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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
19 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 235 270
Rank change year-on-year -33 +35 -38
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 274 336 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 1.02% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.45% 5.60% 5.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 224 237
10th Percentile £304 £363 £382
25th Percentile £379 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £520 £480
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% -8.57%
75th Percentile £526 £650 £588
90th Percentile £611 £699 £675
UK median daily rate £420 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.38% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 11
10th Percentile £75.25 £59.62 £46.25
25th Percentile £79.38 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 £61.60 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year +46.10% +5.14% +17.18%
75th Percentile £101.88 - £69.86
90th Percentile £106.75 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year +46.10% +5.14% +37.86%

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 5,032 6,005 7,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.09% 18.23% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,464 4,155 4,991
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £543
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 84 140
10th Percentile £21.11 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.21 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.08 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database 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 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

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 September 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 -62 138 £408 -18.50% 38
North of England +6 41 £450 -5.26% 9
South East -11 32 £220 -65.63% 19
Yorkshire +7 25 £490 -4.39% 1
Midlands -1 25 £517 +35.54% 5
West Midlands +6 17 £537 +34.25%
South West +17 16 £538 -17.31% 1
North West +2 16 £420 -10.88% 8
East of England - 14 £488 - 1
East Midlands -6 7 £349 -3.72% 5
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (7.30%) IIS
2 15 (5.47%) Confluence
2 15 (5.47%) JBoss
2 15 (5.47%) WebSphere
3 13 (4.74%) Apache
4 12 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (4.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (3.65%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.65%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (3.28%) SAS
8 7 (2.55%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (2.19%) WebLogic
10 4 (1.46%) HCL Notes
10 4 (1.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 4 (1.46%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.46%) Tomcat
11 3 (1.09%) CICS
11 3 (1.09%) LiveLink
12 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 30 (10.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.82%) Oracle BPM
2 5 (1.82%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.46%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.46%) Temenos T24
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.36%) OpenText MBPM
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.36%) StreamServe
6 1 (0.36%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (18.61%) Azure
2 44 (16.06%) AWS
3 17 (6.20%) OCI
4 13 (4.74%) Serverless
5 12 (4.38%) OpenShift
5 12 (4.38%) Power Platform
6 11 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (3.65%) Amazon S3
7 10 (3.65%) GitHub
8 7 (2.55%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.19%) dbt
9 6 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.82%) Collibra
10 5 (1.82%) PaaS
11 4 (1.46%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.65%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.28%) Internet
3 7 (2.55%) HTTP
4 5 (1.82%) LAN
4 5 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.09%) SSL
6 2 (0.73%) Firewall
7 1 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.36%) SAN
7 1 (0.36%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (25.18%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.30%) Oracle Reports
3 17 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.20%) Relational Database
4 15 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.38%) Oracle Exadata
5 12 (4.38%) RDBMS
6 10 (3.65%) Oracle Database 12c
6 10 (3.65%) Power BI
7 9 (3.28%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 7 (2.55%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 6 (2.19%) Oracle Database 11g
9 6 (2.19%) Redis
9 6 (2.19%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 5 (1.82%) GIS
10 5 (1.82%) Oracle BI EE
10 5 (1.82%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 38 (13.87%) Git
2 31 (11.31%) Jenkins
3 24 (8.76%) JIRA
4 10 (3.65%) Bitbucket Server
4 10 (3.65%) CA Release Automation
4 10 (3.65%) JUnit
4 10 (3.65%) Maven
5 9 (3.28%) SoapUI
5 9 (3.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.92%) REST Assured
7 6 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (2.19%) Mockito
7 6 (2.19%) Postman
7 6 (2.19%) SonarQube
7 6 (2.19%) Subversion
7 6 (2.19%) Xcode
7 6 (2.19%) XCTest
8 5 (1.82%) Ant
8 5 (1.82%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (1.82%) Oracle APEX
General
1 86 (31.39%) Finance
2 79 (28.83%) Social Skills
3 32 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.31%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.95%) Banking
6 8 (2.92%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.46%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.46%) Marketing
9 3 (1.09%) Electronics
9 3 (1.09%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.73%) Back Office
10 2 (0.73%) French Language
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.36%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.36%) Local Government
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (29.93%) Developer
2 41 (14.96%) DBA
3 38 (13.87%) Oracle DBA
4 31 (11.31%) C# Developer
5 28 (10.22%) C# WPF Developer
5 28 (10.22%) WPF Developer
6 21 (7.66%) .NET Developer
6 21 (7.66%) C# .NET Developer
7 17 (6.20%) Analyst
8 16 (5.84%) Applications Support
8 16 (5.84%) Architect
9 14 (5.11%) ERP Support
9 14 (5.11%) Lead
10 13 (4.74%) Administrator
10 13 (4.74%) Senior
11 12 (4.38%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (4.01%) Oracle Developer
13 10 (3.65%) Java Developer
14 9 (3.28%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.23%) .NET
2 30 (10.95%) .NET Framework
3 29 (10.58%) WPF
4 22 (8.03%) Kafka
5 21 (7.66%) REST
6 19 (6.93%) HTML
7 16 (5.84%) CSS
8 15 (5.47%) Web Services
9 14 (5.11%) OAuth
9 14 (5.11%) Spring
9 14 (5.11%) Spring Boot
10 13 (4.74%) SOAP
11 12 (4.38%) XML
12 11 (4.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 10 (3.65%) AngularJS
13 10 (3.65%) FastAPI
13 10 (3.65%) JPA
13 10 (3.65%) LDAP
13 10 (3.65%) OpenID
13 10 (3.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.38%) Data Centre
1 12 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (4.01%) Replication
3 9 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 8 (2.92%) NHS
5 7 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.82%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.82%) IoT
6 5 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.82%) SCADA
7 4 (1.46%) Clustering
7 4 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.46%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.46%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.09%) State Machine
8 3 (1.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 68 (24.82%) Linux
2 66 (24.09%) Windows
3 36 (13.14%) Unix
4 20 (7.30%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.19%) AIX
7 4 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.09%) Solaris
8 3 (1.09%) VMS
9 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.36%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (22.63%) DevOps
3 59 (21.53%) Migration
4 57 (20.80%) Agile
5 43 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
6 40 (14.60%) CI/CD
7 30 (10.95%) Data Migration
7 30 (10.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 28 (10.22%) ERP
8 28 (10.22%) ETL
9 26 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (9.49%) Data Modelling
10 22 (8.03%) Task Automation
11 21 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (6.57%) Analytics
12 18 (6.57%) Data Integration
12 18 (6.57%) Database Migration
12 18 (6.57%) High Availability
12 18 (6.57%) Microservices
13 17 (6.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 163 (59.49%) SQL
2 86 (31.39%) PL/SQL
3 43 (15.69%) C#
4 40 (14.60%) Java
4 40 (14.60%) Shell Script
5 39 (14.23%) Python
6 29 (10.58%) VB
6 29 (10.58%) VBA
7 22 (8.03%) JavaScript
8 19 (6.93%) VB.NET
9 16 (5.84%) Groovy
10 13 (4.74%) T-SQL
11 10 (3.65%) Bash
11 10 (3.65%) C++
11 10 (3.65%) Perl
12 5 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (1.46%) COBOL
13 4 (1.46%) JCL
13 4 (1.46%) Korn
14 3 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 57 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.15%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.93%) Degree
4 8 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
5 7 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (2.55%) OCP
6 6 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.82%) HNC
7 5 (1.82%) HND
7 5 (1.82%) MCP
7 5 (1.82%) MCSE
7 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.09%) OCA
9 2 (0.73%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CISA
10 1 (0.36%) CRISC
10 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.57%) QA
2 17 (6.20%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.28%) GDPR
4 7 (2.55%) SEPA
5 5 (1.82%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.73%) ITGC
7 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
8 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.36%) RMADS
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (13.50%) Oracle RAC
2 26 (9.49%) Docker
3 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.92%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (1.82%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 4 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (1.09%) NFS
8 2 (0.73%) GPFS
9 1 (0.36%) Samba
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (14.23%) Data Guard
2 36 (13.14%) Oracle RMAN
3 22 (8.03%) Kubernetes
4 19 (6.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 17 (6.20%) Ansible
6 13 (4.74%) Tivoli
7 10 (3.65%) CA Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.65%) CA Wily
7 10 (3.65%) yum
8 8 (2.92%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.55%) Grafana
9 7 (2.55%) Terraform
10 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.46%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.09%) Ambari
12 3 (1.09%) Puppet
12 3 (1.09%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
14 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 274 (100.00%) Oracle
2 56 (20.44%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.93%) IBM
4 18 (6.57%) Splunk
5 15 (5.47%) Citrix
6 14 (5.11%) SAP
7 11 (4.01%) Red Hat
8 10 (3.65%) AppDynamics
8 10 (3.65%) Broadcom
8 10 (3.65%) Commvault
9 8 (2.92%) Databricks
10 7 (2.55%) Informatica
11 6 (2.19%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (2.19%) Dynatrace
11 6 (2.19%) Siebel
11 6 (2.19%) StreamSets
11 6 (2.19%) Sybase
12 5 (1.82%) Denodo
12 5 (1.82%) Talend
12 5 (1.82%) VMware
63 Oracle Database jobs in England