Oracle Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Oracle
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Oracle products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Oracle over the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 46 45
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Oracle 43 12 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 6.13% 2.35% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 10.51% 4.76% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 8 2
10th Percentile £313 £342 £418
25th Percentile £350 £445 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.80% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £480 £540 £569
90th Percentile £500 £597 £603
North West median daily rate £450 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -13.46% -5.45% +4.76%

All Vendors
Cheshire

Oracle falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 409 252 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 58.35% 49.32% 59.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 140 134
10th Percentile £306 £356 £265
25th Percentile £363 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.03% +2.48% +12.60%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £575
90th Percentile £715 £675 £593
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 20
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.38 £16.68
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.09 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% -21.96% +126.80%
75th Percentile £33.63 £24.18 £35.19
90th Percentile £74.95 £32.84 £37.53
North West median hourly rate £26.26 £33.75 £31.50
% change year-on-year -22.19% +7.14% +32.94%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Oracle job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Cheshire over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Cheshire

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Oracle

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. 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
Knutsford +17 37 £367 -14.37% 2
Chester - 3 £700 -
Warrington - 1 £410 - 13
Oracle
North West

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (41.86%) JBoss
2 11 (25.58%) Apache
3 9 (20.93%) WebSphere
4 8 (18.60%) IIS
4 8 (18.60%) iPlanet
4 8 (18.60%) Tomcat
4 8 (18.60%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (4.65%) Mule
5 2 (4.65%) Mule ESB
5 2 (4.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (2.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (2.33%) CICS
6 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) OpenShift
2 23 (53.49%) AWS
3 9 (20.93%) IaaS
3 9 (20.93%) PaaS
3 9 (20.93%) SaaS
4 6 (13.95%) Azure
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.65%) Serverless
6 2 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) Kerberos
2 6 (13.95%) Firewall
3 3 (6.98%) SSL
4 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
2 10 (23.26%) Oracle Database
3 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.98%) DB2
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.33%) MySQL
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Git
2 17 (39.53%) Jenkins
3 15 (34.88%) JIRA
4 14 (32.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (18.60%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (18.60%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (13.95%) JUnit
6 6 (13.95%) Maven
7 5 (11.63%) Gradle
8 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
9 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.65%) GitLab
10 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
10 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
10 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
10 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 19 (44.19%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) Banking
3 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.33%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 9 (20.93%) Java Developer
3 8 (18.60%) Lead
4 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Scrum Master
8 1 (2.33%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Lead Architect
8 1 (2.33%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Mainframe Tester
8 1 (2.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) REST
1 15 (34.88%) Spring
1 15 (34.88%) Spring Boot
2 12 (27.91%) Node.js
3 9 (20.93%) AngularJS
4 8 (18.60%) JMS
4 8 (18.60%) LDAP
4 8 (18.60%) OAuth
4 8 (18.60%) OpenID
4 8 (18.60%) SAML
5 7 (16.28%) SOAP
6 5 (11.63%) Web Services
7 4 (9.30%) Kafka
7 4 (9.30%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (6.98%) RESTful
9 2 (4.65%) J2EE
9 2 (4.65%) JSON
9 2 (4.65%) Middleware
9 2 (4.65%) WSDL
9 2 (4.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
1 8 (18.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (6.98%) PKI
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 28 (65.12%) Linux
2 20 (46.51%) Windows
3 13 (30.23%) Unix
4 7 (16.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (51.16%) DevOps
2 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
3 18 (41.86%) Containerisation
4 14 (32.56%) Agile
5 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (23.26%) ETL
6 10 (23.26%) Microservices
7 9 (20.93%) Observability
7 9 (20.93%) SDLC
8 8 (18.60%) Anti-Money Laundering
8 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
8 8 (18.60%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (16.28%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (13.95%) Design Patterns
10 6 (13.95%) Unit Testing
11 5 (11.63%) Integration Testing
11 5 (11.63%) Requirements Gathering
12 4 (9.30%) Architectural Patterns
12 4 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
12 4 (9.30%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (41.86%) Java
2 15 (34.88%) SQL
3 12 (27.91%) Python
3 12 (27.91%) Shell Script
4 9 (20.93%) PHP
5 8 (18.60%) Groovy
6 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.65%) Perl
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) Ruby
8 1 (2.33%) Bash
8 1 (2.33%) C#
8 1 (2.33%) COBOL
8 1 (2.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) AWS Certification
2 5 (11.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) ISO 20022
1 8 (18.60%) PSD2
1 8 (18.60%) QA
1 8 (18.60%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
2 8 (18.60%) Active Directory
3 7 (16.28%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (4.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (46.51%) Kubernetes
2 9 (20.93%) Grafana
2 9 (20.93%) Progress Chef
3 8 (18.60%) CA Single Sign-On
3 8 (18.60%) CA Wily
4 7 (16.28%) Tivoli
5 4 (9.30%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (6.98%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (46.51%) AppDynamics
2 12 (27.91%) Microsoft
3 11 (25.58%) IBM
3 11 (25.58%) Splunk
4 8 (18.60%) Broadcom
5 3 (6.98%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.33%) MuleSoft