Oracle ZFS Contract Job Trends

Oracle ZFS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Oracle ZFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 526 598
Rank change year-on-year -81 +72 +139
Contract jobs citing Oracle ZFS 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.007% 0.004%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.048% 0.042% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £514 £466 -
25th Percentile £515 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% +8.33% -12.62%
75th Percentile £565 £497 £475
90th Percentile £571 £499 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +12.82% +8.33% -14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Oracle ZFS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,310 4,741 5,330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.78% 16.11% 11.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,351 3,148 3,810
10th Percentile £315 £313 £262
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £690 £738 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 52 150
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.50 £22.14 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £25.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.69% -32.00% -28.07%
75th Percentile £67.50 £59.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £77.19 £76.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +127.46% -39.55% -13.14%

Oracle ZFS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Oracle ZFS job vacancy trend in the UK

Oracle ZFS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle ZFS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Oracle ZFS
Top 6 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 ZFS within the UK over the 6 months to 12 March 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 -91 2 £537 +10.21% 1
Work from Home -23 1 - -
UK excluding London -88 1 £550 +12.82% 1
North of England - 1 £550 - 1
London - 1 £525 -
North West - 1 £550 - 1

Oracle ZFS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google Ads
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Database Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Database Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Database Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Lustre
1 1 (33.33%) NFS
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Salt
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat