Oracle Contracts

Oracle
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 39 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,678 2,023 3,286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.74% 4.64% 5.51%
As % of the Vendors category 12.10% 10.93% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,264 2,140
10th Percentile £375 £382 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £775 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 43 34
10th Percentile - £18.60 £35.84
25th Percentile £22.27 £25.50 £55.90
Median hourly rate £30.40 £38.50 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.04% -40.31% +77.32%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £42.19 £60.00
% change year-on-year +48.14% -29.68% +66.67%

All Vendors
UK

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 +8 1,345 £550 - 825
London +1 752 £550 -4.35% 434
UK excluding London +22 696 £510 -2.86% 428
Work from Home +4 601 £540 -1.82% 504
South East +16 190 £600 +5.03% 108
North of England +43 165 £475 -5.00% 104
Scotland -1 135 £500 -3.03% 35
North West +20 85 £475 -5.00% 63
Midlands +2 82 £493 +2.71% 73
South West +48 78 £575 +15.00% 51
Yorkshire +46 74 £450 -8.63% 34
West Midlands +14 60 £520 -2.99% 56
East of England +40 29 £510 -13.19% 35
East Midlands -8 20 £425 +6.25% 16
Northern Ireland 0 13 £470 -27.69% 16
Wales -3 8 £375 -21.05% 11
North East -3 6 £464 +9.12% 7

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 94 (5.60%) Confluence
2 48 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 42 (2.50%) Oracle Workflow
4 30 (1.79%) WebLogic
5 26 (1.55%) WebSphere
6 24 (1.43%) SAS
7 22 (1.31%) SharePoint
8 18 (1.07%) IIS
8 18 (1.07%) Tomcat
9 17 (1.01%) Apache
10 16 (0.95%) JBoss
11 13 (0.77%) Apache Spark
11 13 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
12 10 (0.60%) GemFire
13 8 (0.48%) Documentum
13 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (0.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 7 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
14 7 (0.42%) CMS
15 5 (0.30%) FileNet
Applications
1 79 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (1.55%) Oracle Smart View
4 12 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.42%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.060%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 149 (8.88%) Oracle EBS
2 63 (3.75%) Oracle ERP
3 59 (3.52%) Oracle Payables
4 56 (3.34%) Oracle EBS R12
5 40 (2.38%) Oracle Financials
6 38 (2.26%) Oracle General Ledger
7 34 (2.03%) Oracle Receivables
8 28 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
9 22 (1.31%) Oracle Cash Management
9 22 (1.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 18 (1.07%) Oracle Applications
11 17 (1.01%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 16 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
13 14 (0.83%) Oracle ASCP
14 13 (0.77%) Maximo
15 12 (0.72%) Primavera
16 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
16 10 (0.60%) Oracle BPM
17 8 (0.48%) FLEXCUBE
17 8 (0.48%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 251 (14.96%) AWS
2 219 (13.05%) OCI
3 196 (11.68%) Azure
4 67 (3.99%) SaaS
4 67 (3.99%) Serverless
5 61 (3.64%) Power Platform
6 50 (2.98%) GCP
7 48 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 39 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (1.73%) PaaS
10 24 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (1.37%) OpenShift
12 22 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
13 20 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (1.19%) GitHub
14 15 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (0.89%) IaaS
15 14 (0.83%) Oracle CX
15 14 (0.83%) Snowflake
16 12 (0.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.85%) DNS
2 30 (1.79%) Firewall
3 14 (0.83%) Internet
4 12 (0.72%) SAN
5 11 (0.66%) VPN
6 10 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.54%) DHCP
8 8 (0.48%) NAS
8 8 (0.48%) SSL
9 7 (0.42%) HTTP
10 6 (0.36%) Network Security
11 4 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.18%) BGP
12 3 (0.18%) IPsec
12 3 (0.18%) VoIP
12 3 (0.18%) Wireshark
13 2 (0.12%) MPLS
13 2 (0.12%) OSPF
13 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (18.89%) Oracle Database
2 214 (12.75%) SQL Server
3 173 (10.31%) Oracle Reports
4 142 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
5 104 (6.20%) Relational Database
6 89 (5.30%) MongoDB
7 77 (4.59%) MySQL
8 63 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
9 61 (3.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 57 (3.40%) NoSQL
11 54 (3.22%) RDBMS
12 48 (2.86%) Power BI
13 38 (2.26%) Tableau
14 37 (2.21%) DB2
15 31 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
16 27 (1.61%) Oracle ODI
17 23 (1.37%) Big Data
18 19 (1.13%) Oracle Database 11g
19 16 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
20 15 (0.89%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (9.18%) JIRA
2 92 (5.48%) Git
3 63 (3.75%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.62%) Oracle Forms
5 42 (2.50%) GitLab
6 29 (1.73%) Subversion
7 27 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.31%) Visual Studio
9 20 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
10 16 (0.95%) Maven
11 15 (0.89%) Toad
12 12 (0.72%) ERwin
13 11 (0.66%) PVCS
13 11 (0.66%) Selenium
14 10 (0.60%) JUnit
15 8 (0.48%) Mockito
15 8 (0.48%) Postman
16 7 (0.42%) TeamCity
17 6 (0.36%) JMeter
17 6 (0.36%) SoapUI
General
1 603 (35.94%) Finance
2 485 (28.90%) Social Skills
3 276 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 175 (10.43%) Banking
6 39 (2.32%) Manufacturing
7 38 (2.26%) General Ledger
8 36 (2.15%) Retail
9 30 (1.79%) Front Office
10 29 (1.73%) Back Office
11 28 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 25 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.43%) Local Government
13 24 (1.43%) Military
14 23 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 22 (1.31%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.13%) Legal
17 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
18 16 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 371 (22.11%) Developer
2 206 (12.28%) Consultant
3 173 (10.31%) Architect
4 170 (10.13%) Analyst
5 146 (8.70%) Oracle Consultant
6 130 (7.75%) Lead
7 123 (7.33%) Senior
8 98 (5.84%) Oracle Developer
9 77 (4.59%) C# Developer
10 70 (4.17%) Oracle Functional Consultant
11 66 (3.93%) Functional Consultant
12 60 (3.58%) DBA
13 54 (3.22%) Oracle Analyst
14 50 (2.98%) Data Engineer
14 50 (2.98%) Oracle Architect
14 50 (2.98%) Project Manager
15 49 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
16 47 (2.80%) .NET Developer
17 46 (2.74%) Java Developer
18 38 (2.26%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (14.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 131 (7.81%) .NET
3 99 (5.90%) REST
4 87 (5.18%) Kafka
4 87 (5.18%) Web Services
5 76 (4.53%) XML
6 69 (4.11%) SOAP
7 61 (3.64%) AngularJS
8 60 (3.58%) Middleware
9 59 (3.52%) Spring
10 51 (3.04%) React
11 45 (2.68%) Spring Boot
12 44 (2.62%) JSON
13 40 (2.38%) .NET Framework
14 37 (2.21%) HTML
15 35 (2.09%) RESTful
16 34 (2.03%) .NET Core
17 33 (1.97%) CSS
18 32 (1.91%) WCF
19 31 (1.85%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 60 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
2 53 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
2 53 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 39 (2.32%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 32 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 31 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 26 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
9 21 (1.25%) Clustering
10 20 (1.19%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.13%) Replication
12 16 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.89%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.83%) Derivative
15 12 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.66%) Private Cloud
16 11 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 211 (12.57%) Linux
2 194 (11.56%) Windows
3 103 (6.14%) Unix
4 61 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 42 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.61%) AIX
7 18 (1.07%) Solaris
8 14 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.36%) VMS
10 4 (0.24%) CentOS
11 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.12%) Rocky
11 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.060%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.060%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.060%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (24.26%) Agile
2 382 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
3 261 (15.55%) Migration
4 251 (14.96%) ERP
5 235 (14.00%) DevOps
6 151 (9.00%) Data Modelling
7 147 (8.76%) Data Migration
8 143 (8.52%) CI/CD
9 124 (7.39%) Analytics
9 124 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
10 122 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
11 120 (7.15%) Change Management
12 111 (6.62%) Microservices
12 111 (6.62%) Stakeholder Management
13 107 (6.38%) User Acceptance Testing
14 105 (6.26%) Project Management
15 98 (5.84%) Validation
16 96 (5.72%) ETL
17 90 (5.36%) Computer Science
18 89 (5.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 640 (38.14%) SQL
2 301 (17.94%) PL/SQL
3 246 (14.66%) Java
4 213 (12.69%) Python
5 136 (8.10%) C#
6 98 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 56 (3.34%) Bash
8 50 (2.98%) PowerShell
9 43 (2.56%) Perl
10 38 (2.26%) TypeScript
10 38 (2.26%) VBA
11 37 (2.21%) VB
12 36 (2.15%) Shell Script
13 33 (1.97%) C++
14 26 (1.55%) T-SQL
15 19 (1.13%) VB.NET
16 16 (0.95%) Delphi
17 15 (0.89%) C
17 15 (0.89%) ProC
17 15 (0.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 316 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 255 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 150 (8.94%) Degree
4 63 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.32%) Oracle Certification
6 38 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 33 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
8 28 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.01%) OCP
11 16 (0.95%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (0.66%) CCNP
12 11 (0.66%) OCA
13 10 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.60%) RHCA
13 10 (0.60%) RHCE
14 8 (0.48%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
14 8 (0.48%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.35%) QA
2 45 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 23 (1.37%) GDPR
4 20 (1.19%) SLA
5 19 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (0.83%) Disclosure Scotland
7 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (0.66%) PMO
9 8 (0.48%) NIST
10 7 (0.42%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.36%) MiFID
12 5 (0.30%) Basel III
13 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.24%) IFRS
13 4 (0.24%) ITGC
13 4 (0.24%) SEPA
14 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 73 (4.35%) Docker
2 57 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 46 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.31%) Oracle RAC
5 18 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.66%) vSphere
7 9 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (0.48%) GridGain
9 4 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.24%) LXC
10 3 (0.18%) HDFS
10 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.18%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.12%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.060%) KVM
12 1 (0.060%) Samba
12 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.060%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 89 (5.30%) Ansible
1 89 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.38%) Terraform
3 31 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
4 27 (1.61%) Data Guard
5 24 (1.43%) Puppet
6 22 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 22 (1.31%) Progress Chef
7 15 (0.89%) Grafana
8 11 (0.66%) vCenter Server
9 9 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.54%) Tivoli
10 8 (0.48%) VxRail
11 7 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 5 (0.30%) CEMLI
13 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
14 4 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
14 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 203 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.27%) SAP
3 65 (3.87%) Salesforce
4 61 (3.64%) ServiceNow
5 56 (3.34%) VMware
6 44 (2.62%) IBM
7 42 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 36 (2.15%) Cisco
9 34 (2.03%) MuleSoft
10 33 (1.97%) Sybase
11 30 (1.79%) Informatica
12 27 (1.61%) Splunk
13 23 (1.37%) Google
14 21 (1.25%) Commvault
15 20 (1.19%) Workday
16 19 (1.13%) Talend
17 18 (1.07%) CyberArk
17 18 (1.07%) Siebel
18 14 (0.83%) Atlassian
19 13 (0.77%) EMC