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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 36 38
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing Oracle 330 95 115
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 7.68% 4.79% 4.28%
As % of the Vendors category 17.06% 10.36% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 74 79
10th Percentile £358 £320 £350
25th Percentile £415 £394 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -2.06% -9.51%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £603
90th Percentile £600 £638 £690
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 7
10th Percentile £20.00 - £22.40
25th Percentile £51.25 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £26.00
75th Percentile £53.75 - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.00 £30.40 £26.00
% change year-on-year +34.87% +16.92% -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 1,934 917 1,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.03% 46.22% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 597 719
10th Percentile £263 £197 £207
25th Percentile £400 £320 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £600
90th Percentile £645 £651 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.11% -2.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 38 79
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.50 £10.92
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.81 £12.75
Median hourly rate £23.83 £18.36 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +29.80% +17.62% -24.63%
75th Percentile £39.78 £22.25 £26.50
90th Percentile £68.49 £34.82 £43.23
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -41.56%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +21 283 £467 -10.23% 40
East Midlands -18 40 £525 +28.05% 30
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 71 (21.52%) SAS
2 29 (8.79%) Confluence
3 12 (3.64%) WebLogic
4 11 (3.33%) Oracle Workflow
5 10 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.82%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (1.52%) Apache
8 4 (1.21%) Tuxedo
9 2 (0.61%) Liferay
9 2 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.61%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Geronimo
10 1 (0.30%) Apache ServiceMix
10 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.52%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.85%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (4.24%) Oracle Receivables
3 12 (3.64%) Oracle General Ledger
3 12 (3.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (2.73%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (2.42%) Oracle ERP
6 6 (1.82%) Oracle HRMS
7 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.30%) SAP HR
9 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 88 (26.67%) AWS
2 39 (11.82%) Azure
3 21 (6.36%) OCI
4 12 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.03%) PaaS
6 9 (2.73%) SaaS
7 8 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.52%) Serverless
9 4 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.21%) GitHub
9 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (0.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.82%) Firewall
2 5 (1.52%) PuTTY
2 5 (1.52%) VSAN
2 5 (1.52%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.91%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (17.27%) Pentaho
2 51 (15.45%) Oracle Reports
3 44 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 40 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (6.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 14 (4.24%) BusinessObjects
6 14 (4.24%) MySQL
6 14 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 12 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (3.64%) Power BI
7 12 (3.64%) Relational Database
8 11 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.73%) Metadata
9 9 (2.73%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 6 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.82%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.52%) RDBMS
11 5 (1.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 4 (1.21%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 62 (18.79%) JIRA
2 49 (14.85%) GitLab
3 37 (11.21%) Git
4 25 (7.58%) Zephyr
5 22 (6.67%) Postman
6 21 (6.36%) Jenkins
7 9 (2.73%) Selenium
8 6 (1.82%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.21%) CA Gen
11 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.91%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.61%) JMeter
12 2 (0.61%) JUnit
13 1 (0.30%) Hudson
13 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
General
1 75 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.79%) Finance
3 48 (14.55%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.88%) Local Government
6 11 (3.33%) Legal
7 6 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.82%) General Ledger
7 6 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (0.91%) Advertising
8 3 (0.91%) Billing
8 3 (0.91%) Retail
9 2 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.30%) Banking
10 1 (0.30%) Law
10 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.30%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (26.06%) Data Engineer
2 31 (9.39%) Analyst
2 31 (9.39%) Architect
3 20 (6.06%) DBA
3 20 (6.06%) Lead
3 20 (6.06%) Senior
4 18 (5.45%) Release Manager
5 16 (4.85%) Developer
5 16 (4.85%) SAS Engineer
5 16 (4.85%) Storage Analyst
6 15 (4.55%) Accountant
6 15 (4.55%) Tester
7 14 (4.24%) Oracle DBA
7 14 (4.24%) Systems Accountant
8 13 (3.94%) Consultant
8 13 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (3.94%) Test Analyst
9 12 (3.64%) QA Tester
10 11 (3.33%) Oracle Developer
10 11 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (17.27%) Oracle Fusion
2 19 (5.76%) Flash
3 9 (2.73%) REST
4 7 (2.12%) Middleware
5 5 (1.52%) ADO
5 5 (1.52%) JSON
5 5 (1.52%) Spring
6 4 (1.21%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.21%) XML
7 3 (0.91%) .NET
7 3 (0.91%) Kafka
8 2 (0.61%) ActiveX
8 2 (0.61%) COM
8 2 (0.61%) ODBC
8 2 (0.61%) Oracle ADF
8 2 (0.61%) pytest
8 2 (0.61%) Web Services
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.30%) Itk
9 1 (0.30%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.97%) Linux Command Line
2 20 (6.06%) Replication
3 12 (3.64%) Data Structures
3 12 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 10 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.82%) SCADA
7 4 (1.21%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.21%) Robotics
8 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.91%) IoT
8 3 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.61%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.30%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.30%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.30%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.85%) Unix
2 38 (11.52%) Linux
3 9 (2.73%) Windows
4 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.30%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (35.15%) ETL
2 104 (31.52%) Agile
3 78 (23.64%) Migration
4 67 (20.30%) Test Automation
5 56 (16.97%) CI/CD
6 52 (15.76%) Data Integration
7 51 (15.45%) Data Modelling
8 50 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 50 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 48 (14.55%) Scrum
10 45 (13.64%) Data Migration
10 45 (13.64%) ERP
11 42 (12.73%) Analytics
11 42 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
11 42 (12.73%) DevOps
12 40 (12.12%) Validation
13 34 (10.30%) Business Intelligence
14 33 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (9.70%) Test Scripting
16 28 (8.48%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 162 (49.09%) SQL
2 37 (11.21%) PL/SQL
3 22 (6.67%) Python
4 17 (5.15%) Java
5 13 (3.94%) Shell Script
6 8 (2.42%) Bash
7 4 (1.21%) Bicep
7 4 (1.21%) Perl
7 4 (1.21%) VB
8 3 (0.91%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.61%) VB6
10 1 (0.30%) C
10 1 (0.30%) C++
10 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 181 (54.85%) Security Cleared
2 171 (51.82%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.15%) ISTQB
4 12 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.03%) Degree
6 5 (1.52%) ACCA
6 5 (1.52%) CIMA
6 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.52%) Oracle Certification
7 4 (1.21%) OCP
8 3 (0.91%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.91%) PMP
8 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.18%) QA
2 26 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 9 (2.73%) FATCA
4 6 (1.82%) SLA
5 4 (1.21%) GDPR
5 4 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.21%) PMO
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS
6 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.30%) ITGC
7 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (6.06%) Docker
2 19 (5.76%) GPFS
2 19 (5.76%) NFS
3 15 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.24%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (4.24%) vSphere
5 5 (1.52%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.91%) HDFS
7 3 (0.91%) Oracle Clusterware
Systems Management
1 30 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 14 (4.24%) vRealize
3 8 (2.42%) Terraform
4 7 (2.12%) Grafana
5 5 (1.52%) Ansible
5 5 (1.52%) VxRail
6 4 (1.21%) Data Guard
6 4 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.61%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.30%) SELinux
8 1 (0.30%) systemd
Vendors
1 88 (26.67%) Talend
2 56 (16.97%) Informatica
3 38 (11.52%) Denodo
4 30 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 20 (6.06%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.76%) IBM
7 18 (5.45%) SAP
8 17 (5.15%) VMware
9 14 (4.24%) Cisco
10 9 (2.73%) Sage
11 8 (2.42%) Cloudera
12 6 (1.82%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
13 4 (1.21%) Databricks
13 4 (1.21%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.91%) Google
15 2 (0.61%) Actian
15 2 (0.61%) HP
15 2 (0.61%) JD Edwards
16 1 (0.30%) Citrix