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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 35 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,973 3,113 5,106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.63% 5.47% 5.83%
As % of the Vendors category 10.90% 12.71% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 2,010 3,445
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £41.71 £14.89
25th Percentile £25.50 £53.13 £20.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £62.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.20% +78.57% -15.15%
75th Percentile £61.60 £74.69 £49.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.50 £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.25 £60.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -44.58% +71.43% -6.04%

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 18,101 24,501 35,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.03% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,253 16,404 23,407
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £638
90th Percentile £738 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 662 881
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.02 £12.04
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% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%

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 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 18 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 18 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 1,502 £550 - 644
London +1 901 £567 -1.39% 282
Work from Home +2 780 £550 +2.61% 289
UK excluding London -13 739 £513 -2.38% 478
South East +1 226 £550 - 91
Scotland +7 187 £503 +0.75% 68
Midlands -13 116 £485 -9.85% 87
North of England -22 112 £500 -5.66% 115
North West -16 75 £500 -9.09% 51
West Midlands -19 68 £536 -0.74% 72
South West -32 63 £513 +2.50% 47
East Midlands +4 44 £394 -25.00% 15
Yorkshire -13 30 £494 -5.95% 38
East of England -40 16 £588 +14.63% 24
Wales +5 13 £390 -27.44% 15
North East -11 7 £450 -14.29% 27
Northern Ireland +5 6 £650 +18.18% 36

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 48 (2.43%) Confluence
2 44 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 29 (1.47%) Apache
5 27 (1.37%) IIS
6 20 (1.01%) JBoss
7 18 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 15 (0.76%) SAS
8 15 (0.76%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.66%) WebSphere
11 12 (0.61%) Apache Spark
11 12 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 10 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
13 9 (0.46%) nginx
14 8 (0.41%) Site Server
15 7 (0.35%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
16 6 (0.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
17 3 (0.15%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 102 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 48 (2.43%) MS Visio
3 41 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 148 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
2 70 (3.55%) Oracle Payables
3 61 (3.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 60 (3.04%) Oracle Receivables
5 59 (2.99%) Oracle EBS R12
6 51 (2.58%) Oracle General Ledger
7 50 (2.53%) Oracle Assets
8 45 (2.28%) Oracle ERP
9 38 (1.93%) Oracle Cash Management
10 37 (1.88%) Oracle Financials
11 28 (1.42%) Endur
12 25 (1.27%) NetSuite
13 24 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
14 22 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
15 18 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
15 18 (0.91%) Oracle AGIS
15 18 (0.91%) Oracle Applications
16 17 (0.86%) Maximo
17 16 (0.81%) Temenos T24
18 12 (0.61%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 356 (18.04%) Azure
2 299 (15.15%) OCI
3 289 (14.65%) AWS
4 116 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 103 (5.22%) SaaS
6 83 (4.21%) GitHub
7 71 (3.60%) Serverless
8 70 (3.55%) GCP
9 68 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (2.38%) PaaS
11 46 (2.33%) IaaS
12 39 (1.98%) Amazon S3
13 36 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
15 31 (1.57%) PowerApps
16 29 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
17 28 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (1.42%) Entra ID
18 27 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
19 22 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.53%) Firewall
2 40 (2.03%) DNS
3 31 (1.57%) SAN
4 28 (1.42%) 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 (0.35%) Network Security
11 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.30%) 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 (17.13%) Oracle Database
2 306 (15.51%) SQL Server
3 190 (9.63%) Oracle Reports
4 182 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
5 128 (6.49%) MySQL
6 120 (6.08%) Relational Database
7 102 (5.17%) Power BI
8 91 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
9 81 (4.11%) MongoDB
10 71 (3.60%) NoSQL
11 64 (3.24%) RDBMS
12 43 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 37 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
14 36 (1.82%) Oracle Database 11g
15 34 (1.72%) Metadata
15 34 (1.72%) Oracle ODI
16 33 (1.67%) Tableau
17 25 (1.27%) DB2
18 22 (1.12%) Big Data
19 21 (1.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 117 (5.93%) JIRA
2 102 (5.17%) Git
3 59 (2.99%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.64%) GitLab
5 48 (2.43%) Oracle Forms
6 41 (2.08%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (1.72%) Selenium
8 28 (1.42%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.37%) Maven
10 26 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 25 (1.27%) Bitbucket
12 21 (1.06%) ERwin
13 17 (0.86%) JMeter
14 16 (0.81%) JUnit
15 12 (0.61%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 11 (0.56%) ER Studio
16 11 (0.56%) Toad
17 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
18 9 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 616 (31.22%) Finance
2 512 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 277 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.75%) Banking
6 56 (2.84%) Legal
7 47 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.13%) Retail
9 37 (1.88%) Billing
10 33 (1.67%) General Ledger
11 32 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.32%) Back Office
13 26 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.22%) Front Office
15 23 (1.17%) Law
16 19 (0.96%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.86%) Local Government
18 15 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 433 (21.95%) Developer
2 278 (14.09%) Consultant
3 229 (11.61%) Analyst
4 210 (10.64%) Architect
5 176 (8.92%) Oracle Consultant
6 123 (6.23%) Senior
7 117 (5.93%) Oracle Developer
8 105 (5.32%) Lead
9 96 (4.87%) DBA
10 83 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (3.70%) Oracle Architect
12 68 (3.45%) Functional Consultant
13 66 (3.35%) Java Developer
14 61 (3.09%) Oracle DBA
15 59 (2.99%) Oracle Analyst
16 57 (2.89%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 57 (2.89%) SQL Developer
17 54 (2.74%) Business Analyst
18 50 (2.53%) Cloud Consultant
19 49 (2.48%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (9.63%) Oracle Fusion
2 146 (7.40%) .NET
3 87 (4.41%) XML
4 82 (4.16%) SOAP
4 82 (4.16%) Spring
5 81 (4.11%) Web Services
6 76 (3.85%) REST
7 68 (3.45%) HTML
8 66 (3.35%) Kafka
9 56 (2.84%) Spring Boot
10 51 (2.58%) .NET Framework
11 50 (2.53%) Middleware
12 44 (2.23%) SailPoint
13 43 (2.18%) LDAP
14 41 (2.08%) AngularJS
15 40 (2.03%) React
16 36 (1.82%) CSS
16 36 (1.82%) JSON
16 36 (1.82%) RESTful
17 33 (1.67%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 82 (4.16%) Onboarding
2 62 (3.14%) Management Information System
2 62 (3.14%) Replication
3 46 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (1.98%) Data Centre
4 39 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 24 (1.22%) Virtual Team
7 23 (1.17%) Clustering
7 23 (1.17%) Linux Command Line
8 21 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.01%) PKI
10 19 (0.96%) Derivative
10 19 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 18 (0.91%) Cloud Native
11 18 (0.91%) Data Structures
12 16 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 227 (11.51%) Linux
2 190 (9.63%) Windows
3 161 (8.16%) Unix
4 61 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 54 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (1.52%) Solaris
7 29 (1.47%) VMS
8 27 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
8 27 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 24 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (1.06%) AIX
11 17 (0.86%) Windows 10
11 17 (0.86%) 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%) Windows 7
16 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 366 (18.55%) Agile
2 298 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
3 277 (14.04%) Migration
4 263 (13.33%) DevOps
5 225 (11.40%) ERP
6 180 (9.12%) Business Intelligence
7 139 (7.05%) Data Migration
7 139 (7.05%) ETL
8 136 (6.89%) Performance Tuning
9 133 (6.74%) Data Modelling
10 131 (6.64%) Project Management
11 123 (6.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 120 (6.08%) Analytics
13 117 (5.93%) CI/CD
14 110 (5.58%) Disaster Recovery
15 109 (5.52%) Software Engineering
16 105 (5.32%) Scrum
17 103 (5.22%) Microservices
18 92 (4.66%) Computer Science
18 92 (4.66%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 715 (36.24%) SQL
2 269 (13.63%) Java
3 256 (12.98%) PL/SQL
4 163 (8.26%) Python
5 138 (6.99%) C#
6 111 (5.63%) JavaScript
7 102 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 91 (4.61%) Shell Script
9 62 (3.14%) T-SQL
10 61 (3.09%) Bash
11 39 (1.98%) C++
12 30 (1.52%) C
13 29 (1.47%) VB
14 28 (1.42%) VBA
15 25 (1.27%) TypeScript
16 18 (0.91%) Korn
17 17 (0.86%) Go
18 16 (0.81%) VB.NET
19 11 (0.56%) XPath
20 10 (0.51%) ProC
Qualifications
1 310 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 264 (13.38%) SC Cleared
3 206 (10.44%) Degree
4 70 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 31 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.01%) AWS Certification
8 18 (0.91%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.91%) PMP
9 17 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (0.86%) 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
1 110 (5.58%) QA
2 46 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.28%) GDPR
4 20 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 19 (0.96%) GAAP
6 16 (0.81%) PMO
7 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.61%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.41%) SLA
10 7 (0.35%) MiFID
11 6 (0.30%) EMIR
11 6 (0.30%) GRC
12 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
12 5 (0.25%) NCSC
13 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.15%) NIST
15 2 (0.10%) GxP
System Software
1 122 (6.18%) Active Directory
2 78 (3.95%) Docker
3 57 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.42%) IAG
5 27 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.27%) ACF2
6 25 (1.27%) RACF
7 20 (1.01%) Oracle RAC
7 20 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.91%) 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 99 (5.02%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.61%) Terraform
3 65 (3.29%) Ansible
4 33 (1.67%) Data Guard
5 27 (1.37%) NetBackup
5 27 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
7 24 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 19 (0.96%) WSUS
9 18 (0.91%) Grafana
9 18 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.76%) SCCM
11 14 (0.71%) SCOM
11 14 (0.71%) Tivoli
12 11 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.41%) Kibana
13 8 (0.41%) Packer
13 8 (0.41%) Puppet
13 8 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 315 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 194 (9.83%) SAP
3 89 (4.51%) Salesforce
4 84 (4.26%) VMware
5 67 (3.40%) IBM
6 61 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.94%) Google
8 45 (2.28%) Informatica
9 44 (2.23%) Sybase
10 40 (2.03%) Red Hat
11 39 (1.98%) HP
12 35 (1.77%) CyberArk
13 33 (1.67%) Cisco
14 31 (1.57%) EMC
15 30 (1.52%) Citrix
16 28 (1.42%) MuleSoft
17 26 (1.32%) Dell
18 25 (1.27%) Databricks
18 25 (1.27%) Sparx
19 22 (1.12%) Workday