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 19 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 27 27
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -3
Contract jobs citing Oracle 425 159 160
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 8.65% 5.99% 5.84%
As % of the Vendors category 20.05% 12.24% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 115 106
10th Percentile £350 £359 £359
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £675
90th Percentile £600 £670 £750
England median daily rate £525 £510 £550
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% -3.08%
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% -39.74%

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 2,120 1,299 1,261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.13% 48.91% 46.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 849 815
10th Percentile £306 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £360 £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 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 52 33
10th Percentile £13.38 £13.97 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.56 £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 £31.72 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +14 348 £459 -12.57% 104
East Midlands +6 69 £525 +33.76% 41
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 (10.82%) SAS
2 28 (6.59%) Confluence
3 21 (4.94%) Oracle Workflow
4 15 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (3.53%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.41%) Tuxedo
6 4 (0.94%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.24%) Apache
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.18%) Notepad++
3 4 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 25 (5.88%) Oracle Payables
2 24 (5.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (4.71%) Oracle General Ledger
4 18 (4.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 12 (2.82%) Oracle ERP
6 7 (1.65%) NetSuite
6 7 (1.65%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.94%) Oracle HRMS
8 4 (0.94%) ResourceLink
9 3 (0.71%) iTrent
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle Payroll
10 2 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
11 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.24%) Maximo
11 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 103 (24.24%) AWS
2 49 (11.53%) Azure
3 40 (9.41%) OCI
4 18 (4.24%) PaaS
5 13 (3.06%) Power Platform
6 9 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.65%) GitHub
7 7 (1.65%) SaaS
8 6 (1.41%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.18%) 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 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.71%) Oracle Service Cloud
11 3 (0.71%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) PuTTY
1 5 (1.18%) WinSCP
2 2 (0.47%) Firewall
2 2 (0.47%) VSAN
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.24%) Oracle Reports
2 42 (9.88%) Oracle Database
2 42 (9.88%) Pentaho
3 41 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.94%) MySQL
6 16 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (3.53%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 15 (3.53%) SAS Visual Analytics
8 14 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 13 (3.06%) Power BI
10 12 (2.82%) BusinessObjects
11 11 (2.59%) Ingres
12 9 (2.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 9 (2.12%) Oracle Exadata
13 8 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.88%) RDBMS
14 7 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (1.65%) Metadata
15 6 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 62 (14.59%) JIRA
2 61 (14.35%) GitLab
3 46 (10.82%) Git
4 27 (6.35%) Zephyr
5 23 (5.41%) Postman
6 15 (3.53%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (3.53%) Selenium
7 14 (3.29%) Jenkins
8 11 (2.59%) Artifactory
9 10 (2.35%) Maven
10 8 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.88%) JUnit
11 7 (1.65%) Gatling
12 5 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.94%) LoadRunner
14 3 (0.71%) Oracle APEX
14 3 (0.71%) Toad
15 1 (0.24%) Gradle
15 1 (0.24%) Mockito
15 1 (0.24%) NeoLoad
General
1 102 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 96 (22.59%) Finance
3 71 (16.71%) Public Sector
4 48 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.06%) Local Government
6 10 (2.35%) General Ledger
7 8 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.88%) Police
8 7 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.18%) Billing
9 5 (1.18%) Legal
9 5 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.18%) Military
10 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.71%) Banking
11 3 (0.71%) Retail
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (16.24%) Data Engineer
2 51 (12.00%) Lead
3 33 (7.76%) Developer
4 32 (7.53%) Analyst
5 30 (7.06%) Administrator
6 26 (6.12%) Architect
7 23 (5.41%) Consultant
8 21 (4.94%) Oracle Consultant
8 21 (4.94%) Senior
9 20 (4.71%) DBA
10 19 (4.47%) Finance Manager
11 18 (4.24%) Oracle Developer
11 18 (4.24%) Oracle Project Manager
11 18 (4.24%) Project Manager
11 18 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.00%) Release Manager
13 16 (3.76%) Test Analyst
14 14 (3.29%) Trainer
15 13 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (32.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 17 (4.00%) REST
3 13 (3.06%) SOAP
4 12 (2.82%) .NET
5 10 (2.35%) JSON
6 9 (2.12%) Middleware
6 9 (2.12%) React
7 8 (1.88%) Playwright
7 8 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.41%) Flash
8 6 (1.41%) Spring
8 6 (1.41%) Terraform
9 5 (1.18%) ADO
9 5 (1.18%) COM
9 5 (1.18%) ODBC
9 5 (1.18%) Web Services
9 5 (1.18%) XML
10 3 (0.71%) Kafka
11 2 (0.47%) JPA
11 2 (0.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
2 17 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (2.12%) Cloud Native
4 8 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (1.88%) Replication
5 6 (1.41%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.41%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.18%) e-Learning
6 5 (1.18%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.18%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.18%) SCADA
7 4 (0.94%) Learning Management System
7 4 (0.94%) Mobile App
7 4 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.94%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (8.24%) Unix
2 33 (7.76%) Linux
3 11 (2.59%) Windows
4 5 (1.18%) SUSE
5 2 (0.47%) AIX
5 2 (0.47%) HPUX
5 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (30.12%) Agile
2 118 (27.76%) Migration
3 104 (24.47%) ETL
4 76 (17.88%) ERP
5 75 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 74 (17.41%) Data Migration
7 72 (16.94%) Test Automation
8 59 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 56 (13.18%) Validation
10 55 (12.94%) Data Modelling
11 54 (12.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (12.47%) CI/CD
13 50 (11.76%) Data Integration
14 43 (10.12%) Analytics
15 41 (9.65%) Mentoring
16 38 (8.94%) DevOps
17 37 (8.71%) Data Pipeline
17 37 (8.71%) System Testing
18 35 (8.24%) Integration Testing
18 35 (8.24%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 168 (39.53%) SQL
2 44 (10.35%) PL/SQL
3 31 (7.29%) Java
4 19 (4.47%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.24%) Python
6 14 (3.29%) C
7 13 (3.06%) Shell Script
8 8 (1.88%) ProC
9 6 (1.41%) VB
9 6 (1.41%) VB6
10 4 (0.94%) Bash
11 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.47%) Bicep
12 2 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.24%) C#
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 183 (43.06%) Security Cleared
2 165 (38.82%) SC Cleared
3 24 (5.65%) ISTQB
4 20 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.82%) ACCA
5 12 (2.82%) CIMA
6 11 (2.59%) Degree
6 11 (2.59%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (2.12%) OCP
8 7 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (0.94%) CCAB
10 4 (0.94%) ISEB
11 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.71%) PMP
12 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 1 (0.24%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.18%) QA
2 34 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.59%) GDPR
4 9 (2.12%) WCAG
5 8 (1.88%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.41%) FATCA
7 5 (1.18%) 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 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.24%) GMP
10 1 (0.24%) GRC
10 1 (0.24%) GxP
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 18 (4.24%) Docker
2 6 (1.41%) GPFS
2 6 (1.41%) NFS
3 4 (0.94%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.94%) vSphere
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (7.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.18%) Grafana
3 4 (0.94%) vRealize
4 3 (0.71%) Data Guard
4 3 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.47%) VxRail
6 1 (0.24%) Ansible
6 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.24%) Kibana
6 1 (0.24%) SELinux
6 1 (0.24%) systemd
Vendors
1 73 (17.18%) Talend
2 46 (10.82%) Microsoft
3 37 (8.71%) Informatica
4 31 (7.29%) Denodo
5 24 (5.65%) SAP
6 12 (2.82%) IBM
7 10 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.18%) Actian
8 5 (1.18%) MathWorks
8 5 (1.18%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.18%) Sage
8 5 (1.18%) Siemens
8 5 (1.18%) VMware
8 5 (1.18%) Workday
9 4 (0.94%) Adobe
9 4 (0.94%) Cisco
9 4 (0.94%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.71%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.71%) Kronos
10 3 (0.71%) Salesforce