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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 257 244
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 -25
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 388 573 1,032
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.02% 1.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.00% 3.00% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 390 684
10th Percentile £378 £385 £375
25th Percentile £408 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -3.02% +11.58% +11.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - - £48.38
25th Percentile - £53.75 £59.06
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £85.00 £68.08
90th Percentile - - £73.62
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 12,939 19,124 31,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.05% 34.12% 36.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,176 13,793 23,095
10th Percentile £350 £388 £388
25th Percentile £425 £461 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £660
90th Percentile £763 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 522 433 488
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.60 £19.52
25th Percentile £46.25 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +20.77% +17.21%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.95 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +28.05%

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 1 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 1 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 -31 298 £514 +1.78% 59
UK excluding London +21 185 £514 -3.02% 43
Work from Home +35 173 £535 +18.89% 33
London -22 155 £500 +5.82% 27
Midlands +35 61 £535 -0.93% 8
West Midlands +38 55 £535 -0.19% 2
Scotland +55 46 £450 +5.88% 11
South East -6 42 £470 -14.55% 6
South West +10 15 £650 +6.12% 2
North of England +9 12 £577 +9.81% 13
North West +13 9 £577 +13.04% 3
East Midlands +2 6 £406 -31.05% 6
Wales +9 5 £390 +15.56% 1
Yorkshire +17 3 - - 9
East of England -15 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 13 (3.35%) IIS
2 12 (3.09%) Oracle Workflow
3 7 (1.80%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (1.80%) SAS
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) Confluence
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) ColdFusion
5 2 (0.52%) JBoss
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.52%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.26%) Appian
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.61%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (2.84%) Oracle Receivables
2 11 (2.84%) Teamcenter
3 10 (2.58%) Oracle EBS R12
4 9 (2.32%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (2.06%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.55%) Endur
6 6 (1.55%) Oracle 11i
6 6 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
7 4 (1.03%) Oracle Cash Management
7 4 (1.03%) Oracle FAH
7 4 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.77%) Oracle E-Business Tax
9 2 (0.52%) NEC Housing
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.26%) Actimize
10 1 (0.26%) HFM
10 1 (0.26%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 44 (11.34%) Azure
2 43 (11.08%) AWS
3 29 (7.47%) Power Platform
4 8 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 8 (2.06%) Azure Functions
4 8 (2.06%) Azure Storage
4 8 (2.06%) GitHub
4 8 (2.06%) SaaS
4 8 (2.06%) Serverless
4 8 (2.06%) Snowflake
5 7 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (1.80%) OCI
6 6 (1.55%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.55%) PaaS
7 4 (1.03%) Collibra
7 4 (1.03%) GCP
8 3 (0.77%) Veeva
9 2 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.09%) Internet
2 3 (0.77%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.52%) HTTP
4 1 (0.26%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (29.90%) Oracle Database
2 83 (21.39%) SQL Server
3 29 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (7.47%) Power BI
4 26 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 20 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 19 (4.90%) Oracle Database 11g
7 18 (4.64%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (3.87%) Metadata
9 12 (3.09%) Oracle ODI
10 9 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (2.32%) Big Data
11 8 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.06%) MongoDB
11 8 (2.06%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.06%) Tableau
12 7 (1.80%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12 7 (1.80%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 55 (14.18%) PVCS
1 55 (14.18%) Visual Studio
2 36 (9.28%) JIRA
3 33 (8.51%) Oracle APEX
4 14 (3.61%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (1.55%) Git
5 6 (1.55%) GitLab
6 5 (1.29%) Ant
6 5 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.29%) Subversion
6 5 (1.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 4 (1.03%) NUnit
7 4 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.03%) Selenium
7 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.03%) Toad
8 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.77%) JUnit
8 3 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 93 (23.97%) Finance
2 68 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 58 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (10.31%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.93%) Banking
6 10 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.55%) Billing
8 5 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.29%) Retail
9 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.26%) Back Office
11 1 (0.26%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.26%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.26%) Front Office
11 1 (0.26%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.26%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.26%) Law
11 1 (0.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 214 (55.15%) Developer
2 57 (14.69%) Programmer
3 55 (14.18%) Oracle Developer
4 54 (13.92%) C Programmer
5 45 (11.60%) SQL Developer
6 38 (9.79%) .NET Developer
7 33 (8.51%) C# Developer
7 33 (8.51%) PL/SQL Developer
8 23 (5.93%) Analyst
9 22 (5.67%) Architect
10 17 (4.38%) C# .NET Developer
10 17 (4.38%) Consultant
11 16 (4.12%) Senior
12 13 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.09%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 11 (2.84%) C# WCF Developer
14 11 (2.84%) C# WPF Developer
14 11 (2.84%) Oracle Consultant
14 11 (2.84%) WCF Developer
14 11 (2.84%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (18.04%) .NET
2 28 (7.22%) .NET Framework
3 21 (5.41%) AngularJS
4 17 (4.38%) .NET Core
5 16 (4.12%) XML
6 15 (3.87%) WCF
7 13 (3.35%) WPF
8 12 (3.09%) Blazor
8 12 (3.09%) WinForms
9 11 (2.84%) HTML
10 9 (2.32%) REST
11 8 (2.06%) CSS
11 8 (2.06%) JSON
12 7 (1.80%) jQuery
12 7 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (1.55%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
14 5 (1.29%) JPA
14 5 (1.29%) RESTful
14 5 (1.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.35%) Replication
2 11 (2.84%) Blog
3 9 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (1.80%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.29%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.29%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (0.77%) Online Banking
7 2 (0.52%) Clustering
7 2 (0.52%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.52%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.52%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.26%) Cybercrime
8 1 (0.26%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.26%) FMCG
8 1 (0.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.26%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 50 (12.89%) Unix
2 39 (10.05%) Windows
3 14 (3.61%) Linux
4 6 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (23.20%) Agile
2 74 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (11.08%) Data Modelling
5 41 (10.57%) Unit Testing
6 38 (9.79%) Performance Tuning
7 35 (9.02%) Migration
8 33 (8.51%) ETL
8 33 (8.51%) Software Engineering
9 31 (7.99%) Data Analysis
9 31 (7.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 29 (7.47%) Computer Science
11 28 (7.22%) DevOps
12 27 (6.96%) Scrum
13 25 (6.44%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (6.44%) SDLC
14 23 (5.93%) Data Migration
15 22 (5.67%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (5.67%) Software Testing
16 21 (5.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 334 (86.08%) SQL
2 68 (17.53%) C#
3 65 (16.75%) C
4 52 (13.40%) T-SQL
5 39 (10.05%) Java
6 32 (8.25%) VB
7 29 (7.47%) JavaScript
8 23 (5.93%) VBA
9 22 (5.67%) Shell Script
10 21 (5.41%) C++
11 19 (4.90%) Python
12 17 (4.38%) VB.NET
13 13 (3.35%) Bash
14 9 (2.32%) Bourne shell
14 9 (2.32%) Korn
15 7 (1.80%) Go
15 7 (1.80%) XPath
15 7 (1.80%) XQuery
16 6 (1.55%) ProC
17 5 (1.29%) R
Qualifications
1 108 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 98 (25.26%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.57%) Degree
4 22 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.29%) SAP Certification
7 3 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.26%) OCP
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.67%) QA
2 7 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.29%) Dodd-Frank
3 5 (1.29%) EMIR
3 5 (1.29%) MiFID
4 3 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.77%) CDISC
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
4 3 (0.77%) GxP
5 1 (0.26%) GRC
5 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
5 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (3.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.77%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) HDFS
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.03%) Ansible
3 3 (0.77%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle Flashback
4 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.26%) Control-M
5 1 (0.26%) Kibana
5 1 (0.26%) logstash
5 1 (0.26%) Podman
5 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 264 (68.04%) Oracle
2 27 (6.96%) Microsoft
3 22 (5.67%) Avaloq
3 22 (5.67%) Citrix
4 19 (4.90%) SAP
5 8 (2.06%) Informatica
5 8 (2.06%) Sparx
6 7 (1.80%) MuleSoft
6 7 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.55%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.55%) OpenLink
8 5 (1.29%) Talend
9 4 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
9 4 (1.03%) JDA
10 3 (0.77%) IBM
10 3 (0.77%) Microgen
11 2 (0.52%) Hyperion
11 2 (0.52%) Murex
11 2 (0.52%) NEC
11 2 (0.52%) Northgate