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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 262 290
Rank change year-on-year -20 +28 -42
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 333 341 357
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.99% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 5.47% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 234 267
10th Percentile £304 £385 £378
25th Percentile £385 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +14.58% -8.57%
75th Percentile £561 £663 £588
90th Percentile £669 £699 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -26.76% +19.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £60.11 £33.18
25th Percentile £100.00 £65.30 £59.70
Median hourly rate £105.00 £75.40 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.26% +19.68% +26.00%
75th Percentile £110.00 £85.30 £90.25
90th Percentile - £90.37 £92.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £58.30 £62.05
% change year-on-year - -6.04% +64.15%

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 6,332 6,233 7,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.38% 18.02% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,369 4,126 5,243
10th Percentile £329 £340 £350
25th Percentile £410 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 84 139
10th Percentile £20.71 £18.15 £16.51
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.46 £21.64
Median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.73%
75th Percentile £68.19 £60.15 £64.77
90th Percentile £85.00 £65.89 £77.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.24 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.57% -41.02% +1.49%

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 14 December 2025.

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
Top 15 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 14 December 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 -48 283 £450 -18.18% 39
UK excluding London -3 165 £458 -26.76% 28
London -43 139 £415 -24.52% 20
Work from Home -20 87 £450 -20.35% 20
Midlands -13 40 £523 +5.98% 5
West Midlands -6 38 £520 +1.76% 5
South East -19 38 £406 -37.50% 11
North of England -20 34 £450 -10.89% 6
Yorkshire -32 19 £465 -17.88%
Scotland +5 17 £723 +40.98% 2
East of England -8 17 £127 -
North West -14 15 £450 -4.51% 6
Wales +7 12 £375 -23.08% 1
South West -5 7 £463 +2.78% 2
East Midlands -24 2 £563 +40.63%

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 30 (9.01%) SAS
2 25 (7.51%) WebLogic
3 24 (7.21%) IIS
4 14 (4.20%) Apache
4 14 (4.20%) JBoss
4 14 (4.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (3.90%) SharePoint
6 11 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (3.00%) iPlanet
7 10 (3.00%) WebSphere
7 10 (3.00%) WebSphere Application Server
8 9 (2.70%) HCL Notes
9 8 (2.40%) Oracle Service Bus
10 5 (1.50%) Confluence
10 5 (1.50%) Mendix
11 3 (0.90%) LiveLink
11 3 (0.90%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 31 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.60%) Oracle BPM
2 9 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (1.20%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.60%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.30%) Siebel CRM
6 1 (0.30%) StreamServe
Cloud Services
1 62 (18.62%) Azure
2 60 (18.02%) AWS
3 20 (6.01%) GitHub
4 17 (5.11%) OCI
4 17 (5.11%) OpenShift
4 17 (5.11%) Power Platform
5 16 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (3.60%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.60%) Serverless
7 10 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
7 10 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (2.70%) PowerApps
9 8 (2.40%) Power Automate
10 7 (2.10%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (2.10%) PaaS
11 6 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.80%) Azure Functions
11 6 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.20%) Kerberos
2 9 (2.70%) Internet
3 6 (1.80%) Firewall
3 6 (1.80%) LAN
4 5 (1.50%) HTTP
4 5 (1.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.30%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.30%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.30%) SAN
5 1 (0.30%) VoIP
5 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (23.72%) SQL Server
2 31 (9.31%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.21%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 22 (6.61%) Relational Database
6 19 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
7 17 (5.11%) Oracle Exadata
8 15 (4.50%) MySQL
8 15 (4.50%) Oracle Database 12c
8 15 (4.50%) Power BI
8 15 (4.50%) RDBMS
9 10 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (2.70%) Oracle Database 11g
10 9 (2.70%) Oracle ODI
11 8 (2.40%) Oracle BI EE
11 8 (2.40%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 7 (2.10%) Metadata
12 7 (2.10%) Pentaho
13 6 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.80%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 45 (13.51%) Git
2 36 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 24 (7.21%) JIRA
4 17 (5.11%) JUnit
5 14 (4.20%) GitLab
6 13 (3.90%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 10 (3.00%) CA Release Automation
8 9 (2.70%) CircleCI
8 9 (2.70%) ClearCase
8 9 (2.70%) SoapUI
9 8 (2.40%) Maven
9 8 (2.40%) Oracle APEX
9 8 (2.40%) Selenium
9 8 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.10%) Mockito
11 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.50%) Postman
11 5 (1.50%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.50%) SonarQube
General
1 114 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.22%) Finance
3 49 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.51%) Banking
5 32 (9.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.60%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.10%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.60%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.60%) Back Office
9 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.60%) Legal
9 2 (0.60%) Local Government
9 2 (0.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.30%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.30%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.30%) Marketing
10 1 (0.30%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (26.13%) Developer
2 55 (16.52%) DBA
3 51 (15.32%) Oracle DBA
4 31 (9.31%) Architect
5 29 (8.71%) C# Developer
6 22 (6.61%) Analyst
7 19 (5.71%) Oracle Developer
8 18 (5.41%) C# WPF Developer
8 18 (5.41%) WPF Developer
9 17 (5.11%) .NET Developer
9 17 (5.11%) Senior
10 16 (4.80%) C# .NET Developer
10 16 (4.80%) Consultant
10 16 (4.80%) Technical Analyst
11 15 (4.50%) Lead
12 14 (4.20%) Applications Support
13 13 (3.90%) Administrator
14 12 (3.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.60%) ERP Support
15 11 (3.30%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (12.61%) .NET
2 33 (9.91%) REST
3 28 (8.41%) .NET Framework
4 23 (6.91%) OAuth
4 23 (6.91%) SOAP
5 21 (6.31%) WPF
6 19 (5.71%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 18 (5.41%) Kafka
7 18 (5.41%) XML
8 15 (4.50%) JSON
8 15 (4.50%) Swagger
9 14 (4.20%) HTML
10 13 (3.90%) OAuth2
10 13 (3.90%) Spring
11 12 (3.60%) Middleware
11 12 (3.60%) OpenID
11 12 (3.60%) WinForms
12 11 (3.30%) CSS
12 11 (3.30%) Spring Boot
13 10 (3.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (4.50%) Replication
3 10 (3.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 10 (3.00%) Virtual Team
4 9 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.40%) Clustering
5 8 (2.40%) Low-Code
5 8 (2.40%) NHS
6 7 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.80%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.20%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 88 (26.43%) Linux
2 83 (24.92%) Windows
3 48 (14.41%) Unix
4 29 (8.71%) Windows Server
5 23 (6.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (3.90%) AIX
6 13 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.10%) Windows 10
7 7 (2.10%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.80%) Solaris
8 6 (1.80%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.90%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.60%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (29.13%) Agile
2 94 (28.23%) DevOps
3 93 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (20.42%) CI/CD
5 64 (19.22%) Migration
6 52 (15.62%) Performance Tuning
7 45 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (11.41%) Data Modelling
8 38 (11.41%) ETL
9 37 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (9.61%) Scrum
11 31 (9.31%) Analytics
12 30 (9.01%) Integration Patterns
13 28 (8.41%) ERP
13 28 (8.41%) SDLC
14 27 (8.11%) Validation
15 24 (7.21%) Data Integration
15 24 (7.21%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (6.91%) Data Migration
16 23 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 189 (56.76%) SQL
2 104 (31.23%) PL/SQL
3 55 (16.52%) Shell Script
4 45 (13.51%) C#
4 45 (13.51%) Java
4 45 (13.51%) Python
5 24 (7.21%) JavaScript
6 21 (6.31%) VB
6 21 (6.31%) VBA
7 19 (5.71%) T-SQL
8 15 (4.50%) Groovy
9 14 (4.20%) Perl
10 12 (3.60%) C++
11 11 (3.30%) VB.NET
12 10 (3.00%) Bash
12 10 (3.00%) C
13 9 (2.70%) TypeScript
14 8 (2.40%) Formula Language
14 8 (2.40%) LotusScript
14 8 (2.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 88 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 71 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.80%) Degree
4 12 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.40%) OCP
8 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.80%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.50%) HNC
10 5 (1.50%) HND
10 5 (1.50%) MCP
10 5 (1.50%) MCSE
11 3 (0.90%) OCA
12 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.60%) CESG Certified Professional
12 2 (0.60%) SAP Certification
13 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.21%) QA
2 14 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.40%) GDPR
4 6 (1.80%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) SEPA
5 3 (0.90%) WCAG
6 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) MiFID
6 2 (0.60%) NIST
6 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) RMADS
System Software
1 37 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
2 33 (9.91%) Docker
3 14 (4.20%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.40%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 5 (1.50%) NFS
6 4 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.60%) GPFS
8 1 (0.30%) KVM
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Clusterware
8 1 (0.30%) Samba
Systems Management
1 36 (10.81%) Data Guard
1 36 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 25 (7.51%) Oracle RMAN
3 23 (6.91%) Ansible
4 19 (5.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 17 (5.11%) Terraform
6 15 (4.50%) Grafana
7 11 (3.30%) Prometheus
8 10 (3.00%) CA Single Sign-On
8 10 (3.00%) CA Wily
8 10 (3.00%) yum
9 9 (2.70%) Progress Chef
10 8 (2.40%) Tivoli
11 5 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.90%) Ambari
12 3 (0.90%) Control-M
12 3 (0.90%) Puppet
12 3 (0.90%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.60%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.60%) Kibana
Vendors
1 333 (100.00%) Oracle
2 75 (22.52%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.11%) Citrix
4 23 (6.91%) IBM
5 18 (5.41%) Splunk
6 15 (4.50%) Red Hat
7 10 (3.00%) AppDynamics
7 10 (3.00%) Broadcom
8 9 (2.70%) Lotus
8 9 (2.70%) NetApp
9 8 (2.40%) Denodo
10 7 (2.10%) Talend
10 7 (2.10%) VMware
11 6 (1.80%) SAP
12 5 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (1.50%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.50%) Kofax
13 4 (1.20%) StreamSets
13 4 (1.20%) Sybase
13 4 (1.20%) Temenos