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 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
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 34 35
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 863 746 925
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.37% 5.67% 5.09%
As % of the Vendors category 12.04% 12.86% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 506 605
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £551 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -5.00% -2.52%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £738 £799 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
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 7,167 5,801 7,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.61% 44.09% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,728 3,684 4,939
10th Percentile £350 £320 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.94% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 79 144
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.45 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.99 £16.97
Median hourly rate £25.77 £34.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +36.00% -1.40%
75th Percentile £41.75 £59.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £63.49 £80.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £25.28
% change year-on-year -23.43% +24.02% -27.79%

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 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 4 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 -6 107 £538 -2.27% 44
West London -17 15 £208 -61.03% 6
East London -2 7 £495 +10.61% 4
South London -24 6 £300 -54.72% 4
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 (3.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 24 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.20%) Confluence
3 19 (2.20%) IIS
3 19 (2.20%) Oracle Workflow
4 13 (1.51%) WebLogic
4 13 (1.51%) WebSphere
5 11 (1.27%) HCL Notes
6 9 (1.04%) Mendix
7 8 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.81%) Apache
9 5 (0.58%) nginx
10 3 (0.35%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 48 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.93%) Oracle Smart View
7 4 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (6.84%) Oracle Payables
2 50 (5.79%) Oracle ERP
3 46 (5.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 38 (4.40%) Oracle EBS
4 38 (4.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 32 (3.71%) Oracle General Ledger
6 27 (3.13%) Oracle Financials
7 23 (2.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 15 (1.74%) Oracle Assets
8 15 (1.74%) Oracle EBS R12
9 11 (1.27%) Oracle FAH
10 10 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
11 9 (1.04%) Oracle Cash Management
12 7 (0.81%) BusinessWorks
12 7 (0.81%) NetSuite
12 7 (0.81%) SAP HR
13 6 (0.70%) Loan IQ
13 6 (0.70%) Oracle E-Business Tax
13 6 (0.70%) Workday HCM
14 5 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 169 (19.58%) OCI
2 138 (15.99%) Azure
3 92 (10.66%) AWS
4 55 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 39 (4.52%) PaaS
7 31 (3.59%) GCP
7 31 (3.59%) SaaS
8 21 (2.43%) GitHub
9 19 (2.20%) IaaS
10 17 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (1.85%) Snowflake
12 14 (1.62%) Serverless
13 13 (1.51%) Power Automate
14 12 (1.39%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (1.16%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.16%) Collibra
17 8 (0.93%) 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
1 157 (18.19%) SQL Server
2 138 (15.99%) Oracle Database
3 70 (8.11%) Oracle Reports
4 51 (5.91%) Relational Database
5 50 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
6 47 (5.45%) Power BI
7 38 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
8 24 (2.78%) MySQL
8 24 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 22 (2.55%) Metadata
9 22 (2.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 20 (2.32%) MongoDB
11 19 (2.20%) Electronic Patient Records
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 (0.93%) BigQuery
17 7 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 76 (8.81%) JIRA
2 36 (4.17%) Git
3 27 (3.13%) Postman
4 21 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 15 (1.74%) JUnit
6 12 (1.39%) SoapUI
7 11 (1.27%) GitLab
7 11 (1.27%) Maven
7 11 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.27%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.93%) ERwin
9 7 (0.81%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.81%) Gradle
9 7 (0.81%) Mockito
10 6 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.58%) Selenium
11 5 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (0.58%) Toad
11 5 (0.58%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.46%) Ant
General
1 381 (44.15%) Finance
2 239 (27.69%) Social Skills
3 126 (14.60%) Banking
4 92 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 82 (9.50%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 33 (3.82%) General Ledger
8 30 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 27 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (3.01%) Retail
11 18 (2.09%) Front Office
12 15 (1.74%) Billing
13 14 (1.62%) Retail Banking
14 12 (1.39%) Local Government
14 12 (1.39%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.27%) Legal
16 9 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.04%) Military
16 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (21.21%) Developer
2 101 (11.70%) Consultant
3 95 (11.01%) Senior
4 90 (10.43%) Analyst
5 78 (9.04%) Oracle Consultant
6 71 (8.23%) Lead
7 70 (8.11%) Architect
8 53 (6.14%) C# Developer
9 43 (4.98%) Business Analyst
10 41 (4.75%) Oracle Specialist
11 36 (4.17%) Oracle Developer
12 31 (3.59%) Cloud Specialist
12 31 (3.59%) Integration Specialist
12 31 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (3.36%) Data Engineer
13 29 (3.36%) Oracle Architect
14 27 (3.13%) Cloud Consultant
15 25 (2.90%) Oracle Analyst
16 24 (2.78%) Java Developer
17 23 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (22.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 98 (11.36%) .NET
3 76 (8.81%) REST
4 63 (7.30%) SOAP
5 58 (6.72%) XML
6 50 (5.79%) .NET Framework
7 47 (5.45%) Kafka
7 47 (5.45%) Web Services
8 43 (4.98%) Middleware
9 41 (4.75%) JSON
10 36 (4.17%) React
11 31 (3.59%) HTML
12 23 (2.67%) XSLT
13 22 (2.55%) Spring
14 18 (2.09%) CSS
14 18 (2.09%) Spring Boot
15 17 (1.97%) OAuth
16 16 (1.85%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.85%) RESTful
16 16 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (2.55%) Public Cloud
3 19 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 17 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.74%) Derivative
6 14 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
6 14 (1.62%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 11 (1.27%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.16%) 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 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (0.81%) AI Agents
12 7 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 96 (11.12%) Linux
2 79 (9.15%) Windows
3 66 (7.65%) Unix
4 26 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.70%) Solaris
8 5 (0.58%) AIX
9 4 (0.46%) CentOS
9 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (22.94%) ERP
2 194 (22.48%) Agile
3 157 (18.19%) Migration
4 134 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (12.75%) DevOps
6 105 (12.17%) Business Intelligence
7 99 (11.47%) Data Migration
8 83 (9.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 78 (9.04%) ETL
10 77 (8.92%) CI/CD
11 75 (8.69%) User Acceptance Testing
12 67 (7.76%) Data Modelling
13 65 (7.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 64 (7.42%) Unit Testing
15 63 (7.30%) Validation
16 62 (7.18%) Data Analysis
17 60 (6.95%) Analytics
18 53 (6.14%) AI
19 52 (6.03%) Decision-Making
20 51 (5.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 314 (36.38%) SQL
2 124 (14.37%) PL/SQL
3 113 (13.09%) C#
4 100 (11.59%) Python
5 98 (11.36%) Java
6 46 (5.33%) T-SQL
7 43 (4.98%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.13%) C++
9 25 (2.90%) Shell Script
10 20 (2.32%) Perl
11 18 (2.09%) Groovy
12 16 (1.85%) VBA
13 15 (1.74%) VB
14 11 (1.27%) TypeScript
15 10 (1.16%) Formula Language
15 10 (1.16%) LotusScript
16 9 (1.04%) PowerShell
17 8 (0.93%) Korn
17 8 (0.93%) XPath
18 7 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 174 (20.16%) Security Cleared
2 142 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.81%) Degree
4 22 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.09%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.74%) PMP
7 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.39%) PMI Certification
9 11 (1.27%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.93%) 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 70 (8.11%) QA
2 44 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.20%) PMO
4 15 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.51%) SLA
6 12 (1.39%) IFRS
7 10 (1.16%) GAAP
8 9 (1.04%) NIST
9 8 (0.93%) GDPR
9 8 (0.93%) 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%) Basel III
11 5 (0.58%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) SEPA
12 4 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (3.94%) Docker
2 11 (1.27%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.70%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) GridGain
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 18 (2.09%) Terraform
3 10 (1.16%) Ansible
4 8 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.81%) TIBCO Hawk
6 6 (0.70%) Grafana
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
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 77 (8.92%) SAP
2 59 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.75%) Workday
4 33 (3.82%) Citrix
5 31 (3.59%) IBM
6 26 (3.01%) Informatica
7 25 (2.90%) Databricks
8 19 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.85%) Cerner
10 13 (1.51%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.27%) Google
11 11 (1.27%) Lotus
11 11 (1.27%) Murex
11 11 (1.27%) VMware
12 9 (1.04%) Kofax
12 9 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.93%) Splunk
13 8 (0.93%) Talend
13 8 (0.93%) TIBCO
14 7 (0.81%) Red Hat