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 29 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 30 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 412 147 151
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.66% 5.73% 5.66%
As % of the Vendors category 19.45% 12.34% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 107 101
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £552 £648
90th Percentile £600 £680 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £540
% change year-on-year +1.94% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile £17.36 - £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 £41.71 £37.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +11.23% +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 2,118 1,191 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.52% 46.41% 45.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 775 814
10th Percentile £313 £235 £252
25th Percentile £405 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% -7.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £609
90th Percentile £674 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 52 35
10th Percentile £13.38 £15.09 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.78 £14.13
Median hourly rate £19.41 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +47.94% -24.44%
75th Percentile £33.99 £31.00 £40.08
90th Percentile £58.40 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.68% -16.17% -28.53%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +18 335 £459 -12.57% 103
East Midlands +10 69 £525 +33.76% 26
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 48 (11.65%) SAS
2 28 (6.80%) Confluence
3 22 (5.34%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (3.40%) WebLogic
6 6 (1.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 6 (1.46%) Tuxedo
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.24%) Apache
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.21%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.97%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (6.31%) Oracle Payables
1 26 (6.31%) Oracle Receivables
2 21 (5.10%) Oracle General Ledger
3 19 (4.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (2.91%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (1.70%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.70%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (1.46%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.73%) iTrent
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.24%) AWS
2 56 (13.59%) Azure
3 36 (8.74%) OCI
4 19 (4.61%) PaaS
5 16 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.43%) GitHub
8 7 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.70%) SaaS
8 7 (1.70%) Serverless
9 6 (1.46%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.21%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.70%) Firewall
2 5 (1.21%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.21%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.73%) SSL
4 2 (0.49%) VSAN
5 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (12.14%) Oracle Reports
2 45 (10.92%) Pentaho
3 43 (10.44%) Oracle Database
4 39 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (6.55%) SQL Server
6 22 (5.34%) MySQL
7 17 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
8 16 (3.88%) Power BI
8 16 (3.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 16 (3.88%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 14 (3.40%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.91%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.67%) Ingres
12 9 (2.18%) Oracle Exadata
12 9 (2.18%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.70%) Metadata
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (1.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (14.08%) JIRA
2 57 (13.83%) GitLab
3 42 (10.19%) Git
4 27 (6.55%) Zephyr
5 23 (5.58%) Postman
6 14 (3.40%) Jenkins
6 14 (3.40%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (2.91%) Selenium
8 11 (2.67%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.94%) Maven
10 5 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.21%) Gatling
10 5 (1.21%) JUnit
10 5 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.97%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.73%) Toad
13 1 (0.24%) Gradle
13 1 (0.24%) NeoLoad
13 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.79%) Finance
3 73 (17.72%) Public Sector
4 44 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (8.50%) Local Government
6 9 (2.18%) General Ledger
7 8 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.70%) Police
9 5 (1.21%) Billing
9 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 4 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.97%) Military
11 3 (0.73%) Banking
11 3 (0.73%) Legal
11 3 (0.73%) Retail
12 2 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (17.23%) Data Engineer
2 45 (10.92%) Lead
3 34 (8.25%) Analyst
4 29 (7.04%) Architect
5 27 (6.55%) Developer
6 25 (6.07%) Administrator
7 22 (5.34%) Consultant
7 22 (5.34%) Senior
8 21 (5.10%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.85%) DBA
9 20 (4.85%) Finance Manager
9 20 (4.85%) Oracle Consultant
10 19 (4.61%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.37%) Oracle Project Manager
11 18 (4.37%) Release Manager
12 17 (4.13%) Oracle Developer
13 16 (3.88%) Test Analyst
14 14 (3.40%) Finance Systems Manager
14 14 (3.40%) Trainer
15 13 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (29.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.43%) REST
3 9 (2.18%) Middleware
3 9 (2.18%) Terraform
4 8 (1.94%) .NET
5 7 (1.70%) Flash
5 7 (1.70%) JSON
6 6 (1.46%) Kafka
6 6 (1.46%) React
6 6 (1.46%) SOAP
7 5 (1.21%) ADO
7 5 (1.21%) COM
7 5 (1.21%) ODBC
7 5 (1.21%) Playwright
7 5 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.97%) Web Services
8 4 (0.97%) XML
9 3 (0.73%) Spring
10 1 (0.24%) Java SE
10 1 (0.24%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.43%) Replication
4 10 (2.43%) SCADA
5 6 (1.46%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.21%) e-Learning
6 5 (1.21%) IoT
6 5 (1.21%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.21%) Private Cloud
7 4 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.97%) Learning Management System
7 4 (0.97%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.97%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.73%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.73%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.74%) Linux
2 35 (8.50%) Unix
3 10 (2.43%) Windows
4 5 (1.21%) SUSE
5 3 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.49%) AIX
6 2 (0.49%) HPUX
7 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (29.37%) Agile
2 107 (25.97%) Migration
3 106 (25.73%) ETL
4 74 (17.96%) ERP
5 70 (16.99%) Test Automation
6 69 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (15.29%) Data Migration
8 55 (13.35%) Data Modelling
9 54 (13.11%) CI/CD
9 54 (13.11%) Data Integration
10 52 (12.62%) Validation
11 49 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (10.92%) Analytics
14 42 (10.19%) DevOps
15 38 (9.22%) Data Pipeline
16 34 (8.25%) Business Intelligence
17 32 (7.77%) Integration Testing
17 32 (7.77%) Scrum
17 32 (7.77%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 166 (40.29%) SQL
2 40 (9.71%) PL/SQL
3 26 (6.31%) Java
4 20 (4.85%) Python
5 16 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.40%) C
7 12 (2.91%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.94%) ProC
9 6 (1.46%) Bash
9 6 (1.46%) VB
9 6 (1.46%) VB6
10 5 (1.21%) Bicep
11 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.49%) R
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 181 (43.93%) Security Cleared
2 164 (39.81%) SC Cleared
3 23 (5.58%) ISTQB
4 17 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.67%) ACCA
5 11 (2.67%) CIMA
5 11 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
6 10 (2.43%) Degree
7 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.18%) OCP
8 7 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.97%) ISEB
10 3 (0.73%) CCAB
10 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.73%) PMP
11 2 (0.49%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.24%) CISM
12 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (8.25%) QA
2 32 (7.77%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.40%) GDPR
4 7 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.46%) FATCA
5 6 (1.46%) SLA
5 6 (1.46%) WCAG
6 2 (0.49%) IFRS
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
6 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 16 (3.88%) Docker
2 7 (1.70%) GPFS
2 7 (1.70%) NFS
3 6 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.21%) vSphere
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.21%) vRealize
3 4 (0.97%) Grafana
4 3 (0.73%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.49%) Ansible
5 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.49%) VxRail
6 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.24%) SELinux
6 1 (0.24%) systemd
Vendors
1 75 (18.20%) Talend
2 47 (11.41%) Microsoft
3 43 (10.44%) Informatica
4 31 (7.52%) Denodo
5 28 (6.80%) SAP
6 13 (3.16%) IBM
7 11 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.94%) VMware
9 6 (1.46%) Cloudera
9 6 (1.46%) Sage
10 5 (1.21%) Actian
10 5 (1.21%) Cisco
10 5 (1.21%) Databricks
10 5 (1.21%) MathWorks
10 5 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.21%) Siemens
11 4 (0.97%) Adobe
11 4 (0.97%) Workday
12 3 (0.73%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.73%) webMethods