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 4 December 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
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 26 38
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -22
Contract jobs citing Oracle 231 153 110
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.42% 6.02% 4.16%
As % of the Vendors category 14.60% 13.24% 7.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 101 69
10th Percentile £360 £410 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £529 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +13.16% -13.10%
75th Percentile £575 £713 £638
90th Percentile £668 £765 £729
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.59% - -0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £15.30 - £67.50
25th Percentile £17.06 - £74.06
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -73.03% +37.25%
75th Percentile £22.50 - £92.50
90th Percentile £24.00 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.10 £59.57
% change year-on-year +38.40% -54.52% -0.72%

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 1,582 1,156 1,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.79% 45.48% 52.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 726 900
10th Percentile £258 £220 £213
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £596
90th Percentile £639 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 45
10th Percentile £15.89 £12.98 £12.40
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.19 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.20% +14.09%
75th Percentile £27.21 £31.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £47.30 £47.38 £69.50
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

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 4 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Oracle in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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 +2 192 £525 -4.55% 57
East Midlands -6 36 £510 +20.00% 11
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 64 (27.71%) SAS
2 18 (7.79%) WebLogic
3 15 (6.49%) Apache
4 10 (4.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.73%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 2 (0.87%) FileNet
7 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.43%) CICS
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Documentum
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) JBoss
8 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.43%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (6.93%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (4.76%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (4.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (3.90%) Oracle Cash Management
5 6 (2.60%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (2.60%) Primavera
6 5 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (1.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (1.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle HRMS
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payroll
9 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.87%) SAP FI
10 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.65%) AWS
2 37 (16.02%) Azure
3 14 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (3.90%) OCI
5 7 (3.03%) PaaS
5 7 (3.03%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.73%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.30%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.30%) GitHub
8 3 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.87%) GCP
9 2 (0.87%) SaaS
9 2 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.43%) Serverless
10 1 (0.43%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) BGP
1 2 (0.87%) DMVPN
1 2 (0.87%) EIGRP
1 2 (0.87%) Firewall
1 2 (0.87%) IPsec
1 2 (0.87%) OSPF
1 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
1 2 (0.87%) Wireless
1 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (0.43%) VLAN
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.75%) Oracle Database
1 41 (17.75%) Pentaho
2 35 (15.15%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (4.76%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 8 (3.46%) MySQL
5 8 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.60%) Metadata
6 6 (2.60%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.16%) Power BI
8 4 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.73%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
9 3 (1.30%) OLTP
9 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.87%) DB2
10 2 (0.87%) EDMS
10 2 (0.87%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 46 (19.91%) Git
2 42 (18.18%) JIRA
3 39 (16.88%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.93%) GitLab
5 14 (6.06%) Selenium
6 9 (3.90%) JUnit
7 4 (1.73%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.73%) Maven
7 4 (1.73%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.73%) Toad
8 3 (1.30%) Gatling
9 2 (0.87%) Mockito
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.87%) TestPartner
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.43%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 90 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.81%) Finance
3 36 (15.58%) Public Sector
4 17 (7.36%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.90%) General Ledger
7 6 (2.60%) Banking
7 6 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.16%) Local Government
8 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.30%) Back Office
9 3 (1.30%) Marketing
9 3 (1.30%) Retail
9 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.87%) Aeronautics
10 2 (0.87%) Electronics
11 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (10.82%) Data Engineer
2 21 (9.09%) Analyst
3 17 (7.36%) Consultant
3 17 (7.36%) Lead
3 17 (7.36%) Release Manager
4 15 (6.49%) Senior
5 11 (4.76%) Developer
6 10 (4.33%) Test Analyst
7 9 (3.90%) DBA
7 9 (3.90%) Oracle DBA
7 9 (3.90%) Oracle Specialist
7 9 (3.90%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.46%) Monitoring Engineer
8 8 (3.46%) Oracle Consultant
8 8 (3.46%) Oracle Project Manager
8 8 (3.46%) SAS Engineer
9 7 (3.03%) Architect
9 7 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
9 7 (3.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (3.03%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.15%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (4.76%) .NET
2 11 (4.76%) Flash
2 11 (4.76%) REST
3 8 (3.46%) Spring
3 8 (3.46%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.60%) XML
5 5 (2.16%) JSON
5 5 (2.16%) Playwright
5 5 (2.16%) pytest
6 4 (1.73%) Middleware
6 4 (1.73%) SOAP
7 3 (1.30%) React
7 3 (1.30%) WireMock
8 2 (0.87%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.87%) JPA
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.87%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.76%) Replication
3 6 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.73%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.30%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.30%) SCADA
6 3 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) FMCG
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.55%) Linux
2 24 (10.39%) Windows
3 21 (9.09%) Unix
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.60%) Agile
2 72 (31.17%) CI/CD
3 69 (29.87%) Analytics
4 57 (24.68%) DevOps
5 55 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
6 54 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 52 (22.51%) Test Automation
9 50 (21.65%) Scrum
10 49 (21.21%) Migration
11 48 (20.78%) Data Integration
12 43 (18.61%) ETL
13 40 (17.32%) Data Modelling
14 38 (16.45%) Data Pipeline
14 38 (16.45%) Test Strategy
15 36 (15.58%) ERP
16 32 (13.85%) Deployment Automation
17 31 (13.42%) Data Virtualisation
18 28 (12.12%) Data Analytics
19 26 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (37.23%) SQL
2 19 (8.23%) Java
3 13 (5.63%) PL/SQL
3 13 (5.63%) Python
4 7 (3.03%) C#
4 7 (3.03%) PHP
4 7 (3.03%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.87%) COBOL
7 2 (0.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.43%) C
8 1 (0.43%) JCL
8 1 (0.43%) Korn
8 1 (0.43%) Perl
8 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 97 (41.99%) Security Cleared
2 86 (37.23%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.60%) Degree
4 4 (1.73%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.30%) ACCA
5 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.30%) CIMA
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) CCNP
6 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) ISEB
6 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.87%) OCP
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.19%) QA
3 11 (4.76%) SLA
4 5 (2.16%) PMO
5 4 (1.73%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.73%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.87%) GDPR
8 1 (0.43%) ITGC
8 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (20.35%) Docker
2 11 (4.76%) GPFS
2 11 (4.76%) NFS
2 11 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
2 11 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.76%) vSphere
3 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.76%) vRealize
3 4 (1.73%) Grafana
3 4 (1.73%) Kibana
4 3 (1.30%) Ansible
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.87%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (18.18%) Talend
2 33 (14.29%) Denodo
3 26 (11.26%) Cisco
4 21 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.36%) SAP
6 16 (6.93%) Dynatrace
6 16 (6.93%) Splunk
7 15 (6.49%) IBM
8 14 (6.06%) AppDynamics
9 12 (5.19%) ServiceNow
10 11 (4.76%) VMware
11 8 (3.46%) Informatica
12 5 (2.16%) Adobe
13 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
13 3 (1.30%) webMethods
13 3 (1.30%) Workday
14 2 (0.87%) Ariba
14 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty
14 2 (0.87%) Salesforce
14 2 (0.87%) SolarWinds