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 18 May 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,706 1,973 3,097
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.79% 4.63% 5.45%
As % of the Vendors category 12.14% 10.93% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 1,252 2,001
10th Percentile £373 £375 £400
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £673
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.83% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 45 26
10th Percentile - £18.25 £41.71
25th Percentile £22.27 £25.50 £53.13
Median hourly rate £30.40 £28.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -55.20% +78.57%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £74.69
90th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £80.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £33.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +87.97% -44.58% +71.43%

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 14,048 18,051 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.71% 42.37% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,759 11,216 16,323
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £645
90th Percentile £712 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 1,110 662
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.02 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.40 £21.50 £40.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.14% -46.97% +88.58%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.88 £21.46 £34.00
% change year-on-year +6.59% -36.88% +81.82%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +9 1,372 £550 - 1,370
London +2 754 £550 -3.00% 594
UK excluding London +18 729 £508 -0.83% 1,014
Work from Home +1 618 £550 - 814
South East +12 208 £600 +9.09% 357
North of England +41 166 £475 -5.00% 197
Scotland -3 146 £500 -0.60% 73
Midlands +2 95 £475 -2.06% 151
North West +13 81 £475 -5.00% 106
Yorkshire +51 77 £450 -8.86% 73
South West +37 62 £575 +12.20% 104
West Midlands 0 60 £520 -2.99% 86
East Midlands +4 32 £410 +4.13% 56
East of England +40 31 £528 -10.21% 116
Northern Ireland 0 14 £460 -29.23% 28
Wales -1 9 £375 -3.85% 19
North East -4 8 £520 +15.56% 19

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 91 (5.33%) Confluence
2 54 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 52 (3.05%) Oracle Workflow
4 34 (1.99%) WebLogic
5 27 (1.58%) WebSphere
6 19 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 19 (1.11%) Tomcat
7 18 (1.06%) SAS
8 17 (1.00%) JBoss
9 16 (0.94%) Apache
9 16 (0.94%) IIS
10 14 (0.82%) Oracle Coherence
11 13 (0.76%) Documentum
12 12 (0.70%) Apache Spark
13 10 (0.59%) FileNet
13 10 (0.59%) GemFire
13 10 (0.59%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
15 7 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
15 7 (0.41%) CMS
Applications
1 80 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.64%) Oracle Smart View
4 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.47%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.059%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 185 (10.84%) Oracle EBS
2 80 (4.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 76 (4.45%) Oracle Payables
4 69 (4.04%) Oracle ERP
5 47 (2.75%) Oracle General Ledger
6 45 (2.64%) Oracle Assets
7 41 (2.40%) Oracle Receivables
8 40 (2.34%) Oracle Financials
9 32 (1.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 27 (1.58%) Oracle Cash Management
11 25 (1.47%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 21 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
13 18 (1.06%) Oracle Applications
13 18 (1.06%) Oracle BPM
14 14 (0.82%) Oracle ASCP
14 14 (0.82%) Primavera
15 13 (0.76%) Maximo
16 11 (0.64%) Oracle Payroll
17 9 (0.53%) FLEXCUBE
17 9 (0.53%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 250 (14.65%) AWS
2 243 (14.24%) OCI
3 203 (11.90%) Azure
4 72 (4.22%) Serverless
5 71 (4.16%) SaaS
6 62 (3.63%) Power Platform
7 50 (2.93%) Amazon S3
8 45 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
8 45 (2.64%) GCP
9 31 (1.82%) PaaS
10 28 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
11 26 (1.52%) OpenShift
12 23 (1.35%) GitHub
13 21 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 21 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
14 17 (1.00%) IaaS
15 15 (0.88%) Amazon SQS
15 15 (0.88%) Oracle CX
15 15 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 34 (1.99%) DNS
1 34 (1.99%) Firewall
2 16 (0.94%) Internet
3 12 (0.70%) SAN
4 11 (0.64%) HTTP
4 11 (0.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.59%) SSL
5 10 (0.59%) VPN
6 9 (0.53%) DHCP
7 8 (0.47%) NAS
8 6 (0.35%) Network Security
9 5 (0.29%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.23%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.18%) IPsec
11 3 (0.18%) LAN
11 3 (0.18%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.12%) VoIP
12 2 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.12%) Wireless
12 2 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (19.46%) Oracle Database
2 215 (12.60%) SQL Server
3 190 (11.14%) Oracle Reports
4 138 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 95 (5.57%) Relational Database
6 83 (4.87%) MongoDB
7 77 (4.51%) MySQL
8 76 (4.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 67 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
10 52 (3.05%) NoSQL
11 50 (2.93%) Power BI
12 46 (2.70%) RDBMS
13 34 (1.99%) DB2
14 31 (1.82%) Tableau
15 30 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
16 28 (1.64%) Oracle ODI
17 23 (1.35%) Big Data
18 19 (1.11%) Oracle Database 11g
19 16 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
20 15 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 155 (9.09%) JIRA
2 100 (5.86%) Git
3 74 (4.34%) Jenkins
4 47 (2.75%) GitLab
5 44 (2.58%) Oracle Forms
6 30 (1.76%) Subversion
7 27 (1.58%) Bitbucket
8 25 (1.47%) Visual Studio
9 21 (1.23%) Maven
10 20 (1.17%) Oracle APEX
11 17 (1.00%) JUnit
11 17 (1.00%) Toad
12 13 (0.76%) Mockito
13 12 (0.70%) ERwin
13 12 (0.70%) Selenium
14 11 (0.64%) PVCS
15 9 (0.53%) TeamCity
16 8 (0.47%) Postman
16 8 (0.47%) SoapUI
17 7 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 624 (36.58%) Finance
2 509 (29.84%) Social Skills
3 286 (16.76%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 189 (11.08%) Banking
6 48 (2.81%) General Ledger
7 43 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 35 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.88%) Retail
10 30 (1.76%) Front Office
10 30 (1.76%) Military
10 30 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (1.58%) Back Office
12 24 (1.41%) Investment Banking
13 23 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 21 (1.23%) Local Government
15 20 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.00%) Legal
16 17 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 395 (23.15%) Developer
2 214 (12.54%) Consultant
3 172 (10.08%) Architect
4 164 (9.61%) Analyst
5 156 (9.14%) Oracle Consultant
6 124 (7.27%) Lead
7 120 (7.03%) Senior
8 104 (6.10%) Oracle Developer
9 74 (4.34%) C# Developer
9 74 (4.34%) Oracle Functional Consultant
10 70 (4.10%) Functional Consultant
11 63 (3.69%) DBA
12 55 (3.22%) Java Developer
13 52 (3.05%) Data Engineer
13 52 (3.05%) Oracle Architect
14 51 (2.99%) Oracle Analyst
15 50 (2.93%) .NET Developer
16 48 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
17 45 (2.64%) Project Manager
18 40 (2.34%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (14.01%) Oracle Fusion
2 131 (7.68%) .NET
3 109 (6.39%) REST
4 95 (5.57%) Web Services
5 86 (5.04%) Kafka
6 76 (4.45%) SOAP
7 75 (4.40%) XML
8 64 (3.75%) AngularJS
8 64 (3.75%) Spring
9 60 (3.52%) Middleware
10 56 (3.28%) React
11 50 (2.93%) Spring Boot
12 47 (2.75%) HTML
13 45 (2.64%) JSON
14 41 (2.40%) .NET Framework
14 41 (2.40%) CSS
15 38 (2.23%) RESTful
16 33 (1.93%) .NET Core
17 32 (1.88%) WPF
18 29 (1.70%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 60 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
2 52 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
3 48 (2.81%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.58%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 33 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 32 (1.88%) Data Centre
8 26 (1.52%) Data Structures
9 23 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
10 21 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 20 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.17%) Clustering
11 20 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.06%) Replication
13 16 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (0.88%) Derivative
14 15 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.70%) Private Cloud
15 12 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 215 (12.60%) Linux
2 196 (11.49%) Windows
3 106 (6.21%) Unix
4 63 (3.69%) Windows Server
5 47 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (1.58%) AIX
7 24 (1.41%) Solaris
8 15 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.35%) VMS
10 4 (0.23%) CentOS
10 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
10 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.12%) Rocky
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.059%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.059%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.059%) HPUX
13 1 (0.059%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (23.97%) Agile
2 388 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (15.71%) Migration
4 237 (13.89%) ERP
5 231 (13.54%) DevOps
6 161 (9.44%) Data Modelling
7 153 (8.97%) Data Migration
8 147 (8.62%) CI/CD
9 140 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
10 133 (7.80%) Performance Tuning
11 122 (7.15%) Analytics
12 118 (6.92%) Microservices
12 118 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
13 115 (6.74%) Validation
14 113 (6.62%) User Acceptance Testing
15 109 (6.39%) Change Management
16 100 (5.86%) ETL
17 95 (5.57%) Project Management
18 92 (5.39%) Disaster Recovery
19 91 (5.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 677 (39.68%) SQL
2 315 (18.46%) PL/SQL
3 261 (15.30%) Java
4 206 (12.08%) Python
5 139 (8.15%) C#
6 108 (6.33%) JavaScript
7 54 (3.17%) Bash
8 48 (2.81%) PowerShell
9 44 (2.58%) Perl
10 40 (2.34%) VB
10 40 (2.34%) VBA
11 37 (2.17%) TypeScript
12 35 (2.05%) Shell Script
13 31 (1.82%) C++
14 24 (1.41%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.29%) VB.NET
16 17 (1.00%) Delphi
16 17 (1.00%) ProC
17 15 (0.88%) C
17 15 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 314 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 248 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 156 (9.14%) Degree
4 64 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
6 36 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 31 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (1.47%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (1.00%) OCP
11 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (0.64%) CCNP
12 11 (0.64%) OCA
13 10 (0.59%) RHCA
13 10 (0.59%) RHCE
14 8 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 8 (0.47%) CIMA
14 8 (0.47%) Master's Degree
14 8 (0.47%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.16%) QA
2 59 (3.46%) Data Quality
3 30 (1.76%) GDPR
4 26 (1.52%) SLA
5 23 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
8 13 (0.76%) NIST
9 11 (0.64%) PMO
10 9 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.47%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.35%) COBIT
13 6 (0.35%) MiFID
13 6 (0.35%) SEPA
14 5 (0.29%) Basel III
14 5 (0.29%) IFRS
15 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.23%) ITGC
System Software
1 73 (4.28%) Docker
2 54 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 45 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (1.70%) Oracle RAC
5 17 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (0.64%) vSphere
7 8 (0.47%) GridGain
7 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 4 (0.23%) LXC
10 3 (0.18%) NFS
10 3 (0.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 3 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.12%) HDFS
11 2 (0.12%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.12%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.059%) KVM
12 1 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 93 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 92 (5.39%) Ansible
3 49 (2.87%) Terraform
4 35 (2.05%) Oracle RMAN
5 32 (1.88%) Data Guard
6 27 (1.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 23 (1.35%) Puppet
8 22 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.76%) Grafana
10 11 (0.64%) Tivoli
10 11 (0.64%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.53%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.47%) VxRail
13 7 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.35%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
14 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
14 6 (0.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 5 (0.29%) CEMLI
16 4 (0.23%) Control-M
16 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 207 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 128 (7.50%) SAP
3 66 (3.87%) ServiceNow
4 65 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 56 (3.28%) VMware
6 46 (2.70%) IBM
6 46 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 36 (2.11%) Cisco
8 35 (2.05%) MuleSoft
9 34 (1.99%) Informatica
10 26 (1.52%) Sybase
11 25 (1.47%) Splunk
12 23 (1.35%) Google
13 22 (1.29%) Commvault
14 21 (1.23%) Siebel
15 20 (1.17%) Workday
16 19 (1.11%) Databricks
17 16 (0.94%) CyberArk
18 14 (0.82%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.82%) Talend