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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 20 30 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 2.57% 5.04% 3.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.67% 9.90% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 15
10th Percentile £419 £335 £388
25th Percentile £449 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £370 £489
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -24.34% +30.40%
75th Percentile £539 £447 £541
90th Percentile £648 £488 £575
North West median daily rate £500 £447 £488
% change year-on-year +11.86% -8.31% -11.36%

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 353 303 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 45.37% 50.92% 45.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 221 153
10th Percentile £303 £313 £271
25th Percentile £413 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +3.54%
75th Percentile £599 £520 £594
90th Percentile £653 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 11
10th Percentile £16.75 - £11.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £12.50
Median hourly rate £32.23 £47.50 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -32.16% +174.80% -22.87%
75th Percentile £83.25 £50.00 £17.72
90th Percentile £86.60 £82.20 £17.78
North West median hourly rate £29.98 £28.75 £16.06
% change year-on-year +4.28% +79.02% -39.40%

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 July 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 July 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 -16 10 £494 +37.99%
Chester - 3 £650 - 1
Crewe - 3 - -
Warrington -8 2 £525 +28.05%
Wilmslow - 1 £300 -
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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) Mule
1 2 (10.00%) Mule ESB
2 1 (5.00%) JBoss
2 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Toad
3 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Law
6 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) DBA
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 2 (10.00%) Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared DBA
3 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Unix Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Jakarta EE
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Streams
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
1 2 (10.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) JMS
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (15.00%) Replication
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (5.00%) FPGA
5 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (40.00%) Unix
4 7 (35.00%) AIX
5 4 (20.00%) HPUX
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
5 4 (20.00%) Solaris
5 4 (20.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Storage Management
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (20.00%) Data Management
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
4 4 (20.00%) SDLC
4 4 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (15.00%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (15.00%) RBAC
5 3 (15.00%) Runbook
5 3 (15.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Korn
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CISSP
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (15.00%) RHCE
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) CISM
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
1 3 (15.00%) GRC
2 2 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (10.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
3 1 (5.00%) PSD2
3 1 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
1 3 (15.00%) NFS
1 3 (15.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.00%) PowerBroker
1 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
1 3 (15.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (15.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Data Guard
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 2 (10.00%) Nagios
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) HP
4 3 (15.00%) Veritas
5 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
5 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 2 (10.00%) Varonis
6 1 (5.00%) Mellanox
6 1 (5.00%) Solarflare
6 1 (5.00%) Sybase