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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 43 55
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 36 10 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 5.71% 2.23% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 9.47% 3.98% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 7 1
10th Percentile £313 £338 -
25th Percentile £357 £416 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £625
90th Percentile £500 £542 -
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -14.29% -2.33% +4.88%

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 380 251 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 60.22% 55.90% 57.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 141 143
10th Percentile £274 £313 £265
25th Percentile £357 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.90% -3.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £614 £588 £560
90th Percentile £716 £685 £587
North West median daily rate £456 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -8.80% -2.20% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.61 £16.96
25th Percentile £15.62 £16.00 £17.37
Median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -8.87% -22.75% +85.63%
75th Percentile £31.50 £26.89 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.85 £81.75 £38.08
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +56.56%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +5 31 £420 +17.98%
Chester - 3 £700 - 4
Warrington - 1 £410 - 1
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 11 (30.56%) JBoss
2 9 (25.00%) Apache
3 8 (22.22%) IIS
3 8 (22.22%) iPlanet
3 8 (22.22%) WebSphere
3 8 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (8.33%) Tomcat
5 2 (5.56%) Mule
5 2 (5.56%) Mule ESB
6 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
6 1 (2.78%) OpenStack
6 1 (2.78%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) OpenShift
3 9 (25.00%) Azure
4 5 (13.89%) IaaS
4 5 (13.89%) PaaS
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.56%) Serverless
7 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Kerberos
2 4 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (2.78%) SSL
3 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Relational Database
2 8 (22.22%) Oracle Database
3 5 (13.89%) MySQL
3 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.78%) Redis
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (72.22%) Git
2 14 (38.89%) JIRA
3 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 10 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (22.22%) Bitbucket Server
5 8 (22.22%) CA Release Automation
6 6 (16.67%) GitLab
7 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 2 (5.56%) JUnit
8 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.78%) Gradle
8 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 20 (55.56%) Finance
2 16 (44.44%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Lead
5 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
7 1 (2.78%) Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Lead Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Platform Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (50.00%) Spring
1 18 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (33.33%) REST
3 11 (30.56%) JMS
4 8 (22.22%) LDAP
4 8 (22.22%) Node.js
4 8 (22.22%) OAuth
4 8 (22.22%) OpenID
4 8 (22.22%) SAML
5 6 (16.67%) RESTful
6 5 (13.89%) AngularJS
7 4 (11.11%) Hibernate
8 3 (8.33%) Spring MVC
8 3 (8.33%) Spring Security
8 3 (8.33%) Web Services
9 2 (5.56%) J2EE
9 2 (5.56%) JSON
9 2 (5.56%) Kafka
9 2 (5.56%) Middleware
9 2 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Cloud Native
1 11 (30.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (50.00%) Linux
2 14 (38.89%) Windows
3 9 (25.00%) Unix
4 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 23 (63.89%) DevOps
3 21 (58.33%) Containerisation
4 19 (52.78%) Agile
5 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (36.11%) Test Automation
7 11 (30.56%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 11 (30.56%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (27.78%) Microservices
8 10 (27.78%) SDLC
9 9 (25.00%) Unit Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Integration Testing
10 8 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (19.44%) Identity Access Management
12 6 (16.67%) TDD
13 5 (13.89%) ETL
13 5 (13.89%) Observability
14 4 (11.11%) Code Quality
14 4 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
14 4 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (55.56%) Java
2 14 (38.89%) SQL
3 8 (22.22%) Groovy
3 8 (22.22%) Python
3 8 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 5 (13.89%) PHP
5 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.56%) Perl
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.56%) Ruby
7 1 (2.78%) Bash
7 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (30.56%) ISO 20022
1 11 (30.56%) PSD2
1 11 (30.56%) QA
1 11 (30.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 27 (75.00%) Docker
2 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 7 (19.44%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (63.89%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) CA Single Sign-On
2 8 (22.22%) CA Wily
2 8 (22.22%) Progress Chef
3 7 (19.44%) Tivoli
4 5 (13.89%) Grafana
5 4 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 16 (44.44%) AppDynamics
2 11 (30.56%) Splunk
3 9 (25.00%) IBM
4 8 (22.22%) Broadcom
4 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft