Oracle Contract Job Trends in Chester

Oracle
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing Oracle 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 2.54% - 2.17%
As % of the Vendors category 3.95% - 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £665 - -
25th Percentile £669 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £744 - -
90th Percentile £755 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £415 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -17.00% -16.67% +14.29%

All Vendors
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 76 50 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 64.41% 74.63% 65.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 3
10th Percentile £174 £430 £515
25th Percentile £413 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +50.00%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £559
90th Percentile £688 £671 £572
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 12
10th Percentile £17.05 £15.53 £17.15
25th Percentile £21.06 £16.00 £17.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -35.29% +111.57%
75th Percentile £49.56 £32.30 £35.56
90th Percentile £80.58 £86.00 £39.73
Cheshire median hourly rate £21.00 £23.05 £33.00
% change year-on-year -8.87% -30.17% +119.49%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Oracle job vacancy trend in Chester

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Oracle

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Oracle

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 (66.67%) Mule
1 2 (66.67%) Mule ESB
1 2 (66.67%) Tomcat
2 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) J2EE
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft