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 1 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
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 895 723 928
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.30% 5.73% 5.13%
As % of the Vendors category 12.02% 12.70% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 496 607
10th Percentile £368 £385 £400
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.99% -2.41% -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £698
90th Percentile £751 £825 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £21.85 -
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 - £42.97 £26.50
90th Percentile - £93.75 £93.75
England median hourly rate £40.21 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% +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 7,448 5,693 7,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.09% 45.09% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 3,739 4,974
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 87 144
10th Percentile £18.01 £17.58 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.61 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +16.62% -3.04%
75th Percentile £41.75 £55.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £67.26 £70.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% +21.13% -33.33%

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 1 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 1 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 -10 111 £525 -4.72% 52
West London -16 16 £341 -39.60% 9
East London -2 6 £439 -1.84% 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 28 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 23 (2.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 18 (2.01%) IIS
4 17 (1.90%) Confluence
5 15 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 14 (1.56%) WebSphere
7 12 (1.34%) HCL Notes
7 12 (1.34%) WebLogic
8 10 (1.12%) Mendix
9 9 (1.01%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.78%) nginx
11 4 (0.45%) Apache
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
13 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.22%) Apache Spark
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 44 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 56 (6.26%) Oracle Payables
2 47 (5.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 46 (5.14%) Oracle EBS
4 43 (4.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 42 (4.69%) Oracle ERP
6 25 (2.79%) Oracle Financials
6 25 (2.79%) Oracle General Ledger
7 19 (2.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 16 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
9 11 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
9 11 (1.23%) Oracle Assets
10 9 (1.01%) Oracle Cash Management
11 7 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
11 7 (0.78%) Findur
11 7 (0.78%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
11 7 (0.78%) SAP HR
12 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
13 5 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
13 5 (0.56%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 170 (18.99%) OCI
2 134 (14.97%) Azure
3 94 (10.50%) AWS
4 61 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (5.47%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.69%) PaaS
7 28 (3.13%) GCP
7 28 (3.13%) GitHub
8 27 (3.02%) SaaS
9 23 (2.57%) IaaS
10 22 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.12%) Serverless
12 18 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 17 (1.90%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
15 13 (1.45%) Snowflake
16 12 (1.34%) Azure Functions
16 12 (1.34%) Collibra
17 9 (1.01%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.23%) Internet
2 9 (1.01%) HTTP
3 6 (0.67%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) SD-WAN
4 4 (0.45%) WAN
5 2 (0.22%) DNS
5 2 (0.22%) FTP
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
1 156 (17.43%) SQL Server
2 128 (14.30%) Oracle Database
3 70 (7.82%) Oracle Reports
4 59 (6.59%) Relational Database
5 48 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (4.58%) Power BI
7 32 (3.58%) Metadata
8 24 (2.68%) MySQL
8 24 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (1.90%) Electronic Patient Records
9 17 (1.90%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 16 (1.79%) DB2
11 14 (1.56%) RDBMS
12 11 (1.23%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.12%) Oracle ODI
13 10 (1.12%) Tableau
14 8 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 8 (0.89%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 73 (8.16%) JIRA
2 39 (4.36%) Git
3 25 (2.79%) Postman
4 21 (2.35%) Jenkins
5 14 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
6 13 (1.45%) JUnit
7 12 (1.34%) SoapUI
8 11 (1.23%) GitLab
8 11 (1.23%) Visual Studio
9 9 (1.01%) Maven
10 8 (0.89%) ERwin
11 7 (0.78%) Zephyr
12 6 (0.67%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.67%) Mockito
12 6 (0.67%) Selenium
13 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.56%) Gradle
13 5 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.56%) Toad
General
1 374 (41.79%) Finance
2 232 (25.92%) Social Skills
3 134 (14.97%) Banking
4 103 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
5 87 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.69%) Investment Banking
7 30 (3.35%) Financial Institution
7 30 (3.35%) General Ledger
8 27 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (2.91%) Retail
10 22 (2.46%) Front Office
11 15 (1.68%) Legal
11 15 (1.68%) Local Government
11 15 (1.68%) Retail Banking
12 14 (1.56%) Billing
13 13 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.12%) Military
16 9 (1.01%) Marketing
16 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 179 (20.00%) Developer
2 98 (10.95%) Lead
3 95 (10.61%) Consultant
4 93 (10.39%) Senior
5 86 (9.61%) Architect
6 84 (9.39%) Analyst
7 73 (8.16%) Oracle Consultant
8 51 (5.70%) C# Developer
9 45 (5.03%) Business Analyst
10 38 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
11 35 (3.91%) Oracle Architect
12 33 (3.69%) Oracle Specialist
13 30 (3.35%) Oracle Developer
14 28 (3.13%) Cloud Specialist
14 28 (3.13%) Data Engineer
14 28 (3.13%) Integration Specialist
15 25 (2.79%) Cloud Consultant
15 25 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
15 25 (2.79%) Project Manager
16 24 (2.68%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (20.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 104 (11.62%) .NET
3 68 (7.60%) REST
4 60 (6.70%) XML
5 56 (6.26%) SOAP
6 52 (5.81%) .NET Framework
7 45 (5.03%) Web Services
8 39 (4.36%) Kafka
8 39 (4.36%) Middleware
9 38 (4.25%) JSON
9 38 (4.25%) React
10 28 (3.13%) HTML
11 24 (2.68%) Spring
12 23 (2.57%) XSLT
13 21 (2.35%) Spring Boot
14 18 (2.01%) OAuth
14 18 (2.01%) RESTful
15 17 (1.90%) CSS
16 15 (1.68%) WinForms
17 13 (1.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
2 24 (2.68%) Data Structures
2 24 (2.68%) Public Cloud
3 21 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 18 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 16 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 16 (1.79%) Derivative
6 15 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 11 (1.23%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 10 (1.12%) Market Risk
9 10 (1.12%) NHS
9 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.01%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 91 (10.17%) Linux
2 73 (8.16%) Windows
3 56 (6.26%) Unix
4 28 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.89%) Solaris
7 6 (0.67%) AIX
7 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.34%) 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
1 201 (22.46%) ERP
2 195 (21.79%) Agile
3 152 (16.98%) Migration
4 135 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
5 130 (14.53%) DevOps
6 102 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 101 (11.28%) Data Migration
8 92 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (10.17%) Data Modelling
10 88 (9.83%) CI/CD
11 83 (9.27%) User Acceptance Testing
12 81 (9.05%) ETL
13 80 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 72 (8.04%) Validation
15 67 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (7.37%) Analytics
16 66 (7.37%) Data Analysis
17 62 (6.93%) Unit Testing
18 61 (6.82%) Change Management
19 59 (6.59%) AI
Programming Languages
1 311 (34.75%) SQL
2 127 (14.19%) PL/SQL
3 111 (12.40%) C#
4 103 (11.51%) Python
5 97 (10.84%) Java
6 46 (5.14%) T-SQL
7 39 (4.36%) JavaScript
8 27 (3.02%) Shell Script
9 24 (2.68%) C++
10 17 (1.90%) Perl
11 12 (1.34%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.34%) VB
11 12 (1.34%) VBA
12 11 (1.23%) Formula Language
12 11 (1.23%) Groovy
12 11 (1.23%) LotusScript
13 10 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.01%) Korn
15 8 (0.89%) Ruby
15 8 (0.89%) XPath
Qualifications
1 178 (19.89%) Security Cleared
2 143 (15.98%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.49%) Degree
4 21 (2.35%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 14 (1.56%) PMP
8 12 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 9 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
11 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.34%) ACCA
12 3 (0.34%) CIMA
12 3 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
12 3 (0.34%) MBA
12 3 (0.34%) OCP
13 2 (0.22%) ISEB
13 2 (0.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.60%) QA
2 50 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.12%) PMO
4 15 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.34%) IFRS
6 12 (1.34%) SLA
7 10 (1.12%) GAAP
8 9 (1.01%) NIST
9 8 (0.89%) GDPR
9 8 (0.89%) IFRS 9
10 7 (0.78%) COBIT
10 7 (0.78%) HL7
10 7 (0.78%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.78%) ITGC
10 7 (0.78%) SOX 404
11 5 (0.56%) Basel III
11 5 (0.56%) GxP
11 5 (0.56%) NCSC
11 5 (0.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 30 (3.35%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 6 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.34%) 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 (4.36%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.46%) Terraform
3 8 (0.89%) Ansible
4 7 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.67%) Grafana
6 4 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.34%) Data Guard
7 3 (0.34%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.22%) Argo
8 2 (0.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.22%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.11%) CEMLI
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 78 (8.72%) SAP
2 69 (7.71%) Microsoft
3 41 (4.58%) Workday
4 34 (3.80%) IBM
5 33 (3.69%) Citrix
6 26 (2.91%) Informatica
7 24 (2.68%) Databricks
8 22 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.56%) Cerner
9 14 (1.56%) Google
10 12 (1.34%) Lotus
10 12 (1.34%) Murex
10 12 (1.34%) VMware
11 11 (1.23%) ServiceNow
12 10 (1.12%) Kofax
12 10 (1.12%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.01%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.01%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.89%) Talend
15 7 (0.78%) CyberArk