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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 224 248
Rank change year-on-year -58 +24 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 138 127 163
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 1.03% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.08% 4.69% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 99 118
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £468
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -12.97% +4.05%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £450 £466
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.38% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £75.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year -44.39% +21.75% -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 3,382 2,710 3,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.89% 21.98% 22.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,299 1,888 2,959
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £449 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £713
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £22.33 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £28.60 £25.63
Median hourly rate £47.25 £37.81 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.98% -21.24% -10.70%
75th Percentile £61.19 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £82.50 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £39.50 £33.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.93% -16.26% -31.73%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -18 13 £635 +46.82% 7
West London -14 8 - - 2
South London - 3 £300 -
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 15 (10.87%) IIS
2 8 (5.80%) HCL Notes
2 8 (5.80%) Mendix
3 7 (5.07%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.90%) Appian
5 4 (2.90%) WebLogic
6 3 (2.17%) Camunda
6 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (2.17%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.45%) Confluence
7 2 (1.45%) nginx
8 1 (0.72%) JBoss
8 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (5.07%) Finacle
2 6 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.90%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (2.17%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (2.17%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.72%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.72%) Endur
6 1 (0.72%) Findur
6 1 (0.72%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.72%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.72%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 25 (18.12%) Azure
2 12 (8.70%) AWS
3 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (7.25%) Power Platform
5 8 (5.80%) PowerApps
6 7 (5.07%) Collibra
7 6 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 6 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 6 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 6 (4.35%) Serverless
8 4 (2.90%) GCP
8 4 (2.90%) OCI
8 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.17%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.17%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.45%) GitHub
10 2 (1.45%) IaaS
10 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.25%) Internet
2 2 (1.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (31.16%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.59%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.42%) RDBMS
4 11 (7.97%) Metadata
5 10 (7.25%) Power BI
6 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (3.62%) DataStage
10 4 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.90%) Data Mart
10 4 (2.90%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (2.90%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.45%) MySQL
12 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
12 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.52%) JIRA
2 6 (4.35%) GitLab
3 3 (2.17%) Git
3 3 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.45%) JMeter
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.72%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.72%) JUnit
5 1 (0.72%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.72%) Mockito
General
1 54 (39.13%) Finance
2 44 (31.88%) Banking
3 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 17 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.80%) Financial Institution
5 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.07%) Back Office
6 7 (5.07%) Front Office
7 5 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.45%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.72%) International Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.72%) Police
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (39.86%) Developer
2 31 (22.46%) C# Developer
3 24 (17.39%) DBA
4 23 (16.67%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Architect
7 9 (6.52%) Lead
8 8 (5.80%) Administrator
8 8 (5.80%) Applications Support
8 8 (5.80%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Power Platform Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Senior
9 7 (5.07%) SC Cleared DBA
9 7 (5.07%) Systems Support
10 6 (4.35%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.35%) C# Application Developer
11 5 (3.62%) Database Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) Oracle Database Engineer
11 5 (3.62%) PL/SQL Developer
11 5 (3.62%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.33%) .NET
2 29 (21.01%) .NET Framework
3 12 (8.70%) React
4 10 (7.25%) WinForms
4 10 (7.25%) WPF
5 9 (6.52%) HTML
6 7 (5.07%) .NET Core
6 7 (5.07%) CSS
7 6 (4.35%) HTML5 Canvas
7 6 (4.35%) Kafka
7 6 (4.35%) Middleware
7 6 (4.35%) XML
8 5 (3.62%) JSON
8 5 (3.62%) REST
9 4 (2.90%) Spring
9 4 (2.90%) YAML
10 3 (2.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 3 (2.17%) SOAP
10 3 (2.17%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.45%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.49%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.52%) Low-Code
3 8 (5.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (5.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (5.07%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.72%) Clustering
7 1 (0.72%) Derivative
7 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.72%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.74%) Windows
2 17 (12.32%) Linux
3 9 (6.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.62%) Unix
5 3 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.17%) Solaris
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.72%) AIX
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.81%) DevOps
2 28 (20.29%) Data Analysis
3 27 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (18.84%) Migration
5 25 (18.12%) ETL
5 25 (18.12%) Performance Tuning
6 24 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 22 (15.94%) Disaster Recovery
8 20 (14.49%) AI
9 19 (13.77%) Decision-Making
10 18 (13.04%) Unit Testing
11 16 (11.59%) Agile
11 16 (11.59%) Mentoring
12 15 (10.87%) High Availability
13 13 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (9.42%) Data Modelling
13 13 (9.42%) Generative AI
14 11 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (7.25%) Change Management
15 10 (7.25%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (62.32%) SQL
2 56 (40.58%) PL/SQL
3 49 (35.51%) C#
4 29 (21.01%) Python
5 27 (19.57%) T-SQL
6 14 (10.14%) JavaScript
7 10 (7.25%) Java
7 10 (7.25%) VB
7 10 (7.25%) VBA
8 7 (5.07%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.35%) Formula Language
9 6 (4.35%) LotusScript
9 6 (4.35%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) C++
10 1 (0.72%) Groovy
10 1 (0.72%) ProC
10 1 (0.72%) RPG
10 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.72%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.94%) QA
2 5 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (5.07%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (2.90%) Docker
3 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (5.80%) Data Guard
3 7 (5.07%) Terraform
4 5 (3.62%) Ansible
5 4 (2.90%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.45%) Grafana
6 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.72%) Foglight
7 1 (0.72%) Kibana
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 138 (100.00%) Oracle
2 22 (15.94%) Citrix
3 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
4 12 (8.70%) Databricks
5 8 (5.80%) Kofax
5 8 (5.80%) Lotus
6 6 (4.35%) IBM
7 5 (3.62%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.90%) Google
9 3 (2.17%) OpenText
9 3 (2.17%) VMware
10 2 (1.45%) Informatica
10 2 (1.45%) Murex
10 2 (1.45%) Pega
10 2 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.72%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.72%) NEC
11 1 (0.72%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.72%) Sitecore