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 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,992 3,267 5,152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.59% 5.50% 5.81%
As % of the Vendors category 10.77% 12.82% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 2,126 3,473
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 46
10th Percentile £18.43 £35.84 £17.17
25th Percentile £25.50 £53.13 £33.64
Median hourly rate £33.25 £64.50 £36.38
Median % change year-on-year -48.45% +77.32% -14.41%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £59.30 £36.00
% change year-on-year -35.07% +64.71% -11.11%

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 18,495 25,474 35,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.90% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,451 17,055 23,537
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 694 894
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.22 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.01
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.57 £21.15
Median % change year-on-year -49.50% +105.96% -5.65%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £46.72
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.53 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +106.05% +1.00%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -3 1,518 £550 - 551
London +6 918 £575 - 242
Work from Home -2 795 £550 +2.80% 258
UK excluding London -13 733 £525 - 364
South East -4 228 £571 +6.28% 63
Scotland +5 184 £523 +5.98% 56
North of England -24 108 £500 -9.09% 78
Midlands -15 107 £480 -10.78% 59
North West -13 70 £500 -16.67% 38
South West -26 65 £514 +2.75% 50
West Midlands -30 61 £536 -0.37% 46
East Midlands +8 42 £400 -23.81% 13
Yorkshire -10 30 £513 -6.82% 21
East of England -30 20 £600 +12.94% 28
Wales +6 16 £475 -9.52% 10
North East -6 8 £450 -14.29% 20
Northern Ireland +9 5 £650 +18.18% 26

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 50 (2.51%) SharePoint
2 49 (2.46%) Confluence
3 31 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 29 (1.46%) Apache
5 28 (1.41%) IIS
6 19 (0.95%) JBoss
7 18 (0.90%) WebLogic
8 16 (0.80%) Tomcat
9 15 (0.75%) WebSphere
10 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
11 11 (0.55%) Apache Spark
11 11 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.55%) SAS
11 11 (0.55%) Site Server
12 9 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.45%) nginx
13 7 (0.35%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.15%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 103 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.41%) MS Visio
3 39 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 155 (7.78%) Oracle EBS
2 76 (3.82%) Oracle Payables
3 68 (3.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 65 (3.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 62 (3.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 55 (2.76%) Oracle General Ledger
7 53 (2.66%) Oracle Assets
8 51 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
9 44 (2.21%) Oracle Cash Management
10 40 (2.01%) Oracle Financials
11 26 (1.31%) Endur
11 26 (1.31%) Oracle Applications
11 26 (1.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 20 (1.00%) Oracle AGIS
13 18 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
13 18 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
14 17 (0.85%) Maximo
15 16 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
16 15 (0.75%) Temenos T24
17 14 (0.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 340 (17.07%) Azure
2 314 (15.76%) OCI
3 280 (14.06%) AWS
4 114 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 104 (5.22%) SaaS
6 91 (4.57%) GitHub
7 70 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (3.41%) Serverless
9 65 (3.26%) GCP
10 54 (2.71%) IaaS
11 47 (2.36%) PaaS
12 43 (2.16%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (1.36%) Entra ID
17 26 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
18 25 (1.26%) PowerApps
19 24 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.66%) Firewall
2 41 (2.06%) DNS
3 32 (1.61%) SAN
4 27 (1.36%) DHCP
4 27 (1.36%) Internet
5 16 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.75%) HTTP
7 13 (0.65%) NAS
8 12 (0.60%) SSL
8 12 (0.60%) VLAN
9 10 (0.50%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.45%) Network Security
10 9 (0.45%) VPN
11 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.30%) 5G
12 6 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.25%) FTP
13 5 (0.25%) IPsec
14 4 (0.20%) LAN
14 4 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (17.67%) Oracle Database
2 298 (14.96%) SQL Server
3 191 (9.59%) Oracle Reports
4 188 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
5 121 (6.07%) MySQL
6 110 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 99 (4.97%) Power BI
8 98 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
9 75 (3.77%) MongoDB
10 71 (3.56%) NoSQL
11 57 (2.86%) RDBMS
12 44 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 40 (2.01%) Oracle Database 11g
14 39 (1.96%) Oracle ODI
15 36 (1.81%) Tableau
16 34 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
16 34 (1.71%) Metadata
17 25 (1.26%) Oracle BI EE
18 23 (1.15%) DB2
18 23 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 122 (6.12%) JIRA
2 102 (5.12%) Git
3 65 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.66%) GitLab
5 48 (2.41%) Oracle APEX
5 48 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
6 34 (1.71%) Selenium
7 31 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.36%) Maven
9 26 (1.31%) TeamCity
10 25 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.15%) ERwin
12 19 (0.95%) JUnit
13 16 (0.80%) JMeter
14 13 (0.65%) ER Studio
14 13 (0.65%) LoadRunner
15 12 (0.60%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.55%) Toad
17 10 (0.50%) Postman
18 8 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 641 (32.18%) Finance
2 501 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 277 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 154 (7.73%) Banking
6 51 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 50 (2.51%) Retail
8 46 (2.31%) Legal
9 42 (2.11%) Billing
10 40 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 34 (1.71%) General Ledger
12 31 (1.56%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.51%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.46%) Law
15 25 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.20%) Back Office
17 21 (1.05%) Front Office
18 20 (1.00%) Investment Banking
19 17 (0.85%) Local Government
20 15 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 421 (21.13%) Developer
2 267 (13.40%) Consultant
3 230 (11.55%) Analyst
4 215 (10.79%) Architect
5 173 (8.68%) Oracle Consultant
6 119 (5.97%) Senior
7 111 (5.57%) Lead
8 109 (5.47%) Oracle Developer
9 101 (5.07%) DBA
10 83 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 77 (3.87%) Oracle Architect
12 73 (3.66%) Functional Consultant
13 69 (3.46%) Java Developer
14 66 (3.31%) Oracle DBA
15 62 (3.11%) Oracle Analyst
15 62 (3.11%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 59 (2.96%) SQL Developer
17 58 (2.91%) Business Analyst
18 54 (2.71%) Cloud Consultant
18 54 (2.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 137 (6.88%) .NET
3 83 (4.17%) XML
4 82 (4.12%) Spring
5 80 (4.02%) Web Services
6 76 (3.82%) REST
7 75 (3.77%) SOAP
8 67 (3.36%) Kafka
9 61 (3.06%) HTML
10 57 (2.86%) .NET Framework
10 57 (2.86%) Spring Boot
11 44 (2.21%) AngularJS
12 42 (2.11%) LDAP
12 42 (2.11%) Middleware
13 41 (2.06%) React
13 41 (2.06%) SailPoint
14 38 (1.91%) JSON
15 37 (1.86%) CSS
16 34 (1.71%) RESTful
17 33 (1.66%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 71 (3.56%) Onboarding
2 60 (3.01%) Management Information System
3 57 (2.86%) Replication
4 40 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (1.81%) Data Centre
5 36 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 26 (1.31%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.05%) Clustering
9 21 (1.05%) Derivative
10 20 (1.00%) PKI
11 18 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (0.90%) Product Ownership
12 16 (0.80%) Cloud Native
12 16 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.65%) Blog
13 13 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 212 (10.64%) Linux
2 174 (8.73%) Windows
3 159 (7.98%) Unix
4 61 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 51 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (1.76%) Solaris
7 30 (1.51%) VMS
8 28 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
9 26 (1.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (1.05%) AIX
12 18 (0.90%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
14 14 (0.70%) Windows XP
15 6 (0.30%) OpenVMS
16 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 2 (0.10%) zOS
19 1 (0.050%) CentOS
19 1 (0.050%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (18.27%) Agile
2 297 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
3 285 (14.31%) Migration
4 250 (12.55%) DevOps
5 239 (12.00%) ERP
6 190 (9.54%) Business Intelligence
7 148 (7.43%) Data Migration
8 145 (7.28%) ETL
9 141 (7.08%) Performance Tuning
10 139 (6.98%) Data Modelling
11 123 (6.17%) Project Management
11 123 (6.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 122 (6.12%) Analytics
13 119 (5.97%) CI/CD
14 116 (5.82%) Disaster Recovery
15 109 (5.47%) Software Engineering
16 103 (5.17%) Microservices
17 100 (5.02%) Scrum
18 99 (4.97%) User Acceptance Testing
19 90 (4.52%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 710 (35.64%) SQL
2 271 (13.60%) PL/SQL
3 265 (13.30%) Java
4 156 (7.83%) Python
5 134 (6.73%) C#
6 110 (5.52%) JavaScript
7 99 (4.97%) PowerShell
8 85 (4.27%) Shell Script
9 64 (3.21%) T-SQL
10 63 (3.16%) Bash
11 36 (1.81%) C++
12 32 (1.61%) VBA
13 28 (1.41%) C
13 28 (1.41%) VB
14 25 (1.26%) TypeScript
15 21 (1.05%) Korn
15 21 (1.05%) VB.NET
16 16 (0.80%) Go
17 12 (0.60%) XPath
18 10 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 306 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 261 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 208 (10.44%) Degree
4 69 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.91%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.00%) PMP
8 19 (0.95%) ISTQB
8 19 (0.95%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.70%) CCNA
11 14 (0.70%) CCNP
12 13 (0.65%) APMP
13 12 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.55%) ACCA
15 10 (0.50%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.45%) CISSP
16 9 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.27%) QA
2 48 (2.41%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.36%) GDPR
4 22 (1.10%) Disclosure Scotland
5 20 (1.00%) GAAP
6 15 (0.75%) PMO
6 15 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (0.70%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.50%) SLA
9 8 (0.40%) GRC
10 6 (0.30%) MiFID
11 5 (0.25%) EMIR
11 5 (0.25%) NCSC
12 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
12 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 110 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 81 (4.07%) Docker
3 57 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.41%) IAG
5 25 (1.26%) ACF2
5 25 (1.26%) RACF
6 21 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
6 21 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.90%) vSphere
9 14 (0.70%) Hyper-V
10 11 (0.55%) KVM
11 5 (0.25%) HDFS
12 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.050%) Cronacle
14 1 (0.050%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 99 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.57%) Terraform
3 66 (3.31%) Ansible
4 33 (1.66%) Data Guard
5 26 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
5 26 (1.31%) NetBackup
6 24 (1.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 22 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.90%) WSUS
9 17 (0.85%) Grafana
9 17 (0.85%) Tivoli
9 17 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.70%) SCCM
11 13 (0.65%) SCOM
12 12 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (0.55%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.40%) Kibana
14 8 (0.40%) Packer
14 8 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 301 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 187 (9.39%) SAP
3 88 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 84 (4.22%) VMware
5 71 (3.56%) IBM
6 60 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 56 (2.81%) Google
8 49 (2.46%) Informatica
9 44 (2.21%) HP
10 42 (2.11%) Red Hat
11 41 (2.06%) Sybase
12 37 (1.86%) Cisco
13 33 (1.66%) Citrix
13 33 (1.66%) EMC
14 28 (1.41%) Sparx
15 27 (1.36%) Dell
16 25 (1.26%) MuleSoft
17 24 (1.20%) Databricks
18 23 (1.15%) CyberArk
18 23 (1.15%) Workday