Oracle Contracts in Scotland

Oracle
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 20 27
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 135 186 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.36% 8.38% 7.65%
As % of the Vendors category 18.91% 20.97% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 128 178
10th Percentile £300 £400 £377
25th Percentile £414 £437 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £499
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.28% +5.11%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £550
90th Percentile £589 £700 £607
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -3.64% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +75.00%
UK median hourly rate £30.40 £38.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year -21.04% -40.31% +77.32%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 714 887 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.24% 39.95% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 543 823
10th Percentile £236 £183 £175
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £467 £473
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -1.27% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 52 16
10th Percentile £16.36 £13.28 £21.26
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £43.86
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%
75th Percentile £24.62 £55.63 £65.39
90th Percentile £28.26 £60.00 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in Scotland

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in Scotland

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Scotland

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in Scotland

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Edinburgh -6 62 £500 -3.50% 15
Glasgow +3 50 £500 -3.01% 14
Perthshire -1 3 £638 +34.21% 1
Stirling - 3 £400 -
West Lothian +2 2 £344 -27.63%
Aberdeen - 2 £625 - 1
Highlands - 1 £375 - 1
Oracle
UK

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 9 (6.67%) Confluence
2 6 (4.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.48%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.48%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.96%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Oracle Payables
2 7 (5.19%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (2.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (2.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.74%) Finacle
4 1 (0.74%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.19%) Azure
2 27 (20.00%) OCI
3 22 (16.30%) AWS
4 14 (10.37%) Amazon S3
5 13 (9.63%) Serverless
6 10 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.93%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.19%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.44%) Oracle CX
11 5 (3.70%) SaaS
12 4 (2.96%) PaaS
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.22%) GitHub
13 3 (2.22%) IaaS
14 2 (1.48%) Amazon Cognito
14 2 (1.48%) GCP
15 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.48%) DHCP
2 2 (1.48%) DNS
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
2 2 (1.48%) LAN
2 2 (1.48%) WLAN
3 1 (0.74%) FTP
3 1 (0.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (34.07%) Oracle Database
2 23 (17.04%) SQL Server
3 16 (11.85%) Oracle Reports
4 14 (10.37%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.89%) RDBMS
6 6 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.44%) DB2
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (2.96%) MySQL
8 4 (2.96%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (2.96%) Power Query
9 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.22%) Tableau
10 2 (1.48%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.48%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (20.00%) Git
2 11 (8.15%) JIRA
3 10 (7.41%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (6.67%) PVCS
4 9 (6.67%) Subversion
5 7 (5.19%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (2.96%) GitLab
6 4 (2.96%) Mockito
7 3 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 3 (2.22%) JUnit
7 3 (2.22%) Toad
8 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.74%) Gatling
9 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.74%) TestRail
General
1 40 (29.63%) Public Sector
2 29 (21.48%) Finance
2 29 (21.48%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.11%) Back Office
5 10 (7.41%) Banking
6 5 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.48%) Legal
8 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Front Office
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (29.63%) Developer
2 23 (17.04%) Oracle Developer
3 17 (12.59%) Analyst
4 10 (7.41%) Architect
4 10 (7.41%) Lead
4 10 (7.41%) Senior
5 9 (6.67%) DBA
6 7 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) Database Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 6 (4.44%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) Administrator
8 5 (3.70%) Consultant
8 5 (3.70%) Lead Developer
8 5 (3.70%) Oracle Specialist
8 5 (3.70%) Python Developer
8 5 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.96%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.96%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (10.37%) REST
3 11 (8.15%) AngularJS
4 9 (6.67%) Java EE
4 9 (6.67%) Middleware
4 9 (6.67%) Node.js
5 8 (5.93%) CSS
5 8 (5.93%) HTML
6 7 (5.19%) Spring
7 6 (4.44%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.96%) Express.js
8 4 (2.96%) React
9 3 (2.22%) .NET
9 3 (2.22%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.22%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.22%) J2EE
9 3 (2.22%) Kafka
9 3 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (2.22%) WebCenter
10 2 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Management Information System
1 8 (5.93%) Replication
2 7 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.70%) Clustering
5 3 (2.22%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.74%) Derivative
7 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.33%) Linux
2 16 (11.85%) Windows
3 10 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (5.93%) AIX
5 7 (5.19%) Solaris
5 7 (5.19%) Unix
6 5 (3.70%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.48%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.74%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (26.67%) Agile
2 26 (19.26%) DevOps
3 24 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (15.56%) ERP
5 20 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 18 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 18 (13.33%) ETL
7 15 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (11.11%) SDLC
8 14 (10.37%) Test Automation
9 13 (9.63%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.63%) Migration
10 12 (8.89%) High Availability
11 11 (8.15%) Analytics
11 11 (8.15%) ITIL
12 10 (7.41%) Computer Science
12 10 (7.41%) Microservices
13 9 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (6.67%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) SQL
2 40 (29.63%) PL/SQL
3 26 (19.26%) Java
4 15 (11.11%) Python
5 13 (9.63%) ProC
6 11 (8.15%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.67%) C
8 7 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.96%) VBA
10 3 (2.22%) Bash
10 3 (2.22%) Perl
11 2 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.74%) C#
12 1 (0.74%) JCL
12 1 (0.74%) VB
12 1 (0.74%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (11.11%) Degree
2 10 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.96%) CIMA
5 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.22%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.74%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.37%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.22%) SLA
5 2 (1.48%) GDPR
5 2 (1.48%) NCSC
5 2 (1.48%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.48%) QA
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (7.41%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (3.70%) Docker
3 3 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.74%) KVM
Systems Management
1 8 (5.93%) Terraform
2 7 (5.19%) Data Guard
3 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (2.96%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (2.96%) Oracle Flashback
4 4 (2.96%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.48%) Ansible
5 2 (1.48%) Grafana
5 2 (1.48%) Podman
5 2 (1.48%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.74%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.74%) Nagios
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
6 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 16 (11.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.41%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.70%) VMware
4 4 (2.96%) Dell
4 4 (2.96%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.22%) Autodesk
5 3 (2.22%) Avaloq
5 3 (2.22%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.22%) Netskope
5 3 (2.22%) Proofpoint
5 3 (2.22%) Splunk
5 3 (2.22%) Symantec
6 2 (1.48%) Avaya
6 2 (1.48%) Commvault
6 2 (1.48%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.48%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.48%) IBM
6 2 (1.48%) Sybase
7 1 (0.74%) Okta
7 1 (0.74%) Workday