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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 112 134
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +19
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 16 18 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.82% 0.78% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.83% 3.69% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 13
10th Percentile - £363 -
25th Percentile £359 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £493 £495
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% -0.51% -17.50%
75th Percentile £463 £571 £575
90th Percentile £657 £671 £647
London median daily rate £408 £500 £428
% change year-on-year -18.50% +16.96% -19.34%

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 418 488 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.42% 21.03% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 352 439
10th Percentile £385 £413 £377
25th Percentile £425 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £700
90th Percentile £800 £815 £788
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
10th Percentile £25.80 £37.20 £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £37.88 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £40.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% -9.09% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 £41.60 £51.05
London median hourly rate £53.75 £47.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +13.16% -11.63% -2.27%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +5 11 £435 -3.87% 4
Oracle Database
London

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (6.25%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Redis
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 6 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 5 (31.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (31.25%) Git
3 5 (31.25%) JUnit
3 5 (31.25%) Maven
3 5 (31.25%) Mockito
3 5 (31.25%) Postman
3 5 (31.25%) REST Assured
3 5 (31.25%) SoapUI
3 5 (31.25%) SonarQube
3 5 (31.25%) Subversion
3 5 (31.25%) Xcode
3 5 (31.25%) XCTest
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 8 (50.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Database Specialist
1 3 (18.75%) DBA
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Administrator
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Automation Developer
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Scientist
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
1 5 (31.25%) Bootstrap
1 5 (31.25%) CSS
1 5 (31.25%) CSS3
1 5 (31.25%) Hibernate
1 5 (31.25%) HTML
1 5 (31.25%) HTML5
1 5 (31.25%) J2EE
1 5 (31.25%) JPA
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
1 5 (31.25%) Material-UI
1 5 (31.25%) REST
1 5 (31.25%) SOAP
1 5 (31.25%) Spring
1 5 (31.25%) Spring Boot
1 5 (31.25%) Spring Cloud
1 5 (31.25%) Spring MVC
1 5 (31.25%) Swagger
1 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
4 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (37.50%) Multithreading
4 5 (31.25%) Architectural Design
4 5 (31.25%) Code Quality
4 5 (31.25%) Concurrent Programming
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (31.25%) Front End Development
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
4 5 (31.25%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) MVC
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
4 5 (31.25%) Software Architecture
4 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Static Code Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) Groovy
3 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (31.25%) Shell Script
4 3 (18.75%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) AWK
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (12.50%) sed
6 1 (6.25%) C++
6 1 (6.25%) COBOL
6 1 (6.25%) JCL
6 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) OCP
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
1 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
1 1 (6.25%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) GPFS
2 2 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Ambari
3 1 (6.25%) Data Guard
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (6.25%) Puppet
3 1 (6.25%) Tivoli
3 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (31.25%) Dynatrace
2 5 (31.25%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) UiPath
4 1 (6.25%) IBM
4 1 (6.25%) Temenos
4 1 (6.25%) VMware