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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 105 115
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +53
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 7 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.34% 0.71% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 3.41% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £432 £379 £405
25th Percentile £481 £400 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% +10.26%
75th Percentile £565 £625 £588
90th Percentile £594 £741 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £523 £523
% change year-on-year +0.48% - +10.00%

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 364 381 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.93% 20.88% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 250 336
10th Percentile £338 £405 £406
25th Percentile £413 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% -0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £713
90th Percentile £744 £752 £813
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £55.81 £36.75 £46.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%
75th Percentile £59.72 £40.25 £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £38.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +50.04% -20.62% -42.32%

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 8 March 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 3 (42.86%) OCI
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 OLAP
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Toad
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (28.57%) CyberArk Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
4 1 (14.29%) IAM Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
2 2 (28.57%) SIEM
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
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%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
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%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix