Oracle Contracts in the North of England

Oracle
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 May 2025, 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 82 62
Rank change year-on-year +42 -20 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 165 111 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.01% 2.33% 3.52%
As % of the Vendors category 9.83% 5.44% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 68 138
10th Percentile £375 £413 £396
25th Percentile £403 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +4.37%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £638
90th Percentile £650 £623 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.50 £37.80
Median hourly rate £30.40 £36.94 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% -8.99% +2.17%
75th Percentile - £45.88 £43.39
90th Percentile - £48.43 -
England median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +16.92% -58.40% +70.07%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,679 2,042 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.96% 42.83% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,194 1,581
10th Percentile £230 £250 £248
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £564 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 212 66
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.24 £12.53 £19.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +96.52%
75th Percentile £59.65 £21.08 £49.05
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.15 £54.88
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the North of England

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the North of England

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the North of England

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the North of England

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West +23 85 £475 -5.00% 70
Yorkshire +41 74 £450 -8.63% 37
North East -2 6 £464 +3.06% 8
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (10.30%) Confluence
2 16 (9.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.64%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.64%) WebSphere
4 4 (2.42%) JBoss
4 4 (2.42%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.82%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (1.21%) CICS
6 2 (1.21%) Tuxedo
7 1 (0.61%) Documentum
7 1 (0.61%) FileNet
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.61%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (10.30%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.03%) Kondor
3 2 (1.21%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.12%) AWS
2 13 (7.88%) Serverless
3 11 (6.67%) Azure
4 10 (6.06%) GCP
5 9 (5.45%) OCI
6 4 (2.42%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.61%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.61%) Miro
9 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.91%) DNS
2 5 (3.03%) NAS
2 5 (3.03%) SAN
3 4 (2.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (32.12%) Oracle Database
2 37 (22.42%) PostgreSQL
3 24 (14.55%) Oracle Reports
4 22 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 21 (12.73%) SQL Server
6 18 (10.91%) NoSQL
7 16 (9.70%) Relational Database
8 15 (9.09%) MySQL
9 13 (7.88%) RDBMS
10 7 (4.24%) DB2
11 6 (3.64%) Metadata
12 5 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
12 5 (3.03%) Essbase
12 5 (3.03%) Siebel EIM
12 5 (3.03%) Tableau
13 4 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.42%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.82%) Data Mining
14 3 (1.82%) Oracle Database 10g
14 3 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 12 (7.27%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.06%) Git
2 10 (6.06%) JIRA
3 6 (3.64%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.42%) Selenium
6 3 (1.82%) GitLab
7 2 (1.21%) ERwin
7 2 (1.21%) JMeter
7 2 (1.21%) Postman
7 2 (1.21%) SOAtest
8 1 (0.61%) DBeaver
8 1 (0.61%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.61%) Maven
8 1 (0.61%) Toad
General
1 66 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 55 (33.33%) Finance
3 29 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (17.58%) Banking
4 21 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.03%) Financial Institution
6 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.42%) Military
8 3 (1.82%) Digital Healthcare
8 3 (1.82%) General Ledger
8 3 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.21%) Local Government
9 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Avionics
10 1 (0.61%) Back Office
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (10.30%) Data Engineer
1 17 (10.30%) Developer
2 14 (8.48%) DBA
3 13 (7.88%) Consultant
3 13 (7.88%) Senior
4 11 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
4 11 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
5 10 (6.06%) Commvault Engineer
5 10 (6.06%) Database Engineer
5 10 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.45%) Architect
6 9 (5.45%) Backup Engineer
6 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 9 (5.45%) Oracle Database Engineer
6 9 (5.45%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 9 (5.45%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.85%) Engineering Specialist
8 7 (4.24%) Data Migration Engineer
9 6 (3.64%) Analyst
9 6 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.30%) Kafka
2 15 (9.09%) JSON
3 14 (8.48%) REST
3 14 (8.48%) SOAP
3 14 (8.48%) XML
4 11 (6.67%) Web Services
5 9 (5.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (4.24%) Spring
7 6 (3.64%) J2EE
7 6 (3.64%) Middleware
7 6 (3.64%) RESTful
7 6 (3.64%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.03%) JMS
9 4 (2.42%) EJB
9 4 (2.42%) JSP
9 4 (2.42%) LDAP
9 4 (2.42%) MDX
9 4 (2.42%) Servlets
9 4 (2.42%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.91%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (8.48%) Data Centre
2 14 (8.48%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.03%) Derivative
4 5 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.42%) Clustering
5 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.42%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.21%) Mobile Payment
7 2 (1.21%) NHS
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Licensing
7 2 (1.21%) Replication
7 2 (1.21%) VSAM
8 1 (0.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.45%) Linux
2 26 (15.76%) Windows
3 20 (12.12%) Windows Server
4 12 (7.27%) Unix
5 3 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.21%) Solaris
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (31.52%) Agile
3 51 (30.91%) Migration
4 34 (20.61%) Performance Tuning
5 26 (15.76%) Data Migration
5 26 (15.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 25 (15.15%) Change Management
6 25 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 25 (15.15%) Microservices
7 22 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 21 (12.73%) DevOps
9 19 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (10.91%) Containerisation
10 18 (10.91%) Validation
11 17 (10.30%) Knowledge Transfer
11 17 (10.30%) Security Management
12 16 (9.70%) SOA
13 15 (9.09%) Mentoring
13 15 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
14 14 (8.48%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.64%) SQL
2 40 (24.24%) PL/SQL
3 27 (16.36%) Python
4 25 (15.15%) Bash
5 21 (12.73%) PowerShell
6 17 (10.30%) Perl
7 16 (9.70%) Java
8 8 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.85%) Shell Script
9 6 (3.64%) COBOL
10 3 (1.82%) Ruby
10 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.21%) Go
11 2 (1.21%) JCL
11 2 (1.21%) PHP
11 2 (1.21%) REXX
12 1 (0.61%) C#
12 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.12%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (4.24%) Degree
5 5 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.42%) OCP
6 4 (2.42%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (2.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.24%) QA
2 6 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.03%) Basel III
3 5 (3.03%) MiFID
4 1 (0.61%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.70%) Docker
3 9 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.85%) vSphere
5 4 (2.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (1.82%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (12.73%) Ansible
2 17 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.88%) Oracle RMAN
4 7 (4.24%) Grafana
5 5 (3.03%) Progress Chef
5 5 (3.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.82%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (1.21%) Puppet
7 2 (1.21%) Terraform
8 1 (0.61%) Graylog
8 1 (0.61%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.61%) Packer
Vendors
1 21 (12.73%) Cisco
2 16 (9.70%) Commvault
3 14 (8.48%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.45%) VMware
5 6 (3.64%) Informatica
5 6 (3.64%) Splunk
6 5 (3.03%) Siebel
6 5 (3.03%) Sybase
7 4 (2.42%) Confluent
8 3 (1.82%) Databricks
8 3 (1.82%) Perforce
8 3 (1.82%) Talend
9 2 (1.21%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.21%) IBM
9 2 (1.21%) Parasoft
9 2 (1.21%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.21%) Veritas
10 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.61%) Cloudera