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 27 February 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
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 33 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 -23
Contract jobs citing Oracle 288 114 98
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.68% 5.60% 3.62%
As % of the Vendors category 15.95% 11.61% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 84 67
10th Percentile £360 £322 £295
25th Percentile £413 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £497 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +4.53% -12.04%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £603
90th Percentile £640 £721 £643
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -9.23% -56.67%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £26.50
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.03% +103.85% -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 1,806 982 1,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 48.16% 48.26% 46.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 645 797
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £381 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +8.89% -3.23%
75th Percentile £568 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £689 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 33 74
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.09 £10.91
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.00 £12.28
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.51 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +18.62% -11.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £34.75 £35.00 £28.75
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% +18.38% -21.21%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +12 252 £500 -4.76% 47
East Midlands -23 32 £525 +23.53% 16
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 74 (25.69%) SAS
2 13 (4.51%) Confluence
2 13 (4.51%) WebLogic
3 7 (2.43%) Apache
4 4 (1.39%) Tuxedo
5 2 (0.69%) Liferay
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.35%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Geronimo
6 1 (0.35%) Apache ServiceMix
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Documentum
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.35%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (5.90%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (4.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 12 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
4 10 (3.47%) Oracle Cash Management
5 9 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (3.13%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (2.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (2.08%) Primavera
7 4 (1.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.69%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.69%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 64 (22.22%) AWS
2 26 (9.03%) Azure
3 17 (5.90%) OCI
4 9 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (2.43%) OpenShift
6 6 (2.08%) SaaS
7 4 (1.39%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.69%) GCP
8 2 (0.69%) GitHub
8 2 (0.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.35%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.35%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.35%) IaaS
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.04%) VSAN
2 2 (0.69%) Wireless
3 1 (0.35%) BGP
3 1 (0.35%) DMVPN
3 1 (0.35%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.35%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) IPsec
3 1 (0.35%) OSPF
3 1 (0.35%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (18.75%) Pentaho
2 52 (18.06%) Oracle Database
3 36 (12.50%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 31 (10.76%) Oracle Reports
5 23 (7.99%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (5.90%) MySQL
7 11 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (3.47%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (3.13%) Metadata
9 9 (3.13%) Power BI
10 8 (2.78%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.39%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.39%) IDMS
11 4 (1.39%) Ingres
11 4 (1.39%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (1.04%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.04%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 54 (18.75%) Git
2 53 (18.40%) JIRA
3 36 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 29 (10.07%) GitLab
5 13 (4.51%) Zephyr
6 12 (4.17%) Selenium
7 11 (3.82%) Postman
8 10 (3.47%) JUnit
9 6 (2.08%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.39%) CA Gen
11 4 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.39%) Toad
12 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.04%) Gatling
12 3 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.69%) JMeter
13 2 (0.69%) Maven
13 2 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 90 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.53%) Finance
3 41 (14.24%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.51%) Local Government
5 11 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.47%) General Ledger
7 7 (2.43%) Legal
7 7 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Banking
10 4 (1.39%) Advertising
11 3 (1.04%) Back Office
11 3 (1.04%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 55 (19.10%) Data Engineer
2 31 (10.76%) Analyst
3 23 (7.99%) Consultant
4 21 (7.29%) Architect
5 20 (6.94%) Lead
5 20 (6.94%) Senior
6 17 (5.90%) DBA
6 17 (5.90%) Release Manager
6 17 (5.90%) Storage Analyst
7 13 (4.51%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (4.51%) Oracle DBA
7 13 (4.51%) SAS Engineer
8 12 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 12 (4.17%) Tester
9 10 (3.47%) Accountant
9 10 (3.47%) QA Tester
9 10 (3.47%) Test Analyst
10 9 (3.13%) Senior Accountant
11 8 (2.78%) Functional Consultant
11 8 (2.78%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (6.60%) Flash
3 12 (4.17%) REST
4 10 (3.47%) Spring
4 10 (3.47%) XML
5 9 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.43%) ADO
6 7 (2.43%) JSON
6 7 (2.43%) pytest
7 6 (2.08%) .NET
8 5 (1.74%) Middleware
8 5 (1.74%) Playwright
9 3 (1.04%) JDBC
9 3 (1.04%) React
9 3 (1.04%) Web Services
10 2 (0.69%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.69%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.69%) OpenID
10 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.69%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.60%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (6.60%) Replication
2 12 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.47%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.39%) Robotics
6 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.69%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.42%) Linux
2 28 (9.72%) Unix
3 13 (4.51%) Windows
4 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (34.03%) Agile
2 76 (26.39%) ETL
3 70 (24.31%) CI/CD
4 62 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (20.14%) Migration
5 58 (20.14%) Test Automation
6 56 (19.44%) Scrum
7 48 (16.67%) ERP
7 48 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (16.32%) Analytics
8 47 (16.32%) Data Integration
9 45 (15.63%) DevOps
10 44 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (14.93%) Data Modelling
12 39 (13.54%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (12.15%) Data Migration
14 34 (11.81%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (10.76%) Test Scripting
16 30 (10.42%) Enterprise Architecture
16 30 (10.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 117 (40.63%) SQL
2 28 (9.72%) Java
3 20 (6.94%) PL/SQL
4 19 (6.60%) Python
5 12 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.74%) Perl
7 4 (1.39%) Bash
7 4 (1.39%) VB
8 3 (1.04%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.69%) C#
9 2 (0.69%) PHP
9 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.69%) VB6
10 1 (0.35%) Bicep
10 1 (0.35%) COBOL
10 1 (0.35%) Scala
10 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 147 (51.04%) Security Cleared
2 139 (48.26%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.51%) ISTQB
4 9 (3.13%) Degree
5 7 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.39%) OCP
8 4 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.04%) ACCA
9 3 (1.04%) CIMA
9 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) ISEB
10 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.69%) PMP
10 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 24 (8.33%) QA
2 8 (2.78%) SLA
3 5 (1.74%) PMO
4 4 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.39%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.04%) FATCA
5 3 (1.04%) WCAG
6 2 (0.69%) ITGC
7 1 (0.35%) GAAP
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (11.81%) Docker
2 19 (6.60%) GPFS
2 19 (6.60%) NFS
3 16 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.56%) vSphere
4 4 (1.39%) HDFS
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 16 (5.56%) vRealize
3 7 (2.43%) Grafana
4 5 (1.74%) Ansible
5 4 (1.39%) Kibana
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.04%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.04%) Terraform
6 3 (1.04%) VxRail
7 2 (0.69%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.35%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 67 (23.26%) Talend
2 34 (11.81%) Denodo
3 33 (11.46%) Informatica
4 20 (6.94%) SAP
5 19 (6.60%) Cisco
5 19 (6.60%) IBM
5 19 (6.60%) Microsoft
5 19 (6.60%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.56%) VMware
7 7 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.08%) Sage
8 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.39%) Cloudera
10 4 (1.39%) Splunk
11 2 (0.69%) Actian
11 2 (0.69%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.69%) Ariba
11 2 (0.69%) HP
11 2 (0.69%) PagerDuty