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

 6 months to
8 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 267 239
Rank change year-on-year -44 -28 +37
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 360 277 329
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.78% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.31% 5.46% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 189 223
10th Percentile £404 £303 £363
25th Percentile £433 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £415 £535
Median % change year-on-year +29.40% -22.43% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £537 £650
90th Percentile £688 £627 £699
UK median daily rate £540 £425 £530
% change year-on-year +27.06% -19.81% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 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% -9.25%
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% -9.25%

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 6,774 5,077 5,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.64% 18.14% 18.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,498 3,470 4,005
10th Percentile £352 £337 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -7.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £719 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 71 84
10th Percentile £16.63 £20.75 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.19 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +20.00% -30.95%
75th Percentile £60.94 £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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -65 160 £500 +22.70% 78
North of England -47 53 £600 +33.33% 21
South West -4 51 £730 +39.05% 11
South East -51 43 £550 +150.00% 16
Midlands -40 36 £467 -9.32% 8
North West -25 34 £625 +48.81% 14
West Midlands -31 32 £488 -7.76% 6
Yorkshire -44 15 £450 -6.25% 4
North East - 8 £519 - 3
East Midlands -16 3 £463 +32.52% 2
East of England -46 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 17 (4.72%) IIS
1 17 (4.72%) Oracle Workflow
2 15 (4.17%) SAS
3 14 (3.89%) WebLogic
4 13 (3.61%) Confluence
5 12 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 9 (2.50%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (1.39%) Appian
8 5 (1.39%) Camunda
9 3 (0.83%) JBoss
9 3 (0.83%) Mendix
9 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
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 16 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 14 (3.89%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (2.50%) Finacle
3 7 (1.94%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (1.67%) Teamcenter
5 5 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.11%) Oracle Applications
6 4 (1.11%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle iProcurement
7 3 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.83%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.11%) AWS
2 49 (13.61%) Azure
3 46 (12.78%) OCI
4 15 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.33%) GitHub
5 12 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.06%) Serverless
7 8 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.22%) GCP
7 8 (2.22%) PaaS
8 7 (1.94%) OpenShift
8 7 (1.94%) SaaS
9 6 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.39%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.39%) IaaS
11 4 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (1.11%) PowerApps
11 4 (1.11%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.78%) Internet
2 5 (1.39%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) IPsec
3 1 (0.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (16.94%) SQL Server
2 45 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 37 (10.28%) RDBMS
4 26 (7.22%) Oracle Exadata
4 26 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (5.28%) Oracle Database 12c
6 18 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 16 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (4.17%) Pentaho
9 11 (3.06%) MySQL
9 11 (3.06%) Power BI
10 8 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.22%) Oracle Database 10g
11 7 (1.94%) MongoDB
11 7 (1.94%) PowerCenter
12 6 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 6 (1.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 6 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (11.11%) Git
2 33 (9.17%) GitLab
3 20 (5.56%) JIRA
4 12 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (3.06%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.22%) 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 (0.83%) Selenium
9 3 (0.83%) Toad
General
1 75 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.61%) Finance
3 55 (15.28%) Public Sector
4 53 (14.72%) Banking
5 41 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.06%) Front Office
7 9 (2.50%) Back Office
8 8 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.22%) Military
9 5 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.11%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.83%) Billing
11 3 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) International Banking
13 1 (0.28%) Local Government
13 1 (0.28%) Marketing
13 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (23.33%) DBA
2 76 (21.11%) Developer
3 72 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
4 52 (14.44%) Senior
5 40 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 33 (9.17%) Administrator
7 32 (8.89%) Architect
8 27 (7.50%) Lead
9 20 (5.56%) Database Manager
10 19 (5.28%) C# Developer
11 18 (5.00%) Database Engineer
12 16 (4.44%) Oracle Database Engineer
13 15 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
14 14 (3.89%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.89%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.61%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.61%) DV Cleared DBA
15 13 (3.61%) Oracle Specialist
15 13 (3.61%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.06%) .NET
2 35 (9.72%) Terraform
3 28 (7.78%) .NET Framework
4 23 (6.39%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 21 (5.83%) REST
5 21 (5.83%) XML
6 19 (5.28%) Middleware
7 16 (4.44%) Kafka
7 16 (4.44%) Spring
8 14 (3.89%) WinForms
8 14 (3.89%) WPF
9 12 (3.33%) Web Services
10 11 (3.06%) Spring Boot
11 10 (2.78%) JSON
12 9 (2.50%) SOAP
13 8 (2.22%) HTML
14 7 (1.94%) JDBC
15 6 (1.67%) Jakarta EE
16 5 (1.39%) JMS
16 5 (1.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.11%) Replication
2 16 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 14 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 10 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.22%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.94%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.67%) Spread Betting
12 5 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.39%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
14 3 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
14 3 (0.83%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 90 (25.00%) Linux
2 54 (15.00%) Windows
3 47 (13.06%) Unix
4 24 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.72%) AIX
6 15 (4.17%) Solaris
7 11 (3.06%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.94%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.94%) 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
1 109 (30.28%) Migration
2 81 (22.50%) CI/CD
3 73 (20.28%) Agile
3 73 (20.28%) DevOps
4 62 (17.22%) Performance Tuning
5 58 (16.11%) Data Modelling
6 54 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (13.33%) ETL
8 43 (11.94%) Data Integration
9 40 (11.11%) AI
9 40 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 37 (10.28%) Data Analysis
10 37 (10.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 36 (10.00%) Data Migration
12 34 (9.44%) SDLC
13 33 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (8.89%) High Availability
14 32 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
15 31 (8.61%) Validation
16 30 (8.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (55.28%) SQL
2 87 (24.17%) PL/SQL
3 43 (11.94%) C#
4 42 (11.67%) Python
5 33 (9.17%) Java
6 31 (8.61%) T-SQL
7 24 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 21 (5.83%) JavaScript
9 15 (4.17%) VB
10 12 (3.33%) VBA
11 10 (2.78%) Bash
12 9 (2.50%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.39%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.11%) Bicep
14 4 (1.11%) VB6
15 3 (0.83%) C
15 3 (0.83%) C++
16 2 (0.56%) Korn
16 2 (0.56%) Perl
16 2 (0.56%) ProC
Qualifications
1 166 (46.11%) Security Cleared
2 126 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.94%) Degree
5 15 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.61%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (1.39%) OCP
8 4 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.83%) ISEB
9 3 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) OCA
10 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.17%) QA
2 26 (7.22%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.39%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.83%) EMIR
4 3 (0.83%) GDPR
4 3 (0.83%) MiFID
5 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
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 (10.56%) Oracle RAC
2 10 (2.78%) Docker
3 3 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.56%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.28%) KVM
5 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (12.78%) Oracle RMAN
2 44 (12.22%) Data Guard
3 32 (8.89%) Kubernetes
4 27 (7.50%) Ansible
5 11 (3.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 9 (2.50%) 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 (0.83%) Argo
8 3 (0.83%) Grafana
8 3 (0.83%) Nagios
8 3 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.28%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) OPNET
9 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 360 (100.00%) Oracle
2 44 (12.22%) Microsoft
3 22 (6.11%) Citrix
3 22 (6.11%) Talend
4 17 (4.72%) IBM
5 15 (4.17%) Informatica
6 14 (3.89%) Databricks
7 13 (3.61%) SAP
8 6 (1.67%) Google
8 6 (1.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.39%) OpenText
9 5 (1.39%) UiPath
10 4 (1.11%) Siebel
11 3 (0.83%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.83%) Denodo
11 3 (0.83%) jBASE
11 3 (0.83%) Kofax
11 3 (0.83%) NetCracker
11 3 (0.83%) Temenos
11 3 (0.83%) VMware
138 Oracle Database jobs in England