Oracle Database Contracts in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 77 118
Rank change year-on-year -32 +41 +17
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 7 52 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.42% 2.23% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.57% 14.99% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 24 22
10th Percentile £510 £413 £401
25th Percentile £581 £450 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £633 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% +10.00% +10.58%
75th Percentile - £661 £619
90th Percentile - £663 £700
South East median daily rate £328 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -47.94% +14.55% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year - +5.14% +160.40%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 272 347 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.24% 14.85% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 207 270
10th Percentile £325 £328 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £564 £625 £613
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £541
% change year-on-year -7.40% -7.62% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.75 £25.92
25th Percentile £21.51 £48.18 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £61.60 £43.65
Median % change year-on-year -61.04% +41.12% +123.85%
75th Percentile £31.14 - £68.13
90th Percentile £34.22 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -56.36% - +144.44%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the Thames Valley

Oracle Database
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 Database within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -33 5 £700 +9.38% 2
Buckinghamshire +7 2 - - 2
Oracle Database
South East

Oracle Database
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 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (28.57%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) OCI
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) DBA
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) jQuery
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) VMS
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) BCP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Database Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (14.29%) Remediation Plan
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (28.57%) Data Guard
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) VMware