Oracle Database Contracts

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 253 263
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 355 639 963
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.07% 1.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.90% 5.93% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 422 673
10th Percentile £363 - £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% +7.37%
75th Percentile £638 £555 £613
90th Percentile £688 £625 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 9
10th Percentile £44.80 £52.38 £15.25
25th Percentile - £62.13 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £73.86 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.59% +73.78% -11.46%
75th Percentile £62.65 £85.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £85.75 £52.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £64.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -3.75% +50.59% -8.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Oracle Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -34 249 £550 +11.11% 53
Work from Home +3 156 £555 +23.33% 28
London +27 151 £550 +29.41% 24
UK excluding London -44 147 £500 - 39
Scotland +28 55 £475 +1.33% 8
South East +24 53 £625 +13.64% 9
South West -9 14 £650 +30.00% 6
Midlands -32 10 £363 -32.62% 2
East Midlands +22 9 £363 -3.33%
North of England +8 9 £470 -11.32% 3
North West -2 7 £435 -26.27% 2
Wales +18 5 £525 -4.55% 6
Yorkshire +15 2 £485 -5.37% 1
East of England -12 1 £395 -26.51% 4
West Midlands -29 1 £400 -25.65% 2

Oracle Database
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 (3.10%) IIS
1 11 (3.10%) Oracle Workflow
2 6 (1.69%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.13%) Apache
3 4 (1.13%) JBoss
3 4 (1.13%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.85%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.85%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.56%) WildFly
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
Applications
1 34 (9.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 24 (6.76%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (3.10%) NEC Housing
2 11 (3.10%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.56%) HFM
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 67 (18.87%) AWS
2 24 (6.76%) Azure
3 20 (5.63%) OCI
4 12 (3.38%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.38%) Serverless
5 11 (3.10%) GitHub
6 8 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.69%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.41%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (1.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 5 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.13%) GCP
9 4 (1.13%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) IaaS
10 3 (0.85%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.85%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.38%) Internet
2 5 (1.41%) Firewall
3 4 (1.13%) FTP
4 2 (0.56%) HTTP
4 2 (0.56%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
5 1 (0.28%) IPsec
5 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (18.03%) SQL Server
2 50 (14.08%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (11.55%) Oracle Database 11g
4 20 (5.63%) Oracle Database 10g
4 20 (5.63%) Oracle ODI
5 19 (5.35%) MySQL
6 17 (4.79%) Metadata
6 17 (4.79%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (4.51%) Oracle Database 12c
8 14 (3.94%) Oracle Exadata
9 13 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (2.54%) MongoDB
10 9 (2.54%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.25%) SAP HANA
12 7 (1.97%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (1.97%) PowerCenter
12 7 (1.97%) RDBMS
13 6 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (6.76%) Oracle APEX
2 21 (5.92%) Oracle Forms
3 13 (3.66%) JIRA
3 13 (3.66%) Maven
4 12 (3.38%) Git
5 6 (1.69%) GitLab
6 5 (1.41%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.13%) JUnit
8 3 (0.85%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.85%) Gradle
9 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.56%) Selenium
9 2 (0.56%) Subversion
9 2 (0.56%) TestRail
10 1 (0.28%) Mockito
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
10 1 (0.28%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 86 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.25%) Finance
3 45 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.45%) Banking
5 27 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.97%) Billing
8 7 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.97%) Local Government
9 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.41%) Back Office
10 5 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.41%) Retail
11 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.56%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Front Office
12 1 (0.28%) Publishing
12 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (37.18%) Developer
2 71 (20.00%) DBA
3 61 (17.18%) Oracle DBA
4 46 (12.96%) Oracle Developer
5 45 (12.68%) Architect
5 45 (12.68%) Senior
6 34 (9.58%) Consultant
7 28 (7.89%) C# Developer
8 26 (7.32%) Java Developer
9 25 (7.04%) Oracle Architect
10 23 (6.48%) Analyst
10 23 (6.48%) SQL Developer
11 20 (5.63%) .NET Developer
11 20 (5.63%) C# .NET Developer
11 20 (5.63%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (4.23%) PostgreSQL Developer
13 12 (3.38%) Administrator
13 12 (3.38%) MySQL DBA
14 11 (3.10%) Oracle Consultant
14 11 (3.10%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.01%) .NET
2 29 (8.17%) .NET Framework
3 22 (6.20%) REST
4 21 (5.92%) React
5 19 (5.35%) Spring
6 18 (5.07%) CSS
6 18 (5.07%) JPA
7 17 (4.79%) Hibernate
7 17 (4.79%) Spring Boot
8 16 (4.51%) Middleware
9 15 (4.23%) HTML
10 13 (3.66%) Web Services
11 12 (3.38%) AWS CDK
11 12 (3.38%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (3.10%) WPF
13 9 (2.54%) Node.js
13 9 (2.54%) WinForms
14 8 (2.25%) SAP Basis
14 8 (2.25%) WCF
14 8 (2.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.48%) Replication
2 16 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (3.94%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.66%) Blog
5 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.69%) Derivative
6 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.41%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.41%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.13%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.85%) Eurex
9 3 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Tandem
9 3 (0.85%) VAX
Operating Systems
1 59 (16.62%) Linux
2 43 (12.11%) Unix
3 32 (9.01%) Windows
4 17 (4.79%) VMS
5 13 (3.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.38%) Oracle Linux
7 10 (2.82%) Solaris
8 7 (1.97%) AIX
8 7 (1.97%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.13%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.85%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.79%) Migration
2 64 (18.03%) Performance Tuning
3 58 (16.34%) Disaster Recovery
4 57 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (14.08%) High Availability
6 49 (13.80%) DevOps
7 42 (11.83%) Agile
8 35 (9.86%) Data Migration
9 30 (8.45%) Unit Testing
10 29 (8.17%) Data Analysis
10 29 (8.17%) Software Engineering
11 27 (7.61%) CI/CD
11 27 (7.61%) ETL
12 23 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (5.92%) Computer Science
13 21 (5.92%) Database Migration
13 21 (5.92%) Software Testing
14 19 (5.35%) SDLC
14 19 (5.35%) Secure Coding
14 19 (5.35%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (57.75%) SQL
2 120 (33.80%) PL/SQL
3 64 (18.03%) Java
4 39 (10.99%) Shell Script
5 32 (9.01%) C#
6 29 (8.17%) VB
7 27 (7.61%) T-SQL
7 27 (7.61%) VBA
8 18 (5.07%) VB.NET
9 17 (4.79%) JavaScript
10 15 (4.23%) TypeScript
11 14 (3.94%) Python
12 13 (3.66%) Bash
13 6 (1.69%) C
14 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.13%) COBOL
15 4 (1.13%) DCL
16 2 (0.56%) ProC
17 1 (0.28%) PHP
17 1 (0.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 73 (20.56%) Security Cleared
2 66 (18.59%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.89%) Degree
4 19 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.69%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.41%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CEH
10 1 (0.28%) CISM
10 1 (0.28%) CISSP
10 1 (0.28%) MCSE
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (10.14%) QA
2 6 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.85%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.56%) IFRS
5 2 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.28%) COREP
6 1 (0.28%) GDPR
6 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (5.92%) Oracle RAC
2 15 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.82%) Docker
4 10 (2.82%) KVM
5 8 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (8.45%) Data Guard
2 14 (3.94%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (3.38%) Oracle RMAN
3 12 (3.38%) Terraform
4 10 (2.82%) Ansible
5 6 (1.69%) Kubernetes
5 6 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Flashback
7 2 (0.56%) Packer
7 2 (0.56%) vRealize
8 1 (0.28%) Control-M
8 1 (0.28%) Grafana
8 1 (0.28%) Kibana
8 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 355 (100.00%) Oracle
2 24 (6.76%) SAP
3 23 (6.48%) Citrix
4 21 (5.92%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.92%) VMware
5 20 (5.63%) Informatica
6 13 (3.66%) NEC
7 12 (3.38%) Red Hat
8 10 (2.82%) Northgate
9 8 (2.25%) Commvault
10 6 (1.69%) IBM
11 5 (1.41%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.41%) Siebel
12 4 (1.13%) Murex
13 3 (0.85%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.85%) JDA
13 3 (0.85%) Salesforce
13 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.56%) Hyperion
14 2 (0.56%) Palo Alto