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 27 July 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 37 34
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 421 121 113
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 9.07% 4.97% 4.12%
As % of the Vendors category 20.28% 10.99% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 90 79
10th Percentile £350 £340 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% - -12.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £588
90th Percentile £619 £663 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 3
10th Percentile £17.97 - £16.00
25th Percentile £42.50 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £22.00
90th Percentile - - £23.20
England median hourly rate £39.50 £37.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +5.33% -2.60% -28.37%

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 2,076 1,101 1,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.73% 45.23% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 697 849
10th Percentile £306 £210 £255
25th Percentile £400 £325 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £567 £569 £600
90th Percentile £656 £644 £675
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 61 44
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.81 £11.64
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.38 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.15 £15.33
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% +64.11% -31.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £31.00 £33.56
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.88
England median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +25 358 £459 -3.37% 50
East Midlands +5 55 £525 +25.75% 13
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 66 (15.68%) SAS
2 36 (8.55%) Confluence
3 18 (4.28%) Oracle Workflow
4 17 (4.04%) WebLogic
5 15 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.38%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.48%) Apache
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.24%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.19%) Notepad++
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (5.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 22 (5.23%) Oracle Payables
3 19 (4.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 18 (4.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (1.66%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.66%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (1.43%) Oracle HRMS
8 3 (0.71%) iTrent
8 3 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payroll
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.24%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
10 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 116 (27.55%) AWS
2 58 (13.78%) Azure
3 32 (7.60%) OCI
4 19 (4.51%) PaaS
5 16 (3.80%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.38%) GitHub
8 6 (1.43%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (1.43%) SaaS
8 6 (1.43%) Serverless
9 5 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (0.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.66%) Firewall
2 5 (1.19%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.19%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.71%) SSL
3 3 (0.71%) VSAN
4 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.73%) Pentaho
2 61 (14.49%) Oracle Reports
3 50 (11.88%) Oracle Database
4 47 (11.16%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (7.13%) SQL Server
6 26 (6.18%) MySQL
7 20 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (4.28%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 16 (3.80%) Power BI
9 16 (3.80%) Relational Database
10 14 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
10 14 (3.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 13 (3.09%) Ingres
12 11 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.90%) Metadata
14 8 (1.90%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.66%) MongoDB
16 5 (1.19%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 73 (17.34%) JIRA
2 64 (15.20%) GitLab
3 48 (11.40%) Git
4 32 (7.60%) Zephyr
5 26 (6.18%) Postman
6 21 (4.99%) Jenkins
7 11 (2.61%) Artifactory
7 11 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (2.38%) Selenium
9 7 (1.66%) Maven
10 6 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.95%) CA Gen
11 4 (0.95%) JUnit
11 4 (0.95%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.71%) Toad
13 2 (0.48%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.48%) Gatling
General
1 99 (23.52%) Finance
1 99 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.29%) Public Sector
3 42 (9.98%) Local Government
4 37 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (2.14%) Legal
6 8 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.66%) Police
8 5 (1.19%) Billing
8 5 (1.19%) General Ledger
8 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (0.71%) Advertising
10 3 (0.71%) Banking
10 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.71%) Retail
11 2 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 92 (21.85%) Data Engineer
2 41 (9.74%) Lead
3 32 (7.60%) Architect
4 31 (7.36%) Analyst
5 30 (7.13%) Developer
6 26 (6.18%) Senior
7 20 (4.75%) DBA
7 20 (4.75%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (4.75%) Tester
8 19 (4.51%) Finance Manager
9 18 (4.28%) QA Tester
10 17 (4.04%) Administrator
10 17 (4.04%) Oracle Developer
10 17 (4.04%) Release Manager
11 16 (3.80%) Project Manager
11 16 (3.80%) Test Analyst
12 15 (3.56%) Accountant
12 15 (3.56%) Consultant
13 14 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
13 14 (3.33%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (22.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.38%) Middleware
3 9 (2.14%) Flash
4 8 (1.90%) REST
4 8 (1.90%) XML
5 7 (1.66%) ADO
5 7 (1.66%) JSON
6 6 (1.43%) COM
6 6 (1.43%) ODBC
7 5 (1.19%) .NET
7 5 (1.19%) Web Services
8 4 (0.95%) Kafka
9 3 (0.71%) Spring
9 3 (0.71%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.48%) Playwright
10 2 (0.48%) pytest
10 2 (0.48%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.48%) React
10 2 (0.48%) SOAP
11 1 (0.24%) ActiveX
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.51%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 11 (2.61%) Cloud Native
3 11 (2.61%) Replication
4 10 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.14%) SCADA
6 8 (1.90%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.43%) Low-Code
8 4 (0.95%) IoT
8 4 (0.95%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.95%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.95%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.95%) Robotics
9 3 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.64%) Unix
2 41 (9.74%) Linux
3 10 (2.38%) Windows
4 5 (1.19%) SUSE
5 3 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.48%) HPUX
7 1 (0.24%) AIX
7 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (31.35%) ETL
2 131 (31.12%) Agile
3 112 (26.60%) Migration
4 83 (19.71%) Test Automation
5 73 (17.34%) ERP
5 73 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (16.63%) Data Migration
7 63 (14.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (14.25%) Data Modelling
9 59 (14.01%) CI/CD
9 59 (14.01%) Data Integration
10 58 (13.78%) Validation
11 50 (11.88%) DevOps
12 46 (10.93%) Scrum
13 45 (10.69%) Analytics
13 45 (10.69%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (9.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (8.55%) Test Scripting
16 35 (8.31%) Integration Testing
16 35 (8.31%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 201 (47.74%) SQL
2 49 (11.64%) PL/SQL
3 32 (7.60%) Java
4 29 (6.89%) Python
5 18 (4.28%) Shell Script
6 14 (3.33%) C
7 10 (2.38%) Bash
7 10 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.90%) ProC
8 8 (1.90%) VB
9 7 (1.66%) VB6
10 5 (1.19%) Bicep
11 3 (0.71%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.24%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 222 (52.73%) Security Cleared
2 205 (48.69%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.41%) ISTQB
4 16 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.85%) Degree
6 10 (2.38%) ACCA
6 10 (2.38%) CIMA
6 10 (2.38%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.90%) OCP
8 6 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.95%) ISEB
10 3 (0.71%) CCAB
11 2 (0.48%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.48%) PMP
12 1 (0.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.50%) QA
2 31 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.14%) FATCA
3 9 (2.14%) GDPR
4 8 (1.90%) SLA
5 5 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.71%) IFRS
6 3 (0.71%) PMO
6 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.24%) GAAP
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (3.56%) Docker
2 9 (2.14%) GPFS
2 9 (2.14%) NFS
3 7 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.43%) vSphere
5 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.71%) HDFS
6 3 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 32 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.90%) Terraform
3 7 (1.66%) Grafana
4 6 (1.43%) vRealize
5 4 (0.95%) Ansible
6 3 (0.71%) VxRail
7 2 (0.48%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.48%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.24%) SELinux
8 1 (0.24%) systemd
Vendors
1 98 (23.28%) Talend
2 59 (14.01%) Informatica
3 45 (10.69%) Microsoft
4 41 (9.74%) Denodo
5 29 (6.89%) SAP
6 15 (3.56%) IBM
7 13 (3.09%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.38%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.38%) Sage
9 9 (2.14%) VMware
10 8 (1.90%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.43%) Actian
11 6 (1.43%) Cisco
12 5 (1.19%) Databricks
12 5 (1.19%) MathWorks
12 5 (1.19%) Siemens
13 4 (0.95%) Workday
14 3 (0.71%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.71%) Google
14 3 (0.71%) Salesforce