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

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 233 276
Rank change year-on-year -68 +43 -17
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 271 320 335
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.04% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.13% 5.84% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 227 245
10th Percentile £241 £385 £382
25th Percentile £365 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £543 £471
Median % change year-on-year -20.28% +15.30% -10.38%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £576
90th Percentile £638 £699 £662
UK median daily rate £446 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -16.64% +12.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £75.25 £57.15 £28.76
25th Percentile £79.38 £57.89 £48.65
Median hourly rate £90.00 £59.95 £75.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.13% -20.36% +50.55%
75th Percentile £101.88 £61.19 £91.13
90th Percentile £106.75 £61.44 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £59.95 £75.28
% change year-on-year +50.13% -20.36% +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 5,279 5,478 6,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.67% 17.73% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,665 3,671 4,710
10th Percentile £328 £345 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £532
% change year-on-year -5.12% -0.94% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 77 139
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.80 £19.11
25th Percentile £29.25 £22.40 £24.97
Median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.63% -28.57% +4.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.00 £67.88
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £30.00 £46.84
% change year-on-year +47.50% -35.95% +4.09%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -74 123 £415 -21.70% 37
Midlands -4 40 £519 +5.17% 7
West Midlands +1 37 £519 +1.47% 4
North of England -18 35 £450 -10.89% 6
South East -22 34 £220 -66.15% 18
Yorkshire -22 19 £465 -17.88% 5
East of England 0 17 £127 - 1
North West -15 16 £446 -5.36% 1
South West +13 14 £613 +36.11% 6
East Midlands -18 3 £451 +12.81% 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 (8.49%) SAS
2 22 (8.12%) IIS
3 15 (5.54%) JBoss
4 13 (4.80%) Apache
5 12 (4.43%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (3.69%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.69%) WebSphere Application Server
7 6 (2.21%) WebLogic
8 5 (1.85%) Confluence
8 5 (1.85%) HCL Notes
8 5 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (1.85%) SharePoint
9 3 (1.11%) LiveLink
9 3 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (1.11%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.74%) CICS
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
11 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 26 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.48%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.37%) OpenText MBPM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.37%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 45 (16.61%) AWS
2 43 (15.87%) Azure
3 17 (6.27%) OpenShift
4 10 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.32%) Serverless
6 8 (2.95%) OCI
7 7 (2.58%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.58%) GitHub
8 6 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.21%) SaaS
9 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.85%) PaaS
9 5 (1.85%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.85%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.48%) Azure API Management
10 4 (1.48%) dbt
10 4 (1.48%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.69%) Internet
1 10 (3.69%) Kerberos
2 6 (2.21%) LAN
3 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.11%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.37%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) VoIP
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (25.46%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 21 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (6.27%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.54%) Oracle Reports
7 14 (5.17%) MySQL
8 12 (4.43%) Oracle Database 12c
8 12 (4.43%) Oracle Exadata
9 9 (3.32%) Power BI
9 9 (3.32%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.95%) Pentaho
11 7 (2.58%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (2.58%) Oracle ODI
11 7 (2.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 6 (2.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (16.24%) Git
2 34 (12.55%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.23%) JIRA
4 16 (5.90%) JUnit
5 10 (3.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (3.69%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (3.69%) GitLab
5 10 (3.69%) Maven
6 9 (3.32%) Selenium
6 9 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.95%) SoapUI
8 7 (2.58%) Mockito
9 6 (2.21%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (2.21%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.85%) Postman
10 5 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.85%) Subversion
10 5 (1.85%) Xcode
10 5 (1.85%) XCTest
General
1 85 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 68 (25.09%) Finance
3 38 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.70%) Banking
4 29 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.48%) Marketing
9 3 (1.11%) Electronics
9 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.37%) Automotive
10 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.37%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (26.20%) Developer
2 46 (16.97%) DBA
3 44 (16.24%) Oracle DBA
4 28 (10.33%) C# Developer
5 25 (9.23%) Analyst
6 23 (8.49%) C# WPF Developer
6 23 (8.49%) WPF Developer
7 18 (6.64%) Technical Analyst
8 15 (5.54%) .NET Developer
8 15 (5.54%) Applications Support
8 15 (5.54%) Architect
8 15 (5.54%) C# .NET Developer
9 14 (5.17%) ERP Support
9 14 (5.17%) Lead
10 13 (4.80%) Senior
11 11 (4.06%) Administrator
11 11 (4.06%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Oracle Developer
11 11 (4.06%) Support Analyst
11 11 (4.06%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.65%) .NET
2 27 (9.96%) .NET Framework
3 26 (9.59%) REST
4 24 (8.86%) WPF
5 16 (5.90%) OAuth
6 15 (5.54%) Kafka
6 15 (5.54%) SOAP
7 14 (5.17%) HTML
8 13 (4.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 12 (4.43%) OpenID
9 12 (4.43%) Spring
9 12 (4.43%) Spring Boot
10 11 (4.06%) CSS
11 10 (3.69%) FastAPI
11 10 (3.69%) LDAP
11 10 (3.69%) SAML
11 10 (3.69%) WCF
11 10 (3.69%) WinForms
12 9 (3.32%) XML
13 8 (2.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.43%) Replication
2 10 (3.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 10 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.95%) NHS
4 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.21%) Clustering
5 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.48%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.74%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 69 (25.46%) Windows
2 60 (22.14%) Linux
3 39 (14.39%) Unix
4 22 (8.12%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.06%) AIX
6 10 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.58%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.21%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.21%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.85%) Solaris
10 2 (0.74%) VMS
11 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (29.15%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (28.41%) Agile
3 71 (26.20%) DevOps
4 47 (17.34%) CI/CD
4 47 (17.34%) Migration
5 35 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (12.55%) Data Modelling
7 33 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
9 30 (11.07%) Analytics
10 29 (10.70%) Integration Patterns
11 28 (10.33%) Scrum
12 27 (9.96%) ETL
13 25 (9.23%) ERP
14 22 (8.12%) Disaster Recovery
15 21 (7.75%) Data Analysis
15 21 (7.75%) Data Integration
15 21 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (7.75%) Test Automation
16 19 (7.01%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 149 (54.98%) SQL
2 77 (28.41%) PL/SQL
3 42 (15.50%) Shell Script
4 40 (14.76%) Python
5 39 (14.39%) C#
6 32 (11.81%) Java
7 24 (8.86%) VB
7 24 (8.86%) VBA
8 18 (6.64%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.90%) T-SQL
10 15 (5.54%) Groovy
11 13 (4.80%) VB.NET
12 10 (3.69%) C++
13 9 (3.32%) Bash
14 7 (2.58%) Perl
15 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.48%) Formula Language
16 4 (1.48%) Korn
16 4 (1.48%) LotusScript
17 2 (0.74%) AWK
Qualifications
1 74 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 64 (23.62%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.17%) Degree
4 10 (3.69%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.95%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.58%) OCP
7 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.85%) HNC
8 5 (1.85%) HND
8 5 (1.85%) MCP
8 5 (1.85%) MCSE
9 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.11%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.11%) OCA
11 2 (0.74%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.37%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.38%) QA
2 14 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.85%) GDPR
3 5 (1.85%) SLA
4 4 (1.48%) SEPA
5 3 (1.11%) WCAG
6 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.74%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 30 (11.07%) Docker
2 28 (10.33%) Oracle RAC
3 12 (4.43%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.95%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (1.85%) NFS
6 3 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.74%) GPFS
7 2 (0.74%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.37%) Samba
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (11.44%) Data Guard
2 27 (9.96%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.49%) Oracle RMAN
4 15 (5.54%) Ansible
5 14 (5.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (3.69%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.69%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.69%) Tivoli
6 10 (3.69%) yum
7 8 (2.95%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.58%) Grafana
9 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.85%) Terraform
10 3 (1.11%) Ambari
10 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.11%) Puppet
10 3 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.74%) Control-M
11 2 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 271 (100.00%) Oracle
2 60 (22.14%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.86%) Citrix
4 22 (8.12%) IBM
5 17 (6.27%) Splunk
6 10 (3.69%) AppDynamics
6 10 (3.69%) Broadcom
7 8 (2.95%) Denodo
7 8 (2.95%) Talend
8 7 (2.58%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.58%) SAP
9 5 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.85%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.85%) Lotus
10 4 (1.48%) StreamSets
10 4 (1.48%) Sybase
10 4 (1.48%) Temenos
10 4 (1.48%) VMware
11 3 (1.11%) OpenText
11 3 (1.11%) Siebel
69 Oracle Database jobs in England