Oracle Database Contracts

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 258 247
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 +24
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 366 578 970
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 1.04% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.90% 5.93% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 368 672
10th Percentile £363 - £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.81% +9.47%
75th Percentile £607 £559 £600
90th Percentile £688 £628 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.95% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 7
10th Percentile £51.52 £53.50 £14.28
25th Percentile - £58.59 £18.74
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +70.59% -7.61%
75th Percentile - £75.50 £48.23
90th Percentile £62.02 £85.00 £53.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £61.30 £33.75
% change year-on-year +0.50% +81.61% -31.30%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,468 9,744 17,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 17.54% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,332 6,905 12,217
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 173 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.40 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%
75th Percentile £53.94 £73.75 £63.30
90th Percentile £72.50 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Oracle Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database.

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle Database.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle Database within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 -41 262 £475 -4.95% 62
London +16 164 £468 +1.79% 26
Work from Home +14 160 £560 +17.89% 35
UK excluding London -49 145 £475 -4.95% 43
Scotland +56 56 £475 - 6
South East +14 51 £589 +7.14% 13
South West -11 17 £650 +30.00% 4
Midlands -14 11 £363 -32.24% 5
East Midlands +11 9 £363 -3.33% 1
North of England -11 6 £473 -10.38% 11
North West -7 4 £470 -11.32% 4
Wales +18 3 £538 - 4
Yorkshire +10 2 £485 +2.11% 7
West Midlands -15 2 £400 -26.61% 4
East of England -21 1 £395 -24.76% 1

Oracle Database
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 16 (4.37%) WebLogic
2 14 (3.83%) IIS
3 11 (3.01%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (1.91%) SAS
5 6 (1.64%) WildFly
6 4 (1.09%) Apache
6 4 (1.09%) JBoss
6 4 (1.09%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.82%) Confluence
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.27%) Appian
9 1 (0.27%) Jetty
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (5.74%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (3.83%) NEC Housing
3 12 (3.28%) Primavera
3 12 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (3.01%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Internet Expenses
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Retail
7 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 68 (18.58%) AWS
2 19 (5.19%) OCI
3 15 (4.10%) Amazon S3
3 15 (4.10%) Azure
4 10 (2.73%) GitHub
4 10 (2.73%) Serverless
5 7 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (1.64%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (1.37%) AWS CodeBuild
7 5 (1.37%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 4 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.09%) GCP
8 4 (1.09%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.09%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.82%) IaaS
9 3 (0.82%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.55%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.92%) Internet
2 5 (1.37%) Firewall
2 5 (1.37%) FTP
3 3 (0.82%) HTTP
4 1 (0.27%) DNS
4 1 (0.27%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.27%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.27%) IPsec
4 1 (0.27%) Network Security
4 1 (0.27%) SSH
4 1 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (16.12%) SQL Server
2 41 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (7.92%) Oracle Database 11g
4 16 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (4.37%) Metadata
5 15 (4.10%) Oracle Database 12c
5 15 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
6 14 (3.83%) Oracle ODI
7 12 (3.28%) Oracle Exadata
7 12 (3.28%) SAP HANA
8 11 (3.01%) MySQL
8 11 (3.01%) Oracle Database 10g
9 8 (2.19%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.91%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.64%) PowerCenter
11 6 (1.64%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 21 (5.74%) Oracle APEX
2 16 (4.37%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (3.83%) Maven
4 11 (3.01%) Git
4 11 (3.01%) JIRA
5 6 (1.64%) GitLab
6 4 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.82%) Gradle
7 3 (0.82%) JUnit
8 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.55%) Selenium
8 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.55%) Subversion
8 2 (0.55%) TestRail
9 1 (0.27%) Ant
9 1 (0.27%) Mockito
9 1 (0.27%) Postman
9 1 (0.27%) Serenity BDD
General
1 86 (23.50%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.58%) Finance
3 49 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.28%) Banking
6 16 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (2.73%) Local Government
8 7 (1.91%) Billing
9 6 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.37%) Back Office
10 5 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Retail
11 3 (0.82%) Military
11 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.27%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.27%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 141 (38.52%) Developer
2 61 (16.67%) DBA
3 57 (15.57%) Oracle DBA
4 54 (14.75%) Architect
5 50 (13.66%) Senior
6 46 (12.57%) Oracle Developer
7 33 (9.02%) Java Developer
8 32 (8.74%) C# Developer
9 30 (8.20%) Consultant
10 29 (7.92%) Solutions Architect
11 25 (6.83%) Analyst
12 22 (6.01%) Oracle Architect
13 20 (5.46%) SQL Developer
14 19 (5.19%) .NET Developer
14 19 (5.19%) C# .NET Developer
15 17 (4.64%) Senior Developer
16 14 (3.83%) Technical Consultant
17 13 (3.55%) C# WPF Developer
17 13 (3.55%) WCF Developer
17 13 (3.55%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.20%) .NET
2 30 (8.20%) .NET Framework
3 25 (6.83%) REST
4 23 (6.28%) Spring
5 21 (5.74%) React
6 20 (5.46%) Spring Boot
7 18 (4.92%) Hibernate
8 17 (4.64%) CSS
8 17 (4.64%) JPA
9 15 (4.10%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 14 (3.83%) HTML
10 14 (3.83%) Middleware
10 14 (3.83%) Web Services
10 14 (3.83%) WinForms
10 14 (3.83%) WPF
11 13 (3.55%) WCF
12 12 (3.28%) SAP Basis
13 10 (2.73%) AWS CDK
13 10 (2.73%) J2EE
14 9 (2.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.83%) Replication
2 17 (4.64%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (4.37%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.55%) Blog
6 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (1.91%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.37%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.09%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (1.09%) Derivative
11 3 (0.82%) Housing Association
11 3 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.82%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.82%) Tandem
12 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.55%) Spread Betting
12 2 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (12.84%) Linux
2 46 (12.57%) Unix
3 39 (10.66%) Windows
4 14 (3.83%) VMS
5 12 (3.28%) Solaris
6 11 (3.01%) Oracle Linux
7 7 (1.91%) AIX
7 7 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.37%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (24.86%) Migration
2 63 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (14.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 53 (14.48%) Performance Tuning
5 47 (12.84%) DevOps
6 46 (12.57%) High Availability
7 36 (9.84%) Agile
8 29 (7.92%) CI/CD
9 28 (7.65%) Database Migration
10 27 (7.38%) Software Engineering
11 26 (7.10%) Data Analysis
12 25 (6.83%) ETL
12 25 (6.83%) Unit Testing
13 24 (6.56%) Data Migration
14 22 (6.01%) Microservices
14 22 (6.01%) SDLC
15 21 (5.74%) Computer Science
16 17 (4.64%) Security Management
17 16 (4.37%) OOP
17 16 (4.37%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 202 (55.19%) SQL
2 125 (34.15%) PL/SQL
3 74 (20.22%) Java
4 45 (12.30%) Shell Script
5 38 (10.38%) C#
6 32 (8.74%) VB
7 30 (8.20%) VBA
8 25 (6.83%) T-SQL
9 21 (5.74%) JavaScript
10 20 (5.46%) Python
11 18 (4.92%) VB.NET
12 14 (3.83%) Bash
13 13 (3.55%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.64%) C
15 4 (1.09%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.55%) ProC
17 1 (0.27%) Groovy
17 1 (0.27%) PHP
17 1 (0.27%) Tcl
17 1 (0.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 84 (22.95%) Security Cleared
2 72 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.65%) Degree
4 19 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.64%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.37%) SAP Certification
7 2 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.27%) CEH
8 1 (0.27%) CISM
8 1 (0.27%) CISSP
8 1 (0.27%) MCSE
8 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.27%) OCP
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.92%) QA
2 6 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.27%) NCSC
5 1 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (4.37%) Docker
2 15 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.10%) Oracle RAC
3 13 (3.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.01%) KVM
5 8 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (5.74%) Data Guard
2 14 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.55%) Ansible
4 12 (3.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 11 (3.01%) Terraform
6 9 (2.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 6 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (0.55%) Packer
8 2 (0.55%) Puppet
8 2 (0.55%) vRealize
9 1 (0.27%) Control-M
9 1 (0.27%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.27%) Nagios
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 366 (100.00%) Oracle
2 25 (6.83%) SAP
3 24 (6.56%) Citrix
4 21 (5.74%) VMware
5 16 (4.37%) NEC
6 15 (4.10%) Informatica
7 13 (3.55%) Microsoft
8 10 (2.73%) Northgate
9 6 (1.64%) Commvault
10 5 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
11 4 (1.09%) Siebel
12 3 (0.82%) Google
12 3 (0.82%) IBM
12 3 (0.82%) JDA
12 3 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.55%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.55%) OpenText
13 2 (0.55%) SimCorp
14 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto
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