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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 239 262
Rank change year-on-year -20 +23 -62
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 375 639 955
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.88% 1.12% 1.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.96% 3.23% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 441 659
10th Percentile £382 - £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% +0.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £689
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 5
10th Percentile - £53.75 £40.50
25th Percentile - £56.88 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £87.50 £72.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -11.54% +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 12,689 19,807 31,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.82% 34.69% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,016 14,288 23,102
10th Percentile £350 £392 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £653
90th Percentile £763 £785 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.04% +15.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 450 512
10th Percentile £32.25 £26.24 £19.56
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.10
Median % change year-on-year - +24.75% +16.95%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £74.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +24.05%

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 15 May 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 15 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
England -48 294 £535 +1.90% 46
UK excluding London -2 185 £525 - 43
Work from Home +26 170 £535 +12.63% 23
London -26 148 £501 +5.47% 23
Midlands +23 61 £535 -0.56% 11
West Midlands +24 56 £535 -0.56% 4
South East -1 45 £475 -13.64% 8
Scotland +50 41 £506 +18.97% 15
South West +17 16 £650 +26.83%
North of England +2 13 £577 +6.76% 4
North West +10 10 £577 +8.77% 1
Wales +13 5 £390 -29.09% 5
East Midlands +5 5 £388 -34.23% 7
Yorkshire +17 3 - - 3
East of England -8 2 £395 -27.36%

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 11 (2.93%) Oracle Workflow
2 10 (2.67%) IIS
3 9 (2.40%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (1.60%) Confluence
5 4 (1.07%) SAS
6 3 (0.80%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) ColdFusion
7 2 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.53%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.53%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.27%) Appian
8 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 31 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (3.20%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (2.93%) Teamcenter
3 9 (2.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 9 (2.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (1.60%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (1.33%) Endur
6 5 (1.33%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.07%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (1.07%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (1.07%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.53%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle E-Business Tax
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Utilities
10 1 (0.27%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 43 (11.47%) AWS
2 40 (10.67%) Azure
3 22 (5.87%) Power Platform
4 10 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (2.40%) Azure Functions
5 9 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (2.40%) Azure Storage
5 9 (2.40%) Serverless
6 8 (2.13%) Collibra
6 8 (2.13%) GitHub
7 6 (1.60%) OCI
8 4 (1.07%) GCP
9 3 (0.80%) SaaS
9 3 (0.80%) Veeva
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.53%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.67%) Internet
2 3 (0.80%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.53%) 5G
3 2 (0.53%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (29.33%) Oracle Database
2 83 (22.13%) SQL Server
3 29 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (6.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 22 (5.87%) Power BI
7 21 (5.60%) Oracle Database 11g
8 20 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 19 (5.07%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (4.53%) Metadata
11 14 (3.73%) Oracle ODI
12 11 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (2.67%) MongoDB
14 8 (2.13%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.87%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
15 7 (1.87%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (1.60%) Crystal Reports
16 6 (1.60%) Oracle BI EE
16 6 (1.60%) Oracle Database 12c
17 5 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 55 (14.67%) PVCS
1 55 (14.67%) Visual Studio
2 38 (10.13%) JIRA
3 32 (8.53%) Oracle APEX
4 14 (3.73%) Oracle Forms
5 10 (2.67%) Git
6 8 (2.13%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.87%) JUnit
8 6 (1.60%) GitLab
8 6 (1.60%) Postman
9 5 (1.33%) Ant
9 5 (1.33%) NUnit
9 5 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.33%) Subversion
9 5 (1.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (1.33%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 4 (1.07%) Selenium
10 4 (1.07%) Toad
General
1 94 (25.07%) Finance
2 70 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 56 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.93%) Banking
6 10 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.60%) Billing
7 6 (1.60%) Retail
8 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.80%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.27%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.27%) Front Office
10 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.27%) Law
10 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 207 (55.20%) Developer
2 56 (14.93%) Programmer
3 54 (14.40%) C Programmer
4 51 (13.60%) Oracle Developer
5 43 (11.47%) SQL Developer
6 36 (9.60%) .NET Developer
7 30 (8.00%) PL/SQL Developer
8 29 (7.73%) C# Developer
9 22 (5.87%) Architect
10 21 (5.60%) Analyst
11 17 (4.53%) Senior
12 15 (4.00%) C# .NET Developer
12 15 (4.00%) Java Developer
13 13 (3.47%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 12 (3.20%) Consultant
14 12 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (2.93%) Oracle Architect
16 9 (2.40%) C# WPF Developer
16 9 (2.40%) WCF Developer
16 9 (2.40%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (18.13%) .NET
2 27 (7.20%) .NET Framework
3 22 (5.87%) AngularJS
4 20 (5.33%) .NET Core
5 16 (4.27%) XML
6 14 (3.73%) WCF
7 13 (3.47%) Blazor
8 12 (3.20%) REST
9 11 (2.93%) HTML
9 11 (2.93%) WPF
10 10 (2.67%) WinForms
11 9 (2.40%) JSON
11 9 (2.40%) Spring
12 8 (2.13%) CSS
12 8 (2.13%) jQuery
12 8 (2.13%) Kafka
12 8 (2.13%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (1.60%) JPA
14 6 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.47%) Replication
2 11 (2.93%) Blog
2 11 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.40%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.33%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.80%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.53%) Clustering
8 2 (0.53%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.53%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.53%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.27%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.27%) FMCG
9 1 (0.27%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.27%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.27%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.47%) Unix
2 37 (9.87%) Windows
3 13 (3.47%) Linux
4 7 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (24.00%) Agile
2 71 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (11.20%) Unit Testing
4 41 (10.93%) Performance Tuning
5 39 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
5 39 (10.40%) ETL
5 39 (10.40%) Software Engineering
6 35 (9.33%) Data Modelling
7 34 (9.07%) Migration
8 31 (8.27%) Data Analysis
9 30 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 28 (7.47%) DevOps
11 26 (6.93%) SDLC
12 25 (6.67%) Data Migration
12 25 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
13 24 (6.40%) Computer Science
13 24 (6.40%) Continuous Integration
13 24 (6.40%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (6.40%) Scrum
14 23 (6.13%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 321 (85.60%) SQL
2 66 (17.60%) C
2 66 (17.60%) C#
3 54 (14.40%) T-SQL
4 42 (11.20%) Java
5 30 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 30 (8.00%) VB
6 24 (6.40%) C++
7 22 (5.87%) Python
8 21 (5.60%) VBA
9 19 (5.07%) Shell Script
10 17 (4.53%) VB.NET
11 13 (3.47%) Bash
12 9 (2.40%) Bourne shell
12 9 (2.40%) Go
12 9 (2.40%) Korn
13 7 (1.87%) XPath
13 7 (1.87%) XQuery
14 6 (1.60%) ProC
15 5 (1.33%) R
Qualifications
1 112 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 101 (26.93%) SC Cleared
3 35 (9.33%) Degree
4 22 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.33%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.07%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.27%) OCP
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.60%) QA
2 6 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.33%) Dodd-Frank
3 5 (1.33%) EMIR
3 5 (1.33%) MiFID
4 4 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (1.07%) GDPR
5 3 (0.80%) CDISC
5 3 (0.80%) Good Clinical Practice
5 3 (0.80%) GxP
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS
6 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.60%) Docker
3 1 (0.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (2.93%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.07%) Ansible
3 3 (0.80%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.27%) Control-M
5 1 (0.27%) Kibana
5 1 (0.27%) logstash
5 1 (0.27%) Podman
5 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 259 (69.07%) Oracle
2 27 (7.20%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.13%) Avaloq
4 19 (5.07%) Citrix
5 18 (4.80%) SAP
6 9 (2.40%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.13%) Informatica
7 8 (2.13%) Sparx
8 5 (1.33%) OpenLink
8 5 (1.33%) Talend
9 4 (1.07%) JDA
10 3 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.80%) IBM
10 3 (0.80%) Microgen
11 2 (0.53%) Databricks
11 2 (0.53%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.53%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.53%) Murex
11 2 (0.53%) NEC
11 2 (0.53%) QAD