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 23 August 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
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 34 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 426 142 145
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.97% 5.61% 5.42%
As % of the Vendors category 20.12% 12.02% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 104 100
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £403 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £640
90th Percentile £600 £684 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 3
10th Percentile £17.60 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.97 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £22.00
90th Percentile - - £23.20
England median hourly rate £41.36 £37.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +10.28% +22.59% -47.79%

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 2,117 1,181 1,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.59% 46.64% 44.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 762 819
10th Percentile £313 £233 £255
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £457 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -5.88% +2.11%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £600
90th Percentile £663 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 56 38
10th Percentile £13.39 £13.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.51 £14.26
Median hourly rate £20.33 £25.15 £16.91
Median % change year-on-year -19.18% +48.73% -24.84%
75th Percentile £33.99 £31.00 £41.68
90th Percentile £59.53 £50.00 £55.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.25
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.97% -29.38%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +16 351 £459 -12.03% 41
East Midlands +9 67 £525 +28.05% 13
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 52 (12.21%) SAS
2 33 (7.75%) Confluence
3 22 (5.16%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (3.29%) WebLogic
6 8 (1.88%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.41%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.23%) Apache
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (6.10%) Oracle Payables
1 26 (6.10%) Oracle Receivables
2 21 (4.93%) Oracle General Ledger
3 19 (4.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (1.64%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (1.41%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.70%) iTrent
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (25.82%) AWS
2 57 (13.38%) Azure
3 35 (8.22%) OCI
4 20 (4.69%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.46%) PaaS
6 12 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.35%) GitHub
8 7 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.64%) SaaS
8 7 (1.64%) Serverless
9 6 (1.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.94%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.64%) Firewall
2 5 (1.17%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.17%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.70%) SSL
3 3 (0.70%) VSAN
4 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (13.85%) Oracle Reports
2 48 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (11.27%) Pentaho
3 41 (9.62%) Oracle Database
4 28 (6.57%) SQL Server
5 26 (6.10%) MySQL
6 21 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (4.69%) Power BI
8 16 (3.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 16 (3.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 15 (3.52%) BusinessObjects
10 13 (3.05%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.58%) Ingres
12 9 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.88%) Oracle Exadata
13 8 (1.88%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.64%) Metadata
15 6 (1.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 70 (16.43%) JIRA
2 62 (14.55%) GitLab
3 47 (11.03%) Git
4 34 (7.98%) Zephyr
5 29 (6.81%) Postman
6 17 (3.99%) Jenkins
7 14 (3.29%) Oracle Forms
8 12 (2.82%) Selenium
9 11 (2.58%) Artifactory
10 8 (1.88%) Maven
11 5 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.17%) Gatling
11 5 (1.17%) JUnit
11 5 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.70%) Toad
14 2 (0.47%) CA Gen
15 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 104 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 102 (23.94%) Finance
3 74 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 44 (10.33%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.92%) Local Government
6 9 (2.11%) General Ledger
7 8 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.64%) Police
9 5 (1.17%) Billing
9 5 (1.17%) Legal
9 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.70%) Advertising
11 3 (0.70%) Banking
11 3 (0.70%) Retail
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Military
13 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (17.84%) Data Engineer
2 45 (10.56%) Lead
3 36 (8.45%) Analyst
4 29 (6.81%) Architect
5 28 (6.57%) Developer
6 23 (5.40%) Senior
7 21 (4.93%) Consultant
7 21 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
8 20 (4.69%) Administrator
8 20 (4.69%) DBA
8 20 (4.69%) Finance Manager
8 20 (4.69%) Project Manager
8 20 (4.69%) Tester
9 19 (4.46%) Oracle Consultant
10 18 (4.23%) Oracle Project Manager
10 18 (4.23%) Release Manager
11 17 (3.99%) Oracle Developer
11 17 (3.99%) QA Tester
11 17 (3.99%) Test Analyst
12 14 (3.29%) Finance Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (28.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.35%) REST
3 9 (2.11%) Middleware
4 8 (1.88%) .NET
4 8 (1.88%) Flash
4 8 (1.88%) Terraform
5 7 (1.64%) JSON
6 6 (1.41%) Kafka
6 6 (1.41%) React
6 6 (1.41%) SOAP
7 5 (1.17%) ADO
7 5 (1.17%) COM
7 5 (1.17%) ODBC
7 5 (1.17%) Playwright
7 5 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.94%) Web Services
8 4 (0.94%) XML
9 3 (0.70%) Spring
10 2 (0.47%) PySpark
11 1 (0.23%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.58%) Replication
5 10 (2.35%) SCADA
6 6 (1.41%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.17%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.17%) IoT
7 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.17%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.17%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.94%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.62%) Unix
2 36 (8.45%) Linux
3 10 (2.35%) Windows
4 5 (1.17%) SUSE
5 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.47%) HPUX
7 1 (0.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (30.52%) Agile
2 119 (27.93%) ETL
3 114 (26.76%) Migration
4 80 (18.78%) Test Automation
5 78 (18.31%) ERP
6 70 (16.43%) Data Migration
7 68 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (13.38%) CI/CD
9 56 (13.15%) Data Modelling
10 53 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (12.44%) Validation
11 52 (12.21%) Data Integration
11 52 (12.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 50 (11.74%) Analytics
13 45 (10.56%) DevOps
14 38 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (8.92%) Integration Testing
14 38 (8.92%) Scrum
14 38 (8.92%) System Testing
15 37 (8.69%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 180 (42.25%) SQL
2 45 (10.56%) PL/SQL
3 29 (6.81%) Java
4 24 (5.63%) Python
5 16 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.29%) C
7 12 (2.82%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.88%) ProC
9 6 (1.41%) Bash
9 6 (1.41%) VB
9 6 (1.41%) VB6
10 5 (1.17%) Bicep
11 3 (0.70%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 195 (45.77%) Security Cleared
2 178 (41.78%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.57%) ISTQB
4 16 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.58%) ACCA
5 11 (2.58%) CIMA
5 11 (2.58%) Degree
6 10 (2.35%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.88%) OCP
8 4 (0.94%) ISEB
9 3 (0.70%) CCAB
9 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.70%) PMP
10 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) CIPFA
11 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.62%) QA
2 32 (7.51%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.05%) GDPR
4 6 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.41%) FATCA
4 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.41%) SLA
4 6 (1.41%) WCAG
5 3 (0.70%) PMO
6 2 (0.47%) IFRS
6 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (3.76%) Docker
2 8 (1.88%) GPFS
2 8 (1.88%) NFS
3 7 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.41%) vSphere
5 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.70%) HDFS
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.64%) Grafana
3 6 (1.41%) vRealize
4 4 (0.94%) Ansible
5 3 (0.70%) VxRail
6 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.23%) SELinux
7 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 80 (18.78%) Talend
2 48 (11.27%) Informatica
3 47 (11.03%) Microsoft
4 34 (7.98%) Denodo
5 29 (6.81%) SAP
6 14 (3.29%) IBM
7 12 (2.82%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.11%) VMware
9 8 (1.88%) Sage
10 6 (1.41%) Cisco
10 6 (1.41%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.41%) Databricks
11 5 (1.17%) Actian
11 5 (1.17%) MathWorks
11 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.17%) Siemens
12 4 (0.94%) Adobe
12 4 (0.94%) Workday
13 3 (0.70%) JD Edwards
13 3 (0.70%) Salesforce