Oracle Certification Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Oracle Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 123 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.050% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.47% 0.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £477 - -
25th Percentile £528 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £611 £638 -
90th Percentile £619 - -
South East median daily rate £487 £625 -
% change year-on-year -22.16% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 851 762 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.91% 38.12% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 463 666
10th Percentile £255 £250 £205
25th Percentile £375 £383 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £513 £512
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +0.10% +2.40%
75th Percentile £550 £638 £620
90th Percentile £628 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £526 £538
% change year-on-year -4.99% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 34 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.26 £24.48
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.25 £60.07
Median % change year-on-year -58.26% +0.30% +186.05%
75th Percentile £72.00 £64.73 £67.97
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.51 £75.54
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Oracle Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

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

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Certification in the Thames Valley

Oracle Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Contract 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 Oracle Certification within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Berkshire -7 4 £575 -8.00% 2
Oracle Certification
South East

Oracle Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Storage
3 2 (50.00%) IaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) DBA
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 4 (100.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Statistics
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Database Security
4 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (100.00%) OCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Guard
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (50.00%) systemd
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft