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

 6 months to
31 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 245 275
Rank change year-on-year -41 +30 -23
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 279 284 297
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.00% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.14% 5.50% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 198 232
10th Percentile £300 £385 £380
25th Percentile £385 £414 £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% -2.94%
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 & 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 5,425 5,168 6,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.14% 18.26% 16.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,780 3,439 4,307
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 74 131
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.41 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.85 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.64% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.70 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +76.53% -34.69% -14.84%

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 31 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 31 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 -52 137 £415 -24.55% 27
Midlands -6 44 £525 +2.74% 36
West Midlands +2 42 £525 -0.85% 23
South East -26 36 £400 -38.46% 51
North of England -29 34 £450 -14.69% 40
Yorkshire -34 19 £465 -20.17% 17
East of England -6 15 £127 - 35
North West -10 15 £450 -4.51% 22
South West -4 5 £463 -22.92% 21
East Midlands -19 2 £563 +47.54% 11
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 25 (8.96%) SAS
2 24 (8.60%) IIS
3 16 (5.73%) SharePoint
4 13 (4.66%) Apache
5 11 (3.94%) HCL Notes
5 11 (3.94%) JBoss
6 10 (3.58%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.58%) WebLogic
6 10 (3.58%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.58%) WebSphere Application Server
7 8 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (2.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (2.51%) Mendix
9 4 (1.43%) Confluence
10 3 (1.08%) LiveLink
11 2 (0.72%) Liferay
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 23 (8.24%) 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 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.72%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.72%) 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
6 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 60 (21.51%) Azure
2 45 (16.13%) AWS
3 17 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.09%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.38%) OpenShift
5 13 (4.66%) OCI
6 11 (3.94%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.94%) Serverless
7 10 (3.58%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.87%) Azure Functions
9 8 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (2.87%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.51%) PaaS
10 7 (2.51%) SaaS
11 6 (2.15%) Azure API Management
12 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.43%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.58%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.23%) Internet
3 6 (2.15%) 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 (23.30%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.60%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 22 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (6.81%) Oracle Reports
5 18 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.38%) Power BI
7 13 (4.66%) MySQL
8 11 (3.94%) Oracle Database 12c
8 11 (3.94%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.23%) Metadata
9 9 (3.23%) Oracle BI EE
9 9 (3.23%) Oracle Exadata
9 9 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
10 7 (2.51%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (2.51%) Pentaho
10 7 (2.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 7 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (2.51%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 43 (15.41%) Git
2 35 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.53%) JIRA
4 17 (6.09%) JUnit
5 10 (3.58%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (3.58%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (3.58%) GitLab
6 9 (3.23%) SoapUI
7 8 (2.87%) Maven
7 8 (2.87%) Selenium
7 8 (2.87%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.51%) Mockito
8 7 (2.51%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.79%) Subversion
10 5 (1.79%) Toad
10 5 (1.79%) Xcode
10 5 (1.79%) XCTest
General
1 93 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 69 (24.73%) Finance
3 36 (12.90%) Banking
4 34 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.66%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.15%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.72%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.72%) Back Office
9 2 (0.72%) Local Government
10 1 (0.36%) Advertising
10 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.36%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.36%) Marketing
10 1 (0.36%) Retail
10 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (28.67%) Developer
2 47 (16.85%) DBA
2 47 (16.85%) Oracle DBA
3 29 (10.39%) C# Developer
4 21 (7.53%) Analyst
5 17 (6.09%) Oracle Developer
6 16 (5.73%) Architect
6 16 (5.73%) C# WPF Developer
6 16 (5.73%) Technical Analyst
6 16 (5.73%) WPF Developer
7 14 (5.02%) .NET Developer
7 14 (5.02%) Applications Support
7 14 (5.02%) C# .NET Developer
7 14 (5.02%) Senior
8 12 (4.30%) ERP Support
9 11 (3.94%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (3.94%) Data Engineer
9 11 (3.94%) Power Platform Developer
9 11 (3.94%) Support Analyst
9 11 (3.94%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.34%) .NET
2 25 (8.96%) REST
3 23 (8.24%) .NET Framework
4 19 (6.81%) WPF
5 16 (5.73%) Kafka
5 16 (5.73%) OAuth
5 16 (5.73%) SOAP
6 13 (4.66%) HTML
7 12 (4.30%) OpenID
7 12 (4.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 12 (4.30%) WinForms
8 11 (3.94%) Spring
9 10 (3.58%) FastAPI
9 10 (3.58%) HTML5 Canvas
9 10 (3.58%) LDAP
9 10 (3.58%) Middleware
9 10 (3.58%) SAML
9 10 (3.58%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.58%) XML
10 9 (3.23%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.58%) Enterprise Cloud
1 10 (3.58%) Low-Code
1 10 (3.58%) Replication
2 9 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.87%) NHS
4 7 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.15%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.15%) 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%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.72%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.72%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.72%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.58%) Windows
2 60 (21.51%) Linux
3 44 (15.77%) Unix
4 25 (8.96%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.30%) AIX
6 11 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (3.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.15%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.15%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.79%) Solaris
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.39%) DevOps
2 81 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (27.60%) Agile
4 57 (20.43%) CI/CD
5 50 (17.92%) Migration
6 44 (15.77%) Performance Tuning
7 43 (15.41%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (12.90%) ETL
9 32 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (11.47%) Data Modelling
10 31 (11.11%) Scrum
11 30 (10.75%) Analytics
12 27 (9.68%) Integration Patterns
13 26 (9.32%) ERP
14 24 (8.60%) Data Integration
15 22 (7.89%) API Integration
16 21 (7.53%) Data Migration
16 21 (7.53%) SDLC
16 21 (7.53%) Task Automation
17 20 (7.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 164 (58.78%) SQL
2 94 (33.69%) PL/SQL
3 45 (16.13%) C#
3 45 (16.13%) Shell Script
4 40 (14.34%) Python
5 29 (10.39%) Java
6 24 (8.60%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.81%) T-SQL
7 19 (6.81%) VB
7 19 (6.81%) VBA
8 15 (5.38%) Groovy
9 13 (4.66%) Perl
10 10 (3.58%) Formula Language
10 10 (3.58%) LotusScript
11 9 (3.23%) C++
11 9 (3.23%) VB.NET
12 7 (2.51%) Bash
13 6 (2.15%) Korn
13 6 (2.15%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 69 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 56 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.38%) Degree
4 11 (3.94%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.87%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.51%) OCP
7 6 (2.15%) 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 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.72%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.72%) OCA
10 2 (0.72%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.17%) QA
2 13 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.87%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.08%) SEPA
6 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.72%) MiFID
6 2 (0.72%) NIST
6 2 (0.72%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.72%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (10.75%) Docker
1 30 (10.75%) Oracle RAC
2 13 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.87%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 3 (1.08%) NFS
4 3 (1.08%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.36%) Samba
Systems Management
1 26 (9.32%) Data Guard
1 26 (9.32%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.53%) Oracle RMAN
3 15 (5.38%) Ansible
4 13 (4.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 10 (3.58%) CA Single Sign-On
5 10 (3.58%) CA Wily
5 10 (3.58%) yum
6 8 (2.87%) Progress Chef
6 8 (2.87%) Tivoli
7 6 (2.15%) Terraform
8 5 (1.79%) Grafana
8 5 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.08%) Ambari
9 3 (1.08%) Puppet
9 3 (1.08%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.72%) Kibana
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.72%) systemd
Vendors
1 279 (100.00%) Oracle
2 72 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.96%) Citrix
4 22 (7.89%) IBM
5 16 (5.73%) Splunk
6 11 (3.94%) Lotus
7 10 (3.58%) AppDynamics
7 10 (3.58%) Broadcom
8 7 (2.51%) Denodo
8 7 (2.51%) Kofax
8 7 (2.51%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.51%) Talend
9 5 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.43%) SAP
11 3 (1.08%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.08%) Databricks
11 3 (1.08%) Sybase
11 3 (1.08%) VMware
12 2 (0.72%) CyberArk
208 Oracle Database jobs in England