Oracle Database Contracts in England

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 306 256
Rank change year-on-year +50 -50 +11
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 244 248 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.00% 0.67% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.28% 3.98% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 181 338
10th Percentile £375 £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £573
90th Percentile £700 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £478 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +10.53% -7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £73.25 £38.08 £49.75
25th Percentile £80.00 £53.20 £60.30
Median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.16% -15.03% +70.59%
75th Percentile £93.75 - £80.50
90th Percentile - - £86.50
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £73.86
% change year-on-year +50.16% -16.59% +73.78%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in England.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in England.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in England

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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 +23 133 £436 -20.68% 42
North of England +63 53 £500 +6.38% 16
Yorkshire +55 49 £500 +3.09% 9
South East +16 23 £644 +3.00% 16
Midlands +25 13 £484 +33.52% 4
South West +43 11 £525 -19.23% 10
West Midlands +24 11 £493 +23.25% 3
North West +14 4 £600 +37.93% 7
East of England +32 3 £488 +23.42% 2
East Midlands +3 2 £396 +9.10% 1
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (7.79%) Confluence
2 18 (7.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 15 (6.15%) SAS
4 14 (5.74%) IIS
5 6 (2.46%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (2.05%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.23%) Apache
7 3 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.23%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.82%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.41%) CMS
9 1 (0.41%) JBoss
9 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.05%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (1.23%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.82%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.41%) iTrent
5 1 (0.41%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.41%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (23.36%) AWS
2 37 (15.16%) Azure
3 16 (6.56%) Amazon S3
4 13 (5.33%) GCP
4 13 (5.33%) OCI
5 12 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (4.92%) Serverless
6 8 (3.28%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (3.28%) AWS CodeCommit
6 8 (3.28%) Cloud9 IDE
6 8 (3.28%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.28%) Textract
7 6 (2.46%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.64%) Miro
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.23%) Azure API Management
9 3 (1.23%) GitHub
9 3 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.38%) DNS
2 11 (4.51%) Internet
3 4 (1.64%) Firewall
3 4 (1.64%) HTTP
3 4 (1.64%) SAN
4 2 (0.82%) SMS
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.41%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.41%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.41%) Network Security
5 1 (0.41%) Softphone
5 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.41%) VoIP
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.41%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 33 (13.52%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.61%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (7.79%) Oracle Database 11g
4 19 (7.79%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.74%) RDBMS
6 10 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.69%) Oracle Database 12c
8 8 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (2.87%) Oracle Database 10g
10 6 (2.46%) MySQL
10 6 (2.46%) Power BI
11 5 (2.05%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.64%) DB2
12 4 (1.64%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.64%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (1.23%) Big Data
13 3 (1.23%) Flink
13 3 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
13 3 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (5.33%) Jenkins
1 13 (5.33%) JIRA
2 10 (4.10%) GitLab
2 10 (4.10%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (2.05%) Git
3 5 (2.05%) SoapUI
3 5 (2.05%) Toad
4 4 (1.64%) DBeaver
4 4 (1.64%) JUnit
5 3 (1.23%) Ant
5 3 (1.23%) Maven
5 3 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (1.23%) Postman
5 3 (1.23%) Subversion
6 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.82%) LoadRunner
6 2 (0.82%) Mockito
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.82%) Xcode
General
1 81 (33.20%) Finance
2 73 (29.92%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.25%) Banking
5 17 (6.97%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.87%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.64%) Military
8 4 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Back Office
10 2 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Front Office
10 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Aviation
11 1 (0.41%) French Language
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 76 (31.15%) Developer
2 31 (12.70%) C# Developer
3 29 (11.89%) C# WPF Developer
3 29 (11.89%) WPF Developer
4 21 (8.61%) .NET Developer
5 20 (8.20%) C# .NET Developer
5 20 (8.20%) DBA
6 19 (7.79%) Lead
7 17 (6.97%) Consultant
8 16 (6.56%) Architect
9 15 (6.15%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) Database Engineer
9 15 (6.15%) Oracle DBA
9 15 (6.15%) Oracle Developer
10 12 (4.92%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.51%) C# WCF Developer
11 11 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) WCF Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Commvault Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.16%) .NET
2 35 (14.34%) .NET Framework
3 29 (11.89%) WPF
4 12 (4.92%) Middleware
5 11 (4.51%) WCF
5 11 (4.51%) WinForms
6 9 (3.69%) Kafka
6 9 (3.69%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (3.28%) HTML
7 8 (3.28%) NumPy
7 8 (3.28%) OpenCV
7 8 (3.28%) Pandas
7 8 (3.28%) pydantic
7 8 (3.28%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.28%) scikit-learn
7 8 (3.28%) SciPy
7 8 (3.28%) TensorFlow
7 8 (3.28%) XML
8 7 (2.87%) SOAP
8 7 (2.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (6.97%) Data Centre
3 7 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.05%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.64%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.23%) Clustering
6 3 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.82%) Oracle Licensing
7 2 (0.82%) Replication
8 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 70 (28.69%) Linux
1 70 (28.69%) Windows
2 22 (9.02%) Windows Server
3 21 (8.61%) Unix
4 10 (4.10%) AIX
5 5 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.05%) Solaris
6 2 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (31.15%) Migration
2 69 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (25.41%) Performance Tuning
4 49 (20.08%) Agile
5 42 (17.21%) Data Migration
5 42 (17.21%) DevOps
6 31 (12.70%) Disaster Recovery
7 29 (11.89%) Software Engineering
7 29 (11.89%) Unit Testing
8 27 (11.07%) Change Management
9 25 (10.25%) CI/CD
10 24 (9.84%) Database Migration
11 22 (9.02%) High Availability
12 21 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (8.61%) Microservices
12 21 (8.61%) Software Testing
13 19 (7.79%) ETL
14 18 (7.38%) Roadmaps
14 18 (7.38%) SOA
15 17 (6.97%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 146 (59.84%) SQL
2 96 (39.34%) PL/SQL
3 44 (18.03%) Python
4 39 (15.98%) C#
5 29 (11.89%) Java
6 28 (11.48%) VB
6 28 (11.48%) VBA
7 23 (9.43%) Bash
8 22 (9.02%) Perl
9 19 (7.79%) PowerShell
10 17 (6.97%) VB.NET
11 16 (6.56%) Shell Script
11 16 (6.56%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.87%) JavaScript
13 3 (1.23%) Groovy
13 3 (1.23%) Korn
14 2 (0.82%) COBOL
15 1 (0.41%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.41%) C
15 1 (0.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (34.84%) Security Cleared
2 69 (28.28%) SC Cleared
3 26 (10.66%) Degree
4 20 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (6.97%) DV Cleared
6 8 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.05%) OCP
7 5 (2.05%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (2.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.23%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.41%) APMP
11 1 (0.41%) CISA
11 1 (0.41%) CRISC
11 1 (0.41%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.41%) PMP
11 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.41%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.38%) QA
2 13 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.05%) GDPR
3 5 (2.05%) SLA
4 4 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.82%) ITGC
6 2 (0.82%) SEPA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (10.66%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.33%) Docker
2 13 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.92%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (3.28%) vSphere
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.41%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (9.84%) Oracle RMAN
2 18 (7.38%) Ansible
3 17 (6.97%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 11 (4.51%) Data Guard
6 6 (2.46%) Tivoli
7 5 (2.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.64%) Terraform
9 3 (1.23%) Grafana
10 2 (0.82%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.41%) CA Wily
11 1 (0.41%) Control-M
11 1 (0.41%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.41%) OfficeScan
11 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.41%) QRadar
11 1 (0.41%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 244 (100.00%) Oracle
2 23 (9.43%) Cisco
3 20 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 17 (6.97%) VMware
5 16 (6.56%) Commvault
6 14 (5.74%) IBM
7 11 (4.51%) Citrix
8 10 (4.10%) Google
9 7 (2.87%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.87%) SAP
9 7 (2.87%) Sybase
10 6 (2.46%) Red Hat
10 6 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.46%) Splunk
10 6 (2.46%) Talend
11 5 (2.05%) IFS
12 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.23%) Informatica
12 3 (1.23%) Siebel
13 2 (0.82%) EMC