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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 29 26
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Oracle 427 154 156
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.80% 5.81% 5.76%
As % of the Vendors category 20.28% 12.05% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 113 102
10th Percentile £350 £358 £357
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.98% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £538 £540 £659
90th Percentile £600 £673 £750
England median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 2
10th Percentile £17.36 - £15.90
25th Percentile £17.97 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £20.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - £23.30
England median hourly rate £41.71 £37.50 £34.55
% change year-on-year +11.23% +8.55% -41.04%

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 2,106 1,278 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.42% 48.21% 45.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 842 803
10th Percentile £306 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £645 £688
England median daily rate £514 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 50 33
10th Percentile £13.44 £14.99 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.83 £18.87 £14.27
Median hourly rate £19.41 £25.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +47.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £33.16 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
% change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +14 350 £459 -12.57% 136
East Midlands +12 69 £525 +28.05% 53
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 46 (10.77%) SAS
2 28 (6.56%) Confluence
3 21 (4.92%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.51%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.41%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.23%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.17%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (6.09%) Oracle Payables
2 25 (5.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 21 (4.92%) Oracle General Ledger
4 19 (4.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (2.81%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (1.64%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.94%) Oracle HRMS
8 4 (0.94%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.70%) iTrent
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.70%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 104 (24.36%) AWS
2 52 (12.18%) Azure
3 38 (8.90%) OCI
4 18 (4.22%) PaaS
5 13 (3.04%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.64%) GitHub
7 7 (1.64%) SaaS
8 6 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.17%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.94%) Google Workspace
10 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (0.94%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.94%) Serverless
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) PuTTY
1 5 (1.17%) WinSCP
2 4 (0.94%) Firewall
3 3 (0.70%) SSL
4 2 (0.47%) VSAN
5 1 (0.23%) HTTP
5 1 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.18%) Oracle Reports
2 42 (9.84%) Oracle Database
2 42 (9.84%) Pentaho
3 41 (9.60%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (6.32%) SQL Server
5 22 (5.15%) MySQL
6 17 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.51%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 15 (3.51%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 13 (3.04%) Power BI
9 12 (2.81%) BusinessObjects
10 11 (2.58%) Ingres
11 9 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 9 (2.11%) Oracle Exadata
11 9 (2.11%) RDBMS
12 8 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.64%) Metadata
14 6 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 62 (14.52%) JIRA
2 61 (14.29%) GitLab
3 46 (10.77%) Git
4 27 (6.32%) Zephyr
5 23 (5.39%) Postman
6 15 (3.51%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (3.51%) Selenium
7 14 (3.28%) Jenkins
8 11 (2.58%) Artifactory
9 10 (2.34%) Maven
10 8 (1.87%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.87%) JUnit
11 7 (1.64%) Gatling
12 5 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.70%) Toad
15 1 (0.23%) Gradle
15 1 (0.23%) Mockito
15 1 (0.23%) NeoLoad
General
1 102 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 97 (22.72%) Finance
3 72 (16.86%) Public Sector
4 49 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (7.26%) Local Government
6 10 (2.34%) General Ledger
7 8 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.87%) Police
8 5 (1.17%) Billing
8 5 (1.17%) Legal
8 5 (1.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.17%) Military
9 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.70%) Banking
10 3 (0.70%) Retail
11 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.23%) Advertising
12 1 (0.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (16.16%) Data Engineer
2 53 (12.41%) Lead
3 32 (7.49%) Analyst
4 31 (7.26%) Administrator
4 31 (7.26%) Developer
5 26 (6.09%) Architect
6 23 (5.39%) Consultant
7 21 (4.92%) Oracle Consultant
7 21 (4.92%) Senior
8 20 (4.68%) DBA
8 20 (4.68%) Finance Manager
9 19 (4.45%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.22%) Oracle Project Manager
10 18 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (3.98%) Oracle Developer
11 17 (3.98%) Release Manager
12 16 (3.75%) Test Analyst
13 14 (3.28%) Trainer
14 13 (3.04%) Finance Systems Manager
14 13 (3.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (32.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 16 (3.75%) REST
3 12 (2.81%) .NET
3 12 (2.81%) SOAP
4 10 (2.34%) JSON
4 10 (2.34%) Middleware
5 9 (2.11%) React
6 8 (1.87%) Playwright
6 8 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.41%) Flash
7 6 (1.41%) Spring
7 6 (1.41%) Terraform
8 5 (1.17%) ADO
8 5 (1.17%) COM
8 5 (1.17%) ODBC
8 5 (1.17%) Web Services
8 5 (1.17%) XML
9 3 (0.70%) Kafka
10 2 (0.47%) JPA
10 2 (0.47%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (3.98%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (2.11%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.11%) Replication
4 8 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.64%) SCADA
6 6 (1.41%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.17%) e-Learning
7 5 (1.17%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.17%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.94%) Learning Management System
8 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
8 4 (0.94%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.70%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.43%) Linux
2 35 (8.20%) Unix
3 14 (3.28%) Windows
4 5 (1.17%) SUSE
5 4 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.47%) AIX
6 2 (0.47%) HPUX
7 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (29.98%) Agile
2 116 (27.17%) Migration
3 104 (24.36%) ETL
4 76 (17.80%) ERP
4 76 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
5 73 (17.10%) Data Migration
6 72 (16.86%) Test Automation
7 59 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 56 (13.11%) Validation
9 54 (12.65%) Data Modelling
9 54 (12.65%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (12.41%) CI/CD
11 50 (11.71%) Data Integration
12 43 (10.07%) Analytics
13 41 (9.60%) Mentoring
14 38 (8.90%) DevOps
15 37 (8.67%) Data Pipeline
16 36 (8.43%) System Testing
17 35 (8.20%) Integration Testing
17 35 (8.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 169 (39.58%) SQL
2 45 (10.54%) PL/SQL
3 31 (7.26%) Java
4 19 (4.45%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.22%) Python
6 14 (3.28%) C
7 13 (3.04%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.87%) ProC
9 6 (1.41%) VB
9 6 (1.41%) VB6
10 4 (0.94%) Bash
11 3 (0.70%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.23%) C#
13 1 (0.23%) C++
13 1 (0.23%) COBOL
13 1 (0.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 185 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 168 (39.34%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.62%) ISTQB
4 20 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.81%) ACCA
5 12 (2.81%) CIMA
6 11 (2.58%) Degree
6 11 (2.58%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.11%) OCP
8 7 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 4 (0.94%) CCAB
9 4 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.94%) ISEB
9 4 (0.94%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.94%) PMP
10 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.23%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 1 (0.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.13%) QA
2 34 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.58%) GDPR
4 9 (2.11%) WCAG
5 8 (1.87%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.41%) FATCA
7 5 (1.17%) SLA
8 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.47%) IFRS
9 2 (0.47%) PMO
9 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.23%) GMP
10 1 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.23%) GxP
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 18 (4.22%) Docker
2 6 (1.41%) GPFS
2 6 (1.41%) NFS
3 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.94%) vSphere
5 3 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (7.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.17%) Grafana
3 4 (0.94%) vRealize
4 3 (0.70%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.47%) VxRail
6 1 (0.23%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) SELinux
6 1 (0.23%) systemd
Vendors
1 73 (17.10%) Talend
2 49 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.67%) Informatica
4 31 (7.26%) Denodo
5 25 (5.85%) SAP
6 12 (2.81%) IBM
7 10 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.64%) VMware
9 5 (1.17%) Actian
9 5 (1.17%) MathWorks
9 5 (1.17%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.17%) Sage
9 5 (1.17%) Siemens
9 5 (1.17%) Workday
10 4 (0.94%) Adobe
10 4 (0.94%) Cisco
10 4 (0.94%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.70%) Google
11 3 (0.70%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.70%) webMethods