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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 397 401
Rank change year-on-year +76 +4 -30
Contract jobs citing OCI 299 319 551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 1.57% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 136 332
10th Percentile £400 £438 £360
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% +3.87%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £650
90th Percentile £738 £794 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -
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 14,031 20,309 33,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.41% 36.46% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,917 14,688 24,753
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 £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 329 386
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.34
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +78.15% +1.56%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -31.73% +44.59% -3.76%

OCI
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OCI in the UK

OCI
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 8 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 8 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 +56 213 £550 -10.57% 66
UK excluding London +67 128 £550 -8.33% 43
Work from Home +55 115 £525 -4.55% 49
London +50 113 £525 -12.50% 29
Scotland +66 36 £525 +23.53% 7
South East +1 28 £605 -0.41% 4
Midlands +21 21 £425 -41.38% 9
South West +20 18 £418 -42.41%
North of England +23 17 £500 -4.76% 13
North West +19 13 £500 +8.11% 9
East Midlands +18 11 £176 - 1
West Midlands +5 10 £650 -10.34% 8
East of England +7 6 £750 +3.45% 4
Northern Ireland +4 5 £650 - 6
Yorkshire +14 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 7 (2.34%) Confluence
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (0.67%) 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 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.01%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 25 (8.36%) Oracle EBS
2 23 (7.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (7.02%) Oracle ERP
4 20 (6.69%) Oracle Payables
5 16 (5.35%) Oracle Cash Management
6 13 (4.35%) Oracle General Ledger
7 12 (4.01%) Oracle Assets
8 9 (3.01%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (2.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (2.01%) Oracle Payroll
11 5 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
12 4 (1.34%) PeopleSoft HCM
13 3 (1.00%) Oracle Internet Expenses
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle Applications
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
14 2 (0.67%) Oracle FAH
14 2 (0.67%) PeopleSoft CRM
15 1 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
15 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (13.38%) Azure
2 23 (7.69%) SaaS
3 19 (6.35%) Power Platform
4 17 (5.69%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 17 (5.69%) PaaS
5 16 (5.35%) AWS
6 8 (2.68%) GCP
7 5 (1.67%) Serverless
7 5 (1.67%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.34%) GitHub
8 4 (1.34%) Oracle CX
8 4 (1.34%) Route 53
9 3 (1.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 2 (0.67%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.02%) Firewall
2 20 (6.69%) DNS
3 19 (6.35%) DHCP
4 15 (5.02%) SAN
5 10 (3.34%) IPsec
6 5 (1.67%) BGP
6 5 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (1.67%) EIGRP
6 5 (1.67%) HSRP
6 5 (1.67%) IPv4
6 5 (1.67%) IPv6
6 5 (1.67%) LAN
6 5 (1.67%) MPLS
6 5 (1.67%) OSPF
6 5 (1.67%) TACACS
6 5 (1.67%) VLAN
6 5 (1.67%) VXLAN
6 5 (1.67%) Wireless
7 3 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.39%) Oracle Reports
2 19 (6.35%) Oracle Database
3 16 (5.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 15 (5.02%) Power BI
5 12 (4.01%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.01%) Tableau
6 8 (2.68%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.67%) Oracle Exadata
7 5 (1.67%) Oracle ODI
8 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.00%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.67%) MySQL
11 1 (0.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (3.34%) Git
1 10 (3.34%) JIRA
2 7 (2.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.67%) ER Studio
3 5 (1.67%) ERwin
4 4 (1.34%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.33%) GitLab
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 83 (27.76%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.42%) Finance
3 53 (17.73%) Public Sector
4 35 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.01%) Law
6 11 (3.68%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.68%) Legal
7 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.01%) Billing
8 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.67%) Local Government
10 4 (1.34%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.34%) Military
10 4 (1.34%) Publishing
11 3 (1.00%) Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Back Office
13 1 (0.33%) German Language
13 1 (0.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (24.75%) Consultant
2 65 (21.74%) Oracle Consultant
3 51 (17.06%) Cloud Consultant
4 33 (11.04%) Architect
5 31 (10.37%) Analyst
6 21 (7.02%) Lead
6 21 (7.02%) Senior
7 18 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.02%) Oracle Architect
8 17 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (5.35%) Cloud Architect
9 16 (5.35%) Developer
10 13 (4.35%) Oracle Analyst
11 11 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.68%) DBA
11 11 (3.68%) Oracle Specialist
12 10 (3.34%) Cloud Specialist
12 10 (3.34%) Functional Consultant
12 10 (3.34%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (21.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (2.34%) OpenID
3 5 (1.67%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 5 (1.67%) Web Services
4 4 (1.34%) .NET
4 4 (1.34%) Laravel
5 3 (1.00%) OAuth
5 3 (1.00%) SAML
6 2 (0.67%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.33%) HTML
7 1 (0.33%) J2EE
7 1 (0.33%) Middleware
7 1 (0.33%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.33%) ODBC
7 1 (0.33%) WebCenter
7 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (3.01%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.01%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.01%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.67%) Replication
5 4 (1.34%) Blockchain
5 4 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.00%) Tandem
7 2 (0.67%) Life Science
7 2 (0.67%) 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%) PKI
8 1 (0.33%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 21 (7.02%) Linux
2 19 (6.35%) Windows
3 17 (5.69%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.68%) Windows 10
4 14 (4.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (4.68%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (4.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (4.68%) Windows XP
5 7 (2.34%) Unix
6 4 (1.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (26.09%) ERP
2 48 (16.05%) Migration
3 43 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (14.38%) Project Management
4 39 (13.04%) DevOps
5 38 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (10.37%) Data Migration
7 28 (9.36%) Analytics
8 20 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (6.02%) CI/CD
9 18 (6.02%) User Acceptance Testing
10 17 (5.69%) Data Modelling
10 17 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (5.69%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (5.35%) Agile
11 16 (5.35%) ITIL
12 15 (5.02%) Performance Monitoring
13 14 (4.68%) Break/Fix
13 14 (4.68%) Converged Infrastructure
13 14 (4.68%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.05%) SQL
2 15 (5.02%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.68%) Python
4 9 (3.01%) Java
5 7 (2.34%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.67%) Bash
7 4 (1.34%) C#
7 4 (1.34%) Go
8 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (25.08%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.04%) Degree
4 19 (6.35%) CCNA
4 19 (6.35%) CCNP
4 19 (6.35%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.35%) DV Cleared
6 8 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.34%) PMP
10 3 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.33%) ACCA
12 1 (0.33%) APMG
12 1 (0.33%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.34%) QA
2 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.34%) PMO
4 3 (1.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) GRC
5 2 (0.67%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (5.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.02%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.68%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.01%) Docker
5 8 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 35 (11.71%) Terraform
2 17 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 14 (4.68%) EMC NetWorker
3 14 (4.68%) NetBackup
3 14 (4.68%) SCCM
3 14 (4.68%) SCOM
3 14 (4.68%) vCenter Server
3 14 (4.68%) WSUS
4 6 (2.01%) Data Guard
5 5 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.67%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.00%) Ansible
8 2 (0.67%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 285 (95.32%) Oracle
2 59 (19.73%) Microsoft
3 20 (6.69%) Palo Alto
4 19 (6.35%) Cisco
5 15 (5.02%) VMware
6 14 (4.68%) 3PAR
6 14 (4.68%) Dell
6 14 (4.68%) EMC
6 14 (4.68%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (4.68%) HP
6 14 (4.68%) Juniper
6 14 (4.68%) Symantec
6 14 (4.68%) Veeam
7 9 (3.01%) Google
8 7 (2.34%) PeopleSoft
9 5 (1.67%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.67%) F5
9 5 (1.67%) Infoblox
9 5 (1.67%) SolarWinds
9 5 (1.67%) Sparx