Oracle Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 237 228
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 -16
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 168 151 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.25% 0.71% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.98% 5.68% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 109 146
10th Percentile £300 £350 £380
25th Percentile £358 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £448 £486 £495
% change year-on-year -7.92% -1.82% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £48.16 £54.25
25th Percentile £72.50 - £57.69
Median hourly rate £75.00 £61.60 £61.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.75% +0.50% +81.61%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £74.03
90th Percentile - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +21.75% -15.03% +70.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,105 2,660 3,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.66% 12.48% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 1,851 2,356
10th Percentile £313 £316 £330
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 111 108
10th Percentile £18.67 £13.69 £21.33
25th Percentile £22.62 £17.85 £31.27
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £56.95
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -38.54% +62.71%
75th Percentile £65.63 £50.33 £73.72
90th Percentile £72.25 £71.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.98 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.55% -31.73% +34.13%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK excluding London

Oracle Database
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 Database within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +58 58 £500 +5.76% 127
Yorkshire +54 51 £500 +3.09% 60
Scotland -9 44 £363 -23.68% 31
Midlands +22 23 £475 +31.03% 118
South East +9 20 £488 -13.33% 169
South West +33 17 £581 -10.62% 80
West Midlands +25 16 £600 +50.00% 66
North West +17 7 £356 -24.26% 56
East Midlands +6 6 £349 -3.72% 52
East of England +32 4 £488 +23.42% 98
Wales +3 3 £375 -28.57% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 17
Oracle Database
UK

Oracle Database
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 26 (15.48%) Confluence
2 20 (11.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (5.36%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.98%) Tomcat
5 4 (2.38%) Oracle Application Server
6 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.19%) CICS
6 2 (1.19%) NetWeaver
6 2 (1.19%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.60%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 6 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.98%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.19%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.60%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.88%) AWS
1 25 (14.88%) Azure
2 14 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 14 (8.33%) Serverless
3 13 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (7.74%) OCI
4 6 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (2.98%) Collibra
5 5 (2.98%) GCP
6 4 (2.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.38%) GitHub
7 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.79%) Miro
7 3 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.19%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.71%) DNS
2 4 (2.38%) HTTP
2 4 (2.38%) SAN
3 3 (1.79%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.79%) SSL
4 2 (1.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.31%) Relational Database
1 19 (11.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.71%) Oracle Reports
3 16 (9.52%) RDBMS
4 11 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.95%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (5.36%) Oracle Database 12c
7 7 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
8 6 (3.57%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.57%) Oracle Database 10g
8 6 (3.57%) Power BI
9 5 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.98%) GIS
9 5 (2.98%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.79%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.19%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.19%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (1.19%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 24 (14.29%) Git
2 16 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 15 (8.93%) JIRA
4 14 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (5.36%) PVCS
5 9 (5.36%) Subversion
6 6 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (2.38%) GitLab
7 4 (2.38%) Maven
8 3 (1.79%) DBeaver
9 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.19%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.19%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.19%) JUnit
9 2 (1.19%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.19%) Selenium
9 2 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.60%) Toad
General
1 49 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.40%) Finance
3 26 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.36%) Banking
6 7 (4.17%) Back Office
7 6 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.57%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.79%) Electronics
9 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.79%) Marketing
10 2 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Front Office
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (20.83%) Developer
2 24 (14.29%) DBA
3 23 (13.69%) Oracle Developer
4 18 (10.71%) Oracle DBA
5 17 (10.12%) Lead
6 12 (7.14%) Commvault Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Backup Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Architect
8 10 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Analyst
9 9 (5.36%) Database Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 9 (5.36%) Oracle Database Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Administrator
10 8 (4.76%) Engineering Specialist
11 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.57%) Senior
11 6 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.36%) Java EE
2 8 (4.76%) HTML
3 7 (4.17%) CSS
3 7 (4.17%) Kafka
3 7 (4.17%) React
3 7 (4.17%) REST
4 6 (3.57%) RESTful
4 6 (3.57%) Spring
4 6 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.57%) Web Services
5 5 (2.98%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.38%) LDAP
7 3 (1.79%) JPA
7 3 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (1.79%) Middleware
7 3 (1.79%) RAML
7 3 (1.79%) SAP Basis
7 3 (1.79%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.19%) ModSecurity
8 2 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.31%) Data Centre
2 18 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.98%) IoT
6 5 (2.98%) Oracle Licensing
6 5 (2.98%) SCADA
6 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.38%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.79%) Replication
8 3 (1.79%) State Machine
9 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.19%) VSAM
10 1 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (25.00%) Linux
2 30 (17.86%) Windows
3 21 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 16 (9.52%) Unix
5 6 (3.57%) AIX
6 3 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.19%) Solaris
7 2 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (38.69%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (29.17%) Migration
3 48 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 36 (21.43%) Agile
5 27 (16.07%) ETL
6 25 (14.88%) CI/CD
6 25 (14.88%) Data Migration
7 24 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 23 (13.69%) Microservices
9 20 (11.90%) SOA
10 19 (11.31%) DevOps
10 19 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 18 (10.71%) High Availability
12 17 (10.12%) Data Modelling
12 17 (10.12%) Security Management
13 16 (9.52%) Change Management
13 16 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
14 14 (8.33%) Problem Management
14 14 (8.33%) Server Management
15 13 (7.74%) Database Migration
Programming Languages
1 100 (59.52%) SQL
2 61 (36.31%) PL/SQL
3 26 (15.48%) Java
3 26 (15.48%) Python
4 22 (13.10%) Bash
5 21 (12.50%) Perl
6 17 (10.12%) PowerShell
7 14 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 10 (5.95%) C
9 9 (5.36%) ProC
10 7 (4.17%) JavaScript
11 5 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (1.79%) JCL
13 2 (1.19%) Bicep
13 2 (1.19%) COBOL
13 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.60%) C#
14 1 (0.60%) Korn
Qualifications
1 42 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.90%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (8.33%) Degree
5 11 (6.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.57%) OCP
7 6 (3.57%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (2.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.38%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.74%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (3.57%) GDPR
3 6 (3.57%) QA
4 5 (2.98%) SLA
5 3 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 23 (13.69%) Active Directory
2 17 (10.12%) Docker
3 13 (7.74%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (4.76%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (19.64%) Oracle RMAN
2 16 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.33%) Ansible
3 14 (8.33%) Data Guard
4 12 (7.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 4 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.38%) Tivoli
5 4 (2.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.19%) Terraform
7 1 (0.60%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.60%) Control-M
Vendors
1 168 (100.00%) Oracle
2 21 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.90%) Cisco
4 19 (11.31%) Commvault
5 12 (7.14%) SAP
5 12 (7.14%) VMware
6 6 (3.57%) Databricks
7 5 (2.98%) Informatica
8 4 (2.38%) CyberArk
8 4 (2.38%) Google
8 4 (2.38%) IBM
8 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.79%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.79%) Sybase
10 2 (1.19%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.60%) BT
11 1 (0.60%) IFS
11 1 (0.60%) Splunk
11 1 (0.60%) Xerox