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 January 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
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 23 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 -21
Contract jobs citing Oracle 241 148 107
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.12% 6.87% 4.05%
As % of the Vendors category 14.24% 14.47% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 102 71
10th Percentile £364 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £437 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -12.04%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £603
90th Percentile £645 £765 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
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 - £45.75
England median hourly rate £41.86 £30.40 £45.88
% change year-on-year +37.68% -33.74% -26.59%

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 1,693 1,023 1,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.04% 47.47% 47.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 651 773
10th Percentile £220 £210 £213
25th Percentile £380 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 33 71
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.27 £11.06
25th Percentile £15.92 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.51 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +2.83% +2.51%
75th Percentile £25.00 £30.68 £25.13
90th Percentile £31.82 £46.00 £28.75
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% -0.55%

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 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 0 208 £525 -12.50% 54
East Midlands -27 32 £510 +20.00% 28
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 75 (31.12%) SAS
2 15 (6.22%) WebLogic
3 12 (4.98%) Apache
4 8 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (2.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (1.24%) Confluence
7 2 (0.83%) Liferay
7 2 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.41%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Geronimo
8 1 (0.41%) Apache ServiceMix
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.41%) Documentum
8 1 (0.41%) IIS
8 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.41%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 19 (7.88%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (5.81%) Oracle General Ledger
3 13 (5.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 11 (4.56%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (4.15%) Oracle Cash Management
6 8 (3.32%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (2.90%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (2.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (2.49%) Primavera
9 5 (2.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.83%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.83%) SAP FI
12 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
12 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.99%) AWS
2 33 (13.69%) Azure
3 9 (3.73%) OCI
4 7 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (2.49%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.49%) SaaS
6 5 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.07%) OpenShift
6 5 (2.07%) PaaS
7 4 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.66%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.83%) GCP
8 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.41%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.41%) GitHub
9 1 (0.41%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.41%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) VSAN
1 2 (0.83%) Wireless
2 1 (0.41%) BGP
2 1 (0.41%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.41%) Firewall
2 1 (0.41%) IPsec
2 1 (0.41%) OSPF
2 1 (0.41%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.67%) Oracle Database
1 45 (18.67%) Pentaho
2 42 (17.43%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 11 (4.56%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (4.56%) SAS Visual Analytics
4 7 (2.90%) Metadata
4 7 (2.90%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.49%) MySQL
5 6 (2.49%) Power BI
6 4 (1.66%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 3 (1.24%) Metadata Repository
7 3 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.24%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.24%) SQLPlus
8 2 (0.83%) EDMS
8 2 (0.83%) Ingres
8 2 (0.83%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 48 (19.92%) Git
2 41 (17.01%) JIRA
3 38 (15.77%) Jenkins
4 19 (7.88%) GitLab
5 12 (4.98%) Selenium
6 8 (3.32%) JUnit
7 6 (2.49%) Oracle APEX
8 4 (1.66%) Toad
9 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.24%) Gatling
9 3 (1.24%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.83%) Maven
10 2 (0.83%) Mockito
10 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.41%) Deequ
11 1 (0.41%) JMeter
General
1 75 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.24%) Finance
3 35 (14.52%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (4.56%) General Ledger
6 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.90%) Local Government
7 7 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.07%) Banking
9 3 (1.24%) Back Office
9 3 (1.24%) Retail
10 2 (0.83%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Advertising
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Publishing
11 1 (0.41%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 32 (13.28%) Data Engineer
2 27 (11.20%) Analyst
3 23 (9.54%) Release Manager
4 17 (7.05%) Consultant
4 17 (7.05%) Lead
5 16 (6.64%) Senior
6 15 (6.22%) Storage Analyst
7 13 (5.39%) Architect
8 12 (4.98%) DBA
8 12 (4.98%) Oracle DBA
8 12 (4.98%) SAS Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 9 (3.73%) Oracle Consultant
10 9 (3.73%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.32%) Test Analyst
12 7 (2.90%) Functional Consultant
12 7 (2.90%) Monitoring Engineer
12 7 (2.90%) Oracle Project Manager
13 6 (2.49%) Oracle Analyst
13 6 (2.49%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.77%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (7.88%) Flash
3 10 (4.15%) REST
4 7 (2.90%) Spring
5 6 (2.49%) .NET
5 6 (2.49%) Spring Boot
5 6 (2.49%) XML
6 5 (2.07%) ADO
6 5 (2.07%) Playwright
6 5 (2.07%) pytest
7 4 (1.66%) JSON
7 4 (1.66%) Middleware
8 3 (1.24%) JDBC
8 3 (1.24%) React
9 2 (0.83%) HTML
9 2 (0.83%) JPA
9 2 (0.83%) OAuth
9 2 (0.83%) SOAP
9 2 (0.83%) Web Services
9 2 (0.83%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.88%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (7.88%) Replication
2 11 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.07%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.24%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.83%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.83%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.41%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.41%) FMCG
8 1 (0.41%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.41%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.41%) SCADA
8 1 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.86%) Linux
2 19 (7.88%) Unix
3 18 (7.47%) Windows
4 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.37%) Agile
2 76 (31.54%) CI/CD
3 63 (26.14%) Analytics
4 56 (23.24%) Data Integration
5 54 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (22.41%) DevOps
6 53 (21.99%) Migration
7 50 (20.75%) Scrum
7 50 (20.75%) Test Automation
8 48 (19.92%) ETL
9 45 (18.67%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (18.26%) Data Modelling
11 41 (17.01%) ERP
12 39 (16.18%) Data Pipeline
13 33 (13.69%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (13.28%) Data Virtualisation
15 31 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (12.45%) Validation
17 29 (12.03%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 86 (35.68%) SQL
2 17 (7.05%) Java
3 10 (4.15%) PL/SQL
3 10 (4.15%) Python
4 6 (2.49%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.24%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.83%) C#
6 2 (0.83%) Perl
6 2 (0.83%) PHP
6 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.83%) VB
7 1 (0.41%) COBOL
7 1 (0.41%) Scala
7 1 (0.41%) VB6
7 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (44.40%) Security Cleared
2 98 (40.66%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.49%) Degree
4 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.24%) ACCA
5 3 (1.24%) CIMA
5 3 (1.24%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.83%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.83%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.83%) ISEB
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CCNP
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.03%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.15%) QA
3 6 (2.49%) SLA
4 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.66%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.66%) PMO
5 3 (1.24%) WCAG
6 2 (0.83%) ITGC
System Software
1 45 (18.67%) Docker
2 19 (7.88%) GPFS
2 19 (7.88%) NFS
3 17 (7.05%) VMware ESXi
3 17 (7.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (7.05%) vSphere
4 3 (1.24%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.24%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 54 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.05%) vRealize
3 4 (1.66%) Grafana
3 4 (1.66%) Kibana
3 4 (1.66%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (1.24%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.83%) Ansible
5 2 (0.83%) Terraform
5 2 (0.83%) VxRail
6 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 49 (20.33%) Talend
2 34 (14.11%) Denodo
3 24 (9.96%) Cisco
4 20 (8.30%) IBM
5 19 (7.88%) SAP
5 19 (7.88%) ServiceNow
6 18 (7.47%) Microsoft
7 17 (7.05%) VMware
8 14 (5.81%) Informatica
9 12 (4.98%) Dynatrace
10 9 (3.73%) Splunk
11 7 (2.90%) AppDynamics
12 6 (2.49%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.83%) Adobe
13 2 (0.83%) Ariba
13 2 (0.83%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.83%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.83%) webMethods
14 1 (0.41%) Citrix
14 1 (0.41%) HP