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 23 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
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 36
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,082 781 878
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.31% 5.84% 5.49%
As % of the Vendors category 12.42% 12.55% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 496 567
10th Percentile £404 £375 £363
25th Percentile £436 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -5.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £653 £681
90th Percentile £725 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.19% -6.59% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
10th Percentile £17.05 £30.91 £13.18
25th Percentile £18.46 £44.38 £16.09
Median hourly rate £27.25 £62.50 £21.55
Median % change year-on-year -56.40% +190.09% -64.53%
75th Percentile £39.88 £102.50 £26.38
90th Percentile £48.65 £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 8,709 6,224 6,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.78% 46.54% 43.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,674 4,030 4,471
10th Percentile £335 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £514 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +1.38% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 120 75
10th Percentile £16.79 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £38.25 £26.30 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.44% -15.16% -12.99%
75th Percentile £64.69 £38.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.88 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.22 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.22% -28.14% -20.18%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +3 136 £600 +26.32% 114
West London +15 58 £500 +22.70% 60
South London +6 19 £550 +33.74% 8
East London -5 6 £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 (3.33%) SAS
2 28 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.31%) IIS
4 21 (1.94%) Confluence
4 21 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 20 (1.85%) Oracle Workflow
6 14 (1.29%) nginx
7 13 (1.20%) WebLogic
8 11 (1.02%) Apache Spark
9 9 (0.83%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.74%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.65%) Apache
11 7 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.46%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.46%) Appian
13 5 (0.46%) Camunda
14 4 (0.37%) JBoss
15 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
15 3 (0.28%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 33 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.092%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 111 (10.26%) Oracle EBS
2 65 (6.01%) Oracle ERP
3 64 (5.91%) Oracle Payables
4 54 (4.99%) Oracle Receivables
5 47 (4.34%) Oracle General Ledger
6 32 (2.96%) Oracle Financials
7 28 (2.59%) Oracle EBS R12
8 26 (2.40%) NetSuite
9 23 (2.13%) Oracle Assets
10 22 (2.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 12 (1.11%) Finacle
12 11 (1.02%) Oracle iProcurement
13 10 (0.92%) HFM
13 10 (0.92%) Oracle FAH
13 10 (0.92%) Oracle Payroll
14 9 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
14 9 (0.83%) Oracle BPM
15 8 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
15 8 (0.74%) iTrent
15 8 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 152 (14.05%) Azure
2 139 (12.85%) AWS
3 133 (12.29%) OCI
4 57 (5.27%) SaaS
5 53 (4.90%) Power Platform
6 45 (4.16%) GCP
7 36 (3.33%) GitHub
8 28 (2.59%) Amazon S3
9 27 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.50%) PaaS
10 23 (2.13%) OpenShift
11 22 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (2.03%) Serverless
12 20 (1.85%) AtomSphere
12 20 (1.85%) Boomi
13 17 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (1.48%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.48%) Snowflake
15 14 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.39%) Internet
2 9 (0.83%) DNS
2 9 (0.83%) HTTP
3 7 (0.65%) SSH
4 6 (0.55%) Firewall
5 5 (0.46%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.46%) SSL
5 5 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.37%) FTP
7 3 (0.28%) Network Security
7 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.092%) IPsec
9 1 (0.092%) SAN
9 1 (0.092%) VoIP
9 1 (0.092%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (14.70%) Oracle Database
2 133 (12.29%) SQL Server
3 65 (6.01%) Relational Database
4 60 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
5 54 (4.99%) Oracle Reports
6 52 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
7 40 (3.70%) Power BI
8 29 (2.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 25 (2.31%) Metadata
9 25 (2.31%) MongoDB
10 23 (2.13%) RDBMS
11 22 (2.03%) MySQL
12 21 (1.94%) NoSQL
13 20 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
14 11 (1.02%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.92%) Oracle Exadata
15 10 (0.92%) Oracle ODI
16 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 73 (6.75%) Git
2 46 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.16%) JIRA
4 23 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
5 20 (1.85%) Gradle
6 18 (1.66%) GitLab
7 14 (1.29%) Selenium
8 12 (1.11%) JUnit
8 12 (1.11%) Maven
9 9 (0.83%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.83%) eggPlant
9 9 (0.83%) Postman
10 8 (0.74%) JMeter
11 7 (0.65%) 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
1 413 (38.17%) Finance
2 254 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 175 (16.17%) Banking
4 161 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 37 (3.42%) General Ledger
6 37 (3.42%) Retail
7 30 (2.77%) Legal
8 28 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 27 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.22%) Back Office
10 24 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (2.13%) Front Office
12 16 (1.48%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.20%) Billing
15 13 (1.20%) Local Government
16 12 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 195 (18.02%) Developer
2 166 (15.34%) Consultant
3 153 (14.14%) Architect
4 140 (12.94%) Oracle Consultant
5 123 (11.37%) Lead
6 109 (10.07%) Senior
7 85 (7.86%) Analyst
8 68 (6.28%) Functional Consultant
9 66 (6.10%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 57 (5.27%) Java Developer
11 48 (4.44%) Oracle Architect
12 44 (4.07%) Data Engineer
13 42 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (3.70%) Applications Support
14 40 (3.70%) Business Analyst
15 38 (3.51%) C# Developer
15 38 (3.51%) Oracle Developer
16 37 (3.42%) Senior Developer
17 32 (2.96%) Project Manager
18 25 (2.31%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (17.65%) Oracle Fusion
2 113 (10.44%) REST
3 98 (9.06%) .NET
4 68 (6.28%) Spring
5 64 (5.91%) XML
6 63 (5.82%) SOAP
7 59 (5.45%) JSON
7 59 (5.45%) Kafka
7 59 (5.45%) Terraform
8 57 (5.27%) Spring Boot
9 52 (4.81%) Middleware
10 35 (3.23%) .NET Framework
10 35 (3.23%) Web Services
11 33 (3.05%) OAuth
12 30 (2.77%) React
13 27 (2.50%) HTML
14 23 (2.13%) CSS
15 22 (2.03%) RESTful
16 21 (1.94%) OAuth2
17 19 (1.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 57 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
2 42 (3.88%) Cloud Native
3 41 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.87%) Data Structures
4 31 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 30 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 18 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.48%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.11%) Replication
14 11 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.92%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.65%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.24%) Windows
2 90 (8.32%) Linux
3 58 (5.36%) Unix
4 41 (3.79%) Windows Server
5 21 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.83%) Solaris
7 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.46%) VMS
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.28%) AIX
10 3 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.18%) SUSE
11 2 (0.18%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.092%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.092%) CentOS
12 1 (0.092%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (22.09%) Migration
2 205 (18.95%) ERP
3 200 (18.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 178 (16.45%) Agile
5 163 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (13.31%) CI/CD
6 144 (13.31%) User Acceptance Testing
7 136 (12.57%) DevOps
8 127 (11.74%) Data Migration
9 122 (11.28%) ETL
10 113 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 111 (10.26%) Data Modelling
12 94 (8.69%) Analytics
12 94 (8.69%) Validation
13 89 (8.23%) Business Intelligence
13 89 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 84 (7.76%) AI
15 83 (7.67%) Change Management
16 79 (7.30%) Data Integration
17 76 (7.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 329 (30.41%) SQL
2 150 (13.86%) PL/SQL
3 143 (13.22%) Java
4 118 (10.91%) Python
5 90 (8.32%) C#
6 82 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 60 (5.55%) T-SQL
8 38 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 29 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.22%) Bash
11 20 (1.85%) Groovy
12 15 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 13 (1.20%) C++
13 13 (1.20%) VBA
14 12 (1.11%) VB
15 9 (0.83%) Bicep
15 9 (0.83%) Ruby
16 7 (0.65%) C
17 6 (0.55%) Korn
17 6 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 242 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 210 (19.41%) SC Cleared
3 89 (8.23%) Degree
4 25 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.22%) ACCA
6 22 (2.03%) CIMA
7 18 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
12 9 (0.83%) PMP
13 8 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 6 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.55%) CISSP
14 6 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
15 5 (0.46%) CISM
15 5 (0.46%) ISEB
15 5 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (6.65%) QA
2 69 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.05%) GRC
4 21 (1.94%) GDPR
5 19 (1.76%) IFRS
5 19 (1.76%) PMO
6 14 (1.29%) ISO 20022
7 11 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.92%) GAAP
9 8 (0.74%) ISO 15022
10 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.65%) SLA
11 5 (0.46%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.46%) NCSC
12 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.37%) EMIR
12 4 (0.37%) MiFID
12 4 (0.37%) P3O
13 3 (0.28%) NIST
13 3 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (5.08%) Docker
2 13 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.092%) Firmware
7 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.092%) KVM
7 1 (0.092%) NFS
7 1 (0.092%) RACF
7 1 (0.092%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.092%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.68%) Ansible
3 27 (2.50%) Grafana
4 17 (1.57%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.48%) Control-M
6 14 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (1.11%) Argo
8 11 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (0.92%) Data Guard
10 6 (0.55%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.46%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.46%) Kibana
12 4 (0.37%) Istio
12 4 (0.37%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.18%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 2 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 2 (0.18%) WSUS
14 1 (0.092%) Nagios
14 1 (0.092%) SCOM
Vendors
1 116 (10.72%) Microsoft
2 101 (9.33%) SAP
3 53 (4.90%) IBM
4 45 (4.16%) Salesforce
5 42 (3.88%) Databricks
6 32 (2.96%) Citrix
6 32 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.77%) Workday
8 24 (2.22%) Google
9 20 (1.85%) Splunk
10 18 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.66%) VMware
11 17 (1.57%) Informatica
12 14 (1.29%) Talend
13 13 (1.20%) Hyperion
14 11 (1.02%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.92%) CyberArk
15 10 (0.92%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 9 (0.83%) Temenos