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 4 April 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
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 34 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 914 736 925
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.34% 5.80% 5.12%
As % of the Vendors category 12.13% 12.87% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 502 605
10th Percentile £369 £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 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 7
10th Percentile - £21.99 -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £22.27 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% +14.21% -68.80%
75th Percentile - £26.04 £26.50
90th Percentile - £93.75 -
England median hourly rate £37.63 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -9.75% +60.38% -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 7,537 5,720 7,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.07% 45.10% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,972 3,752 4,973
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £768 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 88 142
10th Percentile £17.99 £16.48 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.91 £23.57 £16.90
Median hourly rate £28.88 £29.07 £24.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% +17.80% -4.27%
75th Percentile £42.35 £54.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.33 £67.88 £69.95
England median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -11.14% +23.40% -37.33%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -9 114 £525 -4.55% 52
West London -16 15 £341 -39.60% 9
East London -3 7 £463 +15.63% 4
South London -19 6 £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 29 (3.17%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 19 (2.08%) IIS
4 17 (1.86%) Confluence
5 15 (1.64%) Oracle Workflow
6 13 (1.42%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.31%) HCL Notes
7 12 (1.31%) WebLogic
8 10 (1.09%) Mendix
9 9 (0.98%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.77%) nginx
11 4 (0.44%) Apache
12 3 (0.33%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
13 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.22%) JBoss
13 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 2 (0.22%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 45 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.42%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 57 (6.24%) Oracle Payables
2 48 (5.25%) Oracle EBS
3 47 (5.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 46 (5.03%) Oracle ERP
5 44 (4.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 25 (2.74%) Oracle Financials
6 25 (2.74%) Oracle General Ledger
7 19 (2.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 18 (1.97%) Oracle EBS R12
9 11 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
9 11 (1.20%) Oracle Assets
10 9 (0.98%) Oracle Cash Management
11 7 (0.77%) BusinessWorks
11 7 (0.77%) Findur
11 7 (0.77%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
11 7 (0.77%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.66%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.55%) Loan IQ
13 5 (0.55%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 173 (18.93%) OCI
2 134 (14.66%) Azure
3 93 (10.18%) AWS
4 61 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 44 (4.81%) PaaS
7 28 (3.06%) GCP
7 28 (3.06%) GitHub
8 27 (2.95%) SaaS
9 23 (2.52%) IaaS
9 23 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (2.30%) Serverless
11 19 (2.08%) Power Automate
12 18 (1.97%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.53%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.42%) Azure Service Bus
14 13 (1.42%) Snowflake
15 12 (1.31%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.31%) Collibra
15 12 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.31%) Internet
2 9 (0.98%) HTTP
3 6 (0.66%) Firewall
4 4 (0.44%) FTP
4 4 (0.44%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.44%) WAN
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) NAS
5 2 (0.22%) RFID
5 2 (0.22%) 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%) 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
1 158 (17.29%) SQL Server
2 128 (14.00%) Oracle Database
3 71 (7.77%) Oracle Reports
4 59 (6.46%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (4.49%) Power BI
7 33 (3.61%) Metadata
8 24 (2.63%) MySQL
8 24 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 17 (1.86%) Electronic Patient Records
10 17 (1.86%) MongoDB
11 16 (1.75%) DB2
12 14 (1.53%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.20%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.09%) Oracle ODI
14 10 (1.09%) Tableau
15 8 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (0.88%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 72 (7.88%) JIRA
2 39 (4.27%) Git
3 25 (2.74%) Postman
4 21 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (1.42%) JUnit
7 12 (1.31%) SoapUI
8 11 (1.20%) GitLab
8 11 (1.20%) Visual Studio
9 9 (0.98%) ERwin
9 9 (0.98%) Maven
10 7 (0.77%) Zephyr
11 6 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.66%) Mockito
11 6 (0.66%) Selenium
12 5 (0.55%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.55%) Gradle
12 5 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.55%) Toad
General
1 385 (42.12%) Finance
2 232 (25.38%) Social Skills
3 137 (14.99%) Banking
4 103 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 34 (3.72%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 30 (3.28%) General Ledger
8 26 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.84%) Retail
9 21 (2.30%) Front Office
10 18 (1.97%) Legal
11 15 (1.64%) Local Government
11 15 (1.64%) Retail Banking
12 14 (1.53%) Billing
12 14 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.09%) Military
15 9 (0.98%) Marketing
15 9 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 181 (19.80%) Developer
2 100 (10.94%) Lead
3 99 (10.83%) Consultant
4 94 (10.28%) Senior
5 87 (9.52%) Architect
6 83 (9.08%) Analyst
7 76 (8.32%) Oracle Consultant
8 52 (5.69%) C# Developer
9 44 (4.81%) Business Analyst
10 40 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.83%) Oracle Architect
11 35 (3.83%) Oracle Specialist
12 31 (3.39%) Oracle Developer
13 30 (3.28%) Integration Specialist
14 29 (3.17%) Project Manager
15 28 (3.06%) Cloud Specialist
15 28 (3.06%) Data Engineer
16 25 (2.74%) Cloud Consultant
16 25 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
17 24 (2.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (20.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 105 (11.49%) .NET
3 70 (7.66%) REST
4 60 (6.56%) XML
5 58 (6.35%) SOAP
6 53 (5.80%) .NET Framework
7 45 (4.92%) Web Services
8 39 (4.27%) Kafka
8 39 (4.27%) Middleware
8 39 (4.27%) React
9 38 (4.16%) JSON
10 29 (3.17%) HTML
11 24 (2.63%) Spring
12 23 (2.52%) XSLT
13 21 (2.30%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.97%) CSS
14 18 (1.97%) OAuth
14 18 (1.97%) RESTful
15 16 (1.75%) WinForms
16 14 (1.53%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (5.58%) Legacy Systems
2 26 (2.84%) Data Structures
3 24 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 21 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 18 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 16 (1.75%) Cloud Native
7 15 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.64%) Derivative
8 12 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 11 (1.20%) Low-Code
9 11 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
10 10 (1.09%) Market Risk
10 10 (1.09%) NHS
10 10 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 90 (9.85%) Linux
2 73 (7.99%) Windows
3 55 (6.02%) Unix
4 28 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.88%) Solaris
7 6 (0.66%) AIX
7 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.33%) 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
1 212 (23.19%) ERP
2 199 (21.77%) Agile
3 154 (16.85%) Migration
4 134 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
5 133 (14.55%) DevOps
6 104 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 102 (11.16%) Data Migration
8 93 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (10.07%) Data Modelling
10 90 (9.85%) CI/CD
11 86 (9.41%) User Acceptance Testing
12 84 (9.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 80 (8.75%) ETL
14 74 (8.10%) Validation
15 69 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 68 (7.44%) Analytics
17 66 (7.22%) Data Analysis
18 65 (7.11%) Change Management
19 62 (6.78%) Unit Testing
20 59 (6.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 314 (34.35%) SQL
2 131 (14.33%) PL/SQL
3 112 (12.25%) C#
4 103 (11.27%) Python
5 97 (10.61%) Java
6 48 (5.25%) T-SQL
7 41 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 28 (3.06%) Shell Script
9 24 (2.63%) C++
10 17 (1.86%) Perl
11 13 (1.42%) VB
11 13 (1.42%) VBA
12 12 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.20%) Formula Language
13 11 (1.20%) Groovy
13 11 (1.20%) LotusScript
14 10 (1.09%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.98%) Korn
16 8 (0.88%) Ruby
16 8 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 178 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 143 (15.65%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.32%) Degree
4 21 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.53%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.53%) PMP
8 11 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.88%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.33%) ACCA
11 3 (0.33%) CIMA
11 3 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.33%) MBA
11 3 (0.33%) OCP
12 2 (0.22%) ISEB
12 2 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.64%) QA
2 50 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.08%) PMO
4 16 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.31%) IFRS
6 12 (1.31%) SLA
7 10 (1.09%) GAAP
7 10 (1.09%) GDPR
8 9 (0.98%) NIST
9 8 (0.88%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.77%) COBIT
10 7 (0.77%) HL7
10 7 (0.77%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.77%) ITGC
10 7 (0.77%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.55%) Basel III
11 5 (0.55%) GxP
11 5 (0.55%) NCSC
11 5 (0.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (3.28%) Docker
2 11 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.88%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.66%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.33%) GridGain
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) NFS
8 1 (0.11%) RACF
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.27%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.41%) Terraform
3 9 (0.98%) Ansible
4 7 (0.77%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.77%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.66%) Grafana
6 5 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.44%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.33%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.22%) Argo
9 2 (0.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (0.22%) Istio
10 1 (0.11%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.11%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.11%) Kibana
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 80 (8.75%) SAP
2 71 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.60%) Workday
4 34 (3.72%) Citrix
4 34 (3.72%) IBM
5 26 (2.84%) Informatica
6 24 (2.63%) Databricks
7 22 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.53%) Cerner
8 14 (1.53%) Google
9 12 (1.31%) Lotus
9 12 (1.31%) Murex
9 12 (1.31%) VMware
10 11 (1.20%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.09%) Kofax
11 10 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.88%) Talend
13 8 (0.88%) TIBCO
14 7 (0.77%) CyberArk