Oracle Contracts in South Wales

Oracle
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Oracle 10 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.05% 3.40% 4.73%
As % of the Vendors category 10.10% 8.33% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £275 £385 £263
25th Percentile £300 £448 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £405 £547 £588
90th Percentile - £583 £680
Wales median daily rate £375 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
Wales median hourly rate - £60.00 -

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 99 144 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 40.08% 40.79% 49.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 106 167
10th Percentile £188 £185 £190
25th Percentile £241 £377 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.30% +1.10% -
75th Percentile £479 £553 £586
90th Percentile £530 £625 £634
Wales median daily rate £375 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -25.37% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 7
10th Percentile £12.59 £11.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £19.51 £56.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.32% +181.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £23.75 £86.45 £37.38
90th Percentile £39.50 £87.80 £49.25
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £19.03
% change year-on-year -59.00% +162.74% +5.72%

Oracle
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Oracle as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Oracle in South Wales

Oracle
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Oracle in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Oracle in South Wales

Oracle
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Oracle in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Oracle in South Wales

Oracle
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Oracle in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Oracle in South Wales

Oracle
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Oracle within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Cardiff +1 10 £375 -25.93% 37
Oracle
Wales

Oracle
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) WebLogic
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 3 (30.00%) JBoss
3 3 (30.00%) nginx
3 3 (30.00%) WebLogic Portal
3 3 (30.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub
1 4 (40.00%) OCI
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (30.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Operations Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Operator
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Oracle Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) SOA Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 3 (30.00%) OAuth
3 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 2 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) XSD
4 1 (10.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) API Management
2 5 (50.00%) SOA
3 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) API Design
5 2 (20.00%) Batch Processing
5 2 (20.00%) Batch Scheduling
5 2 (20.00%) BPEL
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
1 3 (30.00%) Python
1 3 (30.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 2 (20.00%) JCL
2 2 (20.00%) Korn
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
1 3 (30.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Control-M
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (10.00%) BT
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Micro Focus
3 1 (10.00%) Xerox