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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 320 257
Rank change year-on-year +88 -63 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 255 245 511
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.67% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.48% 3.94% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 176 320
10th Percentile £364 £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £626
UK median daily rate £475 £523 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile £73.25 £41.44 £50.00
25th Percentile £80.00 - £58.59
Median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.16% -15.03% +70.59%
75th Percentile £93.75 - £76.00
90th Percentile - - £86.00
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £73.11
% change year-on-year +50.16% -15.74% +72.01%

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 4,652 6,220 8,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.92% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,260 4,477 6,307
10th Percentile £361 £355 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 131 168
10th Percentile £20.37 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £32.37
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.25 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -31.30% +30.20%
75th Percentile £65.15 £60.13 £73.72
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £80.75
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +33.33%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +20 133 £436 -14.88% 64
North of England +63 55 £500 +6.38% 46
Yorkshire +61 50 £500 +3.09% 22
South East +14 24 £631 -0.20% 48
Midlands +31 20 £475 +31.03% 19
West Midlands +33 14 £600 +50.00% 10
South West +37 10 £525 -19.23% 19
East of England +29 5 £488 +23.42% 17
North West +13 5 £478 +1.70% 22
East Midlands +4 5 £358 -1.24% 8
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 22 (8.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 19 (7.45%) Confluence
3 13 (5.10%) SAS
4 12 (4.71%) IIS
5 9 (3.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.96%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 3 (1.18%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.78%) Apache
9 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.78%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.39%) CICS
10 1 (0.39%) CMS
10 1 (0.39%) JBoss
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (10.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.96%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (1.96%) SAP PM
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.78%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.39%) iTrent
5 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.39%) AWS
2 45 (17.65%) Azure
3 20 (7.84%) OCI
4 16 (6.27%) Amazon S3
5 14 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (5.49%) Serverless
6 13 (5.10%) GCP
7 10 (3.92%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.14%) Amazon SageMaker
8 8 (3.14%) AWS CodeCommit
8 8 (3.14%) Cloud9 IDE
8 8 (3.14%) Textract
9 6 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (2.35%) Collibra
9 6 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (1.96%) GitHub
11 4 (1.57%) Azure API Management
11 4 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.06%) DNS
2 10 (3.92%) Internet
3 8 (3.14%) HTTP
4 6 (2.35%) Firewall
5 4 (1.57%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.57%) SAN
6 3 (1.18%) SSL
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.39%) IP Telephony
7 1 (0.39%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.39%) Network Security
7 1 (0.39%) Softphone
7 1 (0.39%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.39%) VoIP
7 1 (0.39%) VPN
7 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.39%) Wireless
7 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.86%) SQL Server
2 31 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.63%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (7.06%) Oracle Database 11g
5 17 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.71%) RDBMS
7 10 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (3.53%) Oracle Database 12c
9 8 (3.14%) Oracle Database 10g
9 8 (3.14%) Power BI
10 7 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.35%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.35%) MySQL
12 5 (1.96%) DB2
12 5 (1.96%) GIS
13 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.57%) Oracle ODI
14 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.49%) JIRA
3 10 (3.92%) GitLab
4 9 (3.53%) Git
4 9 (3.53%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (2.35%) SoapUI
5 6 (2.35%) Toad
6 5 (1.96%) JUnit
7 4 (1.57%) Ant
7 4 (1.57%) DBeaver
7 4 (1.57%) Maven
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.18%) Postman
8 3 (1.18%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.18%) Selenium
8 3 (1.18%) Subversion
9 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.78%) Mockito
9 2 (0.78%) Xcode
General
1 83 (32.55%) Finance
2 81 (31.76%) Social Skills
3 28 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (10.59%) Banking
5 17 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.14%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.57%) Military
9 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Back Office
10 2 (0.78%) French Language
10 2 (0.78%) Front Office
10 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Aviation
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 76 (29.80%) Developer
2 30 (11.76%) C# Developer
3 29 (11.37%) C# WPF Developer
3 29 (11.37%) WPF Developer
4 25 (9.80%) DBA
5 21 (8.24%) .NET Developer
5 21 (8.24%) Architect
6 20 (7.84%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (7.45%) Oracle DBA
8 17 (6.67%) Lead
9 16 (6.27%) Consultant
9 16 (6.27%) Database Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) Data Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
11 12 (4.71%) Oracle Database Engineer
12 11 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.92%) C# WCF Developer
13 10 (3.92%) Commvault Engineer
13 10 (3.92%) Software Developer
13 10 (3.92%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.12%) .NET
2 34 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 29 (11.37%) WPF
4 15 (5.88%) Kafka
5 12 (4.71%) HTML
5 12 (4.71%) Middleware
6 10 (3.92%) WCF
6 10 (3.92%) Web Services
6 10 (3.92%) WinForms
7 9 (3.53%) XML
8 8 (3.14%) CSS
8 8 (3.14%) NumPy
8 8 (3.14%) OpenCV
8 8 (3.14%) Oracle Fusion
8 8 (3.14%) Pandas
8 8 (3.14%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.14%) scikit-learn
8 8 (3.14%) SciPy
8 8 (3.14%) SOAP
8 8 (3.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.45%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 12 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.96%) IoT
6 5 (1.96%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.96%) SCADA
6 5 (1.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.57%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.18%) Clustering
8 3 (1.18%) State Machine
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 71 (27.84%) Linux
2 70 (27.45%) Windows
3 23 (9.02%) Unix
4 22 (8.63%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.92%) AIX
6 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.96%) Solaris
7 2 (0.78%) VMS
8 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (30.59%) Migration
2 72 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (25.10%) Performance Tuning
4 45 (17.65%) Agile
4 45 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 40 (15.69%) DevOps
6 33 (12.94%) Disaster Recovery
7 27 (10.59%) CI/CD
8 26 (10.20%) High Availability
8 26 (10.20%) Software Engineering
9 25 (9.80%) Change Management
9 25 (9.80%) Database Migration
9 25 (9.80%) Unit Testing
10 24 (9.41%) Microservices
11 23 (9.02%) ETL
12 22 (8.63%) SOA
13 21 (8.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 18 (7.06%) Roadmaps
15 17 (6.67%) Security Management
15 17 (6.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (61.96%) SQL
2 100 (39.22%) PL/SQL
3 47 (18.43%) Python
4 38 (14.90%) C#
5 34 (13.33%) Java
6 28 (10.98%) VB
6 28 (10.98%) VBA
7 25 (9.80%) Perl
8 23 (9.02%) Bash
9 19 (7.45%) PowerShell
10 18 (7.06%) VB.NET
11 16 (6.27%) Shell Script
12 14 (5.49%) T-SQL
13 10 (3.92%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.57%) Korn
16 3 (1.18%) COBOL
16 3 (1.18%) Groovy
17 2 (0.78%) Bicep
17 2 (0.78%) JCL
Qualifications
1 80 (31.37%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (10.59%) Degree
4 20 (7.84%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.96%) OCP
7 5 (1.96%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.39%) APMP
10 1 (0.39%) CISA
10 1 (0.39%) CRISC
10 1 (0.39%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.39%) PMP
10 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.39%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.45%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.67%) QA
3 10 (3.92%) GDPR
4 6 (2.35%) SLA
5 4 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.57%) SEPA
6 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.78%) ITGC
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.27%) Docker
2 16 (6.27%) Oracle RAC
3 13 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.14%) vSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (10.20%) Oracle RMAN
2 20 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 17 (6.67%) Ansible
4 16 (6.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 13 (5.10%) Data Guard
6 7 (2.75%) Tivoli
7 6 (2.35%) Terraform
8 5 (1.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.18%) Grafana
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.39%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.39%) Control-M
12 1 (0.39%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.39%) OfficeScan
12 1 (0.39%) QRadar
12 1 (0.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 255 (100.00%) Oracle
2 26 (10.20%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.02%) Cisco
4 17 (6.67%) VMware
5 16 (6.27%) Commvault
5 16 (6.27%) IBM
6 10 (3.92%) Citrix
6 10 (3.92%) Google
6 10 (3.92%) SAP
7 8 (3.14%) Informatica
8 7 (2.75%) CyberArk
8 7 (2.75%) Databricks
8 7 (2.75%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.75%) Sybase
9 6 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.35%) Splunk
10 5 (1.96%) IFS
11 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.18%) Siebel
11 3 (1.18%) Talend