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 October 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing Oracle 184 156 153
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 6.63% 5.83% 5.29%
As % of the Vendors category 13.13% 12.49% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 104 85
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £566 £675 £645
90th Percentile £685 £750 £742
England median daily rate £513 £545 £563
% change year-on-year -5.96% -3.11% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £16.72 £68.00
25th Percentile - £19.30 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £23.60 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year - -73.03% -
75th Percentile - £23.80 £91.25
90th Percentile - £23.92 £93.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.00 £63.53
% change year-on-year +38.89% -57.50% +27.05%

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 1,401 1,249 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.50% 46.64% 51.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 798 968
10th Percentile £250 £247 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £596
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 27 44
10th Percentile £15.87 £13.96 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.05 £15.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -13.92% +12.66%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.36 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.30% -20.54% +82.68%

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 October 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 17 October 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 -5 132 £523 -5.00% 69
East Midlands +6 48 £444 +4.41% 42
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 29 (15.76%) SAS
2 15 (8.15%) Oracle Workflow
2 15 (8.15%) WebLogic
3 14 (7.61%) Apache
4 10 (5.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 8 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.63%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (1.63%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.09%) CICS
7 2 (1.09%) FileNet
7 2 (1.09%) JBoss
8 1 (0.54%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.54%) CMS
8 1 (0.54%) Confluence
8 1 (0.54%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.54%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.54%) Tuxedo
8 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.54%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 14 (7.61%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (6.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 11 (5.98%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (5.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (4.35%) Oracle HRMS
5 6 (3.26%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (3.26%) Primavera
6 5 (2.72%) Oracle Cash Management
6 5 (2.72%) SAP PM
7 4 (2.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (1.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle iProcurement
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle Payroll
9 2 (1.09%) SAP ERP
9 2 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.54%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.91%) AWS
1 44 (23.91%) Azure
2 13 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
3 10 (5.43%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.35%) OCI
5 7 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (3.80%) PaaS
6 6 (3.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (2.72%) Collibra
7 5 (2.72%) GitHub
8 4 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.63%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.63%) ChatGPT
9 3 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (1.63%) Serverless
10 2 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.17%) Firewall
2 3 (1.63%) HTTP
2 3 (1.63%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.63%) SSL
3 2 (1.09%) BGP
3 2 (1.09%) DMVPN
3 2 (1.09%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.09%) IPsec
3 2 (1.09%) OSPF
3 2 (1.09%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
3 2 (1.09%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.54%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.54%) VLAN
4 1 (0.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.93%) Oracle Database
2 21 (11.41%) Pentaho
3 13 (7.07%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 12 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.98%) MySQL
5 11 (5.98%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (5.43%) SAS Visual Analytics
7 9 (4.89%) Relational Database
8 8 (4.35%) Power BI
9 6 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (3.26%) DB2
9 6 (3.26%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.72%) GIS
11 4 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.17%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.63%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.63%) OLTP
13 2 (1.09%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 32 (17.39%) Git
2 28 (15.22%) JIRA
3 24 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 10 (5.43%) Selenium
5 8 (4.35%) GitLab
6 6 (3.26%) JUnit
7 5 (2.72%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.72%) Maven
8 4 (2.17%) Mockito
9 2 (1.09%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.09%) Gatling
9 2 (1.09%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.09%) TestPartner
10 1 (0.54%) Deequ
10 1 (0.54%) Postman
10 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.83%) Finance
3 28 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (10.33%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (4.35%) General Ledger
7 6 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.17%) Banking
9 3 (1.63%) Marketing
9 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Electronics
10 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.54%) Military
11 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (10.87%) Developer
2 16 (8.70%) Senior
3 15 (8.15%) Consultant
4 14 (7.61%) Lead
4 14 (7.61%) Oracle Specialist
5 11 (5.98%) Analyst
5 11 (5.98%) Data Engineer
6 10 (5.43%) Java Developer
7 9 (4.89%) Oracle Consultant
7 9 (4.89%) Project Manager
8 8 (4.35%) Oracle Project Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Monitoring Engineer
9 7 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.80%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.80%) Tester
10 6 (3.26%) Architect
10 6 (3.26%) DBA
10 6 (3.26%) Oracle DBA
10 6 (3.26%) Release Manager
10 6 (3.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (14.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (9.24%) .NET
3 13 (7.07%) REST
4 12 (6.52%) Spring
5 9 (4.89%) React
5 9 (4.89%) Spring Boot
6 7 (3.80%) HTML
7 6 (3.26%) JSON
7 6 (3.26%) Kafka
7 6 (3.26%) Web Services
8 5 (2.72%) CSS
8 5 (2.72%) JPA
8 5 (2.72%) SOAP
9 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.17%) Flash
9 4 (2.17%) Middleware
9 4 (2.17%) Playwright
9 4 (2.17%) RAML
9 4 (2.17%) RESTful
9 4 (2.17%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.78%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.35%) SCADA
3 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.72%) IoT
5 4 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (2.17%) Replication
6 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.63%) State Machine
7 2 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.09%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.09%) VSAM
8 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.96%) Linux
2 20 (10.87%) Unix
3 19 (10.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.26%) Business Intelligence
2 51 (27.72%) Analytics
3 50 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (26.63%) CI/CD
5 48 (26.09%) Agile
6 43 (23.37%) Migration
7 42 (22.83%) DevOps
8 41 (22.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (18.48%) Test Automation
9 34 (18.48%) Test Strategy
10 32 (17.39%) Scrum
11 31 (16.85%) Data Integration
11 31 (16.85%) ETL
12 29 (15.76%) ERP
13 25 (13.59%) Data Modelling
14 22 (11.96%) Data Migration
15 21 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (11.41%) Visualisation
16 20 (10.87%) Deployment Automation
17 18 (9.78%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (45.65%) SQL
2 18 (9.78%) Java
3 17 (9.24%) PL/SQL
4 14 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.07%) C#
6 11 (5.98%) Python
7 7 (3.80%) PHP
8 5 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.09%) Bicep
11 2 (1.09%) COBOL
11 2 (1.09%) JCL
11 2 (1.09%) Scala
11 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.54%) Bash
12 1 (0.54%) C
12 1 (0.54%) Korn
12 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 59 (32.07%) Security Cleared
2 47 (25.54%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.80%) Degree
4 4 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.09%) ACCA
6 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.09%) CCNP
6 2 (1.09%) CIMA
6 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.09%) OCP
6 2 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.54%) CCNA
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.54%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.54%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.67%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.70%) QA
3 14 (7.61%) SLA
4 10 (5.43%) GDPR
5 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.63%) WCAG
6 2 (1.09%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.09%) PMO
7 1 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (15.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.17%) GPFS
2 4 (2.17%) NFS
2 4 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.17%) vSphere
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 31 (16.85%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.17%) vRealize
3 3 (1.63%) Grafana
3 3 (1.63%) Kibana
3 3 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.09%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (1.09%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.09%) Terraform
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.87%) Talend
3 19 (10.33%) Denodo
4 18 (9.78%) Cisco
4 18 (9.78%) SAP
5 14 (7.61%) Dynatrace
5 14 (7.61%) Splunk
6 13 (7.07%) AppDynamics
7 10 (5.43%) IBM
8 8 (4.35%) Informatica
9 6 (3.26%) Databricks
10 5 (2.72%) Adobe
10 5 (2.72%) ServiceNow
11 4 (2.17%) VMware
12 3 (1.63%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.63%) Workday
13 2 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
13 2 (1.09%) Juniper
13 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.09%) UiPath