Oracle Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Oracle
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 October 2025, 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 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 32 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Oracle 8 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 4.44% 1.05% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 9.41% 2.78% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £613 - -
25th Percentile £684 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - -
75th Percentile £715 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +7.32% -10.87% +5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.38
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -62.50%
75th Percentile - - £19.13
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £66.25 £25.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year +165.00% +33.33% -62.50%

All Vendors
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 85 72 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 47.22% 37.89% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 40 33
10th Percentile £199 £206 £175
25th Percentile £225 £393 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £541 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.44% +35.25% -
75th Percentile £550 £651 £525
90th Percentile £649 £833 £707
South West median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £58.00 - £23.90
25th Percentile £58.75 £12.50 £32.19
Median hourly rate £63.00 £14.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +334.48% -68.48% -8.00%
75th Percentile £68.50 £18.63 £46.09
90th Percentile £70.90 £22.45 £46.14
South West median hourly rate £22.63 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -67.67% +27.27% -8.33%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Oracle relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset.

Oracle job vacancy trend in Somerset

Oracle
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Oracle.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Oracle

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in Somerset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in Somerset over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in Somerset

Oracle
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Oracle.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Oracle

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. 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
Taunton - 6 £713 -
Yeovil - 2 - -
Oracle
South West

Oracle
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) DBA
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (62.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) CyberArk Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Line Management
2 2 (25.00%) API Integration
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) PLM
2 2 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 2 (25.00%) Runbook
2 2 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Data Guard
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) CyberArk
2 2 (25.00%) PTC