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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 34
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,096 784 908
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.38% 5.82% 5.57%
As % of the Vendors category 12.56% 12.56% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 500 586
10th Percentile £403 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £410 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £653 £684
90th Percentile £725 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £22.40 £30.91 £13.18
25th Percentile £27.13 £44.38 £16.09
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.50 £21.55
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +190.09% -64.53%
75th Percentile £44.75 £102.50 £26.38
90th Percentile £50.60 £110.00 £28.91
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £34.55
% change year-on-year +11.23% +8.55% -39.74%

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 8,727 6,241 7,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.86% 46.34% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,690 4,043 4,578
10th Percentile £335 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 120 79
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £26.30 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -15.16% -17.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £39.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £82.75 £63.88 £79.00
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -1 138 £600 +29.03% 108
West London +17 60 £550 +34.97% 52
South London +6 20 £575 +39.82% 8
East London -6 7 £460 -11.54% 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 36 (3.28%) SAS
2 31 (2.83%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.28%) IIS
4 21 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 21 (1.92%) Oracle Workflow
5 20 (1.82%) Confluence
6 14 (1.28%) nginx
7 12 (1.09%) WebLogic
8 10 (0.91%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.82%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.73%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.55%) Apache
11 6 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.46%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.46%) Appian
12 5 (0.46%) Camunda
13 4 (0.36%) JBoss
14 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 35 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 116 (10.58%) Oracle EBS
2 65 (5.93%) Oracle ERP
2 65 (5.93%) Oracle Payables
3 54 (4.93%) Oracle Receivables
4 46 (4.20%) Oracle General Ledger
5 34 (3.10%) Oracle Financials
6 30 (2.74%) Oracle EBS R12
7 26 (2.37%) NetSuite
8 23 (2.10%) Oracle Assets
9 22 (2.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 12 (1.09%) Finacle
11 11 (1.00%) Oracle iProcurement
11 11 (1.00%) Oracle Payroll
12 10 (0.91%) HFM
12 10 (0.91%) Oracle FAH
13 9 (0.82%) Oracle Applications
13 9 (0.82%) Oracle BPM
14 8 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
14 8 (0.73%) FLEXCUBE
14 8 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 153 (13.96%) Azure
2 140 (12.77%) AWS
3 138 (12.59%) OCI
4 57 (5.20%) SaaS
5 56 (5.11%) Power Platform
6 46 (4.20%) GCP
7 37 (3.38%) GitHub
8 29 (2.65%) PaaS
9 27 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (2.37%) Amazon S3
11 24 (2.19%) OpenShift
12 22 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.01%) Serverless
13 20 (1.82%) AtomSphere
13 20 (1.82%) Boomi
14 17 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
15 16 (1.46%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.37%) Internet
2 9 (0.82%) DNS
2 9 (0.82%) HTTP
3 7 (0.64%) SSH
4 6 (0.55%) Firewall
5 5 (0.46%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.46%) SSL
5 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.36%) FTP
7 3 (0.27%) Network Security
7 3 (0.27%) VPN
8 2 (0.18%) Intranet
8 2 (0.18%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.18%) RFID
8 2 (0.18%) RTP
8 2 (0.18%) VLAN
9 1 (0.091%) VoIP
9 1 (0.091%) WAN
9 1 (0.091%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.091%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (14.60%) Oracle Database
2 135 (12.32%) SQL Server
3 66 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 60 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (5.38%) Oracle Reports
6 52 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
7 42 (3.83%) Power BI
8 29 (2.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 27 (2.46%) Metadata
10 25 (2.28%) MongoDB
11 23 (2.10%) RDBMS
12 21 (1.92%) MySQL
12 21 (1.92%) NoSQL
13 19 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.09%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (1.00%) Oracle ODI
16 10 (0.91%) Oracle Exadata
17 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 8 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (6.66%) Git
2 47 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.92%) JIRA
4 25 (2.28%) Oracle Forms
5 20 (1.82%) Gradle
6 18 (1.64%) GitLab
7 14 (1.28%) Selenium
8 12 (1.09%) JUnit
8 12 (1.09%) Maven
9 9 (0.82%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.82%) eggPlant
9 9 (0.82%) Postman
10 8 (0.73%) JMeter
11 7 (0.64%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.55%) Mockito
12 6 (0.55%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.46%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.46%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 421 (38.41%) Finance
2 259 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 176 (16.06%) Banking
4 163 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (10.95%) Public Sector
6 38 (3.47%) Retail
7 37 (3.38%) General Ledger
8 31 (2.83%) Legal
9 29 (2.65%) Investment Banking
10 28 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.19%) Back Office
11 24 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
12 23 (2.10%) Front Office
13 16 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.19%) Billing
16 13 (1.19%) Local Government
17 12 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 10 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 194 (17.70%) Developer
2 169 (15.42%) Consultant
3 153 (13.96%) Architect
4 143 (13.05%) Oracle Consultant
5 124 (11.31%) Lead
6 108 (9.85%) Senior
7 85 (7.76%) Analyst
8 68 (6.20%) Functional Consultant
9 66 (6.02%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 56 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 49 (4.47%) Oracle Architect
12 43 (3.92%) Data Engineer
13 41 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (3.65%) Business Analyst
15 39 (3.56%) Applications Support
16 37 (3.38%) C# Developer
16 37 (3.38%) Oracle Developer
17 36 (3.28%) Senior Developer
18 35 (3.19%) Project Manager
19 25 (2.28%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (17.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 116 (10.58%) REST
3 98 (8.94%) .NET
4 68 (6.20%) Spring
5 64 (5.84%) XML
6 63 (5.75%) SOAP
7 60 (5.47%) JSON
7 60 (5.47%) Terraform
8 59 (5.38%) Kafka
9 57 (5.20%) Spring Boot
10 53 (4.84%) Middleware
11 36 (3.28%) Web Services
12 35 (3.19%) .NET Framework
13 33 (3.01%) OAuth
14 31 (2.83%) React
15 28 (2.55%) HTML
16 24 (2.19%) CSS
17 22 (2.01%) RESTful
18 21 (1.92%) OAuth2
19 18 (1.64%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 42 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 40 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 31 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.55%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 21 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.46%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
13 14 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (1.19%) Replication
15 12 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (0.91%) AI Agents
18 7 (0.64%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.03%) Windows
2 92 (8.39%) Linux
3 59 (5.38%) Unix
4 40 (3.65%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.82%) Solaris
7 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.46%) VMS
9 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.27%) AIX
10 3 (0.27%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.18%) SUSE
11 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.091%) Android
12 1 (0.091%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.091%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (21.99%) Migration
2 206 (18.80%) ERP
3 204 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 186 (16.97%) Agile
5 165 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (13.32%) CI/CD
6 146 (13.32%) User Acceptance Testing
7 141 (12.86%) DevOps
8 128 (11.68%) Data Migration
9 121 (11.04%) ETL
10 115 (10.49%) Data Modelling
11 114 (10.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (9.03%) Analytics
12 99 (9.03%) Validation
13 90 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
14 89 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 86 (7.85%) Change Management
16 85 (7.76%) AI
17 79 (7.21%) Data Integration
18 78 (7.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 335 (30.57%) SQL
2 155 (14.14%) PL/SQL
3 142 (12.96%) Java
4 119 (10.86%) Python
5 91 (8.30%) C#
6 82 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 61 (5.57%) T-SQL
8 38 (3.47%) PowerShell
9 30 (2.74%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.19%) Bash
11 20 (1.82%) Groovy
12 15 (1.37%) TypeScript
13 13 (1.19%) C++
13 13 (1.19%) VBA
14 12 (1.09%) VB
15 9 (0.82%) Bicep
15 9 (0.82%) Ruby
16 7 (0.64%) C
17 6 (0.55%) Korn
17 6 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 246 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 213 (19.43%) SC Cleared
3 90 (8.21%) Degree
4 26 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.19%) ACCA
6 22 (2.01%) CIMA
7 19 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.46%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.00%) PMI Certification
10 11 (1.00%) PMP
11 10 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.55%) AWS Certification
12 6 (0.55%) CISSP
12 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.46%) CISM
13 5 (0.46%) ISEB
13 5 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.48%) Data Quality
2 70 (6.39%) QA
3 33 (3.01%) GRC
4 22 (2.01%) GDPR
5 21 (1.92%) PMO
6 19 (1.73%) IFRS
7 14 (1.28%) ISO 20022
8 11 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.91%) GAAP
10 8 (0.73%) ISO 15022
11 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.64%) SLA
12 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.46%) NCSC
13 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.36%) EMIR
13 4 (0.36%) GxP
13 4 (0.36%) MiFID
13 4 (0.36%) P3O
14 3 (0.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 54 (4.93%) Docker
2 14 (1.28%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.91%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.091%) Firmware
7 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.091%) KVM
7 1 (0.091%) NFS
7 1 (0.091%) RACF
7 1 (0.091%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 30 (2.74%) Ansible
3 28 (2.55%) Grafana
4 18 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.46%) Control-M
6 14 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (1.09%) Argo
8 11 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.91%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.55%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.46%) Kibana
12 4 (0.36%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 3 (0.27%) Istio
14 2 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.18%) WSUS
15 1 (0.091%) Nagios
15 1 (0.091%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 102 (9.31%) SAP
3 52 (4.74%) IBM
4 48 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 42 (3.83%) Databricks
6 32 (2.92%) Citrix
6 32 (2.92%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.74%) Workday
8 24 (2.19%) Google
9 21 (1.92%) Splunk
10 19 (1.73%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.64%) VMware
12 17 (1.55%) Informatica
13 14 (1.28%) Talend
14 13 (1.19%) Hyperion
15 11 (1.00%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.91%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.91%) Dynatrace
17 9 (0.82%) OpenAI
17 9 (0.82%) Temenos