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

 6 months to
3 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 267 232
Rank change year-on-year -61 -35 +37
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 359 273 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.97% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.25% 5.35% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 186 226
10th Percentile £404 £302 £363
25th Percentile £433 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £415 £535
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% -22.41% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £529 £650
90th Percentile £689 £619 £699
UK median daily rate £540 £425 £535
% change year-on-year +27.06% -20.56% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 2 7
10th Percentile £37.25 £75.25 £59.62
25th Percentile - £79.38 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £90.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% +46.10% +2.12%
75th Percentile £55.31 £101.88 -
90th Percentile £74.68 £106.75 -
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £90.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -53.66% +46.10% +2.12%

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 6,834 5,099 5,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.69% 18.20% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,545 3,494 4,037
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £673
90th Percentile £716 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 77 84
10th Percentile £16.42 £20.91 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.75% +12.80% -33.33%

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 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -52 163 £500 +22.70% 75
North of England -62 51 £625 +38.89% 22
South West -5 49 £730 +39.05% 13
South East -50 43 £550 +150.00% 18
Midlands -37 37 £465 -10.01% 13
West Midlands -24 33 £478 -10.94% 9
North West -33 33 £625 +48.81% 17
Yorkshire -46 14 £469 -6.25% 2
North East - 8 £519 - 3
East Midlands -21 3 £463 +32.52% 4
East of England -36 2 £487 -0.10% 1
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 18 (5.01%) IIS
2 16 (4.46%) Oracle Workflow
3 15 (4.18%) SAS
4 14 (3.90%) WebLogic
5 13 (3.62%) Confluence
5 13 (3.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 9 (2.51%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.39%) Appian
8 5 (1.39%) Camunda
9 3 (0.84%) JBoss
9 3 (0.84%) Mendix
10 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.56%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.28%) CMS
11 1 (0.28%) Liferay
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.46%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (2.79%) Finacle
3 7 (1.95%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (1.95%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (1.67%) Teamcenter
5 5 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.11%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle iProcurement
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.84%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.89%) AWS
2 46 (12.81%) Azure
3 44 (12.26%) OCI
4 13 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.79%) GitHub
7 9 (2.51%) OpenShift
7 9 (2.51%) Serverless
8 8 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (1.95%) GCP
9 7 (1.95%) PaaS
10 6 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (1.67%) SaaS
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.39%) IaaS
12 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.11%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.11%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.84%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.06%) Internet
2 4 (1.11%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) IPsec
3 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (15.88%) SQL Server
2 44 (12.26%) Relational Database
3 38 (10.58%) RDBMS
4 26 (7.24%) Oracle Exadata
5 24 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (5.29%) Oracle Database 12c
7 18 (5.01%) Oracle Database 11g
8 17 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (4.46%) Oracle Reports
10 15 (4.18%) Pentaho
11 11 (3.06%) Power BI
12 10 (2.79%) MySQL
13 8 (2.23%) Oracle Database 10g
14 7 (1.95%) NoSQL
14 7 (1.95%) PowerCenter
15 6 (1.67%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
15 6 (1.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
16 5 (1.39%) Data Mart
16 5 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (11.14%) Git
2 34 (9.47%) GitLab
3 21 (5.85%) JIRA
4 12 (3.34%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (3.06%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.23%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.39%) JDeveloper
7 5 (1.39%) JMeter
7 5 (1.39%) Liquibase
7 5 (1.39%) Maven
8 4 (1.11%) ClearCase
8 4 (1.11%) eggPlant
8 4 (1.11%) JUnit
8 4 (1.11%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.11%) Postman
8 4 (1.11%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.84%) Selenium
9 3 (0.84%) Toad
General
1 75 (20.89%) Social Skills
2 69 (19.22%) Finance
3 55 (15.32%) Banking
4 53 (14.76%) Public Sector
5 40 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.34%) Front Office
7 10 (2.79%) Back Office
8 8 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.23%) Military
9 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.84%) Billing
11 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Police
13 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (23.40%) DBA
2 77 (21.45%) Developer
3 72 (20.06%) Oracle DBA
4 50 (13.93%) Senior
5 40 (11.14%) Data Engineer
6 33 (9.19%) Administrator
7 30 (8.36%) Architect
8 26 (7.24%) Lead
9 20 (5.57%) C# Developer
10 19 (5.29%) Database Engineer
10 19 (5.29%) Database Manager
11 17 (4.74%) Oracle Database Engineer
12 15 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.18%) Oracle Developer
13 14 (3.90%) Java Developer
13 14 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.62%) Applications Support
14 13 (3.62%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (3.62%) Oracle Specialist
14 13 (3.62%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.09%) .NET
2 33 (9.19%) Terraform
3 29 (8.08%) .NET Framework
4 22 (6.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 21 (5.85%) XML
6 19 (5.29%) REST
7 17 (4.74%) Middleware
8 16 (4.46%) Kafka
9 15 (4.18%) Spring
9 15 (4.18%) WinForms
9 15 (4.18%) WPF
10 12 (3.34%) Web Services
11 10 (2.79%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.51%) JSON
12 9 (2.51%) SOAP
13 8 (2.23%) HTML
14 7 (1.95%) JDBC
15 6 (1.67%) Jakarta EE
16 5 (1.39%) JMS
17 4 (1.11%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.57%) Replication
2 15 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (3.90%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 12 (3.34%) Cloud Native
6 10 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.79%) Enterprise Cloud
6 10 (2.79%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.95%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.67%) Spread Betting
10 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
11 3 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.84%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 89 (24.79%) Linux
2 56 (15.60%) Windows
3 47 (13.09%) Unix
4 23 (6.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.74%) AIX
6 15 (4.18%) Solaris
7 11 (3.06%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.95%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.56%) HPUX
10 1 (0.28%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (29.53%) Migration
2 78 (21.73%) CI/CD
3 73 (20.33%) Agile
3 73 (20.33%) DevOps
4 60 (16.71%) Performance Tuning
5 54 (15.04%) Data Modelling
5 54 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (13.65%) ETL
7 41 (11.42%) Data Integration
8 39 (10.86%) AI
8 39 (10.86%) Disaster Recovery
9 38 (10.58%) Data Analysis
10 36 (10.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (9.19%) Data Migration
11 33 (9.19%) SDLC
12 32 (8.91%) High Availability
13 30 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (8.36%) Mentoring
13 30 (8.36%) Validation
14 29 (8.08%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (55.43%) SQL
2 88 (24.51%) PL/SQL
3 44 (12.26%) C#
4 43 (11.98%) Python
5 32 (8.91%) Java
5 32 (8.91%) T-SQL
6 25 (6.96%) Shell Script
7 21 (5.85%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.46%) VB
9 13 (3.62%) VBA
10 10 (2.79%) Bash
11 9 (2.51%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.39%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.11%) VB6
14 3 (0.84%) C
14 3 (0.84%) C++
15 2 (0.56%) Korn
15 2 (0.56%) Perl
15 2 (0.56%) ProC
15 2 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 160 (44.57%) Security Cleared
2 121 (33.70%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.26%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.96%) Degree
5 15 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (4.18%) Oracle Certification
6 5 (1.39%) OCP
7 4 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.84%) ISEB
8 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.56%) OCA
9 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.56%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (9.75%) QA
2 22 (6.13%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.84%) EMIR
4 3 (0.84%) GDPR
4 3 (0.84%) MiFID
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (10.58%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.51%) Docker
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 48 (13.37%) Oracle RMAN
2 45 (12.53%) Data Guard
3 31 (8.64%) Kubernetes
4 29 (8.08%) Ansible
5 11 (3.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 9 (2.51%) Control-M
7 4 (1.11%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 4 (1.11%) HP Fortify
7 4 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.84%) Argo
8 3 (0.84%) Nagios
8 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.28%) Grafana
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) OPNET
9 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 359 (100.00%) Oracle
2 41 (11.42%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.41%) Citrix
3 23 (6.41%) Talend
4 17 (4.74%) IBM
5 15 (4.18%) Informatica
6 14 (3.90%) Databricks
7 11 (3.06%) SAP
8 5 (1.39%) Google
8 5 (1.39%) OpenText
8 5 (1.39%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.39%) UiPath
9 4 (1.11%) Denodo
9 4 (1.11%) Siebel
10 3 (0.84%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.84%) jBASE
10 3 (0.84%) Kofax
10 3 (0.84%) NetCracker
10 3 (0.84%) Temenos
11 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
142 Oracle Database jobs in England