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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 44 42
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 24 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 3.43% 2.35% 2.89%
As % of the Vendors category 7.57% 4.00% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 12
10th Percentile £355 £354 £413
25th Percentile £410 £389 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £439 £489
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -10.33% +39.71%
75th Percentile £502 £488 £524
90th Percentile £626 £495 £575
North West median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% -16.67%

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 317 250 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 45.35% 58.69% 53.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 165 187
10th Percentile £331 £314 £276
25th Percentile £396 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £653 £648 £620
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 15
10th Percentile £20.75 £19.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £21.75 £38.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £29.36 £60.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.06% +238.60% -5.84%
75th Percentile £38.62 £86.00 -
90th Percentile £79.03 - £23.11
North West median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -0.85% +102.37% -57.17%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -17 17 £448 +2.17% 1
Chester - 3 £650 - 1
Crewe - 3 - -
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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
1 2 (8.33%) JBoss
1 2 (8.33%) Mule
1 2 (8.33%) Mule ESB
2 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub
3 4 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
3 4 (16.67%) MySQL
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) Git
2 9 (37.50%) JIRA
3 4 (16.67%) GitLab
4 3 (12.50%) JUnit
5 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (4.17%) Gradle
6 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.17%) Maven
6 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 11 (45.83%) Banking
3 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 3 (12.50%) Law
7 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Specialist
3 3 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Security Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (45.83%) Spring
1 11 (45.83%) Spring Boot
2 7 (29.17%) REST
3 6 (25.00%) JMS
4 4 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 4 (16.67%) RESTful
5 3 (12.50%) Spring MVC
5 3 (12.50%) Spring Security
6 2 (8.33%) J2EE
6 2 (8.33%) JSON
6 2 (8.33%) Web Services
6 2 (8.33%) XML
7 1 (4.17%) Middleware
7 1 (4.17%) SOAP
7 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 6 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
5 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Unix
3 4 (16.67%) AIX
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.50%) HPUX
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Solaris
4 3 (12.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (58.33%) Agile
3 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
5 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
6 9 (37.50%) DevOps
6 9 (37.50%) SDLC
7 8 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (29.17%) Unit Testing
9 6 (25.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 6 (25.00%) Integration Testing
9 6 (25.00%) Microservices
9 6 (25.00%) TDD
10 5 (20.83%) AI
10 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (20.83%) Migration
10 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
11 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
11 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Java
2 11 (45.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) CISSP
3 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
4 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.50%) RHCE
5 1 (4.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) ISO 20022
1 6 (25.00%) PSD2
1 6 (25.00%) QA
1 6 (25.00%) SEPA
2 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) GRC
3 2 (8.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) NFS
2 1 (4.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) PowerBroker
2 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.17%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 3 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) Varonis
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Sybase
4 1 (4.17%) Veritas