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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 34 33
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 887 732 924
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.26% 5.80% 5.12%
As % of the Vendors category 11.94% 12.79% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 507 606
10th Percentile £368 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £713 £699
90th Percentile £760 £818 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £21.85 -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £22.27 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% -14.35% -58.40%
75th Percentile - £42.97 £26.50
90th Percentile - £93.75 £93.75
England median hourly rate £38.56 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -27.25% +103.85% -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 7,431 5,721 7,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 45.29% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,896 3,746 4,963
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 87 143
10th Percentile £18.04 £19.25 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £16.93
Median hourly rate £27.71 £30.00 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +20.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.12 £70.75 £71.00
England median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%

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 28 March 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
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 28 March 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 -12 110 £538 -2.27% 52
West London -10 15 £341 -39.60% 9
East London -6 6 £439 -1.84% 4
South London -19 5 £300 -56.36% 5
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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 18 (2.03%) IIS
4 17 (1.92%) Confluence
5 15 (1.69%) Oracle Workflow
6 14 (1.58%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.35%) HCL Notes
7 12 (1.35%) WebLogic
8 10 (1.13%) Mendix
9 8 (0.90%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.68%) nginx
11 4 (0.45%) Apache
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.23%) JBoss
13 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 2 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 43 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (6.31%) Oracle Payables
2 47 (5.30%) Oracle Receivables
3 44 (4.96%) Oracle EBS
4 43 (4.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 42 (4.74%) Oracle ERP
6 26 (2.93%) Oracle General Ledger
7 24 (2.71%) Oracle Financials
8 19 (2.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 15 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
10 12 (1.35%) Oracle Assets
11 11 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
12 9 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.79%) BusinessWorks
13 7 (0.79%) Findur
13 7 (0.79%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
13 7 (0.79%) SAP HR
14 6 (0.68%) Workday HCM
15 5 (0.56%) Loan IQ
15 5 (0.56%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 172 (19.39%) OCI
2 135 (15.22%) Azure
3 96 (10.82%) AWS
4 60 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.62%) PaaS
7 28 (3.16%) GCP
7 28 (3.16%) GitHub
8 27 (3.04%) SaaS
9 23 (2.59%) IaaS
9 23 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
10 19 (2.14%) Serverless
11 18 (2.03%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.92%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.58%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.35%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.35%) Collibra
16 9 (1.01%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.24%) Internet
2 8 (0.90%) HTTP
3 7 (0.79%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.45%) WAN
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) FTP
5 2 (0.23%) NAS
5 2 (0.23%) SAN
6 1 (0.11%) Intranet
6 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.11%) RFID
6 1 (0.11%) SMTP
6 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
6 1 (0.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (17.59%) SQL Server
2 127 (14.32%) Oracle Database
3 68 (7.67%) Oracle Reports
4 59 (6.65%) Relational Database
5 47 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
6 40 (4.51%) Power BI
7 39 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (3.49%) Metadata
9 25 (2.82%) MySQL
9 25 (2.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 18 (2.03%) MongoDB
10 18 (2.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 17 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
12 16 (1.80%) DB2
13 14 (1.58%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.24%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.13%) Oracle ODI
15 10 (1.13%) Tableau
16 8 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (0.90%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 72 (8.12%) JIRA
2 39 (4.40%) Git
3 25 (2.82%) Postman
4 22 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (1.47%) JUnit
7 12 (1.35%) SoapUI
8 11 (1.24%) GitLab
8 11 (1.24%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.13%) Maven
10 8 (0.90%) ERwin
11 6 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.68%) Mockito
11 6 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (0.68%) Zephyr
12 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.56%) Gradle
12 5 (0.56%) Selenium
12 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 372 (41.94%) Finance
2 235 (26.49%) Social Skills
3 134 (15.11%) Banking
4 100 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (10.03%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.72%) Investment Banking
7 32 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 31 (3.49%) General Ledger
9 27 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (2.93%) Retail
11 20 (2.25%) Front Office
12 15 (1.69%) Legal
12 15 (1.69%) Local Government
12 15 (1.69%) Retail Banking
13 13 (1.47%) Billing
13 13 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.13%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.13%) Military
15 9 (1.01%) Marketing
15 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 177 (19.95%) Developer
2 96 (10.82%) Consultant
3 94 (10.60%) Lead
3 94 (10.60%) Senior
4 85 (9.58%) Architect
5 83 (9.36%) Analyst
6 74 (8.34%) Oracle Consultant
7 51 (5.75%) C# Developer
8 45 (5.07%) Business Analyst
9 36 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.83%) Oracle Architect
10 34 (3.83%) Oracle Specialist
11 30 (3.38%) Oracle Developer
12 28 (3.16%) Cloud Specialist
12 28 (3.16%) Integration Specialist
13 27 (3.04%) Data Engineer
14 26 (2.93%) Cloud Consultant
15 25 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
15 25 (2.82%) Project Manager
16 24 (2.71%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (21.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 102 (11.50%) .NET
3 69 (7.78%) REST
4 60 (6.76%) XML
5 57 (6.43%) SOAP
6 51 (5.75%) .NET Framework
7 46 (5.19%) Web Services
8 40 (4.51%) Kafka
9 38 (4.28%) JSON
9 38 (4.28%) Middleware
9 38 (4.28%) React
10 28 (3.16%) HTML
11 24 (2.71%) Spring
12 23 (2.59%) XSLT
13 21 (2.37%) Spring Boot
14 18 (2.03%) OAuth
15 17 (1.92%) CSS
15 17 (1.92%) RESTful
16 15 (1.69%) WinForms
17 13 (1.47%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (2.71%) Public Cloud
3 23 (2.59%) Data Structures
4 21 (2.37%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.80%) Cloud Native
6 16 (1.80%) Derivative
7 15 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.24%) Fixed Income
9 11 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.13%) Market Risk
10 10 (1.13%) NHS
10 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (1.01%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 92 (10.37%) Linux
2 72 (8.12%) Windows
3 58 (6.54%) Unix
4 28 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.79%) Solaris
7 6 (0.68%) AIX
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Rocky
10 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (22.44%) ERP
2 198 (22.32%) Agile
3 152 (17.14%) Migration
4 133 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (14.32%) DevOps
6 101 (11.39%) Data Migration
7 98 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 92 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
9 87 (9.81%) CI/CD
9 87 (9.81%) Data Modelling
10 83 (9.36%) User Acceptance Testing
11 80 (9.02%) ETL
12 79 (8.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 73 (8.23%) Validation
14 67 (7.55%) Analytics
15 65 (7.33%) Data Analysis
16 64 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (6.88%) Unit Testing
18 60 (6.76%) AI
19 58 (6.54%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 308 (34.72%) SQL
2 123 (13.87%) PL/SQL
3 110 (12.40%) C#
4 103 (11.61%) Python
5 97 (10.94%) Java
6 45 (5.07%) T-SQL
7 39 (4.40%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.04%) Shell Script
9 23 (2.59%) C++
10 17 (1.92%) Perl
11 12 (1.35%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.35%) VB
11 12 (1.35%) VBA
12 11 (1.24%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.24%) Groovy
12 11 (1.24%) LotusScript
13 9 (1.01%) Korn
13 9 (1.01%) PowerShell
14 8 (0.90%) Ruby
14 8 (0.90%) XPath
Qualifications
1 178 (20.07%) Security Cleared
2 141 (15.90%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.57%) Degree
4 21 (2.37%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.58%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.58%) PMP
8 12 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 11 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.01%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.79%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.34%) ACCA
12 3 (0.34%) CIMA
12 3 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.34%) MBA
12 3 (0.34%) OCP
13 2 (0.23%) GPEN
13 2 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (8.34%) QA
2 49 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 18 (2.03%) PMO
4 15 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.35%) IFRS
6 12 (1.35%) SLA
7 10 (1.13%) GAAP
8 9 (1.01%) NIST
9 8 (0.90%) GDPR
9 8 (0.90%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.79%) COBIT
10 7 (0.79%) HL7
10 7 (0.79%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.79%) ITGC
10 7 (0.79%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.56%) Basel III
11 5 (0.56%) GxP
11 5 (0.56%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (3.27%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.90%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.68%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.34%) GridGain
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.48%) Terraform
3 8 (0.90%) Ansible
4 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.79%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.68%) Grafana
5 6 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.23%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.23%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.11%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (8.57%) SAP
2 68 (7.67%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.62%) Workday
4 33 (3.72%) IBM
5 32 (3.61%) Citrix
6 27 (3.04%) Informatica
7 24 (2.71%) Databricks
8 22 (2.48%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.58%) Cerner
10 13 (1.47%) Google
11 12 (1.35%) Lotus
11 12 (1.35%) Murex
12 11 (1.24%) ServiceNow
12 11 (1.24%) VMware
13 10 (1.13%) Kofax
13 10 (1.13%) MuleSoft
14 9 (1.01%) Talend
14 9 (1.01%) TIBCO
15 8 (0.90%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.90%) Sybase