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 23 September 2026, 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
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 27 43
Rank change year-on-year -34 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing Oracle 15 53 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.93% 8.10% 2.11%
As % of the Vendors category 4.01% 14.10% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 51 8
10th Percentile £415 £313 £338
25th Percentile £458 £354 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £402 £488
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% -17.54% +21.88%
75th Percentile £538 £480 £575
90th Percentile £604 £500 £616
North West median daily rate £500 £445 £500
% change year-on-year +12.36% -11.00% -10.42%

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 374 376 239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 48.13% 57.49% 45.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 270 129
10th Percentile £282 £305 £309
25th Percentile £401 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £455 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -15.47% +7.60%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £586
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 4
10th Percentile £16.00 - £12.68
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £14.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -5.88% -24.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £22.03 £22.25
90th Percentile £86.00 £67.25 £29.90
North West median hourly rate £29.96 £22.63 £35.68
% change year-on-year +32.39% -36.58% +1.94%

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 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 2026. 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 -16 8 £489 +26.55% 1
Warrington -11 2 £525 +28.05% 1
Macclesfield +6 1 - -
Chester -9 1 £650 -7.14% 2
Crewe - 1 - -
Wilmslow - 1 £300 - 2
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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Mule
1 1 (6.67%) Mule ESB
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
1 3 (20.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Toad
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Administrator
3 2 (13.33%) DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Streams
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (6.67%) JPA
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) Spring MVC
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Security
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (13.33%) Replication
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) FPGA
4 1 (6.67%) Grid Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Linux
2 9 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (46.67%) AIX
3 7 (46.67%) Unix
4 4 (26.67%) HPUX
4 4 (26.67%) Oracle Linux
4 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
1 6 (40.00%) Storage Management
2 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (20.00%) RBAC
3 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Runbook
3 3 (20.00%) SDLC
3 3 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 3 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) CISSP
3 3 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (20.00%) RHCE
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) GRC
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) NFS
1 3 (20.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) PowerBroker
1 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Data Guard
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Nagios
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) HP
4 3 (20.00%) Veritas
5 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.67%) Mellanox
5 1 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) Solarflare
5 1 (6.67%) Varonis