Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 235 279
Rank change year-on-year -46 +44 -21
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 280 314 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.02% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.31% 5.69% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 217 240
10th Percentile £255 £363 £382
25th Percentile £364 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £535 £471
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% +13.71% -10.38%
75th Percentile £538 £645 £575
90th Percentile £630 £699 £660
UK median daily rate £438 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -18.22% +12.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £75.25 £58.14 £28.76
25th Percentile £79.38 £60.36 £48.65
Median hourly rate £90.00 £61.60 £75.28
Median % change year-on-year +46.10% -18.17% +50.55%
75th Percentile £101.88 - £91.13
90th Percentile £106.75 - £92.70
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £61.60 £75.28
% change year-on-year +46.10% -18.17% +71.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,276 5,517 6,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 17.84% 16.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 3,716 4,726
10th Percentile £327 £350 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 80 140
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.95 £19.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.98 £25.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -7.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.19 £69.06
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -5.00%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in England

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
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 Database within the England region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. 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 -77 120 £408 -22.38% 11
Midlands +15 49 £515 +24.85% 15
West Midlands +10 41 £519 -2.08% 12
North of England -19 36 £450 -10.89% 5
South East -13 35 £220 -66.15% 11
Yorkshire -16 19 £480 -15.23% 2
East of England +5 18 £288 - 1
North West -17 17 £433 -8.12% 3
South West +17 14 £613 +36.11% 5
East Midlands -13 7 £349 -8.46% 3
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
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 23 (8.21%) SAS
2 19 (6.79%) IIS
3 15 (5.36%) JBoss
4 14 (5.00%) WebSphere
5 13 (4.64%) Apache
6 12 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (3.57%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (3.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (2.86%) WebLogic
10 6 (2.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (1.79%) Confluence
12 4 (1.43%) HCL Notes
12 4 (1.43%) SharePoint
13 3 (1.07%) CICS
13 3 (1.07%) LiveLink
13 3 (1.07%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (1.07%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 26 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.79%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (1.43%) Temenos T24
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) OpenText MBPM
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.36%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 46 (16.43%) AWS
2 43 (15.36%) Azure
3 17 (6.07%) OpenShift
4 14 (5.00%) OCI
5 12 (4.29%) Serverless
6 11 (3.93%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.21%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.21%) GitHub
9 7 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 6 (2.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.14%) dbt
10 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
10 6 (2.14%) SaaS
11 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.79%) Collibra
11 5 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.79%) PaaS
12 4 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 8 (2.86%) Internet
3 6 (2.14%) LAN
4 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.07%) HTTP
5 3 (1.07%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.07%) SSL
6 2 (0.71%) Firewall
7 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.36%) SAN
7 1 (0.36%) VoIP
7 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (23.93%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (7.86%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 21 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (6.79%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.00%) MySQL
6 14 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (4.29%) Oracle Database 12c
7 12 (4.29%) Oracle Exadata
8 10 (3.57%) Power BI
8 10 (3.57%) RDBMS
9 8 (2.86%) Oracle ODI
9 8 (2.86%) Pentaho
10 7 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.50%) Delta Lake
10 7 (2.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 7 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (17.14%) Git
2 39 (13.93%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.29%) JIRA
4 15 (5.36%) JUnit
5 12 (4.29%) Maven
6 10 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (3.57%) Selenium
7 9 (3.21%) GitLab
7 9 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (2.86%) Mockito
8 8 (2.86%) REST Assured
9 7 (2.50%) SoapUI
10 6 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (2.14%) Postman
10 6 (2.14%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.14%) Subversion
10 6 (2.14%) Xcode
10 6 (2.14%) XCTest
11 5 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
General
1 87 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.64%) Finance
3 35 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 28 (10.00%) Banking
6 8 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.43%) Marketing
9 3 (1.07%) Electronics
9 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.71%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 70 (25.00%) Developer
2 46 (16.43%) DBA
3 43 (15.36%) Oracle DBA
4 26 (9.29%) C# Developer
5 23 (8.21%) Analyst
5 23 (8.21%) C# WPF Developer
5 23 (8.21%) WPF Developer
6 20 (7.14%) Architect
7 17 (6.07%) .NET Developer
7 17 (6.07%) Applications Support
7 17 (6.07%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
9 15 (5.36%) ERP Support
10 14 (5.00%) Lead
10 14 (5.00%) Senior
11 12 (4.29%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.29%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
12 10 (3.57%) Technical Support
13 9 (3.21%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.14%) .NET
2 29 (10.36%) REST
3 25 (8.93%) .NET Framework
4 24 (8.57%) WPF
5 19 (6.79%) HTML
6 18 (6.43%) Kafka
7 16 (5.71%) OAuth
7 16 (5.71%) Spring
7 16 (5.71%) Spring Boot
8 15 (5.36%) CSS
9 14 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 13 (4.64%) SOAP
11 12 (4.29%) JPA
11 12 (4.29%) OpenID
11 12 (4.29%) Web Services
12 10 (3.57%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.57%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.57%) LDAP
12 10 (3.57%) SAML
13 9 (3.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (4.29%) Replication
2 10 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
2 10 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.86%) NHS
4 7 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.14%) Clustering
5 6 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.79%) IoT
6 5 (1.79%) SCADA
7 4 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.43%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.07%) State Machine
8 3 (1.07%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 61 (21.79%) Windows
2 56 (20.00%) Linux
3 39 (13.93%) Unix
4 20 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.14%) AIX
8 5 (1.79%) Solaris
8 5 (1.79%) Windows 7
9 4 (1.43%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (26.43%) Agile
3 68 (24.29%) DevOps
4 50 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.50%) Migration
6 36 (12.86%) Data Modelling
6 36 (12.86%) Performance Tuning
7 34 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (11.79%) ETL
9 32 (11.43%) Analytics
9 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (10.71%) Integration Patterns
11 29 (10.36%) ERP
12 26 (9.29%) Data Integration
12 26 (9.29%) Scrum
13 24 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
14 23 (8.21%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (8.21%) Validation
15 22 (7.86%) Data Migration
15 22 (7.86%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 158 (56.43%) SQL
2 77 (27.50%) PL/SQL
3 48 (17.14%) Python
4 43 (15.36%) Shell Script
5 36 (12.86%) C#
5 36 (12.86%) Java
6 24 (8.57%) VB
6 24 (8.57%) VBA
7 22 (7.86%) JavaScript
8 16 (5.71%) Groovy
9 15 (5.36%) VB.NET
10 12 (4.29%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.57%) C++
12 9 (3.21%) Bash
13 6 (2.14%) Perl
14 5 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
16 3 (1.07%) COBOL
16 3 (1.07%) JCL
16 3 (1.07%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 70 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 62 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.71%) Degree
4 8 (2.86%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 7 (2.50%) OCP
6 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.79%) HNC
7 5 (1.79%) HND
7 5 (1.79%) MCP
7 5 (1.79%) MCSE
7 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.07%) OCA
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.71%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.07%) QA
3 9 (3.21%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) SEPA
4 5 (1.79%) SLA
5 4 (1.43%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.07%) WCAG
7 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.71%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (12.14%) Docker
2 30 (10.71%) Oracle RAC
3 11 (3.93%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (1.79%) NFS
6 4 (1.43%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.71%) GPFS
9 1 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (11.79%) Data Guard
2 31 (11.07%) Kubernetes
3 25 (8.93%) Oracle RMAN
4 18 (6.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 16 (5.71%) Ansible
6 12 (4.29%) Tivoli
7 10 (3.57%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.57%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.57%) yum
8 8 (2.86%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.50%) Grafana
9 7 (2.50%) Terraform
10 5 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.07%) Ambari
11 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.07%) Puppet
11 3 (1.07%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 2 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 280 (100.00%) Oracle
2 62 (22.14%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.79%) Citrix
3 19 (6.79%) IBM
4 18 (6.43%) Splunk
5 13 (4.64%) SAP
6 10 (3.57%) AppDynamics
6 10 (3.57%) Broadcom
7 8 (2.86%) Databricks
7 8 (2.86%) Denodo
7 8 (2.86%) Talend
8 7 (2.50%) Red Hat
9 6 (2.14%) CA Agile Central
9 6 (2.14%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.14%) StreamSets
10 5 (1.79%) Informatica
10 5 (1.79%) Siebel
11 4 (1.43%) Lotus
11 4 (1.43%) Sybase
11 4 (1.43%) Temenos
46 Oracle Database jobs in England