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 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 35 40
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 2,023 3,286 5,143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.64% 5.51% 5.80%
As % of the Vendors category 10.89% 12.84% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 2,140 3,473
10th Percentile £382 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £461
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 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +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% -14.41%
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% -11.11%

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 18,582 25,595 35,375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.62% 42.88% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,513 17,161 23,519
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.64% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,102 690 889
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.15 £43.81 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +108.60% -6.33%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £46.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.08 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -44.26% +107.55% +0.27%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 1,537 £550 - 574
London +6 926 £575 - 248
Work from Home -2 816 £550 +4.76% 261
UK excluding London -14 741 £525 - 391
South East -7 226 £571 +7.78% 70
Scotland +7 186 £516 +3.28% 60
North of England -20 114 £500 -6.98% 81
Midlands -18 106 £480 -10.78% 69
North West -8 71 £500 -15.25% 36
South West -38 66 £500 - 51
West Midlands -29 60 £536 -0.37% 56
East Midlands +11 42 £400 -21.95% 13
Yorkshire -5 34 £493 -10.45% 23
East of England -31 22 £588 +11.90% 28
Wales -1 16 £475 -9.52% 10
North East -3 9 £425 -19.05% 22
Northern Ireland +8 5 £650 +18.18% 29

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 (2.52%) Confluence
2 49 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.53%) Apache
4 29 (1.43%) Oracle Workflow
5 28 (1.38%) IIS
6 19 (0.94%) JBoss
6 19 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 17 (0.84%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.69%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.64%) SAS
10 11 (0.54%) Apache Spark
10 11 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 11 (0.54%) Site Server
11 9 (0.44%) BizTalk Server
11 9 (0.44%) nginx
12 7 (0.35%) Anypoint
12 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.20%) ColdFusion
14 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 105 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.37%) MS Visio
3 39 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.049%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 153 (7.56%) Oracle EBS
2 73 (3.61%) Oracle Payables
3 65 (3.21%) Oracle EBS R12
3 65 (3.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 61 (3.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 54 (2.67%) Oracle General Ledger
6 52 (2.57%) Oracle Assets
7 51 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
8 41 (2.03%) Oracle Cash Management
9 39 (1.93%) Oracle Financials
10 27 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 26 (1.29%) Endur
11 26 (1.29%) Oracle Applications
12 20 (0.99%) Oracle AGIS
13 18 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
13 18 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
14 17 (0.84%) Maximo
15 16 (0.79%) Oracle 11i
16 15 (0.74%) Temenos T24
17 13 (0.64%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 339 (16.76%) Azure
2 316 (15.62%) OCI
3 283 (13.99%) AWS
4 115 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 103 (5.09%) SaaS
6 96 (4.75%) GitHub
7 71 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (3.31%) Serverless
9 64 (3.16%) GCP
10 54 (2.67%) IaaS
11 46 (2.27%) PaaS
12 43 (2.13%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (1.33%) Entra ID
17 26 (1.29%) Cloud Computing
18 25 (1.24%) Snowflake
19 23 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.62%) Firewall
2 42 (2.08%) DNS
3 32 (1.58%) SAN
4 27 (1.33%) DHCP
4 27 (1.33%) Internet
5 16 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.74%) HTTP
7 13 (0.64%) NAS
8 12 (0.59%) SSL
8 12 (0.59%) VLAN
9 11 (0.54%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.44%) Network Security
10 9 (0.44%) 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
1 356 (17.60%) Oracle Database
2 309 (15.27%) SQL Server
3 195 (9.64%) Oracle Reports
4 191 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
5 127 (6.28%) MySQL
6 112 (5.54%) Relational Database
7 100 (4.94%) Power BI
8 99 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
9 78 (3.86%) MongoDB
10 71 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 59 (2.92%) RDBMS
12 48 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (2.08%) Oracle ODI
14 41 (2.03%) Oracle Database 11g
15 39 (1.93%) Tableau
16 35 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (1.73%) Metadata
17 26 (1.29%) Oracle BI EE
18 24 (1.19%) DB2
18 24 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (6.28%) JIRA
2 106 (5.24%) Git
3 68 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.57%) Oracle APEX
5 51 (2.52%) GitLab
6 47 (2.32%) Oracle Forms
7 34 (1.68%) Selenium
8 31 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.33%) TeamCity
10 26 (1.29%) Maven
11 25 (1.24%) Bitbucket
12 24 (1.19%) ERwin
13 18 (0.89%) JUnit
14 16 (0.79%) JMeter
15 14 (0.69%) ER Studio
16 13 (0.64%) LoadRunner
17 11 (0.54%) Artifactory
17 11 (0.54%) Toad
18 10 (0.49%) Postman
19 8 (0.40%) TestRail
General
1 653 (32.28%) Finance
2 499 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 279 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 151 (7.46%) Banking
6 52 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
7 49 (2.42%) Retail
8 46 (2.27%) Legal
9 42 (2.08%) Billing
10 40 (1.98%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 33 (1.63%) Telecoms
12 32 (1.58%) General Ledger
13 30 (1.48%) Law
14 25 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
15 24 (1.19%) Back Office
16 21 (1.04%) Front Office
17 19 (0.94%) Investment Banking
18 17 (0.84%) Local Government
19 15 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 427 (21.11%) Developer
2 269 (13.30%) Consultant
3 232 (11.47%) Analyst
4 220 (10.87%) Architect
5 171 (8.45%) Oracle Consultant
6 123 (6.08%) Senior
7 111 (5.49%) Lead
8 108 (5.34%) Oracle Developer
9 105 (5.19%) DBA
10 84 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
11 80 (3.95%) Oracle Architect
12 73 (3.61%) Functional Consultant
13 68 (3.36%) Java Developer
14 67 (3.31%) Oracle DBA
15 63 (3.11%) Oracle Analyst
16 62 (3.06%) Oracle Functional Consultant
17 61 (3.02%) SQL Developer
18 60 (2.97%) Data Engineer
19 59 (2.92%) Business Analyst
20 52 (2.57%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (9.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 140 (6.92%) .NET
3 88 (4.35%) XML
4 82 (4.05%) Web Services
5 81 (4.00%) Spring
6 80 (3.95%) SOAP
7 77 (3.81%) REST
8 70 (3.46%) Kafka
9 66 (3.26%) HTML
10 59 (2.92%) .NET Framework
11 56 (2.77%) Spring Boot
12 48 (2.37%) LDAP
13 47 (2.32%) SailPoint
14 44 (2.17%) AngularJS
15 42 (2.08%) Middleware
16 40 (1.98%) JSON
16 40 (1.98%) React
17 38 (1.88%) Servlets
18 37 (1.83%) CSS
18 37 (1.83%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (3.76%) Onboarding
2 59 (2.92%) Management Information System
3 57 (2.82%) Replication
4 40 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (1.78%) Data Centre
6 35 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 27 (1.33%) 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
13 18 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (0.84%) Product Ownership
15 16 (0.79%) Cloud Native
16 15 (0.74%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
17 14 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 13 (0.64%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 214 (10.58%) Linux
2 175 (8.65%) Windows
3 161 (7.96%) Unix
4 62 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 52 (2.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.83%) Solaris
7 30 (1.48%) VMS
8 29 (1.43%) 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 (0.69%) 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 (0.049%) Android
19 1 (0.049%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (18.49%) Agile
2 301 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
3 293 (14.48%) Migration
4 248 (12.26%) DevOps
5 237 (11.72%) ERP
6 191 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
7 152 (7.51%) Data Migration
8 149 (7.37%) Data Modelling
9 148 (7.32%) ETL
10 144 (7.12%) Performance Tuning
11 128 (6.33%) Analytics
12 124 (6.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 122 (6.03%) Project Management
14 119 (5.88%) CI/CD
14 119 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
15 106 (5.24%) Software Engineering
16 101 (4.99%) Microservices
17 100 (4.94%) Scrum
18 99 (4.89%) User Acceptance Testing
19 95 (4.70%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 727 (35.94%) SQL
2 275 (13.59%) PL/SQL
3 269 (13.30%) Java
4 161 (7.96%) Python
5 134 (6.62%) C#
6 117 (5.78%) JavaScript
7 98 (4.84%) PowerShell
8 86 (4.25%) Shell Script
9 68 (3.36%) T-SQL
10 63 (3.11%) Bash
11 36 (1.78%) C++
12 34 (1.68%) VBA
13 30 (1.48%) VB
14 27 (1.33%) C
15 25 (1.24%) TypeScript
16 23 (1.14%) VB.NET
17 22 (1.09%) Korn
18 16 (0.79%) Go
19 12 (0.59%) XPath
20 10 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 310 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 267 (13.20%) SC Cleared
3 210 (10.38%) Degree
4 68 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.83%) DV Cleared
6 36 (1.78%) 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 15 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 14 (0.69%) CCNA
11 14 (0.69%) CCNP
12 13 (0.64%) APMP
13 12 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.54%) ACCA
15 10 (0.49%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 9 (0.44%) CISSP
16 9 (0.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (5.24%) QA
2 51 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.22%) GDPR
4 22 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 20 (0.99%) GAAP
6 16 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.74%) PMO
8 14 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.49%) 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%) Dodd-Frank
13 3 (0.15%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (5.64%) Active Directory
2 82 (4.05%) Docker
3 57 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (1.63%) IAG
5 28 (1.38%) ACF2
5 28 (1.38%) 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 (0.69%) Hyper-V
11 11 (0.54%) 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 (0.049%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.049%) Cronacle
15 1 (0.049%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 98 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.45%) Terraform
3 66 (3.26%) Ansible
4 33 (1.63%) 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 (0.69%) SCCM
11 13 (0.64%) SCOM
12 12 (0.59%) Oracle RMAN
13 11 (0.54%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.40%) Kibana
14 8 (0.40%) Netcool
14 8 (0.40%) Packer
14 8 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 309 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 196 (9.69%) SAP
3 92 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 85 (4.20%) VMware
5 73 (3.61%) IBM
6 65 (3.21%) ServiceNow
7 54 (2.67%) Google
8 49 (2.42%) Informatica
9 47 (2.32%) Sybase
10 44 (2.17%) HP
11 43 (2.13%) Red Hat
12 37 (1.83%) Cisco
13 35 (1.73%) Citrix
14 33 (1.63%) EMC
15 31 (1.53%) Sparx
16 27 (1.33%) Dell
17 25 (1.24%) Databricks
17 25 (1.24%) MuleSoft
17 25 (1.24%) Workday
18 23 (1.14%) CyberArk