Oracle Contract Job Trends in London

Oracle
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 31 33
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 840 751 943
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.24% 5.75% 5.15%
As % of the Vendors category 11.82% 12.93% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 514 621
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -1.74% -2.54%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £21.85 -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £22.27 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% -14.35% -58.40%
75th Percentile - £42.97 £26.50
90th Percentile - £93.75 £93.75
England median hourly rate £38.56 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +26.83% +16.92% -58.57%

All Vendors
London

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,107 5,806 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 44.47% 40.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 3,724 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £276
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 81 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.86 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +26.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £80.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Oracle job vacancy trend in London

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in London over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in London

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Oracle

Oracle
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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 -10 106 £525 -4.55% 25
West London -11 15 £208 -61.03% 4
East London -3 6 £479 +6.98% 5
South London -22 6 £300 -55.56% 2
North London - 1 £500 - 2
Oracle
England

Oracle
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 25 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 20 (2.38%) Confluence
4 19 (2.26%) IIS
5 14 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 14 (1.67%) WebSphere
6 13 (1.55%) WebLogic
7 12 (1.43%) HCL Notes
8 10 (1.19%) Mendix
9 8 (0.95%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.71%) Apache
11 5 (0.60%) nginx
12 3 (0.36%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.24%) JBoss
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 47 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.83%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (6.55%) Oracle Payables
2 44 (5.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 41 (4.88%) Oracle ERP
4 38 (4.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 35 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
6 28 (3.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 27 (3.21%) Oracle Financials
8 22 (2.62%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 14 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
10 12 (1.43%) Oracle Assets
11 10 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
11 10 (1.19%) Oracle FAH
12 7 (0.83%) BusinessWorks
12 7 (0.83%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
12 7 (0.83%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.71%) Loan IQ
13 6 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.71%) Workday HCM
14 5 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 161 (19.17%) OCI
2 133 (15.83%) Azure
3 90 (10.71%) AWS
4 56 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (6.07%) Power Platform
6 36 (4.29%) PaaS
7 29 (3.45%) GCP
8 28 (3.33%) SaaS
9 21 (2.50%) GitHub
10 19 (2.26%) IaaS
11 18 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.90%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.79%) Serverless
14 14 (1.67%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.55%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (1.31%) Azure Functions
17 11 (1.31%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (1.31%) Collibra
18 8 (0.95%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.43%) Internet
2 9 (1.07%) Firewall
2 9 (1.07%) HTTP
3 4 (0.48%) DNS
3 4 (0.48%) SSL
4 2 (0.24%) FTP
4 2 (0.24%) NAS
4 2 (0.24%) SAN
4 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) DHCP
5 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) LAN
5 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) SMTP
5 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 131 (15.60%) Oracle Database
3 64 (7.62%) Oracle Reports
4 52 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (5.71%) Power BI
7 38 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (2.74%) MySQL
8 23 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (2.62%) Metadata
10 19 (2.26%) Electronic Patient Records
10 19 (2.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 18 (2.14%) MongoDB
12 17 (2.02%) DB2
13 12 (1.43%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.19%) Tableau
15 9 (1.07%) Oracle ODI
16 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.95%) DataStage
17 7 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 74 (8.81%) JIRA
2 36 (4.29%) Git
3 26 (3.10%) Postman
4 19 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.79%) JUnit
6 12 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (1.43%) SoapUI
7 11 (1.31%) GitLab
7 11 (1.31%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.95%) ERwin
8 8 (0.95%) Maven
9 7 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.83%) Mockito
10 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.71%) Gradle
11 5 (0.60%) Selenium
11 5 (0.60%) Toad
11 5 (0.60%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.48%) Ant
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
General
1 370 (44.05%) Finance
2 226 (26.90%) Social Skills
3 120 (14.29%) Banking
4 88 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 31 (3.69%) General Ledger
8 28 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.10%) Retail
11 16 (1.90%) Front Office
12 14 (1.67%) Local Government
12 14 (1.67%) Retail Banking
13 13 (1.55%) Billing
14 12 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.31%) Legal
16 9 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.95%) Military
17 8 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 173 (20.60%) Developer
2 97 (11.55%) Consultant
3 94 (11.19%) Senior
4 87 (10.36%) Analyst
5 74 (8.81%) Oracle Consultant
6 73 (8.69%) Lead
7 70 (8.33%) Architect
8 52 (6.19%) C# Developer
9 42 (5.00%) Business Analyst
10 37 (4.40%) Oracle Specialist
11 31 (3.69%) Oracle Developer
11 31 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (3.45%) Cloud Specialist
12 29 (3.45%) Integration Specialist
12 29 (3.45%) Oracle Architect
13 28 (3.33%) Data Engineer
14 27 (3.21%) Cloud Consultant
15 24 (2.86%) Oracle Analyst
16 23 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
17 22 (2.62%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (21.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 97 (11.55%) .NET
3 68 (8.10%) REST
4 56 (6.67%) SOAP
5 55 (6.55%) XML
6 49 (5.83%) .NET Framework
7 46 (5.48%) Web Services
8 45 (5.36%) Kafka
9 40 (4.76%) Middleware
10 39 (4.64%) JSON
11 36 (4.29%) React
12 30 (3.57%) HTML
13 22 (2.62%) XSLT
14 21 (2.50%) Spring
15 17 (2.02%) CSS
15 17 (2.02%) OAuth
15 17 (2.02%) Spring Boot
16 16 (1.90%) RESTful
17 15 (1.79%) AngularJS
17 15 (1.79%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 39 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (2.62%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.14%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.67%) Derivative
7 12 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.31%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.19%) NHS
9 10 (1.19%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.07%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.83%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 91 (10.83%) Linux
2 77 (9.17%) Windows
3 62 (7.38%) Unix
4 26 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.71%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) Solaris
9 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.36%) CentOS
11 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (22.74%) Agile
2 190 (22.62%) ERP
3 154 (18.33%) Migration
4 129 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (12.86%) DevOps
6 102 (12.14%) Data Migration
7 101 (12.02%) Business Intelligence
8 87 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 77 (9.17%) ETL
10 76 (9.05%) User Acceptance Testing
11 75 (8.93%) CI/CD
12 68 (8.10%) Data Modelling
13 67 (7.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 64 (7.62%) Unit Testing
15 63 (7.50%) Data Analysis
15 63 (7.50%) Validation
16 59 (7.02%) Analytics
17 54 (6.43%) AI
18 53 (6.31%) Decision-Making
19 49 (5.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 299 (35.60%) SQL
2 114 (13.57%) PL/SQL
3 110 (13.10%) C#
4 97 (11.55%) Python
5 92 (10.95%) Java
6 44 (5.24%) T-SQL
7 41 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 26 (3.10%) C++
9 22 (2.62%) Shell Script
10 19 (2.26%) Perl
11 14 (1.67%) VB
11 14 (1.67%) VBA
12 13 (1.55%) Groovy
13 11 (1.31%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.31%) LotusScript
13 11 (1.31%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.07%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.95%) Korn
15 8 (0.95%) XPath
16 6 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 167 (19.88%) Security Cleared
2 136 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.93%) Degree
4 21 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.79%) PMP
7 13 (1.55%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.55%) PMI Certification
8 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.71%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.36%) ACCA
11 3 (0.36%) CIMA
11 3 (0.36%) OCP
12 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.24%) ISEB
12 2 (0.24%) MBA
12 2 (0.24%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.21%) QA
2 43 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.26%) PMO
4 16 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.55%) SLA
6 12 (1.43%) IFRS
7 10 (1.19%) GAAP
8 9 (1.07%) NIST
9 8 (0.95%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.83%) COBIT
10 7 (0.83%) GDPR
10 7 (0.83%) HL7
10 7 (0.83%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.83%) ITGC
10 7 (0.83%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.60%) Basel III
11 5 (0.60%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) SEPA
12 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 32 (3.81%) Docker
2 8 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.83%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.14%) Terraform
3 9 (1.07%) Ansible
4 7 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.83%) TIBCO Hawk
5 5 (0.60%) Grafana
6 4 (0.48%) Control-M
6 4 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.24%) Nagios
8 2 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Ambari
9 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.12%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (9.29%) SAP
2 58 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.00%) Workday
4 33 (3.93%) Citrix
5 31 (3.69%) IBM
6 26 (3.10%) Informatica
7 24 (2.86%) Databricks
8 19 (2.26%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.90%) Cerner
10 12 (1.43%) Lotus
10 12 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.31%) Google
12 10 (1.19%) Kofax
12 10 (1.19%) Murex
12 10 (1.19%) VMware
13 9 (1.07%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.95%) Talend
14 8 (0.95%) TIBCO
15 7 (0.83%) BEA
15 7 (0.83%) Planview