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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 110 116
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 +36
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 7 14 17
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.28% 0.71% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 3.23% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 15
10th Percentile £488 £363 £382
25th Percentile £531 £393 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £438 £486
Median % change year-on-year +29.14% -9.98% -8.09%
75th Percentile £601 £534 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £683
London median daily rate £500 £425 £531
% change year-on-year +17.65% -20.00% +18.06%

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 417 433 527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.90% 21.91% 21.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 280 358
10th Percentile £350 £404 £410
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £700
90th Percentile £739 £763 £791
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £30.18 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £31.85 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £67.34 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £86.94 -
London median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -9.09%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -15 7 £565 +17.40% 6
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 (28.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQLPlus
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) IAM Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Summit Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
1 1 (14.29%) Derivative
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
1 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (14.29%) Market Risk
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) CyberArk