Oracle Linux Contract Job Trends

Oracle Linux (formerly Oracle Enterprise Linux)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle Linux skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 506 560
Rank change year-on-year -105 +54 +96
Contract jobs citing Oracle Linux 11 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.048% 0.062%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.23% 0.34% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile £375 £348 £420
25th Percentile £431 £381 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -24.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £591 £559 £688
90th Percentile £675 £576 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -8.00% -21.43% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Operating Systems
UK

Oracle Linux falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4,711 4,097 5,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 13.92% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,069 2,727 3,946
10th Percentile £181 £200 £183
25th Percentile £310 £320 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -9.76%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £660 £699 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 173 403
10th Percentile £15.51 £16.30 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.37 £18.13 £15.21
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.18 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.41% +9.91% -29.60%
75th Percentile £67.25 £62.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £68.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.07 £24.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year +40.88% +20.90% -25.93%

Oracle Linux
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle Linux job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle Linux
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Linux over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Linux in the UK

Oracle Linux
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle Linux
Top 8 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 Linux within the UK over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -99 9 £506 +6.53%
UK excluding London -103 8 £506 -8.00%
North of England -70 6 £506 +44.57%
Work from Home -38 3 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £650 -
North West - 3 £500 -
South East -47 2 - -
London -51 1 - -

Oracle Linux
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 2 (18.18%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Introscope
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Banking
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) DBA
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle DBA
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared DBA
4 2 (18.18%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Unix Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Unix Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) JDBC
1 2 (18.18%) JMS
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (54.55%) Unix
3 4 (36.36%) Solaris
4 3 (27.27%) AIX
4 3 (27.27%) HPUX
4 3 (27.27%) SUSE
5 2 (18.18%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 1 (9.09%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Change Management
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Security Hardening
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Management
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) RBAC
4 3 (27.27%) Runbook
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Optimisation
4 3 (27.27%) Storage Management
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Jython
3 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CISSP
1 3 (27.27%) CompTIA Security+
1 3 (27.27%) RHCE
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) GRC
2 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (18.18%) CA Wily
2 2 (18.18%) Data Guard
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle
2 8 (72.73%) Red Hat
3 3 (27.27%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (9.09%) Murex