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 21 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
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 864 736 934
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.19% 5.78% 5.15%
As % of the Vendors category 11.74% 12.86% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 510 611
10th Percentile £365 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £456 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -
75th Percentile £675 £700 £692
90th Percentile £741 £807 £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 £40.21 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +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 7,360 5,722 7,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.24% 44.90% 40.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,855 3,701 4,952
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £544
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.74% -3.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.67% +2.19% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 84 144
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.26 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.87% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.38 £55.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £65.51 £74.63 £79.28
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.45 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.41% +23.53% -29.57%

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 21 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 21 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 -10 111 £550 -0.09% 54
West London -12 15 £341 -39.60% 8
East London -8 5 £439 -1.84% 4
South London -25 4 £300 -55.56% 4
North London - 1 £500 - 1
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 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 18 (2.08%) IIS
4 17 (1.97%) Confluence
5 15 (1.74%) Oracle Workflow
6 14 (1.62%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.39%) HCL Notes
8 11 (1.27%) WebLogic
9 10 (1.16%) Mendix
10 7 (0.81%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.58%) nginx
12 4 (0.46%) Apache
13 3 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
13 3 (0.35%) 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 44 (5.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.39%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (6.71%) Oracle Payables
2 48 (5.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 42 (4.86%) Oracle EBS
3 42 (4.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 41 (4.75%) Oracle ERP
5 26 (3.01%) Oracle General Ledger
6 25 (2.89%) Oracle Financials
7 19 (2.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 14 (1.62%) Oracle EBS R12
9 13 (1.50%) Oracle Assets
10 11 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
11 8 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
12 7 (0.81%) BusinessWorks
12 7 (0.81%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.81%) Oracle FAH
12 7 (0.81%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.69%) Findur
13 6 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
13 6 (0.69%) Workday HCM
14 5 (0.58%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 162 (18.75%) OCI
2 135 (15.63%) Azure
3 94 (10.88%) AWS
4 58 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (5.90%) Power Platform
6 38 (4.40%) PaaS
7 27 (3.13%) GCP
8 26 (3.01%) SaaS
9 25 (2.89%) GitHub
10 22 (2.55%) IaaS
11 21 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (1.97%) Power Automate
13 16 (1.85%) PowerApps
13 16 (1.85%) Serverless
13 16 (1.85%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.39%) Collibra
16 11 (1.27%) Azure Functions
17 9 (1.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.39%) Internet
2 7 (0.81%) Firewall
2 7 (0.81%) HTTP
3 4 (0.46%) WAN
4 3 (0.35%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) FTP
5 2 (0.23%) NAS
5 2 (0.23%) SAN
5 2 (0.23%) SSL
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.12%) Intranet
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) Multicast
6 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.12%) SMTP
6 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (17.82%) SQL Server
2 128 (14.81%) Oracle Database
3 64 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
4 57 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
6 44 (5.09%) Power BI
7 37 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (3.36%) Metadata
9 23 (2.66%) MySQL
9 23 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (2.20%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 18 (2.08%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.97%) Electronic Patient Records
13 16 (1.85%) DB2
14 15 (1.74%) RDBMS
15 11 (1.27%) Oracle ODI
16 10 (1.16%) Tableau
17 8 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (0.93%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.93%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (8.45%) JIRA
2 40 (4.63%) Git
3 26 (3.01%) Postman
4 23 (2.66%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.62%) JUnit
5 14 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (1.50%) SoapUI
7 12 (1.39%) GitLab
8 11 (1.27%) Maven
8 11 (1.27%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.93%) ERwin
10 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.81%) Mockito
11 6 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.69%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.58%) Gradle
12 5 (0.58%) Selenium
12 5 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.58%) Toad
General
1 368 (42.59%) Finance
2 235 (27.20%) Social Skills
3 130 (15.05%) Banking
4 100 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
5 84 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.82%) Financial Institution
6 33 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 31 (3.59%) General Ledger
8 27 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (3.01%) Retail
10 20 (2.31%) Front Office
11 15 (1.74%) Retail Banking
12 14 (1.62%) Local Government
13 13 (1.50%) Billing
13 13 (1.50%) Legal
14 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.16%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.16%) Military
16 9 (1.04%) Marketing
16 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 176 (20.37%) Developer
2 95 (11.00%) Senior
3 94 (10.88%) Consultant
4 85 (9.84%) Lead
5 84 (9.72%) Analyst
6 76 (8.80%) Architect
7 72 (8.33%) Oracle Consultant
8 51 (5.90%) C# Developer
9 44 (5.09%) Business Analyst
10 35 (4.05%) Oracle Specialist
11 32 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
12 31 (3.59%) Oracle Developer
13 30 (3.47%) Oracle Architect
14 28 (3.24%) Cloud Specialist
14 28 (3.24%) Data Engineer
14 28 (3.24%) Integration Specialist
15 24 (2.78%) Cloud Consultant
15 24 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
16 23 (2.66%) Java Developer
16 23 (2.66%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (21.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (11.81%) .NET
3 68 (7.87%) REST
4 60 (6.94%) XML
5 57 (6.60%) SOAP
6 50 (5.79%) .NET Framework
7 47 (5.44%) Web Services
8 42 (4.86%) Kafka
9 39 (4.51%) JSON
10 37 (4.28%) Middleware
11 36 (4.17%) React
12 29 (3.36%) HTML
13 23 (2.66%) XSLT
14 20 (2.31%) Spring
15 18 (2.08%) CSS
15 18 (2.08%) OAuth
16 17 (1.97%) Spring Boot
17 16 (1.85%) RESTful
18 15 (1.74%) WinForms
19 14 (1.62%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (2.66%) Public Cloud
3 21 (2.43%) Data Structures
4 18 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 16 (1.85%) Derivative
5 16 (1.85%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.62%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.27%) Fixed Income
8 11 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.16%) Market Risk
9 10 (1.16%) NHS
10 9 (1.04%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.04%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 92 (10.65%) Linux
2 72 (8.33%) Windows
3 60 (6.94%) Unix
4 26 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.16%) 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 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Rocky
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (23.03%) Agile
2 194 (22.45%) ERP
3 150 (17.36%) Migration
4 133 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
5 121 (14.00%) DevOps
6 100 (11.57%) Data Migration
7 96 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 94 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
9 83 (9.61%) Data Modelling
10 82 (9.49%) CI/CD
11 79 (9.14%) ETL
11 79 (9.14%) User Acceptance Testing
12 74 (8.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 71 (8.22%) Validation
14 65 (7.52%) Analytics
14 65 (7.52%) Data Analysis
15 64 (7.41%) Unit Testing
16 60 (6.94%) AI
17 58 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 54 (6.25%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 309 (35.76%) SQL
2 118 (13.66%) PL/SQL
3 112 (12.96%) C#
4 103 (11.92%) Python
5 93 (10.76%) Java
6 44 (5.09%) T-SQL
7 40 (4.63%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.66%) C++
10 17 (1.97%) Perl
11 14 (1.62%) Groovy
12 12 (1.39%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.39%) VB
12 12 (1.39%) VBA
13 11 (1.27%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.27%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.04%) Korn
15 8 (0.93%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.93%) XPath
16 6 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 171 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 136 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.91%) Degree
4 21 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.62%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.62%) PMP
8 12 (1.39%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.27%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.81%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.35%) ACCA
13 3 (0.35%) CIMA
13 3 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.35%) MBA
13 3 (0.35%) OCP
14 2 (0.23%) GPEN
14 2 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (8.33%) QA
2 48 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 17 (1.97%) PMO
4 15 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.39%) IFRS
7 10 (1.16%) GAAP
7 10 (1.16%) SLA
8 9 (1.04%) NIST
9 8 (0.93%) GDPR
9 8 (0.93%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.81%) COBIT
10 7 (0.81%) HL7
10 7 (0.81%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.81%) ITGC
10 7 (0.81%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.58%) Basel III
11 5 (0.58%) GxP
11 5 (0.58%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (3.59%) Docker
2 8 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.81%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.35%) GridGain
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.20%) Terraform
3 9 (1.04%) Ansible
4 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.81%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.69%) Grafana
6 4 (0.46%) Control-M
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) BladeLogic
9 1 (0.12%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.12%) Kibana
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 76 (8.80%) SAP
2 64 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.75%) Workday
4 33 (3.82%) Citrix
5 32 (3.70%) IBM
6 27 (3.13%) Informatica
7 25 (2.89%) Databricks
8 22 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.62%) Cerner
10 12 (1.39%) Lotus
10 12 (1.39%) Murex
11 11 (1.27%) Google
11 11 (1.27%) VMware
12 10 (1.16%) Kofax
12 10 (1.16%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.16%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.04%) Talend
13 9 (1.04%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.93%) Sybase
15 7 (0.81%) Red Hat