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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 37 37
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 -10
Contract jobs citing Oracle 402 113 120
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.85% 5.03% 4.04%
As % of the Vendors category 19.70% 10.94% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 85 81
10th Percentile £350 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £428
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £600 £624 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 8
10th Percentile £47.92 - £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 £41.71 £37.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +44.23% -54.22%

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 2,041 1,033 1,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.96% 45.97% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 652 840
10th Percentile £300 £200 £225
25th Percentile £400 £324 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.37% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £675
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 57 79
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £10.92
25th Percentile £16.53 £18.38 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.08 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% +60.69% -27.99%
75th Percentile £36.80 £31.76 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £46.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +23 345 £459 -3.37% 50
East Midlands -2 50 £525 +34.27% 32
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 70 (17.41%) SAS
2 37 (9.20%) Confluence
3 18 (4.48%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.49%) Tuxedo
5 10 (2.49%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.49%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (1.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.25%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.24%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (5.47%) Oracle Payables
1 22 (5.47%) Oracle Receivables
2 20 (4.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 18 (4.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (1.99%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (1.74%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.74%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (1.49%) Oracle HRMS
7 2 (0.50%) iTrent
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.25%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 117 (29.10%) AWS
2 54 (13.43%) Azure
3 24 (5.97%) OCI
4 17 (4.23%) PaaS
5 15 (3.73%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.49%) GitHub
8 9 (2.24%) SaaS
9 6 (1.49%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (1.49%) Serverless
10 5 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.75%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.74%) Firewall
2 5 (1.24%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.24%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.00%) VSAN
4 3 (0.75%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.17%) Oracle Reports
1 61 (15.17%) Pentaho
2 50 (12.44%) Oracle Database
3 47 (11.69%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (5.97%) SQL Server
5 19 (4.73%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 18 (4.48%) MySQL
6 18 (4.48%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.73%) Ingres
7 15 (3.73%) Power BI
8 14 (3.48%) BusinessObjects
8 14 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (3.48%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 12 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (2.49%) RDBMS
11 9 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.99%) Metadata
13 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
14 5 (1.24%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 68 (16.92%) JIRA
2 65 (16.17%) GitLab
3 43 (10.70%) Git
4 32 (7.96%) Zephyr
5 26 (6.47%) Postman
6 21 (5.22%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.99%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (2.74%) Artifactory
9 9 (2.24%) Selenium
10 8 (1.99%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.00%) CA Gen
11 4 (1.00%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.75%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.75%) JUnit
12 3 (0.75%) Oracle APEX
13 2 (0.50%) JMeter
14 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.25%) Hudson
14 1 (0.25%) NeoLoad
General
1 96 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 93 (23.13%) Finance
3 74 (18.41%) Public Sector
4 43 (10.70%) Local Government
5 33 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.74%) Legal
7 7 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.49%) Billing
9 5 (1.24%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Advertising
11 3 (0.75%) Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.75%) Police
11 3 (0.75%) Retail
12 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.25%) Law
13 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 94 (23.38%) Data Engineer
2 37 (9.20%) Lead
3 33 (8.21%) Architect
4 30 (7.46%) Analyst
5 28 (6.97%) Senior
6 25 (6.22%) Developer
7 20 (4.98%) Tester
8 18 (4.48%) Finance Manager
8 18 (4.48%) QA Tester
8 18 (4.48%) Release Manager
9 17 (4.23%) Accountant
9 17 (4.23%) DBA
9 17 (4.23%) Oracle Developer
9 17 (4.23%) Project Manager
10 16 (3.98%) Consultant
10 16 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.98%) Systems Accountant
11 15 (3.73%) SAS Engineer
12 14 (3.48%) Oracle Project Manager
13 13 (3.23%) Finance Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (22.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (2.99%) Flash
3 9 (2.24%) ADO
4 8 (1.99%) Middleware
5 7 (1.74%) COM
5 7 (1.74%) ODBC
5 7 (1.74%) REST
6 6 (1.49%) JSON
7 5 (1.24%) Spring
7 5 (1.24%) Web Services
8 4 (1.00%) .NET
8 4 (1.00%) Kafka
8 4 (1.00%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.00%) XML
9 2 (0.50%) ActiveX
9 2 (0.50%) pytest
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.25%) Itk
10 1 (0.25%) Java SE
10 1 (0.25%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (3.23%) Replication
4 12 (2.99%) Data Structures
4 12 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.74%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.74%) SCADA
7 6 (1.49%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.24%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.00%) IoT
9 4 (1.00%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Robotics
10 3 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.50%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.25%) Chip and PIN
12 1 (0.25%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 55 (13.68%) Unix
2 42 (10.45%) Linux
3 9 (2.24%) Windows
4 5 (1.24%) SUSE
5 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.50%) HPUX
8 1 (0.25%) AIX
8 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (33.33%) ETL
2 127 (31.59%) Agile
3 107 (26.62%) Migration
4 78 (19.40%) Test Automation
5 71 (17.66%) ERP
6 67 (16.67%) Data Migration
6 67 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 62 (15.42%) CI/CD
8 61 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (14.18%) Data Integration
9 57 (14.18%) Data Modelling
9 57 (14.18%) Validation
10 49 (12.19%) DevOps
11 45 (11.19%) Scrum
12 44 (10.95%) Analytics
13 42 (10.45%) Data Pipeline
14 39 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (8.71%) System Testing
16 34 (8.46%) Test Scripting
17 33 (8.21%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 199 (49.50%) SQL
2 50 (12.44%) PL/SQL
3 27 (6.72%) Python
4 20 (4.98%) Java
5 14 (3.48%) C
6 13 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.49%) Bash
7 10 (2.49%) VB
8 8 (1.99%) ProC
8 8 (1.99%) VB6
9 5 (1.24%) Bicep
9 5 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.00%) Perl
11 3 (0.75%) HiveQL
12 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) C++
13 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 220 (54.73%) Security Cleared
2 204 (50.75%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.97%) ISTQB
4 11 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.49%) ACCA
5 10 (2.49%) CIMA
5 10 (2.49%) Degree
6 6 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.00%) OCP
8 3 (0.75%) CCAB
8 3 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.50%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.50%) PMP
9 2 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.95%) QA
2 30 (7.46%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.24%) FATCA
3 9 (2.24%) SLA
4 7 (1.74%) GDPR
5 5 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) IFRS
6 3 (0.75%) PMO
6 3 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.50%) WCAG
8 1 (0.25%) GAAP
8 1 (0.25%) GRC
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 14 (3.48%) Docker
2 12 (2.99%) GPFS
2 12 (2.99%) NFS
3 10 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (2.24%) vSphere
5 4 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.75%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.75%) HDFS
6 3 (0.75%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (6.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.24%) vRealize
3 8 (1.99%) Terraform
4 7 (1.74%) Grafana
5 4 (1.00%) Ansible
5 4 (1.00%) VxRail
6 2 (0.50%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.50%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) SELinux
7 1 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 100 (24.88%) Talend
2 64 (15.92%) Informatica
3 41 (10.20%) Denodo
4 38 (9.45%) Microsoft
5 27 (6.72%) SAP
6 18 (4.48%) IBM
7 16 (3.98%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.99%) VMware
9 10 (2.49%) Cloudera
10 9 (2.24%) Cisco
10 9 (2.24%) Red Hat
10 9 (2.24%) Sage
11 7 (1.74%) Actian
12 6 (1.49%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.24%) Databricks
13 5 (1.24%) MathWorks
13 5 (1.24%) Siemens
14 3 (0.75%) Google
14 3 (0.75%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.75%) Workday