Oracle Certification Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Oracle Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 355 405
Rank change year-on-year -5 +50 +54
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 20 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.057% 0.074%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.17% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 13
10th Percentile £443 £477 £430
25th Percentile £449 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% +6.90% -4.76%
75th Percentile £554 £641 £588
90th Percentile £645 £650 £618
UK median daily rate £577 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.52% +6.48%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,358 6,054 7,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.10% 34.31% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,246 3,555 4,575
10th Percentile £218 £282 £281
25th Percentile £399 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +3.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 685 552 601
10th Percentile £17.87 £16.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.51 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +1.18% +17.93%
75th Percentile £40.65 £69.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.08 £79.00 £78.36
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% -7.41% +20.00%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Oracle Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Certification in the UK excluding London

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Certification in the UK excluding London

Oracle Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Oracle Certification

Oracle Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
South East +26 8 £447 -12.78% 6
Midlands -4 5 £552 +8.14% 1
West Midlands -4 4 £552 +8.14% 1
North of England - 3 £650 - 2
South West - 3 £463 - 2
North West - 2 £650 -
Scotland -7 1 £525 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Oracle Certification
UK

Oracle Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) Anypoint
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ASCP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) OCI
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) npm
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Route 53
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (5.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Electronics
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) DBA
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Database Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.00%) RAML
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) Loki
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) ONNX
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
3 7 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (20.00%) Database Security
6 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (20.00%) High Availability
6 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (15.00%) Service Management
8 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (10.00%) Database Migration
8 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) PL/SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Bash
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Rust
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) OCP
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) OCA
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.00%) CCNP
6 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.00%) CSPO
6 1 (5.00%) RHCA
6 1 (5.00%) RHCE
6 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Cilium
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Kibana
4 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (5.00%) Rsyslog
4 1 (5.00%) SCOM
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Apple
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Remedy
4 1 (5.00%) VMware