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

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 229 290
Rank change year-on-year -61 +61 -35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 268 320 316
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.05% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.09% 5.79% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 221 236
10th Percentile £291 £385 £382
25th Percentile £385 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £544 £660 £581
90th Percentile £653 £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 £60.11 £28.76
25th Percentile £79.38 £65.30 £48.65
Median hourly rate £90.00 £75.40 £75.28
Median % change year-on-year +19.36% +0.17% +43.38%
75th Percentile £101.88 £85.30 £91.13
90th Percentile £106.75 £90.37 £92.70
UK median hourly rate £90.00 £75.40 £75.28
% change year-on-year +19.36% +0.17% +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 5,268 5,531 6,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.30% 18.08% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,671 3,699 4,619
10th Percentile £328 £350 £356
25th Percentile £411 £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 £535
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.93% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 78 131
10th Percentile £22.40 £18.35 £18.57
25th Percentile £31.11 £24.88 £22.87
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -17.71% -7.64%
75th Percentile £69.63 £60.55 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.40 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +74.35% -31.69% -5.76%

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 1 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database in England over the 6 months to 1 December 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 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 -59 126 £415 -24.53% 21
Midlands -8 41 £519 +5.32% 2
West Midlands +6 38 £519 +1.61% 2
North of England -24 34 £448 -11.29% 4
South East -38 30 £210 -67.69% 14
Yorkshire -26 19 £465 -17.88% 2
East of England 0 17 £127 -
North West -13 15 £433 -8.12% 2
South West +8 13 £525 +16.67% 4
East Midlands -15 3 £451 +12.81%
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 (8.58%) IIS
1 23 (8.58%) SAS
2 15 (5.60%) JBoss
3 13 (4.85%) Apache
4 10 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.73%) iPlanet
4 10 (3.73%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.73%) WebSphere Application Server
5 9 (3.36%) SharePoint
6 6 (2.24%) WebLogic
7 5 (1.87%) Confluence
7 5 (1.87%) HCL Notes
7 5 (1.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (1.12%) LiveLink
8 3 (1.12%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.75%) CICS
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.37%) OpenEdge
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.49%) 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 (1.87%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (1.49%) Oracle 11i
2 4 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.49%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.75%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.75%) 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 50 (18.66%) Azure
2 45 (16.79%) AWS
3 17 (6.34%) OpenShift
4 10 (3.73%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.99%) OCI
6 8 (2.99%) Serverless
7 6 (2.24%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.24%) Azure API Management
7 6 (2.24%) SaaS
8 5 (1.87%) GitHub
8 5 (1.87%) PaaS
8 5 (1.87%) PowerApps
8 5 (1.87%) Snowflake
9 4 (1.49%) dbt
9 4 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.73%) Kerberos
2 9 (3.36%) Internet
3 6 (2.24%) LAN
4 5 (1.87%) HTTP
4 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.37%) SAN
5 1 (0.37%) VoIP
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 24 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (8.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 20 (7.46%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.22%) Oracle Reports
6 13 (4.85%) MySQL
7 12 (4.48%) Oracle Database 12c
7 12 (4.48%) Oracle Exadata
7 12 (4.48%) RDBMS
8 9 (3.36%) Power BI
9 8 (2.99%) Oracle Database 11g
9 8 (2.99%) Oracle ODI
10 7 (2.61%) Pentaho
10 7 (2.61%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 6 (2.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.87%) Redis
12 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 45 (16.79%) Git
2 36 (13.43%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.58%) JIRA
4 17 (6.34%) JUnit
5 10 (3.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (3.73%) CA Release Automation
5 10 (3.73%) GitLab
5 10 (3.73%) Maven
6 9 (3.36%) Selenium
6 9 (3.36%) SoapUI
6 9 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.61%) Mockito
8 6 (2.24%) Oracle APEX
8 6 (2.24%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.87%) Ant
9 5 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.87%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (1.87%) Postman
9 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.87%) XCTest
General
1 88 (32.84%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.63%) Finance
3 36 (13.43%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.45%) Banking
4 28 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.24%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.24%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (1.87%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.49%) Marketing
8 3 (1.12%) Electronics
9 2 (0.75%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.75%) Back Office
9 2 (0.75%) Local Government
10 1 (0.37%) Advertising
10 1 (0.37%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.37%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (26.87%) Developer
2 47 (17.54%) DBA
3 45 (16.79%) Oracle DBA
4 28 (10.45%) C# Developer
5 22 (8.21%) Analyst
6 20 (7.46%) C# WPF Developer
6 20 (7.46%) WPF Developer
7 16 (5.97%) .NET Developer
7 16 (5.97%) C# .NET Developer
7 16 (5.97%) Oracle Developer
7 16 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
8 15 (5.60%) Architect
9 14 (5.22%) Lead
10 13 (4.85%) Applications Support
10 13 (4.85%) Senior
11 12 (4.48%) ERP Support
12 11 (4.10%) Administrator
12 11 (4.10%) Support Analyst
12 11 (4.10%) Technical Support
12 11 (4.10%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.06%) .NET
2 27 (10.07%) .NET Framework
3 26 (9.70%) REST
4 22 (8.21%) WPF
5 17 (6.34%) SOAP
6 16 (5.97%) Kafka
6 16 (5.97%) OAuth
7 13 (4.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 12 (4.48%) HTML
8 12 (4.48%) OpenID
8 12 (4.48%) Spring
8 12 (4.48%) Spring Boot
9 11 (4.10%) WinForms
10 10 (3.73%) FastAPI
10 10 (3.73%) LDAP
10 10 (3.73%) SAML
10 10 (3.73%) XML
11 9 (3.36%) CSS
11 9 (3.36%) Middleware
12 8 (2.99%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (4.48%) Replication
2 10 (3.73%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (2.99%) NHS
4 7 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.24%) Clustering
5 6 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.49%) Low-Code
7 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.75%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.75%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 72 (26.87%) Windows
2 62 (23.13%) Linux
3 45 (16.79%) Unix
4 25 (9.33%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.85%) AIX
6 10 (3.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.61%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.24%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (1.87%) Solaris
10 2 (0.75%) 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 78 (29.10%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (28.36%) Agile
3 71 (26.49%) DevOps
4 51 (19.03%) Migration
5 49 (18.28%) CI/CD
6 39 (14.55%) Performance Tuning
7 38 (14.18%) Business Intelligence
8 34 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (12.69%) Data Modelling
9 32 (11.94%) ETL
10 29 (10.82%) Analytics
10 29 (10.82%) Integration Patterns
10 29 (10.82%) Scrum
11 23 (8.58%) Data Migration
12 22 (8.21%) ERP
13 21 (7.84%) Data Integration
13 21 (7.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (7.46%) Disaster Recovery
15 19 (7.09%) Test Automation
15 19 (7.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 151 (56.34%) SQL
2 86 (32.09%) PL/SQL
3 43 (16.04%) Shell Script
4 38 (14.18%) Python
5 37 (13.81%) C#
6 32 (11.94%) Java
7 22 (8.21%) VB
7 22 (8.21%) VBA
8 18 (6.72%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.72%) T-SQL
9 15 (5.60%) Groovy
10 12 (4.48%) VB.NET
11 11 (4.10%) Perl
12 10 (3.73%) C++
13 9 (3.36%) Bash
14 6 (2.24%) Korn
15 5 (1.87%) PHP
15 5 (1.87%) PowerShell
16 4 (1.49%) Formula Language
16 4 (1.49%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 74 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.51%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.85%) Degree
4 11 (4.10%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.99%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (2.61%) OCP
7 6 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.87%) HNC
8 5 (1.87%) HND
8 5 (1.87%) MCP
8 5 (1.87%) MCSE
9 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.12%) OCA
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.75%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CESG Certified Professional
12 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.09%) QA
2 12 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.87%) SLA
4 4 (1.49%) GDPR
5 3 (1.12%) SEPA
5 3 (1.12%) WCAG
6 2 (0.75%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) 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 30 (11.19%) Docker
2 29 (10.82%) Oracle RAC
3 13 (4.85%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.99%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (1.87%) NFS
6 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.75%) GPFS
8 1 (0.37%) Samba
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (11.57%) Data Guard
2 27 (10.07%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.58%) Oracle RMAN
4 16 (5.97%) Ansible
5 14 (5.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 10 (3.73%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.73%) CA Wily
6 10 (3.73%) yum
7 8 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.99%) Tivoli
8 6 (2.24%) Grafana
8 6 (2.24%) Terraform
9 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.12%) Ambari
10 3 (1.12%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.12%) Puppet
10 3 (1.12%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.75%) Control-M
11 2 (0.75%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 268 (100.00%) Oracle
2 66 (24.63%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.33%) Citrix
4 22 (8.21%) IBM
5 17 (6.34%) Splunk
6 10 (3.73%) AppDynamics
6 10 (3.73%) Broadcom
7 7 (2.61%) Denodo
7 7 (2.61%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.61%) SAP
7 7 (2.61%) Talend
8 5 (1.87%) CA Agile Central
8 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.87%) Lotus
9 4 (1.49%) StreamSets
9 4 (1.49%) Sybase
9 4 (1.49%) Temenos
9 4 (1.49%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) OpenText
11 2 (0.75%) NEC
34 Oracle Database jobs in England