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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 268 235
Rank change year-on-year -41 -33 +35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 354 274 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.99% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.14% 5.45% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 184 224
10th Percentile £404 £304 £363
25th Percentile £435 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £415 £520
Median % change year-on-year +30.12% -20.19% +8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £526 £650
90th Percentile £688 £611 £699
UK median daily rate £549 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +30.65% -20.00% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 2 7
10th Percentile £37.05 £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% +5.14%
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% +5.14%

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 6,891 5,032 6,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.93% 18.09% 18.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,604 3,464 4,155
10th Percentile £356 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 76 84
10th Percentile £15.61 £21.11 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.35 £29.21 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.50 £44.25 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.99% +22.07% -34.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £73.08
UK median hourly rate £39.84 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.41% +24.29% -36.36%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -56 157 £500 +22.70% 74
North of England -50 55 £625 +38.89% 20
Midlands -29 42 £478 -7.45% 12
South East -52 42 £550 +150.00% 18
South West -11 40 £730 +35.81% 14
West Midlands -23 38 £525 -2.23% 9
North West -31 34 £625 +48.81% 16
Yorkshire -45 17 £537 +9.59% 2
North East - 8 £519 - 2
East Midlands -19 3 £463 +32.52% 3
East of England -41 2 £487 -0.10% 2
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 (5.65%) SAS
2 19 (5.37%) IIS
3 16 (4.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (3.67%) Confluence
4 13 (3.67%) WebLogic
5 12 (3.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 10 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (2.54%) SharePoint
8 5 (1.41%) Appian
8 5 (1.41%) Camunda
9 3 (0.85%) JBoss
9 3 (0.85%) Mendix
10 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
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 18 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.52%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (2.82%) Finacle
3 7 (1.98%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (1.98%) Oracle Applications
3 7 (1.98%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (1.69%) Teamcenter
5 5 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (1.13%) Siebel CRM
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle FAH
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.85%) 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 79 (22.32%) AWS
2 50 (14.12%) Azure
3 42 (11.86%) OCI
4 12 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.11%) PaaS
5 11 (3.11%) Power Platform
6 10 (2.82%) GitHub
6 10 (2.82%) OpenShift
7 7 (1.98%) Serverless
8 6 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.69%) SaaS
9 5 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.41%) GCP
9 5 (1.41%) IaaS
10 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.13%) PowerApps
11 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.85%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.39%) Internet
2 3 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 43 (12.15%) Relational Database
3 38 (10.73%) RDBMS
4 27 (7.63%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (6.78%) Oracle Exadata
6 22 (6.21%) Oracle Database 12c
7 20 (5.65%) Oracle Database 11g
8 16 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
8 16 (4.52%) Oracle Reports
9 15 (4.24%) Pentaho
10 11 (3.11%) Power BI
11 10 (2.82%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 10 (2.82%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 9 (2.54%) MySQL
13 8 (2.26%) Oracle Database 10g
14 6 (1.69%) NoSQL
14 6 (1.69%) PowerCenter
15 5 (1.41%) Data Mart
15 5 (1.41%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 38 (10.73%) Git
2 34 (9.60%) GitLab
3 20 (5.65%) JIRA
4 12 (3.39%) Oracle Forms
5 11 (3.11%) Jenkins
6 8 (2.26%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.41%) JDeveloper
7 5 (1.41%) JMeter
7 5 (1.41%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.13%) eggPlant
8 4 (1.13%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.13%) Postman
8 4 (1.13%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.85%) ClearCase
9 3 (0.85%) Maven
9 3 (0.85%) Selenium
9 3 (0.85%) Toad
10 2 (0.56%) JUnit
General
1 70 (19.77%) Social Skills
2 66 (18.64%) Finance
3 56 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 52 (14.69%) Banking
5 37 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.39%) Front Office
7 10 (2.82%) Back Office
8 8 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.26%) Military
9 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.13%) General Ledger
11 3 (0.85%) Billing
11 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.56%) Aviation
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Police
13 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
13 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (25.71%) DBA
2 79 (22.32%) Oracle DBA
3 74 (20.90%) Developer
4 50 (14.12%) Senior
5 40 (11.30%) Data Engineer
6 34 (9.60%) Administrator
7 29 (8.19%) Architect
8 25 (7.06%) Lead
9 22 (6.21%) C# Developer
10 16 (4.52%) Database Engineer
11 15 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.24%) Oracle Developer
12 14 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (3.95%) Database Manager
12 14 (3.95%) Oracle Database Engineer
12 14 (3.95%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.67%) Applications Support
13 13 (3.67%) DV Cleared DBA
13 13 (3.67%) SQL DBA
14 12 (3.39%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (13.28%) .NET
2 33 (9.32%) Terraform
3 30 (8.47%) .NET Framework
4 22 (6.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 20 (5.65%) XML
6 16 (4.52%) Middleware
6 16 (4.52%) REST
7 15 (4.24%) Kafka
7 15 (4.24%) WinForms
7 15 (4.24%) WPF
8 13 (3.67%) Spring
9 10 (2.82%) Web Services
10 9 (2.54%) JSON
11 8 (2.26%) HTML
11 8 (2.26%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.98%) JDBC
12 7 (1.98%) SOAP
13 6 (1.69%) Jakarta EE
14 5 (1.41%) JMS
15 4 (1.13%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.37%) Replication
2 14 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (3.95%) Public Cloud
3 13 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 12 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.69%) Spread Betting
9 5 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 87 (24.58%) Linux
2 55 (15.54%) Windows
3 47 (13.28%) Unix
4 23 (6.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.80%) AIX
6 14 (3.95%) Solaris
7 11 (3.11%) Windows Server
8 6 (1.69%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.56%) HPUX
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (29.94%) Migration
2 77 (21.75%) CI/CD
3 76 (21.47%) DevOps
4 69 (19.49%) Agile
5 59 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 53 (14.97%) Data Modelling
7 52 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (13.84%) ETL
9 45 (12.71%) Data Integration
10 42 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
11 38 (10.73%) AI
11 38 (10.73%) Data Analysis
12 37 (10.45%) High Availability
13 34 (9.60%) Validation
14 32 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (8.76%) Change Management
15 31 (8.76%) Mentoring
16 30 (8.47%) Data Migration
16 30 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
17 28 (7.91%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 201 (56.78%) SQL
2 89 (25.14%) PL/SQL
3 44 (12.43%) C#
4 42 (11.86%) Python
5 32 (9.04%) T-SQL
6 29 (8.19%) Java
7 23 (6.50%) Shell Script
8 21 (5.93%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.52%) VB
10 14 (3.95%) VBA
11 9 (2.54%) Bash
11 9 (2.54%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.41%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.85%) C
13 3 (0.85%) C++
13 3 (0.85%) VB6
14 2 (0.56%) Bicep
14 2 (0.56%) Perl
14 2 (0.56%) ProC
14 2 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 162 (45.76%) Security Cleared
2 123 (34.75%) SC Cleared
3 43 (12.15%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.78%) Degree
5 15 (4.24%) Oracle Certification
6 14 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.41%) OCP
8 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.85%) ISEB
9 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
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
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (10.73%) QA
2 22 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.41%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.85%) EMIR
4 3 (0.85%) GDPR
4 3 (0.85%) MiFID
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
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 (10.73%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.54%) Docker
3 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 54 (15.25%) Oracle RMAN
2 47 (13.28%) Data Guard
3 31 (8.76%) Kubernetes
4 29 (8.19%) Ansible
5 11 (3.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 8 (2.26%) Control-M
7 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 4 (1.13%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.85%) Argo
8 3 (0.85%) Nagios
8 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.28%) Grafana
10 1 (0.28%) Kibana
10 1 (0.28%) OPNET
10 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 354 (100.00%) Oracle
2 40 (11.30%) Microsoft
3 24 (6.78%) Citrix
4 23 (6.50%) Talend
5 16 (4.52%) IBM
6 14 (3.95%) Databricks
6 14 (3.95%) Informatica
7 10 (2.82%) SAP
8 5 (1.41%) Denodo
8 5 (1.41%) OpenText
9 4 (1.13%) Google
9 4 (1.13%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.13%) Siebel
9 4 (1.13%) UiPath
10 3 (0.85%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.85%) jBASE
10 3 (0.85%) Kofax
10 3 (0.85%) NetCracker
10 3 (0.85%) Temenos
11 2 (0.56%) Murex