Oracle Contract Job Trends in Kent

Oracle
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 15 May 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 22 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Oracle 13 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 5.51% 0.86% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 16.46% 1.61% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% - -
South East median daily rate £550 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -5.25% +5.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.01 - -
Median hourly rate £36.71 - -
75th Percentile £39.41 - -
90th Percentile £39.69 - -
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £63.75 £60.14
% change year-on-year -42.41% +5.99% -3.78%

All Vendors
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 79 62 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 33.47% 53.45% 37.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 49 61
10th Percentile £200 £204 £203
25th Percentile £387 £220 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £333 £333
Median % change year-on-year +33.83% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £438
90th Percentile £649 £603 £494
South East median daily rate £510 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.49% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 2
10th Percentile £16.50 £22.39 -
25th Percentile £34.01 £31.45 -
Median hourly rate £36.71 £47.38 £11.45
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% +313.80% -82.84%
75th Percentile £39.41 £64.17 -
90th Percentile £40.33 £73.73 -
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £24.66 £48.75
% change year-on-year +92.78% -49.42% +8.33%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in Kent

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Oracle

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Oracle

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Kent region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Rochester - 12 - -
Dartford - 1 £800 - 1
Oracle
South East

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 (7.69%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (69.23%) Oracle 11i
3 8 (61.54%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Developer
1 7 (53.85%) Report Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Data Migration Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Industrial Internet of Things
1 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 1 (7.69%) Operational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) ERP
2 7 (53.85%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (46.15%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (38.46%) ETL
5 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Data Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Runbook
6 3 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
8 1 (7.69%) Analytics
8 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
8 1 (7.69%) Data Architecture
8 1 (7.69%) Data Cleansing
8 1 (7.69%) High Availability
8 1 (7.69%) Observability
8 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
8 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) PL/SQL
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) MOM
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) AVEVA
1 1 (7.69%) Rockwell
1 1 (7.69%) SAP
1 1 (7.69%) Siemens