Oracle Database Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Oracle Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 196 199
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +53
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 100 155 325
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.01% 1.01% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.77% 5.32% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 116 230
10th Percentile £351 £400 -
25th Percentile £400 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £555 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +23.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £538
90th Percentile £660 £713 £588
UK median daily rate £478 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +10.53% -7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - - £56.44
25th Percentile £91.25 - £62.25
Median hourly rate £92.50 £63.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.83% -14.86% +69.14%
75th Percentile £93.75 - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.50 £61.60 £73.86
% change year-on-year +50.16% -16.59% +73.78%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Oracle Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Oracle Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Oracle Database trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle Database.

Oracle Database daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Oracle Database daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Oracle Database.

Oracle Database hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Oracle Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (9.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) PowerExchange
3 2 (2.00%) IIS
4 1 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.00%) iTrent
2 1 (1.00%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.00%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.00%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (27.00%) AWS
2 25 (25.00%) Azure
3 12 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 10 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (10.00%) Serverless
5 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.00%) OCI
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.00%) AWS CodeCommit
8 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.00%) Cloud9 IDE
8 3 (3.00%) Textract
9 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.00%) GCP
9 2 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.00%) SAN
3 2 (2.00%) DNS
4 1 (1.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (1.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.00%) S/MIME
4 1 (1.00%) Softphone
4 1 (1.00%) SSL
4 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.00%) VoIP
4 1 (1.00%) VPN
4 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.00%) Wireless
4 1 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (11.00%) RDBMS
5 10 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (7.00%) Oracle Database 11g
7 5 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.00%) Power BI
8 4 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.00%) MySQL
10 2 (2.00%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (2.00%) Redis
10 2 (2.00%) SAP HANA
11 1 (1.00%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database 10g
11 1 (1.00%) Pentaho
11 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) Oracle Forms
3 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.00%) JIRA
4 6 (6.00%) Subversion
5 5 (5.00%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (4.00%) PVCS
7 3 (3.00%) GitLab
8 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.00%) Hudson
8 2 (2.00%) JMeter
8 2 (2.00%) JUnit
8 2 (2.00%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.00%) Mockito
8 2 (2.00%) Postman
8 2 (2.00%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.00%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.00%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.00%) Xcode
8 2 (2.00%) XCTest
General
1 26 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (25.00%) Finance
3 13 (13.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.00%) Banking
6 6 (6.00%) Back Office
7 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.00%) Advertising
9 1 (1.00%) Aviation
9 1 (1.00%) French Language
9 1 (1.00%) Front Office
9 1 (1.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 16 (16.00%) Developer
2 11 (11.00%) DBA
3 9 (9.00%) Consultant
3 9 (9.00%) Oracle DBA
4 7 (7.00%) Architect
4 7 (7.00%) Data Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Database Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
4 7 (7.00%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (6.00%) Analyst
5 6 (6.00%) Lead
5 6 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.00%) IFS Consultant
6 5 (5.00%) SQL Developer
7 4 (4.00%) Administrator
7 4 (4.00%) Backup Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.00%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.00%) REST
2 6 (6.00%) Web Services
3 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.00%) CSS
3 4 (4.00%) HTML
3 4 (4.00%) Java EE
3 4 (4.00%) LDAP
4 3 (3.00%) Kafka
4 3 (3.00%) Node.js
4 3 (3.00%) NumPy
4 3 (3.00%) OpenCV
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 3 (3.00%) Pandas
4 3 (3.00%) pydantic
4 3 (3.00%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.00%) scikit-learn
4 3 (3.00%) SciPy
4 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.00%) Replication
5 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.00%) Clustering
5 1 (1.00%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.00%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.00%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.00%) Oracle Licensing
5 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.00%) Linux
2 15 (15.00%) Windows
3 8 (8.00%) Unix
4 5 (5.00%) AIX
5 4 (4.00%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.00%) Solaris
6 2 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.00%) CentOS
7 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.00%) Migration
2 26 (26.00%) Data Migration
2 26 (26.00%) Performance Tuning
3 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.00%) DevOps
5 16 (16.00%) Agile
6 14 (14.00%) ETL
6 14 (14.00%) Unit Testing
7 13 (13.00%) CI/CD
7 13 (13.00%) Computer Science
8 11 (11.00%) Change Management
8 11 (11.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 10 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 9 (9.00%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.00%) ERP
10 9 (9.00%) Software Testing
11 8 (8.00%) Database Security
12 7 (7.00%) Analytics
12 7 (7.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 63 (63.00%) SQL
2 37 (37.00%) PL/SQL
3 14 (14.00%) Java
4 12 (12.00%) Python
5 6 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.00%) Bash
6 5 (5.00%) C
7 4 (4.00%) ProC
7 4 (4.00%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.00%) C#
8 3 (3.00%) Groovy
8 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.00%) JCL
9 2 (2.00%) Perl
9 2 (2.00%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) Degree
4 7 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.00%) APMP
8 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.00%) CISA
8 1 (1.00%) CRISC
8 1 (1.00%) OCP
8 1 (1.00%) PMP
8 1 (1.00%) Siebel Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (3.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.00%) SLA
3 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.00%) ITGC
4 1 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.00%) vSphere
4 2 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 8 (8.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 6 (6.00%) Ansible
3 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.00%) Data Guard
5 4 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.00%) Terraform
6 3 (3.00%) Tivoli
6 3 (3.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (1.00%) CA Wily
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (1.00%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.00%) Grafana
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.00%) OfficeScan
7 1 (1.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 100 (100.00%) Oracle
2 11 (11.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.00%) VMware
4 7 (7.00%) Commvault
5 6 (6.00%) CyberArk
6 5 (5.00%) IFS
7 4 (4.00%) Cisco
7 4 (4.00%) Informatica
7 4 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.00%) Siebel
7 4 (4.00%) Splunk
8 3 (3.00%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.00%) IBM
8 3 (3.00%) SAP
9 2 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.00%) Google
9 2 (2.00%) NetApp
9 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.00%) Sybase
9 2 (2.00%) Talend