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 25 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
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 874 728 931
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.25% 5.75% 5.14%
As % of the Vendors category 11.90% 12.74% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 505 611
10th Percentile £368 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £706 £698
90th Percentile £750 £810 £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 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -7.54% +60.38% -58.40%

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 7,343 5,713 7,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.09% 45.11% 40.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,843 3,715 4,973
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 83 144
10th Percentile £18.02 £18.50 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.87 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.25 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +24.00% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £54.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.39 £72.50 £79.65
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.48% -31.20%

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 25 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 25 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 -7 112 £525 -4.55% 52
West London -12 15 £341 -39.60% 9
East London -9 5 £439 -1.84% 3
South London -23 5 £300 -55.56% 5
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 27 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 18 (2.06%) IIS
4 17 (1.95%) Confluence
5 15 (1.72%) Oracle Workflow
6 14 (1.60%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.37%) HCL Notes
8 11 (1.26%) WebLogic
9 10 (1.14%) Mendix
10 7 (0.80%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.57%) nginx
12 4 (0.46%) Apache
13 3 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
14 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
14 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.23%) JBoss
14 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 2 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 43 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.37%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (6.52%) Oracle Payables
2 48 (5.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 42 (4.81%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (4.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 40 (4.58%) Oracle ERP
5 27 (3.09%) Oracle General Ledger
6 24 (2.75%) Oracle Financials
7 19 (2.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 14 (1.60%) Oracle EBS R12
9 12 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
11 8 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
12 7 (0.80%) BusinessWorks
12 7 (0.80%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.80%) Oracle FAH
12 7 (0.80%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.69%) Findur
13 6 (0.69%) Workday HCM
14 5 (0.57%) Loan IQ
14 5 (0.57%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 167 (19.11%) OCI
2 135 (15.45%) Azure
3 95 (10.87%) AWS
4 60 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.58%) PaaS
7 28 (3.20%) GCP
7 28 (3.20%) GitHub
8 27 (3.09%) SaaS
9 23 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
10 22 (2.52%) IaaS
11 18 (2.06%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.95%) PowerApps
12 17 (1.95%) Serverless
13 15 (1.72%) Snowflake
14 14 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
16 12 (1.37%) Azure Functions
16 12 (1.37%) Collibra
17 9 (1.03%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.37%) Internet
2 8 (0.92%) Firewall
3 7 (0.80%) HTTP
4 5 (0.57%) WAN
5 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.34%) DNS
6 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.23%) FTP
7 2 (0.23%) NAS
7 2 (0.23%) SAN
7 2 (0.23%) SSL
7 2 (0.23%) VPN
8 1 (0.11%) DHCP
8 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.11%) LAN
8 1 (0.11%) Multicast
8 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.11%) SMTP
8 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (17.85%) SQL Server
2 127 (14.53%) Oracle Database
3 68 (7.78%) Oracle Reports
4 55 (6.29%) Relational Database
5 48 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.69%) Power BI
7 40 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (3.55%) Metadata
9 25 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (2.63%) MySQL
11 19 (2.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 18 (2.06%) MongoDB
13 17 (1.95%) Electronic Patient Records
14 16 (1.83%) DB2
15 14 (1.60%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.37%) Oracle ODI
17 10 (1.14%) BigQuery
17 10 (1.14%) Tableau
18 8 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
18 8 (0.92%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 72 (8.24%) JIRA
2 39 (4.46%) Git
3 25 (2.86%) Postman
4 22 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (1.49%) JUnit
7 12 (1.37%) GitLab
7 12 (1.37%) SoapUI
8 11 (1.26%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.14%) Maven
10 8 (0.92%) ERwin
11 7 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.69%) Mockito
12 6 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 6 (0.69%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.57%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.57%) Gradle
13 5 (0.57%) Selenium
13 5 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.57%) Toad
General
1 366 (41.88%) Finance
2 236 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 134 (15.33%) Banking
4 102 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.78%) Financial Institution
6 33 (3.78%) Investment Banking
7 32 (3.66%) General Ledger
8 28 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.97%) Retail
10 20 (2.29%) Front Office
11 15 (1.72%) Legal
11 15 (1.72%) Local Government
11 15 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 14 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.49%) Billing
14 10 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.14%) Military
15 9 (1.03%) Marketing
15 9 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 174 (19.91%) Developer
2 95 (10.87%) Consultant
3 94 (10.76%) Senior
4 89 (10.18%) Lead
5 84 (9.61%) Analyst
6 83 (9.50%) Architect
7 73 (8.35%) Oracle Consultant
8 51 (5.84%) C# Developer
9 45 (5.15%) Business Analyst
10 35 (4.00%) Oracle Specialist
11 34 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
12 32 (3.66%) Oracle Architect
13 30 (3.43%) Oracle Developer
14 28 (3.20%) Cloud Specialist
14 28 (3.20%) Data Engineer
14 28 (3.20%) Integration Specialist
15 24 (2.75%) Cloud Consultant
15 24 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (2.63%) Integration Engineer
16 23 (2.63%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (21.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (11.67%) .NET
3 67 (7.67%) REST
4 60 (6.86%) XML
5 57 (6.52%) SOAP
6 50 (5.72%) .NET Framework
7 47 (5.38%) Web Services
8 40 (4.58%) Kafka
9 38 (4.35%) JSON
9 38 (4.35%) Middleware
10 37 (4.23%) React
11 28 (3.20%) HTML
12 23 (2.63%) XSLT
13 19 (2.17%) Spring
14 18 (2.06%) OAuth
15 17 (1.95%) CSS
16 16 (1.83%) RESTful
16 16 (1.83%) Spring Boot
17 15 (1.72%) WinForms
18 13 (1.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (2.63%) Data Structures
2 23 (2.63%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 17 (1.95%) Onboarding
5 16 (1.83%) Cloud Native
5 16 (1.83%) Derivative
6 12 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.26%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (1.26%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.14%) Market Risk
8 10 (1.14%) NHS
8 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 8 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 93 (10.64%) Linux
2 73 (8.35%) Windows
3 58 (6.64%) Unix
4 27 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.69%) AIX
6 6 (0.69%) Solaris
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Rocky
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (22.65%) Agile
2 197 (22.54%) ERP
3 151 (17.28%) Migration
4 134 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
5 125 (14.30%) DevOps
6 99 (11.33%) Data Migration
7 96 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
8 94 (10.76%) Business Intelligence
9 88 (10.07%) Data Modelling
10 85 (9.73%) CI/CD
11 81 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
12 80 (9.15%) ETL
13 77 (8.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 73 (8.35%) Validation
15 67 (7.67%) Analytics
16 65 (7.44%) Data Analysis
17 62 (7.09%) AI
17 62 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (6.98%) Unit Testing
19 56 (6.41%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 310 (35.47%) SQL
2 120 (13.73%) PL/SQL
3 111 (12.70%) C#
4 105 (12.01%) Python
5 93 (10.64%) Java
6 45 (5.15%) T-SQL
7 39 (4.46%) JavaScript
8 26 (2.97%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.63%) C++
10 17 (1.95%) Perl
11 13 (1.49%) Groovy
12 12 (1.37%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.37%) VB
12 12 (1.37%) VBA
13 11 (1.26%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.26%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.03%) Korn
15 8 (0.92%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.92%) Ruby
15 8 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 175 (20.02%) Security Cleared
2 139 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.81%) Degree
4 21 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 15 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.60%) PMI Certification
6 14 (1.60%) PMP
7 12 (1.37%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
9 9 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.80%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.34%) MBA
12 3 (0.34%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) CIMA
13 2 (0.23%) GPEN
13 2 (0.23%) OSCP
13 2 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.47%) QA
2 50 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.95%) PMO
4 15 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.37%) IFRS
6 12 (1.37%) SLA
7 10 (1.14%) GAAP
8 9 (1.03%) NIST
9 8 (0.92%) GDPR
9 8 (0.92%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.80%) COBIT
10 7 (0.80%) HL7
10 7 (0.80%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.80%) ITGC
10 7 (0.80%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.57%) Basel III
11 5 (0.57%) GxP
11 5 (0.57%) NCSC
11 5 (0.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (3.32%) Docker
2 11 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.34%) GridGain
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.40%) Terraform
3 9 (1.03%) Ansible
4 7 (0.80%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.80%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.69%) Grafana
6 4 (0.46%) Control-M
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.11%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 75 (8.58%) SAP
2 68 (7.78%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.69%) Workday
4 33 (3.78%) Citrix
5 32 (3.66%) IBM
6 27 (3.09%) Informatica
7 24 (2.75%) Databricks
8 22 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.60%) Cerner
10 12 (1.37%) Google
10 12 (1.37%) Lotus
10 12 (1.37%) Murex
11 11 (1.26%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.26%) VMware
12 10 (1.14%) Kofax
12 10 (1.14%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.03%) Talend
13 9 (1.03%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.92%) Sybase
15 7 (0.80%) Red Hat