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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 209 246
Rank change year-on-year -53 +37 +53
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 132 148 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.14% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.27% 5.16% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 126 126
10th Percentile - - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £544 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.64% +17.57% +8.82%
75th Percentile £545 £656 £597
90th Percentile £663 £722 £681
England median daily rate £475 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -13.64% +11.11% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £91.25 £91.25
Median hourly rate - £92.50 £92.50
75th Percentile - £93.75 £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £74.68 £92.50 £90.50
% change year-on-year -19.26% +2.21% +18.69%

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 3,093 2,867 3,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.16% 22.15% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 2,036 2,707
10th Percentile £361 £375 £381
25th Percentile £425 £455 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £749 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 41
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.23 £28.60 £26.24
Median hourly rate £48.25 £41.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.68% -8.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.00 £53.25
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.63 £64.53
England median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -24 8 £538 +2.87% 3
East London +4 4 £478 +19.50% 2
South London -11 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 (12.88%) IIS
2 16 (12.12%) SharePoint
3 11 (8.33%) HCL Notes
4 10 (7.58%) Mendix
5 5 (3.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (2.27%) LiveLink
6 3 (2.27%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.27%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.52%) nginx
8 1 (0.76%) Appian
8 1 (0.76%) Confluence
8 1 (0.76%) JBoss
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.76%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.76%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.24%) Azure
2 19 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.33%) Azure Functions
3 11 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 11 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 11 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 11 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 11 (8.33%) PowerApps
3 11 (8.33%) Serverless
4 10 (7.58%) AWS
4 10 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (6.06%) Collibra
6 6 (4.55%) Azure API Management
7 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.03%) OCI
8 3 (2.27%) Google Ads
9 2 (1.52%) GCP
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.76%) GitHub
10 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.33%) Internet
2 7 (5.30%) HTTP
3 1 (0.76%) LAN
3 1 (0.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.33%) Power BI
4 10 (7.58%) Metadata
5 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
6 7 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (5.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.03%) EDRMS
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.03%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.27%) DataStage
9 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database 11g
9 3 (2.27%) Oracle ODI
9 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) JIRA
2 7 (5.30%) JUnit
3 6 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.79%) SoapUI
4 5 (3.79%) Toad
5 4 (3.03%) Ant
6 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.52%) Mockito
8 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.76%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.76%) GitLab
8 1 (0.76%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.76%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.76%) Postman
8 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.76%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.76%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) XCTest
General
1 49 (37.12%) Finance
2 39 (29.55%) Banking
3 34 (25.76%) Social Skills
4 15 (11.36%) Financial Institution
5 7 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.76%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (54.55%) Developer
2 33 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 15 (11.36%) DBA
3 15 (11.36%) Oracle DBA
4 11 (8.33%) Architect
4 11 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
5 10 (7.58%) Oracle Developer
6 9 (6.82%) Administrator
7 8 (6.06%) Applications Developer
8 7 (5.30%) C# Application Developer
8 7 (5.30%) SC Cleared DBA
9 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.55%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
9 6 (4.55%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Analyst
10 5 (3.79%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 5 (3.79%) SQL Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (37.12%) .NET
2 27 (20.45%) .NET Framework
3 16 (12.12%) React
4 14 (10.61%) WinForms
5 13 (9.85%) WPF
6 10 (7.58%) HTML
6 10 (7.58%) HTML5 Canvas
7 9 (6.82%) Kafka
7 9 (6.82%) XML
8 8 (6.06%) Middleware
8 8 (6.06%) REST
8 8 (6.06%) SOAP
9 7 (5.30%) .NET Core
9 7 (5.30%) CSS
10 6 (4.55%) IBM Integration Bus
11 5 (3.79%) HTML5
12 4 (3.03%) Spring
12 4 (3.03%) WCF
13 3 (2.27%) JMS
13 3 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (7.58%) Low-Code
3 7 (5.30%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (3.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 3 (2.27%) Derivative
5 3 (2.27%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.52%) Clustering
6 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 32 (24.24%) Windows
2 23 (17.42%) Linux
3 13 (9.85%) Unix
4 10 (7.58%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.79%) AIX
6 5 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (2.27%) Solaris
8 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (1.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.27%) DevOps
2 26 (19.70%) ETL
3 25 (18.94%) Migration
4 24 (18.18%) Agile
4 24 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
4 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (17.42%) Data Analysis
5 23 (17.42%) Unit Testing
6 20 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 20 (15.15%) Data Migration
7 17 (12.88%) Disaster Recovery
8 14 (10.61%) AI
8 14 (10.61%) High Availability
8 14 (10.61%) SDLC
9 13 (9.85%) API Integration
9 13 (9.85%) Data Management
10 12 (9.09%) Decision-Making
11 11 (8.33%) Business Continuity
11 11 (8.33%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 87 (65.91%) SQL
2 56 (42.42%) PL/SQL
3 52 (39.39%) C#
4 25 (18.94%) T-SQL
5 20 (15.15%) Java
6 17 (12.88%) Python
7 15 (11.36%) JavaScript
8 12 (9.09%) VB
8 12 (9.09%) VBA
9 11 (8.33%) Formula Language
9 11 (8.33%) LotusScript
10 10 (7.58%) Perl
11 6 (4.55%) Korn
11 6 (4.55%) Shell Script
11 6 (4.55%) TypeScript
12 4 (3.03%) PHP
13 2 (1.52%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.76%) C++
14 1 (0.76%) Groovy
14 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.27%) Degree
5 2 (1.52%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.18%) QA
2 4 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.03%) SEPA
3 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.52%) MiFID
3 2 (1.52%) NIST
3 2 (1.52%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.76%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (5.30%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (3.79%) Docker
3 2 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.76%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (3.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (2.27%) Terraform
4 2 (1.52%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.52%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Ambari
5 1 (0.76%) Foglight
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle ZFS
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 132 (100.00%) Oracle
2 23 (17.42%) Microsoft
3 20 (15.15%) Citrix
4 11 (8.33%) Lotus
5 10 (7.58%) Kofax
6 9 (6.82%) IBM
7 4 (3.03%) Databricks
8 3 (2.27%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.27%) Pega
8 3 (2.27%) VMware
9 2 (1.52%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.52%) Informatica
9 2 (1.52%) OpenText
9 2 (1.52%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.76%) NetApp
10 1 (0.76%) Reuters
10 1 (0.76%) Splunk