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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 179 227
Rank change year-on-year -73 +48 +33
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 124 219 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 1.40% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.28% 6.44% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 161 151
10th Percentile £359 £363 £382
25th Percentile £385 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% +31.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £528 £598 £540
90th Percentile £646 £699 £630
England median daily rate £425 £535 £471
% change year-on-year -20.56% +13.71% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.00 - £91.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 - £92.50
75th Percentile £110.00 - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £90.00 £61.60 £75.28
% change year-on-year +46.10% -18.17% +50.55%

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 2,897 3,401 3,850
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.06% 21.77% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,008 2,400 2,760
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £850 £788
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 23 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.12 £19.75
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.56 £58.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £81.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +24.29% -26.62% -4.61%

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 5 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 5 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 +2 15 £411 -18.84% 17
East London +2 2 £540 +80.00% 1
South London -8 1 - -
West London -8 1 £415 -27.83%
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 10 (8.06%) IIS
2 5 (4.03%) Confluence
3 4 (3.23%) HCL Notes
3 4 (3.23%) JBoss
3 4 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.23%) WebSphere
4 3 (2.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.42%) LiveLink
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.61%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.81%) CICS
6 1 (0.81%) Mendix
6 1 (0.81%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (20.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
1 4 (3.23%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.81%) OpenText MBPM
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.81%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.81%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.71%) Azure
2 11 (8.87%) AWS
3 6 (4.84%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.03%) GitHub
5 4 (3.23%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.42%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.42%) Serverless
7 2 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.61%) GCP
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.61%) OCI
8 1 (0.81%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.81%) dbt
8 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.81%) LAN
2 1 (0.81%) SAN
2 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.97%) SQL Server
2 19 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.45%) Oracle Exadata
5 7 (5.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (4.84%) Redis
7 5 (4.03%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (4.03%) Power BI
8 4 (3.23%) EDRMS
8 4 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.42%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.42%) Tableau
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (16.13%) JIRA
2 10 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.65%) Git
3 7 (5.65%) JUnit
3 7 (5.65%) Maven
3 7 (5.65%) SoapUI
4 6 (4.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (4.84%) Mockito
4 6 (4.84%) Postman
4 6 (4.84%) REST Assured
4 6 (4.84%) SonarQube
4 6 (4.84%) Subversion
4 6 (4.84%) Xcode
4 6 (4.84%) XCTest
5 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (2.42%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.61%) Ant
7 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (38.71%) Finance
2 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.32%) Banking
4 13 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.42%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.61%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (42.74%) Developer
2 26 (20.97%) C# Developer
3 24 (19.35%) C# WPF Developer
3 24 (19.35%) WPF Developer
4 17 (13.71%) .NET Developer
4 17 (13.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (10.48%) Analyst
6 9 (7.26%) C# WCF Developer
6 9 (7.26%) DBA
6 9 (7.26%) Technical Analyst
6 9 (7.26%) WCF Developer
7 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.65%) Lead
7 7 (5.65%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (4.84%) Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Oracle Developer
9 5 (4.03%) Administrator
9 5 (4.03%) Senior
9 5 (4.03%) Siebel Developer
9 5 (4.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.00%) .NET
2 26 (20.97%) .NET Framework
3 25 (20.16%) WPF
4 15 (12.10%) REST
5 12 (9.68%) Kafka
6 11 (8.87%) HTML
7 10 (8.06%) Spring
7 10 (8.06%) Spring Boot
8 9 (7.26%) CSS
8 9 (7.26%) WCF
8 9 (7.26%) WinForms
9 8 (6.45%) SOAP
9 8 (6.45%) Swagger
9 8 (6.45%) Web Services
10 7 (5.65%) HTML5
11 6 (4.84%) Hibernate
11 6 (4.84%) J2EE
11 6 (4.84%) JPA
11 6 (4.84%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (4.84%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.45%) Replication
2 7 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (4.03%) Clustering
5 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.23%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.61%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.61%) NHS
8 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) HACMP
8 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.00%) Windows
2 22 (17.74%) Linux
3 15 (12.10%) Unix
4 9 (7.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (2.42%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.61%) AIX
7 2 (1.61%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (29.03%) Agile
2 25 (20.16%) Migration
3 19 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (14.52%) Data Modelling
5 17 (13.71%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (12.10%) DevOps
6 15 (12.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 14 (11.29%) Data Analysis
7 14 (11.29%) Performance Tuning
8 12 (9.68%) ETL
9 11 (8.87%) Microservices
9 11 (8.87%) SDLC
10 10 (8.06%) Data Migration
10 10 (8.06%) Integration Patterns
10 10 (8.06%) Multithreading
10 10 (8.06%) Scrum
11 9 (7.26%) CI/CD
12 8 (6.45%) Analytics
12 8 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (6.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 84 (67.74%) SQL
2 50 (40.32%) PL/SQL
3 34 (27.42%) C#
4 26 (20.97%) Java
5 25 (20.16%) VB
6 24 (19.35%) VBA
7 15 (12.10%) JavaScript
7 15 (12.10%) VB.NET
8 13 (10.48%) T-SQL
9 12 (9.68%) Shell Script
10 10 (8.06%) Python
11 8 (6.45%) Bash
11 8 (6.45%) C++
12 6 (4.84%) Groovy
13 3 (2.42%) Formula Language
13 3 (2.42%) LotusScript
14 2 (1.61%) AWK
14 2 (1.61%) sed
14 2 (1.61%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.81%) Go
Qualifications
1 30 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.23%) Degree
6 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.61%) OCP
7 2 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.61%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.81%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.48%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) SEPA
3 4 (3.23%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.61%) MiFID
6 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.06%) Oracle RAC
2 9 (7.26%) Docker
3 4 (3.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 2 (1.61%) GPFS
4 2 (1.61%) NFS
4 2 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) Samba
Systems Management
1 12 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.65%) Data Guard
3 6 (4.84%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (4.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (3.23%) Ansible
5 4 (3.23%) Grafana
5 4 (3.23%) Terraform
5 4 (3.23%) Tivoli
6 3 (2.42%) Ambari
6 3 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.42%) Puppet
6 3 (2.42%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.81%) Control-M
7 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 124 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (8.87%) Citrix
3 8 (6.45%) Splunk
4 7 (5.65%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.84%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (4.84%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.03%) IBM
6 5 (4.03%) Siebel
7 4 (3.23%) Lotus
7 4 (3.23%) Microsoft
7 4 (3.23%) Temenos
8 3 (2.42%) OpenText
8 3 (2.42%) VMware
9 2 (1.61%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.61%) Databricks
9 2 (1.61%) SAP
9 2 (1.61%) UiPath
10 1 (0.81%) Delphix
10 1 (0.81%) Okta
10 1 (0.81%) StreamSets