Oracle Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Oracle
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 14 September 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
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 41 35
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 +7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 28 46 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.78% 3.85% 4.99%
As % of the Vendors category 5.75% 9.89% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 28 58
10th Percentile £358 £400 £360
25th Percentile £372 £411 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.90% -5.66% +0.95%
75th Percentile £608 £584 £648
90th Percentile £636 £691 £700
North West median daily rate £431 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -13.80% -9.09% +4.76%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 487 465 659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.31% 38.94% 38.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 278 464
10th Percentile £310 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £417 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £709 £675 £684
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 16 23
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.43 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -26.84% +72.12% -11.97%
75th Percentile £31.40 £45.94 £43.13
90th Percentile £55.49 £80.00 £53.38
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.58% +1.94% +60.70%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in Manchester

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Manchester

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Oracle

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) WebSphere
2 4 (14.29%) JBoss
3 3 (10.71%) Apache
4 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (7.14%) IIS
4 2 (7.14%) iPlanet
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (3.57%) Documentum
5 1 (3.57%) FileNet
5 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (10.71%) Kondor
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Financials
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle ASCP
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) GCP
2 4 (14.29%) Serverless
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (10.71%) IaaS
3 3 (10.71%) PaaS
3 3 (10.71%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) OCI
5 1 (3.57%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) SAN
2 2 (7.14%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (3.57%) IP Telephony
3 1 (3.57%) SSL
3 1 (3.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
3 2 (7.14%) Redis
4 1 (3.57%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (7.14%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
2 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.57%) Gradle
3 1 (3.57%) JUnit
3 1 (3.57%) Maven
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Back Office
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Consultant
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) DBA
4 2 (7.14%) Developer
4 2 (7.14%) MongoDB DBA
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL DBA
4 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (3.57%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Supply Chain Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Support
5 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 1 (3.57%) Technical Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
1 4 (14.29%) SOAP
2 3 (10.71%) Middleware
3 2 (7.14%) JSON
3 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) LDAP
3 2 (7.14%) OAuth
3 2 (7.14%) OpenID
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (7.14%) PySpark
3 2 (7.14%) pytest
3 2 (7.14%) SAML
3 2 (7.14%) XML
4 1 (3.57%) Spring
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Derivative
1 3 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (10.71%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Credit Derivative
2 2 (7.14%) Market Risk
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
3 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Unix
2 8 (28.57%) Windows
3 5 (17.86%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 4 (14.29%) Microservices
2 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (10.71%) Accounts Payable
3 3 (10.71%) Cash Management
3 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
3 3 (10.71%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) ERP
3 3 (10.71%) High Availability
3 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
3 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Risk Management
3 3 (10.71%) Scrum
3 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) Groovy
4 2 (7.14%) Rust
4 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.57%) ACCA
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Basel III
1 3 (10.71%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) CA Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.14%) CA Wily
2 2 (7.14%) Control-M
3 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) IBM
3 3 (10.71%) Citrix
3 3 (10.71%) F5
3 3 (10.71%) HP
3 3 (10.71%) Sybase
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 2 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.14%) Broadcom
4 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
4 2 (7.14%) Informatica
4 2 (7.14%) Pega
4 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 2 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) Apple