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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 111 109
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 17 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.74% 0.67% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.31% 2.91% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 12
10th Percentile £515 £395 £363
25th Percentile £568 £404 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £645 £433 £453
Median % change year-on-year +49.13% -4.42% -9.50%
75th Percentile £675 £572 £546
90th Percentile £710 £675 £676
Central London median daily rate £645 £400 £486
% change year-on-year +61.25% -17.70% -3.76%

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 394 412 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.20% 22.89% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 274 329
10th Percentile £362 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £436 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £577 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% -3.92% -
75th Percentile £664 £688 £719
90th Percentile £763 £800 £817
Central London median daily rate £572 £563 £588
% change year-on-year +1.69% -4.26% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

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 1 September 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 3 (17.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle FAH
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Internet Expenses
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (5.88%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Data Mart
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQLPlus
4 1 (5.88%) Metadata
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) eggPlant
1 1 (5.88%) JDeveloper
1 1 (5.88%) JMeter
1 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (5.88%) Postman
1 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
1 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (64.71%) Banking
2 8 (47.06%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Database Developer
5 2 (11.76%) DBA
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Business Support Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Oracle Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Summit Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Support
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
2 4 (23.53%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) JSON
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) Middleware
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
4 1 (5.88%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
2 1 (5.88%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Unix
2 5 (29.41%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Unit Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Coaching
2 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
2 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
2 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (23.53%) Analytics
3 4 (23.53%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
3 4 (23.53%) Data Strategy
3 4 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
3 4 (23.53%) DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) ETL
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) PL/SQL
4 6 (35.29%) C#
5 4 (23.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (11.76%) C
6 2 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.76%) ProC
7 1 (5.88%) Groovy
7 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Control-M
1 1 (5.88%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Citrix
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) SAP