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 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 150 185 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 9.18% 8.80% 8.41%
As % of the Vendors category 19.56% 21.61% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 129 176
10th Percentile £300 £354 £378
25th Percentile £414 £429 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £493
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +2.64% +7.17%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £589 £690 £611
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% -
UK median hourly rate £30.40 £26.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +14.72% -57.60% +78.57%

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 767 856 1,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 46.94% 40.72% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 552 797
10th Percentile £233 £179 £175
25th Percentile £363 £318 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £539
90th Percentile £600 £663 £625
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 48 17
10th Percentile £16.02 £11.91 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.00 £21.26
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -70.43% +74.24%
75th Percentile £23.53 £19.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £27.32 £60.23 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £21.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year +19.86% -47.03% +88.79%

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 22 May 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 22 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
Edinburgh -4 71 £500 -4.76% 21
Glasgow -9 53 £500 +0.40% 45
West Lothian +1 5 £188 -51.14% 1
Perthshire 0 3 £638 +34.21%
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Aberdeen - 2 £625 - 7
Highlands - 1 £375 -
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 (6.00%) Confluence
2 6 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.00%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.33%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) JBoss
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.67%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Oracle Payables
2 8 (5.33%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (3.33%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (3.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (2.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (2.00%) Primavera
5 1 (0.67%) Finacle
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 34 (22.67%) Azure
2 29 (19.33%) OCI
3 25 (16.67%) AWS
4 16 (10.67%) Amazon S3
5 14 (9.33%) Serverless
6 11 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (5.33%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.00%) GitHub
10 6 (4.00%) Oracle CX
11 5 (3.33%) SaaS
12 4 (2.67%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (2.67%) PaaS
13 3 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.00%) IaaS
14 2 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) Internet
2 3 (2.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.33%) DHCP
3 2 (1.33%) DNS
3 2 (1.33%) Firewall
3 2 (1.33%) LAN
3 2 (1.33%) WLAN
4 1 (0.67%) FTP
4 1 (0.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.33%) Oracle Database
2 23 (15.33%) Oracle Reports
2 23 (15.33%) SQL Server
3 14 (9.33%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.00%) RDBMS
5 7 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.67%) MongoDB
6 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.00%) DB2
7 5 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (2.67%) MySQL
8 4 (2.67%) Oracle Exadata
8 4 (2.67%) Power Query
9 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.00%) Tableau
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.33%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (19.33%) Git
2 11 (7.33%) JIRA
3 10 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (6.00%) PVCS
4 9 (6.00%) Subversion
5 7 (4.67%) Oracle APEX
6 6 (4.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (4.00%) Mockito
7 5 (3.33%) JUnit
8 4 (2.67%) GitLab
9 3 (2.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.00%) Toad
10 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.33%) JMeter
10 2 (1.33%) Maven
10 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.67%) Gatling
11 1 (0.67%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.67%) Storybook
11 1 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 46 (30.67%) Public Sector
2 34 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 33 (22.00%) Finance
4 26 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (10.00%) Back Office
6 11 (7.33%) Banking
7 5 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.33%) Legal
9 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Front Office
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (28.67%) Developer
2 23 (15.33%) Oracle Developer
3 17 (11.33%) Analyst
4 11 (7.33%) Architect
5 10 (6.67%) Lead
5 10 (6.67%) Senior
6 9 (6.00%) DBA
7 7 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Consultant
8 6 (4.00%) Database Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
9 5 (3.33%) Administrator
9 5 (3.33%) Lead Developer
9 5 (3.33%) Oracle Specialist
9 5 (3.33%) Python Developer
10 4 (2.67%) Data Engineer
10 4 (2.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (10.67%) REST
3 13 (8.67%) AngularJS
4 10 (6.67%) CSS
4 10 (6.67%) Middleware
5 9 (6.00%) HTML
5 9 (6.00%) Java EE
5 9 (6.00%) Node.js
6 8 (5.33%) Spring
6 8 (5.33%) Spring Boot
7 6 (4.00%) React
8 4 (2.67%) .NET
8 4 (2.67%) AWS CDK
8 4 (2.67%) Express.js
8 4 (2.67%) OAuth
9 3 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
9 3 (2.00%) Hibernate
9 3 (2.00%) J2EE
9 3 (2.00%) JMS
9 3 (2.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.33%) Replication
3 7 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.33%) Clustering
6 3 (2.00%) Oracle Licensing
6 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.67%) Derivative
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.67%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.67%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (16.00%) Linux
2 21 (14.00%) Windows
3 12 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (7.33%) Unix
5 10 (6.67%) Solaris
6 9 (6.00%) AIX
7 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.67%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.67%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.33%) Agile
2 28 (18.67%) DevOps
3 27 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 22 (14.67%) ERP
6 18 (12.00%) Data Modelling
6 18 (12.00%) ETL
7 16 (10.67%) Test Automation
8 15 (10.00%) ITIL
8 15 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 15 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (10.00%) SDLC
9 13 (8.67%) Migration
10 12 (8.00%) Analytics
10 12 (8.00%) Computer Science
10 12 (8.00%) High Availability
10 12 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (8.00%) Service Management
11 11 (7.33%) Microservices
12 10 (6.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 64 (42.67%) SQL
2 41 (27.33%) PL/SQL
3 28 (18.67%) Java
4 15 (10.00%) ProC
4 15 (10.00%) Python
5 12 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.00%) C
7 8 (5.33%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.67%) VBA
9 3 (2.00%) Bash
9 3 (2.00%) Perl
10 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) C#
11 1 (0.67%) JCL
11 1 (0.67%) VB
11 1 (0.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Degree
2 10 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (2.67%) CIMA
5 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 7 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.00%) NCSC
4 3 (2.00%) SLA
5 2 (1.33%) GDPR
5 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.33%) QA
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (6.67%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (4.00%) Docker
3 4 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.67%) KVM
Systems Management
1 10 (6.67%) Terraform
2 7 (4.67%) Data Guard
2 7 (4.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 4 (2.67%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (2.67%) Oracle Flashback
4 4 (2.67%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.33%) Ansible
5 2 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (1.33%) Podman
5 2 (1.33%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.67%) Nagios
6 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.67%) Puppet
6 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 17 (11.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 6 (4.00%) VMware
4 4 (2.67%) Dell
4 4 (2.67%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.00%) Autodesk
5 3 (2.00%) Avaloq
5 3 (2.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.00%) Netskope
5 3 (2.00%) Proofpoint
5 3 (2.00%) Splunk
5 3 (2.00%) Symantec
6 2 (1.33%) Avaya
6 2 (1.33%) Commvault
6 2 (1.33%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (1.33%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.33%) IBM
6 2 (1.33%) Sybase
7 1 (0.67%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.67%) Workday