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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 46 38
Rank change year-on-year +17 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Oracle 53 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 8.03% 2.12% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 14.36% 4.74% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 8 6
10th Percentile £313 £338 £375
25th Percentile £354 £378 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +21.88% -20.00%
75th Percentile £480 £575 £569
90th Percentile £500 £616 £656
North West median daily rate £430 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -14.00% -9.09% +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 369 232 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 55.91% 44.70% 52.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 126 102
10th Percentile £305 £303 £226
25th Percentile £358 £425 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +5.50% +3.90%
75th Percentile £537 £585 £583
90th Percentile £696 £675 £593
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 19
10th Percentile - £12.68 £12.27
25th Percentile £12.82 £14.81 £17.20
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -24.55% +85.13%
75th Percentile £22.03 £22.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £29.90 £36.05
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +52.17%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +16 45 £386 +10.29% 1
Chester - 3 £700 - 6
Macclesfield - 1 £395 -
Warrington - 1 £410 - 2
Oracle
North West

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 22 (41.51%) JBoss
2 14 (26.42%) WebSphere
3 12 (22.64%) Tomcat
4 11 (20.75%) Apache
5 8 (15.09%) IIS
5 8 (15.09%) iPlanet
5 8 (15.09%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (9.43%) WebLogic
7 4 (7.55%) CICS
8 2 (3.77%) Mule
8 2 (3.77%) Mule ESB
9 1 (1.89%) Anypoint
9 1 (1.89%) Confluence
9 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) AWS
2 25 (47.17%) OpenShift
3 9 (16.98%) IaaS
3 9 (16.98%) PaaS
3 9 (16.98%) SaaS
4 6 (11.32%) Azure
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) Kerberos
2 4 (7.55%) Firewall
3 3 (5.66%) SSL
4 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) Relational Database
2 11 (20.75%) Oracle Database
3 9 (16.98%) DB2
3 9 (16.98%) SQL Server
4 6 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.77%) MySQL
6 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (60.38%) Git
2 19 (35.85%) Jenkins
3 18 (33.96%) JIRA
4 13 (24.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (15.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (15.09%) CA Release Automation
5 8 (15.09%) Maven
6 7 (13.21%) JUnit
7 6 (11.32%) Gradle
8 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket
9 4 (7.55%) Selenium
10 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
11 2 (3.77%) Eclipse
11 2 (3.77%) IntelliJ
11 2 (3.77%) REST Assured
11 2 (3.77%) SOAtest
General
1 21 (39.62%) Finance
2 15 (28.30%) Banking
3 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.66%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.89%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Java Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Lead
4 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Scrum Master
5 4 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Architect
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (5.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (3.77%) Automation Tester
7 2 (3.77%) Test Architect
7 2 (3.77%) Tester
8 1 (1.89%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Developer in Test
8 1 (1.89%) Java Scrum Master
8 1 (1.89%) Linux DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.89%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (35.85%) REST
2 18 (33.96%) Spring
2 18 (33.96%) Spring Boot
3 11 (20.75%) Node.js
3 11 (20.75%) SOAP
4 10 (18.87%) AngularJS
4 10 (18.87%) Web Services
5 8 (15.09%) LDAP
5 8 (15.09%) OAuth
5 8 (15.09%) OpenID
5 8 (15.09%) SAML
6 7 (13.21%) J2EE
6 7 (13.21%) JMS
7 5 (9.43%) RAML
7 5 (9.43%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (9.43%) WSDL
8 4 (7.55%) JSON
8 4 (7.55%) Kafka
8 4 (7.55%) RESTful
8 4 (7.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (13.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (9.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (7.55%) Mainframe
4 4 (7.55%) Private Cloud
4 4 (7.55%) VSAM
5 3 (5.66%) PKI
6 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (50.94%) Linux
2 20 (37.74%) Windows
3 16 (30.19%) Unix
4 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) CI/CD
1 25 (47.17%) DevOps
2 20 (37.74%) Agile
3 19 (35.85%) Containerisation
4 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.64%) ETL
5 12 (22.64%) SDLC
5 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
6 10 (18.87%) Microservices
7 9 (16.98%) Observability
8 8 (15.09%) Task Automation
9 7 (13.21%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 7 (13.21%) Design Patterns
9 7 (13.21%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (13.21%) Migration
9 7 (13.21%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
10 6 (11.32%) Unit Testing
11 5 (9.43%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (43.40%) Java
1 23 (43.40%) SQL
2 15 (28.30%) Python
3 13 (24.53%) Shell Script
4 9 (16.98%) PHP
5 8 (15.09%) Groovy
6 5 (9.43%) Bash
7 4 (7.55%) COBOL
7 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.55%) JCL
7 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.66%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.77%) REXX
10 1 (1.89%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (9.43%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) QA
2 7 (13.21%) ISO 20022
2 7 (13.21%) PSD2
2 7 (13.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (43.40%) Docker
2 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (13.21%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 23 (43.40%) Kubernetes
2 13 (24.53%) Progress Chef
3 9 (16.98%) Grafana
4 8 (15.09%) CA Single Sign-On
4 8 (15.09%) CA Wily
5 7 (13.21%) Ansible
5 7 (13.21%) Tivoli
6 4 (7.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) AppDynamics
2 13 (24.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.75%) IBM
3 11 (20.75%) Splunk
4 8 (15.09%) Broadcom
5 3 (5.66%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.77%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.77%) Informatica
6 2 (3.77%) Parasoft
7 1 (1.89%) MuleSoft