Oracle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Oracle products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle over the 6 months to 28 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Oracle Corporation.

6 months to
28 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 33 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing Oracle 2,517 5,193 5,191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.48% 6.66% 5.91%
As % of the Vendors category 12.04% 15.99% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 3,537 3,538
10th Percentile £369 £400 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £670 £629
90th Percentile £736 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £537 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +3.17% +9.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 29 56
10th Percentile £16.65 £18.00 £16.70
25th Percentile £44.06 £35.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £59.00 £60.00 £41.49
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +44.62% -23.94%
75th Percentile £81.88 £68.75 £55.31
90th Percentile £92.35 £85.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.32 £47.34 £42.00
% change year-on-year +21.08% +12.71% -23.00%

All Vendors
UK

Oracle is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,911 32,473 34,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.54% 41.62% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,364 21,543 22,814
10th Percentile £255 £290 £269
25th Percentile £406 £419 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +7.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £495 £450
% change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 697 789 985
10th Percentile £15.30 £13.16 £11.50
25th Percentile £19.06 £16.25 £14.22
Median hourly rate £43.86 £25.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +75.44% +28.07% -15.13%
75th Percentile £63.29 £63.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.53 £70.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.80 £21.75 £18.00
% change year-on-year +92.18% +20.83% -10.56%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle over the 6 months to 28 November 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the UK

Oracle
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the UK over the 6 months to 28 November 2023. 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 1,980 £550 -0.90% 672
London +2 1,082 £550 -8.33% 330
UK excluding London -3 1,057 £537 +3.17% 378
Work from Home 0 1,052 £533 -3.09% 306
South East -11 297 £550 +3.29% 108
North of England +10 228 £550 +4.76% 108
Scotland +9 208 £500 +11.11% 26
North West +16 129 £550 +6.02% 61
South West +6 120 £575 +9.52% 54
Midlands -23 114 £468 -13.10% 50
Yorkshire +8 85 £587 +16.33% 35
West Midlands -41 69 £456 -15.20% 27
East of England +9 57 £525 +5.00% 26
East Midlands +23 39 £488 -11.36% 22
Wales +9 31 £500 -2.44% 6
North East +21 17 £600 +14.29% 13
Northern Ireland +3 7 £525 -2.78% 5

Oracle
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 87 (3.46%) Confluence
2 45 (1.79%) Apache
2 45 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.43%) Tomcat
3 36 (1.43%) WebLogic
4 34 (1.35%) BizTalk Server
5 29 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 28 (1.11%) Oracle Workflow
7 23 (0.91%) IIS
8 21 (0.83%) WebSphere
9 14 (0.56%) SAS
10 13 (0.52%) JBoss
11 11 (0.44%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
12 10 (0.40%) Apache Spark
12 10 (0.40%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.32%) WebSphere Application Server
14 6 (0.24%) CMS
14 6 (0.24%) NetWeaver
15 4 (0.16%) Site Server
Applications
1 114 (4.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 35 (1.39%) MS Visio
4 29 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
5 15 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
6 14 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
7 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
8 8 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.12%) Notepad++
10 2 (0.079%) Siemens NX
11 1 (0.040%) CATIA
11 1 (0.040%) InCopy
11 1 (0.040%) InDesign
11 1 (0.040%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.040%) Trello
11 1 (0.040%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 134 (5.32%) Oracle EBS
2 95 (3.77%) Oracle ERP
3 62 (2.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 61 (2.42%) Oracle Payables
5 58 (2.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 52 (2.07%) Oracle Financials
7 51 (2.03%) Oracle General Ledger
8 42 (1.67%) Oracle Applications
9 38 (1.51%) Oracle EBS R12
10 26 (1.03%) Oracle Payroll
11 24 (0.95%) Oracle Cash Management
12 23 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
13 19 (0.75%) Oracle Retail
14 18 (0.72%) Endur
14 18 (0.72%) Oracle 11i
15 17 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
15 17 (0.68%) Oracle BPM
16 14 (0.56%) Loan IQ
17 12 (0.48%) Oracle SCM
18 11 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 432 (17.16%) Azure
2 356 (14.14%) AWS
3 162 (6.44%) SaaS
4 104 (4.13%) Serverless
5 102 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 99 (3.93%) GitHub
7 80 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (3.14%) GCP
9 78 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
9 78 (3.10%) PaaS
10 61 (2.42%) Amazon S3
11 51 (2.03%) IaaS
12 44 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 42 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
14 41 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
15 40 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (1.55%) Azure Functions
17 37 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
17 37 (1.47%) Entra ID
18 35 (1.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.66%) Firewall
2 35 (1.39%) DNS
3 33 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 30 (1.19%) VPN
5 24 (0.95%) HTTP
6 21 (0.83%) Kerberos
7 17 (0.68%) VLAN
8 16 (0.64%) DHCP
9 15 (0.60%) SAN
9 15 (0.60%) WAN
10 14 (0.56%) Internet
10 14 (0.56%) LAN
10 14 (0.56%) Wireless
11 13 (0.52%) SSH
12 11 (0.44%) Network Security
13 10 (0.40%) SMTP
14 9 (0.36%) FTP
14 9 (0.36%) IMAP
14 9 (0.36%) SSL
15 8 (0.32%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 432 (17.16%) SQL Server
2 374 (14.86%) Oracle Database
3 267 (10.61%) Oracle Reports
4 222 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 168 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 158 (6.28%) MySQL
7 127 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
8 105 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 88 (3.50%) Power BI
10 63 (2.50%) Oracle Database 11g
11 62 (2.46%) RDBMS
12 58 (2.30%) NoSQL
13 52 (2.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 48 (1.91%) Oracle Database 12c
15 47 (1.87%) DB2
16 46 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
16 46 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 42 (1.67%) Tableau
19 41 (1.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 175 (6.95%) JIRA
2 127 (5.05%) Jenkins
3 119 (4.73%) Git
4 61 (2.42%) GitLab
5 60 (2.38%) Oracle APEX
6 57 (2.26%) Oracle Forms
7 43 (1.71%) Bitbucket
8 38 (1.51%) Cucumber
9 31 (1.23%) TeamCity
10 29 (1.15%) Selenium
11 23 (0.91%) Subversion
12 20 (0.79%) SonarQube
13 19 (0.75%) LoadRunner
14 18 (0.72%) JUnit
14 18 (0.72%) Postman
15 16 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 16 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 13 (0.52%) ERwin
16 13 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
17 12 (0.48%) NUnit
General
1 821 (32.62%) Finance
2 549 (21.81%) Social Skills
3 286 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 244 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 218 (8.66%) Banking
6 82 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 72 (2.86%) Retail
8 55 (2.19%) Legal
9 54 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 47 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (1.71%) Financial Institution
12 39 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 36 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.35%) Law
15 32 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.19%) Front Office
16 30 (1.19%) General Ledger
17 29 (1.15%) Billing
18 28 (1.11%) Marketing
19 26 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 510 (20.26%) Developer
2 298 (11.84%) Consultant
3 252 (10.01%) Architect
4 205 (8.14%) Oracle Consultant
5 203 (8.07%) Analyst
6 175 (6.95%) Lead
7 155 (6.16%) Senior
8 139 (5.52%) Oracle Developer
9 132 (5.24%) DBA
10 91 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
11 89 (3.54%) Project Manager
12 88 (3.50%) Administrator
13 86 (3.42%) C# Developer
14 77 (3.06%) .NET Developer
14 77 (3.06%) Oracle DBA
15 70 (2.78%) Support Engineer
16 68 (2.70%) Functional Consultant
17 65 (2.58%) Oracle Architect
18 64 (2.54%) Business Analyst
19 60 (2.38%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 352 (13.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 243 (9.65%) .NET
3 150 (5.96%) REST
4 138 (5.48%) SOAP
5 137 (5.44%) Web Services
6 131 (5.20%) HTML
7 117 (4.65%) XML
8 79 (3.14%) .NET Framework
9 74 (2.94%) CSS
10 72 (2.86%) LDAP
11 68 (2.70%) Middleware
11 68 (2.70%) Spring
12 57 (2.26%) Kafka
13 55 (2.19%) .NET Core
13 55 (2.19%) AngularJS
14 54 (2.15%) JDBC
15 50 (1.99%) JSON
16 49 (1.95%) Node.js
17 48 (1.91%) React
17 48 (1.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 72 (2.86%) Data Centre
3 63 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 51 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 47 (1.87%) Product Ownership
6 45 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 45 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 41 (1.63%) Replication
8 30 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 29 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 29 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (0.99%) Virtual Team
11 24 (0.95%) Derivative
12 23 (0.91%) Clustering
13 22 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
13 22 (0.87%) PKI
14 21 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 19 (0.75%) Private Cloud
17 18 (0.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 331 (13.15%) Linux
2 258 (10.25%) Windows
3 256 (10.17%) Unix
4 123 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 120 (4.77%) Solaris
6 85 (3.38%) Windows Server
7 54 (2.15%) Oracle Linux
8 24 (0.95%) AIX
9 23 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 23 (0.91%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 20 (0.79%) Windows 10
11 18 (0.72%) VMS
12 17 (0.68%) SUSE
13 11 (0.44%) HPUX
14 10 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.32%) CentOS
16 7 (0.28%) Data ONTAP
17 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (20.18%) Agile
2 447 (17.76%) Migration
3 355 (14.10%) ERP
4 303 (12.04%) DevOps
5 263 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
6 223 (8.86%) Data Migration
7 206 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
8 198 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 163 (6.48%) Project Management
9 163 (6.48%) User Acceptance Testing
10 157 (6.24%) CI/CD
11 154 (6.12%) ETL
12 146 (5.80%) Data Modelling
13 139 (5.52%) Analytics
14 138 (5.48%) Test Automation
15 128 (5.09%) Unit Testing
16 127 (5.05%) SDLC
17 123 (4.89%) Microservices
18 122 (4.85%) Disaster Recovery
19 119 (4.73%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 947 (37.62%) SQL
2 380 (15.10%) PL/SQL
3 368 (14.62%) Java
4 266 (10.57%) Python
5 246 (9.77%) JavaScript
6 200 (7.95%) C#
7 127 (5.05%) Shell Script
8 108 (4.29%) T-SQL
9 87 (3.46%) PowerShell
10 76 (3.02%) Bash
11 65 (2.58%) Perl
12 61 (2.42%) VBA
13 59 (2.34%) C++
14 55 (2.19%) VB
15 54 (2.15%) VB.NET
16 48 (1.91%) Go
17 42 (1.67%) TypeScript
18 30 (1.19%) Ruby
19 20 (0.79%) C
20 19 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 452 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 367 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 181 (7.19%) Degree
4 61 (2.42%) DV Cleared
5 54 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 49 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 19 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 13 (0.52%) ACCA
9 13 (0.52%) CIMA
10 10 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (0.28%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.28%) PMP
12 6 (0.24%) CISSP
12 6 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.24%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.20%) CIPD
13 5 (0.20%) CISM
14 4 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (4.49%) QA
2 66 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 36 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
4 29 (1.15%) SLA
5 25 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 22 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (0.83%) GDPR
8 19 (0.75%) EMIR
9 17 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.68%) MiFID
10 15 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 15 (0.60%) PMO
11 13 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.32%) NIST
13 6 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
14 5 (0.20%) GAAP
14 5 (0.20%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 3 (0.12%) HL7
15 3 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 107 (4.25%) Active Directory
2 90 (3.58%) Docker
3 63 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 41 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
5 38 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 36 (1.43%) IAG
7 32 (1.27%) RACF
8 30 (1.19%) ACF2
9 29 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
10 16 (0.64%) Hyper-V
11 9 (0.36%) Samba
12 8 (0.32%) vSphere
13 4 (0.16%) Gluster
13 4 (0.16%) GlusterFS
14 3 (0.12%) NFS
15 2 (0.079%) KVM
15 2 (0.079%) Squid
16 1 (0.040%) Ceph
16 1 (0.040%) HDFS
16 1 (0.040%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 125 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 107 (4.25%) Ansible
3 61 (2.42%) Terraform
4 44 (1.75%) Grafana
5 31 (1.23%) Data Guard
6 28 (1.11%) NetBackup
7 26 (1.03%) Nagios
8 22 (0.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 21 (0.83%) Kibana
9 21 (0.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 20 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
11 16 (0.64%) Avamar
11 16 (0.64%) Puppet
12 15 (0.60%) Prometheus
13 14 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 13 (0.52%) HAProxy
14 13 (0.52%) Tivoli
15 11 (0.44%) Control-M
15 11 (0.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
15 11 (0.44%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 327 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 207 (8.22%) SAP
3 133 (5.28%) Red Hat
4 107 (4.25%) IBM
5 95 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 92 (3.66%) VMware
7 82 (3.26%) Salesforce
8 71 (2.82%) Sybase
9 55 (2.19%) MuleSoft
10 54 (2.15%) Citrix
11 50 (1.99%) Informatica
12 41 (1.63%) HP
13 39 (1.55%) Remedy
14 36 (1.43%) Workday
15 34 (1.35%) Google
16 32 (1.27%) Splunk
17 30 (1.19%) Cognos
18 29 (1.15%) Cisco
19 27 (1.07%) Murex
20 26 (1.03%) EMC