OCI Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Oracle OCI, Oracle Cloud)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring OCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing OCI 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.58% - 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.89% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £668 - -
North West median daily rate £575 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £28.00
North West median hourly rate - - £28.00

All Cloud Computing Skills
Lancashire

OCI falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 45 56 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 17.79% 30.94% 30.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 32
10th Percentile £205 £392 £202
25th Percentile £285 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -10.33% +22.45%
75th Percentile £616 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £630 £736
North West median daily rate £472 £475 £476
% change year-on-year -0.63% -0.11% -4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 21
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.96 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -69.69%
75th Percentile £46.08 £30.63 -
90th Percentile £54.21 £37.01 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £34.80 £16.06
% change year-on-year +79.62% +116.66% -56.94%

OCI
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

OCI job vacancy trend in Lancashire

OCI
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OCI within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Blackpool - 4 £575 - 3
OCI
North West

OCI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (100.00%) WLAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
2 3 (75.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Aruba
1 4 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (75.00%) Arista
2 3 (75.00%) F5