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 8 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
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 32 32
Rank change year-on-year +15 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Oracle 434 147 128
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 9.17% 5.92% 4.85%
As % of the Vendors category 20.36% 12.74% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 111 89
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £403 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +1.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £638
90th Percentile £626 £688 £728
England median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.36%
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 £38.56 £37.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year +2.81% +28.01% -46.74%

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 2,132 1,154 1,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.06% 46.48% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 735 831
10th Percentile £308 £220 £263
25th Percentile £400 £340 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £656 £647 £688
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 61 37
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% +51.23% -26.09%
75th Percentile £34.42 £31.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -24.15%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +15 366 £459 -11.48% 48
East Midlands +8 59 £525 +28.05% 18
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 (15.21%) SAS
2 35 (8.06%) Confluence
3 20 (4.61%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (3.69%) WebLogic
5 15 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.30%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Apache
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.15%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (5.53%) Oracle Payables
1 24 (5.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (4.38%) Oracle General Ledger
2 19 (4.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (2.53%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (1.61%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.61%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.38%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.69%) iTrent
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 122 (28.11%) AWS
2 61 (14.06%) Azure
3 37 (8.53%) OCI
4 19 (4.38%) PaaS
5 18 (4.15%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.30%) GitHub
8 7 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.61%) Serverless
9 6 (1.38%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.38%) SaaS
10 5 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.15%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.61%) Firewall
2 5 (1.15%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.15%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.69%) SSL
3 3 (0.69%) VSAN
4 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (14.52%) Oracle Reports
2 60 (13.82%) Pentaho
3 48 (11.06%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (10.60%) Oracle Database
5 30 (6.91%) SQL Server
6 28 (6.45%) MySQL
7 23 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (4.15%) Power BI
9 16 (3.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 15 (3.46%) BusinessObjects
10 15 (3.46%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 11 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.53%) Ingres
11 11 (2.53%) Relational Database
12 9 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.84%) MongoDB
14 7 (1.61%) Metadata
14 7 (1.61%) Oracle Exadata
14 7 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 77 (17.74%) JIRA
2 64 (14.75%) GitLab
3 54 (12.44%) Git
4 34 (7.83%) Zephyr
5 29 (6.68%) Postman
6 22 (5.07%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.76%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (2.76%) Selenium
8 11 (2.53%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.61%) Maven
10 6 (1.38%) JUnit
11 5 (1.15%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.15%) Gatling
11 5 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.92%) CA Gen
12 4 (0.92%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.69%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.69%) Toad
14 2 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 106 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 103 (23.73%) Finance
3 81 (18.66%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.45%) Local Government
5 8 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (1.84%) Legal
6 7 (1.61%) General Ledger
6 7 (1.61%) Police
7 6 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.15%) Billing
8 5 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.69%) Advertising
9 3 (0.69%) Banking
9 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.69%) Retail
10 2 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (20.74%) Data Engineer
2 40 (9.22%) Lead
3 34 (7.83%) Architect
4 33 (7.60%) Analyst
5 29 (6.68%) Developer
6 26 (5.99%) Senior
7 24 (5.53%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.07%) DBA
9 21 (4.84%) Tester
10 20 (4.61%) Finance Manager
11 19 (4.38%) Administrator
12 18 (4.15%) Consultant
12 18 (4.15%) QA Tester
13 17 (3.92%) Oracle Developer
13 17 (3.92%) Project Manager
13 17 (3.92%) Release Manager
14 16 (3.69%) Test Analyst
15 15 (3.46%) Oracle Consultant
15 15 (3.46%) Oracle Project Manager
16 14 (3.23%) Finance Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (23.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (2.53%) REST
3 9 (2.07%) Middleware
4 8 (1.84%) .NET
4 8 (1.84%) Flash
5 7 (1.61%) JSON
6 6 (1.38%) SOAP
7 5 (1.15%) ADO
7 5 (1.15%) COM
7 5 (1.15%) Kafka
7 5 (1.15%) ODBC
7 5 (1.15%) Playwright
7 5 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.15%) React
8 4 (0.92%) Spring
8 4 (0.92%) Web Services
8 4 (0.92%) XML
9 2 (0.46%) PySpark
9 2 (0.46%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.76%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.53%) Replication
5 10 (2.30%) SCADA
6 9 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.84%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.15%) IoT
9 5 (1.15%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.92%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.92%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.92%) Robotics
11 3 (0.69%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.37%) Unix
2 38 (8.76%) Linux
3 10 (2.30%) Windows
4 5 (1.15%) SUSE
5 3 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.46%) HPUX
6 2 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (31.57%) Agile
2 132 (30.41%) ETL
3 115 (26.50%) Migration
4 87 (20.05%) Test Automation
5 82 (18.89%) ERP
6 75 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (16.36%) Data Migration
8 65 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (14.52%) Data Modelling
10 62 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 60 (13.82%) Data Integration
12 55 (12.67%) Validation
13 53 (12.21%) Analytics
14 50 (11.52%) DevOps
15 47 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
15 47 (10.83%) Scrum
15 47 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (8.99%) Integration Testing
17 39 (8.99%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 198 (45.62%) SQL
2 48 (11.06%) PL/SQL
3 30 (6.91%) Java
4 28 (6.45%) Python
5 15 (3.46%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.23%) C
6 14 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.30%) Bash
8 8 (1.84%) ProC
9 6 (1.38%) Bicep
9 6 (1.38%) VB
9 6 (1.38%) VB6
10 3 (0.69%) HiveQL
10 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.46%) Perl
11 2 (0.46%) R
12 1 (0.23%) C++
12 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 217 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 200 (46.08%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.45%) ISTQB
4 15 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.76%) Degree
5 12 (2.76%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.53%) ACCA
6 11 (2.53%) CIMA
7 10 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.30%) OCP
8 5 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.92%) ISEB
10 3 (0.69%) CCAB
11 2 (0.46%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.46%) PMP
12 1 (0.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.45%) QA
2 35 (8.06%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.30%) GDPR
4 7 (1.61%) SLA
5 6 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.38%) FATCA
5 6 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.38%) WCAG
6 3 (0.69%) IFRS
6 3 (0.69%) PMO
6 3 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) GAAP
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 20 (4.61%) Docker
2 8 (1.84%) GPFS
2 8 (1.84%) NFS
3 7 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.38%) vSphere
5 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.69%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.69%) HDFS
6 3 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 38 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.07%) Terraform
3 7 (1.61%) Grafana
4 6 (1.38%) vRealize
5 4 (0.92%) Ansible
6 3 (0.69%) VxRail
7 2 (0.46%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.23%) SELinux
8 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 96 (22.12%) Talend
2 58 (13.36%) Informatica
3 49 (11.29%) Microsoft
4 41 (9.45%) Denodo
5 30 (6.91%) SAP
6 14 (3.23%) IBM
7 12 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.30%) Cloudera
8 10 (2.30%) Sage
9 9 (2.07%) VMware
10 7 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.38%) Cisco
11 6 (1.38%) Databricks
12 5 (1.15%) Actian
12 5 (1.15%) MathWorks
12 5 (1.15%) Siemens
13 4 (0.92%) Workday
14 3 (0.69%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.69%) JD Edwards
14 3 (0.69%) Salesforce