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 26 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 34 35
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 855 757 930
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.40% 5.62% 5.14%
As % of the Vendors category 12.02% 12.72% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 512 615
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -2.59% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £738 £800 £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 £54.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.49% +107.69% -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 7,115 5,949 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.92% 44.19% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 3,746 4,941
10th Percentile £350 £319 £275
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 £671
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 79 143
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.50 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.42 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +37.25% +2.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £61.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.75 £69.60
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.00%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -6 103 £538 -2.27% 27
West London -13 14 £208 -61.03% 5
East London -3 7 £495 +10.61% 4
South London -22 6 £300 -55.56%
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 29 (3.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 24 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.22%) Confluence
3 19 (2.22%) IIS
4 18 (2.11%) Oracle Workflow
5 13 (1.52%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.52%) WebSphere
6 11 (1.29%) HCL Notes
7 9 (1.05%) Mendix
8 8 (0.94%) Apache
8 8 (0.94%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.58%) nginx
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 50 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.94%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
2 50 (5.85%) Oracle ERP
3 45 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 37 (4.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 32 (3.74%) Oracle EBS
6 30 (3.51%) Oracle General Ledger
7 27 (3.16%) Oracle Financials
8 23 (2.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 13 (1.52%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (1.40%) Oracle EBS R12
11 11 (1.29%) Oracle FAH
12 10 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
13 9 (1.05%) Oracle Cash Management
14 7 (0.82%) BusinessWorks
14 7 (0.82%) NetSuite
14 7 (0.82%) SAP HR
15 6 (0.70%) Workday HCM
16 5 (0.58%) Loan IQ
16 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
17 4 (0.47%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 167 (19.53%) OCI
2 140 (16.37%) Azure
3 91 (10.64%) AWS
4 54 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (6.08%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.80%) PaaS
7 32 (3.74%) GCP
7 32 (3.74%) SaaS
8 22 (2.57%) GitHub
9 20 (2.34%) IaaS
10 17 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.75%) Snowflake
12 13 (1.52%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.52%) Serverless
13 12 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.29%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (1.17%) Azure Functions
16 9 (1.05%) Collibra
16 9 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.52%) Internet
2 9 (1.05%) Firewall
2 9 (1.05%) HTTP
3 4 (0.47%) DNS
3 4 (0.47%) SSL
4 2 (0.23%) FTP
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) DHCP
5 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) LAN
5 1 (0.12%) NAS
5 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SAN
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
1 152 (17.78%) SQL Server
2 140 (16.37%) Oracle Database
3 67 (7.84%) Oracle Reports
4 52 (6.08%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
5 49 (5.73%) Power BI
6 38 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 24 (2.81%) MySQL
7 24 (2.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (2.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 20 (2.34%) Metadata
9 20 (2.34%) MongoDB
10 19 (2.22%) Electronic Patient Records
11 17 (1.99%) DB2
12 13 (1.52%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.29%) Tableau
14 10 (1.17%) Oracle ODI
15 8 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.94%) DataStage
15 8 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 75 (8.77%) JIRA
2 35 (4.09%) Git
3 29 (3.39%) Postman
4 22 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.75%) JUnit
6 12 (1.40%) SoapUI
7 11 (1.29%) GitLab
7 11 (1.29%) Maven
7 11 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.29%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.82%) ERwin
8 7 (0.82%) Gradle
8 7 (0.82%) Mockito
9 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.58%) Toad
11 4 (0.47%) Ant
11 4 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 379 (44.33%) Finance
2 238 (27.84%) Social Skills
3 122 (14.27%) Banking
4 91 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 37 (4.33%) Financial Institution
7 31 (3.63%) General Ledger
8 29 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.92%) Retail
11 18 (2.11%) Front Office
12 17 (1.99%) Billing
13 13 (1.52%) Retail Banking
14 12 (1.40%) Legal
15 11 (1.29%) Local Government
16 10 (1.17%) Manufacturing
17 9 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.05%) Military
17 9 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 180 (21.05%) Developer
2 98 (11.46%) Consultant
3 97 (11.35%) Senior
4 88 (10.29%) Analyst
5 73 (8.54%) Oracle Consultant
6 71 (8.30%) Architect
7 69 (8.07%) Lead
8 49 (5.73%) C# Developer
9 43 (5.03%) Business Analyst
10 42 (4.91%) Oracle Specialist
11 35 (4.09%) Oracle Developer
12 33 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 32 (3.74%) Cloud Specialist
13 32 (3.74%) Integration Specialist
14 31 (3.63%) Data Engineer
15 28 (3.27%) Cloud Consultant
15 28 (3.27%) Oracle Architect
16 24 (2.81%) Java Developer
16 24 (2.81%) Oracle Analyst
17 23 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (22.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 93 (10.88%) .NET
3 78 (9.12%) REST
4 67 (7.84%) SOAP
5 60 (7.02%) XML
6 50 (5.85%) Kafka
6 50 (5.85%) Web Services
7 46 (5.38%) .NET Framework
8 44 (5.15%) Middleware
9 43 (5.03%) JSON
10 37 (4.33%) React
11 32 (3.74%) HTML
12 24 (2.81%) XSLT
13 22 (2.57%) Spring
14 19 (2.22%) CSS
15 18 (2.11%) OAuth
15 18 (2.11%) Spring Boot
16 17 (1.99%) WPF
17 16 (1.87%) AngularJS
17 16 (1.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
2 23 (2.69%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 16 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.75%) Derivative
6 13 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.40%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.29%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.17%) NHS
9 10 (1.17%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.05%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.82%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (11.58%) Linux
2 76 (8.89%) Windows
3 70 (8.19%) Unix
4 24 (2.81%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.70%) Solaris
8 5 (0.58%) AIX
8 5 (0.58%) CentOS
9 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (23.27%) ERP
2 192 (22.46%) Agile
3 155 (18.13%) Migration
4 131 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (12.87%) DevOps
6 106 (12.40%) Business Intelligence
7 96 (11.23%) Data Migration
8 84 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 77 (9.01%) CI/CD
10 75 (8.77%) ETL
11 69 (8.07%) User Acceptance Testing
12 68 (7.95%) Data Modelling
13 65 (7.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 61 (7.13%) Analytics
15 59 (6.90%) Unit Testing
16 58 (6.78%) Validation
17 57 (6.67%) Data Analysis
18 52 (6.08%) Decision-Making
19 51 (5.96%) AI
20 50 (5.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 310 (36.26%) SQL
2 122 (14.27%) PL/SQL
3 110 (12.87%) C#
4 104 (12.16%) Python
5 100 (11.70%) Java
6 45 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 42 (4.91%) T-SQL
8 27 (3.16%) C++
9 26 (3.04%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.57%) Perl
11 18 (2.11%) Groovy
12 17 (1.99%) VB
12 17 (1.99%) VBA
13 10 (1.17%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.17%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 9 (1.05%) Bash
14 9 (1.05%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.94%) Korn
15 8 (0.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 175 (20.47%) Security Cleared
2 143 (16.73%) SC Cleared
3 75 (8.77%) Degree
4 23 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.11%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.75%) PMP
7 14 (1.64%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.47%) ISEB
12 4 (0.47%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) ACCA
13 3 (0.35%) CIMA
14 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.23%) RHCE
14 2 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.60%) QA
2 44 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.34%) PMO
4 15 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) IFRS
7 11 (1.29%) GAAP
7 11 (1.29%) SLA
8 9 (1.05%) NIST
9 8 (0.94%) GDPR
10 7 (0.82%) COBIT
10 7 (0.82%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.82%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.82%) ITGC
10 7 (0.82%) SOX 404
11 6 (0.70%) HL7
12 5 (0.58%) Basel III
12 5 (0.58%) NCSC
12 5 (0.58%) SEPA
13 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (3.98%) Docker
2 13 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.58%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) GridGain
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.11%) Terraform
3 10 (1.17%) Ansible
4 8 (0.94%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.82%) TIBCO Hawk
6 6 (0.70%) Data Guard
6 6 (0.70%) Grafana
7 4 (0.47%) Control-M
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.23%) Nagios
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.12%) Foglight
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 80 (9.36%) SAP
2 61 (7.13%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.80%) Workday
4 31 (3.63%) Citrix
5 30 (3.51%) IBM
6 26 (3.04%) Databricks
6 26 (3.04%) Informatica
7 19 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.87%) Cerner
9 13 (1.52%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.29%) Lotus
10 11 (1.29%) Murex
10 11 (1.29%) VMware
11 9 (1.05%) Google
11 9 (1.05%) Kofax
11 9 (1.05%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.94%) Planview
12 8 (0.94%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.94%) Splunk
12 8 (0.94%) Talend