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 10 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 33 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 834 746 943
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.18% 5.75% 5.15%
As % of the Vendors category 11.66% 12.94% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 510 621
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% -1.52% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £740 £800 £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 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +26.83% +16.92% -58.57%

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 7,154 5,766 7,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.40% 44.46% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,719 3,696 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £276
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 80 148
10th Percentile £17.99 £20.77 £13.72
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.99% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £80.75 £69.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%

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 10 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 10 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 -8 107 £525 -4.55% 18
West London -16 12 £208 -63.27% 3
East London -3 6 £479 +6.98% 5
South London -21 6 £300 -55.56% 3
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 24 (2.88%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 20 (2.40%) Confluence
4 19 (2.28%) IIS
5 14 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 14 (1.68%) WebSphere
6 12 (1.44%) HCL Notes
7 11 (1.32%) WebLogic
8 10 (1.20%) Mendix
9 6 (0.72%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.60%) nginx
11 4 (0.48%) Apache
12 3 (0.36%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.24%) JBoss
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.24%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 46 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 55 (6.59%) Oracle Payables
2 45 (5.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 41 (4.92%) Oracle ERP
4 39 (4.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 33 (3.96%) Oracle EBS
6 26 (3.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 25 (3.00%) Oracle Financials
8 20 (2.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 14 (1.68%) Oracle EBS R12
10 12 (1.44%) Oracle Assets
11 9 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
12 8 (0.96%) Oracle FAH
13 7 (0.84%) BusinessWorks
13 7 (0.84%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.84%) SAP HR
14 6 (0.72%) Loan IQ
14 6 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.72%) Workday HCM
15 5 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 158 (18.94%) OCI
2 130 (15.59%) Azure
3 87 (10.43%) AWS
4 56 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.20%) PaaS
7 28 (3.36%) SaaS
8 27 (3.24%) GCP
9 21 (2.52%) GitHub
10 19 (2.28%) IaaS
11 17 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.92%) Serverless
12 16 (1.92%) Snowflake
13 14 (1.68%) Power Automate
14 13 (1.56%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.32%) Azure Functions
16 11 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (1.32%) Collibra
17 8 (0.96%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.44%) Internet
2 7 (0.84%) Firewall
2 7 (0.84%) HTTP
3 2 (0.24%) DNS
3 2 (0.24%) FTP
3 2 (0.24%) NAS
3 2 (0.24%) SAN
3 2 (0.24%) SSL
3 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.12%) DHCP
4 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.12%) LAN
4 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.12%) RFID
4 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.12%) SMTP
4 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (18.47%) SQL Server
2 132 (15.83%) Oracle Database
3 64 (7.67%) Oracle Reports
4 51 (6.12%) Relational Database
5 50 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (5.64%) Power BI
7 37 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (2.64%) Metadata
9 22 (2.64%) MySQL
10 19 (2.28%) Electronic Patient Records
10 19 (2.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 18 (2.16%) MongoDB
12 17 (2.04%) DB2
13 12 (1.44%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.20%) Tableau
15 9 (1.08%) Oracle ODI
16 8 (0.96%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.96%) DataStage
17 7 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 74 (8.87%) JIRA
2 37 (4.44%) Git
3 25 (3.00%) Postman
4 19 (2.28%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.80%) JUnit
6 12 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (1.44%) SoapUI
7 11 (1.32%) GitLab
7 11 (1.32%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.96%) ERwin
8 8 (0.96%) Maven
9 7 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.84%) Mockito
10 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.72%) Gradle
11 5 (0.60%) Selenium
11 5 (0.60%) Toad
11 5 (0.60%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.48%) Ant
12 4 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
General
1 366 (43.88%) Finance
2 225 (26.98%) Social Skills
3 123 (14.75%) Banking
4 88 (10.55%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (9.11%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.20%) Financial Institution
7 31 (3.72%) General Ledger
8 29 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (3.00%) Retail
11 17 (2.04%) Front Office
12 15 (1.80%) Retail Banking
13 14 (1.68%) Local Government
14 13 (1.56%) Billing
15 11 (1.32%) Legal
15 11 (1.32%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.08%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.96%) Military
17 8 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (21.34%) Developer
2 94 (11.27%) Consultant
3 93 (11.15%) Senior
4 87 (10.43%) Analyst
5 72 (8.63%) Lead
6 71 (8.51%) Oracle Consultant
7 68 (8.15%) Architect
8 53 (6.35%) C# Developer
9 42 (5.04%) Business Analyst
10 36 (4.32%) Oracle Specialist
11 32 (3.84%) Oracle Developer
12 31 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.48%) Oracle Architect
14 28 (3.36%) Cloud Specialist
14 28 (3.36%) Integration Specialist
15 27 (3.24%) Data Engineer
16 26 (3.12%) Cloud Consultant
17 24 (2.88%) Oracle Analyst
18 23 (2.76%) Delivery Manager
19 22 (2.64%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (21.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (11.87%) .NET
3 69 (8.27%) REST
4 56 (6.71%) SOAP
5 55 (6.59%) XML
6 50 (6.00%) .NET Framework
7 46 (5.52%) Web Services
8 45 (5.40%) Kafka
9 38 (4.56%) JSON
9 38 (4.56%) Middleware
10 36 (4.32%) React
11 31 (3.72%) HTML
12 22 (2.64%) XSLT
13 21 (2.52%) Spring
14 18 (2.16%) CSS
15 17 (2.04%) OAuth
15 17 (2.04%) Spring Boot
16 16 (1.92%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.92%) RESTful
17 15 (1.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (2.64%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.16%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.68%) Derivative
7 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 11 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 11 (1.32%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.20%) NHS
8 10 (1.20%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.08%) Product Ownership
10 8 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (0.84%) AI Agents
11 7 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.84%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 90 (10.79%) Linux
2 75 (8.99%) Windows
3 58 (6.95%) Unix
4 26 (3.12%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.72%) AIX
8 5 (0.60%) Solaris
9 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) CentOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (22.90%) Agile
2 185 (22.18%) ERP
3 146 (17.51%) Migration
4 129 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
5 107 (12.83%) DevOps
6 100 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
7 99 (11.87%) Data Migration
8 85 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 77 (9.23%) ETL
9 77 (9.23%) User Acceptance Testing
10 74 (8.87%) CI/CD
11 67 (8.03%) Data Modelling
11 67 (8.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 64 (7.67%) Unit Testing
13 63 (7.55%) Data Analysis
13 63 (7.55%) Validation
14 58 (6.95%) Analytics
15 54 (6.47%) AI
16 52 (6.24%) Decision-Making
17 49 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 301 (36.09%) SQL
2 115 (13.79%) PL/SQL
3 112 (13.43%) C#
4 94 (11.27%) Python
5 93 (11.15%) Java
6 44 (5.28%) T-SQL
7 41 (4.92%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.24%) C++
9 24 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 18 (2.16%) Perl
11 15 (1.80%) Groovy
12 14 (1.68%) VB
12 14 (1.68%) VBA
13 12 (1.44%) TypeScript
14 11 (1.32%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.32%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.08%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.96%) Korn
16 8 (0.96%) XPath
17 6 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 165 (19.78%) Security Cleared
2 134 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 74 (8.87%) Degree
4 20 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.68%) PMP
8 12 (1.44%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 7 (0.84%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.36%) ACCA
13 3 (0.36%) CIMA
13 3 (0.36%) OCP
14 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.24%) GPEN
14 2 (0.24%) ISEB
14 2 (0.24%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (8.27%) QA
2 43 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.16%) PMO
4 15 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.44%) IFRS
7 11 (1.32%) SLA
8 10 (1.20%) GAAP
9 9 (1.08%) NIST
10 8 (0.96%) IFRS 9
11 7 (0.84%) COBIT
11 7 (0.84%) HL7
11 7 (0.84%) IFRS 17
11 7 (0.84%) ITGC
11 7 (0.84%) SOX 404
12 6 (0.72%) GDPR
13 5 (0.60%) Basel III
13 5 (0.60%) NCSC
13 5 (0.60%) SEPA
14 4 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 30 (3.60%) Docker
2 8 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
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 37 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.92%) Terraform
3 7 (0.84%) Ansible
3 7 (0.84%) TIBCO Hawk
4 5 (0.60%) Grafana
4 5 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.48%) Control-M
5 4 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.24%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.24%) Puppet
8 1 (0.12%) Ambari
8 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.12%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (9.11%) SAP
2 55 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.80%) Workday
4 33 (3.96%) Citrix
5 31 (3.72%) IBM
6 26 (3.12%) Informatica
7 23 (2.76%) Databricks
8 18 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.92%) Cerner
10 12 (1.44%) Lotus
11 11 (1.32%) Google
11 11 (1.32%) Murex
11 11 (1.32%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.20%) Kofax
12 10 (1.20%) VMware
13 9 (1.08%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.96%) Talend
14 8 (0.96%) TIBCO
15 7 (0.84%) BEA
16 6 (0.72%) CyberArk