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 24 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 33 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,068 803 887
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.32% 5.96% 5.46%
As % of the Vendors category 12.49% 12.92% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 533 566
10th Percentile £404 £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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £761
England median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 2
10th Percentile £22.40 £22.29 £13.18
25th Percentile £27.13 £25.26 £16.09
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.25 £21.55
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +114.67% -64.09%
75th Percentile £44.75 £71.56 £26.38
90th Percentile £50.60 £99.50 £28.91
England median hourly rate £41.00 £37.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +9.33% +22.59% -47.79%

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 8,551 6,214 7,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.63% 46.09% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,566 4,020 4,685
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 128 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -21.53%
75th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £61.39
90th Percentile £82.00 £63.40 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.24%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -1 143 £600 +26.32% 39
West London +22 63 £550 +32.53% 59
South London +5 15 £575 +17.23% 4
East London -1 6 £450 +8.39% 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 35 (3.28%) SAS
2 31 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.34%) IIS
4 21 (1.97%) Oracle Workflow
5 20 (1.87%) Confluence
6 15 (1.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 13 (1.22%) nginx
8 9 (0.84%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.75%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.75%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.66%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.56%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.47%) Appian
12 5 (0.47%) Camunda
13 4 (0.37%) HCL Notes
14 3 (0.28%) Apache
14 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
14 3 (0.28%) JBoss
Applications
1 31 (2.90%) 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
6 1 (0.094%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 116 (10.86%) Oracle EBS
2 66 (6.18%) Oracle Payables
3 63 (5.90%) Oracle ERP
4 53 (4.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 39 (3.65%) Oracle General Ledger
6 33 (3.09%) Oracle Financials
7 31 (2.90%) Oracle EBS R12
7 31 (2.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 24 (2.25%) NetSuite
9 22 (2.06%) Oracle Assets
10 12 (1.12%) Finacle
11 11 (1.03%) Oracle Payroll
12 9 (0.84%) HFM
12 9 (0.84%) Oracle Applications
12 9 (0.84%) Oracle Cash Management
12 9 (0.84%) Oracle iProcurement
13 8 (0.75%) Oracle BPM
13 8 (0.75%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 8 (0.75%) Oracle FAH
13 8 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (13.48%) OCI
2 140 (13.11%) Azure
3 128 (11.99%) AWS
4 57 (5.34%) SaaS
5 54 (5.06%) Power Platform
6 41 (3.84%) GCP
7 34 (3.18%) GitHub
7 34 (3.18%) PaaS
8 29 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (1.97%) Amazon S3
9 21 (1.97%) OpenShift
10 20 (1.87%) Boomi
11 19 (1.78%) AtomSphere
12 18 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (1.59%) Serverless
14 15 (1.40%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.40%) PowerApps
15 14 (1.31%) Snowflake
16 13 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (1.31%) Internet
2 9 (0.84%) DNS
3 8 (0.75%) HTTP
4 6 (0.56%) SSH
5 5 (0.47%) Firewall
5 5 (0.47%) HTTPS
5 5 (0.47%) SSL
5 5 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.37%) FTP
7 3 (0.28%) Intranet
7 3 (0.28%) NAS
7 3 (0.28%) Network Security
7 3 (0.28%) SAN
7 3 (0.28%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.28%) VPN
7 3 (0.28%) WAN
8 2 (0.19%) Kerberos
8 2 (0.19%) Multicast
8 2 (0.19%) RFID
8 2 (0.19%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (13.39%) Oracle Database
2 137 (12.83%) SQL Server
3 70 (6.55%) Relational Database
4 62 (5.81%) Oracle Reports
5 58 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
6 45 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.56%) Power BI
8 34 (3.18%) Metadata
9 30 (2.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 24 (2.25%) RDBMS
11 22 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.78%) MySQL
13 16 (1.50%) NoSQL
14 12 (1.12%) Data Lake
14 12 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
15 11 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
16 10 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (0.84%) Data Mart
17 9 (0.84%) Oracle Exadata
18 8 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 70 (6.55%) Git
2 42 (3.93%) Jenkins
2 42 (3.93%) JIRA
3 24 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (1.50%) Gradle
5 15 (1.40%) Selenium
6 13 (1.22%) GitLab
7 11 (1.03%) Maven
8 9 (0.84%) JMeter
8 9 (0.84%) Postman
9 8 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.75%) eggPlant
10 7 (0.66%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.66%) 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 (0.37%) ERwin
General
1 410 (38.39%) Finance
2 248 (23.22%) Social Skills
3 167 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
3 167 (15.64%) Banking
4 113 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 37 (3.46%) Retail
6 34 (3.18%) General Ledger
7 31 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 29 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
8 29 (2.72%) Legal
9 27 (2.53%) Front Office
10 25 (2.34%) Back Office
11 20 (1.87%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (1.59%) Local Government
14 13 (1.22%) Billing
14 13 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.94%) Marketing
17 9 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 197 (18.45%) Developer
2 160 (14.98%) Consultant
3 156 (14.61%) Architect
4 135 (12.64%) Oracle Consultant
5 131 (12.27%) Lead
6 101 (9.46%) Senior
7 80 (7.49%) Analyst
8 59 (5.52%) Functional Consultant
9 57 (5.34%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 51 (4.78%) Java Developer
11 50 (4.68%) Oracle Architect
12 43 (4.03%) C# Developer
13 40 (3.75%) Oracle Developer
14 39 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
15 37 (3.46%) Business Analyst
16 36 (3.37%) Data Engineer
17 35 (3.28%) Project Manager
17 35 (3.28%) Senior Developer
18 29 (2.72%) Applications Support
19 24 (2.25%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (18.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 116 (10.86%) REST
3 94 (8.80%) .NET
4 67 (6.27%) XML
5 61 (5.71%) SOAP
6 57 (5.34%) JSON
7 56 (5.24%) Spring
7 56 (5.24%) Terraform
8 48 (4.49%) Middleware
9 47 (4.40%) Kafka
10 44 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 41 (3.84%) .NET Framework
12 34 (3.18%) Web Services
13 31 (2.90%) OAuth
14 30 (2.81%) React
15 29 (2.72%) HTML
16 25 (2.34%) CSS
17 23 (2.15%) RESTful
18 19 (1.78%) OAuth2
19 17 (1.59%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 62 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
2 38 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 33 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 24 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 19 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.40%) Low-Code
12 13 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.12%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (0.94%) Replication
15 10 (0.94%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.84%) Fixed Income
17 8 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.71%) Linux
2 92 (8.61%) Windows
3 59 (5.52%) Unix
4 35 (3.28%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.84%) Solaris
7 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.47%) VMS
9 4 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
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
1 231 (21.63%) Migration
2 217 (20.32%) ERP
3 180 (16.85%) Agile
4 179 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 165 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (13.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 136 (12.73%) DevOps
8 135 (12.64%) CI/CD
9 130 (12.17%) Data Migration
10 118 (11.05%) Data Modelling
10 118 (11.05%) ETL
11 102 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (9.08%) Validation
13 96 (8.99%) Analytics
14 89 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
15 87 (8.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 83 (7.77%) Change Management
17 78 (7.30%) Data Integration
18 77 (7.21%) Roadmaps
19 76 (7.12%) AI
Programming Languages
1 327 (30.62%) SQL
2 154 (14.42%) PL/SQL
3 138 (12.92%) Java
4 123 (11.52%) Python
5 87 (8.15%) C#
6 78 (7.30%) JavaScript
7 55 (5.15%) T-SQL
8 35 (3.28%) PowerShell
9 34 (3.18%) Shell Script
10 22 (2.06%) Bash
11 21 (1.97%) Groovy
12 16 (1.50%) C++
13 13 (1.22%) Ruby
13 13 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.12%) VBA
15 11 (1.03%) VB
16 9 (0.84%) Bicep
17 6 (0.56%) Korn
17 6 (0.56%) VB.NET
18 5 (0.47%) C
Qualifications
1 231 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 196 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.87%) Degree
4 22 (2.06%) ACCA
5 20 (1.87%) CIMA
6 19 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.31%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.03%) ISTQB
9 11 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (0.84%) 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 (0.37%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.84%) QA
2 65 (6.09%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.09%) GRC
4 22 (2.06%) GDPR
5 19 (1.78%) PMO
6 18 (1.69%) IFRS
7 12 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.03%) ISO 20022
9 10 (0.94%) GAAP
9 10 (0.94%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.47%) ISO 15022
12 4 (0.37%) GxP
12 4 (0.37%) NCSC
13 3 (0.28%) DICOM
13 3 (0.28%) HL7
13 3 (0.28%) P3O
14 2 (0.19%) EMIR
System Software
1 42 (3.93%) Docker
2 18 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.84%) Oracle RAC
5 6 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.37%) 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 42 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 27 (2.53%) Ansible
3 23 (2.15%) Grafana
4 16 (1.50%) Control-M
5 14 (1.31%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.12%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (1.03%) Argo
8 8 (0.75%) Data Guard
8 8 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.66%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.47%) Kibana
11 4 (0.37%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.28%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
12 3 (0.28%) Istio
13 2 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
13 2 (0.19%) Puppet
13 2 (0.19%) WSUS
14 1 (0.094%) CA Wily
14 1 (0.094%) logstash
Vendors
1 107 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.90%) SAP
3 47 (4.40%) IBM
4 41 (3.84%) Salesforce
5 39 (3.65%) Databricks
6 35 (3.28%) Citrix
7 32 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 28 (2.62%) Workday
9 24 (2.25%) Google
10 19 (1.78%) Splunk
11 18 (1.69%) Informatica
11 18 (1.69%) VMware
12 17 (1.59%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.22%) Talend
14 12 (1.12%) Hyperion
15 11 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.94%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.94%) MuleSoft
17 8 (0.75%) Anaplan
17 8 (0.75%) OutSystems