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 22 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 847 750 932
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.80% 5.37% 5.15%
As % of the Vendors category 12.55% 12.28% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 497 627
10th Percentile £363 £378 £385
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £684
90th Percentile £738 £780 £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 6,747 6,106 7,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.19% 43.68% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,429 3,784 4,971
10th Percentile £340 £313 £290
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 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 71 135
10th Percentile £17.50 £21.50 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% +0.81% +23.00%
75th Percentile £42.55 £57.25 £48.92
90th Percentile £67.81 £80.75 £80.95
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% -14.29% +7.69%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +1 114 £518 -5.91% 29
West London -18 13 £208 -58.50% 5
East London -6 7 £495 +23.75% 1
South London -14 6 £300 -55.56% 6
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 (3.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 25 (2.95%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.48%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (1.89%) IIS
5 15 (1.77%) Confluence
6 14 (1.65%) WebSphere
7 11 (1.30%) HCL Notes
7 11 (1.30%) WebLogic
8 9 (1.06%) Apache
8 9 (1.06%) Mendix
9 8 (0.94%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.35%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.35%) 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 (6.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.94%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.94%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 61 (7.20%) Oracle Payables
2 48 (5.67%) Oracle EBS
2 48 (5.67%) Oracle ERP
3 45 (5.31%) Oracle Receivables
4 44 (5.19%) Oracle General Ledger
5 35 (4.13%) Oracle Financials
6 29 (3.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 26 (3.07%) Oracle EBS R12
7 26 (3.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 22 (2.60%) Oracle Assets
9 18 (2.13%) Oracle Cash Management
10 12 (1.42%) Oracle FAH
11 10 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
11 10 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
12 8 (0.94%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 7 (0.83%) BusinessWorks
13 7 (0.83%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.83%) SAP HR
14 6 (0.71%) Workday HCM
15 4 (0.47%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 154 (18.18%) OCI
2 132 (15.58%) Azure
3 87 (10.27%) AWS
4 52 (6.14%) Power Platform
5 44 (5.19%) PaaS
6 42 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
7 40 (4.72%) SaaS
8 37 (4.37%) GCP
9 21 (2.48%) GitHub
10 17 (2.01%) IaaS
10 17 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.77%) Serverless
12 13 (1.53%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.53%) 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 (1.06%) 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 (0.35%) DNS
5 3 (0.35%) 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%) SMTP
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
1 143 (16.88%) Oracle Database
2 142 (16.77%) SQL Server
3 72 (8.50%) Oracle Reports
4 50 (5.90%) Power BI
5 49 (5.79%) Relational Database
6 48 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
7 39 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (3.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 28 (3.31%) MySQL
10 22 (2.60%) MongoDB
11 18 (2.13%) Metadata
11 18 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
13 15 (1.77%) DB2
14 14 (1.65%) Oracle ODI
14 14 (1.65%) RDBMS
15 13 (1.53%) Tableau
16 9 (1.06%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.94%) DataStage
17 8 (0.94%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 66 (7.79%) JIRA
2 33 (3.90%) Git
3 26 (3.07%) Postman
4 21 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.89%) JUnit
5 16 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (1.77%) GitLab
7 12 (1.42%) Maven
7 12 (1.42%) SoapUI
8 10 (1.18%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.94%) Oracle APEX
10 7 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.83%) ERwin
10 7 (0.83%) Gradle
10 7 (0.83%) Mockito
11 6 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.59%) Selenium
12 5 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.59%) Toad
12 5 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 383 (45.22%) Finance
2 264 (31.17%) Social Skills
3 115 (13.58%) Banking
4 86 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (9.56%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.25%) Financial Institution
7 35 (4.13%) General Ledger
8 23 (2.72%) Investment Banking
9 22 (2.60%) Retail
10 21 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.13%) Front Office
12 16 (1.89%) Billing
13 12 (1.42%) Legal
13 12 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.18%) Local Government
14 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.94%) Marketing
15 8 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 179 (21.13%) Developer
2 114 (13.46%) Consultant
3 94 (11.10%) Senior
4 88 (10.39%) Oracle Consultant
5 87 (10.27%) Analyst
6 72 (8.50%) Lead
7 60 (7.08%) Architect
8 44 (5.19%) C# Developer
9 43 (5.08%) Oracle Developer
10 38 (4.49%) Business Analyst
11 37 (4.37%) Oracle Specialist
12 28 (3.31%) Cloud Consultant
12 28 (3.31%) Data Engineer
13 27 (3.19%) Cloud Specialist
14 26 (3.07%) Integration Specialist
14 26 (3.07%) Oracle Architect
15 23 (2.72%) Java Developer
16 22 (2.60%) Functional Consultant
16 22 (2.60%) Oracle Analyst
16 22 (2.60%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (21.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 78 (9.21%) .NET
3 72 (8.50%) REST
4 62 (7.32%) SOAP
5 55 (6.49%) XML
6 53 (6.26%) Kafka
7 45 (5.31%) Web Services
8 41 (4.84%) .NET Framework
8 41 (4.84%) Middleware
9 38 (4.49%) JSON
10 34 (4.01%) HTML
11 33 (3.90%) React
12 22 (2.60%) CSS
12 22 (2.60%) Spring
12 22 (2.60%) XSLT
13 20 (2.36%) WPF
14 18 (2.13%) OAuth
14 18 (2.13%) Spring Boot
15 17 (2.01%) AngularJS
15 17 (2.01%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
2 20 (2.36%) Public Cloud
3 17 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (2.01%) Onboarding
4 16 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 16 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 15 (1.77%) Derivative
5 15 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.42%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.18%) Hedge funds
10 9 (1.06%) Reinsurance
11 8 (0.94%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.94%) NHS
12 7 (0.83%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (11.45%) Linux
2 80 (9.45%) Windows
3 77 (9.09%) Unix
4 20 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.59%) AIX
6 5 (0.59%) CentOS
6 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.35%) 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
1 200 (23.61%) Agile
2 195 (23.02%) ERP
3 144 (17.00%) Migration
4 128 (15.11%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (12.75%) Business Intelligence
6 102 (12.04%) DevOps
7 90 (10.63%) Data Migration
8 83 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 74 (8.74%) CI/CD
10 71 (8.38%) ETL
11 66 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 64 (7.56%) User Acceptance Testing
13 60 (7.08%) Data Modelling
14 55 (6.49%) Data Analysis
15 54 (6.38%) SDLC
16 53 (6.26%) Analytics
16 53 (6.26%) Unit Testing
16 53 (6.26%) Validation
17 52 (6.14%) Change Management
18 51 (6.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 318 (37.54%) SQL
2 129 (15.23%) PL/SQL
3 101 (11.92%) Python
4 99 (11.69%) C#
5 98 (11.57%) Java
6 51 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 37 (4.37%) T-SQL
8 33 (3.90%) C++
9 30 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.83%) Perl
11 22 (2.60%) VBA
12 20 (2.36%) VB
13 17 (2.01%) Groovy
14 10 (1.18%) Bash
14 10 (1.18%) Formula Language
14 10 (1.18%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.06%) Korn
16 8 (0.94%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.94%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 172 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 144 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.68%) Degree
4 26 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.77%) PMP
7 13 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
8 12 (1.42%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.71%) ACCA
11 5 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.59%) CIMA
12 4 (0.47%) ISEB
12 4 (0.47%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) APMG
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.24%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.08%) QA
2 42 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.48%) PMO
4 15 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 15 (1.77%) SLA
5 14 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.53%) GAAP
6 13 (1.53%) IFRS
7 9 (1.06%) GDPR
7 9 (1.06%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 4 (0.47%) SEPA
12 3 (0.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 34 (4.01%) Docker
2 11 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.59%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.24%) GridGain
6 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (1.53%) 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 (0.35%) 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 (10.04%) SAP
2 66 (7.79%) Microsoft
3 42 (4.96%) Workday
4 29 (3.42%) Citrix
5 24 (2.83%) IBM
6 23 (2.72%) Informatica
7 22 (2.60%) Databricks
8 16 (1.89%) Cerner
8 16 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.53%) Google
10 12 (1.42%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.30%) Lotus
12 10 (1.18%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.18%) TIBCO
12 10 (1.18%) VMware
13 9 (1.06%) Kofax
13 9 (1.06%) Murex
13 9 (1.06%) Planview
13 9 (1.06%) Splunk
14 8 (0.94%) Red Hat