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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 236 184
Rank change year-on-year -60 -52 +58
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 158 138 224
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.03% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 4.84% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 89 156
10th Percentile £363 £359 £363
25th Percentile £421 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £513
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -20.49% +28.13%
75th Percentile £630 £480 £602
90th Percentile £688 £580 £699
England median daily rate £540 £415 £530
% change year-on-year +30.12% -21.70% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £105.00 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £90.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -53.66% +46.10% +5.14%

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 3,580 2,852 3,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.79% 21.34% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,463 1,987 2,613
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £432 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £645 £678 £719
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £509 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.73% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £24.81 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -10.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -34.58%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -15 21 £645 +52.21% 15
West London -14 11 - - 2
South London -4 7 £775 -
East London 0 1 £470 -1.59% 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 18 (11.39%) IIS
2 9 (5.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 9 (5.70%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.06%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (3.80%) Confluence
5 5 (3.16%) Appian
5 5 (3.16%) Camunda
5 5 (3.16%) SAS
6 3 (1.90%) JBoss
6 3 (1.90%) Mendix
6 3 (1.90%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.27%) HCL Notes
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.63%) WebLogic Portal
8 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (6.96%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (6.33%) Finacle
3 7 (4.43%) OpenText MBPM
3 7 (4.43%) Oracle BPM
4 5 (3.16%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle Internet Expenses
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle iProcurement
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (1.90%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.90%) Temenos T24
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.63%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.63%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Payroll
7 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.92%) Azure
2 17 (10.76%) AWS
3 11 (6.96%) OCI
4 9 (5.70%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.06%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.16%) SaaS
7 5 (3.16%) Serverless
8 4 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 4 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.90%) GCP
9 3 (1.90%) GitHub
9 3 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.90%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.27%) IaaS
10 2 (1.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) Internet
2 1 (0.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.63%) IPsec
2 1 (0.63%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (23.42%) SQL Server
2 18 (11.39%) Relational Database
3 15 (9.49%) RDBMS
4 9 (5.70%) Power BI
5 8 (5.06%) Oracle Exadata
5 8 (5.06%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.43%) Oracle Database 12c
7 6 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (3.16%) Data Mart
9 4 (2.53%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (2.53%) PowerCenter
9 4 (2.53%) Tableau
10 3 (1.90%) DataStage
10 3 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
10 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.90%) Star Schema
11 2 (1.27%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 16 (10.13%) Git
2 10 (6.33%) JIRA
3 9 (5.70%) GitLab
4 8 (5.06%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (3.80%) Jenkins
6 5 (3.16%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.16%) JMeter
7 4 (2.53%) eggPlant
7 4 (2.53%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.53%) Postman
7 4 (2.53%) SoapUI
7 4 (2.53%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.90%) JDeveloper
8 3 (1.90%) JUnit
8 3 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.90%) Selenium
9 2 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.27%) Maven
9 2 (1.27%) Mockito
9 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (37.97%) Finance
2 52 (32.91%) Social Skills
3 51 (32.28%) Banking
4 30 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.49%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.59%) Front Office
7 10 (6.33%) Back Office
8 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.27%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) International Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Local Government
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Police
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 52 (32.91%) Developer
2 25 (15.82%) Senior
3 20 (12.66%) Data Engineer
4 18 (11.39%) C# Developer
5 16 (10.13%) DBA
6 15 (9.49%) Oracle DBA
7 13 (8.23%) Applications Support
7 13 (8.23%) Architect
8 10 (6.33%) Lead
8 10 (6.33%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.33%) Systems Support
9 9 (5.70%) Java Developer
10 7 (4.43%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.80%) Analyst
11 6 (3.80%) Database Engineer
12 5 (3.16%) BPM Developer
12 5 (3.16%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.16%) Oracle Architect
13 4 (2.53%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (25.32%) .NET
2 25 (15.82%) .NET Framework
3 12 (7.59%) Middleware
3 12 (7.59%) Spring
3 12 (7.59%) XML
4 11 (6.96%) Kafka
4 11 (6.96%) REST
4 11 (6.96%) Terraform
4 11 (6.96%) WinForms
4 11 (6.96%) WPF
5 8 (5.06%) SOAP
5 8 (5.06%) Web Services
6 7 (4.43%) JSON
7 6 (3.80%) HTML
7 6 (3.80%) Jakarta EE
7 6 (3.80%) JDBC
7 6 (3.80%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.16%) JMS
9 4 (2.53%) OAuth
10 3 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 12 (7.59%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (5.70%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (4.43%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.80%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (3.80%) Spread Betting
8 5 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
8 5 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (3.16%) Low-Code
8 5 (3.16%) Replication
9 3 (1.90%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.90%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (1.27%) Clustering
10 2 (1.27%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 41 (25.95%) Windows
2 21 (13.29%) Linux
3 20 (12.66%) Unix
4 10 (6.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.63%) AIX
6 1 (0.63%) Android
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.48%) Migration
2 43 (27.22%) DevOps
3 40 (25.32%) CI/CD
4 38 (24.05%) Agile
5 36 (22.78%) Data Analysis
6 31 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (17.72%) Data Modelling
8 24 (15.19%) AI
8 24 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (15.19%) User Acceptance Testing
9 23 (14.56%) ETL
9 23 (14.56%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (13.29%) Mentoring
12 19 (12.03%) SDLC
13 18 (11.39%) Change Management
14 16 (10.13%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (10.13%) Validation
15 15 (9.49%) Generative AI
16 14 (8.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 109 (68.99%) SQL
2 59 (37.34%) PL/SQL
3 37 (23.42%) C#
4 30 (18.99%) Python
5 29 (18.35%) T-SQL
6 24 (15.19%) Java
7 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
8 15 (9.49%) Shell Script
9 11 (6.96%) VB
9 11 (6.96%) VBA
10 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.90%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.27%) Bash
11 2 (1.27%) C
11 2 (1.27%) C++
11 2 (1.27%) ProC
11 2 (1.27%) R
12 1 (0.63%) RPG
12 1 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (8.86%) Degree
4 7 (4.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.43%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.90%) ISEB
6 3 (1.90%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.27%) OCA
7 2 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.27%) PMP
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.09%) QA
2 10 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.90%) EMIR
3 3 (1.90%) MiFID
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 6 (3.80%) Docker
2 5 (3.16%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.63%) KVM
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.96%) Ansible
3 9 (5.70%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (5.06%) Data Guard
5 7 (4.43%) Control-M
6 4 (2.53%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.27%) Argo
7 2 (1.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.63%) Grafana
8 1 (0.63%) Kibana
8 1 (0.63%) Nagios
Vendors
1 158 (100.00%) Oracle
2 23 (14.56%) Citrix
3 13 (8.23%) IBM
4 12 (7.59%) Databricks
4 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.16%) OpenText
5 5 (3.16%) SAP
6 4 (2.53%) Informatica
6 4 (2.53%) Talend
6 4 (2.53%) UiPath
7 3 (1.90%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.90%) Google
7 3 (1.90%) jBASE
7 3 (1.90%) Kofax
7 3 (1.90%) Temenos
8 2 (1.27%) Lotus
8 2 (1.27%) Murex
8 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.27%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.27%) VMware