Oracle Architect Contracts

Oracle Architect
UK

The median Oracle Architect daily rate in the UK is £675, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 502 652
Rank change year-on-year +34 +150 +121
Contract jobs requiring an Oracle Architect 52 80 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 38
10th Percentile £500 £560 £450
25th Percentile £600 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £640 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £799 £678 £738
90th Percentile £814 £725 £828
UK excluding London median daily rate £602 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -7.46% +23.81% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Oracle Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Oracle Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Architect in the UK

Oracle Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Architect.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Architect in the UK

Oracle Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Architect over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Architect in the UK

Oracle Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Architect.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Architect in the UK

Oracle Architect
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Architect within the UK 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
England +48 46 £700 +7.69% 17
London +36 31 £799 +21.98% 7
Work from Home +30 24 £725 +15.08% 20
UK excluding London +59 16 £602 -7.46% 16
East of England +33 5 £600 +20.00%
South East +47 4 £675 -5.59% 4
South West +40 3 £713 +9.62% 5
Midlands +23 2 £603 -13.86% 1
West Midlands +15 2 £603 -13.86% 1
Northern Ireland -11 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Oracle Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Oracle Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Oracle Architect in the job title.

1 52 (100.00%) Oracle
2 20 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
4 13 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (25.00%) OCI
5 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
6 10 (19.23%) Agile
6 10 (19.23%) ERP
7 9 (17.31%) Migration
7 9 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (13.46%) Scrum
9 7 (13.46%) Data Guard
9 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
9 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (13.46%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (11.54%) AWS
10 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (11.54%) DevOps
10 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (11.54%) SaaS
10 6 (11.54%) PaaS
11 5 (9.62%) Azure
11 5 (9.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
11 5 (9.62%) Degree
11 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
11 5 (9.62%) Oracle EBS

Oracle Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (9.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.00%) OCI
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
2 6 (11.54%) PaaS
2 6 (11.54%) SaaS
3 5 (9.62%) Azure
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.77%) Firewall
2 1 (1.92%) IPsec
2 1 (1.92%) Network Security
2 1 (1.92%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) DB2
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
General
1 20 (38.46%) Public Sector
2 14 (26.92%) Finance
3 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.85%) OAuth
2 2 (3.85%) OpenID
2 2 (3.85%) SAML
2 2 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (1.92%) CSS
3 1 (1.92%) Middleware
3 1 (1.92%) REST
3 1 (1.92%) RESTful
3 1 (1.92%) SOAP
3 1 (1.92%) Spring
3 1 (1.92%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.85%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
1 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) Agile
1 10 (19.23%) ERP
2 9 (17.31%) Migration
2 9 (17.31%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (13.46%) Data Migration
3 7 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (13.46%) Scrum
4 6 (11.54%) DevOps
4 6 (11.54%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.62%) SOA
6 4 (7.69%) Cloud Security
6 4 (7.69%) Database Migration
6 4 (7.69%) Project Management
6 4 (7.69%) Release Management
6 4 (7.69%) Requirements Workshops
6 4 (7.69%) SDLC
7 3 (5.77%) Business Process Modelling
7 3 (5.77%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (5.77%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.77%) Java
2 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
2 2 (3.85%) Python
2 2 (3.85%) SQL
3 1 (1.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) Oracle Certification
4 5 (9.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) OCP
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
2 2 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.92%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) IFRS
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 7 (13.46%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Data Guard
2 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.92%) Ansible
4 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (3.85%) Google
2 2 (3.85%) IBM
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.92%) Salesforce