Oracle Database Contract Job Trends

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 234 283
Rank change year-on-year -96 +49 -35
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 331 329 338
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.69% 1.13% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% 5.95% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 225 244
10th Percentile £404 £344 £363
25th Percentile £419 £385 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £516
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -7.99% +8.68%
75th Percentile £636 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £683 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £545 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +14.79% -1.96% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 8
10th Percentile £34.66 £73.25 £51.52
25th Percentile £37.25 £80.00 -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £92.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +50.16% -15.03%
75th Percentile £74.68 £93.75 £61.95
90th Percentile - - £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.80 - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - +0.50%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,274 5,530 7,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 19.00% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,902 3,794 5,225
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £475
% change year-on-year -1.45% +1.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 98 148
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £24.25 £20.93
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.83 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.96% -12.94% -30.43%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.90 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.86 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.85 £39.25
% change year-on-year +41.31% -18.87% -28.64%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Database job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Oracle Database

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Top 17 Contract Job 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 21 May 2026. 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 -65 293 £501 +5.37% 48
UK excluding London -99 164 £545 +14.79% 37
London -48 139 £500 +20.44% 19
Work from Home -85 71 £525 +10.53% 23
South East -30 48 £550 +4.76% 18
Midlands -34 43 £525 +10.53% 2
North of England -83 43 £618 +23.50% 5
West Midlands -33 38 £525 -12.50%
North West -23 21 £650 +44.44% 5
Yorkshire -81 19 £445 -10.95%
South West -30 13 £563 +7.14% 7
Scotland -38 10 £550 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -28 4 £463 +29.19% 2
Northern Ireland +1 3 £675 - 1
East of England -26 3 £400 -17.95%
North East - 3 £501 -
Wales -10 1 £288 -23.33% 1

Oracle Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (7.25%) SAS
2 19 (5.74%) IIS
3 14 (4.23%) WebLogic
4 12 (3.63%) HCL Notes
4 12 (3.63%) Mendix
4 12 (3.63%) SharePoint
5 11 (3.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 9 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.72%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (2.11%) Tomcat
8 4 (1.21%) Appian
9 3 (0.91%) Confluence
9 3 (0.91%) JBoss
9 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.60%) Apache
10 2 (0.60%) Liferay
10 2 (0.60%) nginx
10 2 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.30%) Camunda
11 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 19 (5.74%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.02%) Oracle Applications
3 8 (2.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 6 (1.81%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.21%) Finacle
5 4 (1.21%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.91%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle 11i
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.30%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.30%) Endur
8 1 (0.30%) Findur
8 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.30%) Summit
8 1 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 66 (19.94%) Azure
2 46 (13.90%) AWS
3 25 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (7.25%) OCI
5 17 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.93%) Serverless
7 12 (3.63%) PowerApps
8 11 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (3.02%) Azure Functions
9 10 (3.02%) Azure Service Bus
9 10 (3.02%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.02%) Power Automate
10 9 (2.72%) PaaS
11 8 (2.42%) Collibra
12 7 (2.11%) IaaS
13 6 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.81%) GitHub
13 6 (1.81%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.63%) Internet
2 10 (3.02%) Firewall
3 6 (1.81%) Kerberos
4 4 (1.21%) HTTP
5 2 (0.60%) DSL
5 2 (0.60%) Network Security
5 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) Intranet
6 1 (0.30%) IPsec
6 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (20.85%) SQL Server
2 24 (7.25%) Oracle Database 12c
2 24 (7.25%) Relational Database
3 23 (6.95%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (5.44%) Oracle Database 11g
6 17 (5.14%) RDBMS
7 16 (4.83%) Metadata
7 16 (4.83%) Power BI
8 13 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (3.93%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 12 (3.63%) Oracle Exadata
10 11 (3.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.42%) NoSQL
12 7 (2.11%) MySQL
12 7 (2.11%) Oracle BI EE
12 7 (2.11%) Oracle Database 10g
12 7 (2.11%) Pentaho
13 6 (1.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.53%) GitLab
2 11 (3.32%) Git
2 11 (3.32%) JIRA
3 9 (2.72%) Oracle Forms
4 7 (2.11%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (1.81%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.51%) JUnit
7 4 (1.21%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.91%) ClearCase
8 3 (0.91%) Selenium
8 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.60%) Ant
9 2 (0.60%) Flyway
9 2 (0.60%) JMeter
10 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.30%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.30%) Maven
10 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 64 (19.34%) Finance
2 56 (16.92%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.99%) Banking
4 35 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 28 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.53%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.51%) Back Office
8 5 (1.51%) Legal
8 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.21%) Advertising
9 4 (1.21%) Front Office
9 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Military
11 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Billing
12 1 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 111 (33.53%) DBA
2 105 (31.72%) Oracle DBA
3 84 (25.38%) Developer
4 38 (11.48%) Administrator
5 35 (10.57%) Architect
5 35 (10.57%) C# Developer
6 24 (7.25%) Senior
7 19 (5.74%) Data Engineer
8 18 (5.44%) Solutions Architect
9 17 (5.14%) SC Cleared DBA
10 16 (4.83%) Database Engineer
11 15 (4.53%) Oracle Developer
12 14 (4.23%) Oracle Database Engineer
13 12 (3.63%) Power Platform Developer
14 9 (2.72%) C# Application Developer
14 9 (2.72%) Lead
14 9 (2.72%) Oracle Specialist
14 9 (2.72%) PostgreSQL DBA
14 9 (2.72%) Release Manager
14 9 (2.72%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.31%) .NET
2 30 (9.06%) .NET Framework
3 17 (5.14%) WinForms
4 16 (4.83%) React
4 16 (4.83%) XML
5 15 (4.53%) WPF
6 14 (4.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 12 (3.63%) Kafka
7 12 (3.63%) Middleware
7 12 (3.63%) REST
8 11 (3.32%) HTML
9 10 (3.02%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (2.72%) CSS
10 9 (2.72%) JSON
11 7 (2.11%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.11%) SOAP
11 7 (2.11%) Spring
12 5 (1.51%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.51%) Web Services
13 4 (1.21%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.93%) Low-Code
4 10 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
7 6 (1.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.21%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.21%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) SCADA
10 3 (0.91%) Clustering
10 3 (0.91%) Derivative
10 3 (0.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 67 (20.24%) Linux
2 48 (14.50%) Windows
3 36 (10.88%) Unix
4 21 (6.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.23%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.11%) Solaris
7 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.21%) AIX
9 4 (1.21%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
10 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.60%) OpenVMS
11 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.30%) HPUX
12 1 (0.30%) VMS
12 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (21.15%) DevOps
2 64 (19.34%) Performance Tuning
3 63 (19.03%) Migration
4 60 (18.13%) High Availability
5 50 (15.11%) Agile
5 50 (15.11%) CI/CD
6 49 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (13.29%) ETL
8 39 (11.78%) Disaster Recovery
9 34 (10.27%) AI
10 29 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (8.76%) Data Analysis
11 25 (7.55%) Decision-Making
11 25 (7.55%) Unit Testing
12 24 (7.25%) Validation
13 23 (6.95%) Data Integration
14 22 (6.65%) Data Migration
14 22 (6.65%) Data Modelling
15 20 (6.04%) Data Management
15 20 (6.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 168 (50.76%) SQL
2 94 (28.40%) PL/SQL
3 58 (17.52%) C#
4 42 (12.69%) Python
5 30 (9.06%) T-SQL
6 24 (7.25%) Java
7 23 (6.95%) Shell Script
8 20 (6.04%) JavaScript
9 16 (4.83%) VB
10 12 (3.63%) Korn
10 12 (3.63%) VBA
11 10 (3.02%) Formula Language
11 10 (3.02%) LotusScript
11 10 (3.02%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.11%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.51%) Bash
13 5 (1.51%) Perl
14 3 (0.91%) Bicep
14 3 (0.91%) VB6
15 2 (0.60%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 133 (40.18%) Security Cleared
2 102 (30.82%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.85%) DV Cleared
4 15 (4.53%) Degree
5 9 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
6 7 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.21%) OCP
9 1 (0.30%) CESG Certified Professional
9 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) MOS
9 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.30%) PMP
9 1 (0.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.18%) QA
2 12 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.11%) GDPR
4 5 (1.51%) SLA
5 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.91%) FATCA
7 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.60%) NIST
7 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.60%) SEPA
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (10.27%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (2.42%) Docker
3 6 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.91%) Oracle Clusterware
5 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.30%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 58 (17.52%) Oracle RMAN
2 34 (10.27%) Data Guard
3 24 (7.25%) Terraform
4 16 (4.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 14 (4.23%) Ansible
5 14 (4.23%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (0.60%) Foglight
7 2 (0.60%) Grafana
7 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.60%) systemd
8 1 (0.30%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.30%) Kibana
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle ZFS
8 1 (0.30%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 331 (100.00%) Oracle
2 38 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.95%) Citrix
4 16 (4.83%) Databricks
5 13 (3.93%) Talend
6 12 (3.63%) Kofax
6 12 (3.63%) Lotus
7 10 (3.02%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.72%) IBM
9 8 (2.42%) Informatica
10 5 (1.51%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.51%) Denodo
10 5 (1.51%) Siebel
11 4 (1.21%) Google
11 4 (1.21%) SAP
12 3 (0.91%) VMware
13 2 (0.60%) Pega
14 1 (0.30%) CyberArk
14 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.30%) Wonderware