OCI Contracts

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OCI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCI over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 291 431
Rank change year-on-year -18 +140 +30
Contract jobs citing OCI 229 331 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.76% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 2.35% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 184 119
10th Percentile £429 £406 £450
25th Percentile £500 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -6.46% -
75th Percentile £650 £678 £714
90th Percentile £755 £738 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £563 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.25% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £28.00 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

OCI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

OCI
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing OCI as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for OCI in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OCI.

Daily rate trend for OCI in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCI over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OCI in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OCI.

Hourly rate trend for OCI in the UK

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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 OCI within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -3 168 £600 +5.82% 325
UK excluding London +26 97 £540 -4.00% 307
London +3 97 £600 +6.72% 66
Work from Home -6 76 £550 - 70
South East +51 34 £600 -0.83% 93
Scotland -2 28 £507 -3.52% 16
Midlands +16 12 £603 +32.53% 60
West Midlands +17 10 £589 -11.93% 32
North of England +11 9 £544 +8.75% 59
Yorkshire +9 8 £544 +10.13% 23
South West +33 5 £500 +19.76% 29
Northern Ireland -7 5 £516 -20.58% 13
Wales - 3 £405 - 8
East of England +25 2 £596 -11.67% 40
North West +8 1 - - 28
East Midlands 0 1 - - 23

OCI
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 13 (5.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (4.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (2.18%) Oracle Service Bus
4 4 (1.75%) CMS
4 4 (1.75%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.31%) Confluence
5 3 (1.31%) Documentum
5 3 (1.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 2 (0.87%) Apache
6 2 (0.87%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) IIS
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 14 (6.11%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (13.10%) Oracle EBS
2 23 (10.04%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (8.73%) Oracle Payables
4 14 (6.11%) Oracle Financials
5 13 (5.68%) Oracle Receivables
6 10 (4.37%) Oracle General Ledger
6 10 (4.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (3.49%) Oracle Cash Management
8 7 (3.06%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (3.06%) Oracle Payroll
9 6 (2.62%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (2.18%) Oracle BPM
11 4 (1.75%) Oracle Applications
11 4 (1.75%) Sage X3
12 3 (1.31%) Oracle iProcurement
13 2 (0.87%) NetSuite
13 2 (0.87%) Oracle Internet Expenses
13 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
14 1 (0.44%) HFM
14 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.41%) SaaS
2 20 (8.73%) Azure
3 16 (6.99%) AWS
4 15 (6.55%) PaaS
5 12 (5.24%) Power Platform
6 9 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.62%) GitHub
7 6 (2.62%) Oracle CX
8 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.31%) GCP
9 3 (1.31%) Serverless
9 3 (1.31%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.87%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (0.87%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.87%) Boomi
10 2 (0.87%) dbt
10 2 (0.87%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.49%) Firewall
2 5 (2.18%) Network Security
3 3 (1.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) IPsec
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) BGP
5 1 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (24.89%) Oracle Reports
2 36 (15.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 18 (7.86%) Oracle ODI
4 17 (7.42%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (6.11%) Oracle Database
6 13 (5.68%) Tableau
7 12 (5.24%) Power BI
8 5 (2.18%) Qlik Sense
8 5 (2.18%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.75%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database 11g
11 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.87%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.87%) Big Data
11 2 (0.87%) Essbase
11 2 (0.87%) Impala
11 2 (0.87%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.87%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 10 (4.37%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (3.06%) JIRA
3 4 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.31%) Subversion
5 1 (0.44%) Git
5 1 (0.44%) Hudson
5 1 (0.44%) JUnit
5 1 (0.44%) Mockito
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 105 (45.85%) Finance
2 53 (23.14%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (16.16%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.06%) General Ledger
5 6 (2.62%) Banking
5 6 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.18%) Back Office
6 5 (2.18%) Legal
6 5 (2.18%) Military
7 4 (1.75%) Billing
7 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.75%) Local Government
7 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.87%) French Language
9 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (18.78%) Consultant
2 39 (17.03%) Oracle Consultant
3 25 (10.92%) Analyst
3 25 (10.92%) Architect
4 23 (10.04%) Lead
5 20 (8.73%) Cloud Consultant
6 18 (7.86%) Developer
7 16 (6.99%) Oracle Analyst
7 16 (6.99%) Senior
8 13 (5.68%) Oracle Architect
8 13 (5.68%) Oracle Developer
9 12 (5.24%) Cloud Architect
9 12 (5.24%) Functional Consultant
9 12 (5.24%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 10 (4.37%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
11 9 (3.93%) Oracle Specialist
11 9 (3.93%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.93%) Report Writer
12 8 (3.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (38.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (6.55%) REST
3 12 (5.24%) SOAP
3 12 (5.24%) Web Services
4 11 (4.80%) Middleware
4 11 (4.80%) OAuth
5 9 (3.93%) SAML
6 8 (3.49%) OpenID
7 7 (3.06%) XML
8 3 (1.31%) WebCenter
9 2 (0.87%) .NET
9 2 (0.87%) Django
9 2 (0.87%) JSON
9 2 (0.87%) Kafka
9 2 (0.87%) MACH
9 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.44%) Ajax
10 1 (0.44%) CSS
10 1 (0.44%) JWT
10 1 (0.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.11%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.62%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.75%) Clustering
5 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.75%) Replication
6 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.44%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.86%) Linux
2 11 (4.80%) AIX
3 9 (3.93%) Windows
4 7 (3.06%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) Solaris
6 1 (0.44%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (39.30%) ERP
2 46 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (17.90%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (17.03%) Migration
5 34 (14.85%) Analytics
6 30 (13.10%) Data Modelling
7 26 (11.35%) Agile
8 24 (10.48%) Data Migration
9 21 (9.17%) DevOps
9 21 (9.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (7.86%) Project Management
10 18 (7.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 17 (7.42%) Data Visualisation
11 17 (7.42%) Visualisation
12 16 (6.99%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (6.99%) Validation
13 15 (6.55%) Actionable Insight
14 14 (6.11%) Computer Science
14 14 (6.11%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (6.11%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.83%) SQL
2 23 (10.04%) PL/SQL
2 23 (10.04%) Python
3 20 (8.73%) Java
4 6 (2.62%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.18%) ProC
6 3 (1.31%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.87%) R
7 2 (0.87%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
8 1 (0.44%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) Groovy
8 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.44%) Scala
8 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 57 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 49 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 20 (8.73%) Degree
4 14 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (4.80%) Oracle Certification
6 9 (3.93%) OCP
7 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.31%) CISSP
7 3 (1.31%) PMP
7 3 (1.31%) SANS
8 2 (0.87%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) CCSP
8 2 (0.87%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.87%) OSCP
8 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.49%) NIST
3 7 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 7 (3.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.44%) ITGC
6 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
6 1 (0.44%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (5.68%) Docker
2 10 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.06%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.87%) LXC
4 2 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.87%) vSphere
5 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.80%) Data Guard
3 9 (3.93%) Ansible
4 5 (2.18%) Terraform
5 4 (1.75%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (0.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Identity Management
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Identity Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 224 (97.82%) Oracle
2 19 (8.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.18%) Red Hat
4 4 (1.75%) Commvault
4 4 (1.75%) Dell
4 4 (1.75%) Dynatrace
4 4 (1.75%) IBM
4 4 (1.75%) Sage
4 4 (1.75%) Siebel
5 3 (1.31%) Adobe
6 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.87%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.87%) SAP
6 2 (0.87%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.87%) Splunk
6 2 (0.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.44%) Civica
7 1 (0.44%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.44%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.44%) Workday