Oracle Database Contracts

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 248 250
Rank change year-on-year -32 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 343 628 980
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.08% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.73% 6.02% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 403 687
10th Percentile £363 - £371
25th Percentile £411 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% -5.37% +7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £567 £605
90th Percentile £688 £625 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 8
10th Percentile £44.80 £51.88 £14.77
25th Percentile - £58.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £73.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +72.01% -7.61%
75th Percentile £62.65 £85.00 £46.61
90th Percentile £63.00 £85.25 £53.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.14% +37.86% -8.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Oracle Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,246 10,437 17,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.92% 17.97% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,175 7,433 12,551
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 186 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.69
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.05 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.92
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +38.16% +59.07%
75th Percentile £60.13 £73.41 £62.24
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.25 £74.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +42.86%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Top 15 Contract 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 7 May 2024. 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 -68 238 £550 +10.00% 53
Work from Home 0 149 £555 +16.84% 27
UK excluding London -45 145 £485 -3.00% 41
London +17 142 £550 +29.41% 25
Scotland +40 55 £475 +2.70% 7
South East +15 52 £633 +15.00% 11
South West -14 14 £650 +30.00% 7
Midlands -17 10 £363 -29.30% 4
East Midlands +24 9 £363 -3.33%
North of England -5 8 £470 -14.55% 3
North West 0 6 £470 -21.67% 2
Wales +18 5 £525 -2.33% 5
Yorkshire +21 2 £485 -5.37% 1
East of England -24 1 £395 -27.16% 2
West Midlands -27 1 £400 -24.53% 4

Oracle Database
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 11 (3.21%) Oracle Workflow
2 10 (2.92%) IIS
3 5 (1.46%) Apache
3 5 (1.46%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.17%) JBoss
4 4 (1.17%) Tomcat
4 4 (1.17%) WebSphere
5 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 3 (0.87%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.58%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.58%) SAS
6 2 (0.58%) WildFly
7 1 (0.29%) Appian
Applications
1 30 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 23 (6.71%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (3.21%) NEC Housing
2 11 (3.21%) Teamcenter
3 9 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) HFM
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
5 1 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.66%) AWS
2 22 (6.41%) Azure
3 20 (5.83%) OCI
4 12 (3.50%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.50%) Serverless
5 10 (2.92%) GitHub
6 8 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.75%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.46%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (1.46%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 5 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.17%) GCP
9 4 (1.17%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.17%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 3 (0.87%) IaaS
10 3 (0.87%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.50%) Internet
2 5 (1.46%) Firewall
3 4 (1.17%) FTP
4 2 (0.58%) HTTP
4 2 (0.58%) Network Security
5 1 (0.29%) DNS
5 1 (0.29%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.29%) IPsec
5 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.62%) SQL Server
2 47 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (10.50%) Oracle Database 11g
4 20 (5.83%) Oracle Database 10g
5 18 (5.25%) Oracle ODI
6 17 (4.96%) Metadata
6 17 (4.96%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (4.66%) MySQL
8 15 (4.37%) Oracle Database 12c
9 14 (4.08%) Oracle Exadata
10 12 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (2.62%) SAP HANA
12 8 (2.33%) MongoDB
12 8 (2.33%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (2.04%) PowerCenter
14 6 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.75%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.46%) Oracle8/8i Database
15 5 (1.46%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (6.71%) Oracle APEX
2 21 (6.12%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (4.08%) Maven
4 11 (3.21%) JIRA
5 10 (2.92%) Git
6 6 (1.75%) GitLab
7 4 (1.17%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.17%) JUnit
8 3 (0.87%) Gradle
9 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.58%) Selenium
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.58%) Subversion
9 2 (0.58%) TestRail
10 1 (0.29%) Ant
10 1 (0.29%) Mockito
10 1 (0.29%) Postman
10 1 (0.29%) Serenity BDD
General
1 88 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 76 (22.16%) Finance
3 46 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.45%) Banking
5 27 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.04%) Billing
8 7 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.04%) Local Government
9 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.46%) Back Office
10 5 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.46%) Retail
11 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.58%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Front Office
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
12 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (37.32%) Developer
2 66 (19.24%) DBA
3 57 (16.62%) Oracle DBA
4 46 (13.41%) Oracle Developer
5 45 (13.12%) Architect
6 40 (11.66%) Senior
7 32 (9.33%) Consultant
8 26 (7.58%) Java Developer
9 24 (7.00%) C# Developer
9 24 (7.00%) Oracle Architect
10 23 (6.71%) Analyst
11 21 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
11 21 (6.12%) SQL Developer
12 16 (4.66%) .NET Developer
12 16 (4.66%) C# .NET Developer
13 14 (4.08%) PostgreSQL Developer
14 12 (3.50%) Administrator
15 11 (3.21%) Oracle Consultant
15 11 (3.21%) PL/SQL Developer
15 11 (3.21%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.87%) .NET
2 24 (7.00%) .NET Framework
3 22 (6.41%) REST
4 21 (6.12%) React
5 19 (5.54%) Spring
6 18 (5.25%) CSS
6 18 (5.25%) JPA
7 17 (4.96%) Hibernate
7 17 (4.96%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.37%) HTML
8 15 (4.37%) Middleware
9 14 (4.08%) Web Services
10 12 (3.50%) AWS CDK
11 11 (3.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 10 (2.92%) WPF
13 9 (2.62%) Node.js
13 9 (2.62%) SAP Basis
13 9 (2.62%) WinForms
14 8 (2.33%) WCF
14 8 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.71%) Replication
2 16 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.79%) Blog
5 9 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.75%) Derivative
7 6 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.46%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.46%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.17%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.17%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.87%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.87%) Tandem
10 3 (0.87%) VAX
11 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (16.62%) Linux
2 40 (11.66%) Unix
3 31 (9.04%) Windows
4 17 (4.96%) VMS
5 13 (3.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (3.50%) Oracle Linux
7 10 (2.92%) Solaris
8 7 (2.04%) AIX
8 7 (2.04%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.17%) OpenVMS
10 3 (0.87%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (24.20%) Migration
2 59 (17.20%) Performance Tuning
3 58 (16.91%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (15.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 49 (14.29%) DevOps
5 49 (14.29%) High Availability
6 40 (11.66%) Agile
7 33 (9.62%) Data Migration
8 29 (8.45%) Software Engineering
9 28 (8.16%) CI/CD
9 28 (8.16%) Unit Testing
10 27 (7.87%) ETL
11 25 (7.29%) Data Analysis
12 21 (6.12%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (6.12%) Computer Science
12 21 (6.12%) Database Migration
13 19 (5.54%) Microservices
13 19 (5.54%) SDLC
13 19 (5.54%) Software Testing
14 18 (5.25%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (58.31%) SQL
2 114 (33.24%) PL/SQL
3 63 (18.37%) Java
4 37 (10.79%) Shell Script
5 28 (8.16%) C#
6 25 (7.29%) VB
7 23 (6.71%) VBA
8 21 (6.12%) T-SQL
9 17 (4.96%) JavaScript
9 17 (4.96%) Python
10 15 (4.37%) TypeScript
11 14 (4.08%) Bash
11 14 (4.08%) VB.NET
12 8 (2.33%) C
13 5 (1.46%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.17%) COBOL
14 4 (1.17%) DCL
15 2 (0.58%) ProC
16 1 (0.29%) PHP
16 1 (0.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 71 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.16%) Degree
4 19 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.46%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.29%) CEH
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) MCSE
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.29%) OCP
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.33%) QA
2 6 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.46%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.87%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS
5 2 (0.58%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.29%) COREP
6 1 (0.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (5.25%) Oracle RAC
2 15 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 12 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (2.92%) Docker
4 10 (2.92%) KVM
5 8 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.58%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (8.45%) Data Guard
2 14 (4.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 12 (3.50%) Oracle RMAN
4 11 (3.21%) Terraform
5 10 (2.92%) Ansible
6 7 (2.04%) Kubernetes
7 6 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 2 (0.58%) Oracle Flashback
9 2 (0.58%) Packer
9 2 (0.58%) vRealize
10 1 (0.29%) Control-M
10 1 (0.29%) Grafana
10 1 (0.29%) Kibana
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.29%) Podman
10 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 343 (100.00%) Oracle
2 22 (6.41%) SAP
3 21 (6.12%) VMware
4 20 (5.83%) Informatica
5 19 (5.54%) Citrix
6 15 (4.37%) Microsoft
7 13 (3.79%) NEC
8 11 (3.21%) Red Hat
9 10 (2.92%) Northgate
10 8 (2.33%) Commvault
11 5 (1.46%) CA Agile Central
11 5 (1.46%) Siebel
12 4 (1.17%) IBM
13 3 (0.87%) JDA
13 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow
14 2 (0.58%) Cisco
14 2 (0.58%) EMC
14 2 (0.58%) Google
14 2 (0.58%) Palo Alto
14 2 (0.58%) SimCorp