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 28 December 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 +20 -30
Contract jobs citing Oracle 230 151 105
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.21% 6.58% 4.07%
As % of the Vendors category 14.27% 14.18% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 104 67
10th Percentile £360 £386 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +13.68% -11.71%
75th Percentile £583 £675 £638
90th Percentile £688 £764 £718
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.30 - £73.50
25th Percentile £17.06 - £86.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -73.03% +37.25%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £93.75
90th Percentile £24.00 - -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £23.60 £60.14
% change year-on-year +58.90% -60.76% -3.78%

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 1,612 1,065 1,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.55% 46.41% 50.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 690 822
10th Percentile £248 £210 £213
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 34 42
10th Percentile £15.57 £13.44 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.67 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £18.23 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% -4.08% +8.20%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.68 £26.94
90th Percentile £33.21 £44.63 £68.38
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.20 £45.55
% change year-on-year -22.06% -33.69% +75.17%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 2025. 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 0 192 £525 -6.67% 117
East Midlands -14 35 £513 +20.59% 82
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 67 (29.13%) SAS
2 19 (8.26%) WebLogic
3 15 (6.52%) Apache
4 8 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (3.04%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.87%) Confluence
6 2 (0.87%) FileNet
6 2 (0.87%) Liferay
7 1 (0.43%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.43%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Documentum
7 1 (0.43%) IIS
7 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (7.39%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (5.22%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (5.22%) Oracle General Ledger
3 11 (4.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 10 (4.35%) Oracle Cash Management
5 8 (3.48%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (3.04%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (2.61%) Primavera
8 4 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.87%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
11 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.74%) AWS
2 38 (16.52%) Azure
3 14 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (4.78%) OCI
5 7 (3.04%) PaaS
5 7 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.17%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.74%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.30%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.30%) GitHub
8 3 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (1.30%) SaaS
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.87%) GCP
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) Wireless
2 1 (0.43%) BGP
2 1 (0.43%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.43%) IPsec
2 1 (0.43%) OSPF
2 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.43%) VSAN
2 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (18.70%) Oracle Database
2 41 (17.83%) Pentaho
3 38 (16.52%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 11 (4.78%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (4.78%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 8 (3.48%) MySQL
5 8 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.04%) Metadata
7 6 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.17%) Power BI
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.30%) SQLPlus
11 2 (0.87%) EDMS
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.87%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.87%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 44 (19.13%) Git
2 39 (16.96%) JIRA
3 37 (16.09%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.96%) GitLab
5 13 (5.65%) Selenium
6 8 (3.48%) JUnit
7 6 (2.61%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (1.74%) Toad
9 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.30%) Gatling
10 2 (0.87%) Maven
10 2 (0.87%) Mockito
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.43%) Deequ
11 1 (0.43%) JMeter
11 1 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 83 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.48%) Finance
3 31 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.78%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.35%) General Ledger
7 7 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.17%) Banking
8 5 (2.17%) Local Government
9 3 (1.30%) Back Office
9 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.30%) Retail
10 2 (0.87%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (10.87%) Data Engineer
2 23 (10.00%) Analyst
3 19 (8.26%) Release Manager
4 17 (7.39%) Consultant
5 15 (6.52%) Senior
6 14 (6.09%) Lead
7 11 (4.78%) DBA
7 11 (4.78%) Oracle DBA
8 10 (4.35%) Developer
8 10 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 10 (4.35%) Storage Analyst
9 9 (3.91%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 9 (3.91%) Test Analyst
10 8 (3.48%) Architect
10 8 (3.48%) Monitoring Engineer
10 8 (3.48%) Oracle Consultant
10 8 (3.48%) Oracle Project Manager
10 8 (3.48%) Oracle Specialist
10 8 (3.48%) SAS Engineer
11 7 (3.04%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (6.09%) Flash
3 11 (4.78%) .NET
4 9 (3.91%) REST
5 6 (2.61%) Spring
5 6 (2.61%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.61%) XML
6 5 (2.17%) Playwright
6 5 (2.17%) pytest
7 4 (1.74%) JSON
8 3 (1.30%) ADO
8 3 (1.30%) Middleware
8 3 (1.30%) React
9 2 (0.87%) JPA
9 2 (0.87%) OAuth
9 2 (0.87%) OpenID
9 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (0.87%) Spring Batch
9 2 (0.87%) WebCenter
9 2 (0.87%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.09%) Linux Command Line
1 14 (6.09%) Replication
2 13 (5.65%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) FMCG
7 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.43%) SCADA
7 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.61%) Linux
2 24 (10.43%) Windows
3 19 (8.26%) Unix
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (32.17%) Agile
2 72 (31.30%) CI/CD
3 69 (30.00%) Analytics
4 56 (24.35%) DevOps
5 53 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (22.17%) Business Intelligence
6 51 (22.17%) Data Integration
6 51 (22.17%) Migration
7 50 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 48 (20.87%) Scrum
9 45 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (18.70%) ETL
11 40 (17.39%) Data Modelling
12 39 (16.96%) ERP
13 38 (16.52%) Data Pipeline
14 35 (15.22%) Test Strategy
15 32 (13.91%) Deployment Automation
16 31 (13.48%) Data Virtualisation
17 28 (12.17%) Data Analytics
17 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 83 (36.09%) SQL
2 16 (6.96%) Java
3 13 (5.65%) PL/SQL
4 11 (4.78%) Python
5 7 (3.04%) C#
5 7 (3.04%) PHP
6 5 (2.17%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.74%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.43%) COBOL
9 1 (0.43%) Perl
9 1 (0.43%) Scala
9 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 95 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 87 (37.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.61%) Degree
4 3 (1.30%) ACCA
4 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.30%) CIMA
5 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.87%) ISEB
5 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
5 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.43%) CCNP
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.17%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.35%) QA
3 5 (2.17%) PMO
3 5 (2.17%) SLA
4 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.74%) ISO 20022
5 3 (1.30%) WCAG
6 2 (0.87%) ITGC
7 1 (0.43%) GDPR
7 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (20.43%) Docker
2 14 (6.09%) GPFS
2 14 (6.09%) NFS
3 13 (5.65%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.65%) vSphere
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (22.17%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.65%) vRealize
3 4 (1.74%) Grafana
3 4 (1.74%) Kibana
3 4 (1.74%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.30%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) Terraform
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.43%) VxRail
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) Talend
2 33 (14.35%) Denodo
3 27 (11.74%) Cisco
4 21 (9.13%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.83%) IBM
6 17 (7.39%) SAP
7 16 (6.96%) Dynatrace
7 16 (6.96%) Splunk
8 14 (6.09%) AppDynamics
8 14 (6.09%) ServiceNow
9 13 (5.65%) VMware
10 8 (3.48%) Informatica
11 5 (2.17%) Adobe
11 5 (2.17%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.87%) Ariba
12 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.87%) webMethods
12 2 (0.87%) Workday
13 1 (0.43%) Automation Anywhere
13 1 (0.43%) UiPath