Oracle Database Contracts in London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 218 254
Rank change year-on-year -20 +36 +16
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 134 190 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 1.11% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.59% 4.71% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 138 158
10th Percentile £359 £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +7.61% -18.18%
75th Percentile £568 £600 £540
90th Percentile £738 £700 £638
England median daily rate £415 £479 £500
% change year-on-year -13.28% -4.25% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile £91.25 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £92.50 - £72.50
75th Percentile £93.75 - £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
England median hourly rate £83.75 £61.60 £61.30
% change year-on-year +35.96% +0.50% +44.22%

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 2,919 4,030 5,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.52% 23.47% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,041 3,005 3,654
10th Percentile £381 £363 £400
25th Percentile £445 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 27 46
10th Percentile £25.53 £20.98 £21.95
25th Percentile £29.07 £36.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £48.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% -24.22% +16.36%
75th Percentile £62.88 £53.38 £84.50
90th Percentile £84.50 £70.20 £90.00
England median hourly rate £34.58 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -13.56% -29.76% +39.82%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in London

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in London.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in London

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in London.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in London

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 18 July 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 -4 18 £400 -17.70% 13
East London +11 3 £415 +38.39% 1
West London +1 2 £415 -27.83% 1
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (8.96%) IIS
2 5 (3.73%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) JBoss
2 5 (3.73%) WebSphere
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.24%) IBM Notes
4 3 (2.24%) SAS
4 3 (2.24%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.75%) CICS
6 1 (0.75%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 32 (23.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (2.24%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.75%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.75%) OpenText MBPM
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.75%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.13%) Azure
2 24 (17.91%) AWS
3 6 (4.48%) GCP
3 6 (4.48%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.73%) Amazon S3
4 5 (3.73%) GitHub
4 5 (3.73%) OCI
5 4 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (2.99%) Azure API Management
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.24%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.24%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.24%) Serverless
7 2 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.49%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.75%) Datadog
8 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.21%) Internet
2 4 (2.99%) HTTP
3 2 (1.49%) Firewall
4 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.75%) Network Security
4 1 (0.75%) SAN
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (29.85%) SQL Server
2 16 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle Exadata
5 6 (4.48%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (4.48%) Redis
5 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.73%) DB2
6 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (3.73%) Oracle Database 12c
6 5 (3.73%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.99%) Power BI
8 3 (2.24%) MySQL
8 3 (2.24%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.49%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.49%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.49%) Tableau
9 2 (1.49%) TKPROF
Development Applications
1 17 (12.69%) JIRA
2 9 (6.72%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.72%) JUnit
2 9 (6.72%) SoapUI
3 6 (4.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (4.48%) Git
3 6 (4.48%) Maven
3 6 (4.48%) Mockito
3 6 (4.48%) Postman
3 6 (4.48%) REST Assured
3 6 (4.48%) SonarQube
3 6 (4.48%) Subversion
3 6 (4.48%) Xcode
3 6 (4.48%) XCTest
4 5 (3.73%) Ant
4 5 (3.73%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (3.73%) Toad
5 3 (2.24%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.24%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.24%) GitLab
General
1 60 (44.78%) Finance
2 37 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 25 (18.66%) Banking
4 12 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.49%) French Language
7 2 (1.49%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.49%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Aviation
8 1 (0.75%) Back Office
8 1 (0.75%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.75%) Local Government
8 1 (0.75%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (45.52%) Developer
2 31 (23.13%) C# Developer
2 31 (23.13%) C# WPF Developer
2 31 (23.13%) WPF Developer
3 20 (14.93%) .NET Developer
3 20 (14.93%) C# .NET Developer
4 19 (14.18%) DBA
5 16 (11.94%) Oracle DBA
6 11 (8.21%) Architect
6 11 (8.21%) C# WCF Developer
6 11 (8.21%) WCF Developer
7 7 (5.22%) Administrator
7 7 (5.22%) Analyst
8 6 (4.48%) Lead
8 6 (4.48%) Oracle Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Senior
8 6 (4.48%) Siebel Developer
9 5 (3.73%) Consultant
9 5 (3.73%) Software Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (28.36%) .NET
2 34 (25.37%) .NET Framework
3 31 (23.13%) WPF
4 11 (8.21%) Kafka
4 11 (8.21%) WCF
4 11 (8.21%) WinForms
5 10 (7.46%) HTML
5 10 (7.46%) SOAP
6 9 (6.72%) REST
6 9 (6.72%) Web Services
7 8 (5.97%) HTML5
7 8 (5.97%) Spring
7 8 (5.97%) Spring Boot
7 8 (5.97%) XML
8 7 (5.22%) CSS
9 6 (4.48%) Hibernate
9 6 (4.48%) J2EE
9 6 (4.48%) JPA
9 6 (4.48%) Middleware
9 6 (4.48%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
1 8 (5.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (3.73%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.99%) Clustering
3 4 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.99%) Reference Data
3 4 (2.99%) Replication
4 3 (2.24%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.24%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.49%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.75%) HACMP
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.75%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 44 (32.84%) Windows
2 32 (23.88%) Linux
3 16 (11.94%) Unix
4 6 (4.48%) AIX
5 4 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (20.90%) Agile
2 23 (17.16%) Migration
3 20 (14.93%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (12.69%) Data Analysis
4 17 (12.69%) DevOps
4 17 (12.69%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (11.19%) High Availability
7 13 (9.70%) Data Migration
7 13 (9.70%) Software Engineering
7 13 (9.70%) Unit Testing
8 12 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (8.96%) Database Migration
8 12 (8.96%) Software Testing
9 11 (8.21%) CI/CD
9 11 (8.21%) Mentoring
9 11 (8.21%) Roadmaps
9 11 (8.21%) Test Automation
10 10 (7.46%) Multithreading
10 10 (7.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 84 (62.69%) SQL
2 52 (38.81%) PL/SQL
3 41 (30.60%) C#
4 31 (23.13%) Java
5 30 (22.39%) VB
5 30 (22.39%) VBA
6 19 (14.18%) VB.NET
7 14 (10.45%) T-SQL
8 13 (9.70%) JavaScript
9 10 (7.46%) Python
9 10 (7.46%) Shell Script
10 7 (5.22%) Groovy
11 5 (3.73%) Perl
12 4 (2.99%) Bash
12 4 (2.99%) Korn
13 3 (2.24%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.49%) AWK
14 2 (1.49%) Formula Language
14 2 (1.49%) LotusScript
14 2 (1.49%) sed
Qualifications
1 17 (12.69%) Degree
2 15 (11.19%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.49%) OCP
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.75%) CISA
7 1 (0.75%) CRISC
7 1 (0.75%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.75%) OCA
7 1 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.93%) QA
2 7 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.22%) SEPA
3 4 (2.99%) GDPR
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.49%) ITGC
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.72%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (5.22%) Docker
3 5 (3.73%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 2 (1.49%) GPFS
4 2 (1.49%) NFS
4 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.75%) Samba
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 8 (5.97%) Oracle RMAN
3 7 (5.22%) Data Guard
3 7 (5.22%) Terraform
4 5 (3.73%) Ansible
4 5 (3.73%) Tivoli
5 4 (2.99%) Grafana
5 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.49%) Ambari
6 2 (1.49%) Puppet
6 2 (1.49%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.75%) Control-M
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.75%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.75%) vRealize
7 1 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 134 (100.00%) Oracle
2 14 (10.45%) IBM
3 12 (8.96%) Citrix
4 11 (8.21%) Microsoft
5 9 (6.72%) Splunk
6 7 (5.22%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.48%) CA Agile Central
7 6 (4.48%) Google
7 6 (4.48%) Siebel
8 5 (3.73%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.99%) Temenos
10 3 (2.24%) Informatica
10 3 (2.24%) Lotus
10 3 (2.24%) Perforce
10 3 (2.24%) VMware
11 2 (1.49%) Cisco
11 2 (1.49%) CyberArk
11 2 (1.49%) Delphix
11 2 (1.49%) Pega
11 2 (1.49%) UiPath