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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 236 191
Rank change year-on-year -66 -45 +46
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 142 133 221
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.99% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 4.64% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 96 150
10th Percentile £404 £359 £363
25th Percentile £424 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £408 £487
Median % change year-on-year +24.60% -16.28% +2.47%
75th Percentile £638 £482 £599
90th Percentile £694 £681 £700
England median daily rate £550 £415 £500
% change year-on-year +32.53% -17.00% -

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 3,628 2,865 3,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.08% 21.33% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,457 2,004 2,805
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 36 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.67 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.43% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £83.75 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.63% -1.21% -36.36%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -9 20 £645 +61.25% 6
West London -12 11 - -
South London - 5 £825 - 1
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 17 (11.97%) IIS
2 9 (6.34%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (4.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (3.52%) Appian
5 5 (3.52%) Camunda
5 5 (3.52%) Confluence
6 3 (2.11%) HCL Notes
6 3 (2.11%) JBoss
6 3 (2.11%) Mendix
6 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.11%) SAS
7 2 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.41%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.70%) nginx
8 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.04%) Finacle
2 9 (6.34%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (4.93%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (2.82%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (2.11%) Temenos T24
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.70%) Endur
7 1 (0.70%) Findur
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.70%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 18 (12.68%) Azure
2 11 (7.75%) AWS
3 9 (6.34%) OCI
4 8 (5.63%) OpenShift
5 7 (4.93%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.82%) SaaS
8 3 (2.11%) GCP
8 3 (2.11%) GitHub
8 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.41%) IaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.41%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.41%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.70%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.04%) Internet
2 1 (0.70%) HTTP
2 1 (0.70%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (28.17%) SQL Server
2 18 (12.68%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.27%) RDBMS
4 8 (5.63%) Oracle Reports
4 8 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.93%) Oracle Exadata
5 7 (4.93%) Power BI
6 5 (3.52%) Data Mart
6 5 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.52%) Oracle Database 12c
7 4 (2.82%) Metadata
7 4 (2.82%) Tableau
8 3 (2.11%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.11%) DataStage
8 3 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.41%) PowerCenter
9 2 (1.41%) SQLPlus
9 2 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Git
2 7 (4.93%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (4.23%) GitLab
3 6 (4.23%) JIRA
3 6 (4.23%) JMeter
4 5 (3.52%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.82%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.82%) eggPlant
5 4 (2.82%) LoadRunner
5 4 (2.82%) Postman
5 4 (2.82%) SoapUI
5 4 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.11%) JDeveloper
6 3 (2.11%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (2.11%) Selenium
7 1 (0.70%) JUnit
7 1 (0.70%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.70%) PeopleTools
7 1 (0.70%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.70%) Toad
General
1 58 (40.85%) Finance
2 45 (31.69%) Banking
2 45 (31.69%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.72%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Front Office
5 10 (7.04%) Back Office
5 10 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.82%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.41%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.70%) Billing
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) International Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Local Government
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (37.32%) Developer
2 22 (15.49%) C# Developer
2 22 (15.49%) Senior
3 14 (9.86%) Data Engineer
3 14 (9.86%) DBA
4 13 (9.15%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (8.45%) Applications Support
5 12 (8.45%) Lead
6 10 (7.04%) Architect
6 10 (7.04%) Oracle Developer
6 10 (7.04%) Systems Support
7 9 (6.34%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.93%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.52%) BPM Developer
10 5 (3.52%) Database Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Oracle Architect
10 5 (3.52%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (30.28%) .NET
2 29 (20.42%) .NET Framework
3 13 (9.15%) XML
4 11 (7.75%) Middleware
5 10 (7.04%) Kafka
5 10 (7.04%) Terraform
5 10 (7.04%) WinForms
5 10 (7.04%) WPF
6 9 (6.34%) Spring
7 7 (4.93%) JSON
8 6 (4.23%) HTML
8 6 (4.23%) REST
8 6 (4.23%) SOAP
9 5 (3.52%) Jakarta EE
9 5 (3.52%) JDBC
9 5 (3.52%) Web Services
10 4 (2.82%) JMS
10 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
10 4 (2.82%) YAML
11 3 (2.11%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 12 (8.45%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.93%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.52%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.52%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.52%) Spread Betting
7 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.82%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.11%) Replication
9 2 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 41 (28.87%) Windows
2 17 (11.97%) Linux
3 15 (10.56%) Unix
4 12 (8.45%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.70%) AIX
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Solaris
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (27.46%) DevOps
2 36 (25.35%) Migration
3 32 (22.54%) Data Analysis
4 31 (21.83%) CI/CD
5 29 (20.42%) Agile
5 29 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (16.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (15.49%) Performance Tuning
8 21 (14.79%) AI
8 21 (14.79%) Mentoring
8 21 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (14.08%) Data Modelling
9 20 (14.08%) ETL
9 20 (14.08%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (10.56%) Change Management
11 14 (9.86%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (9.15%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (9.15%) SDLC
13 12 (8.45%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 100 (70.42%) SQL
2 60 (42.25%) PL/SQL
3 40 (28.17%) C#
4 31 (21.83%) T-SQL
5 25 (17.61%) Python
6 21 (14.79%) Java
7 16 (11.27%) JavaScript
8 12 (8.45%) Shell Script
9 10 (7.04%) VB
9 10 (7.04%) VBA
10 3 (2.11%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.41%) C
11 2 (1.41%) C++
11 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.41%) ProC
11 2 (1.41%) R
12 1 (0.70%) Bash
12 1 (0.70%) Groovy
12 1 (0.70%) RPG
12 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.49%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.86%) Degree
4 6 (4.23%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.11%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.11%) ISEB
6 3 (2.11%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.41%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.41%) PMP
8 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (18.31%) QA
2 6 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) EMIR
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.70%) ISO 15022
3 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.70%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (4.23%) Docker
2 5 (3.52%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.04%) Ansible
3 9 (6.34%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (4.93%) Data Guard
5 6 (4.23%) Control-M
6 4 (2.82%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.70%) Argo
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.70%) Grafana
8 1 (0.70%) Kibana
8 1 (0.70%) Nagios
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 142 (100.00%) Oracle
2 26 (18.31%) Citrix
3 15 (10.56%) IBM
4 11 (7.75%) Microsoft
5 10 (7.04%) Databricks
6 5 (3.52%) OpenText
6 5 (3.52%) SAP
7 3 (2.11%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.11%) Google
7 3 (2.11%) jBASE
7 3 (2.11%) Kofax
7 3 (2.11%) Lotus
7 3 (2.11%) Temenos
8 2 (1.41%) Informatica
8 2 (1.41%) Murex
8 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.41%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.41%) Talend
8 2 (1.41%) UiPath
8 2 (1.41%) VMware