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 31 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
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 894 733 927
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.31% 5.80% 5.13%
As % of the Vendors category 12.04% 12.85% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 506 607
10th Percentile £369 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £675 £717 £698
90th Percentile £750 £819 £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 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% +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 7,428 5,706 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 45.18% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,905 3,746 4,972
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 88 144
10th Percentile £18.03 £17.72 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.91 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.71 £29.54 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +18.48% -3.04%
75th Percentile £41.85 £55.38 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.33 £70.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.47 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% +21.13% -32.87%

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 31 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 31 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 -14 111 £525 -4.55% 52
West London -15 15 £341 -39.60% 9
East London -3 6 £439 -1.84% 4
South London -20 6 £300 -56.36% 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 28 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 18 (2.01%) IIS
4 17 (1.90%) Confluence
5 15 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 14 (1.57%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.34%) HCL Notes
7 12 (1.34%) WebLogic
8 10 (1.12%) Mendix
9 9 (1.01%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.78%) nginx
11 4 (0.45%) Apache
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.22%) JBoss
13 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 44 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (6.38%) Oracle Payables
2 47 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 45 (5.03%) Oracle EBS
4 43 (4.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 42 (4.70%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (2.91%) Oracle General Ledger
7 25 (2.80%) Oracle Financials
8 19 (2.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 16 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
10 12 (1.34%) Oracle Assets
11 11 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
12 9 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
13 7 (0.78%) Findur
13 7 (0.78%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
13 7 (0.78%) SAP HR
14 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
15 5 (0.56%) Loan IQ
15 5 (0.56%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 173 (19.35%) OCI
2 133 (14.88%) Azure
3 94 (10.51%) AWS
4 60 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.48%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.70%) PaaS
7 28 (3.13%) GCP
7 28 (3.13%) GitHub
8 27 (3.02%) SaaS
9 23 (2.57%) IaaS
10 22 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.13%) Serverless
12 18 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 17 (1.90%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (1.45%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.34%) Azure Functions
16 12 (1.34%) Collibra
17 9 (1.01%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.23%) Internet
2 9 (1.01%) HTTP
3 6 (0.67%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.45%) WAN
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) FTP
5 2 (0.22%) NAS
5 2 (0.22%) RFID
5 2 (0.22%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Intranet
6 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.11%) SMTP
6 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (17.34%) SQL Server
2 127 (14.21%) Oracle Database
3 70 (7.83%) Oracle Reports
4 59 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 47 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (4.59%) Power BI
7 32 (3.58%) Metadata
8 25 (2.80%) MySQL
8 25 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 18 (2.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 17 (1.90%) Electronic Patient Records
11 16 (1.79%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.68%) DB2
13 14 (1.57%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.23%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
15 10 (1.12%) Tableau
16 8 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 72 (8.05%) JIRA
2 39 (4.36%) Git
3 25 (2.80%) Postman
4 21 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (1.45%) JUnit
7 12 (1.34%) SoapUI
8 11 (1.23%) GitLab
8 11 (1.23%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.01%) Maven
10 8 (0.89%) ERwin
11 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.67%) Mockito
11 6 (0.67%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.56%) Gradle
12 5 (0.56%) Selenium
12 5 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 374 (41.83%) Finance
2 234 (26.17%) Social Skills
3 134 (14.99%) Banking
4 103 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 88 (9.84%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.69%) Investment Banking
7 31 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 31 (3.47%) General Ledger
8 27 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (3.02%) Retail
9 22 (2.46%) Front Office
10 15 (1.68%) Legal
10 15 (1.68%) Local Government
10 15 (1.68%) Retail Banking
11 13 (1.45%) Billing
11 13 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.12%) Military
13 9 (1.01%) Marketing
13 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 178 (19.91%) Developer
2 97 (10.85%) Consultant
2 97 (10.85%) Lead
3 94 (10.51%) Senior
4 87 (9.73%) Architect
5 83 (9.28%) Analyst
6 75 (8.39%) Oracle Consultant
7 51 (5.70%) C# Developer
8 45 (5.03%) Business Analyst
9 38 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
10 36 (4.03%) Oracle Architect
11 34 (3.80%) Oracle Specialist
12 30 (3.36%) Oracle Developer
13 28 (3.13%) Cloud Specialist
13 28 (3.13%) Integration Specialist
14 27 (3.02%) Data Engineer
15 26 (2.91%) Cloud Consultant
16 25 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
16 25 (2.80%) Project Manager
17 24 (2.68%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (21.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (11.41%) .NET
3 69 (7.72%) REST
4 60 (6.71%) XML
5 57 (6.38%) SOAP
6 51 (5.70%) .NET Framework
7 46 (5.15%) Web Services
8 40 (4.47%) Kafka
9 39 (4.36%) Middleware
10 38 (4.25%) JSON
10 38 (4.25%) React
11 28 (3.13%) HTML
12 24 (2.68%) Spring
13 23 (2.57%) XSLT
14 21 (2.35%) Spring Boot
15 18 (2.01%) OAuth
15 18 (2.01%) RESTful
16 17 (1.90%) CSS
17 15 (1.68%) WinForms
18 13 (1.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (2.68%) Data Structures
2 24 (2.68%) Public Cloud
3 21 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 17 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 16 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 16 (1.79%) Derivative
6 15 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 11 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.12%) Market Risk
9 10 (1.12%) NHS
9 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 92 (10.29%) Linux
2 71 (7.94%) Windows
3 56 (6.26%) Unix
4 28 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.89%) Solaris
7 6 (0.67%) AIX
7 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (22.26%) ERP
2 195 (21.81%) Agile
3 152 (17.00%) Migration
4 135 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
5 129 (14.43%) DevOps
6 101 (11.30%) Data Migration
6 101 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 93 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
8 89 (9.96%) Data Modelling
9 88 (9.84%) CI/CD
10 83 (9.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 81 (9.06%) ETL
12 79 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 73 (8.17%) Validation
14 68 (7.61%) Analytics
15 66 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (7.27%) Data Analysis
17 61 (6.82%) Unit Testing
18 59 (6.60%) AI
18 59 (6.60%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 311 (34.79%) SQL
2 126 (14.09%) PL/SQL
3 110 (12.30%) C#
4 103 (11.52%) Python
5 97 (10.85%) Java
6 45 (5.03%) T-SQL
7 39 (4.36%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.02%) Shell Script
9 25 (2.80%) C++
10 17 (1.90%) Perl
11 12 (1.34%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.34%) VB
11 12 (1.34%) VBA
12 11 (1.23%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.23%) Groovy
12 11 (1.23%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.01%) Korn
13 9 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.89%) Ruby
14 8 (0.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 179 (20.02%) Security Cleared
2 144 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.39%) Degree
4 21 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.57%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.57%) PMP
8 12 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.34%) ACCA
13 3 (0.34%) CIMA
13 3 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (0.34%) MBA
13 3 (0.34%) OCP
14 2 (0.22%) ISEB
14 2 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.28%) QA
2 49 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.13%) PMO
4 15 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.34%) IFRS
6 12 (1.34%) SLA
7 10 (1.12%) GAAP
8 9 (1.01%) NIST
9 8 (0.89%) GDPR
9 8 (0.89%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.78%) COBIT
10 7 (0.78%) HL7
10 7 (0.78%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.78%) ITGC
10 7 (0.78%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.56%) Basel III
11 5 (0.56%) GxP
11 5 (0.56%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (3.36%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.34%) GridGain
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.46%) Terraform
3 8 (0.89%) Ansible
4 7 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.67%) Grafana
6 4 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Argo
8 2 (0.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.22%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.11%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.11%) Foglight
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 77 (8.61%) SAP
2 69 (7.72%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.59%) Workday
4 34 (3.80%) IBM
5 32 (3.58%) Citrix
6 27 (3.02%) Informatica
7 24 (2.68%) Databricks
8 22 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.57%) Cerner
9 14 (1.57%) Google
10 12 (1.34%) Lotus
10 12 (1.34%) Murex
10 12 (1.34%) VMware
11 10 (1.12%) Kofax
11 10 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.01%) Talend
12 9 (1.01%) TIBCO
13 7 (0.78%) BEA