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 19 January 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 37 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 821 740 948
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.75% 5.33% 5.21%
As % of the Vendors category 12.44% 12.21% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 487 634
10th Percentile £363 £373 £385
25th Percentile £415 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £770 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £88.00 £17.86 -
25th Percentile £92.50 - £18.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £22.27 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.49% -14.35% -58.40%
75th Percentile £110.00 £26.43 £93.75
90th Percentile - £55.85 -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £27.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +55.02% -48.57% -16.00%

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 6,602 6,060 7,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.21% 43.66% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,332 3,748 4,997
10th Percentile £340 £313 £290
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -1.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 67 131
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.73 £14.18
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £18.52
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.35 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -2.05% +28.00%
75th Percentile £42.35 £59.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £83.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +14.38%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +2 112 £510 -7.27% 32
West London -16 13 £208 -58.50% 3
East London -5 7 £495 +23.75% 1
South London -12 6 £300 -55.56% 5
North London - 1 £500 -
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 (3.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 25 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (1.83%) IIS
5 14 (1.71%) Confluence
5 14 (1.71%) WebSphere
6 11 (1.34%) HCL Notes
6 11 (1.34%) WebLogic
7 9 (1.10%) Apache
7 9 (1.10%) Mendix
8 8 (0.97%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.37%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.37%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) WildFly
12 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 54 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.97%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (7.31%) Oracle Payables
2 51 (6.21%) Oracle EBS
3 47 (5.72%) Oracle ERP
4 44 (5.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 43 (5.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 37 (4.51%) Oracle Financials
7 28 (3.41%) Oracle EBS R12
7 28 (3.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 25 (3.05%) Oracle Assets
8 25 (3.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 19 (2.31%) Oracle Cash Management
10 12 (1.46%) Oracle FAH
11 10 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
12 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
12 8 (0.97%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 7 (0.85%) BusinessWorks
13 7 (0.85%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.85%) SAP HR
14 6 (0.73%) Workday HCM
15 4 (0.49%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 150 (18.27%) OCI
2 130 (15.83%) Azure
3 84 (10.23%) AWS
4 51 (6.21%) Power Platform
5 44 (5.36%) PaaS
6 42 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (4.87%) SaaS
8 36 (4.38%) GCP
9 19 (2.31%) GitHub
10 17 (2.07%) IaaS
10 17 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.83%) Serverless
12 13 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 12 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.46%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.46%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.22%) Azure Functions
14 10 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.10%) Amazon S3
16 7 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.46%) Firewall
2 10 (1.22%) Internet
3 7 (0.85%) HTTP
4 4 (0.49%) SSL
5 3 (0.37%) DNS
5 3 (0.37%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.24%) FTP
6 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.12%) DHCP
7 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) VSAN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (16.93%) Oracle Database
2 136 (16.57%) SQL Server
3 72 (8.77%) Oracle Reports
4 49 (5.97%) Power BI
5 47 (5.72%) Relational Database
6 45 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (3.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 25 (3.05%) MySQL
10 21 (2.56%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.95%) DB2
12 16 (1.95%) Electronic Patient Records
13 15 (1.83%) Metadata
14 14 (1.71%) Oracle ODI
15 13 (1.58%) RDBMS
16 12 (1.46%) Tableau
17 9 (1.10%) BigQuery
18 8 (0.97%) DataStage
18 8 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 64 (7.80%) JIRA
2 31 (3.78%) Git
3 26 (3.17%) Postman
4 19 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.95%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (1.83%) GitLab
7 14 (1.71%) JUnit
8 12 (1.46%) SoapUI
9 10 (1.22%) Maven
10 9 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
12 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.73%) ERwin
13 5 (0.61%) Gradle
13 5 (0.61%) Mockito
13 5 (0.61%) Selenium
13 5 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.61%) Toad
13 5 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 377 (45.92%) Finance
2 257 (31.30%) Social Skills
3 108 (13.15%) Banking
4 84 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (9.62%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.38%) Financial Institution
7 35 (4.26%) General Ledger
8 21 (2.56%) Retail
9 20 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.31%) Investment Banking
11 16 (1.95%) Billing
12 15 (1.83%) Front Office
13 12 (1.46%) Legal
13 12 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.34%) Local Government
14 11 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.97%) Marketing
16 8 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 168 (20.46%) Developer
2 115 (14.01%) Consultant
3 92 (11.21%) Senior
4 91 (11.08%) Oracle Consultant
5 85 (10.35%) Analyst
6 69 (8.40%) Lead
7 60 (7.31%) Architect
8 40 (4.87%) Oracle Developer
9 38 (4.63%) C# Developer
10 36 (4.38%) Business Analyst
10 36 (4.38%) Oracle Specialist
11 28 (3.41%) Cloud Consultant
11 28 (3.41%) Data Engineer
12 26 (3.17%) Cloud Specialist
12 26 (3.17%) Oracle Architect
13 25 (3.05%) Integration Specialist
14 22 (2.68%) Functional Consultant
14 22 (2.68%) Oracle Analyst
14 22 (2.68%) Oracle Functional Consultant
14 22 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (22.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 71 (8.65%) .NET
3 69 (8.40%) REST
4 62 (7.55%) SOAP
5 54 (6.58%) XML
6 53 (6.46%) Kafka
7 46 (5.60%) Web Services
8 38 (4.63%) JSON
9 37 (4.51%) Middleware
10 36 (4.38%) .NET Framework
11 33 (4.02%) HTML
12 29 (3.53%) React
13 23 (2.80%) CSS
14 22 (2.68%) XSLT
15 19 (2.31%) Spring
16 18 (2.19%) WPF
17 17 (2.07%) AngularJS
17 17 (2.07%) OAuth
18 15 (1.83%) Spring Boot
19 13 (1.58%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 16 (1.95%) Data Structures
3 16 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 15 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.46%) Low-Code
6 11 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.34%) Derivative
7 10 (1.22%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.22%) Reinsurance
8 8 (0.97%) Cloud Native
8 8 (0.97%) NHS
8 8 (0.97%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.73%) AI Agents
9 6 (0.73%) Data Centre
9 6 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.33%) Linux
2 75 (9.14%) Windows
3 73 (8.89%) Unix
4 18 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.61%) AIX
6 5 (0.61%) CentOS
6 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (23.63%) Agile
2 188 (22.90%) ERP
3 141 (17.17%) Migration
4 123 (14.98%) Problem-Solving
5 106 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
6 100 (12.18%) DevOps
7 86 (10.48%) Data Migration
8 80 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 71 (8.65%) CI/CD
10 69 (8.40%) ETL
11 65 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 61 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
13 60 (7.31%) Data Modelling
14 53 (6.46%) Validation
15 52 (6.33%) Analytics
16 51 (6.21%) Data Analysis
17 50 (6.09%) Scrum
17 50 (6.09%) SDLC
17 50 (6.09%) Unit Testing
18 49 (5.97%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 305 (37.15%) SQL
2 128 (15.59%) PL/SQL
3 94 (11.45%) Java
3 94 (11.45%) Python
4 93 (11.33%) C#
5 51 (6.21%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.26%) T-SQL
7 33 (4.02%) C++
8 28 (3.41%) Shell Script
9 24 (2.92%) Perl
10 22 (2.68%) VBA
11 20 (2.44%) VB
12 17 (2.07%) Groovy
13 10 (1.22%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.22%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.10%) Bash
14 9 (1.10%) Korn
15 8 (0.97%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.97%) XPath
16 7 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 166 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 137 (16.69%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.50%) Degree
4 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.71%) PMP
7 12 (1.46%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (1.34%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.85%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.73%) ACCA
11 5 (0.61%) CIMA
12 4 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.49%) ISEB
12 4 (0.49%) OCP
13 3 (0.37%) APMG
14 2 (0.24%) GPEN
14 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.82%) QA
2 40 (4.87%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.56%) PMO
4 15 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.58%) IFRS
6 13 (1.58%) SLA
7 12 (1.46%) GAAP
8 9 (1.10%) NIST
9 8 (0.97%) GDPR
10 7 (0.85%) COBIT
10 7 (0.85%) ITGC
10 7 (0.85%) SOX 404
11 6 (0.73%) IFRS 17
11 6 (0.73%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.61%) Basel III
13 4 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.49%) NCSC
13 4 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 31 (3.78%) Docker
2 11 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) GridGain
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.58%) Terraform
3 12 (1.46%) Ansible
4 7 (0.85%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.73%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.49%) Control-M
7 4 (0.49%) Grafana
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.24%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) Nagios
9 2 (0.24%) SCOM
10 1 (0.12%) Ambari
10 1 (0.12%) Foglight
10 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 83 (10.11%) SAP
2 62 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.12%) Workday
4 27 (3.29%) Citrix
5 23 (2.80%) IBM
5 23 (2.80%) Informatica
6 22 (2.68%) Databricks
7 16 (1.95%) Cerner
8 14 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.46%) Google
9 12 (1.46%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.34%) Lotus
11 10 (1.22%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.22%) TIBCO
11 10 (1.22%) VMware
12 9 (1.10%) Kofax
12 9 (1.10%) Planview
13 8 (0.97%) Murex
13 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.97%) Splunk