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 24 February 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
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 31 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -25
Contract jobs citing Oracle 276 114 98
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.46% 5.66% 3.60%
As % of the Vendors category 15.51% 11.75% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 82 67
10th Percentile £360 £321 £295
25th Percentile £425 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £497 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +4.53% -12.04%
75th Percentile £571 £608 £603
90th Percentile £645 £724 £643
England median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £15.30 - -
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 £41.86 £53.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.03% +103.85% -58.40%

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 1,779 970 1,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 48.11% 48.16% 46.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,149 635 799
10th Percentile £243 £200 £213
25th Percentile £381 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.48% -1.49%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £600
90th Percentile £641 £689 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 32 74
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £10.91
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.56 £12.28
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.76 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% +20.19% -11.13%
75th Percentile £25.15 £30.95 £23.75
90th Percentile £33.75 £35.00 £28.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.17 £26.03
% change year-on-year -23.57% +19.76% -21.12%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +7 240 £513 -2.38% 62
East Midlands -26 32 £525 +23.53% 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 71 (25.72%) SAS
2 15 (5.43%) WebLogic
3 9 (3.26%) Apache
3 9 (3.26%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) Tuxedo
5 2 (0.72%) Liferay
5 2 (0.72%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Geronimo
6 1 (0.36%) Apache ServiceMix
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.36%) CMS
6 1 (0.36%) Documentum
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.72%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.36%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 18 (6.52%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (4.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 13 (4.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (3.62%) Oracle Cash Management
4 9 (3.26%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (3.26%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (2.17%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (2.17%) Primavera
6 5 (1.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.72%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.72%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 62 (22.46%) AWS
2 28 (10.14%) Azure
3 17 (6.16%) OCI
4 7 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.54%) OpenShift
4 7 (2.54%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.17%) SaaS
6 4 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.45%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.72%) GCP
7 2 (0.72%) GitHub
7 2 (0.72%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.36%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.36%) IaaS
8 1 (0.36%) PaaS
8 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) VSAN
1 2 (0.72%) Wireless
2 1 (0.36%) BGP
2 1 (0.36%) DMVPN
2 1 (0.36%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.36%) Firewall
2 1 (0.36%) IPsec
2 1 (0.36%) OSPF
2 1 (0.36%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (18.84%) Oracle Database
2 51 (18.48%) Pentaho
3 36 (13.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 25 (9.06%) Oracle Reports
5 18 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (5.07%) MySQL
7 11 (3.99%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.26%) Metadata
8 9 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 8 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.54%) Power BI
11 4 (1.45%) Ingres
11 4 (1.45%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (1.09%) IDMS
12 3 (1.09%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.09%) SQLPlus
13 2 (0.72%) EDMS
13 2 (0.72%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 52 (18.84%) Git
2 46 (16.67%) JIRA
3 34 (12.32%) Jenkins
4 24 (8.70%) GitLab
5 12 (4.35%) Selenium
6 10 (3.62%) JUnit
7 9 (3.26%) Zephyr
8 8 (2.90%) Postman
9 6 (2.17%) Oracle APEX
10 5 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.45%) Toad
12 3 (1.09%) CA Gen
12 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.09%) Gatling
12 3 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.72%) JMeter
13 2 (0.72%) Maven
13 2 (0.72%) Mockito
14 1 (0.36%) Hudson
General
1 89 (32.25%) Social Skills
2 61 (22.10%) Finance
3 41 (14.86%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.35%) Local Government
5 11 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.62%) General Ledger
7 7 (2.54%) Legal
7 7 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Banking
10 4 (1.45%) Advertising
11 3 (1.09%) Back Office
11 3 (1.09%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Aeronautics
12 2 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Billing
13 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.36%) Marketing
13 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 49 (17.75%) Data Engineer
2 28 (10.14%) Analyst
3 23 (8.33%) Consultant
4 21 (7.61%) Architect
5 20 (7.25%) Lead
5 20 (7.25%) Senior
6 17 (6.16%) Release Manager
7 16 (5.80%) DBA
7 16 (5.80%) Storage Analyst
8 13 (4.71%) Oracle Consultant
8 13 (4.71%) SAS Engineer
9 12 (4.35%) Oracle DBA
10 11 (3.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 10 (3.62%) Accountant
11 10 (3.62%) Tester
12 9 (3.26%) Senior Accountant
13 8 (2.90%) Data Architect
13 8 (2.90%) Developer
13 8 (2.90%) Functional Consultant
13 8 (2.90%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (15.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (6.52%) Flash
3 12 (4.35%) REST
4 10 (3.62%) Spring
4 10 (3.62%) XML
5 9 (3.26%) Spring Boot
6 7 (2.54%) ADO
6 7 (2.54%) JSON
6 7 (2.54%) pytest
7 6 (2.17%) .NET
8 5 (1.81%) Middleware
8 5 (1.81%) Playwright
9 3 (1.09%) JDBC
9 3 (1.09%) React
9 3 (1.09%) Web Services
10 2 (0.72%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.72%) JPA
10 2 (0.72%) OAuth
10 2 (0.72%) Spring Batch
10 2 (0.72%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
1 18 (6.52%) Replication
2 12 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (3.62%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.62%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.09%) Robotics
5 3 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.72%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.36%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.36%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.36%) FMCG
7 1 (0.36%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.23%) Linux
2 26 (9.42%) Unix
3 15 (5.43%) Windows
4 5 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.61%) Agile
2 68 (24.64%) CI/CD
3 67 (24.28%) ETL
4 63 (22.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 54 (19.57%) Migration
6 52 (18.84%) Scrum
6 52 (18.84%) Test Automation
7 48 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (17.03%) Data Integration
8 47 (17.03%) ERP
9 46 (16.67%) Analytics
10 43 (15.58%) DevOps
11 42 (15.22%) Data Modelling
11 42 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (14.13%) Business Intelligence
13 34 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (11.23%) Data Migration
15 30 (10.87%) Enterprise Architecture
16 29 (10.51%) Validation
17 28 (10.14%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 109 (39.49%) SQL
2 26 (9.42%) Java
3 17 (6.16%) PL/SQL
3 17 (6.16%) Python
4 12 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 5 (1.81%) Perl
6 4 (1.45%) Bash
6 4 (1.45%) VB
7 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.72%) C#
8 2 (0.72%) PHP
8 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.72%) VB6
9 1 (0.36%) Bicep
9 1 (0.36%) COBOL
9 1 (0.36%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.36%) Scala
9 1 (0.36%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 137 (49.64%) Security Cleared
2 129 (46.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.99%) ISTQB
4 8 (2.90%) Degree
5 7 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.09%) ACCA
8 3 (1.09%) CIMA
8 3 (1.09%) OCP
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.72%) ISEB
9 2 (0.72%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.72%) PMP
9 2 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.61%) QA
3 8 (2.90%) SLA
4 4 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.45%) ISO 20022
4 4 (1.45%) PMO
5 3 (1.09%) FATCA
5 3 (1.09%) WCAG
6 2 (0.72%) ITGC
7 1 (0.36%) GAAP
7 1 (0.36%) IFRS
7 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 34 (12.32%) Docker
2 18 (6.52%) GPFS
2 18 (6.52%) NFS
3 15 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.43%) vSphere
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle Clusterware
4 3 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.72%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 48 (17.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.43%) vRealize
3 5 (1.81%) Grafana
4 4 (1.45%) Kibana
4 4 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (1.09%) Ansible
5 3 (1.09%) Data Guard
5 3 (1.09%) Terraform
6 2 (0.72%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.72%) VxRail
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 62 (22.46%) Talend
2 32 (11.59%) Denodo
3 29 (10.51%) Informatica
4 20 (7.25%) Cisco
5 19 (6.88%) SAP
6 18 (6.52%) IBM
6 18 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 17 (6.16%) Microsoft
8 15 (5.43%) VMware
9 9 (3.26%) Dynatrace
10 6 (2.17%) Sage
10 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.17%) Splunk
11 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
12 4 (1.45%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.72%) Actian
13 2 (0.72%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.72%) Remedy
13 2 (0.72%) webMethods