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 6 November 2025, 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 24 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -18
Contract jobs citing Oracle 235 164 133
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.09% 6.15% 4.87%
As % of the Vendors category 15.60% 13.18% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 109 79
10th Percentile £358 £361 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% +10.53% -12.04%
75th Percentile £565 £650 £631
90th Percentile £650 £750 £746
England median daily rate £515 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -5.07% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £16.72 £68.00
25th Percentile - £19.30 £70.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.60 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% -73.03% +45.83%
75th Percentile - £23.80 £91.25
90th Percentile - £23.92 £93.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £59.06
% change year-on-year +53.06% -58.51% +7.37%

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 1,506 1,244 1,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 51.82% 46.63% 51.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 804 918
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 26 45
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.09 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.66 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.41% -9.44% +11.43%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +73.08%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025. 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 +1 182 £525 -0.85% 88
East Midlands +1 49 £444 +4.41% 36
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 59 (25.11%) SAS
2 19 (8.09%) WebLogic
3 15 (6.38%) Apache
4 12 (5.11%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (2.55%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (1.28%) Oracle Application Server
7 3 (1.28%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.85%) CICS
8 2 (0.85%) Confluence
8 2 (0.85%) FileNet
8 2 (0.85%) JBoss
9 1 (0.43%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.43%) CMS
9 1 (0.43%) IIS
9 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.43%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 16 (6.81%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (5.11%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (5.11%) Oracle General Ledger
3 11 (4.68%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (3.40%) Oracle Cash Management
5 7 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (2.98%) Primavera
6 6 (2.55%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.70%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (1.70%) Oracle HRMS
7 4 (1.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (1.28%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle iProcurement
9 2 (0.85%) Oracle Payroll
9 2 (0.85%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (20.85%) AWS
2 41 (17.45%) Azure
3 14 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
4 10 (4.26%) OCI
5 8 (3.40%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.98%) PaaS
7 6 (2.55%) OpenShift
8 4 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.70%) GitHub
8 4 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.70%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.28%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.28%) Collibra
9 3 (1.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.85%) Serverless
10 2 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.28%) Firewall
1 3 (1.28%) HTTP
1 3 (1.28%) HTTPS
1 3 (1.28%) SSL
2 2 (0.85%) BGP
2 2 (0.85%) DMVPN
2 2 (0.85%) EIGRP
2 2 (0.85%) IPsec
2 2 (0.85%) OSPF
2 2 (0.85%) Unified Communications
2 2 (0.85%) Wireless
2 2 (0.85%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (0.43%) VLAN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (20.43%) Oracle Database
2 35 (14.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 32 (13.62%) Pentaho
4 14 (5.96%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (4.68%) MySQL
5 11 (4.68%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (2.55%) DB2
8 6 (2.55%) Metadata
8 6 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.55%) Power BI
8 6 (2.55%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.70%) Delta Lake
9 4 (1.70%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.28%) GIS
10 3 (1.28%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 44 (18.72%) Git
2 38 (16.17%) Jenkins
3 37 (15.74%) JIRA
4 14 (5.96%) Selenium
5 13 (5.53%) GitLab
6 11 (4.68%) JUnit
7 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.13%) Maven
8 4 (1.70%) Mockito
8 4 (1.70%) Toad
9 3 (1.28%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.85%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.85%) Gatling
10 2 (0.85%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.85%) TestPartner
11 1 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 97 (41.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.98%) Finance
3 36 (15.32%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.09%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.40%) General Ledger
7 6 (2.55%) Banking
7 6 (2.55%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.28%) Marketing
9 3 (1.28%) Retail
9 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.85%) Back Office
10 2 (0.85%) Electronics
10 2 (0.85%) Local Government
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (8.94%) Analyst
2 20 (8.51%) Consultant
3 18 (7.66%) Data Engineer
3 18 (7.66%) Developer
3 18 (7.66%) Senior
4 17 (7.23%) Release Manager
5 16 (6.81%) Lead
6 11 (4.68%) Oracle Consultant
7 10 (4.26%) Java Developer
7 10 (4.26%) Oracle Specialist
7 10 (4.26%) Project Manager
7 10 (4.26%) Test Analyst
8 9 (3.83%) Architect
8 9 (3.83%) DBA
8 9 (3.83%) Oracle DBA
8 9 (3.83%) Oracle Project Manager
9 8 (3.40%) Monitoring Engineer
10 7 (2.98%) Functional Consultant
10 7 (2.98%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (2.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (6.38%) REST
3 13 (5.53%) .NET
3 13 (5.53%) Spring
4 10 (4.26%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.83%) Flash
6 7 (2.98%) HTML
6 7 (2.98%) XML
7 6 (2.55%) JSON
7 6 (2.55%) React
7 6 (2.55%) Web Services
8 5 (2.13%) CSS
8 5 (2.13%) JPA
8 5 (2.13%) pytest
8 5 (2.13%) SOAP
9 4 (1.70%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.70%) Kafka
9 4 (1.70%) Middleware
9 4 (1.70%) RAML
9 4 (1.70%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.23%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (3.83%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.83%) Replication
3 7 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.55%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.55%) SCADA
5 5 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) IoT
6 3 (1.28%) State Machine
7 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.85%) e-Learning
7 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.85%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.85%) VSAM
8 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.34%) Linux
2 24 (10.21%) Windows
3 23 (9.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (29.36%) Agile
1 69 (29.36%) Analytics
1 69 (29.36%) CI/CD
2 60 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (23.83%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
4 55 (23.40%) DevOps
5 54 (22.98%) Migration
6 50 (21.28%) Test Automation
7 49 (20.85%) Data Integration
7 49 (20.85%) Scrum
8 41 (17.45%) ETL
9 38 (16.17%) Data Modelling
9 38 (16.17%) Test Strategy
10 36 (15.32%) ERP
11 34 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
13 28 (11.91%) Validation
14 27 (11.49%) Data Virtualisation
15 25 (10.64%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 94 (40.00%) SQL
2 25 (10.64%) Java
3 18 (7.66%) PL/SQL
4 16 (6.81%) Python
5 10 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.83%) C#
7 7 (2.98%) PHP
7 7 (2.98%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.28%) COBOL
8 3 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.85%) JCL
9 2 (0.85%) Scala
9 2 (0.85%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.43%) Bash
10 1 (0.43%) Bicep
10 1 (0.43%) C
10 1 (0.43%) Korn
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 90 (38.30%) Security Cleared
2 78 (33.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (2.98%) Degree
4 4 (1.70%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.28%) ACCA
5 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.28%) CIMA
5 3 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.85%) CCNP
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.85%) ISEB
6 2 (0.85%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.85%) OCP
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.43%) CCNA
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.43%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.43%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.81%) QA
3 14 (5.96%) SLA
4 8 (3.40%) GDPR
5 4 (1.70%) ISO 20022
5 4 (1.70%) PMO
6 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.28%) WCAG
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) ITGC
7 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (18.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.83%) GPFS
2 9 (3.83%) NFS
2 9 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
2 9 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (3.83%) vSphere
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (19.57%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.83%) vRealize
3 3 (1.28%) Grafana
3 3 (1.28%) Kibana
3 3 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (0.85%) Data Guard
4 2 (0.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.43%) Ansible
5 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (13.62%) Talend
2 28 (11.91%) Denodo
3 25 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 24 (10.21%) Cisco
5 19 (8.09%) SAP
6 15 (6.38%) Dynatrace
6 15 (6.38%) IBM
6 15 (6.38%) Splunk
7 14 (5.96%) AppDynamics
8 10 (4.26%) ServiceNow
9 9 (3.83%) VMware
10 7 (2.98%) Informatica
11 5 (2.13%) Adobe
12 4 (1.70%) Databricks
13 3 (1.28%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.28%) webMethods
13 3 (1.28%) Workday
14 2 (0.85%) Ariba
14 2 (0.85%) Juniper
14 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds