Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 102 114
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 +49
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 7 10 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.37% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.68% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
10th Percentile £406 £358 £414
25th Percentile £460 £400 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +5.89%
75th Percentile £565 £525 £588
90th Percentile £591 £563 £666
Central London median daily rate £525 £520 £575
% change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% +10.26%

All Database & BI Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 329 373 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.44% 20.04% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 238 350
10th Percentile £326 £405 £413
25th Percentile £407 £472 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £670 £685 £700
90th Percentile £749 £753 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £38.88
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 £40.19
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -10.98% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 £47.19
90th Percentile - - £49.03
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year -15.00% -7.51% -48.57%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the City of London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the City of London

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
1 2 (28.57%) SQLPlus
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) OLAP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Toad
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) IAM Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (14.29%) OCP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) NIST 800
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Data Guard
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft