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 18 August 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
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 33 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,064 805 881
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.30% 5.98% 5.45%
As % of the Vendors category 12.44% 12.97% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 533 570
10th Percentile £403 £385 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £520 £540
% change year-on-year +1.06% -3.80% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 2
10th Percentile £21.58 £22.29 £13.18
25th Percentile £25.06 £25.26 £16.09
Median hourly rate £31.00 £46.25 £21.55
Median % change year-on-year -32.97% +114.67% -64.09%
75th Percentile £39.88 £71.56 £26.38
90th Percentile £48.65 £99.50 £28.91
England median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year +5.33% +28.01% -48.90%

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 8,553 6,205 6,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 46.09% 43.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,569 4,030 4,732
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.72%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 127 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £58.31 £38.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +35.11% -14.41% -21.64%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -3 141 £600 +26.32% 42
West London +23 63 £550 +32.53% 15
South London +1 14 £575 +17.23% 6
East London -7 6 £450 +8.39% 4
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 33 (3.10%) SAS
2 30 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.26%) IIS
4 21 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 18 (1.69%) Confluence
6 16 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 15 (1.41%) nginx
8 11 (1.03%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.75%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.75%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.75%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.56%) Apache Solr
10 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.47%) Appian
11 5 (0.47%) Camunda
12 4 (0.38%) HCL Notes
13 3 (0.28%) Apache
13 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
13 3 (0.28%) JBoss
Applications
1 29 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.094%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 116 (10.90%) Oracle EBS
2 66 (6.20%) Oracle Payables
3 62 (5.83%) Oracle ERP
4 53 (4.98%) Oracle Receivables
5 35 (3.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 33 (3.10%) Oracle Financials
7 32 (3.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 31 (2.91%) Oracle EBS R12
9 24 (2.26%) NetSuite
10 21 (1.97%) Oracle Assets
11 12 (1.13%) Finacle
12 10 (0.94%) Oracle Payroll
13 9 (0.85%) Findur
13 9 (0.85%) HFM
13 9 (0.85%) Oracle Applications
13 9 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
13 9 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
14 8 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
14 8 (0.75%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 8 (0.75%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 147 (13.82%) OCI
2 136 (12.78%) Azure
3 123 (11.56%) AWS
4 55 (5.17%) SaaS
5 54 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 36 (3.38%) GCP
7 35 (3.29%) PaaS
8 34 (3.20%) GitHub
9 28 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.16%) Boomi
11 20 (1.88%) Amazon S3
11 20 (1.88%) OpenShift
12 19 (1.79%) AtomSphere
13 18 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (1.50%) Serverless
15 15 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (1.41%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.32%) Power Automate
16 14 (1.32%) PowerApps
17 13 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.13%) Internet
2 9 (0.85%) DNS
2 9 (0.85%) HTTP
3 6 (0.56%) SSH
4 5 (0.47%) Firewall
4 5 (0.47%) HTTPS
4 5 (0.47%) SSL
4 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.38%) FTP
6 3 (0.28%) Intranet
6 3 (0.28%) NAS
6 3 (0.28%) SAN
6 3 (0.28%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.28%) VPN
6 3 (0.28%) WAN
7 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.19%) Network Security
7 2 (0.19%) RFID
7 2 (0.19%) VLAN
8 1 (0.094%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (12.97%) Oracle Database
2 137 (12.88%) SQL Server
3 73 (6.86%) Relational Database
4 65 (6.11%) Oracle Reports
5 52 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (3.48%) Power BI
8 33 (3.10%) Metadata
9 28 (2.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 24 (2.26%) RDBMS
11 22 (2.07%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.79%) MySQL
13 15 (1.41%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.13%) Data Lake
14 12 (1.13%) Oracle ODI
14 12 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (0.85%) Data Mart
16 9 (0.85%) Oracle Exadata
17 8 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 68 (6.39%) Git
2 42 (3.95%) JIRA
3 41 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
5 16 (1.50%) Gradle
6 12 (1.13%) Selenium
7 11 (1.03%) GitLab
7 11 (1.03%) Maven
8 9 (0.85%) JMeter
8 9 (0.85%) Postman
9 8 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.75%) eggPlant
10 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.56%) JUnit
11 6 (0.56%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.56%) SoapUI
11 6 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.47%) JDeveloper
12 5 (0.47%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.38%) ERwin
General
1 406 (38.16%) Finance
2 243 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 167 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (15.51%) Banking
5 115 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 37 (3.48%) Retail
7 31 (2.91%) General Ledger
8 29 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.73%) Investment Banking
8 29 (2.73%) Legal
9 28 (2.63%) Front Office
10 25 (2.35%) Back Office
11 20 (1.88%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.60%) Local Government
13 14 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.22%) Billing
15 12 (1.13%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.94%) Marketing
17 9 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 194 (18.23%) Developer
2 160 (15.04%) Architect
3 150 (14.10%) Consultant
4 129 (12.12%) Lead
5 125 (11.75%) Oracle Consultant
6 100 (9.40%) Senior
7 78 (7.33%) Analyst
8 53 (4.98%) Functional Consultant
9 52 (4.89%) Oracle Architect
10 51 (4.79%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 50 (4.70%) Java Developer
12 43 (4.04%) C# Developer
12 43 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (3.76%) Oracle Developer
14 37 (3.48%) Business Analyst
14 37 (3.48%) Data Engineer
15 35 (3.29%) Project Manager
16 34 (3.20%) Senior Developer
17 29 (2.73%) Applications Support
18 24 (2.26%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (18.89%) Oracle Fusion
2 115 (10.81%) REST
3 96 (9.02%) .NET
4 66 (6.20%) XML
5 61 (5.73%) SOAP
6 57 (5.36%) JSON
7 56 (5.26%) Spring
8 46 (4.32%) Middleware
9 44 (4.14%) Kafka
9 44 (4.14%) Spring Boot
10 39 (3.67%) .NET Framework
11 34 (3.20%) Web Services
12 32 (3.01%) React
13 30 (2.82%) OAuth
14 29 (2.73%) HTML
15 26 (2.44%) CSS
16 23 (2.16%) RESTful
17 18 (1.69%) OAuth2
18 16 (1.50%) WinForms
19 15 (1.41%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.39%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 37 (3.48%) Data Structures
4 31 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 26 (2.44%) Onboarding
7 24 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 16 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
12 14 (1.32%) Low-Code
13 12 (1.13%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.94%) Replication
15 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.85%) Fixed Income
17 8 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.74%) Linux
2 91 (8.55%) Windows
3 56 (5.26%) Unix
4 37 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 22 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.03%) Solaris
7 10 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.47%) VMS
8 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.28%) AIX
10 3 (0.28%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.19%) SUSE
11 2 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.094%) CentOS
12 1 (0.094%) HPUX
12 1 (0.094%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (21.62%) Migration
2 220 (20.68%) ERP
3 177 (16.64%) Agile
4 173 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 163 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (13.63%) User Acceptance Testing
7 133 (12.50%) DevOps
8 132 (12.41%) CI/CD
9 130 (12.22%) Data Migration
10 118 (11.09%) Data Modelling
10 118 (11.09%) ETL
11 101 (9.49%) Analytics
11 101 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (9.02%) Validation
13 87 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
14 83 (7.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 80 (7.52%) Change Management
16 78 (7.33%) Data Integration
17 76 (7.14%) AI
18 75 (7.05%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 323 (30.36%) SQL
2 155 (14.57%) PL/SQL
3 137 (12.88%) Java
4 124 (11.65%) Python
5 89 (8.36%) C#
6 77 (7.24%) JavaScript
7 54 (5.08%) T-SQL
8 35 (3.29%) PowerShell
9 31 (2.91%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.07%) Bash
11 21 (1.97%) Groovy
12 17 (1.60%) C++
13 14 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.22%) Ruby
15 11 (1.03%) VBA
16 10 (0.94%) Bicep
16 10 (0.94%) VB
17 6 (0.56%) Korn
17 6 (0.56%) VB.NET
18 5 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 234 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 198 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.52%) Degree
4 21 (1.97%) ACCA
5 19 (1.79%) CIMA
6 18 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 13 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (0.85%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.75%) PMP
12 6 (0.56%) CISSP
13 5 (0.47%) CISM
13 5 (0.47%) ISEB
13 5 (0.47%) MBA
14 4 (0.38%) CTC Cleared
14 4 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.86%) QA
2 66 (6.20%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.10%) GRC
4 21 (1.97%) GDPR
5 19 (1.79%) PMO
6 17 (1.60%) IFRS
7 12 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.94%) GAAP
8 10 (0.94%) ISO 20022
8 10 (0.94%) SLA
9 6 (0.56%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.56%) ISO 15022
10 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.38%) GxP
11 4 (0.38%) HL7
11 4 (0.38%) NCSC
12 3 (0.28%) DICOM
12 3 (0.28%) GMP
12 3 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 43 (4.04%) Docker
2 17 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
5 7 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.28%) GridGain
8 1 (0.094%) Firmware
8 1 (0.094%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.094%) NFS
8 1 (0.094%) RACF
8 1 (0.094%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.094%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (5.17%) Terraform
2 41 (3.85%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.35%) Ansible
4 21 (1.97%) Grafana
5 14 (1.32%) Control-M
6 13 (1.22%) Oracle RMAN
7 12 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.03%) Argo
9 8 (0.75%) Data Guard
9 8 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.66%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.47%) Kibana
12 4 (0.38%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.28%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
13 3 (0.28%) Istio
14 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
14 2 (0.19%) Puppet
14 2 (0.19%) WSUS
15 1 (0.094%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 103 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 96 (9.02%) SAP
3 48 (4.51%) IBM
4 42 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 41 (3.85%) Databricks
6 34 (3.20%) Citrix
7 32 (3.01%) ServiceNow
8 27 (2.54%) Workday
9 24 (2.26%) Google
10 19 (1.79%) Informatica
10 19 (1.79%) VMware
11 18 (1.69%) Red Hat
11 18 (1.69%) Splunk
12 14 (1.32%) Talend
13 13 (1.22%) MuleSoft
14 12 (1.13%) Hyperion
15 11 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 9 (0.85%) Dynatrace
17 8 (0.75%) Anaplan
17 8 (0.75%) OutSystems