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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 -23
Contract jobs citing Oracle 305 84 106
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.32% 4.39% 3.86%
As % of the Vendors category 16.06% 9.72% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 68 73
10th Percentile £357 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +3.79% -11.71%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £606
90th Percentile £638 £663 £698
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £18.82 - £22.75
25th Percentile £25.00 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £54.95 - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +60.38% -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 1,899 864 1,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.58% 45.19% 42.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 568 748
10th Percentile £264 £200 £213
25th Percentile £393 £349 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £466
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £664 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.30% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 39 77
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.79 £10.92
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.51 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +35.06% +18.62% -22.75%
75th Percentile £51.25 £24.21 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £31.76 £48.06
England median hourly rate £30.08 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.36% +22.22% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +21 273 £468 -10.10% 37
East Midlands -31 27 £525 +23.53% 32
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 66 (21.64%) SAS
2 20 (6.56%) Confluence
3 15 (4.92%) WebLogic
4 10 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (3.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.97%) Apache
5 6 (1.97%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 4 (1.31%) Tuxedo
7 2 (0.66%) Liferay
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Geronimo
8 1 (0.33%) Apache ServiceMix
8 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.64%) Notepad++
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (4.26%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (3.93%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (3.28%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (2.95%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (2.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (1.97%) Oracle HRMS
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.66%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (26.23%) AWS
2 41 (13.44%) Azure
3 16 (5.25%) OCI
4 11 (3.61%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.30%) PaaS
7 5 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.64%) SaaS
7 5 (1.64%) Serverless
8 4 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.31%) GitHub
8 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.31%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.66%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Firewall
2 5 (1.64%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.64%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.31%) VSAN
4 3 (0.98%) SSL
5 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (18.36%) Pentaho
2 51 (16.72%) Oracle Reports
3 43 (14.10%) Oracle Database
4 38 (12.46%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (6.56%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 17 (5.57%) MySQL
7 14 (4.59%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.93%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.61%) Power BI
10 10 (3.28%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (2.95%) Metadata
11 9 (2.95%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 8 (2.62%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (1.64%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.64%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.31%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 56 (18.36%) JIRA
2 40 (13.11%) GitLab
3 39 (12.79%) Git
4 24 (7.87%) Zephyr
5 22 (7.21%) Postman
6 20 (6.56%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.95%) Selenium
8 6 (1.97%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.31%) CA Gen
10 4 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.31%) Toad
11 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.66%) JMeter
12 2 (0.66%) JUnit
13 1 (0.33%) Gatling
13 1 (0.33%) Hudson
13 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 72 (23.61%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.05%) Finance
3 47 (15.41%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.54%) Local Government
6 11 (3.61%) Legal
7 6 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.97%) General Ledger
7 6 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.98%) Advertising
8 3 (0.98%) Retail
9 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.66%) Billing
9 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Back Office
10 1 (0.33%) Law
10 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 82 (26.89%) Data Engineer
2 35 (11.48%) Analyst
3 22 (7.21%) Senior
4 21 (6.89%) Architect
5 20 (6.56%) DBA
6 17 (5.57%) Test Analyst
7 16 (5.25%) SAS Engineer
7 16 (5.25%) Storage Analyst
8 15 (4.92%) Lead
8 15 (4.92%) Release Manager
9 14 (4.59%) Accountant
9 14 (4.59%) Consultant
9 14 (4.59%) Oracle DBA
9 14 (4.59%) Tester
10 12 (3.93%) Systems Accountant
11 11 (3.61%) QA Tester
11 11 (3.61%) Senior Accountant
11 11 (3.61%) Senior Systems Accountant
12 10 (3.28%) Oracle Consultant
12 10 (3.28%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (14.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (5.57%) Flash
3 8 (2.62%) REST
3 8 (2.62%) XML
4 7 (2.30%) Spring
5 6 (1.97%) Middleware
5 6 (1.97%) Spring Boot
6 5 (1.64%) ADO
6 5 (1.64%) JSON
7 3 (0.98%) Kafka
8 2 (0.66%) ActiveX
8 2 (0.66%) COM
8 2 (0.66%) ODBC
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (0.66%) pytest
8 2 (0.66%) Web Services
9 1 (0.33%) JDBC
9 1 (0.33%) JSP
9 1 (0.33%) Servlets
9 1 (0.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.21%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (5.90%) Replication
3 12 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.95%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.97%) SCADA
6 4 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.31%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.31%) Robotics
7 3 (0.98%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (0.98%) IoT
7 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.33%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 41 (13.44%) Unix
2 39 (12.79%) Linux
3 15 (4.92%) Windows
4 5 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.33%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (35.74%) ETL
2 90 (29.51%) Agile
3 71 (23.28%) Migration
4 63 (20.66%) Test Automation
5 58 (19.02%) CI/CD
6 54 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (14.75%) Scrum
9 44 (14.43%) Data Integration
10 41 (13.44%) DevOps
11 40 (13.11%) Analytics
11 40 (13.11%) Data Migration
12 38 (12.46%) Data Modelling
13 35 (11.48%) ERP
13 35 (11.48%) Test Scripting
13 35 (11.48%) Validation
14 34 (11.15%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (10.82%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (9.51%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 152 (49.84%) SQL
2 28 (9.18%) PL/SQL
3 23 (7.54%) Java
4 21 (6.89%) Python
5 16 (5.25%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.30%) Bash
7 5 (1.64%) Perl
8 4 (1.31%) Bicep
8 4 (1.31%) VB
9 3 (0.98%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.66%) VB6
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (54.75%) Security Cleared
2 156 (51.15%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.90%) ISTQB
4 10 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.28%) Degree
5 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.31%) ACCA
7 4 (1.31%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.31%) CIMA
7 4 (1.31%) OCP
7 4 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.98%) PMP
8 3 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.66%) ISEB
9 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.52%) QA
2 25 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.95%) FATCA
4 7 (2.30%) SLA
5 4 (1.31%) GDPR
5 4 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.98%) PMO
7 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.33%) GAAP
8 1 (0.33%) IFRS
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.33%) ITGC
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (6.89%) Docker
2 17 (5.57%) GPFS
2 17 (5.57%) NFS
3 16 (5.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.26%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (4.26%) vSphere
5 5 (1.64%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.98%) HDFS
7 3 (0.98%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 33 (10.82%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.26%) vRealize
3 8 (2.62%) Terraform
4 7 (2.30%) Grafana
5 6 (1.97%) Ansible
6 4 (1.31%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (1.31%) VxRail
7 2 (0.66%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.33%) Kibana
8 1 (0.33%) SELinux
8 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 79 (25.90%) Talend
2 53 (17.38%) Informatica
3 31 (10.16%) Denodo
4 27 (8.85%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.21%) SAP
6 19 (6.23%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.57%) IBM
8 16 (5.25%) VMware
9 14 (4.59%) Cisco
10 10 (3.28%) Sage
11 7 (2.30%) Cloudera
11 7 (2.30%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.64%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.31%) Databricks
14 3 (0.98%) Google
15 2 (0.66%) Ariba
15 2 (0.66%) HP
15 2 (0.66%) JD Edwards
15 2 (0.66%) webMethods