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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 113 117
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +43
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 11 15 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.61% 0.70% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.17% 3.36% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 13
10th Percentile £394 £393 -
25th Percentile £420 £402 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £496 £495
Median % change year-on-year +9.82% +0.25% -17.50%
75th Percentile £614 £534 £580
90th Percentile £675 £572 £656
Central London median daily rate £463 £507 £495
% change year-on-year -8.72% +2.37% -17.50%

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 347 447 528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.31% 20.93% 20.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 300 357
10th Percentile £341 £413 £375
25th Percentile £423 £481 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £595
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -1.26% -0.83%
75th Percentile £675 £703 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £793
Central London median daily rate £550 £585 £595
% change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £32.15 - -
25th Percentile £32.38 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.32% +1.32% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%

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 December 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 & 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 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) JBoss
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (9.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) OCI
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Exadata
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) SQLPlus
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) OLAP
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Toad
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Database Specialist
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) DBA
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL DBA
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Migration Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Database Developer
3 1 (9.09%) IAM Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (9.09%) REST
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%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) High Availability
3 2 (18.18%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Runbook
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Model Validation
4 1 (9.09%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) PL/SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
4 2 (18.18%) AWK
4 2 (18.18%) Perl
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
4 2 (18.18%) sed
4 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) C++
5 1 (9.09%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) CESG Certified Professional
2 1 (9.09%) OCP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) HIPAA
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) GPFS
1 2 (18.18%) NFS
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) CyberArk
3 1 (9.09%) Temenos