OCI Contracts

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for OCI skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited OCI over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 301 393 414
Rank change year-on-year +92 +21 -36
Contract jobs citing OCI 302 317 535
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.70% 0.57% 0.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 1.55% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 131 320
10th Percentile £400 £456 £360
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £600 £556
Median % change year-on-year -12.08% +7.87% +5.95%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £800 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £608 £525
% change year-on-year -9.47% +15.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

OCI is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

OCI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OCI in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OCI in the UK

OCI
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OCI over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for OCI in the UK

OCI
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for OCI in the UK

OCI
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 OCI within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +45 211 £550 -10.86% 75
UK excluding London +82 136 £550 -9.47% 50
Work from Home +66 115 £525 -4.55% 41
London +61 109 £525 -12.50% 31
Scotland +73 42 £525 +10.53% 7
South East +7 29 £605 +0.83% 5
Midlands +25 20 £425 -41.38% 7
South West +13 19 £520 -28.28% 1
North of England +22 18 £500 -4.76% 20
North West +23 13 £500 +8.11% 14
East Midlands +19 11 £176 -
West Midlands +9 9 £650 -10.34% 7
East of England +7 6 £750 - 4
Yorkshire +17 5 £494 -21.00% 3
Northern Ireland +5 4 £650 - 6

OCI
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 6 (1.99%) Confluence
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.66%) SAS
4 1 (0.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.33%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.98%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (7.95%) Oracle EBS
2 22 (7.28%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (6.62%) Oracle ERP
3 20 (6.62%) Oracle Payables
4 16 (5.30%) Oracle Cash Management
5 13 (4.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 12 (3.97%) Oracle Assets
6 12 (3.97%) Oracle Financials
7 11 (3.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (1.99%) Oracle Payroll
8 6 (1.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.99%) Oracle Internet Expenses
10 3 (0.99%) PeopleSoft HCM
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle FAH
11 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft CRM
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle E-Business Tax
12 1 (0.33%) Oracle iProcurement
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.58%) Azure
2 22 (7.28%) SaaS
3 20 (6.62%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.63%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 16 (5.30%) AWS
5 16 (5.30%) PaaS
6 8 (2.65%) GCP
7 6 (1.99%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.66%) Oracle CX
8 5 (1.66%) Serverless
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.32%) GitHub
9 4 (1.32%) Route 53
10 3 (0.99%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.66%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.62%) Firewall
2 21 (6.95%) DNS
3 20 (6.62%) DHCP
4 15 (4.97%) SAN
5 10 (3.31%) IPsec
6 6 (1.99%) LAN
7 5 (1.66%) BGP
7 5 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (1.66%) EIGRP
7 5 (1.66%) HSRP
7 5 (1.66%) IPv4
7 5 (1.66%) IPv6
7 5 (1.66%) MPLS
7 5 (1.66%) OSPF
7 5 (1.66%) TACACS
7 5 (1.66%) VLAN
7 5 (1.66%) VXLAN
7 5 (1.66%) Wireless
8 3 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (18.87%) Oracle Reports
2 19 (6.29%) Oracle Database
3 16 (5.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 16 (5.30%) Power BI
4 13 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (4.30%) Tableau
5 8 (2.65%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.66%) Oracle Exadata
6 5 (1.66%) Oracle ODI
7 4 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.32%) SQL Server
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (0.66%) MySQL
10 1 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 11 (3.64%) JIRA
2 9 (2.98%) Git
3 6 (1.99%) ER Studio
3 6 (1.99%) ERwin
3 6 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.32%) SonarQube
5 3 (0.99%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 85 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 80 (26.49%) Finance
3 57 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 36 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (3.97%) Law
6 11 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.99%) Billing
7 6 (1.99%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.66%) Legal
8 5 (1.66%) Local Government
9 4 (1.32%) General Ledger
9 4 (1.32%) Military
9 4 (1.32%) Publishing
10 3 (0.99%) Banking
10 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Back Office
11 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) German Language
12 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (23.84%) Consultant
2 63 (20.86%) Oracle Consultant
3 49 (16.23%) Cloud Consultant
4 36 (11.92%) Architect
5 33 (10.93%) Analyst
6 20 (6.62%) Lead
6 20 (6.62%) Oracle Architect
7 19 (6.29%) Senior
8 18 (5.96%) Cloud Architect
8 18 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 18 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (5.30%) Developer
9 16 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.30%) Oracle Analyst
11 11 (3.64%) DBA
11 11 (3.64%) Oracle Specialist
12 10 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.31%) Cloud Specialist
12 10 (3.31%) Oracle DBA
12 10 (3.31%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (21.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.99%) OpenID
3 5 (1.66%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.66%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (1.66%) Web Services
4 4 (1.32%) .NET
4 4 (1.32%) Laravel
5 2 (0.66%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.66%) OAuth
5 2 (0.66%) SAML
6 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.33%) HTML
6 1 (0.33%) J2EE
6 1 (0.33%) Middleware
6 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.33%) ODBC
6 1 (0.33%) WebCenter
6 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.64%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.98%) Management Information System
2 9 (2.98%) Onboarding
3 6 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (1.99%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.66%) Replication
5 4 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.99%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.99%) Tandem
7 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.66%) Life Science
7 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.33%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.33%) FMCG
8 1 (0.33%) IoT
8 1 (0.33%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.33%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.95%) Linux
2 20 (6.62%) Windows
3 18 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.97%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (4.97%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (4.97%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.64%) Windows 10
5 14 (4.64%) Windows XP
6 7 (2.32%) Unix
7 4 (1.32%) VMS
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.50%) ERP
2 51 (16.89%) Migration
3 45 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (13.91%) Project Management
5 39 (12.91%) DevOps
6 38 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (10.26%) Data Migration
8 27 (8.94%) Analytics
9 22 (7.28%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (6.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (5.96%) Data Modelling
11 18 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (5.63%) CI/CD
12 17 (5.63%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (5.30%) Agile
13 16 (5.30%) ITIL
14 15 (4.97%) Performance Monitoring
15 14 (4.64%) Converged Infrastructure
15 14 (4.64%) Data Analysis
15 14 (4.64%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (13.91%) SQL
2 15 (4.97%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.64%) Python
4 9 (2.98%) Java
5 7 (2.32%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.66%) Bash
7 4 (1.32%) C#
7 4 (1.32%) Go
8 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.26%) Degree
4 19 (6.29%) CCNA
4 19 (6.29%) CCNP
4 19 (6.29%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.30%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.32%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.66%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.32%) PMP
10 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.33%) ACCA
11 1 (0.33%) CIMA
11 1 (0.33%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.32%) Disclosure Scotland
1 7 (2.32%) QA
2 6 (1.99%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.32%) PMO
4 3 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) GRC
5 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (5.30%) Active Directory
1 16 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (4.97%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (4.64%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.65%) Docker
5 7 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 36 (11.92%) Terraform
2 17 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.64%) EMC NetWorker
3 14 (4.64%) NetBackup
3 14 (4.64%) SCCM
3 14 (4.64%) SCOM
3 14 (4.64%) vCenter Server
3 14 (4.64%) WSUS
4 5 (1.66%) Data Guard
4 5 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.66%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.66%) Ansible
7 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 288 (95.36%) Oracle
2 61 (20.20%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.62%) Cisco
3 20 (6.62%) Palo Alto
4 16 (5.30%) VMware
5 15 (4.97%) HP
6 14 (4.64%) 3PAR
6 14 (4.64%) Dell
6 14 (4.64%) EMC
6 14 (4.64%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (4.64%) Juniper
6 14 (4.64%) Symantec
6 14 (4.64%) Veeam
7 9 (2.98%) Google
8 6 (1.99%) PeopleSoft
8 6 (1.99%) Sparx
9 5 (1.66%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.66%) F5
9 5 (1.66%) Infoblox
9 5 (1.66%) SolarWinds