Oracle Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 190 218
Rank change year-on-year -60 +28 -18
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 148 295 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.26% 1.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.78% 8.18% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 190 251
10th Percentile £356 £381 £381
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £627 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £482 £513
% change year-on-year +8.92% -5.95% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 7
10th Percentile £41.44 £47.25 £14.28
25th Percentile - £55.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £61.60 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% +37.86% -8.47%
75th Percentile - £73.71 £48.23
90th Percentile - £77.00 £53.87
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £73.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year -15.74% +72.01% -7.61%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Oracle Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,560 3,607 5,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.50% 15.38% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 2,589 3,804
10th Percentile £316 £337 £327
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.61%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 114 130
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.27 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.68 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +35 55 £475 +2.70% 9
South East +22 55 £633 +15.00% 11
South West -16 14 £650 +30.00% 6
Midlands -14 10 £363 -29.30% 5
East Midlands +28 9 £363 -3.33% 2
North of England 0 8 £470 -12.96% 3
North West -7 6 £470 -21.01% 2
Wales +18 5 £525 -2.33% 5
Yorkshire +14 2 £485 -5.37% 1
East of England -20 1 £395 -27.16% 2
West Midlands -29 1 £400 -24.53% 3
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (2.03%) Apache
1 3 (2.03%) Confluence
1 3 (2.03%) SharePoint
1 3 (2.03%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.35%) JBoss
2 2 (1.35%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (1.35%) WildFly
3 1 (0.68%) Appian
3 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (4.73%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.35%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.03%) AWS
2 12 (8.11%) Serverless
3 11 (7.43%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.73%) OCI
6 6 (4.05%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (4.05%) Azure
7 5 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.38%) AWS CodeBuild
7 5 (3.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 5 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.38%) GitHub
8 4 (2.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (2.03%) GCP
9 3 (2.03%) IaaS
10 2 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.35%) PaaS
11 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) Firewall
2 4 (2.70%) FTP
3 2 (1.35%) Network Security
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.68%) IPsec
4 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (20.27%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (18.92%) Oracle Database 11g
3 17 (11.49%) SQL Server
4 16 (10.81%) Metadata
5 10 (6.76%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (6.08%) Oracle Database 12c
6 9 (6.08%) SAP HANA
7 8 (5.41%) MongoDB
8 6 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.38%) Oracle8/8i Database
9 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.03%) MySQL
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle Discoverer
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (2.03%) PowerCenter
10 3 (2.03%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.35%) DB2
Development Applications
1 17 (11.49%) Oracle APEX
2 9 (6.08%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (5.41%) Git
4 7 (4.73%) JIRA
5 6 (4.05%) Maven
6 3 (2.03%) GitLab
7 2 (1.35%) JUnit
7 2 (1.35%) Selenium
7 2 (1.35%) Subversion
7 2 (1.35%) TestRail
8 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.68%) Postman
8 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (33.11%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 19 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.78%) Finance
5 8 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.38%) Back Office
6 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (35.81%) Developer
2 22 (14.86%) Architect
3 21 (14.19%) DBA
4 18 (12.16%) Consultant
4 18 (12.16%) Senior
5 16 (10.81%) Oracle DBA
6 14 (9.46%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 12 (8.11%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (6.08%) SAP Basis Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) SAP Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) SAP Technical Consultant
9 9 (6.08%) Technical Consultant
10 8 (5.41%) Analyst
10 8 (5.41%) Oracle Architect
11 7 (4.73%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.73%) Test Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) Oracle Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) PL/SQL Developer
12 6 (4.05%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.16%) React
2 15 (10.14%) CSS
2 15 (10.14%) REST
3 12 (8.11%) AWS CDK
3 12 (8.11%) HTML
4 11 (7.43%) Spring
5 9 (6.08%) Node.js
5 9 (6.08%) SAP Basis
5 9 (6.08%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.41%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 6 (4.05%) SAP Fiori
7 6 (4.05%) SOAP
7 6 (4.05%) XML
8 5 (3.38%) Web Services
9 4 (2.70%) Kafka
9 4 (2.70%) Spring Batch
10 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.03%) JPA
10 3 (2.03%) Middleware
11 2 (1.35%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.14%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (9.46%) Replication
3 9 (6.08%) Blog
4 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.03%) Tandem
6 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.68%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.68%) Clustering
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.92%) Unix
2 25 (16.89%) Linux
3 12 (8.11%) Windows
4 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
5 5 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.38%) VMS
6 4 (2.70%) AIX
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle Linux
7 3 (2.03%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.35%) Solaris
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (31.08%) Performance Tuning
2 43 (29.05%) Migration
3 41 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (19.59%) High Availability
5 25 (16.89%) Unit Testing
6 23 (15.54%) Data Migration
7 22 (14.86%) DevOps
8 21 (14.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (12.84%) Agile
9 19 (12.84%) Software Testing
10 18 (12.16%) Software Engineering
11 16 (10.81%) Clean Code
11 16 (10.81%) Secure Coding
12 15 (10.14%) Architectural Design
13 13 (8.78%) Security Management
14 12 (8.11%) Microservices
14 12 (8.11%) SQL Optimisation
15 11 (7.43%) CI/CD
15 11 (7.43%) Data Protection
15 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 79 (53.38%) SQL
2 54 (36.49%) PL/SQL
3 25 (16.89%) Java
4 24 (16.22%) Shell Script
5 14 (9.46%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.78%) Bash
6 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.76%) Python
8 3 (2.03%) C
9 2 (1.35%) ProC
10 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (31.08%) Security Cleared
2 40 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.46%) Degree
4 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.38%) SAP Certification
6 3 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.68%) MCSE
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.46%) Oracle RAC
2 11 (7.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.73%) Docker
4 4 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.35%) KVM
5 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (8.78%) Data Guard
2 9 (6.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (4.05%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (3.38%) Terraform
5 4 (2.70%) Ansible
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.35%) Packer
7 2 (1.35%) vRealize
8 1 (0.68%) Grafana
8 1 (0.68%) Kibana
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 148 (100.00%) Oracle
2 16 (10.81%) SAP
3 9 (6.08%) VMware
4 7 (4.73%) Informatica
5 4 (2.70%) Commvault
5 4 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.03%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco
7 2 (1.35%) EMC
7 2 (1.35%) Google
7 2 (1.35%) JDA
7 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.68%) Fujitsu
8 1 (0.68%) IBM
8 1 (0.68%) Kenna
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) Zscaler