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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 249 276
Rank change year-on-year -40 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 280 281 296
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.00% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.18% 5.45% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 195 231
10th Percentile £300 £385 £380
25th Percentile £385 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% +14.58% -8.57%
75th Percentile £540 £663 £625
90th Percentile £630 £699 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -18.18% +11.11% -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £71.00 £65.11
25th Percentile £100.00 £74.38 £73.23
Median hourly rate £105.00 £82.50 £88.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -6.78% +60.91%
75th Percentile £110.00 £89.38 £92.00
90th Percentile - £92.00 £93.05
UK median hourly rate £105.00 £82.50 £75.75
% change year-on-year +27.27% +8.91% +26.25%

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 5,410 5,154 6,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.11% 18.27% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,775 3,429 4,333
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 74 131
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.13 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.60 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

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 30 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 30 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 -55 138 £415 -23.68% 28
Midlands -15 43 £525 +2.74% 30
West Midlands +4 41 £523 -1.32% 21
South East -21 37 £406 -37.50% 41
North of England -34 34 £450 -10.89% 34
Yorkshire -31 19 £465 -22.34% 14
East of England -4 15 £127 - 31
North West -17 15 £450 -4.51% 19
South West -3 5 £463 - 21
East Midlands -23 2 £563 +47.54% 9
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 15 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 13 (4.64%) Apache
4 11 (3.93%) HCL Notes
4 11 (3.93%) JBoss
5 10 (3.57%) iPlanet
5 10 (3.57%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.57%) WebSphere
5 10 (3.57%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (2.50%) Mendix
8 4 (1.43%) Confluence
9 3 (1.07%) LiveLink
10 2 (0.71%) Liferay
10 2 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.36%) OpenEdge
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 EBS R12
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.43%) Oracle BPM
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%) 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
6 1 (0.36%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 60 (21.43%) Azure
2 44 (15.71%) AWS
3 17 (6.07%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.07%) Power Platform
4 15 (5.36%) OpenShift
5 13 (4.64%) OCI
6 11 (3.93%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.93%) Serverless
7 10 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 9 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.86%) Azure Functions
9 8 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (2.50%) PaaS
11 6 (2.14%) Azure API Management
11 6 (2.14%) SaaS
12 4 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.43%) Azure Storage
12 4 (1.43%) GitHub
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 66 (23.57%) SQL Server
2 23 (8.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 22 (7.86%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (6.79%) Oracle Reports
5 18 (6.43%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.36%) Power BI
7 13 (4.64%) MySQL
8 12 (4.29%) Oracle Database 12c
9 11 (3.93%) Oracle Exadata
9 11 (3.93%) RDBMS
10 9 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.21%) Metadata
10 9 (3.21%) Oracle BI EE
10 9 (3.21%) Oracle ODI
11 8 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
12 7 (2.50%) Pentaho
12 7 (2.50%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 7 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (2.50%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 43 (15.36%) Git
2 35 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.50%) 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%) Selenium
7 8 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.50%) Mockito
8 7 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (2.14%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.79%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.79%) Subversion
10 5 (1.79%) Toad
10 5 (1.79%) Xcode
10 5 (1.79%) XCTest
General
1 93 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 71 (25.36%) Finance
3 37 (13.21%) Banking
4 34 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.64%) 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%) Law
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Retail
11 1 (0.36%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (28.93%) Developer
2 49 (17.50%) DBA
2 49 (17.50%) Oracle DBA
3 30 (10.71%) C# Developer
4 21 (7.50%) Analyst
5 17 (6.07%) C# WPF Developer
5 17 (6.07%) Oracle Developer
5 17 (6.07%) WPF Developer
6 16 (5.71%) Architect
6 16 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
7 15 (5.36%) .NET Developer
7 15 (5.36%) C# .NET Developer
8 14 (5.00%) Senior
9 13 (4.64%) Applications Support
10 12 (4.29%) ERP Support
11 11 (3.93%) Administrator
11 11 (3.93%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.93%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.93%) Power Platform Developer
11 11 (3.93%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.64%) .NET
2 25 (8.93%) REST
3 24 (8.57%) .NET Framework
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%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
10 10 (3.57%) LDAP
10 10 (3.57%) Middleware
10 10 (3.57%) SAML
10 10 (3.57%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.57%) XML
11 9 (3.21%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
1 10 (3.57%) Low-Code
1 10 (3.57%) Replication
2 9 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.86%) NHS
4 6 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.43%) Clustering
6 4 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.71%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.71%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.71%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.71%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 64 (22.86%) Windows
2 62 (22.14%) Linux
3 44 (15.71%) Unix
4 25 (8.93%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.64%) AIX
6 11 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.14%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.14%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.79%) Solaris
10 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (29.29%) DevOps
2 81 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (27.50%) Agile
4 56 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 49 (17.50%) Migration
6 46 (16.43%) Performance Tuning
7 43 (15.36%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (12.86%) ETL
9 32 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (11.43%) Data Modelling
10 31 (11.07%) Scrum
11 30 (10.71%) Analytics
12 26 (9.29%) ERP
12 26 (9.29%) Integration Patterns
13 23 (8.21%) Data Integration
14 21 (7.50%) API Integration
14 21 (7.50%) Data Migration
14 21 (7.50%) Task Automation
15 20 (7.14%) SDLC
15 20 (7.14%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 166 (59.29%) SQL
2 96 (34.29%) PL/SQL
3 46 (16.43%) C#
4 45 (16.07%) Shell Script
5 40 (14.29%) Python
6 29 (10.36%) Java
7 24 (8.57%) 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%) Formula Language
12 10 (3.57%) LotusScript
12 10 (3.57%) VB.NET
13 9 (3.21%) C++
14 7 (2.50%) Bash
15 6 (2.14%) Korn
15 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
16 5 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 68 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.36%) Degree
4 11 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 11 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.50%) OCP
7 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.79%) HNC
8 5 (1.79%) HND
8 5 (1.79%) MCP
8 5 (1.79%) MCSE
9 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
10 2 (0.71%) OCA
10 2 (0.71%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.14%) 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
System Software
1 32 (11.43%) Oracle RAC
2 30 (10.71%) Docker
3 13 (4.64%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.86%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 3 (1.07%) NFS
5 3 (1.07%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) Samba
Systems Management
1 28 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 26 (9.29%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.21%) Oracle RMAN
4 15 (5.36%) Ansible
5 14 (5.00%) 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%) Terraform
9 5 (1.79%) Grafana
9 5 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.07%) Ambari
10 3 (1.07%) Puppet
10 3 (1.07%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.71%) Kibana
11 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.71%) systemd
Vendors
1 280 (100.00%) Oracle
2 72 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 25 (8.93%) Citrix
4 22 (7.86%) IBM
5 16 (5.71%) Splunk
6 11 (3.93%) Lotus
7 10 (3.57%) AppDynamics
7 10 (3.57%) Broadcom
8 7 (2.50%) Denodo
8 7 (2.50%) Kofax
8 7 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.50%) Talend
9 5 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.79%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.43%) SAP
10 4 (1.43%) Sybase
11 3 (1.07%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.07%) Databricks
11 3 (1.07%) VMware
12 2 (0.71%) StreamSets