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 2 May 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
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -18
Contract jobs citing Oracle 309 82 107
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.24% 4.29% 3.87%
As % of the Vendors category 16.04% 9.44% 9.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 66 74
10th Percentile £358 £323 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £497 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% +3.44% -10.78%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £617
90th Percentile £619 £663 £696
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 6
10th Percentile £19.41 - £22.75
25th Percentile £51.25 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.35 - -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +34.87% +16.92% -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 1,926 869 1,179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.13% 45.45% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 572 746
10th Percentile £263 £200 £213
25th Percentile £393 £349 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £645 £660 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 40 77
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.85 £10.92
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.36 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% +17.62% -21.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £31.76 £48.06
England median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -43.75%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +19 273 £467 -11.02% 53
East Midlands -26 30 £525 +23.53% 31
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 69 (22.33%) SAS
2 24 (7.77%) Confluence
3 13 (4.21%) WebLogic
4 10 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.24%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 5 (1.62%) Apache
7 4 (1.29%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.65%) Liferay
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.32%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.32%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.62%) Notepad++
4 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.21%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (3.88%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (3.24%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (2.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (2.59%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (1.94%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.32%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (25.89%) AWS
2 40 (12.94%) Azure
3 16 (5.18%) OCI
4 12 (3.88%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.27%) PaaS
7 5 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.62%) SaaS
7 5 (1.62%) Serverless
8 4 (1.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.29%) GitHub
8 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (0.97%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.94%) Firewall
2 5 (1.62%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.62%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.29%) VSAN
4 3 (0.97%) SSL
5 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.12%) Pentaho
2 51 (16.50%) Oracle Reports
3 46 (14.89%) Oracle Database
4 39 (12.62%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (6.47%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 17 (5.50%) MySQL
7 14 (4.53%) BusinessObjects
7 14 (4.53%) SQL Server
8 13 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (3.88%) Power BI
9 12 (3.88%) Relational Database
10 11 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
11 9 (2.91%) Metadata
11 9 (2.91%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 8 (2.59%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.62%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.62%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.29%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 56 (18.12%) JIRA
2 41 (13.27%) GitLab
3 39 (12.62%) Git
4 24 (7.77%) Zephyr
5 22 (7.12%) Postman
6 20 (6.47%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.91%) Selenium
8 5 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.62%) Oracle APEX
8 5 (1.62%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (1.29%) CA Gen
10 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.65%) JMeter
11 2 (0.65%) JUnit
12 1 (0.32%) Gatling
12 1 (0.32%) Hudson
12 1 (0.32%) LoadRunner
General
1 71 (22.98%) Social Skills
2 53 (17.15%) Finance
3 46 (14.89%) Public Sector
4 29 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.44%) Local Government
6 11 (3.56%) Legal
7 6 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.94%) General Ledger
8 5 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.97%) Advertising
9 3 (0.97%) Retail
10 2 (0.65%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.65%) Billing
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Law
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.32%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (27.18%) Data Engineer
2 31 (10.03%) Analyst
3 23 (7.44%) DBA
4 22 (7.12%) Architect
4 22 (7.12%) Senior
5 17 (5.50%) Lead
5 17 (5.50%) Oracle DBA
5 17 (5.50%) Release Manager
6 16 (5.18%) SAS Engineer
6 16 (5.18%) Storage Analyst
7 14 (4.53%) Accountant
7 14 (4.53%) Tester
8 13 (4.21%) Consultant
8 13 (4.21%) Systems Accountant
8 13 (4.21%) Test Analyst
9 12 (3.88%) Developer
10 11 (3.56%) QA Tester
10 11 (3.56%) Senior Accountant
10 11 (3.56%) Senior Systems Accountant
11 10 (3.24%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (5.50%) Flash
3 9 (2.91%) REST
4 7 (2.27%) Middleware
4 7 (2.27%) Spring
5 6 (1.94%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.62%) ADO
6 5 (1.62%) JSON
7 4 (1.29%) XML
8 3 (0.97%) Kafka
9 2 (0.65%) ActiveX
9 2 (0.65%) COM
9 2 (0.65%) ODBC
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle ADF
9 2 (0.65%) pytest
9 2 (0.65%) Web Services
10 1 (0.32%) JDBC
10 1 (0.32%) JSP
10 1 (0.32%) Servlets
10 1 (0.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (5.83%) Replication
3 12 (3.88%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.88%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.24%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.94%) SCADA
6 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.29%) Robotics
7 3 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.97%) IoT
7 3 (0.97%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.65%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.32%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.32%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.92%) Unix
2 37 (11.97%) Linux
3 10 (3.24%) Windows
4 5 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.32%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (35.60%) ETL
2 92 (29.77%) Agile
3 74 (23.95%) Migration
4 59 (19.09%) CI/CD
4 59 (19.09%) Test Automation
5 53 (17.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (15.53%) Data Integration
8 46 (14.89%) Scrum
9 42 (13.59%) Data Migration
9 42 (13.59%) Data Modelling
9 42 (13.59%) DevOps
10 40 (12.94%) Analytics
11 38 (12.30%) Data Pipeline
12 36 (11.65%) Validation
13 34 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (11.00%) ERP
14 33 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (10.03%) Test Scripting
16 30 (9.71%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 154 (49.84%) SQL
2 31 (10.03%) PL/SQL
3 22 (7.12%) Python
4 19 (6.15%) Java
5 16 (5.18%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.27%) Bash
7 5 (1.62%) Perl
8 4 (1.29%) Bicep
8 4 (1.29%) VB
9 3 (0.97%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.65%) VB6
11 1 (0.32%) C
11 1 (0.32%) C++
11 1 (0.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 171 (55.34%) Security Cleared
2 161 (52.10%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.18%) ISTQB
4 10 (3.24%) Degree
5 9 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.29%) ACCA
7 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.29%) CIMA
7 4 (1.29%) OCP
7 4 (1.29%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.97%) PMP
8 3 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.65%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.41%) QA
2 25 (8.09%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.91%) FATCA
4 7 (2.27%) SLA
5 4 (1.29%) GDPR
5 4 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.97%) PMO
7 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.32%) GAAP
8 1 (0.32%) IFRS
8 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.32%) ITGC
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (6.80%) Docker
2 17 (5.50%) GPFS
2 17 (5.50%) NFS
3 15 (4.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (3.88%) vSphere
5 5 (1.62%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.62%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.97%) HDFS
7 3 (0.97%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 33 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.88%) vRealize
3 9 (2.91%) Terraform
4 8 (2.59%) Grafana
5 6 (1.94%) Ansible
6 4 (1.29%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (1.29%) VxRail
7 2 (0.65%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.65%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.32%) Kibana
8 1 (0.32%) SELinux
8 1 (0.32%) systemd
Vendors
1 79 (25.57%) Talend
2 56 (18.12%) Informatica
3 32 (10.36%) Denodo
4 27 (8.74%) Microsoft
5 18 (5.83%) ServiceNow
6 17 (5.50%) IBM
6 17 (5.50%) SAP
7 15 (4.85%) VMware
8 12 (3.88%) Cisco
9 9 (2.91%) Sage
10 7 (2.27%) Cloudera
10 7 (2.27%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.62%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.29%) Databricks
13 3 (0.97%) Google
14 2 (0.65%) Actian
14 2 (0.65%) HP
14 2 (0.65%) JD Edwards
15 1 (0.32%) Citrix