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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 37 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Oracle 1,985 3,157 5,053
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 5.45% 5.79%
As % of the Vendors category 10.82% 12.69% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 2,040 3,392
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £447 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £546 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.73% -0.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £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 18,339 24,882 34,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.65% 42.98% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,366 16,641 23,129
10th Percentile £263 £270 £294
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 £644 £635
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 1,115 687 882
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -43.53% +100.00% +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 10 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 10 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 10 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 1,510 £550 - 545
London +5 915 £575 - 233
Work from Home -2 790 £550 +2.61% 242
UK excluding London -13 734 £513 -2.38% 365
South East 0 229 £550 +3.77% 62
Scotland +4 184 £503 +3.18% 53
North of England -21 112 £497 -5.29% 80
Midlands -15 110 £488 -9.39% 68
North West -16 74 £500 -9.09% 41
West Midlands -30 63 £536 -0.37% 49
South West -36 63 £515 +3.00% 47
East Midlands +8 43 £394 -25.00% 19
Yorkshire -10 31 £494 -5.95% 27
Wales +5 15 £433 -17.62% 10
East of England -32 15 £600 +15.66% 25
North East -8 7 £450 -14.29% 13
Northern Ireland +6 6 £650 +18.18% 24

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 (2.47%) Confluence
2 46 (2.32%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
4 29 (1.46%) Apache
5 27 (1.36%) IIS
6 20 (1.01%) JBoss
7 18 (0.91%) WebLogic
8 15 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 15 (0.76%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.65%) SAS
10 12 (0.60%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.45%) nginx
13 8 (0.40%) Site Server
14 7 (0.35%) Anypoint
14 7 (0.35%) OpenStack
15 5 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
16 3 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 103 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 47 (2.37%) MS Visio
3 39 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.050%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 154 (7.76%) Oracle EBS
2 74 (3.73%) Oracle Payables
3 65 (3.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 63 (3.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 60 (3.02%) Oracle EBS R12
6 55 (2.77%) Oracle General Ledger
7 53 (2.67%) Oracle Assets
8 50 (2.52%) Oracle ERP
9 43 (2.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 39 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
11 26 (1.31%) Endur
12 25 (1.26%) NetSuite
12 25 (1.26%) Oracle Applications
12 25 (1.26%) 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 (0.65%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 353 (17.78%) Azure
2 306 (15.42%) OCI
3 286 (14.41%) AWS
4 112 (5.64%) Power Platform
5 101 (5.09%) SaaS
6 84 (4.23%) GitHub
7 72 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 71 (3.58%) GCP
9 67 (3.38%) Serverless
10 50 (2.52%) IaaS
11 45 (2.27%) PaaS
12 39 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
15 28 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
15 28 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (1.36%) PowerApps
17 26 (1.31%) Entra ID
18 23 (1.16%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.67%) Firewall
2 42 (2.12%) DNS
3 33 (1.66%) SAN
4 28 (1.41%) DHCP
4 28 (1.41%) Internet
5 16 (0.81%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.65%) NAS
7 12 (0.60%) SSL
7 12 (0.60%) VLAN
8 10 (0.50%) HTTP
8 10 (0.50%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.45%) Network Security
9 9 (0.45%) VPN
10 7 (0.35%) SSH
10 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.30%) 5G
11 6 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
12 5 (0.25%) FTP
12 5 (0.25%) IPsec
13 4 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 350 (17.63%) Oracle Database
2 304 (15.31%) SQL Server
3 185 (9.32%) Oracle Reports
4 182 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
5 124 (6.25%) MySQL
6 122 (6.15%) Relational Database
7 97 (4.89%) Power BI
8 95 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
9 76 (3.83%) MongoDB
10 70 (3.53%) NoSQL
11 64 (3.22%) RDBMS
12 43 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (2.07%) Oracle Database 11g
14 36 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
14 36 (1.81%) Oracle ODI
15 34 (1.71%) Metadata
16 33 (1.66%) Tableau
17 25 (1.26%) DB2
18 22 (1.11%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.11%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 117 (5.89%) JIRA
2 109 (5.49%) Git
3 65 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.52%) GitLab
5 48 (2.42%) Oracle Forms
6 46 (2.32%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (1.71%) Selenium
8 32 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.36%) Maven
10 26 (1.31%) Bitbucket
10 26 (1.31%) TeamCity
11 22 (1.11%) ERwin
12 20 (1.01%) JUnit
13 17 (0.86%) JMeter
14 12 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 12 (0.60%) ER Studio
15 11 (0.55%) Toad
16 10 (0.50%) Postman
16 10 (0.50%) Visual Studio
17 9 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 627 (31.59%) Finance
2 509 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 279 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 195 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 153 (7.71%) Banking
6 51 (2.57%) Legal
7 45 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 45 (2.27%) Retail
8 42 (2.12%) Manufacturing
9 35 (1.76%) Billing
9 35 (1.76%) General Ledger
10 32 (1.61%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.21%) Back Office
14 23 (1.16%) Front Office
14 23 (1.16%) Law
15 21 (1.06%) Investment Banking
16 17 (0.86%) Local Government
17 15 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 436 (21.96%) Developer
2 279 (14.06%) Consultant
3 227 (11.44%) Analyst
4 212 (10.68%) Architect
5 179 (9.02%) Oracle Consultant
6 119 (5.99%) Senior
7 118 (5.94%) Oracle Developer
8 107 (5.39%) Lead
9 97 (4.89%) DBA
10 84 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
11 73 (3.68%) Oracle Architect
12 71 (3.58%) Functional Consultant
13 69 (3.48%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.12%) Oracle DBA
15 60 (3.02%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 59 (2.97%) Oracle Analyst
17 57 (2.87%) Cloud Consultant
17 57 (2.87%) SQL Developer
18 56 (2.82%) Business Analyst
19 51 (2.57%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (9.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 147 (7.41%) .NET
3 86 (4.33%) XML
4 84 (4.23%) Spring
5 80 (4.03%) SOAP
6 78 (3.93%) REST
6 78 (3.93%) Web Services
7 68 (3.43%) Kafka
8 67 (3.38%) HTML
9 57 (2.87%) Spring Boot
10 55 (2.77%) .NET Framework
11 49 (2.47%) Middleware
12 44 (2.22%) SailPoint
13 43 (2.17%) LDAP
14 42 (2.12%) AngularJS
15 41 (2.07%) React
16 37 (1.86%) JSON
17 36 (1.81%) CSS
18 35 (1.76%) RESTful
19 33 (1.66%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 81 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 61 (3.07%) Replication
3 60 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 46 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
5 38 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 38 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 25 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 23 (1.16%) Clustering
8 23 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.01%) Derivative
10 19 (0.96%) PKI
10 19 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 18 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (0.86%) Cloud Native
12 17 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (0.86%) Data Structures
13 16 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.65%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 229 (11.54%) Linux
2 191 (9.62%) Windows
3 161 (8.11%) Unix
4 63 (3.17%) Windows Server
5 56 (2.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (1.66%) Solaris
7 29 (1.46%) VMS
8 28 (1.41%) Oracle Linux
9 27 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 24 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 21 (1.06%) AIX
12 18 (0.91%) Windows 10
13 17 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (0.76%) Windows XP
15 6 (0.30%) OpenVMS
16 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
18 3 (0.15%) zOS
19 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
19 1 (0.050%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (18.74%) Agile
2 302 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
3 274 (13.80%) Migration
4 263 (13.25%) DevOps
5 233 (11.74%) ERP
6 178 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
7 140 (7.05%) Data Migration
7 140 (7.05%) ETL
7 140 (7.05%) Performance Tuning
8 135 (6.80%) Data Modelling
9 128 (6.45%) Project Management
10 122 (6.15%) Analytics
11 120 (6.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 119 (5.99%) CI/CD
13 115 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
14 109 (5.49%) Software Engineering
15 106 (5.34%) Scrum
16 102 (5.14%) Microservices
17 93 (4.69%) User Acceptance Testing
18 92 (4.63%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 719 (36.22%) SQL
2 266 (13.40%) Java
3 264 (13.30%) PL/SQL
4 158 (7.96%) Python
5 140 (7.05%) C#
6 109 (5.49%) JavaScript
7 103 (5.19%) PowerShell
8 88 (4.43%) Shell Script
9 63 (3.17%) Bash
10 62 (3.12%) T-SQL
11 38 (1.91%) C++
12 33 (1.66%) VB
13 32 (1.61%) VBA
14 30 (1.51%) C
15 25 (1.26%) TypeScript
16 19 (0.96%) VB.NET
17 18 (0.91%) Korn
18 16 (0.81%) Go
19 12 (0.60%) XPath
20 10 (0.50%) ProC
Qualifications
1 306 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 260 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 205 (10.33%) Degree
4 70 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 35 (1.76%) 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 (0.65%) APMP
11 11 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.50%) ACCA
12 10 (0.50%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.50%) CISSP
13 9 (0.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (5.64%) QA
2 47 (2.37%) GDPR
3 45 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 19 (0.96%) GAAP
6 16 (0.81%) PMO
6 16 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (0.71%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.50%) SLA
9 8 (0.40%) GRC
10 7 (0.35%) MiFID
11 6 (0.30%) EMIR
12 5 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
12 5 (0.25%) NCSC
13 4 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (6.10%) Active Directory
2 80 (4.03%) Docker
3 57 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (1.41%) IAG
5 25 (1.26%) ACF2
5 25 (1.26%) RACF
6 23 (1.16%) 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 (0.55%) KVM
12 5 (0.25%) HDFS
13 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
13 4 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
14 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.050%) Cronacle
15 1 (0.050%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.050%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 97 (4.89%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.58%) Terraform
3 66 (3.32%) Ansible
4 30 (1.51%) Data Guard
5 27 (1.36%) EMC NetWorker
5 27 (1.36%) NetBackup
6 24 (1.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 24 (1.21%) 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 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
12 11 (0.55%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.40%) Kibana
13 8 (0.40%) Packer
13 8 (0.40%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 8 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 313 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 194 (9.77%) SAP
3 88 (4.43%) Salesforce
4 84 (4.23%) VMware
5 69 (3.48%) IBM
6 62 (3.12%) ServiceNow
7 58 (2.92%) Google
8 47 (2.37%) Informatica
9 43 (2.17%) HP
9 43 (2.17%) Sybase
10 40 (2.02%) Red Hat
11 38 (1.91%) Cisco
12 34 (1.71%) EMC
13 33 (1.66%) CyberArk
14 32 (1.61%) Citrix
15 28 (1.41%) Dell
16 26 (1.31%) MuleSoft
16 26 (1.31%) Sparx
17 25 (1.26%) Databricks
18 23 (1.16%) Workday