Oracle Contracts in England

Oracle
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,350 1,525 2,638
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.54% 4.10% 5.23%
As % of the Vendors category 11.68% 9.74% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 935 992 1,760
10th Percentile £380 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £664 £650 £675
90th Percentile £783 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.64% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 34 30
10th Percentile - £18.25 £34.13
25th Percentile £22.27 £25.50 £52.19
Median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.92% -58.40% +70.07%
75th Percentile £65.62 £48.43 £74.69
90th Percentile £83.25 £61.24 £85.25
UK median hourly rate £30.40 £38.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year -21.04% -40.31% +77.32%

All Vendors
England

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in England

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in England.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in England

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in England

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in England.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in England

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in England

Oracle
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +1 751 £550 -4.35% 524
South East +15 196 £600 +5.03% 202
North of England +42 165 £475 -5.00% 115
North West +23 85 £475 -5.00% 70
Midlands +2 82 £497 +3.44% 87
South West +51 78 £575 +15.00% 67
Yorkshire +41 74 £450 -8.63% 37
West Midlands +11 59 £525 -2.05% 65
East of England +38 29 £510 -15.00% 54
East Midlands -6 21 £425 +6.25% 19
North East -2 6 £464 +3.06% 8
Oracle
UK

Oracle
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 74 (5.48%) Confluence
2 38 (2.81%) Oracle Workflow
3 36 (2.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 24 (1.78%) WebLogic
5 21 (1.56%) SAS
6 19 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 18 (1.33%) WebSphere
8 15 (1.11%) IIS
9 14 (1.04%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.96%) Oracle Coherence
11 11 (0.81%) Apache
11 11 (0.81%) JBoss
12 10 (0.74%) Apache Spark
13 8 (0.59%) GemFire
14 7 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (0.37%) CMS
15 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
15 5 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
16 3 (0.22%) CICS
16 3 (0.22%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 68 (5.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.63%) Oracle Smart View
4 11 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.074%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.074%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.074%) Trello
Business Applications
1 130 (9.63%) Oracle EBS
2 57 (4.22%) Oracle EBS R12
3 47 (3.48%) Oracle ERP
4 42 (3.11%) Oracle Payables
5 37 (2.74%) Oracle Financials
6 33 (2.44%) Oracle General Ledger
7 25 (1.85%) Oracle Assets
8 24 (1.78%) Oracle Receivables
9 20 (1.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 16 (1.19%) Oracle Cash Management
11 14 (1.04%) Oracle ASCP
11 14 (1.04%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 13 (0.96%) Maximo
13 11 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
14 10 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
15 9 (0.67%) FLEXCUBE
15 9 (0.67%) NetSuite
16 8 (0.59%) Oracle Retail
17 7 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
17 7 (0.52%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 188 (13.93%) AWS
2 163 (12.07%) OCI
3 144 (10.67%) Azure
4 54 (4.00%) SaaS
5 52 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 44 (3.26%) Serverless
7 40 (2.96%) GCP
8 33 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 28 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (1.63%) PaaS
11 21 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
13 16 (1.19%) OpenShift
14 13 (0.96%) Snowflake
15 12 (0.89%) Entra ID
15 12 (0.89%) GitHub
16 11 (0.81%) AWS CodeCommit
17 10 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.74%) IaaS
17 10 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (2.15%) Firewall
2 27 (2.00%) DNS
3 13 (0.96%) Internet
4 12 (0.89%) SAN
5 11 (0.81%) VPN
6 8 (0.59%) NAS
7 6 (0.44%) DHCP
7 6 (0.44%) Network Security
7 6 (0.44%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.37%) SSL
9 4 (0.30%) HTTP
9 4 (0.30%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.22%) BGP
10 3 (0.22%) IPsec
10 3 (0.22%) VoIP
10 3 (0.22%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.15%) EIGRP
11 2 (0.15%) MPLS
11 2 (0.15%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (18.07%) Oracle Database
2 173 (12.81%) SQL Server
3 137 (10.15%) Oracle Reports
4 124 (9.19%) PostgreSQL
5 75 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 69 (5.11%) MongoDB
7 60 (4.44%) MySQL
8 55 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
9 46 (3.41%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 46 (3.41%) Power BI
10 43 (3.19%) NoSQL
11 35 (2.59%) RDBMS
12 34 (2.52%) Tableau
13 29 (2.15%) DB2
14 25 (1.85%) Oracle ODI
15 24 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
16 20 (1.48%) Big Data
17 19 (1.41%) Oracle Database 11g
18 13 (0.96%) Data Lake
19 12 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 128 (9.48%) JIRA
2 55 (4.07%) Git
3 51 (3.78%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.37%) Oracle Forms
5 26 (1.93%) GitLab
6 23 (1.70%) Visual Studio
7 22 (1.63%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.11%) Maven
8 15 (1.11%) Subversion
9 12 (0.89%) ERwin
9 12 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
9 12 (0.89%) Toad
10 11 (0.81%) Selenium
11 7 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.44%) JUnit
12 6 (0.44%) Postman
12 6 (0.44%) SoapUI
13 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.30%) Ant
14 4 (0.30%) IntelliJ
General
1 518 (38.37%) Finance
2 422 (31.26%) Social Skills
3 234 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (11.33%) Banking
5 128 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 35 (2.59%) Manufacturing
7 33 (2.44%) General Ledger
7 33 (2.44%) Retail
8 29 (2.15%) Front Office
9 26 (1.93%) Military
10 23 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (1.70%) Local Government
10 23 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (1.41%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.11%) Back Office
14 14 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.04%) Legal
15 13 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 293 (21.70%) Developer
2 170 (12.59%) Consultant
3 147 (10.89%) Architect
4 143 (10.59%) Analyst
5 122 (9.04%) Oracle Consultant
6 112 (8.30%) Lead
7 105 (7.78%) Senior
8 77 (5.70%) C# Developer
9 65 (4.81%) Oracle Developer
10 58 (4.30%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 53 (3.93%) Functional Consultant
12 46 (3.41%) Oracle Architect
12 46 (3.41%) Project Manager
13 45 (3.33%) DBA
13 45 (3.33%) Oracle Analyst
14 43 (3.19%) .NET Developer
15 42 (3.11%) Data Engineer
16 38 (2.81%) C# .NET Developer
17 37 (2.74%) Data Analyst
17 37 (2.74%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (14.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 119 (8.81%) .NET
3 72 (5.33%) Kafka
4 71 (5.26%) REST
4 71 (5.26%) Web Services
5 59 (4.37%) XML
6 56 (4.15%) SOAP
7 48 (3.56%) AngularJS
8 41 (3.04%) Middleware
9 38 (2.81%) .NET Framework
9 38 (2.81%) Spring
10 36 (2.67%) React
11 32 (2.37%) .NET Core
11 32 (2.37%) JSON
11 32 (2.37%) WCF
12 31 (2.30%) WPF
13 29 (2.15%) ASP.NET
14 25 (1.85%) RESTful
14 25 (1.85%) Spring Boot
15 19 (1.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
2 43 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
3 38 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 36 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 34 (2.52%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.15%) Data Centre
7 23 (1.70%) Data Structures
7 23 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
7 23 (1.70%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.19%) Clustering
10 14 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (0.89%) Derivative
11 12 (0.89%) Public Cloud
12 11 (0.81%) Replication
12 11 (0.81%) Security Posture
12 11 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 168 (12.44%) Linux
2 162 (12.00%) Windows
3 80 (5.93%) Unix
4 52 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.04%) AIX
7 12 (0.89%) Solaris
8 10 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.44%) VMS
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
10 3 (0.22%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.15%) Rocky
11 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.074%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (24.81%) Agile
2 328 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (16.44%) Migration
4 192 (14.22%) ERP
5 178 (13.19%) DevOps
6 125 (9.26%) Data Migration
7 118 (8.74%) Data Modelling
8 103 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
9 102 (7.56%) Change Management
10 101 (7.48%) CI/CD
11 100 (7.41%) Analytics
11 100 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
11 100 (7.41%) User Acceptance Testing
12 95 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
12 95 (7.04%) Project Management
13 89 (6.59%) Validation
14 78 (5.78%) Microservices
14 78 (5.78%) Software Engineering
15 71 (5.26%) ETL
16 70 (5.19%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 522 (38.67%) SQL
2 237 (17.56%) PL/SQL
3 176 (13.04%) Python
4 172 (12.74%) Java
5 132 (9.78%) C#
6 72 (5.33%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.70%) Bash
8 48 (3.56%) PowerShell
9 39 (2.89%) Perl
10 34 (2.52%) VBA
11 33 (2.44%) C++
12 32 (2.37%) Shell Script
12 32 (2.37%) VB
13 31 (2.30%) TypeScript
14 25 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.33%) VB.NET
16 16 (1.19%) Delphi
17 10 (0.74%) Go
17 10 (0.74%) R
18 9 (0.67%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 264 (19.56%) Security Cleared
2 211 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.74%) Degree
4 43 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 36 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
7 33 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.19%) OCP
8 16 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 13 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.81%) CCNP
11 11 (0.81%) OCA
12 10 (0.74%) RHCA
12 10 (0.74%) RHCE
13 9 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.59%) PMI Certification
15 6 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.44%) QA
2 43 (3.19%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.56%) GDPR
4 18 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 16 (1.19%) SLA
6 12 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.81%) PMO
8 8 (0.59%) NIST
9 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (0.44%) MiFID
11 5 (0.37%) Basel III
11 5 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.30%) IFRS
12 4 (0.30%) ITGC
12 4 (0.30%) SEPA
13 3 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 1 (0.074%) COREP
15 1 (0.074%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (3.85%) Docker
2 46 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
6 9 (0.67%) vSphere
7 8 (0.59%) GridGain
8 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 3 (0.22%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.22%) NFS
10 3 (0.22%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.15%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.15%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.074%) Samba
12 1 (0.074%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.074%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (5.19%) Ansible
2 65 (4.81%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
3 25 (1.85%) Terraform
4 22 (1.63%) Puppet
5 21 (1.56%) Progress Chef
6 19 (1.41%) Data Guard
7 13 (0.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 11 (0.81%) Grafana
8 11 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.67%) Tivoli
10 8 (0.59%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.59%) VxRail
11 6 (0.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 5 (0.37%) CEMLI
12 5 (0.37%) HP ALM
13 4 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (0.22%) Control-M
14 3 (0.22%) Netcool
14 3 (0.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 148 (10.96%) Microsoft
2 81 (6.00%) SAP
3 48 (3.56%) VMware
4 37 (2.74%) IBM
5 36 (2.67%) Cisco
6 34 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 32 (2.37%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.15%) Sybase
9 24 (1.78%) MuleSoft
10 23 (1.70%) Informatica
10 23 (1.70%) Splunk
11 17 (1.26%) Google
12 16 (1.19%) Commvault
12 16 (1.19%) Workday
13 15 (1.11%) CyberArk
14 14 (1.04%) Talend
15 13 (0.96%) EMC
16 12 (0.89%) Citrix
17 11 (0.81%) Siebel