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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 272 287
Rank change year-on-year -31 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 315 280 358
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.78% 0.92% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.80% 4.96% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 201 273
10th Percentile £316 £385 £363
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £656 £625
90th Percentile £663 £699 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £579 £525
% change year-on-year -19.22% +10.24% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile - £73.25 -
25th Percentile - £80.00 £63.00
Median hourly rate £74.68 £92.50 £75.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.26% +22.11% -7.34%
75th Percentile - £93.75 £91.13
90th Percentile £92.34 - £92.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.68 - £88.50
% change year-on-year - - +64.65%

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 6,569 5,640 7,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.34% 18.51% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,508 3,755 5,174
10th Percentile £339 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 90 177
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.81 £16.07
25th Percentile £28.86 £24.81 £21.64
Median hourly rate £52.50 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.06% -9.87% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £64.93 £63.00
90th Percentile £85.20 £70.38 £76.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.60 £30.00 £41.38
% change year-on-year +78.67% -27.49% -26.02%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -28 278 £469 -14.73% 61
UK excluding London -34 149 £468 -19.22% 59
London -41 140 £439 -17.90% 20
Work from Home -42 73 £492 -6.29% 19
Midlands -21 50 £525 -0.76% 5
West Midlands -10 48 £525 -9.09% 4
South East -20 32 £428 -34.23% 19
North of England -52 26 £450 -18.18% 9
Yorkshire -52 13 £353 -35.91% 8
Scotland -17 12 £550 +7.32% 11
North West -20 12 £453 +27.25%
East of England -15 11 £127 - 8
South West -18 11 £450 -25.00% 8
Wales - 5 £369 -
East Midlands -27 2 £525 +34.27% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £553 -
North East - 1 £625 - 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 32 (10.16%) SAS
2 27 (8.57%) IIS
3 15 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 12 (3.81%) WebLogic
5 10 (3.17%) Apache
5 10 (3.17%) HCL Notes
5 10 (3.17%) JBoss
6 9 (2.86%) Mendix
6 9 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (2.54%) WebSphere
8 7 (2.22%) iPlanet
8 7 (2.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 5 (1.59%) Tomcat
10 4 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.95%) Appian
11 3 (0.95%) LiveLink
12 2 (0.63%) Confluence
12 2 (0.63%) Liferay
12 2 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (7.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.17%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.59%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.27%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.63%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.32%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.32%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.32%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.32%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.22%) Azure
2 42 (13.33%) AWS
3 26 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (6.35%) OCI
5 16 (5.08%) Power Platform
6 12 (3.81%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.81%) Serverless
7 11 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (3.17%) Azure Functions
8 10 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (3.17%) Power Automate
8 10 (3.17%) PowerApps
9 9 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (2.54%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.54%) Collibra
11 7 (2.22%) SaaS
12 6 (1.90%) Azure API Management
13 5 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
14 4 (1.27%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.13%) Kerberos
2 12 (3.81%) Internet
3 8 (2.54%) Firewall
4 6 (1.90%) HTTP
5 2 (0.63%) DSL
5 2 (0.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.63%) VPN
6 1 (0.32%) Intranet
6 1 (0.32%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.32%) LAN
6 1 (0.32%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.32%) VoIP
6 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.10%) SQL Server
2 25 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (7.30%) Oracle Reports
3 23 (7.30%) Relational Database
4 22 (6.98%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 16 (5.08%) MySQL
6 15 (4.76%) Metadata
6 15 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (4.76%) Power BI
7 14 (4.44%) Oracle Exadata
8 11 (3.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.17%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.17%) RDBMS
10 9 (2.86%) Oracle Database 12c
10 9 (2.86%) Pentaho
11 7 (2.22%) Oracle Database 10g
11 7 (2.22%) SQLPlus
12 6 (1.90%) Oracle BI EE
12 6 (1.90%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 30 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 29 (9.21%) Git
3 23 (7.30%) JIRA
4 16 (5.08%) GitLab
5 15 (4.76%) JUnit
6 10 (3.17%) Selenium
7 7 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (2.22%) CA Release Automation
8 6 (1.90%) Oracle APEX
8 6 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.59%) Ant
9 5 (1.59%) SoapUI
9 5 (1.59%) Toad
10 4 (1.27%) Maven
10 4 (1.27%) Mockito
10 4 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.95%) ClearCase
11 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.63%) Hudson
General
1 84 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 71 (22.54%) Finance
3 41 (13.02%) Banking
4 40 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.71%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.95%) Retail
11 2 (0.63%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.63%) Back Office
11 2 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.63%) Local Government
11 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Law
12 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 90 (28.57%) Developer
2 65 (20.63%) DBA
2 65 (20.63%) Oracle DBA
3 38 (12.06%) Architect
4 34 (10.79%) C# Developer
5 19 (6.03%) Oracle Developer
6 16 (5.08%) Administrator
6 16 (5.08%) Senior
7 15 (4.76%) Analyst
7 15 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 13 (4.13%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
10 10 (3.17%) C# WPF Developer
10 10 (3.17%) Power Platform Developer
10 10 (3.17%) WPF Developer
11 9 (2.86%) .NET Developer
11 9 (2.86%) Applications Developer
12 8 (2.54%) Applications Support
12 8 (2.54%) Linux Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (16.19%) .NET
2 27 (8.57%) .NET Framework
3 22 (6.98%) REST
4 17 (5.40%) WPF
5 16 (5.08%) React
6 15 (4.76%) Kafka
6 15 (4.76%) WinForms
6 15 (4.76%) XML
7 14 (4.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 14 (4.44%) SOAP
8 13 (4.13%) HTML
9 11 (3.49%) Middleware
10 9 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (2.86%) OAuth
10 9 (2.86%) OpenID
10 9 (2.86%) Spring
11 8 (2.54%) CSS
11 8 (2.54%) JSON
12 7 (2.22%) SAML
12 7 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
2 13 (4.13%) Enterprise Cloud
2 13 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 7 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 7 (2.22%) Replication
5 6 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.27%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.27%) Clustering
7 4 (1.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (0.95%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.95%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.95%) Private Cloud
8 3 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (20.95%) Windows
2 64 (20.32%) Linux
3 41 (13.02%) Unix
4 19 (6.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (5.71%) Windows Server
6 15 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (3.81%) AIX
8 8 (2.54%) Solaris
8 8 (2.54%) Windows 10
9 7 (2.22%) Windows 7
9 7 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.63%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.63%) VMS
12 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.32%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (24.76%) DevOps
2 76 (24.13%) Agile
3 73 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (20.32%) Migration
5 56 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
6 54 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 48 (15.24%) ETL
8 41 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
9 34 (10.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (10.48%) Data Modelling
11 31 (9.84%) Scrum
12 30 (9.52%) High Availability
13 29 (9.21%) Data Migration
14 28 (8.89%) Data Analysis
15 26 (8.25%) Integration Patterns
16 25 (7.94%) Analytics
16 25 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
16 25 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (7.94%) Test Automation
17 24 (7.62%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 171 (54.29%) SQL
2 96 (30.48%) PL/SQL
3 55 (17.46%) C#
4 42 (13.33%) Python
5 39 (12.38%) Java
6 35 (11.11%) Shell Script
7 24 (7.62%) T-SQL
8 19 (6.03%) JavaScript
9 18 (5.71%) VB
10 17 (5.40%) VBA
11 13 (4.13%) Perl
12 10 (3.17%) Formula Language
12 10 (3.17%) LotusScript
12 10 (3.17%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.54%) Groovy
13 8 (2.54%) Korn
14 6 (1.90%) Bash
15 5 (1.59%) C++
15 5 (1.59%) PHP
15 5 (1.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 76 (24.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.17%) Degree
5 8 (2.54%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (1.59%) OCP
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.63%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.63%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.25%) QA
2 18 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.86%) SLA
4 8 (2.54%) GDPR
5 4 (1.27%) SEPA
6 3 (0.95%) FATCA
7 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) MiFID
7 2 (0.63%) NIST
7 2 (0.63%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.63%) WCAG
8 1 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 29 (9.21%) Docker
2 27 (8.57%) Oracle RAC
3 11 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.90%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.95%) NFS
6 3 (0.95%) Oracle Clusterware
7 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (9.84%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.57%) Oracle RMAN
3 23 (7.30%) Data Guard
4 16 (5.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 15 (4.76%) Terraform
6 13 (4.13%) Ansible
7 7 (2.22%) CA Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.22%) CA Wily
7 7 (2.22%) Tivoli
8 6 (1.90%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.27%) Grafana
10 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
11 2 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
11 2 (0.63%) Foglight
11 2 (0.63%) Kibana
11 2 (0.63%) Oracle ZFS
11 2 (0.63%) systemd
12 1 (0.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 315 (100.00%) Oracle
2 62 (19.68%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.94%) Citrix
4 22 (6.98%) IBM
5 12 (3.81%) Talend
6 10 (3.17%) Denodo
6 10 (3.17%) Lotus
7 9 (2.86%) Kofax
7 9 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 9 (2.86%) Splunk
8 8 (2.54%) Databricks
9 7 (2.22%) AppDynamics
9 7 (2.22%) Broadcom
10 6 (1.90%) VMware
11 5 (1.59%) SAP
12 4 (1.27%) Alteryx
13 3 (0.95%) NetApp
13 3 (0.95%) Pega
14 2 (0.63%) NEC
14 2 (0.63%) Remedy
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