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 8 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
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 824 756 954
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.75% 5.30% 5.32%
As % of the Vendors category 12.34% 12.06% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 499 634
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £439 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £679
90th Percentile £738 £762 £750
England median daily rate £525 £550 £574
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.18% +4.36%
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 £37.50 £27.00 £59.57
% change year-on-year +38.89% -54.68% -4.69%

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 6,676 6,270 7,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.58% 43.98% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,367 3,901 4,953
10th Percentile £350 £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 £648 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 68 109
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.86 £15.90
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% -5.71% +40.00%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.12 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +47.11%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 £510 -7.27% 38
West London -16 13 £208 -58.50% 8
East London +1 9 £540 +20.67% 3
South London -16 6 £300 -53.85% 4
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 29 (3.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 24 (2.91%) Oracle Workflow
2 24 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.94%) Confluence
4 15 (1.82%) IIS
5 14 (1.70%) WebSphere
6 13 (1.58%) WebLogic
7 11 (1.33%) HCL Notes
8 9 (1.09%) Apache
8 9 (1.09%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.97%) Mendix
10 5 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.36%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.36%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.36%) Oracle Service Bus
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.24%) WildFly
Applications
1 55 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.67%) 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 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 59 (7.16%) Oracle Payables
2 55 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
3 47 (5.70%) Oracle ERP
4 43 (5.22%) Oracle General Ledger
5 40 (4.85%) Oracle Receivables
6 37 (4.49%) Oracle Financials
7 31 (3.76%) Oracle EBS R12
8 26 (3.16%) Oracle Assets
9 25 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 22 (2.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 19 (2.31%) Oracle Cash Management
12 12 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
13 11 (1.33%) Oracle FAH
14 9 (1.09%) Oracle E-Business Tax
15 7 (0.85%) BusinessWorks
15 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
15 7 (0.85%) NetSuite
15 7 (0.85%) SAP HR
16 4 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
16 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 144 (17.48%) OCI
2 124 (15.05%) Azure
3 82 (9.95%) AWS
4 49 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 42 (5.10%) SaaS
6 41 (4.98%) PaaS
7 34 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (4.13%) GCP
8 21 (2.55%) GitHub
9 16 (1.94%) IaaS
10 15 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (1.70%) Serverless
12 12 (1.46%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (1.46%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.46%) PowerApps
12 12 (1.46%) Snowflake
13 11 (1.33%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.09%) Azure Functions
14 9 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.58%) Firewall
2 11 (1.33%) Internet
3 7 (0.85%) HTTP
4 4 (0.49%) DNS
4 4 (0.49%) SSL
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
1 139 (16.87%) Oracle Database
2 136 (16.50%) SQL Server
3 81 (9.83%) Oracle Reports
4 56 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (6.31%) Relational Database
6 46 (5.58%) Power BI
7 33 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (3.76%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 24 (2.91%) MongoDB
10 23 (2.79%) MySQL
11 17 (2.06%) DB2
11 17 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 15 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
13 14 (1.70%) Oracle ODI
14 13 (1.58%) RDBMS
15 12 (1.46%) Metadata
15 12 (1.46%) Tableau
16 10 (1.21%) NoSQL
17 9 (1.09%) BigQuery
17 9 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (7.40%) JIRA
2 32 (3.88%) Git
3 24 (2.91%) Postman
4 22 (2.67%) Jenkins
5 21 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (1.82%) GitLab
7 14 (1.70%) JUnit
8 12 (1.46%) SoapUI
9 11 (1.33%) Maven
10 9 (1.09%) Oracle APEX
11 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.97%) Visual Studio
12 7 (0.85%) webpack
13 6 (0.73%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.61%) Gradle
14 5 (0.61%) Mockito
14 5 (0.61%) Selenium
14 5 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.61%) Toad
14 5 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 385 (46.72%) Finance
2 261 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 106 (12.86%) Banking
4 81 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 80 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (4.37%) General Ledger
7 33 (4.00%) Financial Institution
8 21 (2.55%) Retail
9 19 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 19 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 17 (2.06%) Billing
11 15 (1.82%) Front Office
11 15 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.58%) Legal
13 12 (1.46%) Local Government
13 12 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.97%) Marketing
16 7 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 7 (0.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 174 (21.12%) Developer
2 116 (14.08%) Consultant
3 95 (11.53%) Oracle Consultant
3 95 (11.53%) Senior
4 85 (10.32%) Analyst
5 69 (8.37%) Lead
6 60 (7.28%) Architect
7 43 (5.22%) Oracle Developer
8 38 (4.61%) C# Developer
9 36 (4.37%) Business Analyst
10 31 (3.76%) Oracle Specialist
11 29 (3.52%) Cloud Consultant
12 25 (3.03%) Java Developer
13 23 (2.79%) Oracle Architect
13 23 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.67%) Data Engineer
14 22 (2.67%) Functional Consultant
14 22 (2.67%) Oracle Functional Consultant
15 21 (2.55%) Cloud Specialist
16 20 (2.43%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (21.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 69 (8.37%) .NET
3 66 (8.01%) REST
4 59 (7.16%) SOAP
5 57 (6.92%) Kafka
6 52 (6.31%) XML
7 43 (5.22%) Web Services
8 38 (4.61%) HTML
8 38 (4.61%) JSON
8 38 (4.61%) Middleware
9 35 (4.25%) .NET Framework
10 31 (3.76%) React
11 29 (3.52%) CSS
12 23 (2.79%) Spring
13 20 (2.43%) XSLT
14 19 (2.31%) WPF
15 18 (2.18%) AngularJS
16 17 (2.06%) Spring Boot
17 16 (1.94%) HTML5
18 14 (1.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (2.31%) Management Information System
3 17 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 14 (1.70%) Low-Code
7 13 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.33%) Cloud Native
8 11 (1.33%) Derivative
8 11 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 10 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 8 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (0.97%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.85%) NHS
11 7 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 6 (0.73%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.73%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.29%) Linux
2 77 (9.34%) Unix
2 77 (9.34%) Windows
3 19 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.61%) AIX
5 5 (0.61%) CentOS
5 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.36%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Solaris
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (24.27%) Agile
2 193 (23.42%) ERP
3 141 (17.11%) Migration
4 119 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
5 109 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
6 100 (12.14%) DevOps
7 85 (10.32%) Data Migration
8 81 (9.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 74 (8.98%) CI/CD
10 66 (8.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 61 (7.40%) ETL
12 59 (7.16%) User Acceptance Testing
13 54 (6.55%) SDLC
14 53 (6.43%) Data Modelling
15 52 (6.31%) Validation
16 51 (6.19%) Test Automation
17 49 (5.95%) Analytics
17 49 (5.95%) Change Management
18 47 (5.70%) Data Analysis
19 46 (5.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 305 (37.01%) SQL
2 131 (15.90%) PL/SQL
3 100 (12.14%) Java
4 92 (11.17%) C#
5 84 (10.19%) Python
6 54 (6.55%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.13%) T-SQL
8 33 (4.00%) C++
9 27 (3.28%) Shell Script
10 24 (2.91%) Perl
11 23 (2.79%) VBA
12 21 (2.55%) VB
13 18 (2.18%) Groovy
14 11 (1.33%) Bash
15 9 (1.09%) Formula Language
15 9 (1.09%) Korn
15 9 (1.09%) LotusScript
15 9 (1.09%) VB.NET
16 8 (0.97%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.97%) XPath
Qualifications
1 161 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 132 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 72 (8.74%) Degree
4 21 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
7 13 (1.58%) PMP
8 12 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.61%) ACCA
11 5 (0.61%) CIMA
12 4 (0.49%) OCP
12 4 (0.49%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.36%) APMG
13 3 (0.36%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.36%) ISEB
14 2 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.92%) QA
2 32 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.55%) PMO
4 15 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 14 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.58%) IFRS
6 13 (1.58%) SLA
7 11 (1.33%) GAAP
8 9 (1.09%) NIST
9 8 (0.97%) GDPR
10 7 (0.85%) Accessibility
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%) Basel III
13 4 (0.49%) EMIR
13 4 (0.49%) MiFID
13 4 (0.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (4.13%) Docker
2 10 (1.21%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) GridGain
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (4.61%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.31%) Terraform
3 13 (1.58%) Ansible
4 7 (0.85%) Grafana
4 7 (0.85%) TIBCO Hawk
5 6 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.61%) Control-M
6 5 (0.61%) Data Guard
7 4 (0.49%) ZABBIX
8 3 (0.36%) Ambari
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.36%) Puppet
9 2 (0.24%) Argo
9 2 (0.24%) BladeLogic
9 2 (0.24%) Istio
9 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) Nagios
9 2 (0.24%) SCOM
10 1 (0.12%) CEMLI
Vendors
1 85 (10.32%) SAP
2 64 (7.77%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.73%) Workday
4 26 (3.16%) Citrix
5 23 (2.79%) IBM
6 17 (2.06%) Informatica
7 15 (1.82%) Cerner
7 15 (1.82%) Databricks
8 14 (1.70%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.58%) ServiceNow
9 13 (1.58%) TIBCO
10 12 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.33%) Lotus
12 10 (1.21%) Splunk
12 10 (1.21%) VMware
13 9 (1.09%) Google
13 9 (1.09%) Planview
14 8 (0.97%) Kofax
14 8 (0.97%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.85%) Hyperion