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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 112 126
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +26
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 8 14 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.39% 0.65% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 3.29% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £390 £386 £400
25th Percentile £407 £475 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% +5.89%
75th Percentile £565 £553 £588
90th Percentile £585 £560 £658
London median daily rate £439 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -17.90% +18.89% -5.26%

All Database & BI 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 362 425 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.56% 19.81% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 281 390
10th Percentile £325 £413 £412
25th Percentile £409 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £685 £700
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
London median daily rate £525 £566 £560
% change year-on-year -7.28% +1.12% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £37.20 £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £37.88 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -42.43%
75th Percentile £35.50 £41.38 £47.19
90th Percentile - £41.60 £49.03
London median hourly rate £46.50 £40.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +14.81% -7.43% -1.27%

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 25 January 2026.

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 25 January 2026. 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 7 £525 +5.00% 1
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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQLPlus
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Metadata
2 1 (12.50%) OLAP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Toad
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) Xcode
2 1 (12.50%) XCTest
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Database Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) IAM Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) Material-UI
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) ETL
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) RBAC
2 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Database Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) PHP
4 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (12.50%) Groovy
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (12.50%) OCP
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) NIST 800
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Data Guard
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk