OCI Contracts in the Thames Valley

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring OCI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCI over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 96 117
Rank change year-on-year +23 +21 -76
DemandTrendContract jobs citing OCI 39 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.34% 1.21% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.46% 4.25% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 19
10th Percentile £458 £548 £600
25th Percentile £506 £603 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £660
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -8.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £680
90th Percentile £656 £738 £703
South East median daily rate £600 £605 £640
% change year-on-year -0.83% -5.47% +19.35%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

OCI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 604 635 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.21% 28.44% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 439 566
10th Percentile £258 £363 £256
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +6.28%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £650
90th Percentile £663 £663 £717
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 18 20
10th Percentile - £18.50 £17.21
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +31.58% +57.56%
75th Percentile £36.70 £59.85 £40.38
90th Percentile £46.30 £61.22 £65.25
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £31.75 £27.83
% change year-on-year -40.72% +14.09% +39.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing OCI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for OCI in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing OCI

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCI in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCI in the Thames Valley

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCI within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +29 39 £600 -0.83% 11
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (12.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (7.69%) WebLogic
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (51.28%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) IaaS
3 2 (5.13%) PaaS
3 2 (5.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle CX
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) SSL
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (17.95%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 18 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Lead
2 10 (25.64%) Analyst
3 8 (20.51%) Oracle Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Data Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Data Migration Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Migration Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Data Migration Lead
6 3 (7.69%) DBA
6 3 (7.69%) HR Analyst
6 3 (7.69%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (5.13%) Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Oracle Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Oracle Project Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.13%) QA Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (10.26%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) SOAP
2 4 (10.26%) Web Services
3 3 (7.69%) OAuth
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.56%) OpenID
5 1 (2.56%) SailPoint
5 1 (2.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) ERP
2 10 (25.64%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (25.64%) Data Modelling
2 10 (25.64%) Migration
3 9 (23.08%) Data Migration
3 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (20.51%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (20.51%) DevOps
4 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (12.82%) SOA
6 4 (10.26%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (10.26%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.26%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.26%) Test Scripting
7 3 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (7.69%) Database Tuning
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) PL/SQL
2 5 (12.82%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.56%) CCSP
2 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.56%) CISSP
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.56%) OSCP
2 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) GDPR
2 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) COBIT
4 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.56%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (94.87%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
2 1 (2.56%) HP
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) Rapid7