Oracle Contracts 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 6 July 2025, 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 38 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 116 121 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.04% 4.08% 6.31%
As % of the Vendors category 10.90% 9.44% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 81 115
10th Percentile £317 £350 £350
25th Percentile £385 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £428 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £613
90th Percentile £638 £700 £731
England median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £18.50 £41.00
25th Percentile - £23.00 £70.00
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.75
Median % change year-on-year - -66.98% +125.00%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £92.50
90th Percentile - - £93.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year +44.23% -55.62% +67.40%

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 1,064 1,282 1,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.22% 43.24% 50.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 838 1,123
10th Percentile £200 £230 £211
25th Percentile £325 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £675 £700
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 81 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £10.93 £12.79
25th Percentile £15.11 £12.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.66 £15.61 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year +58.03% -30.27% +20.97%
75th Percentile £31.00 £26.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £50.00 £45.50 £92.25
England median hourly rate £25.40 £25.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year +1.60% -23.66% +52.33%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in the Midlands

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in the Midlands

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in the Midlands

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 2025. 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 77 £475 - 248
East Midlands -6 35 £391 -8.00% 140
Oracle
England

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.62%) Oracle Self-Service HR
1 10 (8.62%) Oracle Workflow
2 5 (4.31%) WebLogic
3 3 (2.59%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (2.59%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.72%) CICS
4 2 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (1.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.86%) MS Project Server
5 1 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.86%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Oracle HRMS
2 5 (4.31%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (4.31%) SAP PM
3 4 (3.45%) NetSuite
3 4 (3.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle iProcurement
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (1.72%) Primavera
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.86%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.66%) Azure
2 15 (12.93%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) OCI
4 6 (5.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (5.17%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.31%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.31%) Collibra
6 4 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 4 (3.45%) Serverless
7 3 (2.59%) SaaS
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.45%) Firewall
1 4 (3.45%) HTTP
1 4 (3.45%) SAN
2 3 (2.59%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.59%) SSL
3 2 (1.72%) IPsec
4 1 (0.86%) BGP
4 1 (0.86%) Converged Networks
4 1 (0.86%) DMVPN
4 1 (0.86%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.86%) Network Security
4 1 (0.86%) OSPF
4 1 (0.86%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (0.86%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.86%) VLAN
4 1 (0.86%) VPN
4 1 (0.86%) WAN
4 1 (0.86%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.10%) Oracle Database
2 15 (12.93%) SQL Server
3 14 (12.07%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (9.48%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.62%) MySQL
6 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (5.17%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.17%) Power BI
8 5 (4.31%) DB2
8 5 (4.31%) GIS
9 3 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.59%) OLTP
10 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.86%) Oracle Discoverer
11 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) JIRA
2 14 (12.07%) Git
3 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.17%) Maven
5 3 (2.59%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.59%) JUnit
5 3 (2.59%) Selenium
6 2 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.72%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.72%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.72%) Mockito
6 2 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.72%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.72%) TestPartner
7 1 (0.86%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.86%) WebDriver
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (25.86%) Finance
3 24 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.72%) Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Electronics
8 2 (1.72%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.72%) Law
8 2 (1.72%) Marketing
8 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Developer
2 12 (10.34%) Lead
3 11 (9.48%) Oracle Specialist
3 11 (9.48%) Senior
4 10 (8.62%) Tester
5 8 (6.90%) Analyst
6 7 (6.03%) Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Consultant
6 7 (6.03%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.17%) Administrator
8 4 (3.45%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.45%) DBA
8 4 (3.45%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (3.45%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.45%) Team Leader
8 4 (3.45%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.59%) AWS Developer
9 3 (2.59%) Data Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (10.34%) REST
3 10 (8.62%) .NET
4 8 (6.90%) React
4 8 (6.90%) Spring
5 7 (6.03%) Kafka
5 7 (6.03%) Middleware
6 6 (5.17%) HTML
6 6 (5.17%) Spring Boot
7 5 (4.31%) CSS
7 5 (4.31%) Web Services
8 4 (3.45%) JSON
8 4 (3.45%) RAML
8 4 (3.45%) XML
9 3 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.59%) JPA
9 3 (2.59%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (2.59%) RESTful
9 3 (2.59%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.34%) SCADA
3 8 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.31%) IoT
6 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.59%) State Machine
8 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.72%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.72%) VSAM
9 1 (0.86%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.86%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.48%) Unix
2 10 (8.62%) Linux
3 5 (4.31%) AIX
4 4 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.17%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (21.55%) Agile
3 23 (19.83%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (18.10%) ITIL
5 18 (15.52%) CI/CD
6 15 (12.93%) Scrum
7 14 (12.07%) ERP
7 14 (12.07%) Migration
8 13 (11.21%) Test Strategy
9 12 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (10.34%) Microservices
9 12 (10.34%) Scenario Testing
9 12 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (10.34%) Workflow
10 11 (9.48%) ETL
11 10 (8.62%) Defect Management
11 10 (8.62%) DevOps
11 10 (8.62%) Project Management
11 10 (8.62%) Validation
12 9 (7.76%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.52%) SQL
2 19 (16.38%) Java
3 16 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.07%) PL/SQL
5 11 (9.48%) Python
6 8 (6.90%) C#
7 5 (4.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 4 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.72%) Bicep
9 2 (1.72%) C
9 2 (1.72%) COBOL
9 2 (1.72%) JCL
9 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.72%) R
9 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.72%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.86%) Bash
10 1 (0.86%) Korn
10 1 (0.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) Oracle Certification
3 6 (5.17%) Degree
3 6 (5.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.31%) OCP
5 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.59%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CCNA
8 1 (0.86%) CCNP
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.86%) ISEB
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.86%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.86%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) SLA
2 12 (10.34%) QA
3 11 (9.48%) GDPR
4 9 (7.76%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.72%) PMO
7 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.86%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.31%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.31%) HP ALM
3 4 (3.45%) Tivoli
3 4 (3.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (1.72%) Data Guard
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.72%) Terraform
5 1 (0.86%) Ansible
5 1 (0.86%) CA Wily
5 1 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.07%) SAP
3 7 (6.03%) MuleSoft
4 6 (5.17%) Databricks
4 6 (5.17%) HP
4 6 (5.17%) IBM
4 6 (5.17%) Informatica
5 5 (4.31%) VMware
6 4 (3.45%) CyberArk
7 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.72%) Cognos
8 2 (1.72%) webMethods
9 1 (0.86%) Cisco
9 1 (0.86%) Civica
9 1 (0.86%) Google
9 1 (0.86%) Juniper
9 1 (0.86%) Micro Focus
9 1 (0.86%) Remedy
9 1 (0.86%) Teradata
9 1 (0.86%) Trillium