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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 207 248
Rank change year-on-year -51 +41 +33
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 139 151 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.12% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.57% 5.14% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 124 126
10th Percentile £401 - £383
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £485
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +10.31% +14.12%
75th Percentile £544 £628 £608
90th Percentile £663 £699 £688
England median daily rate £471 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -14.36% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 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 £74.68 £92.50 £90.50
% change year-on-year -19.26% +2.21% +13.13%

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 3,042 2,939 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.42% 21.76% 19.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,089 2,034 2,650
10th Percentile £360 £363 £385
25th Percentile £420 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -4.68%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.41 £26.68 £25.69
Median hourly rate £54.25 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.72% -5.14% +0.28%
75th Percentile £73.75 £59.75 £55.28
90th Percentile £90.50 £78.75 £64.78
England median hourly rate £55.00 £41.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +34.15% -3.53% -25.26%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 7 £525 +0.96% 2
East London +8 4 £478 +19.50% 2
South London -9 4 £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 17 (12.23%) IIS
2 15 (10.79%) SharePoint
3 10 (7.19%) HCL Notes
4 9 (6.47%) Mendix
5 5 (3.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (2.16%) LiveLink
6 3 (2.16%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.16%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.44%) nginx
8 1 (0.72%) Apache
8 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.72%) Appian
8 1 (0.72%) Confluence
8 1 (0.72%) JBoss
8 1 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (12.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.88%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.72%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.72%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.90%) Azure
2 18 (12.95%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.19%) AWS
4 10 (7.19%) Azure Functions
4 10 (7.19%) Azure Logic Apps
4 10 (7.19%) Azure Service Bus
4 10 (7.19%) Power Automate
4 10 (7.19%) PowerApps
4 10 (7.19%) Serverless
5 9 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.76%) Collibra
7 6 (4.32%) Azure API Management
8 4 (2.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.88%) OCI
9 3 (2.16%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.44%) GCP
10 2 (1.44%) GitHub
11 1 (0.72%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.91%) Internet
2 7 (5.04%) HTTP
3 1 (0.72%) LAN
3 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.91%) Power BI
4 9 (6.47%) Metadata
5 8 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.32%) Oracle Exadata
8 5 (3.60%) Oracle Reports
8 5 (3.60%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.88%) DataStage
9 4 (2.88%) EDRMS
9 4 (2.88%) Oracle Database 10g
9 4 (2.88%) SQLPlus
9 4 (2.88%) Tableau
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.16%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.35%) JIRA
2 7 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.04%) JUnit
3 5 (3.60%) SoapUI
3 5 (3.60%) Toad
4 4 (2.88%) Ant
5 3 (2.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.44%) Mockito
7 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.72%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.72%) Git
7 1 (0.72%) GitLab
7 1 (0.72%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.72%) Postman
7 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.72%) TestDirector
General
1 52 (37.41%) Finance
2 38 (27.34%) Social Skills
3 35 (25.18%) Banking
4 17 (12.23%) Financial Institution
5 12 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (48.92%) Developer
2 31 (22.30%) C# Developer
3 18 (12.95%) DBA
3 18 (12.95%) Oracle DBA
4 11 (7.91%) Administrator
4 11 (7.91%) Architect
5 10 (7.19%) Oracle Developer
5 10 (7.19%) Power Platform Developer
6 8 (5.76%) C# WPF Developer
6 8 (5.76%) Linux Administrator
6 8 (5.76%) WPF Developer
7 7 (5.04%) .NET Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Applications Developer
7 7 (5.04%) C# .NET Developer
7 7 (5.04%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 7 (5.04%) SC Cleared DBA
7 7 (5.04%) Systems Administrator
8 6 (4.32%) Site Engineer
8 6 (4.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (31.65%) .NET
2 25 (17.99%) .NET Framework
3 15 (10.79%) React
3 15 (10.79%) WPF
4 14 (10.07%) WinForms
5 13 (9.35%) Kafka
6 10 (7.19%) HTML
6 10 (7.19%) Middleware
7 9 (6.47%) HTML5 Canvas
7 9 (6.47%) REST
7 9 (6.47%) SOAP
7 9 (6.47%) XML
8 7 (5.04%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.04%) CSS
9 6 (4.32%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (4.32%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 5 (3.60%) HTML5
10 5 (3.60%) WCF
11 4 (2.88%) Spring
12 3 (2.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (6.47%) Legacy Systems
1 9 (6.47%) Low-Code
2 7 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.60%) Replication
4 4 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.88%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.16%) Clustering
6 2 (1.44%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.44%) Derivative
6 2 (1.44%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.44%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.44%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.30%) Windows
2 28 (20.14%) Linux
3 15 (10.79%) Unix
4 8 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.04%) Windows Server
6 6 (4.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (3.60%) AIX
7 5 (3.60%) Solaris
8 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.62%) DevOps
2 32 (23.02%) Migration
3 28 (20.14%) ETL
4 27 (19.42%) Agile
4 27 (19.42%) Performance Tuning
5 24 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (14.39%) CI/CD
7 20 (14.39%) Data Migration
8 19 (13.67%) Data Analysis
9 18 (12.95%) Unit Testing
10 16 (11.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (10.07%) High Availability
11 14 (10.07%) SDLC
12 13 (9.35%) Decision-Making
13 12 (8.63%) AI
13 12 (8.63%) API Integration
13 12 (8.63%) Data Management
13 12 (8.63%) Data Modelling
14 11 (7.91%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 91 (65.47%) SQL
2 61 (43.88%) PL/SQL
3 48 (34.53%) C#
4 23 (16.55%) Python
5 22 (15.83%) T-SQL
6 20 (14.39%) Java
7 15 (10.79%) VB
8 14 (10.07%) JavaScript
8 14 (10.07%) VBA
9 10 (7.19%) Formula Language
9 10 (7.19%) LotusScript
9 10 (7.19%) Perl
9 10 (7.19%) Shell Script
10 6 (4.32%) Korn
10 6 (4.32%) TypeScript
11 5 (3.60%) Bash
12 4 (2.88%) PHP
13 3 (2.16%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.44%) C++
14 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.42%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.63%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.88%) Degree
5 3 (2.16%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.44%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.72%) OCP
7 1 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.39%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.88%) SEPA
4 2 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) MiFID
4 2 (1.44%) NIST
4 2 (1.44%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 12 (8.63%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (3.60%) Docker
3 4 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (5.76%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (4.32%) Data Guard
3 5 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.16%) Terraform
5 2 (1.44%) Ansible
5 2 (1.44%) Grafana
6 1 (0.72%) Ambari
6 1 (0.72%) Foglight
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.72%) Puppet
6 1 (0.72%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 139 (100.00%) Oracle
2 22 (15.83%) Microsoft
3 16 (11.51%) Citrix
4 10 (7.19%) Lotus
5 9 (6.47%) IBM
5 9 (6.47%) Kofax
6 5 (3.60%) Databricks
6 5 (3.60%) VMware
7 4 (2.88%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.88%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.16%) Pega
9 2 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.44%) Informatica
9 2 (1.44%) OpenText
9 2 (1.44%) SAP
10 1 (0.72%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.72%) Perforce
10 1 (0.72%) Siebel
10 1 (0.72%) Splunk