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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 251 307
Rank change year-on-year -61 +56 -56
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 315 257 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 1.04% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.83% 5.54% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 181 182
10th Percentile £404 £360 £363
25th Percentile £425 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £438 £486
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.98% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 7
10th Percentile £35.11 £69.50 £48.16
25th Percentile £37.25 £70.63 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £75.00 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -44.39% +21.75% -15.03%
75th Percentile £74.68 £85.63 -
90th Percentile - £90.50 -
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £75.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -44.39% +21.75% -15.03%

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 6,518 4,637 6,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.80% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,429 3,211 4,621
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 90 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.69 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.50 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.93% -16.26% -31.09%
75th Percentile £73.56 £65.34 £52.83
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.62 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.18% -12.53% -31.09%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -71 137 £500 +22.70% 16
Midlands -28 51 £525 +10.53% 5
North of England -70 51 £638 +27.50% 7
West Midlands -23 46 £525 -12.50% 4
South East -41 42 £550 +12.82% 12
North West -23 24 £650 +82.58% 3
South West -19 23 £600 +3.27% 4
Yorkshire -73 23 £445 -10.95% 2
North East - 5 £563 - 2
East Midlands -25 4 £463 +32.52% 1
East of England -29 3 £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 21 (6.67%) SAS
2 17 (5.40%) IIS
3 12 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (3.81%) WebLogic
4 11 (3.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 10 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 8 (2.54%) Confluence
6 8 (2.54%) HCL Notes
6 8 (2.54%) Mendix
7 7 (2.22%) SharePoint
8 6 (1.90%) Appian
8 6 (1.90%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.95%) Camunda
9 3 (0.95%) JBoss
9 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.63%) nginx
11 1 (0.32%) Apache
11 1 (0.32%) Liferay
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
11 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (4.13%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.90%) Finacle
2 6 (1.90%) Oracle Applications
3 4 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.27%) Siebel CRM
3 4 (1.27%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.95%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.32%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.32%) Endur
6 1 (0.32%) Findur
6 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.32%) Summit
6 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.78%) AWS
2 54 (17.14%) Azure
3 22 (6.98%) OCI
4 18 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.13%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.49%) PaaS
7 9 (2.86%) GitHub
7 9 (2.86%) Serverless
8 8 (2.54%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.22%) Collibra
9 7 (2.22%) OpenShift
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Functions
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (1.90%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.59%) GCP
11 5 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.27%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.17%) Internet
2 3 (0.95%) Firewall
3 2 (0.63%) HTTP
3 2 (0.63%) Network Security
3 2 (0.63%) VPN
4 1 (0.32%) Intranet
4 1 (0.32%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (21.59%) SQL Server
2 31 (9.84%) Relational Database
3 25 (7.94%) Oracle Database 12c
4 24 (7.62%) RDBMS
5 23 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (5.08%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 14 (4.44%) Oracle Database 11g
9 13 (4.13%) Metadata
9 13 (4.13%) Power BI
10 11 (3.49%) MySQL
10 11 (3.49%) Oracle Exadata
11 10 (3.17%) Pentaho
11 10 (3.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 9 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.54%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.22%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
16 5 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
16 5 (1.59%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 23 (7.30%) GitLab
2 16 (5.08%) JIRA
3 14 (4.44%) Git
4 7 (2.22%) Liquibase
4 7 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.95%) ClearCase
6 3 (0.95%) JUnit
6 3 (0.95%) Selenium
7 2 (0.63%) Flyway
7 2 (0.63%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.63%) JMeter
7 2 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.32%) Ant
8 1 (0.32%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.32%) Maven
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Developer 2000
8 1 (0.32%) Rational Robot
8 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (19.37%) Finance
2 50 (15.87%) Social Skills
3 45 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 43 (13.65%) Banking
5 21 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.54%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.22%) Military
8 6 (1.90%) Back Office
8 6 (1.90%) Front Office
9 4 (1.27%) Advertising
9 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.63%) Aviation
10 2 (0.63%) Billing
10 2 (0.63%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Legal
10 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (33.02%) DBA
2 98 (31.11%) Oracle DBA
3 74 (23.49%) Developer
4 33 (10.48%) C# Developer
5 32 (10.16%) Administrator
6 27 (8.57%) Senior
7 25 (7.94%) Data Engineer
8 24 (7.62%) Architect
9 18 (5.71%) Lead
9 18 (5.71%) SC Cleared DBA
10 16 (5.08%) Database Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Oracle Developer
12 13 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.81%) Release Manager
14 11 (3.49%) Oracle Specialist
15 10 (3.17%) PostgreSQL DBA
15 10 (3.17%) Senior DBA
16 9 (2.86%) DV Cleared DBA
16 9 (2.86%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (15.87%) .NET
2 31 (9.84%) .NET Framework
3 17 (5.40%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 17 (5.40%) XML
4 13 (4.13%) WinForms
4 13 (4.13%) WPF
5 12 (3.81%) React
5 12 (3.81%) REST
6 11 (3.49%) Kafka
7 10 (3.17%) JSON
7 10 (3.17%) Middleware
8 9 (2.86%) HTML
9 7 (2.22%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.22%) CSS
9 7 (2.22%) Spring
9 7 (2.22%) Web Services
10 6 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 6 (1.90%) SOAP
10 6 (1.90%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.89%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (3.49%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (1.90%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.27%) Replication
6 4 (1.27%) SCADA
6 4 (1.27%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.95%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.95%) Clustering
7 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.95%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 64 (20.32%) Linux
2 43 (13.65%) Windows
3 35 (11.11%) Unix
4 14 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.81%) Solaris
6 11 (3.49%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.22%) AIX
8 6 (1.90%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.63%) HPUX
12 2 (0.63%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (21.59%) DevOps
2 66 (20.95%) Migration
3 55 (17.46%) CI/CD
3 55 (17.46%) High Availability
4 53 (16.83%) Performance Tuning
5 47 (14.92%) ETL
6 45 (14.29%) Agile
6 45 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (12.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 30 (9.52%) AI
9 29 (9.21%) Data Analysis
10 28 (8.89%) Data Integration
10 28 (8.89%) Validation
11 24 (7.62%) Analytics
12 23 (7.30%) Change Management
12 23 (7.30%) Data Modelling
13 22 (6.98%) Decision-Making
14 21 (6.67%) Configuration Management
14 21 (6.67%) ITIL
14 21 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 160 (50.79%) SQL
2 81 (25.71%) PL/SQL
3 54 (17.14%) C#
4 42 (13.33%) Python
5 29 (9.21%) T-SQL
6 21 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 17 (5.40%) Java
8 15 (4.76%) JavaScript
9 14 (4.44%) VB
10 11 (3.49%) VBA
11 10 (3.17%) Korn
12 8 (2.54%) Bash
12 8 (2.54%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.22%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.90%) Formula Language
14 6 (1.90%) LotusScript
15 3 (0.95%) Bicep
15 3 (0.95%) VB6
16 2 (0.63%) C
16 2 (0.63%) ProC
Qualifications
1 133 (42.22%) Security Cleared
2 104 (33.02%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.21%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.71%) Degree
5 6 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.63%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.63%) PMP
8 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.32%) OCP
8 1 (0.32%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.79%) QA
2 11 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.27%) SLA
4 3 (0.95%) FATCA
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
4 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (10.16%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.86%) Docker
3 2 (0.63%) Oracle Clusterware
3 2 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 53 (16.83%) Oracle RMAN
2 30 (9.52%) Data Guard
3 24 (7.62%) Terraform
4 13 (4.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 12 (3.81%) Ansible
6 11 (3.49%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.63%) Grafana
7 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Argo
8 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.32%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.32%) Foglight
8 1 (0.32%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 315 (100.00%) Oracle
2 28 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.30%) Citrix
4 16 (5.08%) Talend
5 15 (4.76%) Databricks
6 11 (3.49%) Informatica
7 9 (2.86%) IBM
8 8 (2.54%) Kofax
8 8 (2.54%) Lotus
9 6 (1.90%) SAP
10 5 (1.59%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.59%) Denodo
10 5 (1.59%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.27%) Google
11 4 (1.27%) Siebel
12 3 (0.95%) OpenText
12 3 (0.95%) VMware
13 2 (0.63%) Murex
13 2 (0.63%) NetCracker
13 2 (0.63%) Pega
42 Oracle Database jobs in England