Oracle Contracts 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 30 21 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.30% 3.79% 2.95%
As % of the Vendors category 10.20% 8.14% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 9
10th Percentile £335 £388 £313
25th Percentile £356 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £489 £375
Median % change year-on-year -24.34% +30.40% -23.08%
75th Percentile £447 £524 £400
90th Percentile £488 £575 £658
North West median daily rate £447 £489 £548
% change year-on-year -8.59% -10.68% +4.29%

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 294 258 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 51.94% 46.57% 49.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 164 146
10th Percentile £313 £272 £269
25th Percentile £358 £398 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +0.75% +6.50%
75th Percentile £520 £595 £575
90th Percentile £633 £638 £594
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £476
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.04% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 10
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £11.18
25th Percentile £14.37 £13.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.50 £22.21
Median % change year-on-year +185.67% -21.18% +77.92%
75th Percentile £85.81 £17.73 £22.53
90th Percentile £86.00 £25.77 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £16.06 £28.20
% change year-on-year +98.51% -43.05% +40.09%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in Cheshire

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Cheshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Cheshire

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in Cheshire

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 3 July 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 -1 26 £358 -22.72% 2
Macclesfield +6 1 £395 -
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 12 (40.00%) JBoss
2 10 (33.33%) Tomcat
3 6 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (13.33%) CICS
4 4 (13.33%) WebLogic
5 2 (6.67%) Apache
6 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 4 (13.33%) IaaS
3 4 (13.33%) PaaS
3 4 (13.33%) SaaS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (3.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Firewall
1 2 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) DB2
2 9 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (26.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (13.33%) Oracle Database
6 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.33%) MySQL
8 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (3.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Git
2 11 (36.67%) JIRA
3 10 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 8 (26.67%) Maven
5 6 (20.00%) Gradle
5 6 (20.00%) JUnit
5 6 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (16.67%) Bitbucket
7 4 (13.33%) Selenium
8 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
8 2 (6.67%) Eclipse
8 2 (6.67%) IntelliJ
8 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
8 2 (6.67%) SOAtest
9 1 (3.33%) Toad
General
1 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) General Ledger
5 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Lead
2 5 (16.67%) Scrum Master
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 2 (6.67%) Test Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Tester
5 1 (3.33%) Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Support
5 1 (3.33%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Database Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (40.00%) REST
2 11 (36.67%) SOAP
3 9 (30.00%) Spring
3 9 (30.00%) Spring Boot
4 7 (23.33%) Web Services
5 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 5 (16.67%) J2EE
5 5 (16.67%) Node.js
5 5 (16.67%) RAML
5 5 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (16.67%) WSDL
6 3 (10.00%) EJB
6 3 (10.00%) JSON
6 3 (10.00%) JSP
6 3 (10.00%) Servlets
7 2 (6.67%) Kafka
7 2 (6.67%) RESTful
7 2 (6.67%) Spring MVC
7 2 (6.67%) XML
8 1 (3.33%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Mainframe
2 4 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 4 (13.33%) VSAM
3 2 (6.67%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (6.67%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Unix
3 7 (23.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (23.33%) ETL
3 7 (23.33%) Microservices
3 7 (23.33%) Migration
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 6 (20.00%) Scrum
4 6 (20.00%) SDLC
4 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.67%) API Development
5 5 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 5 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Test Strategy
6 4 (13.33%) Budget Control
6 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Java
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (13.33%) Bash
4 4 (13.33%) COBOL
4 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) JCL
4 4 (13.33%) PHP
4 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.67%) REXX
6 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.00%) Ansible
2 6 (20.00%) Progress Chef
3 4 (13.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) AppDynamics
3 3 (10.00%) IBM
4 2 (6.67%) Ab Initio
4 2 (6.67%) Informatica
4 2 (6.67%) Parasoft
5 1 (3.33%) Cloudera
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Imperva
5 1 (3.33%) Splunk