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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 36 34
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -20
Contract jobs citing Oracle 113 127 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.53% 4.76% 5.84%
As % of the Vendors category 13.40% 10.10% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 87 135
10th Percentile £445 £385 £322
25th Percentile £513 £459 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £638 £622 £634
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £528
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.47% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £25.87 £44.76 -
25th Percentile £26.94 £60.36 -
Median hourly rate £28.81 £61.60 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -53.24% +353.94% -83.04%
75th Percentile £30.60 - -
90th Percentile £31.62 - -
South East median hourly rate £28.81 £61.60 £58.59
% change year-on-year -53.24% +5.14% +23.35%

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 843 1,257 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 56.20% 47.13% 48.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 720 946
10th Percentile £305 £213 £297
25th Percentile £406 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.06% +2.10% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 79 51
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.74 £16.40
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £47.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +5.56% +184.81%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.11
90th Percentile £67.50 £62.00 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £21.07 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -55.64% +5.56% +130.65%

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 25 June 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
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 25 June 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 +14 102 £600 - 40
Buckinghamshire +12 9 £513 +7.89% 21
Oxfordshire -3 2 - - 11
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 8 (7.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.65%) ArcGIS
3 3 (2.65%) Confluence
3 3 (2.65%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (2.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (2.65%) Smallworld
3 3 (2.65%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.77%) Oracle Service Bus
5 1 (0.88%) SAS
5 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 41 (36.28%) Oracle EBS
2 25 (22.12%) Oracle EBS R12
3 17 (15.04%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (9.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (7.96%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (5.31%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (3.54%) Primavera
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle AGIS
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle ASCP
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle iProcurement
8 3 (2.65%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (1.77%) Maximo
9 2 (1.77%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (1.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.88%) BPCS
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.24%) OCI
2 14 (12.39%) SaaS
3 9 (7.96%) Azure
3 9 (7.96%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.31%) Oracle CX
5 5 (4.42%) AWS
6 4 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.54%) Miro
7 3 (2.65%) GCP
7 3 (2.65%) IaaS
7 3 (2.65%) PaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.77%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) SSL
2 1 (0.88%) DNS
2 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (17.70%) Oracle Reports
2 11 (9.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 9 (7.96%) Oracle Database
4 8 (7.08%) Power BI
5 7 (6.19%) Oracle BI EE
6 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.54%) MySQL
7 4 (3.54%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.65%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.65%) GIS
8 3 (2.65%) Spatial Data
8 3 (2.65%) Tableau
9 2 (1.77%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.77%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (1.77%) OLAP
9 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (1.77%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.31%) JIRA
2 2 (1.77%) DBeaver
2 2 (1.77%) ERwin
2 2 (1.77%) Git
2 2 (1.77%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.88%) Gradle
3 1 (0.88%) Maven
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.88%) Subversion
3 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
1 30 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.78%) Finance
3 9 (7.96%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.54%) Retail
5 3 (2.65%) Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) General Ledger
6 2 (1.77%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Back Office
7 1 (0.88%) Billing
7 1 (0.88%) French Language
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.88%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.88%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Lead
2 18 (15.93%) Analyst
2 18 (15.93%) Consultant
3 14 (12.39%) Developer
4 13 (11.50%) Oracle Consultant
5 11 (9.73%) Oracle Developer
6 9 (7.96%) Architect
7 8 (7.08%) Oracle Analyst
8 7 (6.19%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) DBA
9 6 (5.31%) Functional Consultant
9 6 (5.31%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 6 (5.31%) Report Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Senior
10 4 (3.54%) Data Migration Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Data Modeller
10 4 (3.54%) HR Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Migration Analyst
10 4 (3.54%) Oracle DBA
10 4 (3.54%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (7.08%) Web Services
3 4 (3.54%) REST
3 4 (3.54%) SOAP
4 3 (2.65%) Middleware
4 3 (2.65%) PostGIS
5 2 (1.77%) CSS
5 2 (1.77%) HTML
5 2 (1.77%) jQuery
5 2 (1.77%) OAuth
5 2 (1.77%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.77%) RESTful
6 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.88%) Ajax
6 1 (0.88%) DWR
6 1 (0.88%) JDBC
6 1 (0.88%) JSON
6 1 (0.88%) JSP
6 1 (0.88%) MDX
6 1 (0.88%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.65%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.88%) CESG
4 1 (0.88%) CMDB
4 1 (0.88%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Learning Management System
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) PKI
4 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.65%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Windows
3 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (23.89%) Agile
2 23 (20.35%) ERP
3 22 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (16.81%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (15.93%) Migration
7 16 (14.16%) Data Migration
7 16 (14.16%) Data Modelling
8 14 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
8 14 (12.39%) Validation
9 12 (10.62%) Logistics
10 11 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.85%) DevOps
11 10 (8.85%) Procure-to-Pay
11 10 (8.85%) Scrum
12 9 (7.96%) Information Security
13 8 (7.08%) Data Cleansing
13 8 (7.08%) Project Delivery
13 8 (7.08%) SOA
14 7 (6.19%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (28.32%) SQL
2 14 (12.39%) PL/SQL
3 3 (2.65%) Java
3 3 (2.65%) Magik
3 3 (2.65%) Perl
4 2 (1.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.88%) Python
5 1 (0.88%) R
5 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.54%) ACCA
3 4 (3.54%) Degree
4 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.77%) CIMA
5 2 (1.77%) CISSP
5 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (7.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (6.19%) COBIT
2 7 (6.19%) NIST
3 6 (5.31%) SLA
4 4 (3.54%) QA
5 3 (2.65%) GDPR
6 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.77%) IFRS
6 2 (1.77%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (4.42%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (1.77%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (5.31%) Microsoft
1 6 (5.31%) SAP
2 4 (3.54%) Salesforce
3 3 (2.65%) ESRI
3 3 (2.65%) IBM
4 2 (1.77%) Google
4 2 (1.77%) Hyperion
4 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.77%) Sparx
4 2 (1.77%) Workday
5 1 (0.88%) Ariba
5 1 (0.88%) BMC
5 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.88%) DocuSign
5 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.88%) Genesys
5 1 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.88%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (0.88%) Remedy
5 1 (0.88%) VMware