PL/SQL Contracts in Scotland

PL/SQL (PLSQL)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 141 99
Rank change year-on-year +60 -42 -2
Contract jobs citing PL/SQL 46 27 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.15% 1.00% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.55% 3.00% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 66
10th Percentile £379 £348 £369
25th Percentile £413 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £500
90th Percentile - £489 £539
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 609 900 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 28.40% 33.38% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 630 722
10th Percentile £350 £406 £382
25th Percentile £412 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.87% +14.88%
75th Percentile £541 £550 £550
90th Percentile £616 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 14
10th Percentile £29.60 £47.73 £17.50
25th Percentile £41.31 £53.75 £29.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £59.03 £45.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +29.03% -0.54%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.66 £55.39
90th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £56.98
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £51.12
% change year-on-year -0.80% +22.26% +14.88%

PL/SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing PL/SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing PL/SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for PL/SQL in Scotland

PL/SQL
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Glasgow +38 26 £435 +8.75% 7
Edinburgh +24 15 £575 +35.29% 3
West Lothian - 2 - -
PL/SQL
UK

PL/SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
1 5 (10.87%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) Oracle Database
2 11 (23.91%) Metadata
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (8.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Oracle APEX
2 16 (34.78%) JIRA
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.35%) Git
4 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.35%) JUnit
4 2 (4.35%) Postman
5 1 (2.17%) IntelliJ
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Finance
3 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (71.74%) Developer
2 11 (23.91%) Oracle Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Senior
4 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Database Developer
5 5 (10.87%) SQL Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Database Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Design Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Forms Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Applications Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Database Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Design Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Database Designer
7 2 (4.35%) Designer
7 2 (4.35%) Oracle Database Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.17%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Apache Camel
1 2 (4.35%) J2EE
1 2 (4.35%) Kafka
1 2 (4.35%) REST
1 2 (4.35%) Spring
1 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
2 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.09%) SQL Optimisation
4 11 (23.91%) Performance Tuning
5 10 (21.74%) Computer Science
5 10 (21.74%) CRM
5 10 (21.74%) Unit Testing
6 8 (17.39%) SDLC
7 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
8 5 (10.87%) Database Optimisation
8 5 (10.87%) Project Management
8 5 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (8.70%) Migration
9 4 (8.70%) Project Delivery
9 4 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
10 3 (6.52%) Data Security
11 2 (4.35%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (4.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (19.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (28.26%) Degree
2 10 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Vendors
1 34 (73.91%) Oracle
2 10 (21.74%) Avaloq
3 4 (8.70%) CA Agile Central