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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 247 280
Rank change year-on-year -48 +33 -21
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 280 293 293
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.02% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.18% 5.61% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 204 229
10th Percentile £300 £385 £380
25th Percentile £385 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +14.58% -8.57%
75th Percentile £540 £663 £625
90th Percentile £630 £699 £675
UK median daily rate £453 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -17.64% +11.11% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £71.00 £65.11
25th Percentile £100.00 £74.38 £73.23
Median hourly rate £105.00 £82.50 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -6.78% +60.91%
75th Percentile £110.00 £89.38 £92.00
90th Percentile - £92.00 £93.05
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £82.50 £75.75
% change year-on-year +27.27% +8.91% +26.25%

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 5,406 5,221 6,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.05% 18.17% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,761 3,469 4,351
10th Percentile £325 £350 £355
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £615 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 76 129
10th Percentile £20.72 £18.90 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.41 £23.87 £25.38
Median hourly rate £54.35 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.36% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £69.81 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.30 £71.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +58.50% -33.59% -11.63%

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 25 December 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
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 25 December 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 -50 137 £415 -24.55% 22
Midlands -13 43 £525 +6.49% 21
West Midlands 0 41 £523 -1.32% 14
South East -40 38 £406 -37.50% 30
North of England -32 34 £450 -14.69% 22
Yorkshire -27 19 £465 -20.17% 9
East of England -9 15 £127 - 21
North West -22 15 £450 -4.51% 12
South West -13 5 £463 - 12
East Midlands -25 2 £563 +40.63% 6
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 24 (8.57%) IIS
1 24 (8.57%) SAS
2 14 (5.00%) JBoss
2 14 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.64%) Apache
4 10 (3.57%) HCL Notes
4 10 (3.57%) iPlanet
4 10 (3.57%) WebLogic
4 10 (3.57%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
5 8 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (2.14%) Mendix
7 4 (1.43%) Confluence
8 3 (1.07%) LiveLink
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.71%) Liferay
9 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 24 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 9 (3.21%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (1.43%) Temenos T24
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.71%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.36%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.71%) Azure
2 42 (15.00%) AWS
3 16 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.36%) OpenShift
5 13 (4.64%) OCI
6 10 (3.57%) PowerApps
6 10 (3.57%) Serverless
7 9 (3.21%) Power Automate
8 8 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.50%) Azure Functions
9 7 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (2.50%) PaaS
10 6 (2.14%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.14%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.14%) SaaS
11 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.43%) Azure Storage
11 4 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.21%) Internet
3 6 (2.14%) LAN
4 5 (1.79%) HTTP
4 5 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.36%) SAN
5 1 (0.36%) VoIP
5 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 22 (7.86%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.43%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (6.43%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.00%) Power BI
6 13 (4.64%) MySQL
7 12 (4.29%) Oracle Database 12c
8 11 (3.93%) Oracle Exadata
8 11 (3.93%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.21%) Metadata
9 9 (3.21%) Oracle BI EE
9 9 (3.21%) Oracle ODI
10 8 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.50%) Pentaho
11 7 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 7 (2.50%) SQLPlus
12 6 (2.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 43 (15.36%) Git
2 35 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.50%) JIRA
4 17 (6.07%) JUnit
5 10 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (3.57%) GitLab
6 9 (3.21%) SoapUI
7 8 (2.86%) Maven
7 8 (2.86%) Selenium
7 8 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.50%) Mockito
8 7 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.79%) Subversion
10 5 (1.79%) Toad
10 5 (1.79%) Xcode
General
1 94 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 71 (25.36%) Finance
3 36 (12.86%) Banking
4 34 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.29%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.71%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.71%) Back Office
9 2 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.36%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (28.57%) Developer
2 47 (16.79%) DBA
2 47 (16.79%) Oracle DBA
3 30 (10.71%) C# Developer
4 21 (7.50%) Analyst
5 17 (6.07%) C# WPF Developer
5 17 (6.07%) Oracle Developer
5 17 (6.07%) WPF Developer
6 16 (5.71%) Architect
6 16 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
7 15 (5.36%) .NET Developer
7 15 (5.36%) C# .NET Developer
8 14 (5.00%) Senior
9 13 (4.64%) Applications Support
10 12 (4.29%) ERP Support
11 11 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.93%) Support Analyst
11 11 (3.93%) Technical Support
11 11 (3.93%) Technical Support Analyst
12 10 (3.57%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.29%) .NET
2 25 (8.93%) REST
3 24 (8.57%) .NET Framework
4 20 (7.14%) WPF
5 16 (5.71%) Kafka
5 16 (5.71%) OAuth
5 16 (5.71%) SOAP
6 14 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (4.64%) HTML
8 12 (4.29%) OpenID
8 12 (4.29%) WinForms
9 11 (3.93%) Spring
10 10 (3.57%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.57%) LDAP
10 10 (3.57%) Middleware
10 10 (3.57%) SAML
10 10 (3.57%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.57%) XML
11 9 (3.21%) CSS
11 9 (3.21%) HTML5 Canvas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
1 10 (3.57%) Replication
2 9 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (3.21%) Low-Code
3 8 (2.86%) NHS
4 7 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.14%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.43%) Clustering
7 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.71%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.71%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (23.21%) Linux
1 65 (23.21%) Windows
2 44 (15.71%) Unix
3 26 (9.29%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.64%) AIX
5 11 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.50%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.14%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.79%) Solaris
10 2 (0.71%) VMS
11 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (28.93%) Agile
2 80 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (28.21%) DevOps
4 55 (19.64%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.50%) Migration
6 44 (15.71%) Performance Tuning
7 42 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (12.50%) ETL
9 34 (12.14%) Data Modelling
10 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (11.07%) Scrum
12 30 (10.71%) Analytics
13 29 (10.36%) Integration Patterns
14 26 (9.29%) ERP
15 22 (7.86%) Data Integration
16 21 (7.50%) Data Migration
16 21 (7.50%) Task Automation
17 20 (7.14%) API Integration
17 20 (7.14%) SDLC
17 20 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (57.86%) SQL
2 93 (33.21%) PL/SQL
3 45 (16.07%) C#
3 45 (16.07%) Shell Script
4 40 (14.29%) Python
5 32 (11.43%) Java
6 23 (8.21%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.14%) VB
7 20 (7.14%) VBA
8 18 (6.43%) T-SQL
9 15 (5.36%) Groovy
10 13 (4.64%) Perl
11 10 (3.57%) VB.NET
12 9 (3.21%) C++
12 9 (3.21%) Formula Language
12 9 (3.21%) LotusScript
13 7 (2.50%) Bash
14 6 (2.14%) Korn
14 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (24.64%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.36%) Degree
4 11 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.50%) OCP
7 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.79%) HNC
8 5 (1.79%) HND
8 5 (1.79%) MCP
8 5 (1.79%) MCSE
9 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.71%) OCA
10 2 (0.71%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.14%) QA
2 12 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.86%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.07%) SEPA
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) MiFID
6 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) RMADS
System Software
1 32 (11.43%) Oracle RAC
2 30 (10.71%) Docker
3 13 (4.64%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.07%) NFS
6 3 (1.07%) Oracle Clusterware
6 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) Samba
Systems Management
1 28 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 26 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.21%) Oracle RMAN
4 15 (5.36%) Ansible
5 14 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (3.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.57%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.57%) yum
7 8 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.86%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.14%) Terraform
9 5 (1.79%) Grafana
9 5 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.07%) Ambari
10 3 (1.07%) Puppet
10 3 (1.07%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.71%) Control-M
11 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.71%) Kibana
11 2 (0.71%) systemd
Vendors
1 280 (100.00%) Oracle
2 71 (25.36%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.93%) Citrix
4 22 (7.86%) IBM
5 16 (5.71%) Splunk
6 10 (3.57%) AppDynamics
6 10 (3.57%) Broadcom
6 10 (3.57%) Lotus
7 7 (2.50%) Denodo
7 7 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.50%) Talend
8 6 (2.14%) Kofax
9 5 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.43%) SAP
10 4 (1.43%) Sybase
10 4 (1.43%) Temenos
10 4 (1.43%) VMware
11 2 (0.71%) Apple
11 2 (0.71%) OpenText