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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 183 230
Rank change year-on-year -78 +47 +35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 123 217 203
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 1.39% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.21% 6.47% 5.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 162 151
10th Percentile £359 £363 £380
25th Percentile £385 £385 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £533 £400
Median % change year-on-year -22.07% +33.13% -21.57%
75th Percentile £538 £599 £550
90th Percentile £655 £699 £620
England median daily rate £433 £545 £475
% change year-on-year -20.61% +14.68% -9.52%
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 £59.95 £75.28
% change year-on-year +50.13% -20.36% +43.38%

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 2,922 3,355 3,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.74% 21.51% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,352 2,738
10th Percentile £363 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £656 £700 £686
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +5.26%

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 19 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 19 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 -9 15 £424 -15.81% 11
East London +4 3 £540 +80.00% 1
South London -8 1 - -
West London -11 1 £415 -27.83% 1
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 12 (9.76%) IIS
2 5 (4.07%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) HCL Notes
2 5 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.25%) JBoss
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.44%) Apache
4 3 (2.44%) LiveLink
5 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.63%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.63%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.63%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.81%) CICS
6 1 (0.81%) Mendix
6 1 (0.81%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (20.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Oracle BPM
1 4 (3.25%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.44%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.63%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.81%) OpenText MBPM
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.81%) Siebel CRM
4 1 (0.81%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.26%) Azure
2 10 (8.13%) AWS
3 7 (5.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.07%) GitHub
4 5 (4.07%) PowerApps
5 4 (3.25%) Azure API Management
5 4 (3.25%) Power Automate
5 4 (3.25%) Serverless
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.44%) OCI
6 3 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.63%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.63%) GCP
7 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.81%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.13%) Internet
2 3 (2.44%) HTTP
3 1 (0.81%) LAN
3 1 (0.81%) SAN
3 1 (0.81%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.58%) SQL Server
2 18 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.50%) Oracle Exadata
5 6 (4.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (4.88%) Power BI
6 5 (4.07%) Redis
7 4 (3.25%) EDRMS
7 4 (3.25%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.44%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.44%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.44%) Tableau
9 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (13.82%) JIRA
2 9 (7.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.50%) JUnit
3 8 (6.50%) SoapUI
4 6 (4.88%) Git
4 6 (4.88%) Maven
5 5 (4.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (4.07%) Mockito
5 5 (4.07%) Postman
5 5 (4.07%) REST Assured
5 5 (4.07%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.07%) Subversion
5 5 (4.07%) Xcode
5 5 (4.07%) XCTest
6 4 (3.25%) Ant
6 4 (3.25%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (1.63%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.63%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 48 (39.02%) Finance
2 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.26%) Banking
4 13 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.81%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (44.72%) Developer
2 27 (21.95%) C# Developer
3 23 (18.70%) C# WPF Developer
3 23 (18.70%) WPF Developer
4 15 (12.20%) .NET Developer
4 15 (12.20%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (8.94%) Analyst
6 10 (8.13%) C# WCF Developer
6 10 (8.13%) WCF Developer
7 8 (6.50%) DBA
8 7 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (4.88%) Architect
9 6 (4.88%) Oracle DBA
9 6 (4.88%) Oracle Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Administrator
10 5 (4.07%) Power Platform Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior
10 5 (4.07%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.83%) .NET
2 27 (21.95%) .NET Framework
3 24 (19.51%) WPF
4 15 (12.20%) REST
5 14 (11.38%) Kafka
6 10 (8.13%) SOAP
6 10 (8.13%) WCF
6 10 (8.13%) WinForms
7 9 (7.32%) HTML
7 9 (7.32%) Spring
7 9 (7.32%) Spring Boot
8 8 (6.50%) CSS
9 7 (5.69%) Middleware
9 7 (5.69%) Swagger
9 7 (5.69%) Web Services
10 6 (4.88%) HTML5
10 6 (4.88%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 6 (4.88%) XML
11 5 (4.07%) Hibernate
11 5 (4.07%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.50%) Replication
2 6 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.07%) Clustering
3 5 (4.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (3.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.25%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.81%) HACMP
7 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.81%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.46%) Windows
2 25 (20.33%) Linux
3 17 (13.82%) Unix
4 10 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.07%) AIX
6 4 (3.25%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (30.08%) Agile
2 24 (19.51%) Migration
3 21 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (15.45%) DevOps
5 18 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (13.82%) Data Modelling
7 16 (13.01%) Data Analysis
7 16 (13.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (11.38%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (9.76%) ETL
10 11 (8.94%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.13%) Data Migration
11 10 (8.13%) Microservices
11 10 (8.13%) Scrum
11 10 (8.13%) SDLC
12 9 (7.32%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (7.32%) Multithreading
12 9 (7.32%) Unit Testing
13 8 (6.50%) Analytics
13 8 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 87 (70.73%) SQL
2 53 (43.09%) PL/SQL
3 36 (29.27%) C#
4 26 (21.14%) Java
5 24 (19.51%) VB
6 23 (18.70%) VBA
7 16 (13.01%) T-SQL
8 14 (11.38%) JavaScript
9 13 (10.57%) VB.NET
10 12 (9.76%) Shell Script
11 10 (8.13%) Python
12 8 (6.50%) Bash
12 8 (6.50%) C++
13 5 (4.07%) Groovy
14 4 (3.25%) Formula Language
14 4 (3.25%) Korn
14 4 (3.25%) LotusScript
14 4 (3.25%) Perl
15 2 (1.63%) AWK
15 2 (1.63%) sed
Qualifications
1 30 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.25%) Degree
6 3 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.63%) OCP
7 2 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.63%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.81%) CESG Certified Professional
8 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.81%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.20%) QA
2 4 (3.25%) SEPA
3 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.63%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.63%) MiFID
5 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.13%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (6.50%) Docker
3 2 (1.63%) GPFS
3 2 (1.63%) NFS
3 2 (1.63%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (8.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.88%) Data Guard
2 6 (4.88%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.25%) Grafana
3 4 (3.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (2.44%) Ambari
4 3 (2.44%) Ansible
4 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.44%) Puppet
4 3 (2.44%) Terraform
4 3 (2.44%) ZABBIX
5 2 (1.63%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.81%) Control-M
6 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 123 (100.00%) Oracle
2 13 (10.57%) Citrix
3 7 (5.69%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.69%) Splunk
4 6 (4.88%) IBM
4 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.07%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (4.07%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.07%) Lotus
6 4 (3.25%) Temenos
7 3 (2.44%) OpenText
7 3 (2.44%) Siebel
7 3 (2.44%) VMware
8 2 (1.63%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.63%) Databricks
8 2 (1.63%) SAP
8 2 (1.63%) UiPath
9 1 (0.81%) Delphix
9 1 (0.81%) Okta
9 1 (0.81%) StreamSets