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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 247 288
Rank change year-on-year -62 +41 -30
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 316 253 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.73% 1.02% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.82% 5.42% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 181 186
10th Percentile £403 £360 £363
25th Percentile £429 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £466
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -3.38% -5.91%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £438 £486
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.98% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 8
10th Percentile £35.11 £69.50 £48.06
25th Percentile £37.25 £70.63 £60.36
Median hourly rate £41.71 £75.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -44.39% +21.75% -15.03%
75th Percentile £74.68 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £90.50 -
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £75.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -44.39% +21.75% -15.03%

All Database & BI 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 6,562 4,667 6,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 18.76% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,446 3,251 4,673
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 87 145
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.01 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% -13.75% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.98 £72.10
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +19.17% -12.50% -31.73%

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 19 June 2026.

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 19 June 2026.

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 19 June 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 -55 136 £500 +22.70% 14
North of England -75 51 £638 +27.50% 8
Midlands -30 50 £519 +9.21% 7
West Midlands -31 45 £525 -12.50% 6
South East -42 43 £550 +12.82% 5
South West -16 25 £600 +3.27% 5
North West -19 24 £650 +82.58% 3
Yorkshire -81 23 £445 -10.95% 1
North East - 5 £563 - 4
East Midlands -19 4 £463 +32.52% 1
East of England -29 3 £400 -17.95% 4
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 21 (6.65%) SAS
2 18 (5.70%) IIS
3 12 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.80%) Oracle Workflow
4 11 (3.48%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (2.53%) Confluence
7 7 (2.22%) Appian
7 7 (2.22%) HCL Notes
7 7 (2.22%) Mendix
8 6 (1.90%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.90%) Tomcat
9 4 (1.27%) Camunda
10 3 (0.95%) JBoss
10 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.63%) nginx
12 1 (0.32%) Apache
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
12 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.80%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (2.22%) Finacle
3 6 (1.90%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (1.58%) Teamcenter
5 4 (1.27%) OpenText MBPM
5 4 (1.27%) Oracle BPM
5 4 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.27%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.32%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.32%) Endur
8 1 (0.32%) Findur
8 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.32%) Summit
8 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 58 (18.35%) AWS
2 55 (17.41%) Azure
3 22 (6.96%) OCI
4 17 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.48%) PaaS
7 9 (2.85%) GitHub
8 8 (2.53%) Serverless
9 7 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.22%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.90%) Collibra
11 5 (1.58%) Azure Functions
11 5 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (1.58%) GCP
11 5 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.58%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (1.58%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.16%) Internet
2 3 (0.95%) Firewall
3 2 (0.63%) HTTP
3 2 (0.63%) Network Security
3 2 (0.63%) VPN
4 1 (0.32%) Intranet
4 1 (0.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (22.15%) SQL Server
2 32 (10.13%) Relational Database
3 25 (7.91%) RDBMS
4 24 (7.59%) Oracle Database 12c
4 24 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (5.70%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (5.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (4.43%) Oracle Database 11g
8 12 (3.80%) Metadata
8 12 (3.80%) Power BI
9 11 (3.48%) MySQL
9 11 (3.48%) Oracle Exadata
9 11 (3.48%) Pentaho
10 10 (3.16%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 9 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.53%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.58%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 23 (7.28%) GitLab
2 16 (5.06%) JIRA
3 14 (4.43%) Git
4 7 (2.22%) Liquibase
5 6 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.95%) ClearCase
6 3 (0.95%) JUnit
6 3 (0.95%) Selenium
7 2 (0.63%) Flyway
7 2 (0.63%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.63%) JMeter
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.32%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 60 (18.99%) Finance
2 51 (16.14%) Social Skills
3 45 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 44 (13.92%) Banking
5 21 (6.65%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.22%) Back Office
6 7 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 7 (2.22%) Front Office
6 7 (2.22%) Military
7 4 (1.27%) Advertising
7 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.63%) Aviation
8 2 (0.63%) Billing
8 2 (0.63%) General Ledger
8 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.63%) Legal
8 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (32.91%) DBA
2 98 (31.01%) Oracle DBA
3 73 (23.10%) Developer
4 32 (10.13%) Administrator
4 32 (10.13%) C# Developer
5 28 (8.86%) Senior
6 26 (8.23%) Data Engineer
7 24 (7.59%) Architect
8 19 (6.01%) Lead
9 18 (5.70%) SC Cleared DBA
10 16 (5.06%) Database Engineer
11 14 (4.43%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 14 (4.43%) Oracle Developer
12 13 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.80%) Release Manager
14 11 (3.48%) Oracle Specialist
14 11 (3.48%) Senior DBA
15 10 (3.16%) DV Cleared DBA
15 10 (3.16%) PostgreSQL DBA
15 10 (3.16%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (15.51%) .NET
2 32 (10.13%) .NET Framework
3 17 (5.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 17 (5.38%) XML
4 13 (4.11%) WinForms
4 13 (4.11%) WPF
5 12 (3.80%) REST
6 11 (3.48%) Kafka
6 11 (3.48%) React
7 10 (3.16%) JSON
7 10 (3.16%) Middleware
8 9 (2.85%) HTML
9 7 (2.22%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.22%) CSS
9 7 (2.22%) Spring
9 7 (2.22%) Web Services
10 6 (1.90%) SOAP
10 6 (1.90%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.58%) HTML5 Canvas
12 4 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.86%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (3.48%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.53%) Low-Code
4 8 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.27%) Replication
7 4 (1.27%) SCADA
8 3 (0.95%) Clustering
8 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.95%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.25%) Linux
2 46 (14.56%) Windows
3 35 (11.08%) Unix
4 14 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.80%) Solaris
6 11 (3.48%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.22%) AIX
8 6 (1.90%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.63%) HPUX
12 2 (0.63%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (21.52%) DevOps
2 66 (20.89%) Migration
3 54 (17.09%) CI/CD
4 53 (16.77%) Performance Tuning
5 52 (16.46%) High Availability
6 47 (14.87%) ETL
7 46 (14.56%) Agile
7 46 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (12.34%) Disaster Recovery
9 32 (10.13%) AI
10 30 (9.49%) Data Analysis
11 28 (8.86%) Data Integration
11 28 (8.86%) Validation
12 24 (7.59%) Analytics
12 24 (7.59%) Change Management
13 23 (7.28%) Data Modelling
14 21 (6.65%) Configuration Management
14 21 (6.65%) Data Migration
14 21 (6.65%) ITIL
14 21 (6.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 161 (50.95%) SQL
2 80 (25.32%) PL/SQL
3 53 (16.77%) C#
4 41 (12.97%) Python
5 30 (9.49%) T-SQL
6 21 (6.65%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.70%) Java
8 14 (4.43%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.43%) VB
9 11 (3.48%) VBA
10 10 (3.16%) Korn
11 8 (2.53%) Bash
11 8 (2.53%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.22%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.58%) Formula Language
13 5 (1.58%) LotusScript
14 3 (0.95%) Bicep
14 3 (0.95%) VB6
15 2 (0.63%) C
15 2 (0.63%) ProC
Qualifications
1 137 (43.35%) Security Cleared
2 105 (33.23%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.81%) DV Cleared
4 19 (6.01%) Degree
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.63%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) CCNA
8 1 (0.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) OCP
8 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.76%) QA
2 11 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.27%) SLA
4 3 (0.95%) FATCA
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
4 3 (0.95%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.32%) GRC
5 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.32%) NIST
5 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (9.81%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.85%) Docker
3 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Clusterware
5 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 52 (16.46%) Oracle RMAN
2 29 (9.18%) Data Guard
3 24 (7.59%) Terraform
4 14 (4.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 12 (3.80%) Ansible
5 12 (3.80%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.63%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.32%) Argo
7 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.32%) Foglight
7 1 (0.32%) Kibana
7 1 (0.32%) OPNET
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.32%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 316 (100.00%) Oracle
2 28 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 24 (7.59%) Citrix
4 17 (5.38%) Talend
5 15 (4.75%) Databricks
6 11 (3.48%) Informatica
7 9 (2.85%) IBM
8 7 (2.22%) Kofax
8 7 (2.22%) Lotus
9 6 (1.90%) Denodo
9 6 (1.90%) SAP
10 5 (1.58%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.27%) Google
11 4 (1.27%) OpenText
11 4 (1.27%) Siebel
12 3 (0.95%) VMware
13 2 (0.63%) Murex
13 2 (0.63%) NetCracker
13 2 (0.63%) Pega
41 Oracle Database jobs in England