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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,963 3,125 5,123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 5.46% 5.80%
As % of the Vendors category 10.86% 12.67% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 2,013 3,459
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £441 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £42.49 £14.89
25th Percentile £25.50 £53.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £27.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.80% +78.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £61.60 £74.38 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.60 £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £61.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -55.10% +75.00% -2.78%

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 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 1,496 £550 - 700
London +2 896 £563 -2.17% 313
Work from Home +2 773 £550 +2.61% 309
UK excluding London -14 737 £509 -3.05% 511
South East -6 221 £550 - 102
Scotland +6 185 £503 +0.90% 71
Midlands -14 120 £475 -11.71% 92
North of England -24 112 £500 -5.66% 126
North West -19 75 £500 -9.09% 58
West Midlands -20 72 £500 -7.41% 76
South West -29 63 £513 +2.50% 49
East Midlands +6 44 £394 -25.00% 16
Yorkshire -9 30 £494 -5.95% 40
East of England -33 17 £588 +14.63% 23
Wales +7 13 £390 -27.44% 14
North East -11 7 £450 -14.29% 29
Northern Ireland +4 6 £650 +18.18% 39

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 47 (2.39%) Confluence
2 44 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.83%) Oracle Workflow
4 28 (1.43%) Apache
4 28 (1.43%) IIS
5 20 (1.02%) JBoss
6 18 (0.92%) WebLogic
7 15 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.71%) SAS
9 13 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.61%) Apache Spark
10 12 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 11 (0.56%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 9 (0.46%) nginx
12 9 (0.46%) Site Server
13 8 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
14 7 (0.36%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.36%) OpenStack
15 3 (0.15%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 102 (5.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.45%) MS Visio
3 41 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 148 (7.54%) Oracle EBS
2 69 (3.52%) Oracle Payables
3 61 (3.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 59 (3.01%) Oracle Receivables
5 57 (2.90%) Oracle EBS R12
6 50 (2.55%) Oracle General Ledger
7 49 (2.50%) Oracle Assets
8 44 (2.24%) Oracle ERP
9 37 (1.88%) Oracle Cash Management
10 36 (1.83%) Oracle Financials
11 28 (1.43%) Endur
12 25 (1.27%) NetSuite
13 24 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 22 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
15 18 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
15 18 (0.92%) Oracle AGIS
16 17 (0.87%) Maximo
17 16 (0.82%) Temenos T24
18 15 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
19 12 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 352 (17.93%) Azure
2 296 (15.08%) OCI
3 289 (14.72%) AWS
4 114 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 101 (5.15%) SaaS
6 82 (4.18%) GitHub
7 70 (3.57%) GCP
8 69 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (3.46%) Serverless
10 47 (2.39%) IaaS
10 47 (2.39%) PaaS
11 40 (2.04%) Amazon S3
12 34 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
14 30 (1.53%) PowerApps
15 29 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
16 28 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (1.43%) Entra ID
17 27 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (1.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.55%) Firewall
2 40 (2.04%) DNS
3 31 (1.58%) SAN
4 28 (1.43%) Internet
5 26 (1.32%) DHCP
6 14 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.56%) NAS
7 11 (0.56%) SSL
8 10 (0.51%) HTTP
8 10 (0.51%) VLAN
9 9 (0.46%) VPN
10 8 (0.41%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.41%) SSH
11 7 (0.36%) Network Security
11 7 (0.36%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.25%) FTP
13 5 (0.25%) IPsec
14 4 (0.20%) LAN
14 4 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (17.22%) Oracle Database
2 303 (15.44%) SQL Server
3 188 (9.58%) Oracle Reports
4 183 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
5 128 (6.52%) MySQL
6 120 (6.11%) Relational Database
7 100 (5.09%) Power BI
8 91 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
9 79 (4.02%) MongoDB
10 70 (3.57%) NoSQL
11 64 (3.26%) RDBMS
12 43 (2.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 39 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
14 34 (1.73%) Metadata
14 34 (1.73%) Oracle Database 11g
14 34 (1.73%) Oracle ODI
14 34 (1.73%) Tableau
15 25 (1.27%) DB2
16 22 (1.12%) Big Data
17 21 (1.07%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 116 (5.91%) JIRA
2 102 (5.20%) Git
3 59 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.60%) GitLab
5 47 (2.39%) Oracle Forms
6 41 (2.09%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (1.73%) Selenium
8 28 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.38%) Maven
10 26 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 25 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.07%) ERwin
13 17 (0.87%) JMeter
14 16 (0.82%) JUnit
15 12 (0.61%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 11 (0.56%) ER Studio
17 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 10 (0.51%) Toad
18 9 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 611 (31.13%) Finance
2 509 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 279 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 152 (7.74%) Banking
6 55 (2.80%) Legal
7 46 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (2.09%) Manufacturing
8 41 (2.09%) Retail
9 36 (1.83%) Billing
10 33 (1.68%) General Ledger
11 31 (1.58%) Financial Institution
11 31 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.32%) Back Office
13 24 (1.22%) Front Office
13 24 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.17%) Law
15 18 (0.92%) Investment Banking
16 17 (0.87%) Local Government
17 15 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 431 (21.96%) Developer
2 276 (14.06%) Consultant
3 227 (11.56%) Analyst
4 210 (10.70%) Architect
5 175 (8.91%) Oracle Consultant
6 120 (6.11%) Senior
7 116 (5.91%) Oracle Developer
8 102 (5.20%) Lead
9 96 (4.89%) DBA
10 83 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (3.72%) Oracle Architect
12 68 (3.46%) Functional Consultant
13 66 (3.36%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.16%) Oracle DBA
15 58 (2.95%) Oracle Analyst
16 57 (2.90%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 57 (2.90%) SQL Developer
17 54 (2.75%) Business Analyst
18 49 (2.50%) Data Analyst
18 49 (2.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (9.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 145 (7.39%) .NET
3 87 (4.43%) XML
4 82 (4.18%) SOAP
4 82 (4.18%) Spring
5 81 (4.13%) Web Services
6 77 (3.92%) REST
7 68 (3.46%) HTML
8 65 (3.31%) Kafka
9 56 (2.85%) Spring Boot
10 52 (2.65%) .NET Framework
11 50 (2.55%) Middleware
12 44 (2.24%) SailPoint
13 43 (2.19%) LDAP
14 41 (2.09%) AngularJS
15 40 (2.04%) React
16 36 (1.83%) CSS
16 36 (1.83%) JSON
16 36 (1.83%) RESTful
17 33 (1.68%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.13%) Onboarding
2 62 (3.16%) Replication
3 61 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
5 39 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 39 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.48%) Public Cloud
7 24 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.17%) Clustering
8 23 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.02%) PKI
11 19 (0.97%) Derivative
11 19 (0.97%) Product Ownership
12 18 (0.92%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.82%) Cloud Native
13 16 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 227 (11.56%) Linux
2 189 (9.63%) Windows
3 159 (8.10%) Unix
4 61 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 54 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (1.53%) Solaris
7 29 (1.48%) VMS
8 27 (1.38%) Oracle Linux
8 27 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
9 24 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (1.07%) AIX
11 17 (0.87%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (0.76%) Windows XP
13 5 (0.25%) OpenVMS
14 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
14 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.15%) zOS
16 1 (0.051%) OS/390
16 1 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (18.54%) Agile
2 301 (15.33%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (14.01%) Migration
4 264 (13.45%) DevOps
5 223 (11.36%) ERP
6 183 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
7 139 (7.08%) ETL
8 136 (6.93%) Data Migration
9 134 (6.83%) Performance Tuning
10 133 (6.78%) Data Modelling
11 131 (6.67%) Project Management
12 120 (6.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 118 (6.01%) Analytics
14 115 (5.86%) CI/CD
15 111 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
16 108 (5.50%) Software Engineering
17 105 (5.35%) Scrum
18 101 (5.15%) Microservices
19 92 (4.69%) Computer Science
20 90 (4.58%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 712 (36.27%) SQL
2 268 (13.65%) Java
3 254 (12.94%) PL/SQL
4 161 (8.20%) Python
5 139 (7.08%) C#
6 109 (5.55%) JavaScript
7 102 (5.20%) PowerShell
8 91 (4.64%) Shell Script
9 61 (3.11%) Bash
9 61 (3.11%) T-SQL
10 37 (1.88%) C++
11 30 (1.53%) VB
12 29 (1.48%) C
12 29 (1.48%) VBA
13 25 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 19 (0.97%) Korn
15 16 (0.82%) VB.NET
16 15 (0.76%) Go
17 11 (0.56%) XPath
18 10 (0.51%) ProC
Qualifications
1 309 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 262 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 204 (10.39%) Degree
4 70 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 29 (1.48%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.02%) AWS Certification
8 18 (0.92%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.92%) PMP
9 17 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.87%) PMI Certification
10 14 (0.71%) CCNA
10 14 (0.71%) CCNP
11 13 (0.66%) APMP
12 12 (0.61%) ACCA
12 12 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 12 (0.61%) CISSP
13 11 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 9 (0.46%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (5.65%) QA
2 46 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.29%) GDPR
4 19 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
4 19 (0.97%) GAAP
5 15 (0.76%) PMO
6 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (0.66%) SLA
7 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.36%) MiFID
9 6 (0.31%) EMIR
9 6 (0.31%) GRC
10 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
10 5 (0.25%) NCSC
11 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.15%) GxP
12 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (6.21%) Active Directory
2 78 (3.97%) Docker
3 57 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.43%) IAG
5 27 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.27%) ACF2
6 25 (1.27%) RACF
7 20 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
8 18 (0.92%) vSphere
9 15 (0.76%) Hyper-V
10 12 (0.61%) KVM
11 5 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.20%) HDFS
12 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.051%) Cronacle
14 1 (0.051%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 97 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.64%) Terraform
3 65 (3.31%) Ansible
4 31 (1.58%) Data Guard
5 27 (1.38%) NetBackup
5 27 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
7 22 (1.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 19 (0.97%) WSUS
9 18 (0.92%) Grafana
9 18 (0.92%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.76%) SCCM
11 14 (0.71%) SCOM
11 14 (0.71%) Tivoli
12 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
14 8 (0.41%) Kibana
14 8 (0.41%) Packer
14 8 (0.41%) Puppet
14 8 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 311 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 192 (9.78%) SAP
3 91 (4.64%) Salesforce
4 84 (4.28%) VMware
5 67 (3.41%) IBM
6 61 (3.11%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.95%) Google
8 45 (2.29%) Informatica
9 44 (2.24%) Sybase
10 40 (2.04%) Red Hat
11 37 (1.88%) HP
12 35 (1.78%) CyberArk
13 33 (1.68%) Cisco
14 31 (1.58%) EMC
15 29 (1.48%) Citrix
16 26 (1.32%) Dell
16 26 (1.32%) MuleSoft
17 25 (1.27%) Databricks
17 25 (1.27%) Sparx
18 21 (1.07%) Workday