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 22 April 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
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 34 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing Oracle 303 94 102
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.37% 4.93% 3.76%
As % of the Vendors category 16.01% 10.83% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 74 70
10th Percentile £352 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% -11.71%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £605
90th Percentile £638 £661 £689
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £18.24 - £22.75
25th Percentile £23.75 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.55 - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £41.70 £26.00
% change year-on-year +0.37% +60.38% -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 1,893 868 1,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 46.02% 45.54% 42.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 578 739
10th Percentile £263 £198 £213
25th Percentile £388 £331 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £640 £664 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 36 80
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.59 £10.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.36 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +36.20% +17.62% -22.75%
75th Percentile £47.50 £25.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.00 £31.76 £46.14
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -44.44%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +15 271 £468 -8.46% 37
East Midlands -27 28 £525 +23.53% 37
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 65 (21.45%) SAS
2 18 (5.94%) Confluence
3 15 (4.95%) WebLogic
4 11 (3.63%) Oracle Workflow
5 10 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.98%) Apache
6 6 (1.98%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (1.32%) Tuxedo
8 2 (0.66%) Liferay
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Geronimo
9 1 (0.33%) Apache ServiceMix
9 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.65%) Notepad++
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (4.95%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (3.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (3.30%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (3.30%) Oracle General Ledger
3 10 (3.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (1.98%) Oracle HRMS
5 5 (1.65%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.66%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.33%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 80 (26.40%) AWS
2 40 (13.20%) Azure
3 17 (5.61%) OCI
4 9 (2.97%) Power Platform
5 8 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (1.98%) PaaS
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.32%) GitHub
7 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.32%) SaaS
7 4 (1.32%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (0.99%) Serverless
9 2 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.98%) Firewall
2 5 (1.65%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.65%) WinSCP
3 4 (1.32%) VSAN
4 3 (0.99%) SSL
5 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (17.49%) Oracle Reports
2 52 (17.16%) Pentaho
3 41 (13.53%) Oracle Database
4 36 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (6.93%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 17 (5.61%) MySQL
7 14 (4.62%) SQL Server
8 12 (3.96%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (2.97%) Metadata
11 9 (2.97%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.97%) Power BI
11 9 (2.97%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 8 (2.64%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.65%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
15 4 (1.32%) IDMS
15 4 (1.32%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 55 (18.15%) JIRA
2 40 (13.20%) Git
3 35 (11.55%) GitLab
4 24 (7.92%) Zephyr
5 22 (7.26%) Postman
6 21 (6.93%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.97%) Selenium
8 6 (1.98%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.32%) CA Gen
10 4 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.32%) Toad
11 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.66%) JMeter
12 2 (0.66%) JUnit
13 1 (0.33%) Gatling
13 1 (0.33%) Hudson
General
1 76 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 59 (19.47%) Finance
3 48 (15.84%) Public Sector
4 30 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.25%) Local Government
6 11 (3.63%) Legal
7 7 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.98%) General Ledger
9 5 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Advertising
10 3 (0.99%) Back Office
10 3 (0.99%) Retail
11 2 (0.66%) Aeronautics
11 2 (0.66%) Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.33%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 79 (26.07%) Data Engineer
2 37 (12.21%) Analyst
3 20 (6.60%) Senior
4 19 (6.27%) Architect
5 18 (5.94%) DBA
5 18 (5.94%) Storage Analyst
6 17 (5.61%) Lead
6 17 (5.61%) Test Analyst
7 16 (5.28%) Consultant
7 16 (5.28%) SAS Engineer
8 15 (4.95%) Release Manager
9 14 (4.62%) Accountant
9 14 (4.62%) Tester
10 12 (3.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 12 (3.96%) Oracle DBA
10 12 (3.96%) Systems Accountant
11 11 (3.63%) Oracle Consultant
11 11 (3.63%) QA Tester
11 11 (3.63%) Senior Accountant
11 11 (3.63%) Senior Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (14.85%) Oracle Fusion
2 18 (5.94%) Flash
3 9 (2.97%) XML
4 8 (2.64%) REST
5 7 (2.31%) Spring
6 6 (1.98%) JSON
6 6 (1.98%) Middleware
6 6 (1.98%) Spring Boot
7 5 (1.65%) ADO
8 3 (0.99%) Kafka
9 2 (0.66%) ActiveX
9 2 (0.66%) COM
9 2 (0.66%) ODBC
9 2 (0.66%) Oracle ADF
9 2 (0.66%) pytest
10 1 (0.33%) Apache Axis
10 1 (0.33%) Java SE
10 1 (0.33%) JDBC
10 1 (0.33%) JSP
10 1 (0.33%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 23 (7.59%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (6.27%) Replication
3 13 (4.29%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.96%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.31%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.98%) SCADA
7 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.32%) Robotics
8 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (0.99%) IoT
8 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.66%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.66%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.33%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.33%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.20%) Unix
2 39 (12.87%) Linux
3 14 (4.62%) Windows
4 5 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (1.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (34.32%) ETL
2 91 (30.03%) Agile
3 71 (23.43%) Migration
4 61 (20.13%) Test Automation
5 58 (19.14%) CI/CD
6 56 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 50 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (15.18%) Data Integration
9 43 (14.19%) Data Migration
10 41 (13.53%) Scrum
11 39 (12.87%) Analytics
11 39 (12.87%) DevOps
11 39 (12.87%) ERP
12 37 (12.21%) Data Modelling
13 35 (11.55%) Test Scripting
14 34 (11.22%) Validation
15 33 (10.89%) Business Intelligence
16 32 (10.56%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (10.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 148 (48.84%) SQL
2 29 (9.57%) PL/SQL
3 24 (7.92%) Java
4 19 (6.27%) Python
5 16 (5.28%) Shell Script
6 7 (2.31%) Bash
7 5 (1.65%) Perl
8 4 (1.32%) Bicep
8 4 (1.32%) VB
9 3 (0.99%) HiveQL
10 2 (0.66%) VB6
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 161 (53.14%) Security Cleared
2 150 (49.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.94%) ISTQB
4 10 (3.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.30%) Degree
5 6 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (1.32%) ACCA
7 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.32%) CIMA
7 4 (1.32%) OCP
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.99%) PMP
8 3 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.66%) ISEB
9 2 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.58%) Data Quality
1 26 (8.58%) QA
2 8 (2.64%) SLA
3 5 (1.65%) FATCA
3 5 (1.65%) PMO
4 4 (1.32%) GDPR
4 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.33%) GAAP
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.33%) ITGC
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (7.26%) Docker
2 18 (5.94%) GPFS
2 18 (5.94%) NFS
2 18 (5.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (4.95%) vSphere
4 5 (1.65%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.65%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.99%) HDFS
6 3 (0.99%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 34 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.95%) vRealize
3 6 (1.98%) Ansible
3 6 (1.98%) Terraform
4 5 (1.65%) Grafana
5 4 (1.32%) Data Guard
5 4 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (1.32%) VxRail
6 2 (0.66%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.33%) Kibana
7 1 (0.33%) SELinux
7 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.33%) systemd
Vendors
1 77 (25.41%) Talend
2 48 (15.84%) Informatica
3 30 (9.90%) Denodo
4 27 (8.91%) Microsoft
5 22 (7.26%) SAP
6 20 (6.60%) ServiceNow
7 18 (5.94%) IBM
7 18 (5.94%) VMware
8 16 (5.28%) Cisco
9 7 (2.31%) Cloudera
9 7 (2.31%) Sage
10 5 (1.65%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.65%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.32%) Databricks
12 3 (0.99%) Google
13 2 (0.66%) Ariba
13 2 (0.66%) HP
13 2 (0.66%) JD Edwards
13 2 (0.66%) webMethods