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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 251 245
Rank change year-on-year -72 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 337 279 326
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 1.01% 0.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.81% 5.57% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 199 218
10th Percentile £403 £340 £363
25th Percentile £434 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £438 £484
Median % change year-on-year +23.49% -9.56% -3.25%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £639
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £549 £433 £480
% change year-on-year +26.88% -9.90% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 8
10th Percentile £33.98 - £48.06
25th Percentile £36.88 £72.50 £60.36
Median hourly rate £40.25 £75.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -46.33% +21.75% +0.50%
75th Percentile £41.75 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £47.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £75.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -46.33% +21.75% -3.75%

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 7,001 5,007 6,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.38% 18.14% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,679 3,467 4,416
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 78 91
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.67 £13.69
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.69 £60.78
90th Percentile £76.80 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £36.25 £36.50
% change year-on-year +8.97% -0.68% -33.64%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -76 130 £500 +22.70% 26
North of England -61 69 £625 +25.00% 5
South East -37 53 £550 +67.68% 10
Midlands -23 48 £481 +4.05% 5
West Midlands -31 43 £500 +5.26% 5
North West -24 35 £650 +73.33% 2
Yorkshire -60 30 £450 -10.00% 3
South West -34 22 £700 +27.27% 3
North East - 8 £519 -
East Midlands -17 4 £463 +32.52%
East of England -26 2 £425 -9.33%
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 22 (6.53%) SAS
2 18 (5.34%) IIS
3 17 (5.04%) Oracle Workflow
4 12 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (3.26%) Confluence
5 11 (3.26%) WebLogic
6 5 (1.48%) Appian
6 5 (1.48%) Camunda
6 5 (1.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.89%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.89%) JBoss
8 3 (0.89%) Mendix
8 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.59%) nginx
9 2 (0.59%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.30%) Liferay
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (4.45%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (2.97%) Finacle
3 7 (2.08%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (2.08%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (1.78%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (1.78%) Teamcenter
5 4 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.19%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle FAH
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.89%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 72 (21.36%) AWS
2 51 (15.13%) Azure
3 40 (11.87%) OCI
4 12 (3.56%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (3.56%) PaaS
5 11 (3.26%) GitHub
6 10 (2.97%) OpenShift
6 10 (2.97%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.48%) GCP
8 5 (1.48%) IaaS
8 5 (1.48%) SaaS
8 5 (1.48%) Serverless
9 4 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.89%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.26%) Internet
2 5 (1.48%) Firewall
3 2 (0.59%) HTTP
4 1 (0.30%) Intranet
4 1 (0.30%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (21.66%) SQL Server
2 43 (12.76%) Relational Database
3 38 (11.28%) RDBMS
4 31 (9.20%) Oracle Database 12c
5 30 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (7.12%) Oracle Exadata
7 18 (5.34%) Oracle Database 11g
8 17 (5.04%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (4.15%) Pentaho
10 13 (3.86%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 11 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (3.26%) MySQL
12 10 (2.97%) Power BI
12 10 (2.97%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
13 8 (2.37%) NoSQL
14 7 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 7 (2.08%) Oracle Database 10g
15 6 (1.78%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (8.90%) Git
2 28 (8.31%) GitLab
3 16 (4.75%) JIRA
4 9 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.67%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (2.08%) Liquibase
5 7 (2.08%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (1.48%) JDeveloper
7 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.89%) ClearCase
7 3 (0.89%) JUnit
7 3 (0.89%) Selenium
7 3 (0.89%) Toad
8 2 (0.59%) Flyway
8 2 (0.59%) JMeter
8 2 (0.59%) Maven
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) GoCD
9 1 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.30%) VersionOne
General
1 64 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.69%) Finance
3 49 (14.54%) Public Sector
4 47 (13.95%) Banking
5 31 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.97%) Back Office
6 10 (2.97%) Front Office
7 8 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.08%) Military
9 4 (1.19%) Advertising
9 4 (1.19%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.89%) Billing
10 3 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.89%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.59%) Aviation
11 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.59%) Legal
11 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 104 (30.86%) DBA
2 95 (28.19%) Oracle DBA
3 75 (22.26%) Developer
4 43 (12.76%) Senior
5 31 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 30 (8.90%) Administrator
7 29 (8.61%) Architect
8 28 (8.31%) C# Developer
9 23 (6.82%) Lead
10 17 (5.04%) Oracle Developer
11 14 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (3.86%) Cloud Architect
12 13 (3.86%) DV Cleared DBA
12 13 (3.86%) Oracle Specialist
12 13 (3.86%) SQL DBA
13 12 (3.56%) Applications Support
13 12 (3.56%) SC Cleared DBA
13 12 (3.56%) Senior DBA
13 12 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
14 11 (3.26%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (13.35%) .NET
2 33 (9.79%) .NET Framework
3 30 (8.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 17 (5.04%) XML
5 14 (4.15%) WinForms
5 14 (4.15%) WPF
6 13 (3.86%) REST
7 11 (3.26%) Kafka
7 11 (3.26%) Middleware
8 9 (2.67%) JSON
9 8 (2.37%) Spring
10 6 (1.78%) HTML
11 5 (1.48%) CSS
11 5 (1.48%) JDBC
11 5 (1.48%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.48%) Web Services
12 4 (1.19%) Jakarta EE
12 4 (1.19%) React
12 4 (1.19%) YAML
13 3 (0.89%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.12%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (5.04%) Replication
3 14 (4.15%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.86%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 11 (3.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.08%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.48%) SCADA
12 4 (1.19%) IoT
12 4 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
12 4 (1.19%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.19%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.19%) Spread Betting
13 3 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (23.74%) Linux
2 53 (15.73%) Windows
3 44 (13.06%) Unix
4 21 (6.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (4.75%) AIX
6 15 (4.45%) Windows Server
7 13 (3.86%) Solaris
8 5 (1.48%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.59%) HPUX
10 2 (0.59%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (27.60%) Migration
2 74 (21.96%) DevOps
3 65 (19.29%) CI/CD
4 60 (17.80%) Performance Tuning
5 56 (16.62%) Agile
6 53 (15.73%) High Availability
7 50 (14.84%) Disaster Recovery
7 50 (14.84%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (14.24%) ETL
9 38 (11.28%) Data Integration
9 38 (11.28%) Data Modelling
10 36 (10.68%) AI
11 35 (10.39%) Data Analysis
12 32 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (9.20%) Analytics
13 31 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (8.31%) Change Management
14 28 (8.31%) Validation
15 26 (7.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (7.72%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 184 (54.60%) SQL
2 92 (27.30%) PL/SQL
3 47 (13.95%) C#
4 37 (10.98%) Python
5 34 (10.09%) T-SQL
6 28 (8.31%) Shell Script
7 20 (5.93%) Java
8 15 (4.45%) VB
9 13 (3.86%) VBA
10 12 (3.56%) JavaScript
11 10 (2.97%) Bash
11 10 (2.97%) Korn
11 10 (2.97%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.19%) Bicep
13 3 (0.89%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.89%) VB6
14 2 (0.59%) C
14 2 (0.59%) Perl
14 2 (0.59%) ProC
14 2 (0.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 145 (43.03%) Security Cleared
2 106 (31.45%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 22 (6.53%) Degree
5 12 (3.56%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.19%) OCP
8 3 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.59%) PMP
10 1 (0.30%) CCNA
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.98%) QA
2 19 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.48%) GDPR
3 5 (1.48%) ISO 9000
3 5 (1.48%) SLA
4 4 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) FATCA
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) GRC
6 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (14.24%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.67%) Docker
3 3 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 70 (20.77%) Oracle RMAN
2 46 (13.65%) Data Guard
3 35 (10.39%) Terraform
4 27 (8.01%) Ansible
5 21 (6.23%) Kubernetes
6 18 (5.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (1.19%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 3 (0.89%) Control-M
8 3 (0.89%) Nagios
9 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.30%) Argo
10 1 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.30%) Grafana
10 1 (0.30%) Kibana
10 1 (0.30%) OPNET
10 1 (0.30%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 337 (100.00%) Oracle
2 38 (11.28%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.01%) Citrix
4 20 (5.93%) Talend
5 14 (4.15%) Databricks
6 13 (3.86%) Informatica
7 12 (3.56%) IBM
8 8 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.37%) SAP
9 7 (2.08%) Denodo
10 5 (1.48%) OpenText
11 4 (1.19%) Google
11 4 (1.19%) Siebel
12 3 (0.89%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.89%) jBASE
12 3 (0.89%) Kofax
12 3 (0.89%) Lotus
12 3 (0.89%) NetCracker
12 3 (0.89%) Temenos
12 3 (0.89%) VMware
44 Oracle Database jobs in England