Oracle Contracts in the UK excluding London

Oracle
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 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
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 51 39
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 -5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 728 735 1,158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.53% 3.49% 5.09%
As % of the Vendors category 11.23% 8.30% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 495 804
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £548
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.42% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 33 18
10th Percentile £28.83 £20.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £31.83 £25.50 £47.34
Median hourly rate £58.75 £27.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year +117.59% -54.46% +69.41%
75th Percentile £64.22 £61.60 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.62 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.31 £26.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +24.27% -58.40% +78.57%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,484 8,858 10,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.24% 42.08% 44.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 5,320 6,947
10th Percentile £220 £208 £205
25th Percentile £363 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.72% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 469 993 431
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.27 £17.60
Median hourly rate £22.88 £21.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -42.67% +93.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £59.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.48 £22.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +17.67% -47.06% +97.67%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the UK excluding London

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the UK excluding London

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the UK excluding London

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the UK excluding London

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the UK excluding London

Oracle
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +20 187 £550 +1.15% 429
North of England +43 170 £475 -4.47% 218
Scotland -3 149 £489 -2.20% 77
Midlands -4 103 £475 +5.56% 134
North West +20 83 £475 -5.00% 148
Yorkshire +50 79 £450 -8.86% 47
South West +39 67 £575 +17.95% 88
West Midlands +9 65 £505 +4.94% 77
East Midlands +2 35 £391 -8.00% 49
East of England +37 30 £525 -10.64% 78
Northern Ireland +2 16 £460 -29.23% 24
North East +1 8 £520 +15.56% 23
Wales 0 8 £390 - 23
Oracle
UK

Oracle
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 54 (7.42%) Confluence
2 45 (6.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 24 (3.30%) Oracle Workflow
3 24 (3.30%) WebLogic
4 22 (3.02%) Tomcat
5 18 (2.47%) JBoss
6 14 (1.92%) WebSphere
7 9 (1.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 7 (0.96%) Apache
8 7 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
9 6 (0.82%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.55%) CICS
11 4 (0.55%) nginx
12 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.41%) Documentum
12 3 (0.41%) IIS
12 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.41%) SAS
12 3 (0.41%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 22 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
4 4 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 81 (11.13%) Oracle EBS
2 43 (5.91%) Oracle ERP
3 42 (5.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 24 (3.30%) Oracle Payables
5 19 (2.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 14 (1.92%) Oracle Receivables
7 12 (1.65%) Oracle Assets
8 10 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
9 9 (1.24%) Oracle ASCP
9 9 (1.24%) Primavera
10 8 (1.10%) Maximo
10 8 (1.10%) Oracle Financials
11 7 (0.96%) Kondor
11 7 (0.96%) Oracle Payroll
12 6 (0.82%) Oracle BPM
12 6 (0.82%) Oracle HRMS
12 6 (0.82%) Oracle iProcurement
13 5 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
13 5 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
13 5 (0.69%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 113 (15.52%) OCI
2 96 (13.19%) AWS
3 83 (11.40%) Azure
4 36 (4.95%) Serverless
5 23 (3.16%) Amazon S3
5 23 (3.16%) SaaS
6 22 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (3.02%) Power Platform
7 20 (2.75%) OpenShift
8 18 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (1.92%) GitHub
11 13 (1.79%) GCP
12 11 (1.51%) Oracle CX
13 10 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (0.96%) AWS CodeBuild
14 7 (0.96%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.96%) PaaS
14 7 (0.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (3.02%) DNS
2 11 (1.51%) Firewall
2 11 (1.51%) SSL
3 9 (1.24%) SAN
4 8 (1.10%) HTTP
5 6 (0.82%) Internet
5 6 (0.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.69%) NAS
7 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.27%) DHCP
8 2 (0.27%) LAN
8 2 (0.27%) WLAN
9 1 (0.14%) 4G
9 1 (0.14%) Converged Networks
9 1 (0.14%) FTP
9 1 (0.14%) IPsec
9 1 (0.14%) Network Security
9 1 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
9 1 (0.14%) VPN
9 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (22.12%) Oracle Database
2 90 (12.36%) Oracle Reports
3 81 (11.13%) SQL Server
4 63 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
5 58 (7.97%) Relational Database
6 39 (5.36%) MySQL
7 35 (4.81%) MongoDB
8 29 (3.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 29 (3.98%) RDBMS
9 24 (3.30%) DB2
9 24 (3.30%) NoSQL
10 23 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (2.75%) Power BI
12 14 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (1.10%) GIS
14 8 (1.10%) Metadata
14 8 (1.10%) Oracle BI EE
14 8 (1.10%) Siebel EIM
14 8 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 76 (10.44%) JIRA
2 72 (9.89%) Git
3 47 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 23 (3.16%) Oracle Forms
6 17 (2.34%) GitLab
6 17 (2.34%) Maven
7 15 (2.06%) JUnit
8 13 (1.79%) Subversion
8 13 (1.79%) Visual Studio
9 10 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
10 9 (1.24%) PVCS
10 9 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.10%) Mockito
11 8 (1.10%) Toad
12 7 (0.96%) Gradle
12 7 (0.96%) Selenium
13 4 (0.55%) ERwin
14 3 (0.41%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.41%) JMeter
General
1 225 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 223 (30.63%) Finance
3 139 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.23%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.42%) Banking
6 28 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.06%) Back Office
9 14 (1.92%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.79%) Retail
11 11 (1.51%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.37%) Law
12 10 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.24%) General Ledger
13 9 (1.24%) Military
13 9 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.96%) Local Government
16 5 (0.69%) Automotive
16 5 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 137 (18.82%) Developer
2 73 (10.03%) Consultant
3 70 (9.62%) Analyst
4 60 (8.24%) Lead
5 57 (7.83%) Oracle Consultant
6 55 (7.55%) Senior
7 46 (6.32%) Oracle Developer
8 44 (6.04%) Architect
9 35 (4.81%) DBA
10 27 (3.71%) Data Engineer
11 25 (3.43%) Java Developer
12 22 (3.02%) Administrator
12 22 (3.02%) Functional Consultant
12 22 (3.02%) Oracle Functional Consultant
12 22 (3.02%) Oracle Specialist
13 21 (2.88%) Oracle Analyst
14 16 (2.20%) Database Engineer
15 15 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
16 14 (1.92%) Business Analyst
16 14 (1.92%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (14.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 73 (10.03%) REST
3 53 (7.28%) SOAP
4 41 (5.63%) Web Services
5 34 (4.67%) Spring
6 32 (4.40%) Spring Boot
7 31 (4.26%) Middleware
8 30 (4.12%) Kafka
9 26 (3.57%) XML
10 23 (3.16%) JSON
10 23 (3.16%) React
11 22 (3.02%) .NET
12 19 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 19 (2.61%) CSS
12 19 (2.61%) HTML
13 14 (1.92%) J2EE
14 13 (1.79%) Java EE
14 13 (1.79%) JMS
15 11 (1.51%) RAML
16 10 (1.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 25 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 21 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.61%) Linux Command Line
6 18 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 14 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.37%) Cloud Native
9 10 (1.37%) Clustering
9 10 (1.37%) Replication
9 10 (1.37%) SCADA
10 9 (1.24%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.10%) Derivative
11 8 (1.10%) Security Posture
12 7 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (16.62%) Linux
2 86 (11.81%) Windows
3 52 (7.14%) Unix
4 43 (5.91%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (2.06%) AIX
6 15 (2.06%) Solaris
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.14%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.14%) SUSE
11 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
2 173 (23.76%) Agile
3 122 (16.76%) Migration
4 108 (14.84%) ERP
5 86 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
6 81 (11.13%) DevOps
7 72 (9.89%) CI/CD
8 71 (9.75%) Data Modelling
9 69 (9.48%) Data Migration
10 65 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
11 64 (8.79%) Validation
12 63 (8.65%) Microservices
13 61 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 58 (7.97%) ETL
15 49 (6.73%) Change Management
16 47 (6.46%) User Acceptance Testing
17 46 (6.32%) Stakeholder Management
18 45 (6.18%) SOA
19 43 (5.91%) Scrum
19 43 (5.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 286 (39.29%) SQL
2 133 (18.27%) PL/SQL
3 99 (13.60%) Java
4 86 (11.81%) Python
5 40 (5.49%) Bash
6 36 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.95%) PowerShell
7 30 (4.12%) Perl
8 25 (3.43%) C#
9 22 (3.02%) Shell Script
10 15 (2.06%) ProC
11 12 (1.65%) Delphi
12 10 (1.37%) C
13 8 (1.10%) COBOL
13 8 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.69%) VBA
15 4 (0.55%) JCL
15 4 (0.55%) PHP
15 4 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 111 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 69 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.59%) Degree
4 30 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (3.71%) Oracle Certification
6 21 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (1.51%) OCA
10 10 (1.37%) CCNP
10 10 (1.37%) RHCA
10 10 (1.37%) RHCE
11 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (1.24%) CIMA
12 8 (1.10%) ACCA
12 8 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.10%) OCP
13 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.53%) QA
2 30 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.43%) SLA
4 19 (2.61%) GDPR
5 15 (2.06%) Disclosure Scotland
6 12 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.10%) COBIT
7 8 (1.10%) NIST
7 8 (1.10%) PMO
8 7 (0.96%) Basel III
8 7 (0.96%) MiFID
9 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.41%) IFRS
10 3 (0.41%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) ITGC
11 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) COSO
12 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (4.67%) Active Directory
1 34 (4.67%) Docker
2 28 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (2.61%) Oracle RAC
4 9 (1.24%) vSphere
5 5 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 4 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.41%) LXC
8 2 (0.27%) HDFS
8 2 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.14%) KVM
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (6.18%) Ansible
2 44 (6.04%) Kubernetes
3 28 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 17 (2.34%) Terraform
5 16 (2.20%) Progress Chef
6 15 (2.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 15 (2.06%) Puppet
7 12 (1.65%) Data Guard
8 11 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 9 (1.24%) Grafana
10 6 (0.82%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.69%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
12 4 (0.55%) Oracle Flashback
12 4 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.55%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 2 (0.27%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 89 (12.23%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.08%) VMware
3 35 (4.81%) SAP
4 31 (4.26%) Cisco
5 21 (2.88%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.75%) Commvault
7 17 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.06%) IBM
9 14 (1.92%) Informatica
10 12 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 12 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.65%) Sybase
11 10 (1.37%) Atlassian
11 10 (1.37%) Splunk
12 9 (1.24%) Databricks
13 8 (1.10%) Siebel
14 7 (0.96%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.96%) Google
15 6 (0.82%) HP
15 6 (0.82%) Talend