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 17 June 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
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 36 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Oracle 394 110 123
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.94% 5.04% 4.14%
As % of the Vendors category 19.83% 10.69% 9.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 85 82
10th Percentile £350 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £375 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £439
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% +2.56% -18.75%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £600 £638 £684
England median daily rate £519 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.24% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 8
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile £51.25 - £23.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.95 - -
England median hourly rate £41.71 £34.91 £26.00
% change year-on-year +19.50% +34.25% -57.55%

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 1,987 1,029 1,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.08% 47.16% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 649 821
10th Percentile £293 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £319 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £664 £688
England median daily rate £505 £513 £516
% change year-on-year -1.46% -0.70% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 55 81
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £10.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - +53.33% -27.55%
75th Percentile £39.54 £31.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £45.50
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.75 £24.00
% change year-on-year +27.07% +11.46% -39.70%

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 17 June 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
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 17 June 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 +24 344 £459 -5.85% 68
East Midlands -11 43 £525 +34.27% 35
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 (18.78%) SAS
2 37 (9.39%) Confluence
3 17 (4.31%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.54%) Tuxedo
5 10 (2.54%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.52%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (1.27%) Apache
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.51%) 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 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.27%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (5.08%) Oracle Payables
1 20 (5.08%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (4.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 16 (4.06%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (2.03%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (1.52%) NetSuite
5 6 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (1.52%) Oracle HRMS
6 5 (1.27%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
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 (29.70%) AWS
2 47 (11.93%) Azure
3 23 (5.84%) OCI
4 15 (3.81%) PaaS
5 12 (3.05%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.28%) GitHub
6 9 (2.28%) SaaS
7 7 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.27%) Serverless
10 4 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.76%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (0.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.52%) Firewall
2 5 (1.27%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.27%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.02%) VSAN
4 3 (0.76%) SSL
5 1 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.48%) Pentaho
2 59 (14.97%) Oracle Reports
3 51 (12.94%) Oracle Database
4 46 (11.68%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.58%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 20 (5.08%) SQL Server
7 18 (4.57%) MySQL
7 18 (4.57%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.81%) Ingres
9 14 (3.55%) BusinessObjects
9 14 (3.55%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 12 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (3.05%) Power BI
11 10 (2.54%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (2.03%) Metadata
14 6 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.52%) MongoDB
15 5 (1.27%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 69 (17.51%) JIRA
2 64 (16.24%) GitLab
3 43 (10.91%) Git
4 32 (8.12%) Zephyr
5 26 (6.60%) Postman
6 22 (5.58%) Jenkins
7 11 (2.79%) Artifactory
8 10 (2.54%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (2.03%) Selenium
9 8 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.02%) CA Gen
10 4 (1.02%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.76%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.51%) JMeter
12 2 (0.51%) JUnit
13 1 (0.25%) Hudson
13 1 (0.25%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.25%) Oracle APEX
General
1 94 (23.86%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.57%) Finance
3 70 (17.77%) Public Sector
4 40 (10.15%) Local Government
5 29 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (2.79%) Legal
7 7 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.52%) Billing
9 5 (1.27%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Advertising
11 3 (0.76%) Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Retail
12 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.51%) Police
13 1 (0.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.25%) Law
13 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 94 (23.86%) Data Engineer
2 35 (8.88%) Lead
3 32 (8.12%) Analyst
3 32 (8.12%) Architect
4 27 (6.85%) Senior
5 21 (5.33%) Developer
5 21 (5.33%) Release Manager
6 20 (5.08%) Tester
7 19 (4.82%) DBA
8 18 (4.57%) QA Tester
9 17 (4.31%) Accountant
10 16 (4.06%) Consultant
10 16 (4.06%) Finance Manager
10 16 (4.06%) SAS Engineer
10 16 (4.06%) Systems Accountant
11 15 (3.81%) Oracle Developer
11 15 (3.81%) Project Manager
11 15 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.30%) Oracle DBA
12 13 (3.30%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (21.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (4.06%) Flash
3 9 (2.28%) ADO
4 8 (2.03%) Middleware
4 8 (2.03%) REST
5 7 (1.78%) COM
5 7 (1.78%) ODBC
6 5 (1.27%) JSON
6 5 (1.27%) Spring
6 5 (1.27%) Web Services
7 4 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.02%) XML
8 3 (0.76%) .NET
8 3 (0.76%) Kafka
9 2 (0.51%) ActiveX
9 2 (0.51%) pytest
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.25%) Itk
10 1 (0.25%) JDBC
10 1 (0.25%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.08%) Linux Command Line
2 17 (4.31%) Replication
3 15 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (3.05%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.54%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.52%) Low-Code
6 6 (1.52%) SCADA
7 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.02%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.02%) Robotics
9 3 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.76%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.76%) IoT
9 3 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.51%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.25%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.47%) Unix
2 44 (11.17%) Linux
3 9 (2.28%) Windows
4 4 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.76%) SUSE
5 3 (0.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.51%) HPUX
7 1 (0.25%) AIX
7 1 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (33.76%) ETL
2 126 (31.98%) Agile
3 107 (27.16%) Migration
4 78 (19.80%) Test Automation
5 67 (17.01%) ERP
6 64 (16.24%) Data Migration
7 63 (15.99%) CI/CD
7 63 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (15.23%) Data Integration
9 56 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (13.71%) Data Modelling
11 53 (13.45%) Validation
12 44 (11.17%) DevOps
13 43 (10.91%) Analytics
13 43 (10.91%) Scrum
14 42 (10.66%) Data Pipeline
15 37 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (8.88%) System Testing
17 34 (8.63%) Test Scripting
18 33 (8.38%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 196 (49.75%) SQL
2 49 (12.44%) PL/SQL
3 27 (6.85%) Python
4 19 (4.82%) Java
5 14 (3.55%) C
6 13 (3.30%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.54%) Bash
7 10 (2.54%) VB
8 8 (2.03%) ProC
8 8 (2.03%) VB6
9 4 (1.02%) Bicep
9 4 (1.02%) Perl
10 3 (0.76%) HiveQL
11 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.51%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.25%) C++
12 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 217 (55.08%) Security Cleared
2 202 (51.27%) SC Cleared
3 24 (6.09%) ISTQB
4 11 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (2.54%) ACCA
5 10 (2.54%) CIMA
6 9 (2.28%) Degree
7 6 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.02%) OCP
9 3 (0.76%) CCAB
9 3 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.51%) PMP
10 2 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.15%) QA
2 28 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.28%) FATCA
3 9 (2.28%) SLA
4 4 (1.02%) GDPR
4 4 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.76%) IFRS
5 3 (0.76%) PMO
5 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GAAP
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (4.06%) GPFS
1 16 (4.06%) NFS
2 14 (3.55%) Docker
3 12 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (2.79%) vSphere
5 4 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.76%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.76%) HDFS
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 25 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (2.79%) vRealize
3 7 (1.78%) Grafana
3 7 (1.78%) Terraform
4 4 (1.02%) Ansible
4 4 (1.02%) VxRail
5 3 (0.76%) Data Guard
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.51%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.25%) SELinux
7 1 (0.25%) systemd
Vendors
1 100 (25.38%) Talend
2 63 (15.99%) Informatica
3 42 (10.66%) Denodo
4 31 (7.87%) Microsoft
5 22 (5.58%) SAP
6 20 (5.08%) IBM
6 20 (5.08%) ServiceNow
7 14 (3.55%) VMware
8 11 (2.79%) Cisco
9 10 (2.54%) Cloudera
10 9 (2.28%) Sage
11 7 (1.78%) Actian
11 7 (1.78%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.52%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.02%) Databricks
13 4 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.76%) Google
14 3 (0.76%) MathWorks
14 3 (0.76%) Siemens
15 2 (0.51%) NetCracker