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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 221 253
Rank change year-on-year -55 +32 +15
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 141 129 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.07% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.24% 4.84% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 98 111
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £486
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -16.15% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £628
90th Percentile £696 £738 £700
England median daily rate £501 £463 £487
% change year-on-year +8.22% -4.98% -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £44.26 £82.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -46.36% +33.93% -15.03%

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 3,327 2,664 3,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.13% 22.05% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,274 1,863 2,884
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 29 34
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £25.31
Median hourly rate £44.50 £34.65 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.43% -29.64% -6.19%
75th Percentile £60.25 £53.75 £54.78
90th Percentile £84.00 £69.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £41.36 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.86% -20.39% -31.09%

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 May 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 May 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 -21 9 £550 +26.44% 8
West London -21 5 - - 3
South London -11 3 £300 -58.62%
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 (12.77%) IIS
2 12 (8.51%) HCL Notes
2 12 (8.51%) Mendix
3 11 (7.80%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.84%) Appian
6 3 (2.13%) Camunda
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (2.13%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.13%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.42%) nginx
8 1 (0.71%) Confluence
8 1 (0.71%) JBoss
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.84%) Finacle
2 4 (2.84%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (2.13%) OpenText MBPM
3 3 (2.13%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.42%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.71%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.71%) Endur
5 1 (0.71%) Findur
5 1 (0.71%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.71%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.99%) Azure
2 16 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.51%) PowerApps
5 11 (7.80%) AWS
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Functions
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Logic Apps
6 10 (7.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (7.09%) Power Automate
6 10 (7.09%) Serverless
7 8 (5.67%) Collibra
8 4 (2.84%) GCP
8 4 (2.84%) OCI
8 4 (2.84%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.13%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.42%) GitHub
10 2 (1.42%) IaaS
10 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.51%) Internet
2 3 (2.13%) HTTP
3 1 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (31.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.22%) Power BI
3 12 (8.51%) Metadata
3 12 (8.51%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.38%) RDBMS
5 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (4.96%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (3.55%) DataStage
8 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (2.84%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.42%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.42%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.42%) Oracle BI EE
10 2 (1.42%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (5.67%) JIRA
2 6 (4.26%) GitLab
3 3 (2.13%) Git
3 3 (2.13%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.42%) JMeter
4 2 (1.42%) JUnit
4 2 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.71%) Ant
5 1 (0.71%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.71%) Mockito
General
1 55 (39.01%) Finance
2 44 (31.21%) Banking
3 27 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 14 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.93%) Financial Institution
5 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.84%) Back Office
7 4 (2.84%) Front Office
8 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) International Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Local Government
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (44.68%) Developer
2 32 (22.70%) C# Developer
3 25 (17.73%) DBA
4 24 (17.02%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (8.51%) Power Platform Developer
6 10 (7.09%) Architect
6 10 (7.09%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.38%) Administrator
8 8 (5.67%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.67%) C# Application Developer
8 8 (5.67%) Senior
9 7 (4.96%) Lead
9 7 (4.96%) SC Cleared DBA
10 6 (4.26%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (4.26%) Oracle Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Applications Support
11 5 (3.55%) Database Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.55%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (36.17%) .NET
2 30 (21.28%) .NET Framework
3 16 (11.35%) React
4 13 (9.22%) WinForms
5 12 (8.51%) WPF
6 10 (7.09%) HTML
6 10 (7.09%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (5.67%) CSS
8 7 (4.96%) .NET Core
8 7 (4.96%) Kafka
8 7 (4.96%) XML
9 6 (4.26%) Middleware
9 6 (4.26%) REST
10 5 (3.55%) JSON
11 4 (2.84%) SOAP
11 4 (2.84%) Spring
11 4 (2.84%) YAML
12 3 (2.13%) HTML5
12 3 (2.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 3 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.77%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (9.22%) Low-Code
3 7 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.55%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.13%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.13%) Derivative
6 3 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (2.13%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.28%) Windows
2 19 (13.48%) Linux
3 9 (6.38%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.55%) Unix
5 4 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.13%) Solaris
7 2 (1.42%) AIX
7 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (29.79%) DevOps
2 29 (20.57%) Data Analysis
3 27 (19.15%) CI/CD
4 26 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (17.73%) ETL
5 25 (17.73%) Performance Tuning
6 22 (15.60%) AI
6 22 (15.60%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (15.60%) Migration
7 21 (14.89%) Unit Testing
8 18 (12.77%) Agile
8 18 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (12.06%) Decision-Making
10 16 (11.35%) Generative AI
10 16 (11.35%) High Availability
11 15 (10.64%) Data Management
12 13 (9.22%) API Integration
12 13 (9.22%) Mentoring
13 12 (8.51%) Data Modelling
13 12 (8.51%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 86 (60.99%) SQL
2 57 (40.43%) PL/SQL
3 54 (38.30%) C#
4 29 (20.57%) Python
5 28 (19.86%) T-SQL
6 19 (13.48%) JavaScript
7 12 (8.51%) VB
7 12 (8.51%) VBA
8 11 (7.80%) Java
9 10 (7.09%) Formula Language
9 10 (7.09%) LotusScript
10 7 (4.96%) Shell Script
10 7 (4.96%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.71%) C++
11 1 (0.71%) Groovy
11 1 (0.71%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.71%) RPG
11 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (14.89%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.96%) Degree
4 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.71%) PMP
6 1 (0.71%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.02%) QA
2 6 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.71%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.96%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (2.84%) Docker
3 2 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (5.67%) Data Guard
3 7 (4.96%) Terraform
4 5 (3.55%) Ansible
5 4 (2.84%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.42%) Grafana
7 2 (1.42%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.71%) Foglight
8 1 (0.71%) Kibana
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.71%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 141 (100.00%) Oracle
2 23 (16.31%) Citrix
3 19 (13.48%) Microsoft
4 12 (8.51%) Kofax
4 12 (8.51%) Lotus
5 10 (7.09%) Databricks
6 7 (4.96%) IBM
7 5 (3.55%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.84%) Google
9 3 (2.13%) OpenText
9 3 (2.13%) VMware
10 2 (1.42%) Informatica
10 2 (1.42%) Pega
10 2 (1.42%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.71%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.71%) Murex
11 1 (0.71%) NEC
11 1 (0.71%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.71%) Talend