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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 27 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 418 169 160
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.45% 6.24% 5.92%
As % of the Vendors category 20.04% 12.53% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 123 107
10th Percentile £350 £360 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% -1.90% +2.44%
75th Percentile £544 £552 £675
90th Percentile £607 £673 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 3
10th Percentile £17.36 - £16.72
25th Percentile £17.82 - £19.30
Median hourly rate £48.75 - £23.60
75th Percentile £53.75 - £23.80
90th Percentile - - £23.92
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +11.23% +38.89% -55.24%

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 2,086 1,349 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 42.19% 49.78% 45.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 873 790
10th Percentile £306 £239 £227
25th Percentile £402 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
England median daily rate £515 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 62 29
10th Percentile £13.37 £15.74 £13.37
25th Percentile £14.56 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £19.29 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.30% +47.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £29.59 £31.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £56.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.38% -28.14% -20.16%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +13 339 £459 -12.57% 98
East Midlands +4 69 £550 +25.71% 62
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 28 (6.70%) Confluence
2 27 (6.46%) SAS
3 18 (4.31%) WebLogic
4 15 (3.59%) Oracle Workflow
5 6 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.44%) Tuxedo
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 23 (5.50%) Oracle Payables
2 22 (5.26%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (4.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 15 (3.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (3.11%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (1.67%) Oracle Financials
7 5 (1.20%) iTrent
7 5 (1.20%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.96%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.72%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.72%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.72%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.48%) Maximo
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle HRMS
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
11 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
11 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 94 (22.49%) AWS
2 53 (12.68%) OCI
3 38 (9.09%) Azure
4 14 (3.35%) PaaS
5 13 (3.11%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.91%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 7 (1.67%) GitHub
8 7 (1.67%) SaaS
9 6 (1.44%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (0.96%) Google Workspace
11 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.96%) Serverless
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.72%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) VSAN
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.24%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.24%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (11.72%) Oracle Reports
2 41 (9.81%) Pentaho
3 36 (8.61%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (8.61%) Oracle Database
4 26 (6.22%) SQL Server
5 21 (5.02%) MySQL
6 17 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (3.35%) MongoDB
8 13 (3.11%) Power BI
9 11 (2.63%) Ingres
9 11 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 9 (2.15%) Oracle Exadata
11 8 (1.91%) BusinessObjects
12 7 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.67%) SAS Enterprise Guide
12 7 (1.67%) SAS Visual Analytics
13 6 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 61 (14.59%) GitLab
2 60 (14.35%) JIRA
3 50 (11.96%) Git
4 27 (6.46%) Zephyr
5 23 (5.50%) Postman
6 16 (3.83%) Selenium
7 15 (3.59%) Oracle Forms
8 13 (3.11%) Maven
9 11 (2.63%) Artifactory
9 11 (2.63%) Jenkins
10 9 (2.15%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.15%) JUnit
11 8 (1.91%) Gatling
12 5 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.20%) Toad
13 4 (0.96%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
15 1 (0.24%) Gradle
15 1 (0.24%) Mockito
15 1 (0.24%) NeoLoad
General
1 98 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 95 (22.73%) Finance
3 72 (17.22%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (6.70%) Local Government
6 10 (2.39%) General Ledger
6 10 (2.39%) Police
7 7 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.44%) Billing
8 6 (1.44%) Military
8 6 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.20%) Legal
9 5 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.72%) Banking
10 3 (0.72%) Retail
11 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Advertising
12 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (13.16%) Data Engineer
2 51 (12.20%) Lead
3 38 (9.09%) Developer
4 34 (8.13%) Analyst
5 29 (6.94%) Administrator
6 27 (6.46%) Architect
7 24 (5.74%) Senior
8 23 (5.50%) Consultant
8 23 (5.50%) Oracle Consultant
9 20 (4.78%) DBA
10 19 (4.55%) Oracle Developer
11 18 (4.31%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.31%) Test Analyst
12 17 (4.07%) Finance Manager
12 17 (4.07%) Oracle Project Manager
12 17 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.35%) Trainer
14 13 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (3.11%) Release Manager
14 13 (3.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (33.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (4.78%) REST
3 15 (3.59%) .NET
4 13 (3.11%) JSON
4 13 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
5 12 (2.87%) React
5 12 (2.87%) SOAP
6 11 (2.63%) Middleware
7 9 (2.15%) Playwright
8 8 (1.91%) Spring
9 7 (1.67%) Web Services
9 7 (1.67%) XML
10 6 (1.44%) Flash
10 6 (1.44%) Terraform
11 5 (1.20%) ADO
11 5 (1.20%) COM
11 5 (1.20%) ODBC
12 4 (0.96%) OAuth
13 3 (0.72%) Kafka
13 3 (0.72%) Spring.NET
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
2 16 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (2.15%) Replication
4 8 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.44%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.44%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.20%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.20%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.96%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.96%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.96%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.96%) SCADA
8 4 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.72%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (7.66%) Linux
2 25 (5.98%) Unix
3 13 (3.11%) Windows
4 5 (1.20%) SUSE
5 2 (0.48%) AIX
5 2 (0.48%) HPUX
6 1 (0.24%) Solaris
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (30.38%) Agile
2 103 (24.64%) Migration
3 94 (22.49%) ETL
4 80 (19.14%) ERP
5 72 (17.22%) Data Migration
6 71 (16.99%) Test Automation
7 68 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (14.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 58 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (11.96%) Data Modelling
11 48 (11.48%) Validation
12 41 (9.81%) Mentoring
13 40 (9.57%) CI/CD
13 40 (9.57%) System Testing
14 39 (9.33%) Data Integration
15 37 (8.85%) Integration Testing
16 36 (8.61%) Scrum
17 35 (8.37%) End-to-End Testing
17 35 (8.37%) Test Scripting
17 35 (8.37%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 153 (36.60%) SQL
2 40 (9.57%) Java
3 36 (8.61%) PL/SQL
4 21 (5.02%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.78%) Python
6 14 (3.35%) C
7 11 (2.63%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.91%) ProC
9 6 (1.44%) VB
9 6 (1.44%) VB6
10 3 (0.72%) Bash
10 3 (0.72%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.48%) Bicep
11 2 (0.48%) R
12 1 (0.24%) C#
12 1 (0.24%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) COBOL
12 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 168 (40.19%) Security Cleared
2 152 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (5.98%) ISTQB
5 13 (3.11%) ACCA
5 13 (3.11%) CIMA
6 11 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (2.15%) Degree
7 9 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.15%) OCP
8 8 (1.91%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.44%) CCAB
10 5 (1.20%) ISEB
11 3 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.72%) PMP
12 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.24%) CIPFA
13 1 (0.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.81%) QA
2 27 (6.46%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.63%) GDPR
4 9 (2.15%) WCAG
5 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.44%) FATCA
7 4 (0.96%) SLA
8 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.48%) IFRS
9 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.24%) GMP
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) GxP
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (2.87%) Docker
2 6 (1.44%) GPFS
2 6 (1.44%) NFS
3 4 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.96%) vSphere
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.96%) Grafana
2 4 (0.96%) vRealize
3 3 (0.72%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.48%) Ansible
4 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.48%) VxRail
5 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
Vendors
1 68 (16.27%) Talend
2 43 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 36 (8.61%) Informatica
4 26 (6.22%) SAP
5 21 (5.02%) Denodo
6 14 (3.35%) IBM
7 9 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.20%) Actian
8 5 (1.20%) MathWorks
8 5 (1.20%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.20%) Sage
8 5 (1.20%) Siemens
8 5 (1.20%) Workday
9 4 (0.96%) Adobe
9 4 (0.96%) Cisco
9 4 (0.96%) Kronos
9 4 (0.96%) VMware
9 4 (0.96%) webMethods
10 3 (0.72%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.72%) Salesforce