Oracle Database Contracts

Oracle Database (Oracle RDBMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Oracle Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Oracle Database over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 244 248
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing Oracle Database 338 618 985
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 1.09% 1.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.63% 6.08% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 405 684
10th Percentile £363 £400 £367
25th Percentile £411 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -6.86% +7.37%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £487
% change year-on-year -3.10% +2.77% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 8
10th Percentile £51.52 £53.50 £14.77
25th Percentile - £58.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +70.59% -7.61%
75th Percentile £61.95 £75.50 £46.61
90th Percentile £63.00 £85.00 £53.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £61.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year +0.50% +44.22% -8.47%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Oracle Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,304 10,170 17,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.15% 17.86% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,237 7,238 12,433
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £751 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.41 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.28 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.08% +61.14% +45.83%

Oracle Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle Database over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle Database in the UK

Oracle Database
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 Oracle Database 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 -58 235 £516 +4.29% 59
Work from Home -8 151 £560 +17.89% 36
UK excluding London -44 144 £485 -3.10% 48
London +13 138 £513 +13.89% 28
Scotland +42 56 £475 - 10
South East +29 52 £650 +18.18% 12
South West -18 14 £650 +30.00% 5
Midlands -21 11 £363 -27.57% 8
East Midlands +19 10 £363 -3.33% 2
North of England +2 7 £470 -11.32% 5
North West -3 5 £470 -16.07% 2
Wales +15 3 £538 - 4
Yorkshire +10 2 £485 -5.37% 1
West Midlands -24 1 £400 -23.81% 6
East of England -26 1 £395 -25.65% 1

Oracle Database
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 11 (3.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 10 (2.96%) IIS
3 5 (1.48%) Apache
3 5 (1.48%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.18%) JBoss
4 4 (1.18%) SAS
4 4 (1.18%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.89%) Confluence
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.59%) WildFly
7 1 (0.30%) Appian
7 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (6.51%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (3.25%) NEC Housing
2 11 (3.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.25%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.30%) HFM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
4 1 (0.30%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 62 (18.34%) AWS
2 19 (5.62%) OCI
3 17 (5.03%) Azure
4 12 (3.55%) Amazon S3
4 12 (3.55%) Serverless
5 10 (2.96%) GitHub
6 8 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (1.78%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (1.48%) AWS CodeBuild
8 5 (1.48%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 4 (1.18%) GCP
9 4 (1.18%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.18%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.89%) IaaS
10 3 (0.89%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.85%) Internet
2 5 (1.48%) Firewall
3 4 (1.18%) FTP
4 2 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.30%) IPsec
5 1 (0.30%) Network Security
5 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.79%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
3 36 (10.65%) Oracle Database 11g
4 20 (5.92%) Oracle Database 10g
5 18 (5.33%) Oracle Database 12c
6 17 (5.03%) Metadata
6 17 (5.03%) Oracle Reports
7 16 (4.73%) Oracle ODI
8 13 (3.85%) MySQL
8 13 (3.85%) Oracle Exadata
9 11 (3.25%) SAP HANA
10 9 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (2.07%) PowerCenter
12 7 (2.07%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.48%) Oracle8/8i Database
14 5 (1.48%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.48%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 22 (6.51%) Oracle APEX
2 21 (6.21%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (4.14%) Maven
4 11 (3.25%) JIRA
5 10 (2.96%) Git
6 6 (1.78%) GitLab
7 4 (1.18%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.18%) JUnit
8 3 (0.89%) Gradle
9 2 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.59%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.59%) Selenium
9 2 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.59%) Subversion
9 2 (0.59%) TestRail
10 1 (0.30%) Ant
10 1 (0.30%) Mockito
10 1 (0.30%) Postman
10 1 (0.30%) Serenity BDD
General
1 89 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 64 (18.93%) Finance
3 46 (13.61%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.99%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.10%) Banking
6 16 (4.73%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.07%) Billing
8 7 (2.07%) Local Government
9 6 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.48%) Back Office
10 5 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.48%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.48%) Retail
11 3 (0.89%) Military
12 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.30%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Digital Health
13 1 (0.30%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (36.98%) Developer
2 61 (18.05%) DBA
3 54 (15.98%) Oracle DBA
4 44 (13.02%) Architect
4 44 (13.02%) Oracle Developer
4 44 (13.02%) Senior
5 34 (10.06%) Consultant
6 26 (7.69%) Java Developer
7 24 (7.10%) Analyst
8 23 (6.80%) C# Developer
8 23 (6.80%) Oracle Architect
9 20 (5.92%) SQL Developer
10 19 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
11 14 (4.14%) .NET Developer
11 14 (4.14%) C# .NET Developer
12 13 (3.85%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 13 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
13 12 (3.55%) Administrator
14 11 (3.25%) SAP Basis Consultant
14 11 (3.25%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.10%) .NET
2 22 (6.51%) REST
3 21 (6.21%) React
4 20 (5.92%) .NET Framework
5 19 (5.62%) Spring
6 18 (5.33%) CSS
6 18 (5.33%) JPA
7 17 (5.03%) Hibernate
7 17 (5.03%) Spring Boot
8 15 (4.44%) HTML
8 15 (4.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 14 (4.14%) Middleware
9 14 (4.14%) Web Services
10 12 (3.55%) AWS CDK
11 11 (3.25%) SAP Basis
12 10 (2.96%) WinForms
12 10 (2.96%) WPF
13 9 (2.66%) Node.js
13 9 (2.66%) WCF
14 8 (2.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.99%) Replication
2 16 (4.73%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.85%) Blog
5 10 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.78%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.48%) Derivative
8 5 (1.48%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.18%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.89%) Tandem
10 3 (0.89%) VAX
11 2 (0.59%) Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.98%) Linux
2 39 (11.54%) Unix
3 29 (8.58%) Windows
4 18 (5.33%) VMS
5 13 (3.85%) Oracle Linux
6 11 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (3.25%) Solaris
7 7 (2.07%) AIX
8 5 (1.48%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.18%) OpenVMS
10 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (24.85%) Migration
2 61 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (16.57%) Performance Tuning
4 52 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 50 (14.79%) High Availability
6 47 (13.91%) DevOps
7 39 (11.54%) Agile
8 29 (8.58%) Data Migration
9 28 (8.28%) CI/CD
9 28 (8.28%) Software Engineering
10 27 (7.99%) Database Migration
11 26 (7.69%) ETL
12 25 (7.40%) Unit Testing
13 23 (6.80%) Data Analysis
14 21 (6.21%) Computer Science
15 19 (5.62%) Microservices
16 18 (5.33%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (5.33%) Security Management
17 17 (5.03%) Scrum
17 17 (5.03%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 192 (56.80%) SQL
2 108 (31.95%) PL/SQL
3 63 (18.64%) Java
4 37 (10.95%) Shell Script
5 25 (7.40%) C#
6 22 (6.51%) VB
7 20 (5.92%) Python
7 20 (5.92%) VBA
8 19 (5.62%) T-SQL
9 17 (5.03%) JavaScript
10 15 (4.44%) TypeScript
11 14 (4.14%) Bash
12 11 (3.25%) VB.NET
13 9 (2.66%) C
14 4 (1.18%) COBOL
14 4 (1.18%) DCL
14 4 (1.18%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.59%) ProC
16 1 (0.30%) Groovy
16 1 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 72 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.28%) Degree
4 19 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.78%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.48%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.48%) SAP Certification
7 4 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) CEH
9 1 (0.30%) CISM
9 1 (0.30%) CISSP
9 1 (0.30%) MCSE
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.30%) OCP
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.88%) QA
2 6 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.48%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS
5 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (5.33%) Oracle RAC
2 15 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.25%) Docker
4 11 (3.25%) KVM
5 8 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (7.69%) Data Guard
2 14 (4.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 11 (3.25%) Oracle RMAN
3 11 (3.25%) Terraform
4 10 (2.96%) Ansible
5 8 (2.37%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.89%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Flashback
8 2 (0.59%) Packer
8 2 (0.59%) vRealize
9 1 (0.30%) Control-M
9 1 (0.30%) Grafana
9 1 (0.30%) Kibana
9 1 (0.30%) Podman
9 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 338 (100.00%) Oracle
2 24 (7.10%) SAP
3 22 (6.51%) VMware
4 18 (5.33%) Citrix
4 18 (5.33%) Informatica
5 13 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 13 (3.85%) NEC
6 10 (2.96%) Northgate
7 9 (2.66%) Red Hat
8 8 (2.37%) Commvault
9 5 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
9 5 (1.48%) Siebel
10 3 (0.89%) IBM
10 3 (0.89%) JDA
10 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.59%) Google
11 2 (0.59%) OpenText
11 2 (0.59%) SimCorp
12 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.30%) Fujitsu