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 6 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
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 33 35
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 865 764 930
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.31% 5.71% 5.10%
As % of the Vendors category 11.95% 12.96% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 523 608
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £551 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -5.00% -2.11%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 9
10th Percentile - - -
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 - £59.90 £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 7,240 5,896 7,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.47% 44.10% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,768 3,751 4,955
10th Percentile £350 £322 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% -0.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.84% -4.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 80 145
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.48 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.09 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +37.00% -
75th Percentile £41.75 £59.25 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.49 £80.75 £69.80
England median hourly rate £24.55 £31.42 £25.25
% change year-on-year -21.87% +24.45% -27.86%

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 6 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 6 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 -7 109 £525 -4.55% 33
West London -13 15 £208 -61.03% 4
East London -2 7 £495 +10.61% 5
South London -24 6 £300 -54.72% 1
North London - 1 £500 - 3
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 29 (3.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 25 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.31%) Confluence
4 19 (2.20%) IIS
4 19 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
5 13 (1.50%) WebLogic
5 13 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 12 (1.39%) HCL Notes
7 10 (1.16%) Mendix
8 8 (0.92%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.81%) Apache
10 5 (0.58%) nginx
11 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.35%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.23%) JBoss
12 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 48 (5.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.81%) Oracle Smart View
6 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.82%) Oracle Payables
2 49 (5.66%) Oracle ERP
3 46 (5.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 39 (4.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 37 (4.28%) Oracle EBS
6 31 (3.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 27 (3.12%) Oracle Financials
8 22 (2.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 15 (1.73%) Oracle Assets
10 14 (1.62%) Oracle EBS R12
11 10 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
11 10 (1.16%) Oracle FAH
12 9 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.81%) BusinessWorks
13 7 (0.81%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.81%) SAP HR
14 6 (0.69%) Loan IQ
14 6 (0.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 6 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
14 6 (0.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (19.42%) OCI
2 138 (15.95%) Azure
3 91 (10.52%) AWS
4 56 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (5.90%) Power Platform
6 38 (4.39%) PaaS
7 30 (3.47%) GCP
8 29 (3.35%) SaaS
9 21 (2.43%) GitHub
10 19 (2.20%) IaaS
11 18 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (1.85%) Snowflake
13 15 (1.73%) Serverless
14 14 (1.62%) Power Automate
15 13 (1.50%) PowerApps
16 12 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (1.27%) Azure Functions
17 11 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (1.27%) Collibra
18 8 (0.92%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.39%) Internet
2 9 (1.04%) Firewall
2 9 (1.04%) HTTP
3 4 (0.46%) DNS
3 4 (0.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.23%) FTP
4 2 (0.23%) NAS
4 2 (0.23%) SAN
4 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.23%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) DHCP
5 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.12%) LAN
5 1 (0.12%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.12%) RFID
5 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.12%) SMTP
5 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.12%) VPN
5 1 (0.12%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 138 (15.95%) Oracle Database
3 70 (8.09%) Oracle Reports
4 52 (6.01%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
6 48 (5.55%) Power BI
7 38 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 24 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 23 (2.66%) MySQL
10 22 (2.54%) Metadata
11 19 (2.20%) Electronic Patient Records
11 19 (2.20%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.97%) DB2
13 12 (1.39%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.16%) Oracle ODI
14 10 (1.16%) Tableau
15 9 (1.04%) DataStage
16 8 (0.92%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 77 (8.90%) JIRA
2 37 (4.28%) Git
3 26 (3.01%) Postman
4 20 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.73%) JUnit
6 12 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (1.39%) SoapUI
7 11 (1.27%) GitLab
7 11 (1.27%) Visual Studio
8 10 (1.16%) Maven
9 8 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.92%) ERwin
10 7 (0.81%) Gradle
10 7 (0.81%) Mockito
11 6 (0.69%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.58%) Selenium
12 5 (0.58%) Toad
12 5 (0.58%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.46%) Ant
13 4 (0.46%) Oracle APEX
General
1 383 (44.28%) Finance
2 237 (27.40%) Social Skills
3 126 (14.57%) Banking
4 92 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (9.25%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.39%) Financial Institution
7 32 (3.70%) General Ledger
8 30 (3.47%) Investment Banking
9 28 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.01%) Retail
11 17 (1.97%) Front Office
12 15 (1.73%) Billing
13 14 (1.62%) Retail Banking
14 13 (1.50%) Local Government
15 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.27%) Legal
17 9 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
18 8 (0.92%) Military
18 8 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (21.16%) Developer
2 100 (11.56%) Consultant
3 94 (10.87%) Senior
4 92 (10.64%) Analyst
5 77 (8.90%) Oracle Consultant
6 74 (8.55%) Lead
7 70 (8.09%) Architect
8 53 (6.13%) C# Developer
9 45 (5.20%) Business Analyst
10 39 (4.51%) Oracle Specialist
11 35 (4.05%) Oracle Developer
12 31 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.35%) Cloud Specialist
13 29 (3.35%) Data Engineer
13 29 (3.35%) Integration Specialist
13 29 (3.35%) Oracle Architect
14 27 (3.12%) Cloud Consultant
15 25 (2.89%) Oracle Analyst
16 24 (2.77%) Integration Engineer
16 24 (2.77%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (22.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 99 (11.45%) .NET
3 75 (8.67%) REST
4 61 (7.05%) SOAP
5 57 (6.59%) XML
6 50 (5.78%) .NET Framework
7 47 (5.43%) Kafka
7 47 (5.43%) Web Services
8 42 (4.86%) Middleware
9 40 (4.62%) JSON
10 37 (4.28%) React
11 31 (3.58%) HTML
12 23 (2.66%) XSLT
13 22 (2.54%) Spring
14 18 (2.08%) CSS
14 18 (2.08%) Spring Boot
15 17 (1.97%) OAuth
16 16 (1.85%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.85%) RESTful
16 16 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (2.54%) Public Cloud
3 19 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 17 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.73%) Derivative
5 15 (1.73%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.27%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.16%) NHS
9 10 (1.16%) Reinsurance
9 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.04%) Product Ownership
11 8 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.81%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 94 (10.87%) Linux
2 79 (9.13%) Windows
3 64 (7.40%) Unix
4 26 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.58%) AIX
7 5 (0.58%) Solaris
8 4 (0.46%) CentOS
8 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (23.01%) ERP
2 194 (22.43%) Agile
3 159 (18.38%) Migration
4 133 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (12.60%) DevOps
6 108 (12.49%) Business Intelligence
7 102 (11.79%) Data Migration
8 85 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 79 (9.13%) ETL
10 77 (8.90%) CI/CD
11 76 (8.79%) User Acceptance Testing
12 68 (7.86%) Data Modelling
13 67 (7.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 65 (7.51%) Validation
15 64 (7.40%) Unit Testing
16 63 (7.28%) Data Analysis
17 60 (6.94%) Analytics
18 54 (6.24%) AI
19 53 (6.13%) Decision-Making
20 52 (6.01%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 315 (36.42%) SQL
2 124 (14.34%) PL/SQL
3 113 (13.06%) C#
4 100 (11.56%) Python
5 96 (11.10%) Java
6 46 (5.32%) T-SQL
7 42 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.12%) C++
9 23 (2.66%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.31%) Perl
11 18 (2.08%) Groovy
12 16 (1.85%) VBA
13 15 (1.73%) VB
14 11 (1.27%) Formula Language
14 11 (1.27%) LotusScript
14 11 (1.27%) TypeScript
15 9 (1.04%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.92%) Korn
16 8 (0.92%) XPath
17 7 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 173 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 141 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.79%) Degree
4 22 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.73%) PMP
7 13 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 10 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.81%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.46%) ISEB
12 4 (0.46%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) ACCA
13 3 (0.35%) CIMA
14 2 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.23%) RHCE
14 2 (0.23%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.98%) QA
2 44 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.20%) PMO
4 15 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.50%) SLA
6 12 (1.39%) IFRS
7 10 (1.16%) GAAP
8 9 (1.04%) NIST
9 8 (0.92%) GDPR
9 8 (0.92%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.81%) COBIT
10 7 (0.81%) HL7
10 7 (0.81%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.81%) ITGC
10 7 (0.81%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.58%) Basel III
11 5 (0.58%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (3.70%) Docker
2 11 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.69%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) GridGain
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.08%) Terraform
3 10 (1.16%) Ansible
4 7 (0.81%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.81%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.58%) Grafana
7 4 (0.46%) Control-M
7 4 (0.46%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.12%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.12%) Foglight
10 1 (0.12%) Kibana
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (9.02%) SAP
2 60 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.86%) Workday
4 33 (3.82%) Citrix
5 31 (3.58%) IBM
6 26 (3.01%) Informatica
7 25 (2.89%) Databricks
8 19 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.85%) Cerner
10 13 (1.50%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.39%) Lotus
12 11 (1.27%) Google
12 11 (1.27%) Murex
13 10 (1.16%) Kofax
13 10 (1.16%) VMware
14 9 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 8 (0.92%) Talend
15 8 (0.92%) TIBCO
16 7 (0.81%) BEA
16 7 (0.81%) Planview