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 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
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -20
Contract jobs citing Oracle 231 127 107
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 6.53% 6.11% 3.91%
As % of the Vendors category 13.54% 12.89% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 89 70
10th Percentile £365 £356 £336
25th Percentile £450 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% -12.04%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £617
90th Percentile £638 £750 £651
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
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 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +60.38% -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 1,706 985 1,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 48.25% 47.36% 46.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 643 788
10th Percentile £224 £205 £213
25th Percentile £381 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £569 £594 £600
90th Percentile £638 £699 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 34 76
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.44 £10.92
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.00 £12.28
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.76 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +20.19% -11.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.76 £23.75
90th Percentile £33.13 £46.72 £28.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £26.72
% change year-on-year -22.18% +14.58% -17.78%

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 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 11 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 11 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 +3 200 £520 -5.45% 49
East Midlands -24 30 £525 +23.53% 19
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 60 (25.97%) SAS
2 13 (5.63%) WebLogic
3 9 (3.90%) Apache
4 4 (1.73%) Confluence
5 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.87%) Liferay
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Geronimo
6 1 (0.43%) Apache ServiceMix
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Documentum
6 1 (0.43%) IIS
6 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
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 18 (7.79%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (5.63%) Oracle General Ledger
2 13 (5.63%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (4.33%) Oracle Cash Management
4 8 (3.46%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (3.46%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (2.60%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (2.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (2.60%) Primavera
6 5 (2.16%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.87%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (21.21%) AWS
2 29 (12.55%) Azure
3 9 (3.90%) OCI
4 7 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.60%) OpenShift
5 6 (2.60%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.60%) SaaS
6 4 (1.73%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.73%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.87%) GCP
7 2 (0.87%) GitHub
7 2 (0.87%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.87%) PaaS
7 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.43%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.43%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.43%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) VSAN
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%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (22.51%) Oracle Database
2 37 (16.02%) Pentaho
2 37 (16.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 14 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (3.90%) Metadata
4 9 (3.90%) MongoDB
4 9 (3.90%) MySQL
5 8 (3.46%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.60%) Power BI
7 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.73%) Ingres
8 4 (1.73%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.30%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.30%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 3 (1.30%) SQLPlus
10 2 (0.87%) EDMS
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 38 (16.45%) Git
2 30 (12.99%) JIRA
3 27 (11.69%) Jenkins
4 18 (7.79%) GitLab
5 11 (4.76%) Selenium
6 9 (3.90%) JUnit
7 6 (2.60%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (1.73%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.73%) Toad
9 3 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.30%) Gatling
9 3 (1.30%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.87%) JMeter
10 2 (0.87%) Maven
10 2 (0.87%) Mockito
11 1 (0.43%) Deequ
11 1 (0.43%) Hudson
11 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.94%) Finance
3 31 (13.42%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.33%) General Ledger
6 9 (3.90%) Local Government
7 7 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.16%) Banking
9 4 (1.73%) Legal
10 3 (1.30%) Back Office
10 3 (1.30%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) Aeronautics
12 1 (0.43%) Billing
12 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Marketing
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
12 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 27 (11.69%) Analyst
3 19 (8.23%) Architect
3 19 (8.23%) Lead
3 19 (8.23%) Release Manager
4 18 (7.79%) Consultant
5 16 (6.93%) Senior
5 16 (6.93%) Storage Analyst
6 12 (5.19%) DBA
6 12 (5.19%) Oracle DBA
7 11 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (4.76%) SAS Engineer
8 9 (3.90%) Oracle Consultant
9 8 (3.46%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.03%) Accountant
10 7 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
10 7 (3.03%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.03%) Test Analyst
10 7 (3.03%) Test Specialist
11 6 (2.60%) Denodo Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (8.23%) Flash
3 11 (4.76%) REST
4 10 (4.33%) XML
5 8 (3.46%) Spring
6 7 (3.03%) ADO
6 7 (3.03%) JSON
6 7 (3.03%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.60%) .NET
7 6 (2.60%) pytest
8 5 (2.16%) Playwright
9 4 (1.73%) Middleware
10 3 (1.30%) JDBC
10 3 (1.30%) React
10 3 (1.30%) Web Services
11 2 (0.87%) Gherkin
11 2 (0.87%) JPA
11 2 (0.87%) OAuth
11 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.87%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.23%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (8.23%) Replication
2 11 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.87%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.43%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.43%) FMCG
8 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.99%) Linux
2 20 (8.66%) Unix
3 15 (6.49%) Windows
4 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (31.17%) Agile
2 60 (25.97%) CI/CD
3 48 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 45 (19.48%) Migration
5 43 (18.61%) ETL
6 41 (17.75%) Analytics
6 41 (17.75%) Scrum
7 39 (16.88%) Data Integration
7 39 (16.88%) ERP
8 38 (16.45%) DevOps
9 36 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (15.58%) Test Automation
10 33 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 29 (12.55%) Validation
12 28 (12.12%) Enterprise Architecture
13 26 (11.26%) Architectural Patterns
14 25 (10.82%) Integration Patterns
15 24 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 80 (34.63%) SQL
2 23 (9.96%) Java
3 12 (5.19%) PL/SQL
3 12 (5.19%) Python
4 10 (4.33%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.73%) VB
6 3 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.30%) Perl
7 2 (0.87%) C#
7 2 (0.87%) PHP
7 2 (0.87%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.87%) VB6
8 1 (0.43%) COBOL
8 1 (0.43%) Scala
8 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 92 (39.83%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (3.03%) Degree
4 5 (2.16%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.73%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.30%) ACCA
6 3 (1.30%) CIMA
7 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.87%) ISEB
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CCNP
8 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.19%) QA
3 7 (3.03%) SLA
4 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.73%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.73%) PMO
5 3 (1.30%) FATCA
5 3 (1.30%) WCAG
6 2 (0.87%) ITGC
System Software
1 29 (12.55%) Docker
2 19 (8.23%) GPFS
2 19 (8.23%) NFS
3 16 (6.93%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (6.93%) 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 39 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 16 (6.93%) vRealize
3 4 (1.73%) Grafana
3 4 (1.73%) Kibana
3 4 (1.73%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.30%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.87%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (0.87%) Terraform
5 2 (0.87%) VxRail
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 44 (19.05%) Talend
2 27 (11.69%) Denodo
3 21 (9.09%) Cisco
4 19 (8.23%) IBM
4 19 (8.23%) SAP
4 19 (8.23%) ServiceNow
5 17 (7.36%) Informatica
6 16 (6.93%) VMware
7 12 (5.19%) Microsoft
8 9 (3.90%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 6 (2.60%) Splunk
10 4 (1.73%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.87%) Actian
12 2 (0.87%) Ariba
12 2 (0.87%) HP
12 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.87%) Sage
12 2 (0.87%) webMethods