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 24 October 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
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 45
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing Oracle 48 18 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 6.98% 3.47% 1.97%
As % of the Vendors category 12.40% 7.14% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 12 5
10th Percentile £313 £351 -
25th Percentile £352 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -24.60% +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £469 £540 -
90th Percentile £500 £572 £535
North West median daily rate £447 £505 £550
% change year-on-year -11.49% -8.18% +5.77%

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 387 252 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 56.25% 48.55% 53.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 142 114
10th Percentile £304 £356 £265
25th Percentile £359 £454 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.47% +2.48% +16.67%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £582
90th Percentile £715 £675 £593
North West median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 20
10th Percentile £12.82 £15.22 £16.68
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £16.71 £22.09 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year -24.38% -21.96% +126.80%
75th Percentile £24.37 £24.18 £35.19
90th Percentile £67.25 £35.00 £37.53
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% - +50.21%

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 24 October 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 24 October 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 +19 41 £367 +2.95%
Chester - 3 £700 - 1
Warrington - 1 £410 - 4
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 20 (41.67%) JBoss
2 12 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 11 (22.92%) Apache
4 10 (20.83%) Tomcat
5 8 (16.67%) IIS
5 8 (16.67%) iPlanet
5 8 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (8.33%) CICS
7 3 (6.25%) WebLogic
8 2 (4.17%) Mule
8 2 (4.17%) Mule ESB
9 1 (2.08%) Anypoint
9 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 26 (54.17%) AWS
2 25 (52.08%) OpenShift
3 9 (18.75%) IaaS
3 9 (18.75%) PaaS
3 9 (18.75%) SaaS
4 6 (12.50%) Azure
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) Kerberos
2 6 (12.50%) Firewall
3 3 (6.25%) SSL
4 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) Relational Database
2 11 (22.92%) Oracle Database
3 7 (14.58%) DB2
4 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.08%) MySQL
6 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (58.33%) Git
2 21 (43.75%) Jenkins
3 16 (33.33%) JIRA
4 15 (31.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (16.67%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (16.67%) Maven
6 7 (14.58%) JUnit
7 6 (12.50%) Gradle
8 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
8 4 (8.33%) Selenium
9 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
10 2 (4.17%) Eclipse
10 2 (4.17%) GitLab
10 2 (4.17%) IntelliJ
10 2 (4.17%) REST Assured
10 2 (4.17%) SOAtest
General
1 20 (41.67%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.08%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Java Developer
3 8 (16.67%) Lead
4 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Architect
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Automation Tester
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Test Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Tester
8 1 (2.08%) Agile Scrum Master
8 1 (2.08%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Developer in Test
8 1 (2.08%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.08%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (35.42%) REST
1 17 (35.42%) Spring
1 17 (35.42%) Spring Boot
2 12 (25.00%) Node.js
3 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
3 9 (18.75%) SOAP
4 8 (16.67%) JMS
4 8 (16.67%) LDAP
4 8 (16.67%) OAuth
4 8 (16.67%) OpenID
4 8 (16.67%) SAML
4 8 (16.67%) Web Services
5 5 (10.42%) J2EE
5 5 (10.42%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (8.33%) JSON
6 4 (8.33%) Kafka
6 4 (8.33%) XML
7 3 (6.25%) RAML
7 3 (6.25%) RESTful
7 3 (6.25%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 8 (16.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 4 (8.33%) VSAM
3 3 (6.25%) PKI
3 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Linux
2 20 (41.67%) Windows
3 16 (33.33%) Unix
4 7 (14.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) DevOps
2 21 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 18 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 17 (35.42%) Agile
5 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (25.00%) ETL
7 11 (22.92%) Microservices
7 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
8 10 (20.83%) SDLC
9 9 (18.75%) Observability
10 8 (16.67%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 8 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (14.58%) Design Patterns
11 7 (14.58%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 5 (10.42%) Architectural Patterns
13 5 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (10.42%) Integration Testing
13 5 (10.42%) Requirements Gathering
13 5 (10.42%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Java
2 17 (35.42%) SQL
3 13 (27.08%) Shell Script
4 12 (25.00%) Python
5 9 (18.75%) PHP
6 8 (16.67%) Groovy
7 4 (8.33%) COBOL
7 4 (8.33%) JCL
8 3 (6.25%) PL/SQL
9 2 (4.17%) Perl
9 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.17%) REXX
9 2 (4.17%) Ruby
10 1 (2.08%) Bash
10 1 (2.08%) C#
10 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 5 (10.42%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.83%) QA
2 8 (16.67%) ISO 20022
2 8 (16.67%) PSD2
2 8 (16.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 24 (50.00%) Docker
2 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (14.58%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Grafana
2 9 (18.75%) Progress Chef
3 8 (16.67%) CA Single Sign-On
3 8 (16.67%) CA Wily
4 7 (14.58%) Tivoli
5 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) AppDynamics
2 13 (27.08%) Microsoft
3 11 (22.92%) IBM
3 11 (22.92%) Splunk
4 8 (16.67%) Broadcom
5 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.17%) Ab Initio
6 2 (4.17%) Informatica
6 2 (4.17%) Parasoft
7 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft