Oracle Database Contract Job Trends in London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 233 224
Rank change year-on-year -76 -9 +16
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 137 134 184
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.99% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 4.60% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 101 134
10th Percentile £404 £359 £363
25th Percentile £419 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £479
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -14.88% +4.08%
75th Percentile £638 £568 £597
90th Percentile £695 £738 £700
England median daily rate £537 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +29.35% -12.60% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £83.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year -50.20% +35.96% +0.50%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,482 2,915 4,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.59% 21.49% 23.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,335 2,037 3,008
10th Percentile £363 £384 £363
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £520 £528
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.52% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 27
10th Percentile £18.48 £25.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £36.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -10.31% -24.22%
75th Percentile £59.85 £62.88 £53.38
90th Percentile £74.13 £84.50 £70.20
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.24% -13.56% -30.43%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in London over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in London

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Central London -10 17 £645 +61.25% 2
West London -4 11 - -
South London - 2 £825 - 3
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 19 (13.87%) IIS
2 8 (5.84%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (4.38%) Appian
4 5 (3.65%) Camunda
4 5 (3.65%) Confluence
5 4 (2.92%) JBoss
5 4 (2.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.92%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.92%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.19%) HCL Notes
6 3 (2.19%) Mendix
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.19%) SAS
6 3 (2.19%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Finacle
2 9 (6.57%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (4.38%) OpenText MBPM
3 6 (4.38%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (2.19%) Temenos T24
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.73%) Endur
7 1 (0.73%) Findur
7 1 (0.73%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.14%) Azure
2 7 (5.11%) AWS
2 7 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.38%) OCI
3 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
4 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.92%) Collibra
6 3 (2.19%) GCP
6 3 (2.19%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.19%) SaaS
7 2 (1.46%) GitHub
7 2 (1.46%) IaaS
7 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.73%) Apigee
8 1 (0.73%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.73%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.73%) PaaS
8 1 (0.73%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.73%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Internet
2 2 (1.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (32.85%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.87%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.68%) RDBMS
4 8 (5.84%) Metadata
4 8 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle Exadata
5 6 (4.38%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.65%) Data Mart
6 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (3.65%) Power BI
6 5 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.19%) DataStage
7 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.46%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.46%) MySQL
8 2 (1.46%) PowerCenter
8 2 (1.46%) SQLPlus
8 2 (1.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) JIRA
2 6 (4.38%) Git
3 5 (3.65%) GitLab
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.19%) JDeveloper
4 3 (2.19%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.46%) JMeter
5 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.73%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.73%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.73%) PeopleTools
6 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.73%) Toad
6 1 (0.73%) VersionOne
General
1 57 (41.61%) Finance
2 46 (33.58%) Banking
3 34 (24.82%) Social Skills
4 23 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.30%) Back Office
5 10 (7.30%) Front Office
6 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.46%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) International Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Local Government
9 1 (0.73%) Police
9 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (42.34%) Developer
2 31 (22.63%) C# Developer
3 17 (12.41%) DBA
4 16 (11.68%) Oracle DBA
5 13 (9.49%) Architect
5 13 (9.49%) Data Engineer
5 13 (9.49%) Senior
6 12 (8.76%) Oracle Developer
7 11 (8.03%) Applications Support
8 10 (7.30%) Lead
8 10 (7.30%) Systems Support
9 5 (3.65%) Applications Developer
9 5 (3.65%) BPM Developer
9 5 (3.65%) C# Application Developer
9 5 (3.65%) Database Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Oracle Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) SQL Developer
10 4 (2.92%) C# Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (32.85%) .NET
2 34 (24.82%) .NET Framework
3 11 (8.03%) WinForms
3 11 (8.03%) WPF
4 7 (5.11%) .NET Core
4 7 (5.11%) CSS
4 7 (5.11%) HTML
4 7 (5.11%) Middleware
4 7 (5.11%) React
4 7 (5.11%) XML
5 5 (3.65%) JSON
5 5 (3.65%) Kafka
5 5 (3.65%) REST
5 5 (3.65%) Spring
6 4 (2.92%) YAML
7 3 (2.19%) JDBC
7 3 (2.19%) SOAP
8 2 (1.46%) J2EE
8 2 (1.46%) JMS
8 2 (1.46%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.60%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 10 (7.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.92%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.19%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Spread Betting
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.73%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.73%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 39 (28.47%) Windows
2 15 (10.95%) Linux
3 12 (8.76%) Windows Server
4 11 (8.03%) Unix
5 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.46%) Solaris
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.73%) AIX
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (29.20%) DevOps
2 33 (24.09%) Data Analysis
3 31 (22.63%) Migration
3 31 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (18.25%) CI/CD
4 25 (18.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 24 (17.52%) AI
6 23 (16.79%) Agile
6 23 (16.79%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (16.06%) ETL
8 17 (12.41%) Decision-Making
8 17 (12.41%) Generative AI
9 16 (11.68%) Data Modelling
9 16 (11.68%) Mentoring
9 16 (11.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (11.68%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (10.22%) Change Management
11 13 (9.49%) Unit Testing
12 11 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (8.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 91 (66.42%) SQL
2 61 (44.53%) PL/SQL
3 46 (33.58%) C#
4 31 (22.63%) T-SQL
5 29 (21.17%) Python
6 12 (8.76%) Java
7 11 (8.03%) Shell Script
7 11 (8.03%) VB
7 11 (8.03%) VBA
8 9 (6.57%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.46%) C
10 2 (1.46%) ProC
11 1 (0.73%) C++
11 1 (0.73%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.73%) Groovy
11 1 (0.73%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.73%) RPG
11 1 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.57%) Degree
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.46%) PMP
7 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.25%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (3.65%) Docker
3 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (8.03%) Terraform
2 9 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.57%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (5.11%) Ansible
3 7 (5.11%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.46%) Control-M
4 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.73%) Grafana
5 1 (0.73%) Kibana
5 1 (0.73%) Nagios
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.73%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 137 (100.00%) Oracle
2 27 (19.71%) Citrix
3 11 (8.03%) Databricks
3 11 (8.03%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.57%) IBM
5 5 (3.65%) OpenText
6 3 (2.19%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.19%) Google
6 3 (2.19%) jBASE
6 3 (2.19%) Kofax
6 3 (2.19%) Lotus
6 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.19%) Temenos
6 3 (2.19%) VMware
7 2 (1.46%) Informatica
7 2 (1.46%) Murex
7 2 (1.46%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.73%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.73%) OpenLink
8 1 (0.73%) Salesforce