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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 229 243
Rank change year-on-year -50 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 137 125 167
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.98% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.02% 4.54% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 99 119
10th Percentile £404 £381 £363
25th Percentile £415 £385 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £408 £483
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -15.54% +4.89%
75th Percentile £631 £578 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £700
England median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £92.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £83.75 £61.60
% change year-on-year -50.20% +35.96% -9.74%

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 3,411 2,755 4,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.84% 21.70% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 1,935 3,013
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
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 27 31 33
10th Percentile £18.19 £25.01 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -16.49% -15.65%
75th Percentile £60.88 £60.38 £54.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.00 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -31.09%

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 26 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 26 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 -17 16 £645 +49.13% 6
West London -13 11 - - 1
South London - 1 £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 6 (4.38%) Appian
2 6 (4.38%) HCL Notes
2 6 (4.38%) Mendix
3 5 (3.65%) Camunda
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.92%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.19%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.46%) Confluence
6 2 (1.46%) nginx
7 1 (0.73%) JBoss
7 1 (0.73%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.30%) Finacle
2 6 (4.38%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (3.65%) OpenText MBPM
3 5 (3.65%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.73%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.73%) Endur
6 1 (0.73%) Findur
6 1 (0.73%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.73%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.73%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.06%) Azure
2 10 (7.30%) AWS
3 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.38%) PowerApps
6 5 (3.65%) Collibra
7 4 (2.92%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.92%) GCP
7 4 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.92%) OCI
7 4 (2.92%) OpenShift
7 4 (2.92%) Power Automate
7 4 (2.92%) Serverless
8 3 (2.19%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.46%) GitHub
9 2 (1.46%) IaaS
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.30%) Internet
2 2 (1.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.73%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (32.12%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.87%) Relational Database
3 16 (11.68%) RDBMS
4 9 (6.57%) Metadata
5 8 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (5.84%) Power BI
6 6 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.65%) Data Mart
7 5 (3.65%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (2.92%) DataStage
8 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database 12c
8 4 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.46%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.46%) MySQL
10 2 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.46%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) JIRA
2 6 (4.38%) GitLab
3 3 (2.19%) Git
3 3 (2.19%) Oracle APEX
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%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.73%) JUnit
5 1 (0.73%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.73%) Mockito
General
1 55 (40.15%) Finance
2 48 (35.04%) Banking
3 32 (23.36%) Social Skills
4 21 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.30%) Back Office
5 10 (7.30%) Front Office
6 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.38%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.73%) International Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Local Government
10 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.73%) Police
10 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (40.15%) Developer
2 30 (21.90%) C# Developer
3 23 (16.79%) DBA
4 22 (16.06%) Oracle DBA
5 12 (8.76%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.03%) Applications Support
6 11 (8.03%) Architect
7 10 (7.30%) Lead
7 10 (7.30%) Systems Support
8 8 (5.84%) Oracle Developer
8 8 (5.84%) Senior
9 7 (5.11%) SC Cleared DBA
10 6 (4.38%) Applications Developer
10 6 (4.38%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Power Platform Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Administrator
11 5 (3.65%) BPM Developer
11 5 (3.65%) Database Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Oracle Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.58%) .NET
2 32 (23.36%) .NET Framework
3 10 (7.30%) React
3 10 (7.30%) WinForms
3 10 (7.30%) WPF
4 8 (5.84%) HTML
5 7 (5.11%) .NET Core
5 7 (5.11%) CSS
6 6 (4.38%) Kafka
6 6 (4.38%) Middleware
7 5 (3.65%) JSON
7 5 (3.65%) REST
7 5 (3.65%) XML
8 4 (2.92%) HTML5 Canvas
8 4 (2.92%) Spring
8 4 (2.92%) YAML
9 3 (2.19%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 3 (2.19%) SOAP
9 3 (2.19%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.33%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 10 (7.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (6.57%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (5.11%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.73%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.73%) Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.73%) Derivative
9 1 (0.73%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (26.28%) Windows
2 16 (11.68%) Linux
3 10 (7.30%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.38%) Unix
5 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 36 (26.28%) DevOps
2 30 (21.90%) Data Analysis
3 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (19.71%) Migration
5 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
5 23 (16.79%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (16.06%) AI
6 22 (16.06%) ETL
6 22 (16.06%) Performance Tuning
7 18 (13.14%) Decision-Making
8 17 (12.41%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.41%) Unit Testing
9 16 (11.68%) Agile
10 15 (10.95%) Generative AI
10 15 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (9.49%) Change Management
11 13 (9.49%) Data Modelling
12 12 (8.76%) High Availability
12 12 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (8.03%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 87 (63.50%) SQL
2 55 (40.15%) PL/SQL
3 48 (35.04%) C#
4 29 (21.17%) Python
4 29 (21.17%) T-SQL
5 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.30%) VB
6 10 (7.30%) VBA
7 9 (6.57%) Java
8 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.92%) Formula Language
10 4 (2.92%) LotusScript
11 2 (1.46%) C
11 2 (1.46%) ProC
12 1 (0.73%) C++
12 1 (0.73%) Groovy
12 1 (0.73%) RPG
12 1 (0.73%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.30%) Degree
4 6 (4.38%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.46%) PMP
7 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.73%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.73%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (17.52%) QA
2 4 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) ISO 20022
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 25 (18.25%) Citrix
3 12 (8.76%) Databricks
3 12 (8.76%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.38%) IBM
4 6 (4.38%) Kofax
4 6 (4.38%) Lotus
5 5 (3.65%) OpenText
6 4 (2.92%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.92%) Google
7 3 (2.19%) VMware
8 2 (1.46%) Murex
8 2 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.46%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.73%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.73%) NEC
9 1 (0.73%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.73%) Pega
9 1 (0.73%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.73%) Talend