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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 232 276
Rank change year-on-year -67 +44 -22
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 271 330 322
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.06% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.10% 5.93% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 234 236
10th Percentile £260 £385 £382
25th Percentile £385 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.55% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £543 £660 £577
90th Percentile £649 £699 £663
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £75.25 £57.15 £28.76
25th Percentile £79.38 £57.89 £48.65
Median hourly rate £90.00 £59.95 £75.28
Median % change year-on-year +50.13% -20.36% +43.38%
75th Percentile £101.88 £61.19 £91.13
90th Percentile £106.75 £61.44 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £59.95 £75.28
% change year-on-year +50.13% -20.36% +50.55%

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 5,318 5,561 6,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.58% 17.86% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,698 3,716 4,627
10th Percentile £327 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 79 134
10th Percentile £20.89 £18.00 £18.77
25th Percentile £29.19 £24.88 £24.86
Median hourly rate £45.00 £35.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -26.62% -4.50%
75th Percentile £66.06 £57.85 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.20 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +42.20% -34.69% +4.09%

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 24 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 24 November 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 24 November 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 -88 127 £415 -22.41% 22
Midlands -2 41 £519 +5.32% 6
West Midlands +14 38 £519 +1.61% 3
North of England -18 34 £448 -11.29% 3
South East -31 32 £215 -66.92% 15
Yorkshire -21 19 £465 -17.88% 2
East of England +2 17 £127 - 1
North West -13 15 £433 -8.12% 1
South West +12 13 £525 +16.67% 5
East Midlands -15 3 £451 +12.81% 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 23 (8.49%) SAS
2 22 (8.12%) IIS
3 15 (5.54%) JBoss
4 13 (4.80%) Apache
5 12 (4.43%) WebSphere
6 10 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (3.69%) iPlanet
6 10 (3.69%) WebSphere Application Server
7 9 (3.32%) SharePoint
8 6 (2.21%) WebLogic
9 5 (1.85%) Confluence
9 5 (1.85%) HCL Notes
9 5 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (1.11%) LiveLink
10 3 (1.11%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.74%) CICS
12 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.48%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.74%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.37%) OpenText MBPM
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.37%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 47 (17.34%) Azure
2 45 (16.61%) AWS
3 17 (6.27%) OpenShift
4 10 (3.69%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.95%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (2.95%) OCI
5 8 (2.95%) Serverless
6 6 (2.21%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.21%) SaaS
7 5 (1.85%) GitHub
7 5 (1.85%) PaaS
7 5 (1.85%) PowerApps
7 5 (1.85%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.48%) Azure API Management
8 4 (1.48%) dbt
8 4 (1.48%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.74%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.69%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.32%) Internet
3 6 (2.21%) LAN
4 5 (1.85%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.11%) HTTP
6 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.37%) SAN
6 1 (0.37%) VoIP
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (25.09%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.12%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 21 (7.75%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (7.38%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.17%) Oracle Reports
7 13 (4.80%) MySQL
8 12 (4.43%) Oracle Database 12c
8 12 (4.43%) Oracle Exadata
8 12 (4.43%) RDBMS
9 9 (3.32%) Power BI
10 7 (2.58%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (2.58%) Oracle ODI
10 7 (2.58%) Pentaho
10 7 (2.58%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 6 (2.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.85%) Metadata
12 5 (1.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 45 (16.61%) Git
2 35 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.23%) JIRA
4 16 (5.90%) JUnit
5 10 (3.69%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (3.69%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (3.69%) GitLab
5 10 (3.69%) Maven
6 9 (3.32%) Selenium
6 9 (3.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.95%) SoapUI
8 7 (2.58%) Mockito
9 6 (2.21%) Oracle APEX
9 6 (2.21%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (1.85%) Postman
10 5 (1.85%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.85%) Toad
10 5 (1.85%) XCTest
General
1 88 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 68 (25.09%) Finance
3 38 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.33%) Banking
4 28 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.21%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.48%) Marketing
9 3 (1.11%) Electronics
10 2 (0.74%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.74%) Back Office
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 1 (0.37%) Advertising
11 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.37%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (26.20%) Developer
2 47 (17.34%) DBA
3 45 (16.61%) Oracle DBA
4 28 (10.33%) C# Developer
5 24 (8.86%) Analyst
6 22 (8.12%) C# WPF Developer
6 22 (8.12%) WPF Developer
7 18 (6.64%) Technical Analyst
8 16 (5.90%) .NET Developer
8 16 (5.90%) C# .NET Developer
8 16 (5.90%) Oracle Developer
9 15 (5.54%) Architect
10 14 (5.17%) Applications Support
10 14 (5.17%) Lead
11 13 (4.80%) ERP Support
11 13 (4.80%) Senior
12 11 (4.06%) Administrator
12 11 (4.06%) Support Analyst
12 11 (4.06%) Technical Support
12 11 (4.06%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.65%) .NET
2 27 (9.96%) .NET Framework
3 26 (9.59%) REST
4 23 (8.49%) WPF
5 16 (5.90%) OAuth
6 15 (5.54%) SOAP
7 14 (5.17%) Kafka
8 13 (4.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 12 (4.43%) HTML
9 12 (4.43%) OpenID
9 12 (4.43%) Spring
9 12 (4.43%) Spring Boot
10 10 (3.69%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.69%) LDAP
10 10 (3.69%) SAML
10 10 (3.69%) WinForms
11 9 (3.32%) CSS
11 9 (3.32%) WCF
12 8 (2.95%) JPA
12 8 (2.95%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.43%) Replication
2 11 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (2.95%) NHS
5 7 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.21%) Clustering
6 6 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.48%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.11%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.11%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.74%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 70 (25.83%) Windows
2 60 (22.14%) Linux
3 43 (15.87%) Unix
4 24 (8.86%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.06%) AIX
6 10 (3.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.58%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.21%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.21%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.85%) Solaris
10 2 (0.74%) VMS
11 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (28.04%) Agile
3 73 (26.94%) DevOps
4 51 (18.82%) Migration
5 49 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 37 (13.65%) Performance Tuning
7 36 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
8 34 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (12.55%) Data Modelling
9 31 (11.44%) ETL
10 29 (10.70%) Integration Patterns
11 28 (10.33%) Analytics
11 28 (10.33%) Scrum
12 24 (8.86%) ERP
13 23 (8.49%) Data Migration
14 21 (7.75%) Data Integration
14 21 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (7.75%) Test Automation
15 20 (7.38%) Data Analysis
15 20 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 151 (55.72%) SQL
2 83 (30.63%) PL/SQL
3 42 (15.50%) Shell Script
4 39 (14.39%) C#
5 38 (14.02%) Python
6 30 (11.07%) Java
7 23 (8.49%) VB
7 23 (8.49%) VBA
8 18 (6.64%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.90%) T-SQL
10 15 (5.54%) Groovy
11 13 (4.80%) VB.NET
12 10 (3.69%) C++
13 9 (3.32%) Bash
13 9 (3.32%) Perl
14 5 (1.85%) PHP
14 5 (1.85%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.48%) Formula Language
15 4 (1.48%) Korn
15 4 (1.48%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 73 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.80%) Degree
4 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.95%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.58%) OCP
7 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.85%) HNC
8 5 (1.85%) HND
8 5 (1.85%) MCP
8 5 (1.85%) MCSE
9 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.11%) OCA
11 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.74%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.64%) QA
2 12 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.85%) SLA
4 4 (1.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) SEPA
5 3 (1.11%) WCAG
6 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.74%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 31 (11.44%) Docker
2 28 (10.33%) Oracle RAC
3 13 (4.80%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.95%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (1.85%) NFS
6 3 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.74%) GPFS
7 2 (0.74%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.37%) Samba
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (11.44%) Data Guard
2 28 (10.33%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.49%) Oracle RMAN
4 16 (5.90%) Ansible
5 14 (5.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (3.69%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.69%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.69%) Tivoli
6 10 (3.69%) yum
7 8 (2.95%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.21%) Grafana
8 6 (2.21%) Terraform
9 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.11%) Ambari
10 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.11%) Puppet
10 3 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.74%) Control-M
11 2 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.74%) Kibana
Vendors
1 271 (100.00%) Oracle
2 65 (23.99%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.86%) Citrix
4 22 (8.12%) IBM
5 17 (6.27%) Splunk
6 10 (3.69%) AppDynamics
6 10 (3.69%) Broadcom
7 7 (2.58%) Denodo
7 7 (2.58%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.58%) SAP
7 7 (2.58%) Talend
8 5 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.85%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.85%) Lotus
9 4 (1.48%) StreamSets
9 4 (1.48%) Sybase
9 4 (1.48%) Temenos
9 4 (1.48%) VMware
10 3 (1.11%) OpenText
11 2 (0.74%) NEC