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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 197 236
Rank change year-on-year -51 +39 +27
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 126 209 194
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.32% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.29% 6.08% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 153 147
10th Percentile £359 £385 £380
25th Percentile £389 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% +37.50% -21.57%
75th Percentile £548 £638 £550
90th Percentile £663 £699 £625
England median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 £91.25 £91.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £92.50 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - +42.31%
75th Percentile £110.00 £93.75 £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £75.40 £75.28
% change year-on-year +19.36% +0.17% +43.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,935 3,435 3,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.70% 21.68% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,044 2,399 2,723
10th Percentile £363 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £687
90th Percentile £775 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 27 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £26.40 £19.75
25th Percentile £31.71 £36.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £50.75 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £71.50 £58.25 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.25 £70.99
England median hourly rate £55.00 £38.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +44.74% -20.00% -5.00%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 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
Central London 0 14 £463 -8.72% 2
East London +4 4 £478 +59.33%
South London -5 1 - -
West London -14 1 £415 -27.83% 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 13 (10.32%) IIS
2 9 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.97%) Confluence
3 5 (3.97%) HCL Notes
4 4 (3.17%) JBoss
4 4 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.38%) Apache
5 3 (2.38%) LiveLink
6 2 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.59%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.79%) CICS
7 1 (0.79%) Mendix
7 1 (0.79%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (19.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (3.17%) Oracle 11i
1 4 (3.17%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (3.17%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.59%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.79%) OpenText MBPM
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.79%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.79%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 25 (19.84%) Azure
2 10 (7.94%) AWS
3 7 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 6 (4.76%) Azure API Management
5 5 (3.97%) GitHub
5 5 (3.97%) PowerApps
6 4 (3.17%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.17%) Serverless
7 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.38%) OCI
7 3 (2.38%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.59%) GCP
8 2 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.14%) Internet
2 5 (3.97%) HTTP
3 1 (0.79%) LAN
3 1 (0.79%) SAN
3 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.02%) SQL Server
2 19 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (10.32%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.35%) Oracle Exadata
4 8 (6.35%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (4.76%) Power BI
7 5 (3.97%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (3.97%) Redis
8 4 (3.17%) EDRMS
8 4 (3.17%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (3.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 4 (3.17%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.38%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (11.90%) JIRA
2 11 (8.73%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.14%) JUnit
3 9 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 6 (4.76%) Git
4 6 (4.76%) Maven
5 5 (3.97%) Ant
5 5 (3.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.97%) Mockito
5 5 (3.97%) Postman
5 5 (3.97%) REST Assured
5 5 (3.97%) SonarQube
5 5 (3.97%) Subversion
5 5 (3.97%) Toad
5 5 (3.97%) Xcode
5 5 (3.97%) XCTest
6 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.59%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
General
1 46 (36.51%) Finance
2 40 (31.75%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.67%) Banking
4 12 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.79%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 59 (46.83%) Developer
2 27 (21.43%) C# Developer
3 20 (15.87%) C# WPF Developer
3 20 (15.87%) WPF Developer
4 16 (12.70%) .NET Developer
4 16 (12.70%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (8.73%) Oracle Developer
6 9 (7.14%) Analyst
6 9 (7.14%) DBA
7 8 (6.35%) C# WCF Developer
7 8 (6.35%) WCF Developer
8 7 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Lead
8 7 (5.56%) Oracle DBA
9 6 (4.76%) Architect
10 5 (3.97%) Administrator
10 5 (3.97%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (3.97%) Senior
10 5 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.97%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.60%) .NET
2 27 (21.43%) .NET Framework
3 22 (17.46%) WPF
4 16 (12.70%) Kafka
5 15 (11.90%) REST
6 12 (9.52%) SOAP
7 11 (8.73%) WinForms
8 9 (7.14%) HTML
8 9 (7.14%) Middleware
8 9 (7.14%) Spring
8 9 (7.14%) Spring Boot
9 8 (6.35%) CSS
9 8 (6.35%) WCF
9 8 (6.35%) XML
10 7 (5.56%) Swagger
10 7 (5.56%) Web Services
11 6 (4.76%) HTML5
11 6 (4.76%) IBM Integration Bus
11 6 (4.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 5 (3.97%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.35%) Replication
2 6 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.97%) Clustering
4 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.17%) Low-Code
4 4 (3.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.59%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) NHS
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.79%) HACMP
7 1 (0.79%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.79%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.37%) Windows
2 27 (21.43%) Linux
3 23 (18.25%) Unix
4 10 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.56%) AIX
6 6 (4.76%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.59%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.95%) Agile
2 28 (22.22%) Migration
3 21 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 20 (15.87%) DevOps
4 20 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (13.49%) Data Modelling
5 17 (13.49%) ETL
6 15 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (11.11%) Data Migration
8 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
8 13 (10.32%) Data Analysis
8 13 (10.32%) SDLC
9 11 (8.73%) Scrum
10 10 (7.94%) Microservices
10 10 (7.94%) Unit Testing
11 9 (7.14%) Analytics
11 9 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
11 9 (7.14%) Multithreading
12 8 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 93 (73.81%) SQL
2 60 (47.62%) PL/SQL
3 34 (26.98%) C#
4 26 (20.63%) Java
5 22 (17.46%) VB
6 21 (16.67%) VBA
7 18 (14.29%) T-SQL
8 15 (11.90%) Shell Script
9 14 (11.11%) JavaScript
10 12 (9.52%) VB.NET
11 10 (7.94%) Perl
11 10 (7.94%) Python
12 8 (6.35%) Bash
12 8 (6.35%) C++
13 6 (4.76%) Korn
14 5 (3.97%) Groovy
15 4 (3.17%) Formula Language
15 4 (3.17%) LotusScript
15 4 (3.17%) PHP
16 2 (1.59%) AWK
Qualifications
1 32 (25.40%) Security Cleared
2 25 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.17%) Degree
6 3 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.59%) OCP
7 2 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.59%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.79%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.79%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.79%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.49%) QA
2 3 (2.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.38%) SEPA
3 2 (1.59%) MiFID
4 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.73%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (6.35%) Docker
3 2 (1.59%) GPFS
3 2 (1.59%) NFS
3 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.79%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (8.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.76%) Data Guard
2 6 (4.76%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.17%) Grafana
3 4 (3.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.38%) Ambari
4 3 (2.38%) Ansible
4 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.38%) Puppet
4 3 (2.38%) Terraform
4 3 (2.38%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.79%) Control-M
5 1 (0.79%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 126 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (11.11%) Citrix
3 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.56%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.56%) Splunk
5 6 (4.76%) IBM
6 5 (3.97%) CA Agile Central
6 5 (3.97%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.97%) Lotus
7 4 (3.17%) Temenos
8 3 (2.38%) OpenText
8 3 (2.38%) VMware
9 2 (1.59%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.59%) Databricks
9 2 (1.59%) SAP
10 1 (0.79%) Dell
10 1 (0.79%) Hyperion
10 1 (0.79%) NetApp
10 1 (0.79%) Reuters
10 1 (0.79%) Siebel