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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 219 239
Rank change year-on-year -61 +20 +28
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 137 131 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 1.08% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.16% 4.87% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 100 117
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £483
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -15.54% +7.22%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £625
90th Percentile £676 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £450 £486
% change year-on-year +16.56% -7.31% -2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £82.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year -49.44% +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 3,296 2,691 3,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.01% 22.14% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,247 1,882 2,883
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.18% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
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 25 31 34
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.67 £25.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.08% -8.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £54.38 £54.03
90th Percentile £84.00 £77.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £41.36 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.03% -19.88% -33.33%

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 2 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 2 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 -20 11 £600 +38.73% 9
West London -19 6 - - 4
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 17 (12.41%) IIS
2 10 (7.30%) HCL Notes
2 10 (7.30%) Mendix
3 9 (6.57%) SharePoint
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.92%) Appian
6 3 (2.19%) Camunda
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.19%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (2.19%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.19%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.46%) nginx
8 1 (0.73%) Confluence
8 1 (0.73%) JBoss
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.65%) Finacle
3 4 (2.92%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (2.19%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (2.19%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (1.46%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.73%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.73%) Endur
6 1 (0.73%) Findur
6 1 (0.73%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.73%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.44%) Azure
2 14 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.03%) AWS
3 11 (8.03%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.30%) PowerApps
5 8 (5.84%) Azure Functions
5 8 (5.84%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (5.84%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (5.84%) Collibra
5 8 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (5.84%) Power Automate
5 8 (5.84%) Serverless
6 4 (2.92%) GCP
6 4 (2.92%) OCI
6 4 (2.92%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.19%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.19%) Google Ads
8 2 (1.46%) GitHub
8 2 (1.46%) IaaS
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.03%) Internet
2 2 (1.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (32.12%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.49%) Relational Database
3 12 (8.76%) Metadata
4 11 (8.03%) Power BI
5 10 (7.30%) RDBMS
6 9 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (5.11%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (3.65%) DataStage
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (2.92%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (2.19%) Data Mart
11 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.46%) MySQL
11 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.46%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (5.84%) JIRA
2 6 (4.38%) GitLab
3 3 (2.19%) Git
3 3 (2.19%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.46%) JMeter
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.73%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.73%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.73%) JUnit
5 1 (0.73%) Mockito
General
1 54 (39.42%) Finance
2 44 (32.12%) Banking
3 28 (20.44%) Social Skills
4 15 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.76%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.38%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.65%) Back Office
7 5 (3.65%) Front Office
8 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) International Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Local Government
10 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 57 (41.61%) Developer
2 32 (23.36%) C# Developer
3 24 (17.52%) DBA
4 23 (16.79%) Oracle DBA
5 11 (8.03%) Data Engineer
6 10 (7.30%) Architect
6 10 (7.30%) Power Platform Developer
7 9 (6.57%) Administrator
8 8 (5.84%) Lead
8 8 (5.84%) Senior
9 7 (5.11%) Applications Developer
9 7 (5.11%) C# Application Developer
9 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared DBA
10 6 (4.38%) Applications Support
10 6 (4.38%) Linux Administrator
10 6 (4.38%) Oracle Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.65%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.65%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (35.77%) .NET
2 30 (21.90%) .NET Framework
3 14 (10.22%) React
4 12 (8.76%) WinForms
5 11 (8.03%) WPF
6 9 (6.57%) HTML
7 8 (5.84%) HTML5 Canvas
8 7 (5.11%) .NET Core
8 7 (5.11%) CSS
9 6 (4.38%) Kafka
9 6 (4.38%) REST
9 6 (4.38%) XML
10 5 (3.65%) JSON
10 5 (3.65%) Middleware
11 4 (2.92%) YAML
12 3 (2.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 3 (2.19%) SOAP
12 3 (2.19%) Spring
12 3 (2.19%) Spring Boot
13 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.87%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.03%) Low-Code
3 7 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.73%) Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.73%) Derivative
9 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.73%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.90%) Windows
2 17 (12.41%) Linux
3 10 (7.30%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.92%) Unix
5 3 (2.19%) Solaris
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.73%) AIX
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (29.93%) DevOps
2 29 (21.17%) Data Analysis
3 26 (18.98%) CI/CD
3 26 (18.98%) ETL
4 25 (18.25%) Performance Tuning
5 24 (17.52%) Migration
5 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (14.60%) AI
8 19 (13.87%) Decision-Making
9 18 (13.14%) Unit Testing
10 16 (11.68%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (10.95%) Agile
11 15 (10.95%) High Availability
12 14 (10.22%) Generative AI
12 14 (10.22%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.49%) Data Management
13 13 (9.49%) Data Modelling
14 11 (8.03%) API Integration
14 11 (8.03%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 84 (61.31%) SQL
2 56 (40.88%) PL/SQL
3 52 (37.96%) C#
4 28 (20.44%) Python
4 28 (20.44%) T-SQL
5 16 (11.68%) JavaScript
6 11 (8.03%) VB
6 11 (8.03%) VBA
7 9 (6.57%) Java
8 8 (5.84%) Formula Language
8 8 (5.84%) LotusScript
9 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
10 6 (4.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.73%) C++
11 1 (0.73%) Groovy
11 1 (0.73%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.73%) RPG
11 1 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.46%) PMP
7 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.73%) CESG Certified Professional
7 1 (0.73%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.06%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) NIST
3 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (5.11%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (2.92%) Docker
3 2 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.73%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.57%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (5.84%) Data Guard
3 7 (5.11%) Terraform
4 5 (3.65%) Ansible
5 4 (2.92%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.46%) Grafana
6 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.73%) Foglight
7 1 (0.73%) Kibana
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.73%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.73%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 137 (100.00%) Oracle
2 23 (16.79%) Citrix
3 16 (11.68%) Microsoft
4 11 (8.03%) Databricks
5 10 (7.30%) Kofax
5 10 (7.30%) Lotus
6 6 (4.38%) IBM
7 5 (3.65%) Alteryx
8 4 (2.92%) Google
9 3 (2.19%) OpenText
9 3 (2.19%) VMware
10 2 (1.46%) Informatica
10 2 (1.46%) Murex
10 2 (1.46%) Pega
10 2 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.73%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.73%) NEC
11 1 (0.73%) OpenLink
11 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.73%) ServiceNow