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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 36 39
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,972 3,162 5,134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.61% 5.44% 5.82%
As % of the Vendors category 10.83% 12.65% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 2,045 3,461
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £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 42 33 43
10th Percentile £18.43 £35.56 £16.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £52.50 £23.19
Median hourly rate £33.25 £64.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.05% +82.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £53.64
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £59.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.07% +69.41% -9.09%

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 18,214 25,004 35,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,278 16,721 23,426
10th Percentile £263 £270 £297
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 £643 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,112 686 897
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £12.05
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.77 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -4.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 1,501 £550 - 626
London +4 908 £575 - 271
Work from Home -1 785 £550 +2.61% 271
UK excluding London -9 729 £513 -2.38% 424
South East -2 228 £550 - 66
Scotland +4 183 £506 +3.79% 64
North of England -27 111 £500 -4.76% 102
Midlands -16 110 £488 -9.39% 79
North West -19 73 £500 -9.09% 51
West Midlands -24 63 £536 -0.37% 61
South West -30 63 £515 +3.00% 51
East Midlands +9 43 £394 -25.00% 18
Yorkshire -8 31 £494 -5.95% 31
East of England -39 15 £600 +15.66% 24
Wales +6 13 £390 -27.44% 10
North East -11 7 £450 -14.29% 21
Northern Ireland +7 6 £650 +18.18% 32

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 49 (2.48%) 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%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.71%) WebSphere
10 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 13 (0.66%) SAS
11 12 (0.61%) Apache Spark
12 10 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 9 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
13 9 (0.46%) nginx
14 8 (0.41%) Site Server
15 7 (0.35%) Anypoint
15 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
17 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 101 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (2.38%) MS Visio
3 39 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.10%) Trello
8 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 153 (7.76%) Oracle EBS
2 73 (3.70%) Oracle Payables
3 64 (3.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 62 (3.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 59 (2.99%) Oracle EBS R12
6 55 (2.79%) Oracle General Ledger
7 53 (2.69%) Oracle Assets
8 50 (2.54%) Oracle ERP
9 42 (2.13%) Oracle Cash Management
10 39 (1.98%) Oracle Financials
11 27 (1.37%) Endur
12 25 (1.27%) NetSuite
12 25 (1.27%) Oracle Applications
12 25 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 21 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
14 20 (1.01%) Oracle AGIS
15 18 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
16 17 (0.86%) Maximo
17 15 (0.76%) Temenos T24
18 13 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 350 (17.75%) Azure
2 306 (15.52%) OCI
3 286 (14.50%) AWS
4 112 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 101 (5.12%) SaaS
6 83 (4.21%) GitHub
7 70 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (3.55%) GCP
8 67 (3.40%) Serverless
9 50 (2.54%) IaaS
10 45 (2.28%) PaaS
11 39 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 35 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
14 28 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
14 28 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (1.37%) PowerApps
16 26 (1.32%) Entra ID
17 22 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.69%) Firewall
2 42 (2.13%) DNS
3 33 (1.67%) SAN
4 28 (1.42%) DHCP
4 28 (1.42%) Internet
5 16 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.66%) NAS
7 12 (0.61%) VLAN
8 11 (0.56%) SSL
9 10 (0.51%) HTTP
9 10 (0.51%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.46%) VPN
11 8 (0.41%) Network Security
12 7 (0.35%) SSH
12 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.30%) 5G
13 6 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (0.25%) FTP
14 5 (0.25%) IPsec
15 4 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (17.39%) Oracle Database
2 300 (15.21%) SQL Server
3 185 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
4 181 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
5 124 (6.29%) MySQL
6 122 (6.19%) Relational Database
7 97 (4.92%) Power BI
8 94 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
9 76 (3.85%) MongoDB
10 70 (3.55%) NoSQL
11 64 (3.25%) RDBMS
12 42 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (2.08%) Oracle Database 11g
14 36 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
14 36 (1.83%) Oracle ODI
15 34 (1.72%) Metadata
16 33 (1.67%) Tableau
17 26 (1.32%) DB2
18 22 (1.12%) Oracle BI EE
19 21 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 116 (5.88%) JIRA
2 109 (5.53%) Git
3 65 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.54%) GitLab
5 48 (2.43%) Oracle Forms
6 45 (2.28%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (1.72%) Selenium
8 32 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.37%) Maven
10 26 (1.32%) Bitbucket
10 26 (1.32%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.12%) ERwin
12 20 (1.01%) JUnit
13 17 (0.86%) JMeter
14 12 (0.61%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.61%) ER Studio
15 11 (0.56%) Toad
16 10 (0.51%) Postman
16 10 (0.51%) Visual Studio
17 9 (0.46%) SoapUI
General
1 619 (31.39%) Finance
2 508 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 277 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 151 (7.66%) Banking
6 51 (2.59%) Legal
7 45 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (2.18%) Retail
9 42 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 35 (1.77%) Billing
10 35 (1.77%) General Ledger
11 32 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.22%) Back Office
14 24 (1.22%) Front Office
15 23 (1.17%) Law
16 20 (1.01%) Investment Banking
17 17 (0.86%) Local Government
18 14 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 432 (21.91%) Developer
2 278 (14.10%) Consultant
3 227 (11.51%) Analyst
4 211 (10.70%) Architect
5 179 (9.08%) Oracle Consultant
6 119 (6.03%) Senior
7 116 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
8 108 (5.48%) Lead
9 97 (4.92%) DBA
10 83 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (3.70%) Oracle Architect
12 71 (3.60%) Functional Consultant
13 69 (3.50%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.14%) Oracle DBA
15 60 (3.04%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 59 (2.99%) Oracle Analyst
17 57 (2.89%) Cloud Consultant
18 56 (2.84%) Business Analyst
18 56 (2.84%) SQL Developer
19 49 (2.48%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (9.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 145 (7.35%) .NET
3 86 (4.36%) XML
4 84 (4.26%) Spring
5 80 (4.06%) SOAP
6 78 (3.96%) REST
6 78 (3.96%) Web Services
7 68 (3.45%) Kafka
8 67 (3.40%) HTML
9 57 (2.89%) Spring Boot
10 52 (2.64%) .NET Framework
11 49 (2.48%) Middleware
12 44 (2.23%) SailPoint
13 43 (2.18%) LDAP
14 42 (2.13%) AngularJS
15 41 (2.08%) React
16 37 (1.88%) JSON
17 36 (1.83%) CSS
18 35 (1.77%) RESTful
19 33 (1.67%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.11%) Onboarding
2 62 (3.14%) Replication
3 60 (3.04%) Management Information System
4 46 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 37 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
7 28 (1.42%) Public Cloud
8 24 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
8 24 (1.22%) Virtual Team
9 23 (1.17%) Clustering
10 20 (1.01%) Derivative
11 19 (0.96%) PKI
11 19 (0.96%) Product Ownership
12 18 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (0.86%) Cloud Native
13 17 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 16 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.66%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 229 (11.61%) Linux
2 188 (9.53%) Windows
3 160 (8.11%) Unix
4 61 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 56 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (1.67%) Solaris
7 29 (1.47%) VMS
8 28 (1.42%) Oracle Linux
9 27 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 23 (1.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (1.06%) AIX
12 16 (0.81%) Windows 10
12 16 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (0.76%) Windows XP
14 6 (0.30%) OpenVMS
15 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
16 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
17 3 (0.15%) zOS
18 1 (0.051%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.051%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (18.61%) Agile
2 301 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
3 273 (13.84%) Migration
4 260 (13.18%) DevOps
5 231 (11.71%) ERP
6 177 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
7 140 (7.10%) Data Migration
8 139 (7.05%) ETL
8 139 (7.05%) Performance Tuning
9 135 (6.85%) Data Modelling
10 127 (6.44%) Project Management
11 121 (6.14%) Analytics
12 120 (6.09%) Stakeholder Management
13 119 (6.03%) CI/CD
14 114 (5.78%) Disaster Recovery
15 109 (5.53%) Software Engineering
16 105 (5.32%) Scrum
17 102 (5.17%) Microservices
18 93 (4.72%) User Acceptance Testing
19 92 (4.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 712 (36.11%) SQL
2 266 (13.49%) Java
3 259 (13.13%) PL/SQL
4 158 (8.01%) Python
5 138 (7.00%) C#
6 109 (5.53%) JavaScript
7 102 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 88 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 63 (3.19%) Bash
10 61 (3.09%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.93%) C++
12 30 (1.52%) C
12 30 (1.52%) VB
13 29 (1.47%) VBA
14 25 (1.27%) TypeScript
15 18 (0.91%) Korn
16 17 (0.86%) VB.NET
17 16 (0.81%) Go
18 12 (0.61%) XPath
19 10 (0.51%) ProC
Qualifications
1 304 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 258 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 204 (10.34%) Degree
4 70 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 35 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 19 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 19 (0.96%) ISTQB
7 19 (0.96%) PMP
8 18 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (0.91%) PMI Certification
9 15 (0.76%) CCNA
9 15 (0.76%) CCNP
10 13 (0.66%) APMP
11 11 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.51%) ACCA
12 10 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.51%) CISSP
13 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (5.68%) QA
2 46 (2.33%) GDPR
3 45 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 19 (0.96%) GAAP
6 16 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (0.76%) PMO
8 14 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.51%) SLA
10 8 (0.41%) GRC
11 7 (0.35%) MiFID
12 6 (0.30%) EMIR
13 5 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
13 5 (0.25%) NCSC
14 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 80 (4.06%) Docker
3 57 (2.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.42%) IAG
5 25 (1.27%) ACF2
5 25 (1.27%) RACF
6 23 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
9 18 (0.91%) vSphere
10 14 (0.71%) Hyper-V
11 11 (0.56%) KVM
12 5 (0.25%) HDFS
12 5 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
13 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.051%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 1 (0.051%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.051%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 97 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.61%) Terraform
3 66 (3.35%) Ansible
4 30 (1.52%) Data Guard
5 27 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
5 27 (1.37%) NetBackup
6 24 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 24 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.96%) WSUS
8 18 (0.91%) Grafana
8 18 (0.91%) vCenter Server
9 17 (0.86%) Tivoli
10 15 (0.76%) SCCM
11 14 (0.71%) SCOM
12 11 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.56%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.41%) Kibana
13 8 (0.41%) Netcool
13 8 (0.41%) Packer
13 8 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 311 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 194 (9.84%) SAP
3 88 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 84 (4.26%) VMware
5 70 (3.55%) IBM
6 63 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.89%) Google
8 47 (2.38%) Informatica
9 44 (2.23%) Sybase
10 42 (2.13%) HP
11 40 (2.03%) Red Hat
12 36 (1.83%) Cisco
13 33 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 33 (1.67%) EMC
14 31 (1.57%) Citrix
15 28 (1.42%) Dell
16 27 (1.37%) MuleSoft
17 26 (1.32%) Sparx
18 25 (1.27%) Databricks
19 23 (1.17%) Workday