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 23 February 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
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 35 35
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 838 740 949
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.39% 5.52% 5.17%
As % of the Vendors category 12.00% 12.49% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 497 628
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £700
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £34.30 - -
25th Percentile £45.25 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £66.00 £22.27 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.36% -14.35% -58.40%
75th Percentile £89.25 £75.88 £26.50
90th Percentile £101.70 £93.75 £93.75
England median hourly rate £41.86 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.03% +103.85% -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 6,981 5,926 7,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.93% 44.19% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,606 3,704 5,013
10th Percentile £350 £318 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 79 145
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.50 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.34 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.14 £35.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +35.71% +3.16%
75th Percentile £42.14 £61.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.52 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £26.66
% change year-on-year -23.15% +16.28% -19.21%

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 23 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in London over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in London

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 23 February 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 -6 101 £525 -1.87% 29
West London -15 13 £208 -61.03% 10
East London +2 7 £495 +10.61% 3
South London -22 6 £300 -55.56% 1
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 29 (3.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 24 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.27%) Confluence
4 18 (2.15%) IIS
5 17 (2.03%) Oracle Workflow
6 13 (1.55%) WebLogic
6 13 (1.55%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.31%) HCL Notes
8 9 (1.07%) Mendix
8 9 (1.07%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.95%) Apache
10 5 (0.60%) nginx
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.36%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 50 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.95%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (6.68%) Oracle Payables
2 49 (5.85%) Oracle ERP
3 44 (5.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 36 (4.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 31 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
6 30 (3.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 26 (3.10%) Oracle Financials
8 23 (2.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 13 (1.55%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (1.43%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (1.31%) Oracle FAH
12 10 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
13 9 (1.07%) Oracle Cash Management
14 7 (0.84%) BusinessWorks
14 7 (0.84%) NetSuite
14 7 (0.84%) SAP HR
15 6 (0.72%) Workday HCM
16 5 (0.60%) Loan IQ
16 5 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
17 4 (0.48%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 163 (19.45%) OCI
2 138 (16.47%) Azure
3 91 (10.86%) AWS
4 52 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
4 52 (6.21%) Power Platform
5 41 (4.89%) PaaS
6 33 (3.94%) GCP
7 31 (3.70%) SaaS
8 22 (2.63%) GitHub
9 20 (2.39%) IaaS
10 17 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (1.55%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.55%) Serverless
11 13 (1.55%) Snowflake
12 12 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (1.43%) PowerApps
13 10 (1.19%) Azure Functions
13 10 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (1.07%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (0.95%) Collibra
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%) 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
1 144 (17.18%) SQL Server
2 138 (16.47%) Oracle Database
3 67 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
4 51 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 49 (5.85%) Power BI
6 35 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.86%) MySQL
7 24 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 20 (2.39%) Metadata
9 20 (2.39%) MongoDB
10 19 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
11 17 (2.03%) DB2
12 13 (1.55%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.31%) Tableau
14 10 (1.19%) Oracle ODI
15 8 (0.95%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.95%) DataStage
16 7 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 73 (8.71%) JIRA
2 35 (4.18%) Git
3 29 (3.46%) Postman
4 22 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.79%) JUnit
6 12 (1.43%) SoapUI
7 11 (1.31%) GitLab
7 11 (1.31%) Maven
7 11 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.31%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.84%) ERwin
8 7 (0.84%) Gradle
8 7 (0.84%) Mockito
9 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.60%) Toad
11 4 (0.48%) Ant
11 4 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
11 4 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 373 (44.51%) Finance
2 236 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 116 (13.84%) Banking
4 88 (10.50%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (9.67%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.30%) Financial Institution
7 31 (3.70%) General Ledger
8 27 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (3.22%) Investment Banking
9 23 (2.74%) Retail
10 17 (2.03%) Billing
10 17 (2.03%) Front Office
11 12 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 11 (1.31%) Legal
13 10 (1.19%) Local Government
13 10 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.07%) Military
14 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (21.24%) Developer
2 97 (11.58%) Senior
3 95 (11.34%) Consultant
4 89 (10.62%) Analyst
5 71 (8.47%) Oracle Consultant
6 70 (8.35%) Lead
7 66 (7.88%) Architect
8 48 (5.73%) C# Developer
9 44 (5.25%) Business Analyst
10 42 (5.01%) Oracle Specialist
11 34 (4.06%) Oracle Developer
12 32 (3.82%) Cloud Specialist
12 32 (3.82%) Integration Specialist
13 30 (3.58%) Data Engineer
13 30 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.34%) Cloud Consultant
15 26 (3.10%) Oracle Architect
16 24 (2.86%) Java Developer
16 24 (2.86%) Oracle Analyst
17 22 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (22.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 89 (10.62%) .NET
3 76 (9.07%) REST
4 67 (8.00%) SOAP
5 59 (7.04%) XML
6 50 (5.97%) Kafka
6 50 (5.97%) Web Services
7 45 (5.37%) .NET Framework
8 43 (5.13%) Middleware
9 42 (5.01%) JSON
10 37 (4.42%) React
11 32 (3.82%) HTML
12 24 (2.86%) XSLT
13 22 (2.63%) Spring
14 19 (2.27%) CSS
15 18 (2.15%) OAuth
15 18 (2.15%) Spring Boot
16 17 (2.03%) WPF
17 16 (1.91%) AngularJS
17 16 (1.91%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (2.74%) Public Cloud
3 16 (1.91%) Data Structures
3 16 (1.91%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.79%) Derivative
5 14 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.43%) Low-Code
7 12 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.31%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.19%) NHS
9 10 (1.19%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.19%) Reinsurance
10 8 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (11.69%) Linux
2 74 (8.83%) Windows
3 71 (8.47%) Unix
4 23 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.72%) Solaris
8 5 (0.60%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) CentOS
9 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.12%) Android
12 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (23.03%) ERP
2 192 (22.91%) Agile
3 153 (18.26%) Migration
4 129 (15.39%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (13.01%) DevOps
6 104 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
7 95 (11.34%) Data Migration
8 83 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 76 (9.07%) CI/CD
10 72 (8.59%) ETL
11 68 (8.11%) User Acceptance Testing
12 67 (8.00%) Data Modelling
13 64 (7.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 58 (6.92%) Unit Testing
15 57 (6.80%) Data Analysis
15 57 (6.80%) Validation
16 56 (6.68%) Analytics
17 51 (6.09%) Decision-Making
18 50 (5.97%) SDLC
19 48 (5.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 305 (36.40%) SQL
2 120 (14.32%) PL/SQL
3 107 (12.77%) C#
4 99 (11.81%) Java
4 99 (11.81%) Python
5 45 (5.37%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.77%) T-SQL
7 27 (3.22%) Shell Script
8 25 (2.98%) C++
9 22 (2.63%) Perl
10 18 (2.15%) Groovy
11 17 (2.03%) VB
11 17 (2.03%) VBA
12 10 (1.19%) Formula Language
12 10 (1.19%) LotusScript
12 10 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.07%) Bash
13 9 (1.07%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.95%) Korn
14 8 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 173 (20.64%) Security Cleared
2 142 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.83%) Degree
4 22 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.79%) PMP
7 14 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.43%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
12 7 (0.84%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.72%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.48%) ISEB
14 4 (0.48%) OCP
15 3 (0.36%) ACCA
15 3 (0.36%) CIMA
16 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
16 2 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.04%) QA
2 40 (4.77%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.39%) PMO
4 15 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.43%) IFRS
6 12 (1.43%) SLA
7 11 (1.31%) GAAP
8 9 (1.07%) NIST
9 8 (0.95%) GDPR
10 7 (0.84%) COBIT
10 7 (0.84%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.84%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.84%) ITGC
10 7 (0.84%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.60%) Basel III
11 5 (0.60%) HL7
11 5 (0.60%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) SEPA
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (4.06%) Docker
2 13 (1.55%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.24%) GridGain
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 41 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.15%) Terraform
3 10 (1.19%) Ansible
4 8 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.84%) TIBCO Hawk
6 6 (0.72%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.72%) Grafana
7 4 (0.48%) Control-M
8 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.24%) Nagios
9 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) Ambari
10 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.12%) Foglight
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (9.31%) SAP
2 62 (7.40%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.77%) Workday
4 30 (3.58%) IBM
5 29 (3.46%) Citrix
6 25 (2.98%) Informatica
7 23 (2.74%) Databricks
8 18 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.91%) Cerner
10 12 (1.43%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.31%) Lotus
11 11 (1.31%) Murex
11 11 (1.31%) VMware
12 10 (1.19%) Google
13 9 (1.07%) Kofax
13 9 (1.07%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.95%) Planview
14 8 (0.95%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.95%) Splunk
14 8 (0.95%) Talend