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 30 November 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
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 -24
Contract jobs citing Oracle 230 153 112
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.58% 5.96% 4.14%
As % of the Vendors category 14.85% 13.16% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 101 70
10th Percentile £360 £410 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £529 £471
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +12.25% -12.41%
75th Percentile £575 £713 £638
90th Percentile £670 £765 £727
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £20.50 - £67.50
25th Percentile £21.25 - £74.06
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.60 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% -73.03% +37.25%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £92.50
90th Percentile £24.50 - £93.75
England median hourly rate £39.68 £27.10 £59.00
% change year-on-year +46.44% -54.08% -1.67%

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 1,549 1,163 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 51.04% 45.29% 52.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 729 934
10th Percentile £258 £220 £213
25th Percentile £373 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £599
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 31 44
10th Percentile £16.25 £12.92 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.89 £15.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.32 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +36.46% -7.24% +12.66%
75th Percentile £30.00 £32.01 £30.19
90th Percentile £50.00 £48.75 £69.63
England median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%

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 30 November 2025.

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
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 30 November 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 +4 192 £525 -4.55% 45
East Midlands -11 35 £513 +20.59% 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 64 (27.83%) SAS
2 18 (7.83%) WebLogic
3 15 (6.52%) Apache
4 10 (4.35%) Oracle Workflow
5 8 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.74%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.87%) Confluence
7 2 (0.87%) FileNet
7 2 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.43%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.43%) CICS
8 1 (0.43%) CMS
8 1 (0.43%) Documentum
8 1 (0.43%) IIS
8 1 (0.43%) JBoss
8 1 (0.43%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.43%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.87%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.43%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 15 (6.52%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (4.35%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (3.91%) Oracle Cash Management
3 9 (3.91%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (2.61%) Primavera
5 5 (2.17%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (1.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (1.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle HRMS
8 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.87%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.87%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (22.61%) AWS
2 39 (16.96%) Azure
3 14 (6.09%) Azure Monitor
4 9 (3.91%) OCI
5 7 (3.04%) PaaS
5 7 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.61%) OpenShift
7 4 (1.74%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.74%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.30%) ChatGPT
8 3 (1.30%) GitHub
8 3 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.87%) GCP
9 2 (0.87%) SaaS
9 2 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.87%) BGP
1 2 (0.87%) DMVPN
1 2 (0.87%) EIGRP
1 2 (0.87%) Firewall
1 2 (0.87%) IPsec
1 2 (0.87%) OSPF
1 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
1 2 (0.87%) Wireless
1 2 (0.87%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.43%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (0.43%) VLAN
2 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (17.83%) Oracle Database
1 41 (17.83%) Pentaho
2 35 (15.22%) SAS Enterprise Guide
3 15 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (4.78%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 8 (3.48%) MySQL
5 8 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.61%) Metadata
7 6 (2.61%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.61%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.17%) Power BI
8 5 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.74%) DB2
9 4 (1.74%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 3 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
10 3 (1.30%) OLTP
11 2 (0.87%) EDMS
11 2 (0.87%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Git
2 42 (18.26%) JIRA
3 39 (16.96%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.96%) GitLab
5 13 (5.65%) Selenium
6 9 (3.91%) JUnit
7 4 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.74%) Maven
7 4 (1.74%) Oracle APEX
7 4 (1.74%) Toad
8 3 (1.30%) Gatling
9 2 (0.87%) Mockito
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.87%) TestPartner
10 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.43%) Gradle
10 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 89 (38.70%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.48%) Finance
3 35 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.39%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (3.91%) General Ledger
7 6 (2.61%) Banking
8 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.74%) Local Government
10 3 (1.30%) Back Office
10 3 (1.30%) Marketing
10 3 (1.30%) Retail
10 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.87%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.87%) Electronics
12 1 (0.43%) Advertising
12 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (10.87%) Data Engineer
2 21 (9.13%) Analyst
3 17 (7.39%) Consultant
3 17 (7.39%) Lead
3 17 (7.39%) Release Manager
4 15 (6.52%) Senior
5 11 (4.78%) Developer
6 10 (4.35%) Test Analyst
7 9 (3.91%) DBA
7 9 (3.91%) Oracle DBA
7 9 (3.91%) Oracle Specialist
7 9 (3.91%) Project Manager
8 8 (3.48%) Monitoring Engineer
8 8 (3.48%) Oracle Consultant
8 8 (3.48%) Oracle Project Manager
8 8 (3.48%) SAS Engineer
9 7 (3.04%) Functional Consultant
9 7 (3.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.04%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.78%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (4.78%) .NET
2 11 (4.78%) Flash
2 11 (4.78%) REST
3 8 (3.48%) Spring
3 8 (3.48%) Spring Boot
4 6 (2.61%) XML
5 5 (2.17%) JSON
5 5 (2.17%) Playwright
5 5 (2.17%) pytest
6 4 (1.74%) Middleware
6 4 (1.74%) SOAP
7 3 (1.30%) React
7 3 (1.30%) WireMock
8 2 (0.87%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.87%) JPA
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth
8 2 (0.87%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.87%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (4.78%) Replication
3 6 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.30%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.30%) SCADA
6 3 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.87%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) FMCG
8 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (13.48%) Linux
2 26 (11.30%) Windows
3 21 (9.13%) Unix
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (31.74%) Agile
2 71 (30.87%) Analytics
2 71 (30.87%) CI/CD
3 57 (24.78%) Business Intelligence
3 57 (24.78%) DevOps
4 55 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (23.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (22.17%) Test Automation
7 50 (21.74%) Scrum
8 49 (21.30%) Migration
9 48 (20.87%) Data Integration
10 45 (19.57%) ETL
11 40 (17.39%) Data Modelling
12 38 (16.52%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (16.09%) Test Strategy
14 34 (14.78%) ERP
15 32 (13.91%) Deployment Automation
16 31 (13.48%) Data Virtualisation
17 28 (12.17%) Data Analytics
18 26 (11.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (38.26%) SQL
2 19 (8.26%) Java
3 13 (5.65%) PL/SQL
3 13 (5.65%) Python
4 7 (3.04%) C#
4 7 (3.04%) PHP
4 7 (3.04%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.87%) COBOL
7 2 (0.87%) Scala
8 1 (0.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.43%) C
8 1 (0.43%) JCL
8 1 (0.43%) Korn
8 1 (0.43%) Perl
8 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 96 (41.74%) Security Cleared
2 86 (37.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.61%) Degree
4 4 (1.74%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.30%) ACCA
5 3 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.30%) CIMA
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (0.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.87%) CCNP
6 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.87%) ISEB
6 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.87%) OCP
6 2 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.17%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.22%) QA
3 11 (4.78%) SLA
4 5 (2.17%) PMO
5 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.74%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.30%) WCAG
7 2 (0.87%) GDPR
8 1 (0.43%) ITGC
8 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 47 (20.43%) Docker
2 11 (4.78%) GPFS
2 11 (4.78%) NFS
2 11 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
2 11 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (4.78%) vSphere
3 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (22.17%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.78%) vRealize
3 4 (1.74%) Grafana
3 4 (1.74%) Kibana
4 3 (1.30%) Ansible
4 3 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.87%) Data Guard
5 2 (0.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 2 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) Talend
2 33 (14.35%) Denodo
3 26 (11.30%) Cisco
4 20 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 17 (7.39%) IBM
6 16 (6.96%) Dynatrace
6 16 (6.96%) SAP
6 16 (6.96%) Splunk
7 14 (6.09%) AppDynamics
8 12 (5.22%) ServiceNow
9 11 (4.78%) VMware
10 8 (3.48%) Informatica
11 5 (2.17%) Adobe
12 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
12 3 (1.30%) webMethods
12 3 (1.30%) Workday
13 2 (0.87%) Ariba
13 2 (0.87%) Juniper
13 2 (0.87%) PagerDuty
13 2 (0.87%) SolarWinds