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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 246 279
Rank change year-on-year -42 +33 -22
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 280 295 302
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.01% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.20% 5.57% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 205 232
10th Percentile £300 £385 £380
25th Percentile £385 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £489
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +12.53% -6.90%
75th Percentile £544 £663 £625
90th Percentile £635 £699 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -18.18% +12.82% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £60.11 £28.76
25th Percentile £100.00 £65.30 £48.65
Median hourly rate £105.00 £75.40 £75.28
Median % change year-on-year +39.26% +0.17% +43.38%
75th Percentile £110.00 £85.30 £91.13
90th Percentile - £90.37 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £75.40 £63.00
% change year-on-year +39.26% +19.68% +26.00%

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 5,387 5,297 6,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.15% 18.15% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,753 3,531 4,440
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £411 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £619 £663 £656
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.08% -1.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 75 128
10th Percentile £20.68 £18.20 £16.62
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.48 £24.70
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £64.51
90th Percentile £84.30 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +42.20% -33.76% -7.69%

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 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 17 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 -52 135 £415 -24.55% 17
Midlands -4 41 £523 +5.98% 5
West Midlands -2 39 £520 +1.76% 5
South East -32 38 £406 -37.50% 11
North of England -30 34 £450 -10.89% 7
Yorkshire -31 19 £465 -17.88% 1
East of England +1 17 £127 -
North West -22 15 £450 -4.51% 6
South West +1 7 £463 +2.78% 2
East Midlands -28 2 £563 +40.63%
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 24 (8.57%) IIS
1 24 (8.57%) SAS
2 14 (5.00%) JBoss
3 13 (4.64%) Apache
3 13 (4.64%) SharePoint
4 10 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.57%) iPlanet
4 10 (3.57%) WebLogic
4 10 (3.57%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (3.21%) HCL Notes
6 7 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (1.79%) Confluence
7 5 (1.79%) Mendix
8 3 (1.07%) LiveLink
8 3 (1.07%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.71%) Liferay
9 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 24 (8.57%) 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 (3.21%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.79%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.43%) Temenos T24
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.07%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.71%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.36%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.36%) OpenText MBPM
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
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.71%) Azure
2 44 (15.71%) AWS
3 16 (5.71%) OpenShift
4 15 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (5.36%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.64%) OCI
6 11 (3.93%) Serverless
7 9 (3.21%) PowerApps
8 8 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 8 (2.86%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 7 (2.50%) PaaS
10 6 (2.14%) Azure API Management
10 6 (2.14%) Azure Functions
10 6 (2.14%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (2.14%) SaaS
11 5 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.79%) GitHub
11 5 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.21%) Internet
3 6 (2.14%) 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 67 (23.93%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (8.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 18 (6.43%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (4.64%) MySQL
6 13 (4.64%) Power BI
6 13 (4.64%) RDBMS
7 12 (4.29%) Oracle Database 12c
7 12 (4.29%) Oracle Exadata
8 9 (3.21%) Oracle BI EE
8 9 (3.21%) Oracle ODI
9 8 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.50%) Metadata
10 7 (2.50%) Pentaho
10 7 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 6 (2.14%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 6 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 43 (15.36%) Git
2 35 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.86%) JIRA
4 17 (6.07%) JUnit
5 10 (3.57%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (3.57%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (3.57%) GitLab
6 9 (3.21%) SoapUI
7 8 (2.86%) Maven
7 8 (2.86%) Oracle APEX
7 8 (2.86%) Selenium
7 8 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.50%) Mockito
9 6 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.79%) Subversion
10 5 (1.79%) Toad
10 5 (1.79%) Xcode
General
1 96 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 70 (25.00%) Finance
3 35 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (12.14%) Banking
5 25 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.93%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.50%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.71%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.71%) Back Office
10 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.36%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.36%) Law
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (28.21%) Developer
2 47 (16.79%) DBA
3 46 (16.43%) Oracle DBA
4 28 (10.00%) C# Developer
5 22 (7.86%) Analyst
6 18 (6.43%) Architect
7 17 (6.07%) C# WPF Developer
7 17 (6.07%) WPF Developer
8 16 (5.71%) Oracle Developer
8 16 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
9 15 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 15 (5.36%) C# .NET Developer
10 14 (5.00%) Senior
11 13 (4.64%) Applications Support
12 12 (4.29%) ERP Support
13 11 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) Support Analyst
13 11 (3.93%) Technical Support
13 11 (3.93%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.93%) .NET
2 26 (9.29%) .NET Framework
3 25 (8.93%) REST
4 20 (7.14%) WPF
5 16 (5.71%) Kafka
5 16 (5.71%) OAuth
5 16 (5.71%) SOAP
6 14 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 13 (4.64%) HTML
8 12 (4.29%) OpenID
8 12 (4.29%) WinForms
9 11 (3.93%) Spring
10 10 (3.57%) CSS
10 10 (3.57%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.57%) LDAP
10 10 (3.57%) Middleware
10 10 (3.57%) SAML
10 10 (3.57%) Spring Boot
11 9 (3.21%) XML
12 8 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.93%) Replication
2 10 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 9 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 8 (2.86%) NHS
5 7 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.79%) Clustering
7 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.71%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.57%) Windows
2 65 (23.21%) Linux
3 45 (16.07%) Unix
4 26 (9.29%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.64%) AIX
6 12 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.50%) Windows 7
9 6 (2.14%) Windows 10
9 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (1.79%) Solaris
11 2 (0.71%) VMS
12 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.29%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (28.57%) Agile
3 79 (28.21%) DevOps
4 55 (19.64%) CI/CD
5 52 (18.57%) Migration
6 44 (15.71%) Performance Tuning
7 42 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (12.86%) Data Modelling
9 34 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (12.14%) ETL
10 30 (10.71%) Analytics
10 30 (10.71%) Scrum
11 29 (10.36%) Integration Patterns
12 26 (9.29%) ERP
13 23 (8.21%) Data Integration
13 23 (8.21%) Data Migration
14 20 (7.14%) Data Analysis
14 20 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
14 20 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 163 (58.21%) SQL
2 92 (32.86%) PL/SQL
3 45 (16.07%) Shell Script
4 42 (15.00%) C#
5 41 (14.64%) Python
6 31 (11.07%) Java
7 23 (8.21%) JavaScript
8 20 (7.14%) VB
8 20 (7.14%) VBA
9 19 (6.79%) T-SQL
10 15 (5.36%) Groovy
11 13 (4.64%) Perl
12 10 (3.57%) C++
12 10 (3.57%) VB.NET
13 8 (2.86%) Bash
13 8 (2.86%) Formula Language
13 8 (2.86%) LotusScript
14 6 (2.14%) Korn
14 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 70 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.36%) Degree
4 11 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.21%) Oracle Certification
6 8 (2.86%) OCP
7 7 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.79%) HNC
9 5 (1.79%) HND
9 5 (1.79%) MCP
9 5 (1.79%) MCSE
10 3 (1.07%) OCA
11 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
11 2 (0.71%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.21%) QA
2 13 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.86%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) SLA
5 3 (1.07%) SEPA
6 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) MiFID
6 2 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.71%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.36%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (11.07%) Oracle RAC
2 30 (10.71%) Docker
3 13 (4.64%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.43%) NFS
5 4 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.71%) Oracle Clusterware
8 1 (0.36%) GPFS
8 1 (0.36%) Samba
Systems Management
1 28 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 27 (9.64%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.21%) Oracle RMAN
4 16 (5.71%) Ansible
5 15 (5.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (3.57%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.57%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.57%) yum
7 8 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.86%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.14%) Grafana
8 6 (2.14%) Terraform
9 5 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.07%) Ambari
10 3 (1.07%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.07%) Puppet
10 3 (1.07%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.71%) Control-M
11 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 280 (100.00%) Oracle
2 71 (25.36%) Microsoft
3 26 (9.29%) Citrix
4 22 (7.86%) IBM
5 17 (6.07%) Splunk
6 10 (3.57%) AppDynamics
6 10 (3.57%) Broadcom
7 9 (3.21%) Lotus
8 8 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.50%) Denodo
9 7 (2.50%) Talend
10 5 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
10 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.79%) Kofax
11 4 (1.43%) SAP
11 4 (1.43%) StreamSets
11 4 (1.43%) Sybase
11 4 (1.43%) Temenos
11 4 (1.43%) VMware
12 3 (1.07%) OpenText