Oracle Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Oracle
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 30 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 38 36
Rank change year-on-year +18 -2 -11
Contract jobs citing Oracle 350 99 122
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.98% 4.88% 4.38%
As % of the Vendors category 17.61% 10.37% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 79 84
10th Percentile £350 £318 £350
25th Percentile £413 £383 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +5.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £588
90th Percentile £600 £638 £676
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 8
10th Percentile £47.54 - £18.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.35 - -
England median hourly rate £41.36 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +36.04% +16.92% -58.40%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,987 955 1,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.29% 47.07% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 624 761
10th Percentile £268 £200 £213
25th Percentile £395 £320 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £661 £688
England median daily rate £505 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.48% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 42 81
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £10.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.15 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.87 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +32.49% +20.92% -24.63%
75th Percentile £40.03 £30.05 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £41.53 £45.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £22.90
% change year-on-year +21.50% +16.82% -42.10%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Oracle job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the Midlands

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Oracle

Oracle
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Oracle in the Midlands

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
West Midlands +21 299 £459 -10.00% 54
East Midlands -14 44 £525 +28.05% 20
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 71 (20.29%) SAS
2 34 (9.71%) Confluence
3 14 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 12 (3.43%) WebLogic
5 10 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.71%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (1.43%) Apache
8 4 (1.14%) Tuxedo
9 2 (0.57%) Liferay
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.29%) Apache Geronimo
10 1 (0.29%) Apache ServiceMix
10 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.43%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (5.14%) Oracle Payables
1 18 (5.14%) Oracle Receivables
2 15 (4.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 14 (4.00%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (2.57%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (2.57%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (1.71%) Oracle HRMS
6 5 (1.43%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.29%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 99 (28.29%) AWS
2 41 (11.71%) Azure
3 19 (5.43%) OCI
4 12 (3.43%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.86%) PaaS
5 10 (2.86%) SaaS
6 8 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.43%) Serverless
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.14%) GitHub
8 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.86%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.71%) Firewall
2 5 (1.43%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.43%) VSAN
2 5 (1.43%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.86%) SSL
4 1 (0.29%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (15.43%) Pentaho
2 53 (15.14%) Oracle Reports
3 45 (12.86%) Oracle Database
4 44 (12.57%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (5.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 15 (4.29%) MySQL
6 15 (4.29%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
8 12 (3.43%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (3.43%) Power BI
8 12 (3.43%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.57%) Metadata
9 9 (2.57%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 6 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.71%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.43%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.43%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.14%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 66 (18.86%) JIRA
2 59 (16.86%) GitLab
3 32 (9.14%) Git
4 29 (8.29%) Zephyr
5 23 (6.57%) Postman
6 19 (5.43%) Jenkins
7 11 (3.14%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.57%) Selenium
9 5 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.14%) CA Gen
11 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.86%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.57%) JMeter
12 2 (0.57%) JUnit
12 2 (0.57%) LoadRunner
13 1 (0.29%) Hudson
General
1 86 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.43%) Finance
3 50 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.86%) Local Government
5 28 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.14%) Legal
7 7 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.43%) Billing
9 5 (1.43%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.86%) Advertising
10 3 (0.86%) Retail
11 2 (0.57%) Banking
11 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Law
12 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 87 (24.86%) Data Engineer
2 34 (9.71%) Architect
3 31 (8.86%) Analyst
4 27 (7.71%) Lead
5 21 (6.00%) DBA
6 20 (5.71%) Senior
7 19 (5.43%) Developer
7 19 (5.43%) Tester
8 18 (5.14%) Release Manager
9 17 (4.86%) Accountant
10 16 (4.57%) QA Tester
10 16 (4.57%) SAS Engineer
10 16 (4.57%) Systems Accountant
11 15 (4.29%) Oracle DBA
11 15 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (4.00%) Consultant
12 14 (4.00%) Storage Analyst
13 13 (3.71%) Oracle Developer
13 13 (3.71%) Test Analyst
14 12 (3.43%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (17.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (4.86%) Flash
3 9 (2.57%) Middleware
4 8 (2.29%) REST
5 5 (1.43%) ADO
5 5 (1.43%) JSON
5 5 (1.43%) Spring
6 4 (1.14%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.14%) XML
7 3 (0.86%) .NET
7 3 (0.86%) Kafka
7 3 (0.86%) Web Services
8 2 (0.57%) ActiveX
8 2 (0.57%) COM
8 2 (0.57%) ODBC
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (0.57%) pytest
9 1 (0.29%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.29%) Itk
9 1 (0.29%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.00%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (5.14%) Replication
3 12 (3.43%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.43%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.71%) SCADA
6 4 (1.14%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.14%) Robotics
7 3 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.86%) IoT
7 3 (0.86%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.29%) Chip and PIN
9 1 (0.29%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.29%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 57 (16.29%) Unix
2 39 (11.14%) Linux
3 9 (2.57%) Windows
4 4 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.57%) HPUX
7 1 (0.29%) AIX
7 1 (0.29%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (34.86%) ETL
2 107 (30.57%) Agile
3 89 (25.43%) Migration
4 74 (21.14%) Test Automation
5 56 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 55 (15.71%) ERP
7 53 (15.14%) Data Modelling
8 52 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (14.86%) Data Migration
9 51 (14.57%) Data Integration
9 51 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (12.57%) Scrum
10 44 (12.57%) Validation
11 41 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (10.86%) DevOps
13 37 (10.57%) Analytics
14 35 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (9.71%) Test Scripting
16 32 (9.14%) System Testing
17 30 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 174 (49.71%) SQL
2 42 (12.00%) PL/SQL
3 26 (7.43%) Python
4 18 (5.14%) Java
5 13 (3.71%) Shell Script
6 9 (2.57%) Bash
7 4 (1.14%) Bicep
7 4 (1.14%) Perl
7 4 (1.14%) VB
8 3 (0.86%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.57%) VB6
10 1 (0.29%) C
10 1 (0.29%) C++
10 1 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 191 (54.57%) Security Cleared
2 180 (51.43%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.00%) ISTQB
4 12 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.86%) Degree
6 7 (2.00%) ACCA
6 7 (2.00%) CIMA
7 5 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.14%) OCP
9 3 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.86%) PMP
9 3 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.57%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.29%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.29%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.86%) QA
2 25 (7.14%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.57%) FATCA
4 8 (2.29%) SLA
5 4 (1.14%) GDPR
5 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) IFRS
6 3 (0.86%) PMO
6 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) GAAP
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ITGC
7 1 (0.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (4.86%) GPFS
1 17 (4.86%) NFS
2 14 (4.00%) Docker
3 13 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (3.43%) vSphere
5 6 (1.71%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.86%) HDFS
7 3 (0.86%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 25 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.43%) vRealize
3 7 (2.00%) Grafana
3 7 (2.00%) Terraform
4 5 (1.43%) Data Guard
4 5 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (1.43%) VxRail
5 4 (1.14%) Ansible
6 2 (0.57%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.29%) SELinux
7 1 (0.29%) systemd
Vendors
1 93 (26.57%) Talend
2 60 (17.14%) Informatica
3 39 (11.14%) Denodo
4 29 (8.29%) Microsoft
5 21 (6.00%) SAP
6 18 (5.14%) IBM
6 18 (5.14%) ServiceNow
7 15 (4.29%) VMware
8 12 (3.43%) Cisco
9 9 (2.57%) Cloudera
9 9 (2.57%) Sage
10 7 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.71%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.14%) Databricks
12 4 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.86%) Google
14 2 (0.57%) Actian
14 2 (0.57%) HP
14 2 (0.57%) JD Edwards
14 2 (0.57%) NetCracker