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 11 October 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
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 426 185 159
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.60% 6.71% 5.92%
As % of the Vendors category 20.16% 13.36% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 133 107
10th Percentile £350 £360 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -1.90% +3.70%
75th Percentile £553 £563 £675
90th Percentile £608 £673 £750
England median daily rate £525 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.72
25th Percentile £17.36 - £19.30
Median hourly rate £19.29 - £23.60
75th Percentile £53.75 - £23.80
90th Percentile - - £23.92
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +38.89% -57.50%

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 2,113 1,385 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 42.66% 50.20% 46.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,256 901 791
10th Percentile £306 £250 £220
25th Percentile £402 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -4.62% +4.84%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
England median daily rate £516 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.58% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 63 28
10th Percentile £13.30 £15.87 £14.03
25th Percentile £14.56 £18.51 £15.08
Median hourly rate £18.79 £25.15 £17.66
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +42.41% -10.58%
75th Percentile £25.75 £31.00 £36.91
90th Percentile £50.55 £50.00 £56.50
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -20.27%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +12 349 £459 -12.57% 124
East Midlands 0 67 £550 +23.94% 49
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 28 (6.57%) Confluence
2 25 (5.87%) SAS
3 18 (4.23%) WebLogic
4 13 (3.05%) Oracle Workflow
5 9 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.41%) Tuxedo
7 3 (0.70%) Apache
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 4 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (4.93%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (4.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 18 (4.23%) Oracle General Ledger
4 13 (3.05%) Oracle ERP
4 13 (3.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (1.17%) iTrent
6 5 (1.17%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.94%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
9 2 (0.47%) Maximo
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 101 (23.71%) AWS
2 60 (14.08%) OCI
3 39 (9.15%) Azure
4 16 (3.76%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.29%) PaaS
6 10 (2.35%) GitHub
7 9 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.11%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 7 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 7 (1.64%) SaaS
9 6 (1.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.17%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.94%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.94%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.94%) Serverless
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Firewall
2 1 (0.23%) HTTP
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) IPsec
2 1 (0.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.23%) Telnet
2 1 (0.23%) VPN
2 1 (0.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.74%) Oracle Reports
2 46 (10.80%) Pentaho
3 36 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (8.45%) Oracle Database
4 26 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.63%) MySQL
6 21 (4.93%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.76%) Power BI
9 12 (2.82%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.58%) Ingres
10 11 (2.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 10 (2.35%) BusinessObjects
12 9 (2.11%) Oracle Exadata
13 7 (1.64%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.64%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 7 (1.64%) SAS Visual Analytics
14 6 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 70 (16.43%) GitLab
2 61 (14.32%) JIRA
3 55 (12.91%) Git
4 28 (6.57%) Zephyr
5 24 (5.63%) Postman
6 19 (4.46%) Selenium
7 15 (3.52%) Oracle Forms
8 13 (3.05%) Maven
9 12 (2.82%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.82%) JUnit
10 11 (2.58%) Artifactory
10 11 (2.58%) Gatling
10 11 (2.58%) Jenkins
11 5 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.17%) Toad
12 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 1 (0.23%) Gradle
14 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 101 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.89%) Finance
3 75 (17.61%) Public Sector
4 37 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.87%) Local Government
6 10 (2.35%) Police
7 9 (2.11%) General Ledger
8 8 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.88%) Military
9 6 (1.41%) Billing
9 6 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.17%) Retail
11 4 (0.94%) Legal
12 3 (0.70%) Banking
13 2 (0.47%) Automotive
13 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.23%) Advertising
14 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (13.15%) Data Engineer
2 50 (11.74%) Lead
3 38 (8.92%) Developer
4 35 (8.22%) Analyst
5 28 (6.57%) Administrator
6 27 (6.34%) Architect
7 26 (6.10%) Consultant
7 26 (6.10%) Oracle Consultant
8 22 (5.16%) Senior
9 20 (4.69%) DBA
10 19 (4.46%) Test Analyst
11 18 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
12 17 (3.99%) Project Manager
12 17 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
13 16 (3.76%) Oracle Project Manager
14 15 (3.52%) Finance Manager
15 14 (3.29%) Java Engineer
15 14 (3.29%) Trainer
16 13 (3.05%) Oracle Architect
16 13 (3.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (31.92%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
2 20 (4.69%) REST
3 17 (3.99%) JSON
4 16 (3.76%) .NET
4 16 (3.76%) React
5 12 (2.82%) Playwright
5 12 (2.82%) SOAP
6 11 (2.58%) Middleware
7 8 (1.88%) Spring
8 7 (1.64%) Web Services
8 7 (1.64%) XML
9 6 (1.41%) Terraform
10 5 (1.17%) ADO
10 5 (1.17%) COM
10 5 (1.17%) Flash
10 5 (1.17%) ODBC
11 4 (0.94%) OAuth
11 4 (0.94%) Spring.NET
12 3 (0.70%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
2 14 (3.29%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (1.88%) Replication
4 6 (1.41%) Data Structures
4 6 (1.41%) Driving Licence
4 6 (1.41%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.41%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.17%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.17%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
5 5 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.94%) Learning Management System
6 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
6 4 (0.94%) Private Cloud
6 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
6 4 (0.94%) Reference Data
6 4 (0.94%) SCADA
7 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.51%) Linux
2 24 (5.63%) Unix
3 14 (3.29%) Windows
4 5 (1.17%) SUSE
5 2 (0.47%) AIX
5 2 (0.47%) HPUX
6 1 (0.23%) Solaris
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (31.46%) Agile
2 106 (24.88%) Migration
3 94 (22.07%) ETL
4 80 (18.78%) ERP
5 77 (18.08%) Test Automation
6 76 (17.84%) Data Migration
7 67 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (11.50%) Data Modelling
11 48 (11.27%) Validation
12 45 (10.56%) Mentoring
13 44 (10.33%) CI/CD
13 44 (10.33%) System Testing
14 42 (9.86%) Data Integration
14 42 (9.86%) Test Scripting
15 39 (9.15%) Integration Testing
15 39 (9.15%) Scrum
16 38 (8.92%) User Acceptance Testing
17 37 (8.69%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 158 (37.09%) SQL
2 46 (10.80%) Java
3 35 (8.22%) PL/SQL
4 25 (5.87%) JavaScript
5 22 (5.16%) Python
6 13 (3.05%) C
7 11 (2.58%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.88%) ProC
9 6 (1.41%) VB
9 6 (1.41%) VB6
10 3 (0.70%) Bash
10 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.47%) Bicep
11 2 (0.47%) R
12 1 (0.23%) C#
12 1 (0.23%) COBOL
12 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 173 (40.61%) Security Cleared
2 156 (36.62%) SC Cleared
3 30 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 26 (6.10%) ISTQB
5 12 (2.82%) ACCA
5 12 (2.82%) CIMA
6 11 (2.58%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 9 (2.11%) Degree
7 9 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.11%) OCP
8 6 (1.41%) CCAB
9 5 (1.17%) ISEB
10 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.70%) PMP
11 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (10.56%) QA
2 26 (6.10%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.82%) GDPR
3 12 (2.82%) WCAG
4 11 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.41%) FATCA
6 4 (0.94%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.47%) IFRS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.23%) GMP
9 1 (0.23%) GRC
9 1 (0.23%) GxP
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (3.52%) Docker
2 5 (1.17%) GPFS
2 5 (1.17%) NFS
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.70%) vSphere
4 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.64%) Grafana
3 3 (0.70%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (0.70%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.70%) vRealize
4 2 (0.47%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 70 (16.43%) Talend
2 42 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.69%) Informatica
4 31 (7.28%) SAP
5 21 (4.93%) Denodo
6 13 (3.05%) IBM
7 8 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.41%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.17%) Actian
9 5 (1.17%) Kronos
9 5 (1.17%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.17%) Sage
9 5 (1.17%) Siemens
9 5 (1.17%) Workday
10 4 (0.94%) Adobe
10 4 (0.94%) webMethods
11 3 (0.70%) Cisco
11 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.70%) VMware