OCI Contracts

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OCI skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OCI 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 303 401 398
Rank change year-on-year +98 -3 -26
Contract jobs citing OCI 298 318 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.57% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 139 329
10th Percentile £400 £425 £360
25th Percentile £472 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +9.09% +3.97%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £790 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £523
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.83% -0.48%
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 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for OCI in the UK

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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 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 +57 221 £550 -8.33% 71
UK excluding London +55 125 £550 -8.33% 48
London +57 116 £525 -12.50% 29
Work from Home +64 115 £525 -4.55% 42
South East +13 32 £605 -0.41% 8
Scotland +69 29 £525 +23.53% 6
Midlands +21 22 £425 -41.38% 9
North of England +15 17 £500 -4.76% 13
South West +7 17 £315 -56.55% 1
North West +17 13 £500 +8.11% 9
West Midlands +15 11 £650 -10.34% 8
East Midlands +14 11 £176 - 1
East of England +6 6 £750 +3.45% 4
Northern Ireland +2 6 £650 - 7
Yorkshire +12 4 £613 -2.00% 2

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 9 (3.02%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (1.34%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.34%) IIS
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 1 (0.34%) ThingWorx
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.36%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (9.40%) Oracle EBS
2 24 (8.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 22 (7.38%) Oracle ERP
4 21 (7.05%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (5.37%) Oracle Cash Management
6 15 (5.03%) Oracle General Ledger
7 13 (4.36%) Oracle Assets
8 12 (4.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 10 (3.36%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (2.35%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (2.01%) Oracle Payroll
12 5 (1.68%) PeopleSoft HCM
12 5 (1.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
14 3 (1.01%) Oracle Internet Expenses
15 2 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
15 2 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
15 2 (0.67%) PeopleSoft CRM
16 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
16 1 (0.34%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (15.10%) Azure
2 19 (6.38%) Power Platform
3 17 (5.70%) AWS
3 17 (5.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 17 (5.70%) SaaS
4 14 (4.70%) PaaS
5 5 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (1.68%) GCP
5 5 (1.68%) Serverless
5 5 (1.68%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECR
6 4 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (1.34%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (1.34%) GitHub
6 4 (1.34%) Oracle CX
6 4 (1.34%) Route 53
7 3 (1.01%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.71%) DNS
1 20 (6.71%) Firewall
2 19 (6.38%) DHCP
3 15 (5.03%) SAN
4 7 (2.35%) IPsec
5 5 (1.68%) BGP
5 5 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (1.68%) EIGRP
5 5 (1.68%) HSRP
5 5 (1.68%) IPv4
5 5 (1.68%) IPv6
5 5 (1.68%) LAN
5 5 (1.68%) MPLS
5 5 (1.68%) OSPF
5 5 (1.68%) TACACS
5 5 (1.68%) VLAN
5 5 (1.68%) VXLAN
5 5 (1.68%) Wireless
6 2 (0.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.80%) Oracle Reports
2 21 (7.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 19 (6.38%) Oracle Database
4 15 (5.03%) Power BI
5 12 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.03%) Tableau
6 8 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle Discoverer
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle ODI
7 5 (1.68%) SQLPlus
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.01%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.67%) MySQL
11 1 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (2.35%) Git
2 7 (2.35%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.35%) JIRA
3 5 (1.68%) ER Studio
3 5 (1.68%) ERwin
4 4 (1.34%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.34%) GitLab
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.34%) Toad
General
1 88 (29.53%) Social Skills
2 84 (28.19%) Finance
3 47 (15.77%) Public Sector
4 32 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.03%) Law
6 10 (3.36%) Legal
6 10 (3.36%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.01%) Billing
9 5 (1.68%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.68%) Local Government
10 4 (1.34%) Military
10 4 (1.34%) Publishing
10 4 (1.34%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.01%) Banking
11 3 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (24.83%) Consultant
2 65 (21.81%) Oracle Consultant
3 51 (17.11%) Cloud Consultant
4 32 (10.74%) Architect
5 28 (9.40%) Analyst
6 22 (7.38%) Senior
7 21 (7.05%) Lead
8 20 (6.71%) Developer
9 18 (6.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.70%) Oracle Architect
10 17 (5.70%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.03%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.70%) Oracle Developer
14 12 (4.03%) Oracle Analyst
15 11 (3.69%) DBA
15 11 (3.69%) Functional Consultant
15 11 (3.69%) Oracle Functional Consultant
15 11 (3.69%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
15 11 (3.69%) Payroll Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (20.81%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.35%) OpenID
3 6 (2.01%) XML
4 5 (1.68%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.68%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 5 (1.68%) REST
4 5 (1.68%) Web Services
5 4 (1.34%) .NET
5 4 (1.34%) Laravel
6 3 (1.01%) OAuth
6 3 (1.01%) SAML
7 2 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.67%) WebCenter
8 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.34%) HTML
8 1 (0.34%) J2EE
8 1 (0.34%) Middleware
8 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.34%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.70%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.02%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.02%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.01%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.68%) Replication
5 4 (1.34%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.01%) Tandem
7 2 (0.67%) Life Science
7 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.34%) FMCG
8 1 (0.34%) IoT
8 1 (0.34%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.34%) PKI
8 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.05%) Linux
2 19 (6.38%) Windows
3 17 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.70%) Windows 10
4 14 (4.70%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (4.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (4.70%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (4.70%) Windows XP
5 4 (1.34%) Unix
5 4 (1.34%) VMS
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (24.50%) ERP
2 45 (15.10%) Project Management
3 44 (14.77%) Migration
4 43 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (13.42%) DevOps
6 37 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (10.07%) Data Migration
8 22 (7.38%) Analytics
9 20 (6.71%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (6.38%) Agile
11 18 (6.04%) CI/CD
12 17 (5.70%) Data Modelling
12 17 (5.70%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (5.70%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (5.37%) ITIL
14 15 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 15 (5.03%) Performance Monitoring
15 14 (4.70%) Converged Infrastructure
15 14 (4.70%) Server Management
15 14 (4.70%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.11%) SQL
2 15 (5.03%) PowerShell
3 12 (4.03%) PL/SQL
4 11 (3.69%) Python
5 9 (3.02%) Java
6 5 (1.68%) Bash
7 4 (1.34%) C#
7 4 (1.34%) Go
8 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.48%) SC Cleared
3 29 (9.73%) Degree
4 19 (6.38%) CCNA
4 19 (6.38%) CCNP
4 19 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.37%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.68%) PMP
8 4 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.34%) ACCA
11 1 (0.34%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.35%) QA
2 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.34%) PMO
4 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.01%) GDPR
4 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) GRC
5 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 17 (5.70%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.03%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.70%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.01%) Docker
5 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 35 (11.74%) Terraform
2 14 (4.70%) EMC NetWorker
2 14 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.70%) NetBackup
2 14 (4.70%) SCCM
2 14 (4.70%) SCOM
2 14 (4.70%) vCenter Server
2 14 (4.70%) WSUS
3 6 (2.01%) Data Guard
4 5 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.68%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.01%) Ansible
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 284 (95.30%) Oracle
2 61 (20.47%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.71%) Palo Alto
4 19 (6.38%) Cisco
5 15 (5.03%) VMware
6 14 (4.70%) 3PAR
6 14 (4.70%) Dell
6 14 (4.70%) EMC
6 14 (4.70%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (4.70%) HP
6 14 (4.70%) Juniper
6 14 (4.70%) Symantec
6 14 (4.70%) Veeam
7 8 (2.68%) PeopleSoft
8 6 (2.01%) Google
9 5 (1.68%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.68%) F5
9 5 (1.68%) Infoblox
9 5 (1.68%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.68%) Sparx