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 21 January 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 844 745 936
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.79% 5.37% 5.14%
As % of the Vendors category 12.53% 12.29% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 492 631
10th Percentile £363 £376 £385
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £88.00 £18.96 £18.25
25th Percentile £92.50 - £20.06
Median hourly rate £105.00 £22.27 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.49% -14.35% -58.40%
75th Percentile £110.00 £46.38 £76.94
90th Percentile - £93.75 £93.75
England median hourly rate £41.86 £30.40 £48.43
% change year-on-year +37.68% -37.23% -22.51%

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 6,737 6,062 7,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.21% 43.67% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,432 3,755 5,007
10th Percentile £343 £313 £295
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £764
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 67 136
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.40 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.50 £31.38
Median % change year-on-year -18.19% +0.40% +25.50%
75th Percentile £42.55 £59.75 £48.83
90th Percentile £67.81 £80.75 £80.38
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -15.49% +9.23%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -3 115 £518 -5.91% 32
West London -18 13 £208 -58.50% 4
East London -5 7 £495 +23.75% 1
South London -14 6 £300 -55.56% 5
North London - 1 £500 -
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 27 (3.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 25 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.49%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (1.90%) IIS
5 15 (1.78%) Confluence
6 14 (1.66%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.30%) HCL Notes
7 11 (1.30%) WebLogic
8 9 (1.07%) Apache
8 9 (1.07%) Mendix
9 8 (0.95%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.36%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) WildFly
13 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 56 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.95%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (7.23%) Oracle Payables
2 51 (6.04%) Oracle EBS
3 47 (5.57%) Oracle ERP
4 45 (5.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 44 (5.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 37 (4.38%) Oracle Financials
7 29 (3.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 28 (3.32%) Oracle EBS R12
9 26 (3.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 25 (2.96%) Oracle Assets
11 19 (2.25%) Oracle Cash Management
12 12 (1.42%) Oracle FAH
13 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
14 9 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
15 8 (0.95%) Oracle E-Business Tax
16 7 (0.83%) BusinessWorks
16 7 (0.83%) NetSuite
16 7 (0.83%) SAP HR
17 6 (0.71%) Workday HCM
18 5 (0.59%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 154 (18.25%) OCI
2 131 (15.52%) Azure
3 87 (10.31%) AWS
4 53 (6.28%) Power Platform
5 44 (5.21%) PaaS
6 42 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (4.74%) SaaS
8 37 (4.38%) GCP
9 21 (2.49%) GitHub
10 17 (2.01%) IaaS
10 17 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.78%) Serverless
12 13 (1.54%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.54%) Snowflake
13 12 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.42%) PowerApps
14 10 (1.18%) Azure Functions
14 10 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (1.07%) Amazon S3
16 7 (0.83%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.42%) Firewall
2 11 (1.30%) Internet
3 7 (0.83%) HTTP
4 4 (0.47%) SSL
5 3 (0.36%) DNS
5 3 (0.36%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.24%) FTP
6 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.12%) DHCP
7 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) VSAN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (16.82%) Oracle Database
1 142 (16.82%) SQL Server
2 73 (8.65%) Oracle Reports
3 51 (6.04%) Power BI
4 49 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (5.81%) Relational Database
5 38 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 28 (3.32%) MySQL
8 23 (2.73%) MongoDB
9 18 (2.13%) Metadata
9 18 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 16 (1.90%) DB2
10 16 (1.90%) Electronic Patient Records
11 14 (1.66%) Oracle ODI
11 14 (1.66%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.54%) Tableau
13 9 (1.07%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.95%) DataStage
14 8 (0.95%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 65 (7.70%) JIRA
2 33 (3.91%) Git
3 26 (3.08%) Postman
4 21 (2.49%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.01%) Oracle Forms
6 16 (1.90%) JUnit
7 15 (1.78%) GitLab
8 12 (1.42%) Maven
8 12 (1.42%) SoapUI
9 10 (1.18%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.95%) Oracle APEX
11 7 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.83%) ERwin
11 7 (0.83%) Gradle
11 7 (0.83%) Mockito
12 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.59%) Selenium
13 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.59%) Toad
13 5 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 385 (45.62%) Finance
2 262 (31.04%) Social Skills
3 112 (13.27%) Banking
4 86 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (9.48%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 35 (4.15%) General Ledger
8 22 (2.61%) Retail
9 21 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.01%) Front Office
11 16 (1.90%) Billing
12 12 (1.42%) Legal
12 12 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.30%) Local Government
13 11 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (0.95%) Marketing
16 8 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 176 (20.85%) Developer
2 116 (13.74%) Consultant
3 92 (10.90%) Senior
4 91 (10.78%) Oracle Consultant
5 87 (10.31%) Analyst
6 72 (8.53%) Lead
7 60 (7.11%) Architect
8 43 (5.09%) C# Developer
9 42 (4.98%) Oracle Developer
10 38 (4.50%) Business Analyst
11 37 (4.38%) Oracle Specialist
12 28 (3.32%) Cloud Consultant
12 28 (3.32%) Data Engineer
13 27 (3.20%) Cloud Specialist
14 26 (3.08%) Integration Specialist
14 26 (3.08%) Oracle Architect
15 23 (2.73%) Java Developer
16 22 (2.61%) Functional Consultant
16 22 (2.61%) Oracle Analyst
16 22 (2.61%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (21.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 76 (9.00%) .NET
3 71 (8.41%) REST
4 62 (7.35%) SOAP
5 55 (6.52%) XML
6 53 (6.28%) Kafka
7 46 (5.45%) Web Services
8 41 (4.86%) Middleware
9 40 (4.74%) .NET Framework
10 38 (4.50%) JSON
11 34 (4.03%) HTML
12 32 (3.79%) React
13 23 (2.73%) CSS
14 22 (2.61%) Spring
14 22 (2.61%) XSLT
15 20 (2.37%) WPF
16 18 (2.13%) Spring Boot
17 17 (2.01%) AngularJS
17 17 (2.01%) OAuth
18 16 (1.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (2.37%) Public Cloud
3 17 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (2.01%) Onboarding
4 16 (1.90%) Data Structures
4 16 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 14 (1.66%) Derivative
7 13 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.18%) Hedge funds
9 10 (1.18%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.18%) Reinsurance
10 8 (0.95%) Cloud Native
10 8 (0.95%) NHS
11 7 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.71%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.71%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.71%) Replication
12 6 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.37%) Linux
2 78 (9.24%) Windows
3 76 (9.00%) Unix
4 19 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.59%) AIX
6 5 (0.59%) CentOS
6 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) Solaris
8 2 (0.24%) Android
8 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (23.58%) Agile
2 194 (22.99%) ERP
3 143 (16.94%) Migration
4 127 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (12.91%) Business Intelligence
6 101 (11.97%) DevOps
7 88 (10.43%) Data Migration
8 82 (9.72%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (8.65%) CI/CD
10 71 (8.41%) ETL
11 66 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 65 (7.70%) User Acceptance Testing
13 61 (7.23%) Data Modelling
14 55 (6.52%) Data Analysis
15 54 (6.40%) Validation
16 53 (6.28%) SDLC
17 52 (6.16%) Analytics
17 52 (6.16%) Unit Testing
18 51 (6.04%) Scrum
19 50 (5.92%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 317 (37.56%) SQL
2 131 (15.52%) PL/SQL
3 99 (11.73%) Java
3 99 (11.73%) Python
4 98 (11.61%) C#
5 52 (6.16%) JavaScript
6 37 (4.38%) T-SQL
7 33 (3.91%) C++
8 30 (3.55%) Shell Script
9 24 (2.84%) Perl
10 23 (2.73%) VBA
11 21 (2.49%) VB
12 17 (2.01%) Groovy
13 10 (1.18%) Bash
13 10 (1.18%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.18%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.07%) Korn
15 8 (0.95%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.95%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 170 (20.14%) Security Cleared
2 141 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.60%) Degree
4 25 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.78%) PMP
7 12 (1.42%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.42%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
7 12 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 7 (0.83%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.71%) ACCA
10 5 (0.59%) CIMA
11 4 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.47%) ISEB
11 4 (0.47%) OCP
12 3 (0.36%) APMG
13 2 (0.24%) GPEN
13 2 (0.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (6.99%) QA
2 42 (4.98%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.49%) PMO
4 15 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (1.78%) SLA
5 14 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.54%) GAAP
6 13 (1.54%) IFRS
7 9 (1.07%) GDPR
7 9 (1.07%) NIST
8 7 (0.83%) COBIT
8 7 (0.83%) ITGC
8 7 (0.83%) SOX 404
9 6 (0.71%) IFRS 17
9 6 (0.71%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.59%) Basel III
11 4 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 4 (0.47%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (3.91%) Docker
2 11 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) GridGain
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.54%) Terraform
3 12 (1.42%) Ansible
4 7 (0.83%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.71%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.59%) Grafana
7 4 (0.47%) Control-M
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.24%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) Nagios
9 2 (0.24%) SCOM
10 1 (0.12%) Ambari
10 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 85 (10.07%) SAP
2 65 (7.70%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.98%) Workday
4 29 (3.44%) Citrix
5 24 (2.84%) IBM
6 23 (2.73%) Informatica
7 22 (2.61%) Databricks
8 16 (1.90%) Cerner
9 15 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.54%) Google
11 12 (1.42%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.30%) Lotus
13 10 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.18%) TIBCO
13 10 (1.18%) VMware
14 9 (1.07%) Kofax
14 9 (1.07%) Murex
14 9 (1.07%) Planview
14 9 (1.07%) Splunk
15 8 (0.95%) Red Hat