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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 110 124
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 +30
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 11 17 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.63% 0.82% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.73% 3.80% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 15
10th Percentile £386 £363 £400
25th Percentile £410 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% -9.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £590 £546 £589
90th Percentile £675 £676 £643
Central London median daily rate £415 £493 £505
% change year-on-year -15.74% -2.48% -15.83%

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 403 447 638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.91% 21.60% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 319 421
10th Percentile £400 £405 £400
25th Percentile £438 £489 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +0.42%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £800 £825 £790
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.80 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.25 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile £78.25 - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £38.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -12.50% -22.12%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 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 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (9.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Database Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Automation Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Replication
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) NHS
3 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Business Case
3 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Data Reconciliation
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) AWK
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 2 (18.18%) sed
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) OCP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) ISO 20022
1 1 (9.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) GPFS
1 2 (18.18%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Ambari
2 1 (9.09%) Data Guard
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
2 1 (9.09%) Tivoli
2 1 (9.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) UiPath
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Temenos
3 1 (9.09%) VMware