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 8 October 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
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 70
Rank change year-on-year -15 +40 -10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 86 66 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.58% 4.95% 1.69%
As % of the Vendors category 9.22% 10.14% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 34 10
10th Percentile £359 £171 £306
25th Percentile £500 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £494 £438
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% +12.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £534
90th Percentile - £818 £605
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £23.75 -
25th Percentile £13.25 £31.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £21.00 £37.50 £14.13
Median % change year-on-year -44.00% +165.49% -11.72%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £21.03
90th Percentile £59.70 - £24.91
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +38.89% -56.49%

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 933 651 645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 38.84% 48.80% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 333 272
10th Percentile £188 £213 £232
25th Percentile £350 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £605 £588 £575
90th Percentile £735 £687 £650
England median daily rate £519 £507 £525
% change year-on-year +2.37% -3.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 103 163
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.51 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.70 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £21.28 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +50.38% +31.12% -62.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.00 £67.00
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -20.16%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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
Bedfordshire +12 31 £570 +18.13% 5
Hertfordshire -13 25 £600 -4.00% 22
Cambridgeshire -2 10 £574 +13.38% 25
Essex -12 8 £500 +11.11% 12
Norfolk -11 7 - - 2
Suffolk -17 4 £365 -8.81% 5
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 7 (8.14%) WebLogic
1 7 (8.14%) WebSphere
2 5 (5.81%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.16%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 15 (17.44%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (8.14%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 5 (5.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (3.49%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.33%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.77%) OCI
2 8 (9.30%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) SaaS
3 5 (5.81%) AWS
4 4 (4.65%) GCP
5 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.16%) Figma
6 1 (1.16%) IaaS
6 1 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) VoIP
2 3 (3.49%) Asterisk PBX
2 3 (3.49%) RTCP
2 3 (3.49%) RTP
3 2 (2.33%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.81%) MaxDB
2 5 (5.81%) SAP HANA
2 5 (5.81%) Sybase ASE
3 3 (3.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.16%) Metadata
5 1 (1.16%) OLTP
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Git
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.16%) JIRA
General
1 36 (41.86%) Finance
2 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.47%) Retail
5 8 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Billing
6 3 (3.49%) General Ledger
6 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.33%) Back Office
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.33%) Marketing
7 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (30.23%) Consultant
2 19 (22.09%) Developer
3 18 (20.93%) Oracle Consultant
4 12 (13.95%) Oracle Developer
5 9 (10.47%) Functional Consultant
5 9 (10.47%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 8 (9.30%) Architect
7 7 (8.14%) ERP Consultant
7 7 (8.14%) JDE CNC Consultant
7 7 (8.14%) JDE Consultant
8 5 (5.81%) Head of Finance
8 5 (5.81%) Head of Technology
8 5 (5.81%) Oracle Architect
8 5 (5.81%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.81%) SAP Basis Support
8 5 (5.81%) SAP Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) SAP Support
8 5 (5.81%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Administrator
9 4 (4.65%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (8.14%) Middleware
3 5 (5.81%) SAP Basis
3 5 (5.81%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (5.81%) SAPUI5
4 4 (4.65%) REST
4 4 (4.65%) Servlets
5 3 (3.49%) .NET
5 3 (3.49%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (3.49%) Blazor
5 3 (3.49%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (3.49%) WebRTC
5 3 (3.49%) XML
6 2 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.16%) JSON
7 1 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
1 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.16%) mPOS
3 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.98%) Linux
2 4 (4.65%) Unix
2 4 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.40%) ERP
2 21 (24.42%) Migration
3 11 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (10.47%) Analytics
4 9 (10.47%) Project Management
5 8 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (8.14%) Data Migration
6 7 (8.14%) DevOps
6 7 (8.14%) High Availability
7 6 (6.98%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (5.81%) Agile
8 5 (5.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 5 (5.81%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (5.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (5.81%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (4.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.65%) Database Optimisation
9 4 (4.65%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (4.65%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.44%) SQL
2 4 (4.65%) Java
3 3 (3.49%) C#
3 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
3 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.33%) Apex Code
4 2 (2.33%) C
4 2 (2.33%) ProC
5 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.16%) Python
5 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.16%) ACCA
3 1 (1.16%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) GDPR
2 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Ansible
2 1 (1.16%) Grafana
2 1 (1.16%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) SAP
2 8 (9.30%) IBM
3 7 (8.14%) JD Edwards
4 5 (5.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.81%) Sybase
5 3 (3.49%) Metaswitch
6 2 (2.33%) Adobe
6 2 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.16%) Dell
7 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.16%) Google
7 1 (1.16%) JDA
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.16%) Snow
7 1 (1.16%) VMware