Oracle Contracts in the South East

Oracle
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 45 39
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing Oracle 196 227 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.51% 4.08% 5.26%
As % of the Vendors category 12.41% 8.62% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 156 234
10th Percentile £404 £400 £320
25th Percentile £475 £455 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £571 £534
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +7.03% +1.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £624
90th Percentile £675 £688 £694
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £32.49 £32.80 £53.12
25th Percentile £43.51 £55.00 £58.59
Median hourly rate £63.75 £60.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.24% -6.25% +75.95%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile - £62.28 £77.00
England median hourly rate £30.40 £26.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +16.92% -58.40% +70.07%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the South East

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the South East

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the South East

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the South East

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the South East

Oracle
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 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 +4 108 £601 -0.74% 58
Berkshire +3 96 £614 +1.45% 31
Hampshire +36 45 £540 +2.86% 23
West Sussex +8 17 £443 -22.96% 6
Surrey +14 16 £650 +44.44% 14
Buckinghamshire +8 9 £469 +4.17% 21
Sussex - 4 £600 - 6
Middlesex - 4 £625 - 3
Oxfordshire -1 3 £195 -61.00% 16
East Sussex - 2 £475 - 1
Kent +8 1 £300 - 3
Home Counties +1 1 - -
Oracle
England

Oracle
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 20 (10.20%) Confluence
2 9 (4.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (3.06%) WebLogic
4 4 (2.04%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (1.53%) Oracle Service Bus
5 3 (1.53%) SAS
6 2 (1.02%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.02%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 56 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 31 (15.82%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (7.14%) Oracle ASCP
4 13 (6.63%) Maximo
5 9 (4.59%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (3.06%) Oracle Retail
7 5 (2.55%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (2.04%) Primavera
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (1.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payroll
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.51%) Remedy AR System
10 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 31 (15.82%) OCI
2 15 (7.65%) AWS
2 15 (7.65%) Azure
3 9 (4.59%) SaaS
4 5 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.55%) Oracle CX
4 5 (2.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.53%) GCP
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.02%) Miro
6 2 (1.02%) PaaS
6 2 (1.02%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.51%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.51%) IaaS
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Slack
7 1 (0.51%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.51%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.73%) Oracle Database
2 15 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (4.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (3.06%) MySQL
5 6 (3.06%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.55%) Power BI
7 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.53%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (1.02%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.02%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.02%) OLAP
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (1.02%) Tableau
10 1 (0.51%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (13.27%) JIRA
2 16 (8.16%) Visual Studio
3 6 (3.06%) GitLab
4 5 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.04%) Git
5 4 (2.04%) Maven
6 3 (1.53%) Toad
7 2 (1.02%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.02%) DBeaver
7 2 (1.02%) ERwin
7 2 (1.02%) Selenium
7 2 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.51%) Subversion
8 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 57 (29.08%) Finance
3 48 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.63%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.12%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.12%) Retail
6 7 (3.57%) Local Government
7 6 (3.06%) Legal
8 4 (2.04%) Banking
8 4 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Military
9 2 (1.02%) Billing
9 2 (1.02%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (23.47%) Consultant
2 39 (19.90%) Oracle Consultant
3 35 (17.86%) Developer
4 29 (14.80%) Functional Consultant
4 29 (14.80%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 23 (11.73%) Analyst
6 20 (10.20%) Lead
7 17 (8.67%) Senior
8 16 (8.16%) Delphi Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (5.61%) Architect
10 11 (5.61%) DBA
11 8 (4.08%) Oracle Analyst
11 8 (4.08%) Oracle Specialist
12 6 (3.06%) Data Analyst
12 6 (3.06%) Project Manager
12 6 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.55%) Administrator
13 5 (2.55%) Oracle Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (6.63%) Web Services
3 10 (5.10%) XML
4 9 (4.59%) REST
5 7 (3.57%) SOAP
6 5 (2.55%) JSON
6 5 (2.55%) React
7 3 (1.53%) Java EE
7 3 (1.53%) Middleware
7 3 (1.53%) SAP Basis
8 2 (1.02%) .NET
8 2 (1.02%) Ajax
8 2 (1.02%) JAXB
8 2 (1.02%) JAX-RS
8 2 (1.02%) JAX-WS
8 2 (1.02%) RESTful
8 2 (1.02%) XSD
8 2 (1.02%) XSL
8 2 (1.02%) XSLT
9 1 (0.51%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.53%) PKI
3 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.02%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.02%) Replication
5 1 (0.51%) CESG
5 1 (0.51%) CMDB
5 1 (0.51%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.51%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.51%) Learning Management System
5 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.51%) NHS
5 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.76%) Windows
2 7 (3.57%) Linux
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.02%) Solaris
4 2 (1.02%) VMS
4 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (19.90%) Agile
3 34 (17.35%) ERP
4 30 (15.31%) Project Delivery
5 28 (14.29%) Migration
6 21 (10.71%) Data Migration
7 19 (9.69%) E-business
8 17 (8.67%) Functional Testing
8 17 (8.67%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (8.67%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (7.65%) DevOps
10 14 (7.14%) Project Management
11 13 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (6.63%) Logistics
11 13 (6.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (6.63%) Validation
12 12 (6.12%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (5.61%) User Acceptance Testing
14 10 (5.10%) Scrum
15 9 (4.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.69%) SQL
2 41 (20.92%) PL/SQL
3 20 (10.20%) C#
4 16 (8.16%) Delphi
5 14 (7.14%) Java
6 6 (3.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.55%) Python
8 3 (1.53%) Perl
9 2 (1.02%) PHP
9 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.02%) XPath
10 1 (0.51%) Bash
10 1 (0.51%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 17 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) DV Cleared
4 7 (3.57%) Degree
5 3 (1.53%) CISSP
5 3 (1.53%) ISEB
5 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.02%) ACCA
6 2 (1.02%) PMP
7 1 (0.51%) APMP
7 1 (0.51%) CISA
7 1 (0.51%) CISM
7 1 (0.51%) CRISC
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) OCP
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.55%) QA
2 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.53%) PMO
3 3 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.53%) SLA
4 2 (1.02%) GDPR
4 2 (1.02%) IFRS
4 2 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) COBIT
5 1 (0.51%) COSO
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.51%) ITGC
System Software
1 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
1 2 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (1.02%) Ansible
2 2 (1.02%) Data Guard
2 2 (1.02%) Foglight
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 23 (11.73%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.10%) SAP
3 6 (3.06%) Sybase
4 5 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.53%) IBM
6 3 (1.53%) VMware
6 3 (1.53%) webMethods
6 3 (1.53%) Workday
7 2 (1.02%) Google
7 2 (1.02%) IFS
7 2 (1.02%) Sparx
7 2 (1.02%) Splunk
8 1 (0.51%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.51%) BMC
8 1 (0.51%) Genesys
8 1 (0.51%) Informatica
8 1 (0.51%) NEC
8 1 (0.51%) Remedy
8 1 (0.51%) Teradata