Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in Central London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 114 123
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 15 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.77% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.81% 4.19% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 13
10th Percentile £359 £351 -
25th Percentile £368 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £503 £495
Median % change year-on-year -15.81% +1.69% -17.50%
75th Percentile £520 £553 £580
90th Percentile £662 £582 £620
London median daily rate £415 £533 £400
% change year-on-year -22.07% +33.13% -21.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 394 477 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.12% 20.23% 19.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 334 377
10th Percentile £358 £405 £375
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £766 £814 £805
London median daily rate £525 £575 £568
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £22.70 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile - £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £45.53
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.10% -17.22%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in Central London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in Central London over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in Central London

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
City of London -4 12 £433 -12.18% 11
Oracle Database
London

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (6.67%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) OCI
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 3 (20.00%) Redis
4 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) OLAP
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI
5 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) JUnit
3 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 3 (20.00%) Mockito
3 3 (20.00%) Postman
3 3 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 3 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (20.00%) Subversion
3 3 (20.00%) Xcode
3 3 (20.00%) XCTest
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Database Specialist
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Administrator
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Automation Developer
2 2 (13.33%) DBA
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) Bootstrap
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) CSS3
2 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) HTML5
2 3 (20.00%) J2EE
2 3 (20.00%) JPA
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) Material-UI
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Spring MVC
2 3 (20.00%) Swagger
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
2 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (26.67%) Multithreading
4 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (20.00%) Concurrent Programming
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 3 (20.00%) MVC
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) SDLC
4 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
4 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) TDD
4 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) Groovy
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (13.33%) AWK
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) sed
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.67%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (6.67%) OCP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) GDPR
1 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
1 1 (6.67%) ISO 20022
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
1 1 (6.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) GPFS
2 2 (13.33%) NFS
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (6.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Ambari
2 1 (6.67%) Data Guard
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (20.00%) Splunk
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) UiPath
4 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
4 1 (6.67%) IBM
4 1 (6.67%) Temenos