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 20 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 33 29
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 -6
Contract jobs citing Oracle 430 143 142
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 9.12% 5.72% 5.31%
As % of the Vendors category 20.37% 12.27% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 106 99
10th Percentile £350 £354 £350
25th Percentile £401 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% -2.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £643
90th Percentile £600 £681 £750
England median daily rate £525 £515 £543
% change year-on-year +1.94% -5.07% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 3
10th Percentile £17.60 - £16.00
25th Percentile £17.97 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £22.00
90th Percentile - - £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.25 £37.50 £29.30
% change year-on-year +7.33% +28.01% -50.00%

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 2,111 1,165 1,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.79% 46.60% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 751 823
10th Percentile £313 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £569 £600
90th Percentile £656 £638 £688
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 57 37
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.81 £12.75
25th Percentile £15.63 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.62 £25.15 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +49.52% -25.24%
75th Percentile £33.99 £31.00 £38.75
90th Percentile £60.95 £50.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +13 353 £459 -11.48% 104
East Midlands +8 66 £525 +28.05% 24
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 52 (12.09%) SAS
2 33 (7.67%) Confluence
3 22 (5.12%) Oracle Workflow
4 16 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
5 14 (3.26%) WebLogic
6 10 (2.33%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.23%) Apache
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.16%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (5.81%) Oracle Payables
1 25 (5.81%) Oracle Receivables
2 20 (4.65%) Oracle General Ledger
3 19 (4.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (2.79%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (1.63%) NetSuite
5 7 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (1.40%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.70%) iTrent
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 112 (26.05%) AWS
2 57 (13.26%) Azure
3 39 (9.07%) OCI
4 20 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.42%) PaaS
6 12 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (2.33%) GitHub
8 7 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.63%) SaaS
8 7 (1.63%) Serverless
9 6 (1.40%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (0.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.63%) Firewall
2 5 (1.16%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.16%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.70%) SSL
3 3 (0.70%) VSAN
4 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.42%) Oracle Reports
2 51 (11.86%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (11.40%) Pentaho
4 41 (9.53%) Oracle Database
5 30 (6.98%) SQL Server
6 28 (6.51%) MySQL
7 23 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (4.65%) Power BI
9 16 (3.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 16 (3.72%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 15 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
11 12 (2.79%) Relational Database
12 11 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.56%) Ingres
13 9 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.86%) Oracle Exadata
15 7 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (1.63%) Metadata
15 7 (1.63%) RDBMS
16 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 73 (16.98%) JIRA
2 62 (14.42%) GitLab
3 49 (11.40%) Git
4 37 (8.60%) Zephyr
5 32 (7.44%) Postman
6 16 (3.72%) Jenkins
7 14 (3.26%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (2.56%) Artifactory
8 11 (2.56%) Selenium
9 7 (1.63%) Maven
10 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.16%) Gatling
10 5 (1.16%) JUnit
10 5 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.93%) CA Gen
11 4 (0.93%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.70%) Toad
13 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 106 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 103 (23.95%) Finance
3 75 (17.44%) Public Sector
4 44 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (8.84%) Local Government
6 8 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.86%) General Ledger
6 8 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.63%) Police
8 5 (1.16%) Billing
8 5 (1.16%) Legal
8 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.70%) Advertising
10 3 (0.70%) Banking
10 3 (0.70%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.47%) Military
12 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (17.91%) Data Engineer
2 43 (10.00%) Lead
3 36 (8.37%) Analyst
4 29 (6.74%) Architect
5 28 (6.51%) Developer
6 23 (5.35%) Consultant
6 23 (5.35%) Senior
6 23 (5.35%) Tester
7 22 (5.12%) DBA
8 21 (4.88%) Oracle Consultant
8 21 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (4.65%) Finance Manager
9 20 (4.65%) QA Tester
10 19 (4.42%) Administrator
10 19 (4.42%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.19%) Release Manager
12 17 (3.95%) Oracle Developer
12 17 (3.95%) Oracle Project Manager
12 17 (3.95%) Test Analyst
13 14 (3.26%) Finance Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (26.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.33%) REST
3 9 (2.09%) Middleware
4 8 (1.86%) .NET
4 8 (1.86%) Flash
4 8 (1.86%) Terraform
5 7 (1.63%) JSON
6 6 (1.40%) SOAP
7 5 (1.16%) ADO
7 5 (1.16%) COM
7 5 (1.16%) Kafka
7 5 (1.16%) ODBC
7 5 (1.16%) Playwright
7 5 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
7 5 (1.16%) React
8 4 (0.93%) Web Services
8 4 (0.93%) XML
9 2 (0.47%) PySpark
9 2 (0.47%) Spring
10 1 (0.23%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.56%) Replication
5 10 (2.33%) SCADA
6 6 (1.40%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.16%) IoT
7 5 (1.16%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.16%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.93%) e-Learning
8 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.93%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.93%) Robotics
9 3 (0.70%) Learning Management System
9 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (10.00%) Unix
2 36 (8.37%) Linux
3 10 (2.33%) Windows
4 5 (1.16%) SUSE
5 3 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.47%) HPUX
7 1 (0.23%) AIX
7 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (30.70%) Agile
2 124 (28.84%) ETL
3 119 (27.67%) Migration
4 83 (19.30%) Test Automation
5 79 (18.37%) ERP
6 75 (17.44%) Data Migration
7 69 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (13.02%) CI/CD
8 56 (13.02%) Data Modelling
9 54 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (12.56%) Validation
10 52 (12.09%) Data Integration
11 50 (11.63%) Analytics
11 50 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 45 (10.47%) DevOps
13 41 (9.53%) Integration Testing
13 41 (9.53%) System Testing
14 39 (9.07%) End-to-End Testing
14 39 (9.07%) Scrum
14 39 (9.07%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 186 (43.26%) SQL
2 48 (11.16%) PL/SQL
3 28 (6.51%) Java
4 24 (5.58%) Python
5 15 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.26%) C
7 12 (2.79%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.86%) ProC
9 6 (1.40%) Bash
9 6 (1.40%) VB
9 6 (1.40%) VB6
10 5 (1.16%) Bicep
11 3 (0.70%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 206 (47.91%) Security Cleared
2 190 (44.19%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) ISTQB
4 16 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.79%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.56%) ACCA
6 11 (2.56%) CIMA
6 11 (2.56%) Degree
7 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.33%) OCP
8 8 (1.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.93%) ISEB
10 3 (0.70%) CCAB
10 3 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (0.70%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.70%) PMP
11 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.23%) CIPFA
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (10.23%) QA
2 31 (7.21%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.02%) GDPR
4 6 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 6 (1.40%) FATCA
4 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.40%) SLA
4 6 (1.40%) WCAG
5 3 (0.70%) PMO
6 2 (0.47%) IFRS
6 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) GRC
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 15 (3.49%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) GPFS
2 8 (1.86%) NFS
3 7 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.40%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (1.40%) vSphere
5 4 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.70%) HDFS
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 29 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.63%) Grafana
3 6 (1.40%) vRealize
4 4 (0.93%) Ansible
5 3 (0.70%) VxRail
6 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
6 2 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.23%) SELinux
7 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 81 (18.84%) Talend
2 51 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 49 (11.40%) Informatica
4 34 (7.91%) Denodo
5 30 (6.98%) SAP
6 14 (3.26%) IBM
7 12 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.33%) Sage
9 9 (2.09%) VMware
10 6 (1.40%) Cisco
10 6 (1.40%) Cloudera
10 6 (1.40%) Databricks
11 5 (1.16%) Actian
11 5 (1.16%) MathWorks
11 5 (1.16%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.16%) Siemens
11 5 (1.16%) Workday
12 3 (0.70%) JD Edwards
12 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.70%) webMethods