Oracle Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Oracle
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 4 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
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 43 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 +25 -7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 70 41 42
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.44% 3.72% 2.46%
As % of the Vendors category 9.93% 7.72% 5.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 17 19
10th Percentile £126 £340 £300
25th Percentile £313 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £495 £600
90th Percentile £800 £628 £623
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £20.75 £17.62 -
25th Percentile £27.50 £23.52 £51.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.56 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% -36.07% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £43.39 £53.75
90th Percentile - £49.16 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.60 £59.57
% change year-on-year +58.90% -60.38% -4.69%

All Vendors
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 705 531 709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.73% 48.14% 41.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 224 401
10th Percentile £198 £227 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +4.71%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 99 105
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.29
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £19.91 £20.00 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -40.19% +28.62%
75th Percentile £42.50 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -20.58% -32.96% +62.73%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in the East of England

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the East of England

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Oracle

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the East of England

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
Hertfordshire -7 32 £675 +42.11% 32
Norfolk - 15 £127 - 11
Bedfordshire +3 12 £425 -53.30% 24
Cambridgeshire -11 7 £488 +8.33% 16
Suffolk 0 3 £400 +3.23% 7
Essex - 1 - - 28
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (2.86%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (2.86%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.43%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (1.43%) Primavera
3 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.00%) OCI
2 8 (11.43%) Azure
3 6 (8.57%) AWS
4 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.29%) SaaS
5 3 (4.29%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.86%) GCP
6 2 (2.86%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.86%) Serverless
7 1 (1.43%) Apigee
7 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.43%) Boomi
7 1 (1.43%) dbt
7 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) LAN
1 4 (5.71%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.43%) DHCP
2 1 (1.43%) DNS
2 1 (1.43%) NAS
2 1 (1.43%) RTP
2 1 (1.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.29%) Oracle Reports
2 14 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
5 2 (2.86%) DataStage
5 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.43%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (1.43%) Cognos Report Studio
6 1 (1.43%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.43%) DB2
6 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.43%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Git
1 2 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Hudson
General
1 29 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 17 (24.29%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Retail
5 4 (5.71%) Aviation
6 3 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Local Government
8 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (31.43%) Analyst
2 17 (24.29%) Technical Analyst
3 16 (22.86%) Support Analyst
3 16 (22.86%) Technical Support
3 16 (22.86%) Technical Support Analyst
4 14 (20.00%) Consultant
5 12 (17.14%) Oracle Consultant
6 10 (14.29%) Architect
7 7 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (8.57%) Procurement Consultant
9 4 (5.71%) Developer
9 4 (5.71%) IT Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) IT Support
9 4 (5.71%) IT Support Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) Lead
9 4 (5.71%) Senior
9 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Consultant
10 3 (4.29%) Junior Software Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (31.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (5.71%) XML
3 3 (4.29%) JSON
4 2 (2.86%) REST
5 1 (1.43%) .NET
5 1 (1.43%) ADO
5 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.43%) Blazor
5 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.43%) LDAP
5 1 (1.43%) Middleware
5 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.43%) React
5 1 (1.43%) SOAP
5 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) NHS
2 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.43%) FMCG
5 1 (1.43%) PMI
5 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (28.57%) Windows
2 10 (14.29%) AIX
2 10 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 10 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 10 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 10 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 5 (7.14%) Linux
5 3 (4.29%) CentOS
5 3 (4.29%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (21.43%) ERP
3 12 (17.14%) Agile
4 11 (15.71%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (10.00%) TOGAF
7 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.57%) ITIL
7 6 (8.57%) Migration
8 5 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (7.14%) Waterfall
9 4 (5.71%) DevOps
9 4 (5.71%) Project Delivery
9 4 (5.71%) SDLC
9 4 (5.71%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.29%) SQL
2 5 (7.14%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.71%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.86%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.43%) Perl
6 1 (1.43%) Python
6 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Degree
2 4 (5.71%) HNC
2 4 (5.71%) HND
2 4 (5.71%) MCP
2 4 (5.71%) MCSE
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.29%) CFA
3 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) TOGAF Certification
4 2 (2.86%) ACCA
4 2 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.86%) CIMA
4 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
5 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) PMO
2 3 (4.29%) QA
3 2 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Control-M
1 1 (1.43%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.00%) Citrix
3 11 (15.71%) SAP
4 9 (12.86%) IBM
5 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.71%) Workday
6 3 (4.29%) Ariba
7 2 (2.86%) Dell
7 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.43%) BMC
8 1 (1.43%) Cisco
8 1 (1.43%) Cognos
8 1 (1.43%) Dialogic
8 1 (1.43%) HP
8 1 (1.43%) IFS
8 1 (1.43%) Informatica
8 1 (1.43%) Retek
8 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.43%) Sybase
8 1 (1.43%) Talend