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 27 April 2024 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 36 40
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 2,012 3,290 5,143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.65% 5.50% 5.79%
As % of the Vendors category 10.91% 12.83% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 2,150 3,466
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £524 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.24% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 34 46
10th Percentile £18.60 £35.84 £17.17
25th Percentile £25.50 £55.90 £33.64
Median hourly rate £38.50 £64.50 £36.38
Median % change year-on-year -40.31% +77.32% -16.73%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.19 £60.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -29.68% +66.67% -12.73%

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 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -3 1,530 £550 - 520
London +6 920 £575 - 233
Work from Home -1 810 £550 +4.76% 248
UK excluding London -13 740 £524 -0.24% 360
South East -7 226 £571 +8.81% 60
Scotland +5 185 £511 +2.40% 56
North of England -17 114 £500 -5.66% 71
Midlands -21 106 £480 -10.78% 59
North West -14 71 £500 -9.09% 34
South West -31 66 £500 - 53
West Midlands -28 60 £536 -0.56% 47
East Midlands +7 42 £400 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -7 34 £493 -10.45% 19
East of England -28 22 £588 +11.90% 26
Wales +4 16 £475 -5.00% 11
North East -2 9 £425 -19.05% 18
Northern Ireland +7 5 £650 +18.18% 30

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 51 (2.53%) Confluence
2 49 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.54%) Apache
4 29 (1.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 28 (1.39%) IIS
6 19 (0.94%) JBoss
6 19 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 17 (0.84%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.70%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
10 12 (0.60%) SAS
11 11 (0.55%) Apache Spark
11 11 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.55%) Site Server
12 9 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.45%) nginx
13 7 (0.35%) Anypoint
13 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
15 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 105 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.39%) MS Visio
3 39 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 152 (7.55%) Oracle EBS
2 72 (3.58%) Oracle Payables
3 65 (3.23%) Oracle EBS R12
4 64 (3.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 61 (3.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 53 (2.63%) Oracle General Ledger
7 51 (2.53%) Oracle Assets
7 51 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
8 40 (1.99%) Oracle Cash Management
9 39 (1.94%) Oracle Financials
10 27 (1.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 26 (1.29%) Oracle Applications
12 24 (1.19%) Endur
13 20 (0.99%) Oracle AGIS
14 18 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
14 18 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
15 17 (0.84%) Maximo
16 16 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
17 15 (0.75%) Temenos T24
18 14 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 338 (16.80%) Azure
2 314 (15.61%) OCI
3 284 (14.12%) AWS
4 115 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 103 (5.12%) SaaS
6 97 (4.82%) GitHub
7 70 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (3.33%) Serverless
9 64 (3.18%) GCP
10 54 (2.68%) IaaS
11 46 (2.29%) PaaS
12 43 (2.14%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (1.34%) Entra ID
17 26 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
18 25 (1.24%) Snowflake
19 23 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.63%) Firewall
2 42 (2.09%) DNS
3 32 (1.59%) SAN
4 27 (1.34%) DHCP
4 27 (1.34%) Internet
5 16 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.75%) HTTP
7 13 (0.65%) NAS
8 12 (0.60%) SSL
8 12 (0.60%) VLAN
9 11 (0.55%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.45%) Network Security
10 9 (0.45%) VPN
11 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.30%) 5G
12 6 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.25%) Diameter Protocol
13 5 (0.25%) FTP
13 5 (0.25%) IPsec
14 4 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (17.64%) Oracle Database
2 308 (15.31%) SQL Server
3 195 (9.69%) Oracle Reports
4 192 (9.54%) PostgreSQL
5 127 (6.31%) MySQL
6 111 (5.52%) Relational Database
7 100 (4.97%) Power BI
8 98 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
9 78 (3.88%) MongoDB
10 71 (3.53%) NoSQL
11 59 (2.93%) RDBMS
12 48 (2.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (2.09%) Oracle ODI
14 41 (2.04%) Oracle Database 11g
15 39 (1.94%) Tableau
16 36 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
17 35 (1.74%) Metadata
18 26 (1.29%) Oracle BI EE
19 24 (1.19%) DB2
19 24 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 126 (6.26%) JIRA
2 106 (5.27%) Git
3 68 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.53%) GitLab
4 51 (2.53%) Oracle APEX
5 47 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
6 34 (1.69%) Selenium
7 31 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 27 (1.34%) TeamCity
9 26 (1.29%) Maven
10 25 (1.24%) Bitbucket
11 24 (1.19%) ERwin
12 18 (0.89%) JUnit
13 16 (0.80%) JMeter
14 14 (0.70%) ER Studio
15 13 (0.65%) LoadRunner
16 11 (0.55%) Artifactory
16 11 (0.55%) Toad
17 10 (0.50%) Postman
18 8 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 649 (32.26%) Finance
2 495 (24.60%) Social Skills
3 279 (13.87%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 151 (7.50%) Banking
6 52 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
7 48 (2.39%) Retail
8 46 (2.29%) Legal
9 42 (2.09%) Billing
10 39 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.64%) Financial Institution
12 32 (1.59%) General Ledger
12 32 (1.59%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.49%) Law
14 25 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.19%) Back Office
16 19 (0.94%) Front Office
16 19 (0.94%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.84%) Local Government
18 15 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 424 (21.07%) Developer
2 266 (13.22%) Consultant
3 231 (11.48%) Analyst
4 220 (10.93%) Architect
5 169 (8.40%) Oracle Consultant
6 122 (6.06%) Senior
7 109 (5.42%) Lead
8 107 (5.32%) Oracle Developer
9 106 (5.27%) DBA
10 84 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (3.98%) Oracle Architect
12 72 (3.58%) Functional Consultant
13 68 (3.38%) Java Developer
13 68 (3.38%) Oracle DBA
14 63 (3.13%) Oracle Analyst
15 62 (3.08%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 61 (3.03%) SQL Developer
17 59 (2.93%) Business Analyst
17 59 (2.93%) Data Engineer
18 51 (2.53%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 139 (6.91%) .NET
3 88 (4.37%) XML
4 81 (4.03%) Spring
5 80 (3.98%) SOAP
5 80 (3.98%) Web Services
6 77 (3.83%) REST
7 70 (3.48%) Kafka
8 66 (3.28%) HTML
9 59 (2.93%) .NET Framework
10 56 (2.78%) Spring Boot
11 48 (2.39%) LDAP
12 47 (2.34%) SailPoint
13 44 (2.19%) AngularJS
14 43 (2.14%) Middleware
15 40 (1.99%) JSON
15 40 (1.99%) React
16 38 (1.89%) Servlets
17 37 (1.84%) CSS
17 37 (1.84%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (3.78%) Onboarding
2 59 (2.93%) Management Information System
3 57 (2.83%) Replication
4 40 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 26 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 23 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (1.09%) Clustering
11 21 (1.04%) Derivative
12 20 (0.99%) PKI
13 18 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.84%) Product Ownership
15 16 (0.80%) Cloud Native
16 15 (0.75%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 13 (0.65%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 214 (10.64%) Linux
2 175 (8.70%) Windows
3 161 (8.00%) Unix
4 62 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 52 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.84%) Solaris
7 30 (1.49%) VMS
8 29 (1.44%) Oracle Linux
9 26 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (1.09%) AIX
12 18 (0.89%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
14 14 (0.70%) Windows XP
15 6 (0.30%) OpenVMS
16 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 2 (0.099%) zOS
19 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
19 1 (0.050%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (18.49%) Agile
2 300 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
3 290 (14.41%) Migration
4 247 (12.28%) DevOps
5 236 (11.73%) ERP
6 191 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
7 150 (7.46%) Data Migration
8 148 (7.36%) Data Modelling
8 148 (7.36%) ETL
9 145 (7.21%) Performance Tuning
10 127 (6.31%) Analytics
11 123 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 119 (5.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 119 (5.91%) Project Management
13 118 (5.86%) CI/CD
14 106 (5.27%) Software Engineering
15 101 (5.02%) Microservices
16 100 (4.97%) Scrum
17 98 (4.87%) User Acceptance Testing
18 95 (4.72%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 723 (35.93%) SQL
2 274 (13.62%) PL/SQL
3 268 (13.32%) Java
4 159 (7.90%) Python
5 133 (6.61%) C#
6 117 (5.82%) JavaScript
7 98 (4.87%) PowerShell
8 86 (4.27%) Shell Script
9 68 (3.38%) T-SQL
10 63 (3.13%) Bash
11 36 (1.79%) C++
12 34 (1.69%) VBA
13 30 (1.49%) VB
14 26 (1.29%) C
15 25 (1.24%) TypeScript
16 23 (1.14%) VB.NET
17 22 (1.09%) Korn
18 16 (0.80%) Go
19 12 (0.60%) XPath
20 10 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 311 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 268 (13.32%) SC Cleared
3 210 (10.44%) Degree
4 68 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.84%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 19 (0.94%) ISTQB
7 19 (0.94%) PMP
8 18 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.70%) CCNA
11 14 (0.70%) CCNP
12 13 (0.65%) APMP
13 12 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.55%) ACCA
15 10 (0.50%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.45%) CISSP
16 9 (0.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.27%) QA
2 51 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.24%) GDPR
4 22 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 20 (0.99%) GAAP
6 16 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.75%) PMO
8 13 (0.65%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.50%) SLA
10 8 (0.40%) GRC
11 5 (0.25%) MiFID
11 5 (0.25%) NCSC
12 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 4 (0.20%) EMIR
12 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 82 (4.08%) Docker
3 57 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.64%) IAG
5 28 (1.39%) ACF2
5 28 (1.39%) RACF
6 23 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
7 21 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 19 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.89%) vSphere
10 14 (0.70%) Hyper-V
11 11 (0.55%) KVM
12 5 (0.25%) HDFS
13 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
13 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.050%) Cronacle
15 1 (0.050%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 98 (4.87%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.52%) Terraform
3 66 (3.28%) Ansible
4 33 (1.64%) Data Guard
5 26 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
5 26 (1.29%) NetBackup
6 24 (1.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 22 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (0.89%) WSUS
9 17 (0.84%) Grafana
9 17 (0.84%) Tivoli
9 17 (0.84%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.70%) SCCM
11 13 (0.65%) SCOM
12 12 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (0.55%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.40%) Kibana
14 8 (0.40%) Packer
14 8 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 8 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 306 (15.21%) Microsoft
2 192 (9.54%) SAP
3 89 (4.42%) Salesforce
4 85 (4.22%) VMware
5 74 (3.68%) IBM
6 65 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.68%) Google
8 49 (2.44%) Informatica
9 47 (2.34%) Sybase
10 44 (2.19%) HP
11 43 (2.14%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.84%) Cisco
13 35 (1.74%) Citrix
14 33 (1.64%) EMC
15 31 (1.54%) Sparx
16 27 (1.34%) Dell
17 25 (1.24%) MuleSoft
17 25 (1.24%) Workday
18 24 (1.19%) Databricks
19 23 (1.14%) CyberArk