Oracle Database Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 108 143
Rank change year-on-year 0 +35 +17
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 13 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.19% 3.66% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 12
10th Percentile £400 £363 £429
25th Percentile £409 £406 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £547 £505
Median % change year-on-year -20.02% +8.32% -6.05%
75th Percentile £675 £588 £582
90th Percentile £738 £668 £627
Central London median daily rate £433 £489 £505
% change year-on-year -11.60% -3.12% -3.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 407 492 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.88% 23.09% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 347 433
10th Percentile £404 £400 £420
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +1.91%
75th Percentile £690 £711 £730
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £557 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -3.07% -4.17% +1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £22.70 - £42.50
25th Percentile £32.00 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £63.75 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £85.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.33 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -29.23% -42.32% +52.89%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the City of London

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the City of London

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the City of London

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the City of London

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.69%) JBoss
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) DBA
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Database Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Database Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL DBA
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Clustering
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) High Availability
1 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Database Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Database Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) Security Patching
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) AWK
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) sed
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.69%) ISO 20022
2 1 (7.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) GPFS
1 2 (15.38%) NFS
2 1 (7.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (7.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) UiPath
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) NetApp
3 1 (7.69%) Temenos