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 5 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 34 32
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing Oracle 430 132 123
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 9.16% 5.35% 4.63%
As % of the Vendors category 20.39% 11.68% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 101 84
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £638
90th Percentile £634 £688 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.63% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 3
10th Percentile £17.97 - £16.00
25th Percentile £42.50 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £22.00
90th Percentile - - £23.20
England median hourly rate £38.56 £37.50 £33.25
% change year-on-year +2.81% +12.78% -39.55%

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 2,109 1,130 1,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 44.91% 45.79% 45.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 722 832
10th Percentile £313 £220 £263
25th Percentile £400 £334 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £600
90th Percentile £656 £650 £688
England median daily rate £512 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.38% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 61 39
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.38 £13.39
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% +57.19% -29.67%
75th Percentile £40.03 £31.00 £34.88
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +16 363 £459 -10.87% 63
East Midlands +7 58 £525 +28.05% 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 66 (15.35%) SAS
2 36 (8.37%) Confluence
3 19 (4.42%) Oracle Workflow
4 17 (3.95%) WebLogic
5 15 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (2.33%) Tuxedo
7 6 (1.40%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.23%) Apache
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%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (5.58%) Oracle Payables
1 24 (5.58%) Oracle Receivables
2 19 (4.42%) Oracle General Ledger
2 19 (4.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 11 (2.56%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (1.63%) NetSuite
4 7 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (1.63%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (1.40%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.70%) iTrent
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 119 (27.67%) AWS
2 61 (14.19%) Azure
3 37 (8.60%) OCI
4 19 (4.42%) PaaS
5 17 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 13 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (2.56%) GitHub
8 7 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (1.63%) Serverless
9 6 (1.40%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (1.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (1.40%) SaaS
10 5 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (0.70%) Tricentis Tosca
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 61 (14.19%) Oracle Reports
2 60 (13.95%) Pentaho
3 47 (10.93%) Oracle Database
4 45 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (7.44%) SQL Server
6 27 (6.28%) MySQL
7 22 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (3.95%) Power BI
9 16 (3.72%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 15 (3.49%) BusinessObjects
10 15 (3.49%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 12 (2.79%) Ingres
11 12 (2.79%) Relational Database
12 11 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (2.09%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.86%) RDBMS
15 7 (1.63%) Metadata
15 7 (1.63%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 75 (17.44%) JIRA
2 63 (14.65%) GitLab
3 52 (12.09%) Git
4 31 (7.21%) Zephyr
5 26 (6.05%) Postman
6 22 (5.12%) Jenkins
7 12 (2.79%) Oracle Forms
8 11 (2.56%) Artifactory
8 11 (2.56%) Selenium
9 7 (1.63%) Maven
10 6 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.16%) JUnit
12 4 (0.93%) CA Gen
12 4 (0.93%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.93%) Gatling
12 4 (0.93%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
13 3 (0.70%) Toad
General
1 103 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 102 (23.72%) Finance
3 81 (18.84%) Public Sector
4 41 (9.53%) Local Government
5 39 (9.07%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (1.86%) Legal
7 7 (1.63%) General Ledger
7 7 (1.63%) Police
8 5 (1.16%) Billing
8 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.70%) Advertising
9 3 (0.70%) Banking
9 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (0.70%) Retail
10 2 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 90 (20.93%) Data Engineer
2 40 (9.30%) Lead
3 34 (7.91%) Architect
4 31 (7.21%) Analyst
5 30 (6.98%) Developer
6 26 (6.05%) Senior
7 24 (5.58%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.12%) DBA
9 20 (4.65%) Finance Manager
10 19 (4.42%) Administrator
10 19 (4.42%) Consultant
10 19 (4.42%) Tester
11 17 (3.95%) Oracle Developer
11 17 (3.95%) Project Manager
11 17 (3.95%) QA Tester
11 17 (3.95%) Release Manager
12 16 (3.72%) Test Analyst
13 15 (3.49%) Oracle Consultant
13 15 (3.49%) Oracle Project Manager
14 14 (3.26%) Finance Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (23.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 11 (2.56%) REST
3 9 (2.09%) Middleware
4 8 (1.86%) Flash
5 7 (1.63%) .NET
6 6 (1.40%) ADO
6 6 (1.40%) COM
6 6 (1.40%) JSON
6 6 (1.40%) ODBC
6 6 (1.40%) SOAP
7 5 (1.16%) Kafka
7 5 (1.16%) Web Services
7 5 (1.16%) XML
8 4 (0.93%) Playwright
8 4 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (0.93%) React
8 4 (0.93%) Spring
9 3 (0.70%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.23%) Itk
10 1 (0.23%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.19%) Linux Command Line
2 15 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.56%) Replication
5 10 (2.33%) SCADA
6 9 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.86%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.86%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.40%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.40%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.16%) IoT
9 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (0.93%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.93%) Product Ownership
10 4 (0.93%) Robotics
11 3 (0.70%) Data Centre
11 3 (0.70%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.47%) Unix
2 39 (9.07%) Linux
3 10 (2.33%) Windows
4 5 (1.16%) SUSE
5 3 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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
1 134 (31.16%) Agile
2 130 (30.23%) ETL
3 113 (26.28%) Migration
4 83 (19.30%) Test Automation
5 81 (18.84%) ERP
6 75 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (16.28%) Data Migration
8 65 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (14.65%) Data Modelling
10 62 (14.42%) CI/CD
11 60 (13.95%) Data Integration
12 56 (13.02%) Validation
13 52 (12.09%) Analytics
14 51 (11.86%) DevOps
15 47 (10.93%) Data Pipeline
15 47 (10.93%) Scrum
16 46 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (9.53%) Business Intelligence
18 35 (8.14%) Integration Testing
18 35 (8.14%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 197 (45.81%) SQL
2 48 (11.16%) PL/SQL
3 30 (6.98%) Java
4 27 (6.28%) Python
5 15 (3.49%) Shell Script
6 14 (3.26%) C
6 14 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 10 (2.33%) Bash
8 8 (1.86%) ProC
9 7 (1.63%) VB
9 7 (1.63%) VB6
10 6 (1.40%) Bicep
11 3 (0.70%) HiveQL
11 3 (0.70%) Perl
12 2 (0.47%) R
12 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 215 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 198 (46.05%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.81%) ISTQB
4 16 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.79%) Degree
5 12 (2.79%) Oracle Certification
6 11 (2.56%) ACCA
6 11 (2.56%) CIMA
7 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.33%) OCP
8 5 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.93%) ISEB
10 3 (0.70%) CCAB
11 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.47%) PMP
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 39 (9.07%) QA
2 34 (7.91%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.33%) GDPR
4 7 (1.63%) SLA
5 6 (1.40%) FATCA
5 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 5 (1.16%) WCAG
7 3 (0.70%) IFRS
7 3 (0.70%) PMO
7 3 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.23%) GAAP
8 1 (0.23%) GRC
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 19 (4.42%) 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 38 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.09%) Terraform
3 7 (1.63%) Grafana
4 6 (1.40%) vRealize
5 4 (0.93%) Ansible
6 3 (0.70%) VxRail
7 2 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.23%) SELinux
8 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 96 (22.33%) Talend
2 57 (13.26%) Informatica
3 47 (10.93%) Microsoft
4 41 (9.53%) Denodo
5 29 (6.74%) SAP
6 14 (3.26%) IBM
7 12 (2.79%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.33%) Cloudera
9 9 (2.09%) Sage
9 9 (2.09%) VMware
10 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.40%) Actian
11 6 (1.40%) Cisco
11 6 (1.40%) Databricks
12 5 (1.16%) MathWorks
12 5 (1.16%) Siemens
13 4 (0.93%) Workday
14 3 (0.70%) Google
14 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.70%) webMethods