Oracle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,964 3,052 5,167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.58% 5.44% 5.90%
As % of the Vendors category 10.78% 12.55% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,966 3,484
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £436 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 28 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £33.33 £14.89
25th Percentile £25.50 £52.19 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.50 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.60% +78.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £61.60 £74.06 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.70 £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +71.43% -2.78%

All Vendors
UK

Oracle is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,215 24,312 35,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.30% 40.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,347 16,240 23,513
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £638
90th Percentile £738 £739 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,139 652 877
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.89 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.88% +97.67% +2.38%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.17
% change year-on-year -42.77% +95.64% +4.91%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 -4 1,492 £550 - 605
London +2 894 £550 -4.35% 267
Work from Home -2 772 £550 +2.61% 280
UK excluding London -11 739 £500 -4.76% 402
South East -9 217 £550 - 64
Scotland +7 186 £503 +0.60% 59
Midlands -11 122 £450 -16.67% 76
North of England -26 115 £500 -4.76% 122
North West -18 77 £500 -9.09% 61
West Midlands -15 73 £488 -9.72% 58
South West -28 63 £513 +2.50% 34
East Midlands -2 45 £425 -19.05% 18
Yorkshire -13 31 £513 -2.38% 39
East of England -37 17 £588 +14.63% 21
Wales +8 13 £390 -27.44% 5
Northern Ireland +7 7 £650 +18.18% 28
North East -13 7 £450 -14.29% 23

Oracle
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 44 (2.24%) Confluence
2 41 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.99%) Oracle Workflow
4 29 (1.48%) IIS
5 28 (1.43%) Apache
6 21 (1.07%) JBoss
7 18 (0.92%) SAS
8 16 (0.81%) Apache Spark
8 16 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
9 15 (0.76%) WebLogic
10 14 (0.71%) Tomcat
10 14 (0.71%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 11 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.46%) nginx
13 8 (0.41%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.41%) Site Server
14 7 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
14 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.31%) WildFly
Applications
1 103 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 39 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 150 (7.64%) Oracle EBS
2 69 (3.51%) Oracle Payables
3 62 (3.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 58 (2.95%) Oracle Receivables
5 57 (2.90%) Oracle EBS R12
6 49 (2.49%) Oracle Assets
6 49 (2.49%) Oracle General Ledger
7 42 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
8 37 (1.88%) Oracle Financials
9 35 (1.78%) Oracle Cash Management
10 26 (1.32%) Endur
10 26 (1.32%) NetSuite
11 23 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
12 22 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 18 (0.92%) Oracle AGIS
14 17 (0.87%) Maximo
15 16 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
15 16 (0.81%) Temenos T24
16 13 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
17 12 (0.61%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 340 (17.31%) Azure
2 294 (14.97%) OCI
3 293 (14.92%) AWS
4 111 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 96 (4.89%) SaaS
6 82 (4.18%) GitHub
7 69 (3.51%) GCP
8 67 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (3.36%) Serverless
10 46 (2.34%) PaaS
11 45 (2.29%) IaaS
12 43 (2.19%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (1.58%) Entra ID
16 30 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (1.43%) PowerApps
18 27 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
20 21 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.49%) Firewall
2 39 (1.99%) DNS
3 30 (1.53%) SAN
4 29 (1.48%) Internet
5 25 (1.27%) DHCP
6 13 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.56%) SSL
8 10 (0.51%) HTTP
8 10 (0.51%) NAS
9 9 (0.46%) VLAN
10 8 (0.41%) SSH
10 8 (0.41%) VPN
11 7 (0.36%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.36%) Network Security
11 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (0.31%) FTP
13 5 (0.25%) IPsec
14 4 (0.20%) LAN
14 4 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (17.97%) Oracle Database
2 305 (15.53%) SQL Server
3 181 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
4 179 (9.11%) Oracle Reports
5 130 (6.62%) MySQL
6 120 (6.11%) Relational Database
7 99 (5.04%) Power BI
8 85 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
9 78 (3.97%) MongoDB
10 71 (3.62%) NoSQL
11 66 (3.36%) RDBMS
12 47 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
13 43 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (1.68%) Tableau
15 32 (1.63%) Oracle ODI
16 31 (1.58%) Metadata
16 31 (1.58%) Oracle Database 11g
17 27 (1.37%) DB2
18 24 (1.22%) Big Data
19 20 (1.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 112 (5.70%) JIRA
2 101 (5.14%) Git
3 60 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.55%) GitLab
5 46 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
6 41 (2.09%) Oracle APEX
7 33 (1.68%) Selenium
8 28 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.37%) Maven
10 26 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 26 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 18 (0.92%) ERwin
12 17 (0.87%) JMeter
13 16 (0.81%) JUnit
14 13 (0.66%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.61%) Artifactory
16 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 10 (0.51%) Toad
17 9 (0.46%) ER Studio
17 9 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 608 (30.96%) Finance
2 507 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 274 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.79%) Banking
6 58 (2.95%) Legal
7 47 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 39 (1.99%) Retail
10 36 (1.83%) Billing
11 33 (1.68%) Financial Institution
12 32 (1.63%) General Ledger
12 32 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.32%) Back Office
14 24 (1.22%) Front Office
15 23 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (1.12%) Law
17 19 (0.97%) Investment Banking
18 18 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.87%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 442 (22.51%) Developer
2 287 (14.61%) Consultant
3 221 (11.25%) Analyst
4 202 (10.29%) Architect
5 186 (9.47%) Oracle Consultant
6 126 (6.42%) Senior
7 121 (6.16%) Oracle Developer
8 98 (4.99%) DBA
9 94 (4.79%) Lead
10 82 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (3.72%) Functional Consultant
12 70 (3.56%) Java Developer
13 67 (3.41%) Oracle Architect
14 65 (3.31%) Oracle DBA
15 61 (3.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 56 (2.85%) Oracle Analyst
16 56 (2.85%) SQL Developer
17 55 (2.80%) Cloud Consultant
18 51 (2.60%) Business Analyst
19 50 (2.55%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 149 (7.59%) .NET
3 87 (4.43%) XML
4 84 (4.28%) Spring
5 82 (4.18%) SOAP
6 80 (4.07%) Web Services
7 78 (3.97%) REST
8 68 (3.46%) HTML
9 66 (3.36%) Kafka
10 57 (2.90%) Spring Boot
11 55 (2.80%) .NET Framework
12 52 (2.65%) Middleware
13 44 (2.24%) SailPoint
14 41 (2.09%) LDAP
15 40 (2.04%) AngularJS
15 40 (2.04%) React
16 36 (1.83%) RESTful
17 35 (1.78%) CSS
17 35 (1.78%) JSON
18 32 (1.63%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 79 (4.02%) Onboarding
2 61 (3.11%) Replication
3 57 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 43 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (1.93%) Data Centre
7 29 (1.48%) Public Cloud
8 28 (1.43%) Virtual Team
9 24 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.12%) Clustering
12 20 (1.02%) PKI
13 19 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 19 (0.97%) Derivative
14 17 (0.87%) Product Ownership
15 15 (0.76%) Cloud Native
15 15 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
17 13 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 228 (11.61%) Linux
2 193 (9.83%) Windows
3 162 (8.25%) Unix
4 62 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 52 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (1.58%) VMS
7 29 (1.48%) Solaris
8 28 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
11 21 (1.07%) AIX
12 18 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
13 17 (0.87%) Windows 10
14 15 (0.76%) Windows XP
15 5 (0.25%) OpenVMS
16 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.20%) zOS
17 1 (0.051%) CentOS
17 1 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (18.18%) Agile
2 298 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
3 269 (13.70%) Migration
4 259 (13.19%) DevOps
5 221 (11.25%) ERP
6 177 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (6.82%) ETL
8 132 (6.72%) Performance Tuning
9 128 (6.52%) Data Migration
9 128 (6.52%) Project Management
10 126 (6.42%) Data Modelling
11 119 (6.06%) Analytics
12 118 (6.01%) Stakeholder Management
13 116 (5.91%) CI/CD
14 114 (5.80%) Disaster Recovery
15 108 (5.50%) Software Engineering
16 105 (5.35%) Scrum
17 98 (4.99%) Microservices
18 95 (4.84%) Computer Science
19 88 (4.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 716 (36.46%) SQL
2 270 (13.75%) Java
3 261 (13.29%) PL/SQL
4 160 (8.15%) Python
5 141 (7.18%) C#
6 111 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 101 (5.14%) PowerShell
8 96 (4.89%) Shell Script
9 61 (3.11%) T-SQL
10 60 (3.05%) Bash
11 36 (1.83%) C++
12 35 (1.78%) VB
13 32 (1.63%) VBA
14 29 (1.48%) C
15 25 (1.27%) TypeScript
16 20 (1.02%) VB.NET
17 18 (0.92%) Korn
18 15 (0.76%) Go
19 11 (0.56%) XPath
20 10 (0.51%) ProC
Qualifications
1 320 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 271 (13.80%) SC Cleared
3 202 (10.29%) Degree
4 71 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 18 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.92%) PMP
9 17 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 15 (0.76%) CCNP
11 14 (0.71%) CCNA
12 13 (0.66%) APMP
13 12 (0.61%) Azure Certification
13 12 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.56%) ACCA
14 11 (0.56%) CISSP
15 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.40%) QA
2 48 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 43 (2.19%) GDPR
4 19 (0.97%) GAAP
5 17 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
6 16 (0.81%) PMO
7 13 (0.66%) SLA
8 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.36%) MiFID
11 6 (0.31%) EMIR
12 5 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
12 5 (0.25%) GRC
12 5 (0.25%) NCSC
13 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.15%) GxP
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 124 (6.31%) Active Directory
2 83 (4.23%) Docker
3 55 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.43%) IAG
6 25 (1.27%) ACF2
6 25 (1.27%) RACF
7 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.92%) vSphere
9 16 (0.81%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
10 12 (0.61%) KVM
11 5 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.20%) HDFS
12 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.051%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 1 (0.051%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 103 (5.24%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.63%) Terraform
3 65 (3.31%) Ansible
4 29 (1.48%) Data Guard
5 27 (1.37%) NetBackup
5 27 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
7 21 (1.07%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 20 (1.02%) WSUS
9 18 (0.92%) Grafana
9 18 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.81%) SCCM
11 14 (0.71%) SCOM
12 12 (0.61%) Tivoli
13 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.41%) Kibana
14 8 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
14 8 (0.41%) Packer
14 8 (0.41%) Puppet
14 8 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 308 (15.68%) Microsoft
2 193 (9.83%) SAP
3 90 (4.58%) Salesforce
4 82 (4.18%) VMware
5 67 (3.41%) IBM
6 60 (3.05%) Google
7 59 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 46 (2.34%) Sybase
9 43 (2.19%) Informatica
10 38 (1.93%) Red Hat
11 36 (1.83%) HP
12 34 (1.73%) CyberArk
13 32 (1.63%) Cisco
13 32 (1.63%) Citrix
14 30 (1.53%) EMC
15 26 (1.32%) MuleSoft
16 25 (1.27%) Dell
17 24 (1.22%) Databricks
18 23 (1.17%) Sparx
19 22 (1.12%) Symantec