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 25 March 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
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 34 55
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 -32
Contract jobs citing Oracle 289 90 90
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.37% 4.84% 3.26%
As % of the Vendors category 15.54% 10.26% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 68 61
10th Percentile £358 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £412 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% +1.26% -12.04%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £606
90th Percentile £642 £658 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £15.30 - £22.75
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 - -
England median hourly rate £38.56 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -7.54% +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 1,860 877 1,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 47.41% 47.13% 43.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 597 759
10th Percentile £263 £200 £213
25th Percentile £381 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £583 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 37 81
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.65 £10.93
25th Percentile £16.09 £13.81 £13.00
Median hourly rate £20.25 £18.51 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% +18.62% -11.94%
75th Percentile £27.50 £30.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £35.00 £41.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.48% -31.20%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +20 259 £492 -3.53% 55
East Midlands -30 26 £525 +23.53% 12
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 72 (24.91%) SAS
2 13 (4.50%) Confluence
3 12 (4.15%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.08%) Apache
5 4 (1.38%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.38%) Tuxedo
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (1.04%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.69%) Liferay
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Geronimo
8 1 (0.35%) Apache ServiceMix
8 1 (0.35%) IIS
8 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.54%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (4.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 12 (4.15%) Oracle General Ledger
4 11 (3.81%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (2.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (2.42%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (1.73%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (1.38%) Primavera
10 3 (1.04%) Oracle HRMS
10 3 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
11 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.69%) SAP FI
11 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
12 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
12 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 65 (22.49%) AWS
2 30 (10.38%) Azure
3 17 (5.88%) OCI
4 10 (3.46%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.77%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.42%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.73%) GitHub
7 5 (1.73%) SaaS
8 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Purview
8 4 (1.38%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.04%) GCP
9 3 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.04%) Serverless
10 2 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.73%) Firewall
2 3 (1.04%) VSAN
3 2 (0.69%) SSL
4 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.34%) Pentaho
2 52 (17.99%) Oracle Database
3 37 (12.80%) Oracle Reports
4 34 (11.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 22 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (6.57%) MySQL
7 13 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
9 11 (3.81%) MongoDB
10 10 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.46%) Power BI
10 10 (3.46%) Relational Database
11 8 (2.77%) Metadata
12 5 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.38%) IDMS
13 4 (1.38%) Ingres
13 4 (1.38%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (1.38%) RDBMS
14 3 (1.04%) BusinessObjects
14 3 (1.04%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (16.96%) JIRA
2 48 (16.61%) Git
3 31 (10.73%) Jenkins
4 28 (9.69%) GitLab
5 13 (4.50%) Zephyr
6 11 (3.81%) Postman
7 10 (3.46%) Selenium
8 9 (3.11%) JUnit
9 5 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.73%) Oracle APEX
10 4 (1.38%) CA Gen
10 4 (1.38%) Toad
11 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.69%) Gatling
12 2 (0.69%) JMeter
12 2 (0.69%) Maven
12 2 (0.69%) Mockito
General
1 85 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.72%) Finance
3 46 (15.92%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.92%) Local Government
5 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.46%) Legal
7 7 (2.42%) General Ledger
8 6 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.38%) Advertising
10 3 (1.04%) Back Office
10 3 (1.04%) Banking
10 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.04%) Retail
11 2 (0.69%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 59 (20.42%) Data Engineer
2 31 (10.73%) Analyst
3 23 (7.96%) Consultant
4 22 (7.61%) Architect
5 21 (7.27%) Senior
6 19 (6.57%) Lead
7 18 (6.23%) DBA
7 18 (6.23%) Release Manager
7 18 (6.23%) Storage Analyst
8 14 (4.84%) Oracle Consultant
9 13 (4.50%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (4.15%) Accountant
10 12 (4.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 12 (4.15%) Tester
11 11 (3.81%) SAS Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Senior Accountant
12 10 (3.46%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.46%) QA Tester
12 10 (3.46%) Senior Systems Accountant
12 10 (3.46%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (14.19%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (6.23%) Flash
3 10 (3.46%) REST
3 10 (3.46%) Spring
4 9 (3.11%) Spring Boot
4 9 (3.11%) XML
5 7 (2.42%) JSON
5 7 (2.42%) pytest
6 6 (2.08%) ADO
7 4 (1.38%) .NET
7 4 (1.38%) Middleware
7 4 (1.38%) Playwright
8 3 (1.04%) JDBC
8 3 (1.04%) Kafka
9 2 (0.69%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.69%) JPA
9 2 (0.69%) OAuth
9 2 (0.69%) OpenID
9 2 (0.69%) Spring Batch
9 2 (0.69%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.57%) Replication
2 18 (6.23%) Linux Command Line
3 13 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.08%) SCADA
7 5 (1.73%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.38%) Robotics
9 3 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.04%) IoT
9 3 (1.04%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.69%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.35%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.73%) Linux
2 27 (9.34%) Unix
3 14 (4.84%) Windows
4 5 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (31.83%) Agile
2 81 (28.03%) ETL
3 67 (23.18%) CI/CD
4 60 (20.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (18.69%) Migration
6 52 (17.99%) Test Automation
7 50 (17.30%) Scrum
8 49 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (16.26%) Data Integration
10 44 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (14.88%) Analytics
12 42 (14.53%) Data Modelling
12 42 (14.53%) DevOps
13 40 (13.84%) ERP
14 35 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
15 32 (11.07%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (11.07%) Validation
16 31 (10.73%) Data Migration
17 30 (10.38%) Test Scripting
18 28 (9.69%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 122 (42.21%) SQL
2 27 (9.34%) Java
3 22 (7.61%) PL/SQL
4 21 (7.27%) Python
5 12 (4.15%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.08%) Bash
7 5 (1.73%) Perl
8 4 (1.38%) Bicep
8 4 (1.38%) VB
9 3 (1.04%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.69%) C#
10 2 (0.69%) PHP
10 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.69%) VB6
11 1 (0.35%) COBOL
11 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 145 (50.17%) Security Cleared
2 137 (47.40%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.50%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (2.77%) Degree
5 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.38%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.38%) OCP
7 4 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.04%) PMP
8 3 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.69%) ACCA
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.69%) CIMA
9 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.69%) ISEB
9 2 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.00%) Data Quality
2 23 (7.96%) QA
3 9 (3.11%) SLA
4 5 (1.73%) PMO
5 3 (1.04%) FATCA
5 3 (1.04%) GDPR
5 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.69%) ITGC
6 2 (0.69%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) GAAP
7 1 (0.35%) IFRS
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (9.69%) Docker
2 18 (6.23%) GPFS
2 18 (6.23%) NFS
3 17 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.19%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (5.19%) vSphere
5 4 (1.38%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.04%) HDFS
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle Clusterware
6 3 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (14.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.19%) vRealize
3 7 (2.42%) Grafana
4 6 (2.08%) Ansible
4 6 (2.08%) Terraform
5 4 (1.38%) Kibana
5 4 (1.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.04%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.04%) VxRail
7 2 (0.69%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.69%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 66 (22.84%) Talend
2 40 (13.84%) Informatica
3 29 (10.03%) Denodo
4 24 (8.30%) Microsoft
5 23 (7.96%) SAP
6 18 (6.23%) IBM
6 18 (6.23%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.88%) VMware
8 16 (5.54%) Cisco
9 7 (2.42%) Sage
10 6 (2.08%) Cloudera
10 6 (2.08%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.08%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.73%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.38%) Databricks
13 3 (1.04%) Splunk
14 2 (0.69%) Actian
14 2 (0.69%) Ariba
14 2 (0.69%) PagerDuty
14 2 (0.69%) Remedy