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 21 October 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 69 60
Rank change year-on-year +40 -9 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 77 26 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.51% 1.86% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 11.36% 4.26% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 29
10th Percentile £171 £306 £313
25th Percentile £334 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £628 £534 £650
90th Percentile £808 £605 £750
England median daily rate £515 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -5.50% -3.11% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile £23.75 - -
25th Percentile £31.25 £13.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.13 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.49% -11.72% -54.29%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.03 £16.50
90th Percentile - £24.91 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £60.32
% change year-on-year +50.00% -58.55% +35.00%

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 678 611 761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 48.53% 43.80% 40.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 262 433
10th Percentile £200 £240 £190
25th Percentile £400 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £610
90th Percentile £675 £650 £735
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 139 97
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.92 £15.62 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.28 £16.23 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% -63.53% +106.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.20
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.81% +76.80%

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025.

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 21 October 2025. 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 +6 25 £650 +36.84% 25
Cambridgeshire +13 16 £506 - 6
Norfolk 0 15 £171 -67.43% 1
Bedfordshire +6 13 £483 - 8
Essex - 5 £450 - 8
Suffolk -1 3 £400 +3.23%
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 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (1.30%) Primavera
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) OCI
2 10 (12.99%) AWS
2 10 (12.99%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (9.09%) Serverless
4 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
4 5 (6.49%) dbt
4 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.49%) Snowflake
4 5 (6.49%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) LAN
1 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.30%) DHCP
2 1 (1.30%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) NAS
2 1 (1.30%) RTP
2 1 (1.30%) SAN
2 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (23.38%) Oracle Database
2 12 (15.58%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 9 (11.69%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.49%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.90%) Power BI
7 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.60%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.60%) MySQL
8 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.30%) Cognos Framework Manager
9 1 (1.30%) Cognos Report Studio
9 1 (1.30%) DataStage
9 1 (1.30%) DB2
9 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
9 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Git
1 2 (2.60%) Hudson
2 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Retail
5 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.60%) Aviation
6 2 (2.60%) Legal
6 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Analyst
2 15 (19.48%) Architect
3 14 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
3 14 (18.18%) Technical Support
4 13 (16.88%) Support Analyst
4 13 (16.88%) Technical Support Analyst
5 12 (15.58%) Consultant
6 11 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
7 8 (10.39%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) IT Analyst
9 5 (6.49%) IT Support
9 5 (6.49%) IT Support Analyst
9 5 (6.49%) Junior
9 5 (6.49%) Junior Software Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Junior Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Procurement Consultant
9 5 (6.49%) Software Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.97%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (9.09%) XML
3 5 (6.49%) JSON
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Amplify
4 2 (2.60%) J2EE
4 2 (2.60%) Kafka
4 2 (2.60%) Web Services
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) ADO
5 1 (1.30%) LDAP
5 1 (1.30%) Middleware
5 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.30%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) NHS
2 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.60%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) FMCG
4 1 (1.30%) LIMS
4 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.08%) Windows
2 9 (11.69%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.39%) AIX
3 8 (10.39%) Windows 10
3 8 (10.39%) Windows 7
3 8 (10.39%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (10.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (5.19%) CentOS
4 4 (5.19%) Linux
5 3 (3.90%) Oracle Linux
6 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (19.48%) ERP
3 12 (15.58%) Agile
4 9 (11.69%) Migration
4 9 (11.69%) Proactive Monitoring
5 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (10.39%) ETL
6 7 (9.09%) Data Migration
6 7 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 7 (9.09%) High Availability
6 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (7.79%) API Management
7 6 (7.79%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (7.79%) Software Engineering
7 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (7.79%) Waterfall
8 5 (6.49%) Data Engineering
8 5 (6.49%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (6.49%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.49%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.18%) SQL
2 6 (7.79%) Java
3 5 (6.49%) Python
4 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) Perl
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (6.49%) HNC
2 5 (6.49%) HND
2 5 (6.49%) MCP
2 5 (6.49%) MCSE
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.90%) ACCA
3 3 (3.90%) CIMA
3 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) CIPFA
5 1 (1.30%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PMP
5 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.19%) PMO
1 4 (5.19%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) GxP
2 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
1 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.30%) Puppet
1 1 (1.30%) Salt
1 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (24.68%) Microsoft
2 13 (16.88%) Citrix
3 11 (14.29%) SAP
4 5 (6.49%) IBM
4 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 5 (6.49%) StreamSets
4 5 (6.49%) Workday
5 2 (2.60%) IFS
5 2 (2.60%) LabWare
5 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.60%) Sybase
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Cognos
6 1 (1.30%) Dell
6 1 (1.30%) Dialogic
6 1 (1.30%) HP
6 1 (1.30%) Informatica
6 1 (1.30%) Retek
6 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Vertica