Oracle Database Contracts in the South East

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 152 167
Rank change year-on-year +16 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 23 53 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.95% 0.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.60% 8.72% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 35 37
10th Percentile £469 £378 £402
25th Percentile £517 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £691 £688 £600
90th Percentile £700 - £670
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £56.80
25th Percentile - - £59.44
Median hourly rate - £61.60 £68.86
Median % change year-on-year - -10.54% +206.02%
75th Percentile - - £74.68
90th Percentile - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +50.16% -15.03% +70.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the South East

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the South East

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the South East

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the South East

Oracle Database
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 Database within the South East 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
Thames Valley +10 13 £650 +1.60% 3
Berkshire +1 12 £650 +0.81% 3
West Sussex - 4 £510 -
Hampshire +27 2 £625 +19.05% 2
Surrey +13 2 £700 +75.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +13 1 - -
Oracle Database
England

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
1 2 (8.70%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (4.35%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Miro
4 2 (8.70%) OCI
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (8.70%) Sybase IQ
5 1 (4.35%) MySQL
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (4.35%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) DBeaver
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 5 (21.74%) DBA
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) SAP Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) IFS Consultant
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Sybase DBA
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Data Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) ERP Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Migration Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Data Migration Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Implementation Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) SAP Basis
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) jQuery
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Migration
2 11 (47.83%) Data Migration
2 11 (47.83%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (34.78%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Clean Code
4 6 (26.09%) CRUD
4 6 (26.09%) Prototyping
4 6 (26.09%) Secure Coding
4 6 (26.09%) Software Testing
4 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Database Migration
5 5 (21.74%) ERP
5 5 (21.74%) High Availability
6 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.70%) Agile
7 2 (8.70%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (8.70%) Business Continuity
7 2 (8.70%) Data Management
7 2 (8.70%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) PL/SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Bash
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) APMP
5 1 (4.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (8.70%) Data Guard
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Sybase
3 3 (13.04%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) IFS
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Red Hat