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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 265 278
Rank change year-on-year -41 +13 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 346 266 290
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.98% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.05% 5.34% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 187 196
10th Percentile £404 £342 £363
25th Percentile £434 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £433 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.80% -8.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £540 £415 £478
% change year-on-year +30.07% -13.06% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 8
10th Percentile £34.83 £74.38 £48.06
25th Percentile £37.25 £77.19 £60.36
Median hourly rate £41.71 £83.75 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -50.20% +35.96% +0.50%
75th Percentile £69.45 £89.69 -
90th Percentile £74.68 £92.13 -
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £83.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year -50.20% +35.96% -3.75%

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 6,852 4,981 6,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.31% 18.32% 17.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,590 3,445 4,671
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 89 127
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.65 £25.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.49% -10.39% -33.04%
75th Percentile £72.25 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £79.66 £77.50 £69.15
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.14% -6.67% -31.82%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -64 137 £500 +22.70% 15
North of England -70 65 £625 +28.21% 10
South East -32 53 £550 +36.99% 4
Midlands -31 50 £500 +8.11% 5
West Midlands -24 45 £500 +5.26% 3
North West -24 34 £650 +82.58% 7
South West -19 27 £700 +27.27% 2
Yorkshire -72 26 £506 +1.25% 3
North East - 9 £537 -
East Midlands -14 4 £463 +29.19% 2
East of England -27 2 £425 -9.33%
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 23 (6.65%) SAS
2 21 (6.07%) IIS
3 17 (4.91%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (3.76%) WebLogic
5 12 (3.47%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (3.18%) Confluence
7 8 (2.31%) Appian
7 8 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (1.73%) JBoss
8 6 (1.73%) Tomcat
9 5 (1.45%) Camunda
9 5 (1.45%) SharePoint
10 4 (1.16%) HCL Notes
10 4 (1.16%) Mendix
11 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.58%) nginx
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle Service Bus
13 1 (0.29%) CMS
13 1 (0.29%) Liferay
13 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 17 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (4.34%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (2.89%) Finacle
3 6 (1.73%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (1.73%) Oracle Applications
3 6 (1.73%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (1.73%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.73%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.16%) Siebel CRM
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.87%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 68 (19.65%) AWS
2 54 (15.61%) Azure
3 34 (9.83%) OCI
4 16 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.18%) PaaS
6 10 (2.89%) GitHub
6 10 (2.89%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.02%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (1.73%) Serverless
9 5 (1.45%) GCP
9 5 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.16%) Collibra
10 4 (1.16%) IaaS
10 4 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.18%) Internet
2 4 (1.16%) Firewall
3 2 (0.58%) HTTP
3 2 (0.58%) Network Security
3 2 (0.58%) VPN
4 1 (0.29%) Intranet
4 1 (0.29%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (22.25%) SQL Server
2 44 (12.72%) Relational Database
3 36 (10.40%) RDBMS
4 31 (8.96%) Oracle Database 12c
5 30 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (6.07%) Oracle Exadata
7 18 (5.20%) Oracle Database 11g
8 17 (4.91%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (4.05%) Pentaho
9 14 (4.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 12 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (3.47%) MySQL
11 10 (2.89%) Metadata
11 10 (2.89%) Power BI
11 10 (2.89%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 8 (2.31%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.31%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.02%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 7 (2.02%) Oracle Database 10g
13 7 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (8.38%) GitLab
2 23 (6.65%) Git
3 17 (4.91%) JIRA
4 9 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
5 7 (2.02%) Liquibase
5 7 (2.02%) Oracle APEX
6 6 (1.73%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.45%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.87%) ClearCase
8 3 (0.87%) JUnit
8 3 (0.87%) Selenium
8 3 (0.87%) Toad
9 2 (0.58%) Flyway
9 2 (0.58%) JMeter
9 2 (0.58%) Maven
9 2 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.29%) GoCD
10 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.29%) VersionOne
General
1 66 (19.08%) Finance
2 57 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 48 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 47 (13.58%) Banking
5 31 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.89%) Back Office
6 10 (2.89%) Front Office
7 7 (2.02%) Military
8 5 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.16%) Advertising
9 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.16%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.58%) Aviation
11 2 (0.58%) Billing
11 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.58%) Legal
11 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 106 (30.64%) DBA
2 97 (28.03%) Oracle DBA
3 80 (23.12%) Developer
4 40 (11.56%) Senior
5 33 (9.54%) C# Developer
6 32 (9.25%) Architect
7 31 (8.96%) Data Engineer
8 30 (8.67%) Administrator
9 24 (6.94%) Lead
10 19 (5.49%) Oracle Developer
11 15 (4.34%) Database Engineer
11 15 (4.34%) DV Cleared DBA
11 15 (4.34%) SQL DBA
12 14 (4.05%) SC Cleared DBA
12 14 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (3.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (3.76%) Oracle Database Engineer
13 13 (3.76%) Oracle Specialist
14 12 (3.47%) Senior DBA
15 11 (3.18%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (14.74%) .NET
2 37 (10.69%) .NET Framework
3 25 (7.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 18 (5.20%) XML
5 15 (4.34%) REST
6 14 (4.05%) WinForms
6 14 (4.05%) WPF
7 11 (3.18%) Kafka
7 11 (3.18%) Middleware
8 10 (2.89%) JSON
9 9 (2.60%) HTML
9 9 (2.60%) React
10 8 (2.31%) CSS
11 7 (2.02%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.02%) Spring
11 7 (2.02%) Web Services
12 6 (1.73%) SOAP
12 6 (1.73%) Spring Boot
13 4 (1.16%) YAML
14 3 (0.87%) Oracle Streams
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.38%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (3.76%) Cloud Native
2 13 (3.76%) Public Cloud
2 13 (3.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 12 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Cloud
4 10 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.60%) Replication
6 6 (1.73%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.45%) SCADA
8 4 (1.16%) IoT
8 4 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (23.12%) Linux
2 52 (15.03%) Windows
3 46 (13.29%) Unix
4 20 (5.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.05%) AIX
5 14 (4.05%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.76%) Solaris
7 5 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.16%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.58%) HPUX
9 2 (0.58%) OpenVMS
9 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (24.57%) Migration
2 77 (22.25%) DevOps
3 62 (17.92%) CI/CD
4 59 (17.05%) Performance Tuning
5 56 (16.18%) Agile
6 53 (15.32%) High Availability
6 53 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (14.45%) ETL
8 46 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 37 (10.69%) AI
10 35 (10.12%) Data Analysis
10 35 (10.12%) Data Modelling
11 33 (9.54%) Data Integration
12 30 (8.67%) Analytics
12 30 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (8.38%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (8.38%) Validation
14 27 (7.80%) Change Management
15 25 (7.23%) ITIL
15 25 (7.23%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 183 (52.89%) SQL
2 90 (26.01%) PL/SQL
3 53 (15.32%) C#
4 43 (12.43%) Python
5 33 (9.54%) T-SQL
6 28 (8.09%) Shell Script
7 20 (5.78%) Java
8 15 (4.34%) VB
9 13 (3.76%) VBA
10 12 (3.47%) JavaScript
11 10 (2.89%) Bash
11 10 (2.89%) Korn
12 9 (2.60%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.02%) TypeScript
14 4 (1.16%) Bicep
15 3 (0.87%) C
15 3 (0.87%) ProC
15 3 (0.87%) VB6
16 2 (0.58%) LotusScript
16 2 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 152 (43.93%) Security Cleared
2 111 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 38 (10.98%) DV Cleared
4 19 (5.49%) Degree
5 9 (2.60%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.16%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.58%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.58%) PMP
9 1 (0.29%) CCNA
9 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) OCP
9 1 (0.29%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.69%) QA
2 17 (4.91%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.45%) ISO 9000
3 5 (1.45%) SLA
4 4 (1.16%) GDPR
4 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.87%) FATCA
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
6 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (12.43%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (2.31%) Docker
3 3 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 65 (18.79%) Oracle RMAN
2 41 (11.85%) Data Guard
3 37 (10.69%) Terraform
4 21 (6.07%) Ansible
5 19 (5.49%) Kubernetes
6 18 (5.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 4 (1.16%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 3 (0.87%) Control-M
8 3 (0.87%) Nagios
9 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.29%) Argo
10 1 (0.29%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.29%) Grafana
10 1 (0.29%) Kibana
10 1 (0.29%) OPNET
10 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.29%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 346 (100.00%) Oracle
2 38 (10.98%) Microsoft
3 27 (7.80%) Citrix
4 20 (5.78%) Talend
5 15 (4.34%) Databricks
6 13 (3.76%) Informatica
7 12 (3.47%) IBM
8 8 (2.31%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.02%) SAP
10 6 (1.73%) Denodo
11 5 (1.45%) OpenText
12 4 (1.16%) Google
12 4 (1.16%) Kofax
12 4 (1.16%) Lotus
12 4 (1.16%) Siebel
13 3 (0.87%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.87%) jBASE
13 3 (0.87%) Temenos
13 3 (0.87%) VMware
14 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
36 Oracle Database jobs in England