Oracle Certification Contract Job Trends in the South East

Oracle Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 173 210
Rank change year-on-year +16 +37 +55
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 18 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.48% 0.048% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.19% 0.12% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 0
10th Percentile £429 £421 -
25th Percentile £447 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.71% - -
75th Percentile £500 £578 -
90th Percentile £673 £614 -
England median daily rate £500 £638 £563
% change year-on-year -21.57% +13.33% +4.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Oracle Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,513 1,692 2,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.21% 40.57% 41.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 996 1,093 1,351
10th Percentile £219 £280 £217
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 101 139
10th Percentile - £22.50 £24.15
25th Percentile £18.87 £35.00 £49.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.49 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% -2.52% +33.33%
75th Percentile £39.00 £71.25 £72.11
90th Percentile £81.00 £92.37 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.67%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Oracle Certification job vacancy trend in the South East

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Certification in the South East

Oracle Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Certification within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Hampshire +18 14 £473 +18.25% 1
Surrey - 3 £500 -
Berkshire +10 1 £445 -28.80% 2
Thames Valley +1 1 £445 -28.80% 3
Oracle Certification
England

Oracle Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Datadog
2 5 (27.78%) GitHub
2 5 (27.78%) OpenShift
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (11.11%) Apple Pay
4 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) MongoDB
2 7 (38.89%) NoSQL
2 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (27.78%) DynamoDB
3 5 (27.78%) HBase
4 3 (16.67%) Tableau
5 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (11.11%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
5 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 6 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 6 (33.33%) JUnit
3 5 (27.78%) Artifactory
3 5 (27.78%) Gradle
3 5 (27.78%) Jenkins
3 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (16.67%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) Gatling
5 1 (5.56%) JMeter
5 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 6 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Java Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Migration Manager
4 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Database Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
5 2 (11.11%) QA Leader
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Spring
1 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (27.78%) Kafka
2 5 (27.78%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (5.56%) ONNX
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
1 2 (11.11%) Digital Wallet
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
1 9 (50.00%) Migration
2 8 (44.44%) Microservices
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Event-Driven
4 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) SOA
4 5 (27.78%) Validation
5 4 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 4 (22.22%) Observability
5 4 (22.22%) Programme Management
5 4 (22.22%) Release Train
6 3 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 3 (16.67%) People Management
6 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 3 (16.67%) Test Planning
6 3 (16.67%) User Experience
6 3 (16.67%) User Stories
6 3 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) OCP
2 3 (16.67%) OCA
2 3 (16.67%) PgMP
2 3 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 3 (16.67%) PMP
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CSPO
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 5 (27.78%) GDPR
3 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Grafana
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Cilium
3 1 (5.56%) Rsyslog
3 1 (5.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) Samsung
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) NVIDIA