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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 195 221
Rank change year-on-year -42 +26 +45
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 140 178 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 1.27% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.77% 5.87% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 134 137
10th Percentile £385 £385 £382
25th Percentile £404 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £536 £438
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +22.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £549 £638 £585
90th Percentile £663 £699 £638
England median daily rate £453 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -17.64% +12.82% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 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 £89.84 £82.50 £88.50
% change year-on-year +8.90% -6.78% +22.07%

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 2,937 3,031 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.40% 21.60% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,045 2,081 2,519
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% -1.23% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 26 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.56 £26.21 £30.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% +6.98%
75th Percentile £67.38 £59.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.51
England median hourly rate £43.50 £39.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +10.13% -14.47% -16.04%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -5 9 £525 +2.27% 2
East London 0 4 £478 +59.33%
South London -1 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 16 (11.43%) SharePoint
2 15 (10.71%) IIS
3 11 (7.86%) HCL Notes
4 9 (6.43%) Mendix
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (2.14%) Apache
6 3 (2.14%) LiveLink
7 2 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (1.43%) Confluence
7 2 (1.43%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 22 (15.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.71%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.71%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (23.57%) Azure
2 13 (9.29%) Power Platform
3 12 (8.57%) AWS
3 12 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (7.86%) PowerApps
4 11 (7.86%) Serverless
5 10 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 10 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 10 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 10 (7.14%) Power Automate
6 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (4.29%) Azure API Management
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.57%) OCI
9 4 (2.86%) Collibra
10 3 (2.14%) GCP
11 2 (1.43%) GitHub
11 2 (1.43%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.71%) dbt
12 1 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Internet
2 5 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (0.71%) LAN
3 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.57%) Power BI
4 10 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
5 7 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.29%) Metadata
6 6 (4.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 6 (4.29%) Oracle ODI
6 6 (4.29%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (3.57%) Oracle BI EE
7 5 (3.57%) Tableau
8 4 (2.86%) DataStage
8 4 (2.86%) EDRMS
8 4 (2.86%) Oracle Database 10g
8 4 (2.86%) SQLPlus
9 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.14%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) JIRA
2 8 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.71%) JUnit
3 6 (4.29%) SoapUI
4 5 (3.57%) Toad
5 4 (2.86%) Ant
6 3 (2.14%) Git
6 3 (2.14%) Maven
6 3 (2.14%) Mockito
7 2 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.43%) GitLab
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.43%) Postman
7 2 (1.43%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.43%) Subversion
7 2 (1.43%) Xcode
7 2 (1.43%) XCTest
8 1 (0.71%) Selenium
8 1 (0.71%) TestComplete
General
1 54 (38.57%) Finance
2 41 (29.29%) Social Skills
3 32 (22.86%) Banking
4 15 (10.71%) Financial Institution
5 12 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (47.86%) Developer
2 28 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 15 (10.71%) C# WPF Developer
3 15 (10.71%) DBA
3 15 (10.71%) Oracle DBA
3 15 (10.71%) WPF Developer
4 13 (9.29%) .NET Developer
4 13 (9.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (8.57%) Oracle Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Administrator
6 11 (7.86%) Power Platform Developer
7 8 (5.71%) Analyst
7 8 (5.71%) Linux Administrator
8 7 (5.00%) C# WCF Developer
8 7 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.00%) WCF Developer
9 6 (4.29%) Site Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.86%) .NET
2 23 (16.43%) .NET Framework
3 19 (13.57%) WPF
4 14 (10.00%) Kafka
5 13 (9.29%) WinForms
6 11 (7.86%) REST
7 10 (7.14%) HTML5 Canvas
8 9 (6.43%) Middleware
8 9 (6.43%) SOAP
8 9 (6.43%) XML
9 8 (5.71%) HTML
9 8 (5.71%) React
10 7 (5.00%) WCF
11 6 (4.29%) HTML5
11 6 (4.29%) IBM Integration Bus
11 6 (4.29%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 6 (4.29%) Spring
12 5 (3.57%) CSS
12 5 (3.57%) Spring Boot
13 4 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 8 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.57%) Replication
4 4 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.14%) Clustering
5 3 (2.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.43%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.43%) Derivative
6 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.43%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.43%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.43%) NHS
6 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.43%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Windows
2 27 (19.29%) Linux
3 16 (11.43%) Unix
4 8 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.57%) AIX
7 4 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.86%) Migration
2 31 (22.14%) Agile
3 29 (20.71%) DevOps
4 28 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 26 (18.57%) ETL
6 25 (17.86%) Performance Tuning
7 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (13.57%) Data Migration
9 18 (12.86%) CI/CD
10 17 (12.14%) Unit Testing
11 16 (11.43%) Data Analysis
11 16 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 15 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (10.00%) SDLC
14 12 (8.57%) API Integration
14 12 (8.57%) Decision-Making
14 12 (8.57%) High Availability
15 11 (7.86%) Data Management
15 11 (7.86%) Scrum
16 10 (7.14%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (70.71%) SQL
2 66 (47.14%) PL/SQL
3 43 (30.71%) C#
4 21 (15.00%) Java
4 21 (15.00%) T-SQL
5 19 (13.57%) VB
6 18 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 18 (12.86%) VBA
7 15 (10.71%) Python
8 12 (8.57%) Shell Script
9 10 (7.14%) Formula Language
9 10 (7.14%) LotusScript
9 10 (7.14%) Perl
10 8 (5.71%) VB.NET
11 7 (5.00%) C++
12 6 (4.29%) Korn
13 5 (3.57%) Bash
14 4 (2.86%) PHP
15 2 (1.43%) Groovy
15 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.29%) Degree
5 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.43%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.43%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.71%) OCP
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.86%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.14%) SEPA
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.43%) MiFID
4 2 (1.43%) NIST
4 2 (1.43%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.71%) GDPR
5 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (7.86%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (4.29%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Data Guard
1 6 (4.29%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.29%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (2.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.43%) Ansible
3 2 (1.43%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Ambari
4 1 (0.71%) Foglight
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle ZFS
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
4 1 (0.71%) Terraform
4 1 (0.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 140 (100.00%) Oracle
2 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.71%) Citrix
4 11 (7.86%) Lotus
5 9 (6.43%) Kofax
6 6 (4.29%) IBM
7 4 (2.86%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.86%) Databricks
7 4 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.14%) Pega
8 3 (2.14%) Splunk
8 3 (2.14%) VMware
9 2 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.43%) Informatica
9 2 (1.43%) OpenText
9 2 (1.43%) SAP
10 1 (0.71%) Okta
10 1 (0.71%) StreamSets