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 12 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
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 32 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -27
Contract jobs citing Oracle 282 103 94
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.33% 5.42% 3.40%
As % of the Vendors category 15.30% 11.22% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 77 65
10th Percentile £360 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +3.79% -12.04%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £606
90th Percentile £645 £710 £645
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 £40.21 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +60.38% -58.57%

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 1,843 918 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 47.93% 48.34% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,204 609 786
10th Percentile £258 £200 £216
25th Percentile £385 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +5.56% -4.84%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £600
90th Percentile £643 £689 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 35 80
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.52 £10.93
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.16 £12.82
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.77 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% +20.25% -11.94%
75th Percentile £26.91 £30.68 £24.44
90th Percentile £47.50 £35.00 £39.05
England median hourly rate £25.00 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% -28.57%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +9 251 £496 -5.52% 58
East Midlands -33 27 £515 +21.18% 22
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 (25.53%) SAS
2 13 (4.61%) Confluence
3 12 (4.26%) WebLogic
4 6 (2.13%) Apache
5 4 (1.42%) Tuxedo
6 2 (0.71%) Liferay
6 2 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Geronimo
7 1 (0.35%) Apache ServiceMix
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (4.96%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (3.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (3.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (3.19%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (2.84%) Oracle Cash Management
5 8 (2.84%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (1.77%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (1.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (1.77%) Primavera
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
9 2 (0.71%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.05%) AWS
2 27 (9.57%) Azure
3 18 (6.38%) OCI
4 11 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.48%) OpenShift
7 6 (2.13%) SaaS
8 4 (1.42%) GitHub
8 4 (1.42%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.71%) GCP
10 2 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.06%) VSAN
2 2 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.44%) Oracle Database
1 52 (18.44%) Pentaho
2 34 (12.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 33 (11.70%) Oracle Reports
4 23 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (6.38%) MySQL
6 12 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (3.90%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.90%) Power BI
7 11 (3.90%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.84%) Metadata
9 8 (2.84%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.42%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.42%) IDMS
10 4 (1.42%) Ingres
10 4 (1.42%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (1.06%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.06%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.06%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 49 (17.38%) Git
1 49 (17.38%) JIRA
2 31 (10.99%) Jenkins
3 29 (10.28%) GitLab
4 13 (4.61%) Zephyr
5 12 (4.26%) Selenium
6 11 (3.90%) Postman
7 10 (3.55%) JUnit
8 6 (2.13%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (1.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.42%) CA Gen
10 4 (1.42%) Toad
11 3 (1.06%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.06%) Gatling
11 3 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.71%) JMeter
12 2 (0.71%) Maven
12 2 (0.71%) Mockito
General
1 87 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.57%) Finance
3 44 (15.60%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.32%) Local Government
5 11 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.19%) Legal
7 7 (2.48%) General Ledger
8 6 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.42%) Advertising
10 3 (1.06%) Back Office
10 3 (1.06%) Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Retail
11 2 (0.71%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 58 (20.57%) Data Engineer
2 31 (10.99%) Analyst
3 22 (7.80%) Architect
3 22 (7.80%) Consultant
4 21 (7.45%) Senior
5 18 (6.38%) Release Manager
5 18 (6.38%) Storage Analyst
6 17 (6.03%) DBA
6 17 (6.03%) Lead
7 13 (4.61%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (4.61%) Oracle DBA
7 13 (4.61%) Tester
8 12 (4.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (3.90%) Accountant
9 11 (3.90%) SAS Engineer
10 10 (3.55%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.55%) QA Tester
10 10 (3.55%) Senior Accountant
11 9 (3.19%) Systems Accountant
11 9 (3.19%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (14.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (6.38%) Flash
3 11 (3.90%) REST
4 10 (3.55%) Spring
5 9 (3.19%) Spring Boot
5 9 (3.19%) XML
6 7 (2.48%) JSON
6 7 (2.48%) pytest
7 6 (2.13%) .NET
7 6 (2.13%) ADO
8 5 (1.77%) Playwright
9 4 (1.42%) Middleware
10 3 (1.06%) JDBC
10 3 (1.06%) React
11 2 (0.71%) Gherkin
11 2 (0.71%) JPA
11 2 (0.71%) Kafka
11 2 (0.71%) OAuth
11 2 (0.71%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.71%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
1 18 (6.38%) Replication
2 12 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 11 (3.90%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (1.42%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.42%) Robotics
7 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.06%) SCADA
7 3 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.71%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.71%) IoT
8 2 (0.71%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.35%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.35%) FMCG
9 1 (0.35%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.93%) Linux
2 27 (9.57%) Unix
3 12 (4.26%) Windows
4 5 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (33.33%) Agile
2 76 (26.95%) ETL
3 68 (24.11%) CI/CD
4 58 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (19.15%) Migration
5 54 (19.15%) Test Automation
6 51 (18.09%) Scrum
7 47 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 43 (15.25%) Analytics
8 43 (15.25%) ERP
8 43 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (14.89%) Data Modelling
9 42 (14.89%) DevOps
10 35 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
11 32 (11.35%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (10.99%) Data Migration
12 31 (10.99%) Test Scripting
12 31 (10.99%) Validation
13 27 (9.57%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 115 (40.78%) SQL
2 28 (9.93%) Java
3 22 (7.80%) Python
4 20 (7.09%) PL/SQL
5 12 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.13%) Bash
7 5 (1.77%) Perl
8 4 (1.42%) VB
9 3 (1.06%) Bicep
9 3 (1.06%) HiveQL
9 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.71%) C#
10 2 (0.71%) PHP
10 2 (0.71%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.71%) VB6
11 1 (0.35%) COBOL
11 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.35%) Scala
11 1 (0.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 143 (50.71%) Security Cleared
2 135 (47.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.61%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.13%) Degree
5 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.42%) OCP
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.71%) ACCA
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.71%) CIMA
9 2 (0.71%) ISEB
9 2 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.71%) PMP
9 2 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.51%) QA
2 22 (7.80%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.19%) SLA
4 5 (1.77%) PMO
5 4 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.06%) FATCA
6 3 (1.06%) WCAG
7 2 (0.71%) GDPR
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.71%) ITGC
8 1 (0.35%) GAAP
8 1 (0.35%) IFRS
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (10.28%) Docker
2 18 (6.38%) GPFS
2 18 (6.38%) NFS
3 15 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.32%) vSphere
4 4 (1.42%) HDFS
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle Clusterware
5 3 (1.06%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.32%) vRealize
3 7 (2.48%) Grafana
4 5 (1.77%) Ansible
4 5 (1.77%) Terraform
5 4 (1.42%) Kibana
5 4 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.06%) Data Guard
6 3 (1.06%) VxRail
7 2 (0.71%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 65 (23.05%) Talend
2 38 (13.48%) Informatica
3 29 (10.28%) Denodo
4 21 (7.45%) Microsoft
4 21 (7.45%) SAP
5 18 (6.38%) IBM
5 18 (6.38%) ServiceNow
6 16 (5.67%) Cisco
7 15 (5.32%) VMware
8 7 (2.48%) Sage
9 6 (2.13%) Cloudera
9 6 (2.13%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.77%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.06%) Databricks
11 3 (1.06%) Splunk
12 2 (0.71%) Actian
12 2 (0.71%) PagerDuty
12 2 (0.71%) Remedy
12 2 (0.71%) webMethods