Oracle Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Oracle
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 25 55
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 -8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 39 21 17
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 5.51% 5.50% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 11.85% 13.64% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 7
10th Percentile £325 £317 £508
25th Percentile £451 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -5.22% +35.29%
75th Percentile £738 £600 £629
90th Percentile £825 - £695
East of England median daily rate £494 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +3.95% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £53.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £23.50 £53.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -55.66% +0.95% -

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 329 154 334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 46.47% 40.31% 44.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 68 188
10th Percentile £331 £266 £277
25th Percentile £425 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £531 £519
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +2.41% -5.68%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £700
90th Percentile £763 £638 £775
East of England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 34 61
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.13 £26.00
25th Percentile £17.35 £62.19 £42.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.33% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £20.35 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £95.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £19.71 £21.46 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.18% -14.16% +13.64%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Hertfordshire

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Oracle

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Stevenage +6 21 £725 - 11
Watford -1 8 £350 -26.32% 5
St Albans - 3 £475 - 5
Hatfield -26 2 - - 1
Letchworth +3 1 £600 +41.18% 1
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £575 -
Oracle
East of England

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (2.56%) Primavera
3 1 (2.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) OCI
2 9 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Apigee
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.56%) Boomi
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.56%) SaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (5.13%) Power BI
1 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) DataStage
2 1 (2.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.56%) Local Government
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
1 11 (28.21%) Consultant
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle Consultant
2 6 (15.38%) Procurement Consultant
2 6 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Support
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Support Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle Financials Support
6 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
7 1 (2.56%) Integration Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Consultant
7 1 (2.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (53.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.13%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) ADO
3 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.56%) Blazor
3 1 (2.56%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.56%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.56%) PMI
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (17.95%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) ERP
5 5 (12.82%) Business Strategy
6 4 (10.26%) Budgeting
6 4 (10.26%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 4 (10.26%) E-Commerce
6 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (10.26%) Inventory Management
6 4 (10.26%) Order Management
6 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
6 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.26%) SDLC
6 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.26%) TOGAF
7 3 (7.69%) API Integration
7 3 (7.69%) ITIL
7 3 (7.69%) ITSM
7 3 (7.69%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.38%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.13%) C#
3 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) ACCA
4 1 (2.56%) CIMA
4 1 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) PMO
1 2 (5.13%) QA
1 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Salesforce
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.56%) BMC
3 1 (2.56%) Dell
3 1 (2.56%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.56%) Talend
3 1 (2.56%) Workday