7 2 (1.18%) Talend
8 1 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.59%) Citrix
8 1 (0.59%) Denodo
8 1 (0.59%) IBM
8 1 (0.59%) Mercator
8 1 (0.59%) Salesforce