Oracle Certification Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 602 475 512
Rank change year-on-year -127 +37 +55
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 33 37 21
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.071% 0.13% 0.066%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% 0.41% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 13
10th Percentile £350 £410 £442
25th Percentile £438 £446 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £487 £638
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -23.69% +13.33%
75th Percentile £571 £675 £675
90th Percentile £825 £696 £750
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £613
% change year-on-year -18.18% -10.20% +16.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Oracle Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,073 8,936 9,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.38% 32.01% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,009 5,683 5,769
10th Percentile £353 £292 £313
25th Percentile £448 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £712 £732
UK median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 751 497
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £19.62
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £30.41
Median hourly rate £48.81 £25.15 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.08% -52.10% -1.87%
75th Percentile £74.00 £43.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £90.60 £72.50 £75.74
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.35%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Oracle Certification job vacancy trend in England

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Certification in England over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Certification in England

Oracle Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 13 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -79 12 £613 -2.78% 24
Midlands -34 11 £448 - 1
West Midlands -42 9 £447 -
North of England -54 7 £510 -21.54% 1
North West -47 4 £520 -20.00%
Yorkshire -32 3 £356 - 1
South East -79 2 £548 +18.63%
East Midlands - 2 £490 - 1
Oracle Certification
UK

Oracle Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (6.06%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) OCI
2 2 (6.06%) AWS
2 2 (6.06%) Azure
2 2 (6.06%) GCP
2 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
3 1 (3.03%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle Database
1 13 (39.39%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (36.36%) MySQL
2 12 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (6.06%) SQLite
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
General
1 26 (78.79%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.03%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (57.58%) DBA
2 12 (36.36%) Administrator
3 11 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
4 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared DBA
5 6 (18.18%) SQL DBA
6 4 (12.12%) Consultant
7 3 (9.09%) Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Database Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Oracle Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
7 3 (9.09%) Support Specialist
8 2 (6.06%) Data Migration Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Oracle HRMS Architect
8 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL DBA
8 2 (6.06%) Solaris Administrator
8 2 (6.06%) Support Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Unix Administrator
8 2 (6.06%) Unix DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (6.06%) Middleware
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
1 6 (18.18%) Unix
2 5 (15.15%) Solaris
3 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Performance Tuning
2 15 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
4 11 (33.33%) Database Security
5 7 (21.21%) Data Management
5 7 (21.21%) Validation
6 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 6 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (15.15%) Database Tuning
7 5 (15.15%) High Availability
8 4 (12.12%) Business Continuity
8 4 (12.12%) ITIL
8 4 (12.12%) Time Management
9 3 (9.09%) Data Migration
9 3 (9.09%) ERP
9 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 3 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (6.06%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.03%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (57.58%) OCP
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) Security Cleared
3 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (12.12%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (6.06%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.03%) etcd
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Data Guard
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (84.85%) Oracle
2 15 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat