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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 251 304
Rank change year-on-year -56 +53 -35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 325 254 274
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.75% 1.01% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.91% 5.42% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 183 187
10th Percentile £402 £359 £363
25th Percentile £429 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.26% -5.05%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £433 £485
% change year-on-year +21.39% -10.82% -2.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 8
10th Percentile £35.11 £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% -9.74%
75th Percentile £74.68 £89.69 -
90th Percentile - £92.13 -
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £83.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year -50.20% +35.96% -15.03%

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 6,625 4,690 6,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.26% 18.68% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,490 3,258 4,685
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.10% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 84 142
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £24.63 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £33.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% -16.26% -30.43%
75th Percentile £71.13 £62.44 £51.87
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.25 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.89% -12.53% -30.43%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -56 140 £500 +22.70% 17
North of England -79 53 £625 +25.00% 8
Midlands -30 50 £506 +9.46% 8
West Midlands -26 45 £519 +9.21% 6
South East -40 43 £550 +12.82% 4
South West -35 26 £650 +11.88% 3
Yorkshire -77 25 £488 -2.50%
North West -22 24 £650 +82.58% 5
North East - 5 £563 - 3
East Midlands -19 4 £463 +32.52% 2
East of England -29 3 £400 -14.67% 1
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 21 (6.46%) SAS
2 19 (5.85%) IIS
3 14 (4.31%) Oracle Workflow
4 12 (3.69%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (3.38%) WebLogic
6 9 (2.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (2.46%) Appian
7 8 (2.46%) Confluence
8 7 (2.15%) HCL Notes
8 7 (2.15%) Mendix
9 6 (1.85%) SharePoint
9 6 (1.85%) Tomcat
10 5 (1.54%) Camunda
11 3 (0.92%) JBoss
11 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.62%) nginx
13 1 (0.31%) CMS
13 1 (0.31%) Liferay
13 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 12 (3.69%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.08%) Finacle
3 6 (1.85%) Oracle Applications
4 5 (1.54%) OpenText MBPM
4 5 (1.54%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (1.54%) Teamcenter
5 4 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.23%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.31%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.31%) Endur
8 1 (0.31%) Findur
8 1 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.31%) Summit
8 1 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.46%) AWS
2 56 (17.23%) Azure
3 23 (7.08%) OCI
4 17 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (3.69%) Power Platform
6 11 (3.38%) PaaS
7 9 (2.77%) GitHub
8 8 (2.46%) Serverless
9 7 (2.15%) OpenShift
9 7 (2.15%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.54%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.54%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (1.54%) Collibra
10 5 (1.54%) GCP
10 5 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.54%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.23%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.08%) Internet
2 3 (0.92%) Firewall
3 2 (0.62%) HTTP
3 2 (0.62%) Network Security
3 2 (0.62%) VPN
4 1 (0.31%) Intranet
4 1 (0.31%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (22.77%) SQL Server
2 36 (11.08%) Relational Database
3 28 (8.62%) RDBMS
4 25 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
4 25 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (5.54%) Oracle Reports
6 16 (4.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 14 (4.31%) Oracle Database 11g
8 12 (3.69%) MySQL
8 12 (3.69%) Oracle Exadata
8 12 (3.69%) Pentaho
8 12 (3.69%) Power BI
9 11 (3.38%) Metadata
10 10 (3.08%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 9 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.46%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.15%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.54%) Data Mart
14 5 (1.54%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 23 (7.08%) GitLab
2 17 (5.23%) JIRA
3 15 (4.62%) Git
4 7 (2.15%) Liquibase
4 7 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (1.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.92%) ClearCase
6 3 (0.92%) JUnit
6 3 (0.92%) Selenium
7 2 (0.62%) Flyway
7 2 (0.62%) JDeveloper
7 2 (0.62%) JMeter
7 2 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.31%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.31%) Mockito
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 63 (19.38%) Finance
2 56 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 48 (14.77%) Banking
4 45 (13.85%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.08%) Back Office
6 10 (3.08%) Front Office
7 7 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.15%) Military
8 6 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.23%) Advertising
9 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.62%) Aviation
10 2 (0.62%) Billing
10 2 (0.62%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.62%) Legal
10 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 105 (32.31%) DBA
2 99 (30.46%) Oracle DBA
3 77 (23.69%) Developer
4 32 (9.85%) Administrator
4 32 (9.85%) C# Developer
5 28 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 28 (8.62%) Senior
6 24 (7.38%) Architect
7 21 (6.46%) Lead
8 18 (5.54%) SC Cleared DBA
9 16 (4.92%) Database Engineer
10 14 (4.31%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 14 (4.31%) Oracle Developer
11 13 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.69%) Release Manager
13 11 (3.38%) Applications Support
13 11 (3.38%) DV Cleared DBA
13 11 (3.38%) Oracle Specialist
13 11 (3.38%) Senior DBA
13 11 (3.38%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.69%) .NET
2 35 (10.77%) .NET Framework
3 18 (5.54%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 16 (4.92%) XML
5 14 (4.31%) REST
6 13 (4.00%) WinForms
6 13 (4.00%) WPF
7 11 (3.38%) Kafka
7 11 (3.38%) React
8 10 (3.08%) JSON
8 10 (3.08%) Middleware
9 9 (2.77%) HTML
10 8 (2.46%) CSS
11 7 (2.15%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.15%) Spring
11 7 (2.15%) Web Services
12 6 (1.85%) SOAP
12 6 (1.85%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
14 4 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (3.69%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (3.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 10 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.46%) Low-Code
7 7 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 6 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Replication
9 4 (1.23%) SCADA
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.92%) Client/Server
10 3 (0.92%) Clustering
10 3 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.92%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 63 (19.38%) Linux
2 51 (15.69%) Windows
3 35 (10.77%) Unix
4 14 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.69%) Solaris
5 12 (3.69%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.15%) AIX
7 6 (1.85%) Windows 10
8 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.62%) HPUX
11 2 (0.62%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (22.15%) DevOps
2 67 (20.62%) Migration
3 57 (17.54%) CI/CD
4 52 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
5 51 (15.69%) High Availability
5 51 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (14.77%) Agile
6 48 (14.77%) ETL
7 40 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 35 (10.77%) AI
9 31 (9.54%) Data Analysis
10 30 (9.23%) Data Integration
11 28 (8.62%) Validation
12 27 (8.31%) Analytics
13 26 (8.00%) Change Management
14 25 (7.69%) Data Modelling
14 25 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (7.08%) Mentoring
16 22 (6.77%) Decision-Making
16 22 (6.77%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 170 (52.31%) SQL
2 82 (25.23%) PL/SQL
3 54 (16.62%) C#
4 41 (12.62%) Python
5 32 (9.85%) T-SQL
6 21 (6.46%) Shell Script
7 18 (5.54%) Java
8 14 (4.31%) VB
9 13 (4.00%) JavaScript
10 12 (3.69%) VBA
11 10 (3.08%) Korn
12 8 (2.46%) Bash
12 8 (2.46%) PowerShell
13 7 (2.15%) TypeScript
14 5 (1.54%) Formula Language
14 5 (1.54%) LotusScript
15 3 (0.92%) Bicep
15 3 (0.92%) VB6
16 2 (0.62%) ProC
16 2 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 106 (32.62%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 18 (5.54%) Degree
5 7 (2.15%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.62%) PMP
9 1 (0.31%) CCNA
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) OCP
9 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.77%) QA
2 13 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.23%) ISO 9000
3 4 (1.23%) SLA
4 3 (0.92%) FATCA
4 3 (0.92%) GDPR
4 3 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.31%) NIST
5 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (9.23%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (2.77%) Docker
3 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.31%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 51 (15.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 28 (8.62%) Data Guard
3 24 (7.38%) Terraform
4 15 (4.62%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 12 (3.69%) Ansible
5 12 (3.69%) Kubernetes
6 2 (0.62%) Grafana
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.31%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.31%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.31%) Foglight
7 1 (0.31%) Kibana
7 1 (0.31%) OPNET
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.31%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.31%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 325 (100.00%) Oracle
2 32 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 26 (8.00%) Citrix
4 18 (5.54%) Talend
5 16 (4.92%) Databricks
6 10 (3.08%) Informatica
7 9 (2.77%) IBM
8 7 (2.15%) Kofax
8 7 (2.15%) Lotus
9 6 (1.85%) Denodo
9 6 (1.85%) SAP
10 5 (1.54%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.54%) OpenText
10 5 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.23%) Google
11 4 (1.23%) Siebel
12 3 (0.92%) VMware
13 2 (0.62%) Murex
13 2 (0.62%) NetCracker
13 2 (0.62%) ServiceNow
38 Oracle Database jobs in England