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 14 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
14 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 3,136 5,131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.62% 5.44% 5.82%
As % of the Vendors category 10.87% 12.65% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 2,027 3,458
10th Percentile £375 £400 £400
25th Percentile £442 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 33 43
10th Percentile £18.60 £35.56 £16.42
25th Percentile £25.50 £52.50 £23.19
Median hourly rate £28.00 £64.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.25% +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 £33.25 £59.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year -43.92% +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 18,149 24,781 35,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 42.99% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,244 16,575 23,424
10th Percentile £263 £270 £298
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 £642 £637
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 681 898
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.05
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 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.08
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 14 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 14 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 14 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 1,496 £550 - 594
London +4 899 £575 - 249
Work from Home -2 782 £550 +2.61% 266
UK excluding London -13 737 £510 -2.86% 409
South East -3 226 £550 - 65
Scotland +5 187 £500 +2.56% 62
Midlands -15 116 £485 -9.51% 78
North of England -25 111 £500 -4.76% 98
North West -18 73 £500 -9.09% 48
West Midlands -22 68 £536 -0.37% 60
South West -41 62 £514 +2.75% 48
East Midlands +6 44 £394 -25.00% 18
Yorkshire -8 31 £494 -5.95% 31
East of England -30 16 £588 +13.25% 25
Wales +5 13 £390 -27.44% 10
North East -14 7 £450 -14.29% 20
Northern Ireland +7 6 £650 +18.18% 28

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 48 (2.43%) 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 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.66%) SAS
9 13 (0.66%) WebSphere
10 12 (0.61%) Apache Spark
11 10 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 9 (0.46%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (0.46%) nginx
13 8 (0.41%) 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
1 101 (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 72 (3.65%) Oracle Payables
3 62 (3.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 62 (3.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 59 (2.99%) Oracle EBS R12
5 52 (2.64%) Oracle General Ledger
6 51 (2.59%) Oracle Assets
7 49 (2.48%) Oracle ERP
8 40 (2.03%) Oracle Cash Management
9 37 (1.88%) Oracle Financials
10 27 (1.37%) Endur
11 25 (1.27%) NetSuite
12 24 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 21 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
14 20 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
15 18 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
15 18 (0.91%) Oracle AGIS
16 17 (0.86%) Maximo
17 15 (0.76%) Temenos T24
18 12 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 351 (17.80%) Azure
2 299 (15.16%) OCI
3 286 (14.50%) AWS
4 113 (5.73%) Power Platform
5 98 (4.97%) SaaS
6 83 (4.21%) GitHub
7 71 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 67 (3.40%) GCP
8 67 (3.40%) Serverless
9 48 (2.43%) IaaS
10 43 (2.18%) PaaS
11 39 (1.98%) Amazon S3
12 35 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
14 29 (1.47%) PowerApps
15 28 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
16 27 (1.37%) Entra ID
17 26 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (1.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.54%) Firewall
2 40 (2.03%) DNS
3 31 (1.57%) SAN
4 28 (1.42%) Internet
5 26 (1.32%) DHCP
6 14 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 11 (0.56%) NAS
7 11 (0.56%) SSL
8 10 (0.51%) HTTP
8 10 (0.51%) VLAN
9 9 (0.46%) VPN
10 8 (0.41%) Kerberos
11 7 (0.35%) Network Security
11 7 (0.35%) SSH
11 7 (0.35%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.30%) 5G
12 6 (0.30%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (0.25%) FTP
13 5 (0.25%) IPsec
14 4 (0.20%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 341 (17.29%) Oracle Database
2 305 (15.47%) SQL Server
3 185 (9.38%) Oracle Reports
4 181 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
5 126 (6.39%) MySQL
6 121 (6.14%) Relational Database
7 99 (5.02%) Power BI
8 95 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
9 77 (3.90%) MongoDB
10 70 (3.55%) NoSQL
11 63 (3.19%) RDBMS
12 43 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 39 (1.98%) Oracle Database 11g
14 37 (1.88%) Oracle ODI
15 36 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
16 34 (1.72%) Metadata
17 33 (1.67%) Tableau
18 26 (1.32%) DB2
19 22 (1.12%) Oracle BI EE
20 21 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 117 (5.93%) JIRA
2 108 (5.48%) Git
3 63 (3.19%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.54%) GitLab
5 48 (2.43%) Oracle Forms
6 46 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
7 34 (1.72%) Selenium
8 32 (1.62%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.37%) Maven
10 26 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 24 (1.22%) TeamCity
12 21 (1.06%) ERwin
13 20 (1.01%) JUnit
14 17 (0.86%) JMeter
15 12 (0.61%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.61%) Visual Studio
16 11 (0.56%) ER Studio
16 11 (0.56%) Toad
17 10 (0.51%) Postman
17 10 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 616 (31.24%) Finance
2 511 (25.91%) Social Skills
3 278 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 149 (7.56%) Banking
6 51 (2.59%) Legal
7 45 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
8 42 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 42 (2.13%) Retail
9 35 (1.77%) Billing
10 33 (1.67%) General Ledger
11 32 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 32 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (1.22%) Back Office
13 24 (1.22%) Front Office
14 23 (1.17%) Law
15 19 (0.96%) Investment Banking
16 17 (0.86%) Local Government
17 14 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 434 (22.01%) Developer
2 279 (14.15%) Consultant
3 231 (11.71%) Analyst
4 207 (10.50%) Architect
5 180 (9.13%) Oracle Consultant
6 118 (5.98%) Senior
7 116 (5.88%) Oracle Developer
8 107 (5.43%) Lead
9 98 (4.97%) DBA
10 80 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
11 72 (3.65%) Functional Consultant
12 71 (3.60%) Oracle Architect
13 69 (3.50%) Java Developer
14 62 (3.14%) Oracle DBA
15 61 (3.09%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 60 (3.04%) Oracle Analyst
17 56 (2.84%) Business Analyst
17 56 (2.84%) Cloud Consultant
17 56 (2.84%) SQL Developer
18 49 (2.48%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (9.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 146 (7.40%) .NET
3 86 (4.36%) XML
4 84 (4.26%) Spring
5 81 (4.11%) SOAP
6 80 (4.06%) REST
6 80 (4.06%) Web Services
7 69 (3.50%) HTML
8 68 (3.45%) Kafka
9 57 (2.89%) Spring Boot
10 53 (2.69%) .NET Framework
11 49 (2.48%) Middleware
12 45 (2.28%) SailPoint
13 42 (2.13%) AngularJS
13 42 (2.13%) LDAP
14 41 (2.08%) React
15 37 (1.88%) CSS
16 36 (1.83%) JSON
17 35 (1.77%) RESTful
18 33 (1.67%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (4.26%) Onboarding
2 61 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 61 (3.09%) Replication
3 46 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (1.93%) Data Centre
5 37 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.47%) Public Cloud
7 24 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 21 (1.06%) Clustering
9 19 (0.96%) Derivative
9 19 (0.96%) PKI
9 19 (0.96%) Product Ownership
10 18 (0.91%) Data Structures
10 18 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (0.86%) Cloud Native
11 17 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.66%) Blog
13 13 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 228 (11.56%) Linux
2 189 (9.58%) Windows
3 164 (8.32%) Unix
4 60 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 55 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 31 (1.57%) Solaris
7 29 (1.47%) VMS
8 27 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
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%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (18.71%) Agile
2 301 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
3 275 (13.95%) Migration
4 257 (13.03%) DevOps
5 228 (11.56%) ERP
6 181 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
7 141 (7.15%) ETL
8 140 (7.10%) Data Migration
9 136 (6.90%) Data Modelling
9 136 (6.90%) Performance Tuning
10 131 (6.64%) Project Management
11 122 (6.19%) Analytics
12 119 (6.03%) CI/CD
12 119 (6.03%) Stakeholder Management
13 112 (5.68%) Disaster Recovery
14 107 (5.43%) Software Engineering
15 105 (5.32%) Scrum
16 102 (5.17%) Microservices
17 93 (4.72%) User Acceptance Testing
18 92 (4.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 716 (36.31%) SQL
2 268 (13.59%) Java
3 259 (13.13%) PL/SQL
4 158 (8.01%) Python
5 139 (7.05%) C#
6 110 (5.58%) JavaScript
7 101 (5.12%) PowerShell
8 90 (4.56%) Shell Script
9 61 (3.09%) Bash
9 61 (3.09%) T-SQL
10 38 (1.93%) C++
11 30 (1.52%) C
11 30 (1.52%) VB
12 29 (1.47%) VBA
13 25 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 18 (0.91%) Korn
15 17 (0.86%) VB.NET
16 16 (0.81%) Go
17 11 (0.56%) XPath
18 10 (0.51%) ProC
Qualifications
1 302 (15.31%) 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 32 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 19 (0.96%) AWS Certification
7 19 (0.96%) PMP
8 18 (0.91%) ISTQB
8 18 (0.91%) PMI Certification
9 17 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (0.71%) CCNA
10 14 (0.71%) CCNP
11 13 (0.66%) APMP
12 12 (0.61%) ACCA
12 12 (0.61%) CISSP
13 11 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.51%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 9 (0.46%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (5.78%) QA
2 47 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 45 (2.28%) GDPR
4 20 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 19 (0.96%) GAAP
6 15 (0.76%) PMO
6 15 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.41%) GRC
8 8 (0.41%) SLA
9 7 (0.35%) MiFID
10 6 (0.30%) EMIR
11 5 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.25%) Dodd-Frank
11 5 (0.25%) NCSC
12 4 (0.20%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 3 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 78 (3.96%) Docker
3 55 (2.79%) 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%) Oracle RAC
7 20 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 18 (0.91%) vSphere
9 14 (0.71%) Hyper-V
10 11 (0.56%) KVM
11 5 (0.25%) HDFS
11 5 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.20%) Shibboleth
12 4 (0.20%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.15%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.051%) Cronacle
14 1 (0.051%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.051%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 95 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.51%) Terraform
3 64 (3.25%) Ansible
4 30 (1.52%) Data Guard
5 27 (1.37%) NetBackup
6 25 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
6 25 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 19 (0.96%) WSUS
9 18 (0.91%) Grafana
9 18 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 15 (0.76%) SCCM
10 15 (0.76%) Tivoli
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%) Packer
13 8 (0.41%) Puppet
13 8 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 310 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 195 (9.89%) SAP
3 88 (4.46%) Salesforce
4 81 (4.11%) VMware
5 67 (3.40%) IBM
6 61 (3.09%) ServiceNow
7 57 (2.89%) Google
8 47 (2.38%) Informatica
9 44 (2.23%) Sybase
10 40 (2.03%) HP
10 40 (2.03%) Red Hat
11 34 (1.72%) CyberArk
12 33 (1.67%) Cisco
13 31 (1.57%) Citrix
13 31 (1.57%) EMC
14 27 (1.37%) MuleSoft
15 26 (1.32%) Dell
16 25 (1.27%) Databricks
16 25 (1.27%) Sparx
17 23 (1.17%) Workday