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 25 February 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
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 38 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 +22 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 23 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 3.48% 2.80% 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 6.28% 4.80% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 1
10th Percentile £332 £347 -
25th Percentile £361 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% - +42.86%
75th Percentile £481 £538 -
90th Percentile £500 £551 -
North West median daily rate £460 £525 £524
% change year-on-year -12.38% +0.24% -0.24%

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 366 250 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 55.37% 58.41% 56.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 147 184
10th Percentile £313 £303 £220
25th Percentile £364 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £612 £575 £561
90th Percentile £716 £679 £614
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.56 £22.52 £16.88
Median hourly rate £22.01 £47.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% +168.06% +10.27%
75th Percentile £33.63 £86.00 £25.90
90th Percentile £86.00 - £36.50
North West median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -8.92% +83.41% -40.93%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -8 22 £430 +20.79% 1
Chester - 1 £725 - 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 6 (26.09%) JBoss
2 5 (21.74%) Apache
3 4 (17.39%) IIS
3 4 (17.39%) iPlanet
3 4 (17.39%) WebSphere
3 4 (17.39%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (4.35%) Mule
4 1 (4.35%) Mule ESB
4 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) OpenShift
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 2 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Kerberos
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 4 (17.39%) MySQL
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (82.61%) Git
2 12 (52.17%) JIRA
3 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
3 7 (30.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (26.09%) GitLab
5 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (17.39%) CA Release Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (8.70%) JUnit
7 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.35%) Gradle
7 1 (4.35%) Maven
7 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
General
1 14 (60.87%) Finance
2 11 (47.83%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Java Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Product Owner
6 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (56.52%) Spring
1 13 (56.52%) Spring Boot
2 9 (39.13%) REST
3 8 (34.78%) JMS
4 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
4 4 (17.39%) LDAP
4 4 (17.39%) OAuth
4 4 (17.39%) OpenID
4 4 (17.39%) RESTful
4 4 (17.39%) SAML
5 3 (13.04%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) Spring MVC
5 3 (13.04%) Spring Security
6 1 (4.35%) J2EE
6 1 (4.35%) JSON
6 1 (4.35%) Kafka
6 1 (4.35%) Middleware
6 1 (4.35%) SOAP
6 1 (4.35%) Web Services
6 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) Unix
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) CI/CD
2 16 (69.57%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) Agile
4 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
4 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (47.83%) Test Automation
5 9 (39.13%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (34.78%) Anti-Money Laundering
6 8 (34.78%) SDLC
7 7 (30.43%) Microservices
8 6 (26.09%) Integration Testing
8 6 (26.09%) Unit Testing
9 5 (21.74%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (21.74%) TDD
10 4 (17.39%) AI
10 4 (17.39%) API Design
10 4 (17.39%) Code Quality
10 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (17.39%) MVC
10 4 (17.39%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Java
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) Shell Script
4 4 (17.39%) Groovy
4 4 (17.39%) Python
5 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
6 2 (8.70%) Perl
6 2 (8.70%) Ruby
7 1 (4.35%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) PHP
7 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CISM
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) ISO 20022
1 8 (34.78%) PSD2
1 8 (34.78%) QA
1 8 (34.78%) SEPA
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (65.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (21.74%) Progress Chef
3 4 (17.39%) CA Single Sign-On
3 4 (17.39%) CA Wily
3 4 (17.39%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
1 5 (21.74%) IBM
2 4 (17.39%) Broadcom
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.35%) Varonis