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 15 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 826 750 942
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.75% 5.34% 5.29%
As % of the Vendors category 12.37% 12.19% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 497 629
10th Percentile £363 £364 £385
25th Percentile £415 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -5.17% -3.33%
75th Percentile £675 £670 £688
90th Percentile £738 £764 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £88.00 £17.86 -
25th Percentile £92.50 - £91.25
Median hourly rate £105.00 £22.27 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year +371.49% -75.92% +48.00%
75th Percentile £110.00 £26.43 £93.75
90th Percentile - £55.85 -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £27.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year +55.02% -54.24% -5.60%

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 6,679 6,152 7,150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.49% 43.81% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,380 3,814 4,908
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £640 £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 113 67 115
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.73 £15.32
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.87% -8.82% +36.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £59.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £86.40
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -20.83% -31.57% +35.93%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -1 111 £525 -4.55% 31
West London -16 13 £208 -58.50% 4
East London -5 7 £495 +23.75% 2
South London -13 6 £300 -53.85% 3
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 (3.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 25 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 22 (2.66%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (1.94%) IIS
5 14 (1.69%) Confluence
5 14 (1.69%) WebSphere
6 12 (1.45%) HCL Notes
7 11 (1.33%) WebLogic
8 9 (1.09%) Apache
8 9 (1.09%) Mendix
8 9 (1.09%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.36%) LiveLink
10 3 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) WildFly
Applications
1 56 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.97%) Oracle Smart View
6 7 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.73%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 60 (7.26%) Oracle Payables
2 51 (6.17%) Oracle EBS
3 46 (5.57%) Oracle ERP
4 43 (5.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 43 (5.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 36 (4.36%) Oracle Financials
6 27 (3.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 26 (3.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 25 (3.03%) Oracle Assets
9 23 (2.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 19 (2.30%) Oracle Cash Management
11 11 (1.33%) Oracle FAH
12 10 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
13 9 (1.09%) Oracle E-Business Tax
14 7 (0.85%) BusinessWorks
14 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
14 7 (0.85%) NetSuite
14 7 (0.85%) SAP HR
15 6 (0.73%) Workday HCM
16 4 (0.48%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 145 (17.55%) OCI
2 129 (15.62%) Azure
3 84 (10.17%) AWS
4 52 (6.30%) Power Platform
5 41 (4.96%) PaaS
6 40 (4.84%) SaaS
7 37 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (4.24%) GCP
9 19 (2.30%) GitHub
10 16 (1.94%) IaaS
10 16 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
11 15 (1.82%) Serverless
12 13 (1.57%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.57%) PowerApps
13 12 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.45%) Snowflake
14 10 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.21%) Azure Functions
14 10 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.45%) Firewall
2 11 (1.33%) Internet
3 7 (0.85%) HTTP
4 4 (0.48%) SSL
5 3 (0.36%) DNS
5 3 (0.36%) NetScaler
6 2 (0.24%) FTP
6 2 (0.24%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.24%) VPN
7 1 (0.12%) DHCP
7 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.12%) VSAN
7 1 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (16.95%) Oracle Database
2 137 (16.59%) SQL Server
3 75 (9.08%) Oracle Reports
4 51 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (6.17%) Relational Database
5 49 (5.93%) Power BI
6 34 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (3.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 24 (2.91%) MySQL
9 22 (2.66%) MongoDB
10 17 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (1.94%) DB2
12 15 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
13 14 (1.69%) Metadata
13 14 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
14 13 (1.57%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.57%) Tableau
15 9 (1.09%) BigQuery
15 9 (1.09%) NoSQL
16 8 (0.97%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 59 (7.14%) JIRA
2 31 (3.75%) Git
3 23 (2.78%) Postman
4 19 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.06%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (1.82%) GitLab
7 13 (1.57%) JUnit
8 11 (1.33%) SoapUI
9 10 (1.21%) Maven
10 9 (1.09%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.97%) Oracle APEX
12 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.61%) ERwin
13 5 (0.61%) Gradle
13 5 (0.61%) Selenium
13 5 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.61%) Toad
13 5 (0.61%) webpack
13 5 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 386 (46.73%) Finance
2 259 (31.36%) Social Skills
3 110 (13.32%) Banking
4 82 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.24%) Financial Institution
6 35 (4.24%) General Ledger
7 21 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 21 (2.54%) Retail
8 20 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.06%) Billing
10 15 (1.82%) Front Office
11 12 (1.45%) Legal
11 12 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.33%) Local Government
13 10 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.97%) Marketing
15 7 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 174 (21.07%) Developer
2 114 (13.80%) Consultant
3 96 (11.62%) Senior
4 91 (11.02%) Oracle Consultant
5 88 (10.65%) Analyst
6 67 (8.11%) Lead
7 59 (7.14%) Architect
8 42 (5.08%) C# Developer
9 41 (4.96%) Oracle Developer
10 39 (4.72%) Business Analyst
11 32 (3.87%) Oracle Specialist
12 28 (3.39%) Cloud Consultant
13 24 (2.91%) Java Developer
13 24 (2.91%) Oracle Architect
14 23 (2.78%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.66%) Cloud Specialist
15 22 (2.66%) Functional Consultant
15 22 (2.66%) Oracle Analyst
15 22 (2.66%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (21.91%) Oracle Fusion
2 75 (9.08%) .NET
3 66 (7.99%) REST
4 59 (7.14%) SOAP
5 57 (6.90%) Kafka
6 52 (6.30%) XML
7 43 (5.21%) Web Services
8 38 (4.60%) .NET Framework
8 38 (4.60%) JSON
8 38 (4.60%) Middleware
9 36 (4.36%) HTML
10 31 (3.75%) React
11 27 (3.27%) CSS
12 22 (2.66%) Spring
13 20 (2.42%) WPF
13 20 (2.42%) XSLT
14 17 (2.06%) AngularJS
15 16 (1.94%) Spring Boot
16 15 (1.82%) OAuth
17 13 (1.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 28 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (2.06%) Public Cloud
3 16 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (1.94%) Management Information System
3 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 14 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 11 (1.33%) Derivative
7 10 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 10 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.09%) Cloud Native
9 8 (0.97%) Reinsurance
10 7 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.85%) NHS
11 6 (0.73%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.73%) Replication
11 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.50%) Linux
2 79 (9.56%) Windows
3 74 (8.96%) Unix
4 20 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.61%) AIX
6 5 (0.61%) CentOS
6 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.36%) 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
1 197 (23.85%) Agile
2 189 (22.88%) ERP
3 141 (17.07%) Migration
4 122 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 110 (13.32%) Business Intelligence
6 99 (11.99%) DevOps
7 85 (10.29%) Data Migration
8 82 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 73 (8.84%) CI/CD
10 68 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 65 (7.87%) ETL
12 62 (7.51%) User Acceptance Testing
13 56 (6.78%) Data Modelling
14 53 (6.42%) Validation
15 52 (6.30%) Data Analysis
16 50 (6.05%) Analytics
16 50 (6.05%) SDLC
17 49 (5.93%) Change Management
17 49 (5.93%) Test Automation
18 48 (5.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 308 (37.29%) SQL
2 133 (16.10%) PL/SQL
3 98 (11.86%) C#
4 97 (11.74%) Java
5 89 (10.77%) Python
6 54 (6.54%) JavaScript
7 36 (4.36%) T-SQL
8 34 (4.12%) C++
9 26 (3.15%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.91%) Perl
10 24 (2.91%) VBA
11 22 (2.66%) VB
12 17 (2.06%) Groovy
13 10 (1.21%) Bash
13 10 (1.21%) Formula Language
13 10 (1.21%) LotusScript
14 9 (1.09%) Korn
14 9 (1.09%) VB.NET
15 8 (0.97%) PowerShell
15 8 (0.97%) XPath
Qualifications
1 161 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 132 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.20%) Degree
4 22 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.82%) PMP
7 12 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
7 12 (1.45%) PMI Certification
8 6 (0.73%) ACCA
8 6 (0.73%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.61%) CIMA
10 4 (0.48%) OCP
11 3 (0.36%) APMG
11 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.36%) ISEB
12 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.24%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.78%) QA
2 35 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.54%) PMO
4 15 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.57%) IFRS
6 13 (1.57%) SLA
7 12 (1.45%) GAAP
8 9 (1.09%) NIST
9 8 (0.97%) GDPR
10 7 (0.85%) COBIT
10 7 (0.85%) ITGC
10 7 (0.85%) SOX 404
11 6 (0.73%) IFRS 17
11 6 (0.73%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.61%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.61%) Basel III
13 4 (0.48%) EMIR
13 4 (0.48%) MiFID
13 4 (0.48%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (4.00%) Docker
2 11 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) GridGain
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 16 (1.94%) Terraform
3 13 (1.57%) Ansible
4 7 (0.85%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.73%) Data Guard
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.48%) Control-M
6 4 (0.48%) Grafana
6 4 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.24%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.24%) Nagios
8 2 (0.24%) SCOM
8 2 (0.24%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.12%) Ambari
9 1 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Identity Management
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 85 (10.29%) SAP
2 63 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 43 (5.21%) Workday
4 28 (3.39%) Citrix
5 23 (2.78%) IBM
6 19 (2.30%) Informatica
7 18 (2.18%) Databricks
8 15 (1.82%) Cerner
8 15 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.57%) TIBCO
11 12 (1.45%) Lotus
12 11 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.33%) Google
13 10 (1.21%) VMware
14 9 (1.09%) Kofax
14 9 (1.09%) Planview
14 9 (1.09%) Splunk
15 8 (0.97%) Murex
15 8 (0.97%) Red Hat