Oracle Certification Contracts

Oracle Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 575 643
Rank change year-on-year +92 +68 +129
Contract jobs citing Oracle Certification 59 13 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.030% 0.078%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 0.10% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 8 33
10th Percentile £419 £435 £395
25th Percentile £525 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +10.87% -
75th Percentile £650 £673 £663
90th Percentile £704 £690 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +12.75% -7.27% +3.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,990 12,794 15,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 29.92% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 7,954 9,979
10th Percentile £281 £310 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +3.38%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £704 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 711 1,084 733
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £19.42 £20.43 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.35 £41.50 £55.32
Median % change year-on-year -34.10% -24.98% +24.31%
75th Percentile £58.67 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.17 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -41.51% -19.87% +50.74%

Oracle Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Certification in the UK

Oracle Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Certification in the UK

Oracle Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Certification over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Certification in the UK

Oracle Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Certification in the UK

Oracle Certification
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 July 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 +72 51 £600 -5.88% 31
UK excluding London +51 32 £575 +12.75% 22
Work from Home +44 20 £603 -6.33% 29
London +46 17 £641 -0.43% 16
South West - 11 £575 - 5
Midlands +9 8 £500 -17.36% 1
West Midlands +11 7 £500 -17.36%
East of England - 5 £600 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £525 -
North of England - 4 £525 - 5
South East +43 3 £475 +18.75% 4
Scotland -7 1 £525 - 2

Oracle Certification
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 11 (18.64%) Confluence
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (3.39%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (8.47%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle ASCP
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (3.39%) SAP ERP
3 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) OCI
3 8 (13.56%) SaaS
4 7 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (11.86%) GitHub
4 7 (11.86%) Serverless
5 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.17%) AWS CodePipeline
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Fargate
5 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (10.17%) PaaS
6 5 (8.47%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (8.47%) Azure
6 5 (8.47%) Azure AKS
6 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.78%) MySQL
2 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.69%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) Jenkins
2 15 (25.42%) Git
3 13 (22.03%) JIRA
4 12 (20.34%) Bitbucket
5 6 (10.17%) GitLab
6 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.03%) Finance
3 11 (18.64%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.17%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.39%) Electronics
6 2 (3.39%) Marketing
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Architect
2 7 (11.86%) Consultant
2 7 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle Architect
2 7 (11.86%) Oracle Consultant
2 7 (11.86%) Security Architect
2 7 (11.86%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.17%) DBA
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Architect
4 5 (8.47%) AWS Solution Architect
4 5 (8.47%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (8.47%) Functional Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Administrator
5 4 (6.78%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Database Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (6.78%) Oracle Supply Chain Consultant
5 4 (6.78%) Supply Chain Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.12%) REST
2 10 (16.95%) SOAP
3 7 (11.86%) OAuth
3 7 (11.86%) OpenID
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (11.86%) SAML
4 3 (5.08%) XML
5 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.39%) Java EE
5 2 (3.39%) Java SE
5 2 (3.39%) JSON
5 2 (3.39%) RAML
5 2 (3.39%) React
5 2 (3.39%) RESTful
5 2 (3.39%) Spring
5 2 (3.39%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.39%) Struts
5 2 (3.39%) Web Services
6 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
1 6 (10.17%) Security Posture
2 5 (8.47%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.47%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (28.81%) Linux
2 10 (16.95%) Windows
2 10 (16.95%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.78%) Unix
4 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (42.37%) Agile
3 17 (28.81%) DevOps
4 15 (25.42%) Infrastructure Automation
5 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.34%) Deployment Automation
6 11 (18.64%) Configuration Management
6 11 (18.64%) Integration Patterns
6 11 (18.64%) Service Management
7 10 (16.95%) NsoIT
7 10 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
7 10 (16.95%) Reverse Engineering
7 10 (16.95%) Validation
8 9 (15.25%) Cost Management
8 9 (15.25%) Identity Access Management
8 9 (15.25%) System Testing
9 7 (11.86%) Budgeting
9 7 (11.86%) Cloud Security
9 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (11.86%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) Bash
3 11 (18.64%) PowerShell
4 9 (15.25%) Java
5 7 (11.86%) SQL
6 4 (6.78%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.39%) C#
7 2 (3.39%) C++
7 2 (3.39%) Go
7 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.69%) Groovy
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (54.24%) OCP
2 31 (52.54%) Security Cleared
3 23 (38.98%) SC Cleared
4 15 (25.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 13 (22.03%) OCA
6 10 (16.95%) CCNP
6 10 (16.95%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (16.95%) RHCA
6 10 (16.95%) RHCE
7 8 (13.56%) Degree
8 7 (11.86%) AWS Certification
9 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (8.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
12 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (3.39%) SAP Certification
13 2 (3.39%) Sun Certification
14 1 (1.69%) MCSA
14 1 (1.69%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (11.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 7 (11.86%) NIST
1 7 (11.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (25.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.78%) vSphere
3 3 (5.08%) Docker
3 3 (5.08%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (38.98%) Ansible
2 12 (20.34%) Kubernetes
3 11 (18.64%) vCenter Server
4 10 (16.95%) Progress Chef
4 10 (16.95%) Puppet
5 7 (11.86%) Terraform
6 4 (6.78%) Data Guard
7 3 (5.08%) Grafana
7 3 (5.08%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (1.69%) Kibana
9 1 (1.69%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 48 (81.36%) Oracle
2 15 (25.42%) VMware
3 10 (16.95%) Cisco
4 8 (13.56%) Atlassian
5 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.78%) SAP
7 2 (3.39%) Concur
7 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
7 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.39%) Splunk
8 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.69%) Remedy
8 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.69%) Veeam