Oracle Database Contracts

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 248 287 250
Rank change year-on-year +39 -37 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 317 356 643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.08% 0.82% 1.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.72% 4.87% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 258 421
10th Percentile £356 £363 -
25th Percentile £385 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -8.12%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £556
90th Percentile £699 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 18
10th Percentile £73.25 £44.80 £52.38
25th Percentile £80.00 - £62.13
Median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £73.86
Median % change year-on-year +50.16% -16.59% +73.78%
75th Percentile £93.75 £62.65 £85.00
90th Percentile - £63.00 £85.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £61.60 £64.00
% change year-on-year - -3.75% +50.59%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Top 16 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 30 April 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 +50 241 £500 -9.09% 72
UK excluding London +57 150 £493 -1.40% 38
London +19 132 £435 -20.91% 33
Work from Home 0 101 £478 -13.96% 63
North of England +72 53 £500 +6.38% 15
Yorkshire +60 49 £500 +3.09% 8
Scotland 0 46 £413 -13.16%
South East +12 22 £638 +2.00% 8
Midlands +27 13 £484 +33.52% 3
West Midlands +26 11 £493 +23.25% 2
South West +41 10 £544 -16.38% 9
North West +8 4 £600 +37.93% 7
East of England +35 3 £488 +23.42% 2
East Midlands +3 2 £396 +9.10% 1
Wales +2 2 £375 -28.57%
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 34 (10.73%) Confluence
2 18 (5.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 15 (4.73%) SAS
4 14 (4.42%) IIS
5 6 (1.89%) Oracle Workflow
6 5 (1.58%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.95%) Apache
7 3 (0.95%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.95%) PowerExchange
7 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.63%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.32%) CMS
9 1 (0.32%) JBoss
9 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.84%) Oracle Applications
2 8 (2.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.95%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.32%) iTrent
5 1 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (23.97%) AWS
2 50 (15.77%) Azure
3 29 (9.15%) Amazon S3
4 22 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (6.94%) Serverless
5 14 (4.42%) GCP
5 14 (4.42%) OCI
6 11 (3.47%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.84%) Amazon SageMaker
7 9 (2.84%) AWS CodeCommit
7 9 (2.84%) Cloud9 IDE
7 9 (2.84%) Textract
8 8 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.89%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.58%) Miro
11 4 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.95%) Azure API Management
12 3 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.68%) DNS
2 11 (3.47%) Internet
3 4 (1.26%) Firewall
3 4 (1.26%) HTTP
3 4 (1.26%) SAN
4 2 (0.63%) SMS
5 1 (0.32%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.32%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.32%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.32%) Network Security
5 1 (0.32%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.32%) Softphone
5 1 (0.32%) SSL
5 1 (0.32%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.32%) VoIP
5 1 (0.32%) VPN
5 1 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.32%) Wireless
5 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (15.46%) SQL Server
2 37 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (10.09%) Relational Database
4 28 (8.83%) Oracle Reports
5 27 (8.52%) RDBMS
6 19 (5.99%) Oracle Database 11g
7 16 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (2.84%) Oracle Database 12c
10 8 (2.52%) Oracle Database 10g
11 7 (2.21%) MySQL
12 6 (1.89%) Power BI
13 5 (1.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (1.58%) Data Lake
13 5 (1.58%) MongoDB
14 4 (1.26%) DB2
14 4 (1.26%) Oracle ODI
15 3 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.95%) Big Data
15 3 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.83%) JIRA
2 26 (8.20%) Git
3 21 (6.62%) Oracle Forms
4 16 (5.05%) Jenkins
5 14 (4.42%) Subversion
6 13 (4.10%) GitLab
7 11 (3.47%) PVCS
8 10 (3.15%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (1.58%) DBeaver
9 5 (1.58%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.58%) Toad
10 4 (1.26%) JUnit
10 4 (1.26%) Postman
11 3 (0.95%) Ant
11 3 (0.95%) Maven
11 3 (0.95%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.63%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.63%) Selenium
12 2 (0.63%) XCTest
General
1 92 (29.02%) Finance
2 78 (24.61%) Social Skills
3 36 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.83%) Banking
6 10 (3.15%) Back Office
7 7 (2.21%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.26%) Military
10 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Advertising
13 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.32%) French Language
13 1 (0.32%) Front Office
13 1 (0.32%) Local Government
13 1 (0.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 104 (32.81%) Developer
2 37 (11.67%) Oracle Developer
3 33 (10.41%) DBA
4 31 (9.78%) C# Developer
5 29 (9.15%) C# WPF Developer
5 29 (9.15%) WPF Developer
6 25 (7.89%) Lead
7 24 (7.57%) Oracle DBA
8 21 (6.62%) .NET Developer
9 20 (6.31%) C# .NET Developer
10 19 (5.99%) Data Engineer
11 18 (5.68%) Architect
11 18 (5.68%) Consultant
11 18 (5.68%) Database Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Analyst
13 14 (4.42%) Oracle Database Engineer
14 13 (4.10%) Lead Developer
14 13 (4.10%) Software Developer
15 12 (3.79%) Commvault Engineer
15 12 (3.79%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.67%) .NET
2 35 (11.04%) .NET Framework
3 29 (9.15%) WPF
4 12 (3.79%) Java EE
4 12 (3.79%) Middleware
5 11 (3.47%) WCF
5 11 (3.47%) WinForms
6 10 (3.15%) HTML
6 10 (3.15%) REST
6 10 (3.15%) Web Services
7 9 (2.84%) Kafka
7 9 (2.84%) NumPy
7 9 (2.84%) OpenCV
7 9 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (2.84%) Pandas
7 9 (2.84%) pydantic
7 9 (2.84%) PyTorch
7 9 (2.84%) scikit-learn
7 9 (2.84%) SciPy
7 9 (2.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.99%) Data Centre
1 19 (5.99%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.58%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.58%) Oracle Licensing
4 5 (1.58%) Replication
4 5 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.26%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.26%) Reference Data
5 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
6 3 (0.95%) Clustering
6 3 (0.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 72 (22.71%) Windows
2 70 (22.08%) Linux
3 23 (7.26%) Windows Server
4 22 (6.94%) Unix
5 11 (3.47%) AIX
6 6 (1.89%) Solaris
7 5 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (28.71%) Migration
2 78 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (23.34%) Performance Tuning
4 64 (20.19%) Agile
5 54 (17.03%) DevOps
6 51 (16.09%) Data Migration
7 40 (12.62%) Unit Testing
8 39 (12.30%) ETL
9 38 (11.99%) CI/CD
9 38 (11.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (10.09%) Change Management
11 30 (9.46%) Software Engineering
12 29 (9.15%) High Availability
13 26 (8.20%) Database Migration
14 25 (7.89%) Mentoring
15 23 (7.26%) Computer Science
15 23 (7.26%) Microservices
16 22 (6.94%) Data Modelling
16 22 (6.94%) Software Testing
17 21 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 194 (61.20%) SQL
2 134 (42.27%) PL/SQL
3 54 (17.03%) Python
4 47 (14.83%) Java
5 39 (12.30%) C#
6 30 (9.46%) VB
7 28 (8.83%) VBA
8 24 (7.57%) Bash
9 22 (6.94%) Perl
10 19 (5.99%) PowerShell
11 18 (5.68%) Shell Script
12 17 (5.36%) VB.NET
13 16 (5.05%) T-SQL
14 13 (4.10%) JavaScript
15 12 (3.79%) C
16 11 (3.47%) ProC
17 4 (1.26%) TypeScript
18 3 (0.95%) Groovy
18 3 (0.95%) Korn
19 2 (0.63%) JCL
Qualifications
1 96 (30.28%) Security Cleared
2 78 (24.61%) SC Cleared
3 37 (11.67%) Degree
4 20 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 17 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.79%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (1.89%) OCP
10 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.26%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.32%) APMP
13 1 (0.32%) CISA
13 1 (0.32%) CRISC
13 1 (0.32%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.32%) PMP
13 1 (0.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.32%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.26%) QA
2 16 (5.05%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.84%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.58%) GDPR
5 4 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.26%) SLA
6 3 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.63%) ITGC
7 2 (0.63%) SEPA
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.73%) Docker
2 15 (4.73%) Oracle RAC
3 14 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (3.15%) vSphere
5 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.32%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 30 (9.46%) Oracle RMAN
2 23 (7.26%) Ansible
3 18 (5.68%) Kubernetes
4 17 (5.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 13 (4.10%) Data Guard
6 7 (2.21%) Terraform
7 6 (1.89%) Tivoli
8 5 (1.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 4 (1.26%) Grafana
9 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.32%) CA Wily
12 1 (0.32%) Control-M
12 1 (0.32%) EMC NetWorker
12 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.32%) OfficeScan
12 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.32%) Puppet
12 1 (0.32%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 317 (100.00%) Oracle
2 24 (7.57%) Microsoft
3 23 (7.26%) Cisco
4 20 (6.31%) Commvault
5 19 (5.99%) VMware
6 14 (4.42%) IBM
7 11 (3.47%) Citrix
7 11 (3.47%) Google
8 8 (2.52%) SAP
8 8 (2.52%) Talend
9 7 (2.21%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.21%) Informatica
9 7 (2.21%) Siebel
9 7 (2.21%) Splunk
9 7 (2.21%) Sybase
10 6 (1.89%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.58%) IFS
12 4 (1.26%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (0.95%) Dynatrace