OCI Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring OCI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 265 377
Rank change year-on-year +26 +112 +28
Contract jobs citing OCI 97 135 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.76% 0.65% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.37% 2.48% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 86 44
10th Percentile £409 £381 £425
25th Percentile £500 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +1.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £678
90th Percentile £659 £744 £757
UK median daily rate £550 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -2.00% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

OCI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for OCI in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for OCI in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCI in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCI in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for OCI in the UK excluding London

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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 OCI within the UK excluding London 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
South East +51 34 £600 -0.83% 132
Scotland -2 28 £507 -3.52% 26
Midlands +16 12 £603 +32.53% 94
West Midlands +17 10 £589 -11.93% 52
North of England +11 9 £544 +8.75% 95
Yorkshire +9 8 £544 +10.13% 38
South West +33 5 £500 +19.76% 47
Northern Ireland -7 5 £516 -20.58% 16
Wales - 3 £405 - 13
East of England +25 2 £596 -11.67% 64
North West +8 1 - - 43
East Midlands 0 1 - - 35
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UK

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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 11 (11.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (5.15%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 3 (3.09%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.03%) IIS
4 1 (1.03%) JBoss
4 1 (1.03%) nginx
4 1 (1.03%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.03%) WebLogic Portal
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (20.62%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (16.49%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (11.34%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (5.15%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Payroll
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (4.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (2.06%) NetSuite
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.40%) Azure
2 8 (8.25%) AWS
2 8 (8.25%) SaaS
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle CX
4 5 (5.15%) PaaS
5 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.09%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.06%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (2.06%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.06%) Boomi
7 2 (2.06%) GCP
7 2 (2.06%) IaaS
7 2 (2.06%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
1 2 (2.06%) Network Security
1 2 (2.06%) SSL
2 1 (1.03%) IPsec
2 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.71%) Oracle Reports
2 19 (19.59%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 9 (9.28%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.12%) Oracle Exadata
4 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.09%) Tableau
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.03%) Essbase
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.06%) Subversion
4 1 (1.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (34.02%) Finance
2 28 (28.87%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.46%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.12%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.06%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Legal
6 2 (2.06%) Local Government
6 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.03%) Back Office
7 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (12.37%) Consultant
1 12 (12.37%) Developer
1 12 (12.37%) Lead
1 12 (12.37%) Oracle Consultant
2 11 (11.34%) Analyst
3 10 (10.31%) Oracle Developer
4 7 (7.22%) Senior
5 6 (6.19%) Database Engineer
5 6 (6.19%) Functional Consultant
5 6 (6.19%) Oracle Functional Consultant
5 6 (6.19%) Oracle Specialist
6 5 (5.15%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.15%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Data Protection Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 4 (4.12%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
7 4 (4.12%) Oracle Payroll Functional Consultant
7 4 (4.12%) Payroll Consultant
7 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (49.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (9.28%) Middleware
3 8 (8.25%) REST
3 8 (8.25%) SOAP
4 7 (7.22%) Web Services
5 6 (6.19%) XML
6 3 (3.09%) OAuth
6 3 (3.09%) WebCenter
7 2 (2.06%) Django
7 2 (2.06%) MACH
8 1 (1.03%) JSON
8 1 (1.03%) JWT
8 1 (1.03%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.03%) OpenID
8 1 (1.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.12%) Clustering
2 4 (4.12%) Replication
3 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 4 (4.12%) AIX
2 4 (4.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.12%) Solaris
2 4 (4.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.52%) ERP
2 24 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (23.71%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (12.37%) Analytics
4 12 (12.37%) Performance Tuning
4 12 (12.37%) Release Management
5 11 (11.34%) SOA
6 10 (10.31%) Containerisation
6 10 (10.31%) Data Modelling
7 9 (9.28%) CI/CD
7 9 (9.28%) DevOps
7 9 (9.28%) Migration
8 8 (8.25%) Agile
8 8 (8.25%) CRM
8 8 (8.25%) ITIL
9 7 (7.22%) Data Migration
9 7 (7.22%) Project Management
10 6 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (6.19%) Data Protection
10 6 (6.19%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.74%) SQL
2 11 (11.34%) PL/SQL
2 11 (11.34%) Python
3 10 (10.31%) Java
4 6 (6.19%) Shell Script
5 5 (5.15%) ProC
6 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.06%) R
6 2 (2.06%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
7 1 (1.03%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.12%) Degree
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.09%) OCP
4 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) PMP
4 2 (2.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.03%) APMP
5 1 (1.03%) CCSP
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.03%) CISSP
5 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.03%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.06%) GDPR
2 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.06%) NIST
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.03%) ITGC
3 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.03%) PMO
3 1 (1.03%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.31%) Docker
2 4 (4.12%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.06%) vSphere
4 1 (1.03%) LXC
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.28%) Ansible
3 4 (4.12%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.12%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (4.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (4.12%) Oracle Flashback
4 1 (1.03%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Identity Management
4 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 94 (96.91%) Oracle
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.12%) Commvault
4 4 (4.12%) Dell
4 4 (4.12%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.06%) VMware
6 1 (1.03%) Civica
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.03%) Remedy