Oracle Contracts in the Thames Valley

Oracle
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -16
Contract jobs citing Oracle 108 154 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.15% 5.73% 5.22%
As % of the Vendors category 13.60% 11.97% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 117 120
10th Percentile £488 £400 £361
25th Percentile £563 £475 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £605 £545
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +11.01% +3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £628
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £600 £571 £534
% change year-on-year +5.03% +7.03% +1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £32.49 £40.50 -
25th Percentile £43.51 £57.58 £65.00
Median hourly rate £63.75 £60.14 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -14.09% -
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £60.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +6.24% -6.25% +75.95%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the Thames Valley

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the Thames Valley

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the Thames Valley

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the Thames Valley

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the Thames Valley

Oracle
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 within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +3 96 £614 +1.45% 62
Buckinghamshire +8 9 £469 +4.17% 49
Oxfordshire -1 3 £195 -61.00% 31
Oracle
South East

Oracle
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 3 (2.78%) Confluence
1 3 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.85%) SAS
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 44 (40.74%) Oracle EBS
2 28 (25.93%) Oracle EBS R12
3 14 (12.96%) Oracle ASCP
4 13 (12.04%) Maximo
5 7 (6.48%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (5.56%) Oracle Retail
7 4 (3.70%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (3.70%) Primavera
8 2 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle SCM
9 1 (0.93%) Remedy AR System
9 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (12.04%) OCI
2 11 (10.19%) AWS
3 6 (5.56%) Azure
4 5 (4.63%) Oracle CX
5 4 (3.70%) SaaS
6 3 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.78%) GCP
6 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.85%) Miro
7 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.93%) IaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) PaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) Oracle Database
2 12 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 6 (5.56%) Oracle Database 11g
5 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.78%) MySQL
6 3 (2.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 3 (2.78%) Power BI
7 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.85%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (1.85%) OLAP
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (1.85%) Oracle OLAP
7 2 (1.85%) Tableau
8 1 (0.93%) Cloudera CDH
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (1.85%) DBeaver
2 2 (1.85%) ERwin
2 2 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.93%) Subversion
3 1 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 42 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 35 (32.41%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (20.37%) Finance
4 9 (8.33%) Retail
5 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Legal
7 4 (3.70%) Banking
8 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.85%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.85%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (27.78%) Consultant
2 29 (26.85%) Oracle Consultant
3 23 (21.30%) Functional Consultant
3 23 (21.30%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 14 (12.96%) Lead
5 13 (12.04%) Analyst
6 11 (10.19%) Senior
7 9 (8.33%) Architect
8 7 (6.48%) DBA
9 6 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Administrator
10 5 (4.63%) Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Data Modeller
11 4 (3.70%) Oracle Architect
11 4 (3.70%) Senior DBA
11 4 (3.70%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Data Migration Analyst
12 3 (2.78%) Procurement Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.63%) Web Services
3 2 (1.85%) REST
3 2 (1.85%) SOAP
4 1 (0.93%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.93%) CSS
4 1 (0.93%) HTML
4 1 (0.93%) jQuery
4 1 (0.93%) Middleware
4 1 (0.93%) OAuth
4 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.93%) RESTful
4 1 (0.93%) SAML
4 1 (0.93%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) CESG
4 1 (0.93%) CMDB
4 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) PKI
4 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Linux
1 3 (2.78%) Windows
2 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.85%) Unix
2 2 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 22 (20.37%) Agile
4 18 (16.67%) E-business
5 17 (15.74%) Migration
5 17 (15.74%) Performance Tuning
6 15 (13.89%) Data Migration
7 12 (11.11%) ERP
7 12 (11.11%) Logistics
8 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (8.33%) DevOps
10 7 (6.48%) Project Management
10 7 (6.48%) Scrum
10 7 (6.48%) Validation
11 6 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (5.56%) CRM
11 6 (5.56%) CRUD
11 6 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (5.56%) Software Testing
11 6 (5.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.15%) SQL
2 15 (13.89%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.93%) C#
4 1 (0.93%) Java
4 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.19%) DV Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.85%) ACCA
4 2 (1.85%) CISSP
4 2 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (0.93%) CISM
5 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) QA
2 3 (2.78%) SLA
3 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.85%) GDPR
3 2 (1.85%) IFRS
3 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.85%) PMO
3 2 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (1.85%) Data Guard
1 2 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
2 3 (2.78%) IBM
2 3 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.85%) Google
3 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.85%) Sparx
3 2 (1.85%) Workday
4 1 (0.93%) BMC
4 1 (0.93%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.93%) DocuSign
4 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.93%) Genesys
4 1 (0.93%) Remedy
4 1 (0.93%) SAP
4 1 (0.93%) Teradata
4 1 (0.93%) VMware