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

 6 months to
4 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 269 233
Rank change year-on-year -50 -36 +34
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 348 262 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.76% 0.96% 1.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.01% 5.37% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 180 225
10th Percentile £404 £305 £363
25th Percentile £438 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £408 £505
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% -19.31% +1.00%
75th Percentile £650 £520 £650
90th Percentile £700 £625 £699
UK median daily rate £550 £415 £510
% change year-on-year +32.53% -18.63% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 8
10th Percentile £37.25 £75.25 £48.06
25th Percentile - £79.38 £60.36
Median hourly rate £41.71 £90.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% +46.10% -0.73%
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% -2.26%

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 6,948 4,878 5,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.92% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,646 3,352 4,194
10th Percentile £358 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £706 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 80 84
10th Percentile £15.17 £21.18 £15.29
25th Percentile £23.35 £30.55 £19.96
Median hourly rate £38.38 £40.25 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +16.77% -37.34%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £60.36
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £38.90 £33.22
% change year-on-year +1.54% +17.12% -39.06%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -66 151 £508 +24.60% 56
North of England -58 62 £625 +44.34% 21
South East -58 44 £550 +150.00% 16
Midlands -27 43 £494 -4.13% 7
West Midlands -22 39 £500 -5.26% 4
North West -24 37 £650 +63.52% 16
South West -27 34 £730 +35.81% 13
Yorkshire -50 21 £537 +15.48% 3
North East - 8 £519 - 2
East Midlands -24 3 £463 +32.52% 3
East of England -30 1 £400 -17.95% 3
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 20 (5.75%) SAS
2 18 (5.17%) IIS
3 16 (4.60%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (3.74%) Confluence
5 11 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (2.87%) WebLogic
7 9 (2.59%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.44%) Appian
8 5 (1.44%) Camunda
9 3 (0.86%) JBoss
9 3 (0.86%) Mendix
10 2 (0.57%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.57%) Oracle Service Bus
11 1 (0.29%) CMS
11 1 (0.29%) Liferay
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.29%) WebLogic Portal
11 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (4.02%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (2.87%) Finacle
3 7 (2.01%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (2.01%) Oracle Applications
3 7 (2.01%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (1.72%) Teamcenter
5 5 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.15%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle iProcurement
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.86%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 78 (22.41%) AWS
2 50 (14.37%) Azure
3 41 (11.78%) OCI
4 15 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.74%) GitHub
5 13 (3.74%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.16%) PaaS
7 10 (2.87%) OpenShift
8 9 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.59%) Serverless
9 8 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.72%) SaaS
11 5 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.44%) Azure Databricks
11 5 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (1.44%) GCP
11 5 (1.44%) IaaS
11 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.16%) Internet
2 5 (1.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (16.09%) SQL Server
2 43 (12.36%) Relational Database
3 39 (11.21%) RDBMS
4 28 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (7.18%) Oracle Database 12c
6 24 (6.90%) Oracle Exadata
7 18 (5.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 16 (4.60%) Oracle Reports
9 15 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (4.31%) Pentaho
10 13 (3.74%) Power BI
11 10 (2.87%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 10 (2.87%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 9 (2.59%) NoSQL
13 8 (2.30%) MySQL
14 7 (2.01%) Delta Lake
14 7 (2.01%) Oracle Database 10g
15 6 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.72%) MongoDB
15 6 (1.72%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 36 (10.34%) Git
2 33 (9.48%) GitLab
3 18 (5.17%) JIRA
4 12 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (3.16%) Jenkins
6 7 (2.01%) Oracle APEX
7 6 (1.72%) JMeter
7 6 (1.72%) Liquibase
8 5 (1.44%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.44%) JDeveloper
9 4 (1.15%) eggPlant
9 4 (1.15%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.15%) Postman
9 4 (1.15%) SoapUI
9 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.86%) ClearCase
10 3 (0.86%) Selenium
10 3 (0.86%) Toad
11 2 (0.57%) JUnit
11 2 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 70 (20.11%) Social Skills
2 63 (18.10%) Finance
3 55 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 47 (13.51%) Banking
5 36 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.16%) Front Office
7 10 (2.87%) Back Office
8 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.01%) Military
9 5 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.86%) Billing
12 2 (0.57%) Aviation
12 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.29%) Police
13 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (26.15%) DBA
2 82 (23.56%) Oracle DBA
3 70 (20.11%) Developer
4 48 (13.79%) Senior
5 39 (11.21%) Data Engineer
6 32 (9.20%) Architect
7 30 (8.62%) Administrator
8 26 (7.47%) Lead
9 21 (6.03%) C# Developer
10 16 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.31%) Database Engineer
11 15 (4.31%) Oracle Developer
12 14 (4.02%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (4.02%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.74%) Applications Support
13 13 (3.74%) DV Cleared DBA
14 12 (3.45%) Oracle Database Engineer
14 12 (3.45%) Oracle Specialist
15 11 (3.16%) Java Developer
15 11 (3.16%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (13.22%) .NET
2 38 (10.92%) Terraform
3 29 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 23 (6.61%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 20 (5.75%) XML
6 17 (4.89%) Kafka
7 15 (4.31%) Middleware
8 14 (4.02%) WinForms
8 14 (4.02%) WPF
9 13 (3.74%) REST
10 12 (3.45%) Spring
11 9 (2.59%) JSON
12 8 (2.30%) HTML
12 8 (2.30%) Web Services
13 7 (2.01%) JDBC
13 7 (2.01%) SOAP
13 7 (2.01%) Spring Boot
14 6 (1.72%) Jakarta EE
15 5 (1.44%) JMS
16 4 (1.15%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.46%) Replication
2 17 (4.89%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (4.02%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.02%) Public Cloud
4 13 (3.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 12 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (2.01%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.72%) Spread Betting
10 5 (1.44%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.44%) IoT
10 5 (1.44%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.44%) SCADA
11 3 (0.86%) Clustering
11 3 (0.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 86 (24.71%) Linux
2 53 (15.23%) Windows
3 45 (12.93%) Unix
4 23 (6.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.89%) AIX
6 11 (3.16%) Solaris
6 11 (3.16%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.86%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.57%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.17%) Migration
2 76 (21.84%) DevOps
3 75 (21.55%) CI/CD
4 64 (18.39%) Agile
5 58 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 52 (14.94%) Data Modelling
7 51 (14.66%) ETL
8 50 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (13.22%) Data Integration
9 46 (13.22%) Disaster Recovery
10 45 (12.93%) High Availability
11 41 (11.78%) AI
12 34 (9.77%) Data Analysis
12 34 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
13 31 (8.91%) Mentoring
13 31 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (8.91%) Validation
14 30 (8.62%) Analytics
14 30 (8.62%) Data Migration
15 29 (8.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (57.47%) SQL
2 89 (25.57%) PL/SQL
3 44 (12.64%) Python
4 43 (12.36%) C#
5 31 (8.91%) T-SQL
6 28 (8.05%) Java
7 23 (6.61%) Shell Script
8 20 (5.75%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.31%) VB
10 13 (3.74%) VBA
11 11 (3.16%) PowerShell
12 9 (2.59%) Bash
13 5 (1.44%) Bicep
13 5 (1.44%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.86%) VB6
15 2 (0.57%) C
15 2 (0.57%) C++
15 2 (0.57%) Perl
15 2 (0.57%) ProC
15 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 156 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 118 (33.91%) SC Cleared
3 42 (12.07%) DV Cleared
4 25 (7.18%) Degree
5 13 (3.74%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.86%) ISEB
8 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (0.86%) OCP
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.57%) OCA
9 2 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.57%) PMP
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.49%) QA
2 23 (6.61%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.72%) GDPR
4 5 (1.44%) ISO 9000
4 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) EMIR
5 2 (0.57%) MiFID
5 2 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 39 (11.21%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.59%) Docker
3 3 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 58 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 46 (13.22%) Data Guard
3 29 (8.33%) Ansible
3 29 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 8 (2.30%) Control-M
6 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 4 (1.15%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.86%) Nagios
7 3 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.57%) Argo
8 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.29%) Grafana
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) OPNET
9 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 348 (100.00%) Oracle
2 42 (12.07%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.61%) Citrix
4 22 (6.32%) Talend
5 17 (4.89%) Databricks
5 17 (4.89%) IBM
5 17 (4.89%) Informatica
6 13 (3.74%) SAP
7 5 (1.44%) Denodo
7 5 (1.44%) OpenText
8 4 (1.15%) Google
8 4 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.15%) Siebel
9 3 (0.86%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.86%) jBASE
9 3 (0.86%) Kofax
9 3 (0.86%) NetCracker
9 3 (0.86%) Temenos
10 2 (0.57%) Lotus
10 2 (0.57%) Murex
108 Oracle Database jobs in England